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- "Bella actually falls in love with Jacob in New Moon. It's understandable why this fact didn't occur to her: Bella had fallen in love only one other time, and it was a very sudden, dramatic, sweep-you-off-your-feet, change-your-world, magical, passionate, all-consuming thing. She didn't recognize the much more subtle falling-in-love she experienced with Jacob. She was only aware that she preferred being with him over everyone else, that he was constantly on her mind, and that his happiness was essential to her own. She also enjoyed being physically close to him in a way that she didn't with her other friends. But it took her a while to add up all the pieces."
- ―Stephenie Meyer's answer to a fan's question.[src]
Isabella Marie Swan and Jacob Black have a platonic freindship which turns romantic even though they never dated, bella finds out that she loves jacob more than she had thought. but suprisingly loves edward more. but still loves jacob, even though she loves jacob more than a freind, she chooses edward and is with him. jacob forgets about his strong feelings for bella and excepts that she is with edward. bella and jacob are best freinds and think of eachother as family members. there strong feelings for eachother developed in new moon and is even shown in breaking dawn part1 when they danced with eachother.
In the movies, Bella is portrayed by Kristen Stewart and Jacob by Taylor Lautner.
Bella Swan
Isabella Marie Swan's parents divorced when she was three months old, and Renée took Bella with her to Riverside, California before moving to Phoenix, Arizona when she was five.
She did not fit in very well at school, never having many friends, and spent a lot of time with her mother. She briefly took ballet. Bella has visited Forks in her past to spend time with Charlie every summer. During these occasions, she also spent time with Rachel, Rebecca, and Jacob Black, the children of Charlie's friend Billy Black. She stopped visiting Forks at the age of fourteen. This was when she put her foot down, and Charlie went to California for two weeks every summer instead. Bella took care of her mom.
By the time Bella was seventeen, her mom remarried with a minor league baseball player named Phil Dwyer. Phil traveled often due to his profession, and Bella noticed how much her mother wanted to follow him in his travels. To make it easier for them, Bella moved back to her birth town of Forks to live with her father.
Jacob Black
Jacob Black was born to Billy and Sarah Black. Unfortunately, his mother Sarah died in a tragic car crash when he was nine years old, although Jacob never speaks of it. He has two older sisters, Rachel and Rebecca Black. Rebecca moved to Hawaii and eventually married a surfer named Solomon Finau, while Rachel had been off to college. Jacob grew up with his two best friends, Embry Call and Quil Ateara V, and spent the majority of his life living with his father on La Push.
Like many teenagers of his generation, the Quileutes have passed their knowledge and traditions to them, but none of them took it seriously. Jacob was totally unaware of his true power until it awakened in New Moon.
- Main article: Twilight
- "... I really liked Jacob. He was someone I could easily be friends with."
- ―Bella's thoughts on Jacob.[src]
In Twilight, Bella only encounters Jacob four times after she moved back to Forks.
She first meets him on First Beach on La Push where she successfully flirts with him to gather information about the Quileute tribe's legends regarding vampires. He tells her what he knows about the Cold Ones and how the story relates to the Cullen family. Though her flirt was a trick to gather information, she expresses a liking in Jacob and feels guilty for tricking him.
The second time, Jacob and Billy visit Bella's house again. While Billy and Charlie prepare to enjoy a baseball match, Bella and Jacob hang out.
The third time, Jacob visits Bella with his father. Billy warns Bella about Edward Cullen while sending Jacob away to get a picture of Rebecca from the truck (which wasn't even there).
The fourth time, Billy sends Jacob to Forks High School on prom night to try and persuade her to break up with Edward, quoting, "We'll be watching you." Jacob crashes the prom and dances with Bella before Edward takes over again, much to his dismay.
Their relationship changes greatly after this novel.
Jacob first appears in the movie adaptation of Twilight with his father to deliver Bella's Chevy pick-up truck and teaches her how to handle it.
New Moon
- Main article: New Moon
- "It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down — I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?"
- ―Jacob promising Bella.[src]
Bella and Jacob cease to meet since prom night. Months after Edward leaves Forks, Bella comes to find Jacob and persuades him to help her rebuild two dead motorcycles to experience adrenaline rushes in order to hear Edward's voice in her mind, but as they spend more time together he starts to open up and about his feelings for her, and Bella is torn by her own feelings to both Edward and Jacob. After Jacob phases, he is prohibited by Sam Uley from seeing Bella, saying that he could hurt her. When Laurent attempts to kill Bella at the meadow, Jacob appears in wolf form with his pack and run off to kill him.
Bella visits Jacob after one week of solitude. He furiously orders her away after learning from the tribe that she has known about the Cullens being vampires. One night, Jacob visits her at her house and gives her clues to help her figure out what he has become. She eventually discovers that he is now a "werewolf". The next morning, she visits him and they finally tell each other everything. It turns out that Victoria has come to kill Bella, given Edward killed her mate, James. Jacob tells this to Sam and they prepare a hunting troop for Victoria. Also, Jacob was ordered not to be close to Bella because it wasn't safe for her.
After a while, she jumps off a cliff to hear Edward's voice again but ends up almost drowning, if not being killed by Victoria first, but Jacob pulls her out before she could seal her fate, keeping Victoria at bay with his "repulsive, wet dog smell" and herself from drowning. When Alice Cullen unexpectedly returns to Forks because she'd "seen" Bella jump, Jacob tries to take Bella to safety, but she refuses and walks away. Two days later, a sullen Jacob appears at her house and shares a brief conversation with them separately before they receive a call from Edward. Jacob takes the call and tells him that Charlie is at a funeral, which leads him to believe it is Bella's. Alice has a vision of his suicidal desire and she and Bella rush off to stop him. Jacob promises to protect Charlie while she is gone, but, knowing that she will be heading to the Volturi's headquarters to find Edward, pleads her to stay. She refuses, and he is deeply hurt by her decision.
At the end of the story, a lovesick Jacob is forced to stay away when Edward returns to Forks with his family and reconciles with Bella. Jacob turns in her motorcycle to Charlie to make him ground her, not knowing that she is already grounded for leaving without his permission.
- Main article: Eclipse
- "I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us - comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken... If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic..."
- ―Jacob telling Bella how it would have been.[src]
Their relationship wavers again in Eclipse. For weeks, Jacob continuously stays from a distance while Bella tries to contact him. After Emmett and Paul almost have a fight hunting Victoria, Jacob visits Bella and Edward at school to warn them. Jacob struggles to keep away from Edward but be with Bella, and even tries to convince Bella to choose him instead of Edward. This leads to a big argument between them, and Jacob decides to tolerate the Cullens to see Bella more often.
He forces a kiss on her, which Bella is outraged by and punches him for it, but breaks her hand instead. They soon make up however, though Jacob continues to fight for her, a bit more carefully this time. He makes her a bracelet for a graduation present, much to her pleasure. It's a wooden, carved wolf charm. When the Cullens discover an army of newborn vampires coming for Bella, Jacob volunteers to help, willingly putting aside his still-roaming issues for the time being. When he learns that Bella and Edward are engaged, he is enraged and pretends to sacrifice himself to make Bella willingly offer a kiss, which is the only thing keeping him from killing himself. As Bella is kissing Jacob, she realizes that she's in love with him after all. Edward learns about this kiss while it goes on because "Jacob's thoughts are very loud".
Despite Bella realizing her feelings for Jacob, she still chooses Edward over him, and he is broken to the bottom of his heart. Bella is saddened as well, as she cries for having to reject him, with Edward comforting her all night. After a while, Edward sends Jacob a wedding invitation, prompting him to run into the woods and live as a wolf to escape the pain he's in.
Breaking Dawn
- Main article: Breaking Dawn
- "Bella, things are different with us now, but you'll always be my best friend, and I'll always love you, Bella. But I'll love you the right way now, there's finally a balance. We both have people we can't live without."
- ―Jacob talking to Bella as they leave behind their previous relationship issues.[src]
For two months, Jacob has gone missing since Eclipse. He reappears at Bella and Edward's wedding, and asks to dance with the bride, trying to cope with her choice until she tells him of her honeymoon plans. He gets violent to the idea of Bella making love to a vampire, and Seth and Sam are forced to restrain him before things get out of hand.
Edward impregnates Bella on their honeymoon and they return to Forks earlier than planned. Jacob believes that she has already turned at this point and engages a solo attack against everyone's advice until he learns of Bella's pregnancy. Edward is worried that Bella will die and offers to "pimp her out" by letting Jacob sleep with her to give her a child who won't kill her slowly. Jacob finds this intriguing, but refuses in the end. He also promises to kill Edward if Bella doesn't pull through, which Edward gladly agrees to. When Sam finally plans an unprovoked attack against the Cullens to prevent Bella's child from being born, a wavering Jacob breaks from the pack to protect her. During the pregnancy, he and Bella feel strongly drawn to each other in ways they've never felt before. Every day, Jacob would visit her and be by her side, even with a broken heart.
When her daughter Renesmee is born in a labour that nearly kills Bella, Jacob tries to kill the baby, but instead imprints on her, thus freeing him of his depression over Bella's rejection. Bella becomes furious when she first finds out about the imprinting, and even more so when she hears that he nicknamed her daughter after the Loch Ness Monster, but learns to cope with it over time. By telling Bella's father that his daughter had "changed" a little bit and introducing him to the supernatural world, he manages to keep the Cullens from leaving. Since Charlie is the main reason she wanted to leave, Bella realizes that she owes Jacob a favor.
When they find out that the Volturi are coming to destroy their family, Bella has legal documents forged for both Jacob and Renesmee to help them escape, trusting her daughter in his care and accepting wholeheartedly his imprinting on her.
When the confrontation is about to turn into a battle, Bella hands Renesmee to Jacob, saying their goodbyes. Jacob, though no longer in love with Bella, gives her a tearful hug. Bella also reveals that he will always be her best friend. The situation resolves peacefully when Alice and Jasper bring back prominent witnesses to stop the Volturi.
By the end of Breaking Dawn, Jacob and Bella are finally able to put their issues behind them and become best friends once again. He continues to think of her as a friend rather than a vampire, which she deeply appreciates.


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Neck Problems and Injuries
Topic Overview
Most people will have a minor neck problem at one time or another. Our body movements usually do not cause problems, but it's not surprising that symptoms develop from everyday wear and tear, overuse, or injury. Neck problems and injuries most commonly occur during sports or recreational activities, work-related tasks, or projects around the home.
Neck pain may feel like a "kink," stiffness, or severe pain. Pain may spread to the shoulders, upper back, or arms, or it may cause a headache. Neck movement may be limited, usually more to one side than the other. Neck pain refers to pain anywhere from the area at the base of the skull into the shoulders. The neck includes:
- The bones and joints of the cervical spine (vertebrae of the neck).
- The discs that separate the cervical vertebrae and absorb shock as you move.
- The muscles and ligaments in the neck that hold the cervical spine together.
Neck pain may be caused by an injury to one or more of these areas, or it may have another cause. Home treatment will often help relieve neck pain caused by minor injuries.
Activities that may cause neck pain
Neck pain is often caused by a strain or spasm of the neck muscles or inflammation of the neck joints. Examples of common activities that may cause this type of minor injury include:
- Holding your head in a forward posture or odd position while working, watching TV, or reading.
- Sleeping on a pillow that is too high or too flat or that doesn't support your head, or sleeping on your stomach with your neck twisted or bent.
- Spending long periods of time resting your forehead on your upright fist or arm ("thinker's pose").
- Stress. Tension may make the muscles that run from the back of the head across the back of the shoulder (trapezius muscle) feel tight and painful.
- Work or exercise that uses your upper body and arms.
Sudden (acute) injuries
Minor neck injuries may result from tripping, falling a short distance, or excessive twisting of the spine. Severe neck injuries may result from whiplash in a car accident, falls from significant heights, direct blows to the back or the top of the head, sports-related injuries, a penetrating injury such as a stab wound, or external pressure applied to the neck, such as strangulation.
Pain from an injury may be sudden and severe. Bruising and swelling may develop soon after the injury. Acute injuries include:
- An injury to the ligaments or muscles in the neck, such as a sprain or strain. When neck pain is caused by muscle strain, you may have aches and stiffness that spread to your upper arm, shoulder, or upper back. Shooting pain that spreads down the arm into the hand and fingers can be a symptom of a pinched nerve (nerve root compression). Shooting pain is more serious if it occurs in both arms or both hands rather than just one arm or one hand.
- A fracture or dislocation of the spine. This can cause a spinal cord injury that may lead to permanent paralysis. It is important to use correct first aid to immobilize and transport the injured person correctly to reduce the risk of permanent paralysis.
- A torn or ruptured disc. If the tear is large enough, the jellylike material inside the disc may leak out (herniate) and press against a nerve or the spinal cord (central disc herniation). You may have a headache, feel dizzy or sick to your stomach, or have pain in your shoulder or down your arm.
Emergency care is required for a neck injury that causes damage to the spinal cord. Symptoms of a spinal cord injury include loss of movement or feeling, numbness, tingling, difficulty controlling the muscles of the arms or legs, and loss of bowel or bladder control.
Conditions that may cause neck problems
Neck problems may not be related to an injury.
- Arthritis or damage to the discs of the neck can cause a pinched nerve. Neck pain caused by a pinched nerve generally affects one side of the neck and the arm on that side. Other symptoms may develop, such as numbness, tingling, or weakness in the arm or hand.
- Meningitis is a serious viral or bacterial illness that causes inflammation around the tissues of the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms come on quickly and include severe headache, stiff neck, fever, and sometimes vomiting. The neck stiffness makes it hard or impossible to touch the chin to the chest.
- The flu, which usually is not serious, can cause symptoms similar to meningitis. When neck pain is caused by flu, the neck and the rest of the body tend to ache all over, but severe neck stiffness is absent.
- Neck pain that occurs with chest pain may be caused by a serious problem with the heart, such as a heart attack.
- Stress and tension may make the muscles that run from the back of the head across the back of the shoulder (trapezius muscle) feel tight and painful. You may not be able to move your head without pain.
- Torticollis is caused by severe muscle contraction on one side of the neck, causing the head to be tilted to one side. The chin is usually rotated toward the opposite side of the neck. Torticollis may be present at birth (congenital) or caused by injury or disease.
Treatment for a neck problem or injury may include first aid measures, physical therapy, manipulative therapy (such as chiropractic or osteopathic), medicine, and in some cases surgery. Treatment depends on:
- The location, type, and severity of the injury.
- Your age, health condition, and activities (such as work, sports, or hobbies).
Check your symptoms to decide if and when you should see a doctor.
Check Your Symptoms
Try Home Treatment
You have answered all the questions. Based on your answers, you may be able to take care of this problem at home.
- Try home treatment to relieve the symptoms.
- Call your doctor if symptoms get worse or you have any concerns (for example, if symptoms are not getting better as you would expect). You may need care sooner.
Seek Care Now
Based on your answers, you may need care right away. The problem is likely to get worse without medical care.
- Call your doctor now to discuss the symptoms and arrange for care.
- If you cannot reach your doctor or you don't have one, seek care in the next hour.
- You do not need to call an
ambulance unless:
- You cannot travel safely either by driving yourself or by having someone else drive you.
- You are in an area where heavy traffic or other problems may slow you down.
Symptoms of serious illness may include:
- A severe headache.
- A stiff neck.
- Mental changes, such as feeling confused or much less alert.
- Extreme fatigue (to the point where it's hard for you to function).
- Shaking chills.
Major trauma is any event that can cause very serious injury, such as:
- A fall from more than 10 ft (3.1 m) [more than 5 ft (1.5 m) for children under 2 years and adults over 65].
- A car crash in which any vehicle involved was going more than 20 miles (32 km) per hour.
- Any event that causes severe bleeding that you cannot control.
- Any event forceful enough to badly break a bone.
Call 911 Now
Based on your answers, you need emergency care.
Call 911 or other emergency services now.
Do not move the person unless there is an immediate threat to the person's life, such as a fire. If you have to move the person, keep the head and neck supported and in a straight line at all times. If the person has had a diving accident and is still in the water, float the person face up in the water.
Many things can affect how your body responds to a symptom and what kind of care you may need. These include:
- Your age. Babies and older adults tend to get sicker quicker.
- Your overall health. If you have a condition such as diabetes, HIV, cancer, or heart disease, you may need to pay closer attention to certain symptoms and seek care sooner.
- Medicines you take. Certain medicines, herbal remedies, and supplements can cause symptoms or make them worse.
- Recent health events, such as surgery or injury. These kinds of events can cause symptoms afterwards or make them more serious.
- Your health habits and lifestyle, such as eating and exercise habits, smoking, alcohol or drug use, sexual history, and travel.
Call 911 Now
Based on your answers, you need emergency care.
Call 911 or other emergency services now.
Pain in adults and older children
- Severe pain (8 to 10): The pain is so bad that you can't stand it for more than a few hours, can't sleep, and can't do anything else except focus on the pain.
- Moderate pain (5 to 7): The pain is bad enough to disrupt your normal activities and your sleep, but you can tolerate it for hours or days. Moderate can also mean pain that comes and goes even if it's severe when it's there.
- Mild pain (1 to 4): You notice the pain, but it is not bad enough to disrupt your sleep or activities.
Pain in children under 3 years
It can be hard to tell how much pain a baby or toddler is in.
- Severe pain (8 to 10): The pain is so bad that the baby cannot sleep, cannot get comfortable, and cries constantly no matter what you do. The baby may kick, make fists, or grimace.
- Moderate pain (5 to 7): The baby is very fussy, clings to you a lot, and may have trouble sleeping but responds when you try to comfort him or her.
- Mild pain (1 to 4): The baby is a little fussy and clings to you a little but responds when you try to comfort him or her.
Pain in children 3 years and older
- Severe pain (8 to 10): The pain is so bad that the child can't stand it for more than a few hours, can't sleep, and can't do anything else except focus on the pain. No one can tolerate severe pain for more than a few hours.
- Moderate pain (5 to 7): The pain is bad enough to disrupt the child's normal activities and sleep, but the child can tolerate it for hours or days.
- Mild pain (1 to 4): The child notices and may complain of the pain, but it is not bad enough to disrupt his or her sleep or activities.
Symptoms of difficulty breathing can range from mild to severe. For example:
- You may feel a little out of breath but still be able to talk (mild difficulty breathing), or you may be so out of breath that you cannot talk at all (severe difficulty breathing).
- It may be getting hard to breathe with activity (mild difficulty breathing), or you may have to work very hard to breathe even when you're at rest (severe difficulty breathing).
Severe trouble breathing means:
- You cannot talk at all.
- You have to work very hard to breathe.
- You feel like you can't get enough air.
- You do not feel alert or cannot think clearly.
Moderate trouble breathing means:
- It's hard to talk in full sentences.
- It's hard to breathe with activity.
Mild trouble breathing means:
- You feel a little out of breath but can still talk.
- It's becoming hard to breathe with activity.
Symptoms of a heart attack may include:
- Chest pain or pressure, or a strange feeling in the chest.
- Sweating.
- Shortness of breath.
- Nausea or vomiting.
- Pain, pressure, or a strange feeling in the back, neck, jaw, or upper belly, or in one or both shoulders or arms.
- Lightheadedness or sudden weakness.
- A fast or irregular heartbeat.
The more of these symptoms you have, the more likely it is that you're having a heart attack. Chest pain or pressure is the most common symptom, but some people, especially women, may not notice it as much as other symptoms. You may not have chest pain at all but instead have shortness of breath, nausea, numbness, tingling, or a strange feeling in your chest or other areas.
Severe trouble breathing means:
- The child cannot eat or talk because he or she is breathing so hard.
- The child's nostrils are flaring and the belly is moving in and out with every breath.
- The child seems to be tiring out.
- The child seems very sleepy or confused.
Moderate trouble breathing means:
- The child is breathing a lot faster than usual.
- The child has to take breaks from eating or talking to breathe.
- The nostrils flare or the belly moves in and out at times when the child breathes.
Mild trouble breathing means:
- The child is breathing a little faster than usual.
- The child seems a little out of breath but can still eat or talk.
Call 911 Now
Based on your answers, you need emergency care.
Call 911 or other emergency services now.
After you call 911 , the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength (325 mg) or 2 to 4 low-dose (81 mg) aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself.
Make an Appointment
Based on your answers, the problem may not improve without medical care.
- Make an appointment to see your doctor in the next 1 to 2 weeks.
- If appropriate, try home treatment while you are waiting for the appointment.
- If symptoms get worse or you have any concerns, call your doctor. You may need care sooner.
Seek Care Today
Based on your answers, you may need care soon. The problem probably will not get better without medical care.
- Call your doctor today to discuss the symptoms and arrange for care.
- If you cannot reach your doctor or you don't have one, seek care today.
- If it is evening, watch the symptoms and seek care in the morning.
- If the symptoms get worse, seek care sooner.
Home Treatment
Home treatment may help relieve pain, swelling, and stiffness related to a neck problem.
- Apply
ice and cold packs to the injured area.
- Apply ice or cold packs for 15 to 20 minutes, 3 or 4 times a day or up to once an hour for the first 24 to 48 hours. Cold decreases swelling and pain. Keep a towel between your skin and the ice to prevent frostbite. Do not fall asleep with the ice on your skin.
- Try ice massage. Massage the painful area with ice for 2 to 7 minutes, long enough to numb the pain. Ice frozen in a foam cup works well. Be careful not to damage your skin (frostbite).
- Gently massage or rub the area to relieve pain and encourage blood flow. Do not massage the injured area if it causes pain.
- After 48 to 72 hours, if swelling is gone, apply heat. Use a warm pack or heating pad set on low. Some experts recommend switching back and forth between heat and cold treatments. You also can begin gentle exercise with the aid of moist heat to help restore and maintain flexibility.
- Continue with your usual daily activities unless you have severe neck and back pain. Modify or avoid any activity that makes your pain worse.
- Practice good posture. Avoid slouching or a head-forward posture.
- When sleeping, place a small support pillow under your neck, not under your head.
- When the pain begins to get better, start doing neck exercises. Do each exercise twice a day, 5 times each, and gradually increase to 10 times each. Do not do any exercises that cause pain.
- If tension is contributing to your neck pain, massage may be helpful.
Do not smoke. Smoking slows healing because it decreases blood supply and delays tissue repair. For more information, see the topic Quitting Smoking.
|Try a nonprescription medicine to help treat your fever or pain:
Talk to your child's doctor before switching back and forth between doses of acetaminophen and ibuprofen. When you switch between two medicines, there is a chance your child will get too much medicine.
|Be sure to follow these safety tips when you use a nonprescription medicine:
Other home treatment may help for problems that are related to neck pain, such as:
- Headaches. To learn more, see the topic Headaches.
- Back pain. To learn more, see the topic Low Back Pain or Back Problems and Injuries.
- Shoulder pain. To learn more, see the topic Shoulder Problems and Injuries.
Symptoms to watch for during home treatment
Call your doctor if any of the following occur during home treatment:
- New or increased weakness or numbness in your arms develops.
- Pain becomes severe or lasts longer than 2 weeks.
- Symptoms do not improve.
- Symptoms become more severe or frequent.
To help prevent neck pain caused by posture or body mechanics:
- Avoid slouching or a head-forward posture. Sit straight in your chair with your lower back supported, feet flat on the floor, and shoulders relaxed. Don't sit for long periods without getting up or changing positions. Take short breaks several times an hour to stretch your neck muscles.
- If you work at a computer, adjust the monitor so the top of the screen is at eye level. Use a document holder that puts your work at the same level as the screen. For more information, see the topic Office Ergonomics.
- If you use the telephone a lot, use a headset or speaker phone. Don't cradle the phone on your shoulder.
- Adjust the seat of your car to a more upright position that supports your head and lower back. Make sure that you are not reaching for the steering wheel while driving. Your arms should be in a slightly flexed, comfortable position.
- Use proper lifting techniques. Lift with your knees, not your back.
- Make sure children and teenagers use school bags and backpacks correctly.
To help prevent neck pain caused by your sleep habits:
- Use a pillow that keeps your neck straight. Special neck support pillows called cervical pillows or rolls may relieve neck stress. You can also fold a towel lengthwise into a pad that is 4 in. (10 cm) wide, wrap it around your neck, and pin it in position for good support.
- Don't sleep on your stomach with your neck twisted or bent.
- If you read in bed, prop up the book so you aren't using your arms to hold it up and bending your neck forward. Consider using a wedge-shaped pillow to support your arms and keep your neck in a neutral position.
Other prevention tips:
- If stress is adding to your neck pain, practice relaxation exercises. Consider getting a massage. For more information, see the topic Stress Management.
- Strengthen and protect your neck by doing neck exercises once a day.
- Stay at a healthy body weight.
Preparing For Your Appointment
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
You can help your doctor diagnose and treat your condition by being prepared to answer the following questions:
- What are your main symptoms?
- How long have you had your symptoms?
- If you were injured, how and when did the injury occur? How was it treated?
- What were you doing at the time the neck pain started?
- Have you recently been in a fight or been slapped, punched, or strangled?
- Have you had any injuries in the past to the same area? Do you have any continuing problems because of the previous injury?
- If you have chronic neck pain, has the pain changed significantly?
- Do you have numbness or weakness in your arms or legs?
- What activities related to sports, work, or your lifestyle make your symptoms better or worse?
- Do you think that activities related to your job or hobbies caused your symptoms?
- What home treatment measures have you tried? Did they help?
- What nonprescription medicines have you taken? Did they help?
- Do you have any health risks?
Related Information
|Healthwise Staff
|Primary Medical Reviewer
|William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP - Emergency Medicine
|Specialist Medical Reviewer
|David Messenger, MD
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For a limited period for X amount of money where X stands for a lot. You are offered the chance to redesign a card! This will be a one off so you can increase the stats and skills of your favourite card. Pay more Xs and the card will feature art suggested or inspired by you.
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So we have a knock on effect that you will be headhunted outside of Horizons. Thus promoting whatever the mode beyond the core is called?
I do have fears that this unknown mode will be underpopulated , and feel that we will just be seeing a few files played in Horizons.
Ok so this is all a bit tongue in cheek, but how many of you would at least pay for a chance of being Batora for a day?
One other thing I would like to mention is the brilliant work Gabo does on his spoof cards. When you look at them they seem almost balanced.lol
They did inspire me to post this, that and some of the stuff from set 14 which will have to be sorted before we get it.


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Peer Gynt
by Henry Ibsen
Fall, 1994
On a mountainside, Peer is digging for food. He has found an onion. As he strips away the layers of the onion, he names each one after the various identities he has tried out. Bur none of them last, and the onion had no core. As he ponders this, Solveig's voice comes to him. In a moment of dread he realizes that each layer of his life has been wasted. Solveig's voice is heard again, and the light from her hut reminds him of his last hope. As Peer appeals to her, he finally resolves to rake the narrow road for the first time in his life. His alter egos fade away, and at the last moment of the play he becomes truly himself. He realizes he doesn't have to give proof of his sins. he just has to accept forgiveness. Peer is restored in Solveig's faith, hope, and love.


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(1) to make loans, advances, and grants to, make and perform agreements and contracts with, or enter into other transactions with, any individual, corporation, or other body of persons, government or government agency, whether within or without the United States, and international and intergovernmental organizations;
(b) Performance of functions without regard to specified provisions of law
Whenever the President determines it to be in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, the functions authorized under this chapter may be performed without regard to such provisions of law (other than the Renegotiation Act of 1951), as amended [50 App. U.S.C. 1211 et seq.], regulating the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts and the expenditure of funds of the United States Government as the President may specify.
Source(Pub. L. 87–510, § 3,June 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 123.)
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The surge of confidence that Bellator heavyweight Rich Hale experienced after stopping Mike Wessel in 79 seconds apparently never subsided.
Following a post-win warning to the field of remaining competitors in the promotion's season 7 tourney, Hale had another message to them in an interview with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The message is simple: I'm not impressed, and I'm coming after you.
On Thiago Santos (11-1 MMA, 3-0 BFC), the Brazilian fight Hale (20-4-1 MMA, 5-1 BFC) is set to meet in the tourney semifinals following a disqualification win over Eric Prindle, he offered this:
"I wasn't one bit impressed with what I saw," Hale said. "He came in there with his go-to bullshit right hand on guys that didn't move, jumped on their backs, gave them a gigantic hug and said, 'I win.' He does that in every fight. He comes out there looking to bully his opponents and lay on top of them, and then what?
"I watched Thiago's performance on the ground against Prindle and it was disgusting. His transitions were dog s—, he has no downward pressure when he's on top, he has no skills on the ground. Look at that f—ing disgusting armbar he tried to throw in his last fight. Like, what's that?"
And on Alexander Volkov, the Russian who dominated Brett Rogers en route to a unanimous decision, Hale was also critical.
"He had Brett on the run for the entire fight and he didn't go out there looking to finish him off," he said of the semifinalist. "I definitely wasn't impressed with what I saw from him in that decision."
On Vinicius Queiroz, the Brazilian UFC vet who made his promotional debut with a come-from-behind submission win over Mark Holata, he was dismissive.
"Vinicius is supposed to be some kind of bad ass striker and he gets dropped by Holata," Hale said. "Don't get me wrong, he showed a lot of heart and great jiu-jitsu to be able to pull off that armbar, but none of these guys left me impressed."
But then again, it would be hard to impress Hale at this point. In six Bellator appearances, the 27-year-old fighter has but one loss in the cage, which came via third-round TKO against the current champion, Christian M'Pumbu. He's now moved up to heavyweight, where he hopes to win the title left vacant by the retiring of champ Cole Konrad.
His prospective opponents, which are set to compete on Friday at Bellator 79, just don't concern him.
"What a lot of them don't understand is that they're in there with a professional boxer that knocks heavyweights out with eighteen ounce gloves, and now they're going to let me put a four ounce glove on my hand and hit somebody? It's going to be a train wreck!" Hale said. "Like with Wessel, he thought he was just going to Mac truck me because he weighs more, but what he didn't know is that I'm not one to be bullied. I might be lighter on paper, but I'm a very, very strong individual, and that's not just physically, but also mentally."
Bellator 79 takes place at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario. The main card, which features Hale vs. Santos, airs live on MTV2 following prelims on Spike.com.
Of course, one could interpret Hale's confidence as the kind of bluster that's merely a ploy to gain more attention, and that's an opinion he might not entirely dispute. In an effort to separate himself from his competition and stand out among light heavyweights, he wants his pre-fight talk to be memorable, which could translate to bigger bucks down the road. It could also be a massive compensation for feelings of vulnerability, or he could truly feel like Superman. He'll let fans decide.
"I say exactly what I feel because I'm very passionate about what I talk about," he said. "People are going to feel one way or another about me, but I want to make sure that they feel it very strongly. Whether you love me or you hate me, as long as you're ass is in that seat and you're paying for that ticket or you're watching me on TV, you're making sure my dreams come true. Whether you want to see my get my ass kicked or kick someone's ass, I just want you to watch me."
And no matter what Santos might say, Hale promises the show he'll put on will be highly unpleasant for his opponent.
"Thiago doesn't understand that I'm going to be hitting him with little four ounce gloves and it's going to be devastating to him," Hale said. "I cracked Josh Burns and made him look like he was falling off a cliff with one checked left hook. Prindle hit him something like forty times and was only able to cut him but I hit him with a checked left hook, and his ass slept. Enough said.
"I'm so happy that I get to get Thiago Santos out of the way right now. I want the best guys that are in this tournament because when I become champion after I've just freight-trained through five f—ing people with knockouts that are going to combine to total under five minutes, people are going to say, 'Holy s—, maybe we didn't give this guy enough credit.'"
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How to Choose a Kitchen Faucet
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Mounted to Counter
- Also called deck mounted
- Most common option
- More features and variety
- Easier installation
Wall Mounted
- Great for small kitchen locations
- Offers a more industrial look
- May need a plumber for installation help
- Easier cleaning around your sink
Once you figure out where you want your faucet, you need to consider all of the necessary sizing.
- Consider how large the sink is?
- How many basins does your sink have?
- How large are your pots and pans? Will they fit under?
- Will a pullout spray or side spray help you reach a larger sink?
Make sure your spout will properly reach your entire sink. Use the spout reach and the faucet's swivel range to figure out if the water stream will work. Also determine if the spout height is too high where it may cause splashing or too low where pots won't fit.
Kitchen Faucet Configuration
Number of Holes
You will need to determine the number of holes you will need to mount your faucet. You may also need additional holes for side sprays, soap dispensers, hot water dispensers or air gaps.
Determine the number or handles you will need for your faucet. A faucet with two handles allows you to control the hot and cold water to your desired temperature, while a single handle mixes the two temperatures. Some faucets may have a third handle to turn a water filter on and off.
Kitchen Faucet Features
Consider these kitchen faucet features that can make your kitchen experience more convenient and easy. These are features or accessories that come with your kitchen faucet purchase.
Pullout or Side Spray
- Great for cleaning the sink
- Can use to better fill up larger pots and pans
- Helps control water direction when cleaning certain dishes
Electronic Features
- Electronic faucets differ by brand
- Typically, a touchless aspect to turn on and off faucet
- Requires some sort of power source--i.e. batteries
Filtering Feature
- Some faucets come with a filtering system built-in
- Typically means it is a separate faucet--hot and cold, cold only or hot only
Soap Dispenser
- Some faucets come with matching soap dispensers
- It's a nice addition and ensures the finishes and styles match
Don't forget to choose a faucet that fits your style and personality. Here are the most common ways people choose their faucet's look:
By Finish
- Fills pots with water at prep areas
- Eliminates lifting heavy water pots
- Typically, wall mounted
- Cold water only
- Smaller sized faucet meant to match your larger kitchen sink faucet
- Place a faucet at all prep areas
- Has both hot and cold water
- Great option for instant, filtered water
- Available in cold only, hot only or both hot and cold
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The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is the fifth game in the series and can probably be classed as one of the best role playing games of 2011. The attention to detail is staggering, everything from the weapons, spells, and armor to the overall layout of the characters is impressive. This detail is also carried on throughout the game, from the misty mountains to the stunningly portrayed forests. The sound track which overlays the quest as you battle from one mission to the next also adds to the overall playing experience within the game.
You also have the option to free-roam as well as taking on the various missions, and the game has over 100 hours of gameplay. I still found myself able to obtain upgrades and so forth after such an extensive period of time. The length of this game is simply as astounding as its quality.
For people who have played existing titles such as Elder Scrolls Oblivion and such like, this is a much improved experience with the ironing out of all the previous problems which is frequently encountered with these games. The character integration is very fluent and there is no waiting time as in previous titles after you have engaged in conversation with numerous characters. Before long you also find you have built up quite an extensive amount of side quests and full on missions which helps to settle you into your role.
Another thing which makes Skyrim stand out is the storylines and being able to drastically change how the player is used, with options for upgrades, customizing weapons and leveling. All these are done at the pace of the user making it easy to customize and decide exactly how you plan to play Skyrim. You also have the option of trying out these options beforehand.
During the game you have various weapons and artifacts at your disposal, spells, throw fire, numerous weapons, magical attacks and so on. The gamer also has the option of being able to heal with one hand whilst firing a fireball against an enemy with the other. Or deciding to double the strength of the attack and by using both hands with one weapon. This action doubles the impact of that weapon. In order to cast weapons, the same weapon from both hands, you must acquire dual casting beforehand. It is little things like this that make Skyrim such a pleasure, multiple weapons, or combining weapons, potions, and the effects of using these changes depending on how you apply them together.
You also have options during the game to bring along followers to help you complete certain missions, or call upon dragons, summon demons, slow time, breath fire, or cast spells, and so much more. Taken as a whole, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim has to be one of the best role playing games to ever make its way on to the Xbox 360.
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Unveiled in 2012, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest game in the much loved series created by Bethesda. The game is a fantasy adventure style RPG that involves a central story, multiple side quests and exploration. Retailing for $59.99, the game is available in either hard copy format for the X-Box 360 and Playstation 3, or online retailer Steam for the PC.
TES V: Skyrim starts off with the character needing to make a jailbreak or face the executioners axe. At the beginning, the player creates their avatar for their character. The player chooses gender and race, as well as physical appearance. The game does not use a traditional RPG class structure but instead allows for personal style. All skills increase based on use and include archery, melee weapons and magic. Others such as blacksmithing, lock picking and speech round out options available for use to create a personalized character.
The game itself plays heavily on two ideas: exploration and questing. A person could spend dozens, if not hundreds, of hours in Skyrim just looking around at the myriad of places to visit. Multiple locations such as forts dot the land and allow the player to wander around without the need to work on the main storyline. Playing through the storyline does help to unlock powerful new abilities and new locations. It still is not uncommon to find characters in games that have barely scratched the surface of the primary story, but still have dozens of levels to their name.
The game world is full and well fleshed out. People wander between cities and work in the towns that dot the landscape. There is a fantastic amount of history built into the game that can be discovered through books and various locations. Many of the NPCs in Skyrim have goals, families and beliefs. The cosmology created for game world of Tamriel meshes nicely and is believable.
Like most massive games these days, Skyrim does still have some bugs to it. It is not uncommon to find different places where the game will crash to the desktop. These bugs can be amusing sometimes, as well. It is not uncommon early on to see creatures such as horses and mammoths flying into the air from a distance. Most of these glitches are not game breaking, and usually just require a reload to fix. They certainly are not severe enough to prevent enjoyment of the game, especially since multiple patches have already been released.
Since Skyrims release, it has gone on to become one of the most popular Elder Scrolls games so far. Featuring hundreds of hours of content Skyrim can take an extremely long time to finish. The replay value is extensive as well given that many quests have several outcomes. To be able to see them all would require multiple play-throughs. With three additional downloadable content patches available and many more planned, it promises to provide even more days of entertainment. Skyrim is highly recommended for any RPG fan.


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July 2006
By Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.
The defense industry is probably one the least understood corporate sectors in the United States. Yet it is frequently vilified. Ask most Americans what comes to mind when they think about the nation's industrial base and you're likely to hear about $600 toilet seats, $400 hammers, and all-around war profiteering.
Many also will cite former President Dwight Eisenhower's famous words of advice: "We must guard against the acquisition … of unwarranted influence by the military industrial complex." In that 1961 speech, Eisenhower also said, "We can no longer risk improvisation of national defense." We also must remember that, back then, defense was much larger that most other industries, which Eisenhower noted in his speech: "We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations."
Most Americans tend to regard defense industry as a juggernaut, while in fact it is now relatively small, when compared to other corporate sectors. The top 10 defense contractors, for example, have a market capitalization in the range of $170 billion. Wal-Mart's market cap alone is $196 billion, and Microsoft's is $224 billion, while Exxon Mobile's is $ 356 billion.
Also profit margins in the defense industry are puny compared to those in the commercial sector. Compare the profits as a percentage of revenue for Pfizer, Boeing and Lockheed Martin in 2004 -- Pfizer, 21.5 percent; Boeing and Lockheed Martin, 3.6 percent. This is only partially explained by the fact that some legitimate expenses borne by defense are unallowable costs and thus not reimbursable by the government.
Despite recent scandals — such as procurement violations by a former Air Force acquisitions official and a series of critical reports by the Government Accountability Office and the Defense Department inspector general — defense industry generally can claim a better ethics track record than the non-defense sector. Witness the colossal scandals that engulfed Enron, WorldCom, and several other major corporations.
Defense firms in recent years have made a major push to prevent unethical conduct and to ensure company employees understand what's acceptable and what's not acceptable under the rules of government ethics. Companies have instituted in-house ethics training and have put top-down emphasis on self-regulation. Organizations such as the Defense Industry Initiative and our NDIA Ethics Committee are actively engaged. They report growing interest in ethics programs, and note that major defense corporations have appointed senior ethics officers.
But that still is not enough to establish and maintain the credibility of the industry vis-à-vis Congress and the American public. Many lawmakers clearly understand the role of the industry, even though politics, in most cases, tends to cloud honest debate.
It would be fair to say that the average citizen probably is not aware of how critical the industry is to the ability of the Defense Department and the military services to do their jobs. While the commonly known functions of defense contractors are to build airplanes, ships, tanks and weapons, the industry today performs a much broader role.
On the battlefield, anywhere our troops deploy, contractors are there — to fix vehicles, maintain computer systems, operate mess halls, and provide any number of support functions. Whatever the customer needs done, the contractors are there to do it, even in dangerous combat zones.
We need to do a better job of dealing with misleading accounts. For example, the infamous $600 toilet seat was in fact a structural assembly, specifically designed to be incorporated into an aircraft to support a toilet seat. This poorly reported story badly mischaracterized the nature of the defense business, which is to respond to needs as they arise. Rapidly evolving defense needs frequently require extensive engineering to respond to the smallest need, a process which tends to be expensive. Commercial products are "off the shelf." The defense industry is constantly evolving systems to meet specific and demanding requirements of the combat environment.
Let us recall a time in U.S. history when the nation had no defense industry. In World War I, our aviators flew French- and British-made warplanes. Similarly, the American Army fought with French and British artillery systems. The only things we took to war that were truly American-made were the Springfield rifles and our fighting spirits.
It was only after that conflict that steps were taken by NDIA's predecessor and other like-minded organizations to advocate what truly emerged as an arsenal for democracy. Despite efforts to dismantle the defense industrial base after the war, it became the engine that throttled the erstwhile Soviet Union and the technological innovator that made possible many of the marvels that mark our society, today.
We need to do a better job of telling the industry's story to the public at large. It not only provides our military with the best systems in the world, the defense industrial base also continues to make tangible contributions to all our citizens. The necessity of telling the story well will be critically important with the coming resource crunch, when the Defense Department will have to justify acquisitions and force structure costs against calls for reallocation of resources to other national needs.
It will be a job for all of us and must be done well. The alternative is unacceptable.
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman says prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 calls moments before he was killed can't testify at trial.
Judge Debra Nelson's written ruling was released Saturday. She'd heard arguments in a multiday hearing on whether to allow testimony from two prosecution experts. One ruled out Zimmerman as the screamer; another said it was Martin. A defense expert argued there was not enough audio to determine who the screams are coming from.
Zimmerman's attorneys also argued that the state experts' analysis is flawed.
Opening statements are set for Monday in the second-degree murder trial for the former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
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As I type this, I am sitting with my feet propped up. We had a family football game on Thanksgiving, and it didn't end well for me. My brother and I got our feet tangled up, and he ended up stepping on my foot pretty bad. We took a trip to urgent care the next morning to find out it wasn't broken, but with orders to rest, not put weight on it, and ice it. So I have been on crutches for a couple days. Today was the first day I hobbled around without them! Really not sure what this is going to mean for my running, but I am not thrilled
So, on to the food! My husband was watching football, and saw a commercial for a Baja Chicken Sandwich from Quiznos, and asked if I could make that at home. After checking out their menu, this is what I came up with. I have no idea if it is even close, but it sure is good. I made a chipotle mayo, and a southwestern style barbeque sauce for this sandwich. Add chicken, bacon and cheddar cheese, and you are done. Comes together very quickly, so it is great for a quick weeknight meal.
My husband was very happy with how this turned out. I skipped the chipotle mayo for my 7 year old, due to the heat. I was a little nervous about him eating it, but he loved it. Once he saw the bacon, I am not sure he cared too much about what else was there. I love having sandwich night for dinner, and this is great because you can customize them for everyone without extra work. Someone doesn't like mayo, leave it off that one. Husband likes extra cheese, just add more. Plus, this would be great for leftover chicken (or even turkey).


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Sat April 30 2016
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Sat April 30 2016
Bilic: Players should be proud
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Sat April 30 2016
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The tide swept the country for about a fortnight. And the entire nation was caught in a quake of suspense. It was gradually going all through without knowing how it would end, and to make things worse no one stood up to call it off.
It started from the august house in Dodoma, where some cabinet ministers came under the stinging attack of fellow parliamentarians. The ministers were apportioned blame after blame, all boiling down to the embezzlement of public funds, but some accusing them of stashing the funds into their personal wallets.
What started as a mere parliamentary debate finally turned into a political nightmare, haunting the ruling party and the entire government. The President was put under intense pressure to reshuffle the cabinet or else his Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, would be a sacrificial lamb in Parliament.
As President Kikwete weathered the political storm, his ministers were also in week-long tension, waiting for the head of state to decide their fate. As one analyst described the situation, 'it was like the ministers were under house arrest for one week', counting the days, and finally hours, before knowing their political fate.
Announcing his cabinet on Friday, President Kikwete made it clear that some ministers had just taken political responsibilities for misdeeds they never committed or for crimes that were committed on their watch.
One of them, William Ngeleja, former minister for Energy and Minerals, took political responsibility after the country was plunged into total darkness last year due to prolonged drought and lack of a clear national policy to invest in energy.
He survived twice early last year, but his critics never stopped accusing him of failure to manage the crisis, though he defended his performance, saying, he used all it took to curb power rationing after Parliament passed the $1 billion power rescue package in August, 2011.
Perhaps Ngeleja was the only minister who survived for five years in a troubled ministry, which a few years ago caused political storm that saw then Prime Minister and other two senior cabinet ministers lose their jobs in February 2008.
Omar Nundu, an aviation expert and former Minister for Transport, strongly defended his record, saying he was wrongly implicated by the Parliamentary committee responsible for transport affairs.
However, Nundu's defence was helpless because his accusers had already built a strong case against him, though with questionable evidence, especially after he narrated his side of the story one day after news broke out that eight cabinet ministers had been forced to resign by the ruling party's parliamentary caucus.
Then there was Ezekiel Maige, former Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources, who was crucified by his neighbour, Kahama legislator James Lembeli. In his damning report tabled in Parliament two weeks ago, Lembeli accused his counterpart of corruption, saying he had failed to manage the ministry in the best interests of the country.
When the public was still pondering Maige's unenviable situation, another scandal emerged, with the very same Lembeli accusing him of buying a posh home at a staggering amount of $700,000. However, Maige said he bought the house at the cost of $420,000, with a five-year loan from CRDB Bank.
But judgment against him had already been passed and therefore his defense was helpless. To put things into perspective, Maige's downfall was caused by, among other things, accumulation of wealth within a very short period, his move to touch the untouchable in the ministry and the politics of witch-hunting originating from his Sukumaland in Shinyanga region.
Then there is the country's former controller of the country's exchequer, Mustafa Mkulo, a man who managed the treasury for over five years but failed to come up with a strong fiscal management policy, as well as austerity measures during the economic crisis. In his heyday Mkulo failed to manage the Sh1.7 trillion stimulus package issued in 2009 to cushion the country against the global economic crisis.
One year after the hefty stimulus package was issued, it turned out that the cotton sector alone cost the country about Sh48 billion, paid to dubious dealers who had never purchased a single kilo of cotton, let alone exporting a single bale of ginned cotton to the global market.
But when Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe and other legislators demanded explanation as well as documents justifying how the Sh48 billion was paid to dubious dealers, Mkulo declined to cooperate. Then he was implicated in another dubious deal involving the controversial sale of a business plot in Dar es Salaam.
Last Sunday his ministry issued a strong clarification, trying to defend him against any wrongdoing during the transactions, but, like his counterparts, the judgment against him had already been passed.
Then there is Dr Haji Mponda, the former Minister for Health, who failed to manage the doctors' strike, plunging the country into a costly health crisis early this year. At one time the doctors gave President Kikwete a 72-hour ultimatum to sack the minister and his deputy, but the president took it in stride and met the top leaders from the Tanzania Medical Association at State house.
When Mponda was still pondering his fate at the ministry, the Controller and Auditor General, Ludovick Utouh, issued a damning audit report which detailed how the Medical Stores Department swindled billions of shillings during the leadership of the former minister.
The CAG report painted a gloomy future for the former Health minister, whom the doctors had declared their number-one enemy during their strike early this year. Unlike Nundu, Maige and Mkullo, he didn't go public to defend his ministerial position but opted to remain silent, gauging the political storm.
Then there is Cyril Chami, former Minister for Trade and Industry, who was strongly attacked by the legislators following allegations that Tanzania Bureau of Standards opened ghost offices abroad to inspect used vehicles before being imported into Tanzania.
Despite being advised by his deputy, Lazaro Nyalandu, who survived the reshuffle, to suspend the embattled TBS Director General Charles Ekerege, the minister failed to act on time.
But, whether measured by the impacts it caused or the total number of ministers it cost during the past one week since Parliament ended its session in Dodoma last week, the ministers were 'under house arrest' as the nation waited with baited breath what the head of state would decide.
This had reached the stage of asking the prime minister to step down through the collection of signatures of the legislators. Youthful Kigoma North legislator Kabwe Zitto was the first to appeal for an endorsement to sacrifice Premier Mizengo Pinda for not taking what he described as the right kind of action against his misbehaving subordinates.
The matter must have coaxed the anger of President Jakaya Kikwete, who also must have had fight with his nerves on the next line of action. The president, considering this was the first time in the history of his office for matters to go to such proportion, mulled over this and decided to take a step many people would not believe he would. Fully armed with tricks and surprises, President Kikwete sought the blessing of his party's central committee, which gave him the greenlight to do away with the ministers accused of evil.
Accusations apart, not all of them are guilty, or do we need proof for that? Hear this: Proof enough that some of them must remain innocent, although they will die poor.
A delegation of businessmen or their associates had once approached one of the ministers. With them was a briefcase full of dollars, said to be in the region of one million. What they had wanted from him was only his signature so they could proceed doing something.
The said minister, still in prime age, was disgusted. He looked straight at their faces, fixed a hard smile and showed them the door. He was not interested in the bribe they were ready to put on offer, and because he felt slightly belittled and tortured for his patriotism, the minister actually ordered the security guards at his ministry to slam the door behind the delegation.
But they left with a pang of warning to the minister. He would remain poor for his entire life, threatening him at the same time that their mission would be accomplished, even without his help.
"I only wish I had the guts to accept that offer by that delegation, because after all this disgrace of being stripped of my ministerial portfolio, I will have no friends to accept me as my name is tarnished. But, most distracting, I will remain poor because I could not steal from my employers," said sadly the minister, who was dropped from the cabinet yesterday.
The warning sounded by that irate team of thugs, said to have come from one of the Asian countries, had come true. They had the power to destroy a dedicated patriot.
Consider a scenario where ministers are almost put under house arrest following an order not to allow them to move outside Dar es Salaam. Also when they are not allowed to use their official vehicles any longer pending announcement of the new cabinet.
What had gripped the nation for about two weeks regarding the anticipated cabinet reshuffle or its complete dissolution came to an end late yesterday as the head of state, in a solemn mood, unveiled the new cabinet.
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The Student Government bodies of Russell Sage College & Sage College of Albany have decided to continue the tradition started by President Scrimshaw and invite the Sage community to celebrate the opening of the 2015-2016 Academic Year on the Captain J.P.!
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Men's lifestyle website AskMen's Great Annual Survey polled men on a host of subjects: Careers, relationships and -- most important for us at DailyFinance -- their financial opinions. Then they teamed with Cosmopolitan to get the female point of view. And some of the gender disparities were pretty striking.


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Derry City will take on First Division pacesetters Limerick at the Brandywell in the EA Sports Cup semi-finals in August.BBC Sport » 2d
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Derry City's nine-match unbeaten run is ended as Sligo clinch a deserved 2-0 League of Ireland win at the Brandywell.BBC Sport » 7d
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This was an idea from Lonewanderer in the suggestions forum which was universally liked:
The contest will close on or about the 15th of December. If you have not entered a contest before, please read the rules which are in this subforum.This month's challenge is to build a region/city/town/building that is based around a word supplied by the Moderators. You can make anything so long as it clearly reflects the supplied word, for example the word "eight" could be the City of Eight Towers, a city where everything is based of an octagon, or the word "high" could be a city in the clouds or a really tall tower.
You have a choice of 3 words:
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Sounds interesting!
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Bonus votes if we manage to incorporate all three words into our map concept somehow?
This sounds interesting, I'll have to keep it in mind as I sketch maps in the next little while!
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This might bring about some really interesting entries.
I wish I could still enter the Lite challenges...
I always wanted to create a map from the 1st to the 15th of a month that could be entered in both challenges ... I just never have any free time.
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Well, it's the 16th and it looks like there aren't too many of us CLs poking around the halls this winter.
If you have any last minute changes you wish to do I suggest you get on em!
I will be out for the afternoon and have a business meeting later but unless somebody has locked this up for voting by then, I will try to get it done tonight.
So, I'll just say 6pm Arizona time is the cutoff. If you are going to try posting after that you are playing it risky (I believe that's 8pm Eastern time btw). Honestly, I might not get to it until midnight and someone else might do it before then. It is the 16th after all.
Have fun and keep drawing!
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Aresto Momentum is a spell that slows down or stops the movement of an object. Albus Dumbledore used this charm to slow Harry Potter's fall during a Quidditch match in 1993, when he was overcome by Dementors.[1]
Aresto Momentum is taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as part of the second-years' Charms curriculum.[2]
Known practitioners
- Likely the combination of two words; the Anglo-French "arester", meaning "to bring to a stop", and the Latin "Momentum", meaning "the force or strength gained whilst moving". Literal translation: "bring its momentum to a stop".
Behind the scenes
- In some of the video games, such as the handheld versions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, this spell's incantation is spelled Arresto Momento.
- In the second part of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione Granger cast this spell when she, Harry, Ron, Griphook and Bogrod fell from the Thief's Downfall to halt them down before they hit the ground below, thus saving their lives.[4]
- Given its usage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, this spell may be the Cushioning Charm mentioned in the novels. However, this is as of yet unconfirmed.
- This may also be the spell used in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when the Dumbledore's Army fell into the Death Chamber in the headquarters of the Ministry of Magic.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (First identified as Arresto Momentum)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (NDS version only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Portable versions only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Notes and references
|Professors: Filius Flitwick
|Textbooks: The Standard Book of Spells · Achievements in Charming · Quintessence: A Quest
|Charmbook writers and charm developers: Miranda Goshawk · Scarpin · Felix Summerbee · Randolph Keitch · Basil Horton · Mnemone Radford · Elliot Smethwyck · Jarleth Hobart · Delfina Crimp · Orabella Nuttley · Levina Monkstanley · Fred Weasley · George Weasley
|Charms studied at Hogwarts: Levitation Charm · Fire-Making Charm · Softening Charm · Skurge · Aresto Momentum · Cheering Charm · Freezing Spell · Seize and Pull Charm · Summoning Charm · Banishing Charm · Silencing Charm · Mending Charm · Reductor Curse · Colour Change Charm · Growth Charm · Water-Making Spell · Locomotion Charm · Vinegar into Wine · Bird-Conjuring Charm


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