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The Conversation, which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed 1979's Apocalypse Now. Notorious for its over-long and strenuous production, the film was nonetheless critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards. While a number of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s.[4][5][6]
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Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
By Judy Truesdell
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Members of East Fork Masonic Lodge #650 honored Dr. Charles "Chuck" Kerin, owner of the Parker Road Veterinary Hospital, with the Community Builder Award, the highest honor bestowed on a non-Mason.
The award was presented July 5 at the lodge, and Kerin, along with his wife Lisa and mom Kathleen Kerin, were on hand.
Worshipful Master Jeff Forrester told those gathered that the award is presented to members of the community who have distinguished themselves through service to their community, to the local, state or national government, to their church or
synagogue, or to humanity.
Reading from the Kerin's nomination, submitted by Past Master Cliff Martin, Forrester said Kerin's grandfather, Richard A. Minter, was the 1950 Commander of the Dallas Commandery No. 6, Knights Templar. He said Kerin had been positively influenced by his grandfather, with whom Kerin spent many of his formative years.
Kerin had said that his grandfather was "a man of great integrity and accomplishment," who had started out as a "high-school drop-out with a shovel in his hand" and ended up as an executive at Lone Star Gas as a professional engineer. "I will never be able to fill his shoes but had the privilege to see them worn," Kerin had said.
Forrester reviewed Kerin's background for the group. While a member of Boy Scout Troop 727 in Richardson, Kerin earned the rank of Eagle Scout in just three years when he was only 14 years old.
In band, he was first chair for the coronet/trumpet from sixth grade through his senior year of high school; during high school, he frequently played "Taps" at military graveside services.
He graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University, where he had been a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Gamma Sigma Delta honor societies. He was an officer in the student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
In more recent years, in the Wylie area, Kerin served the local Rotary Club in several offices including president. During his presidency, he oversaw the building and placing of kiosks for school crossing guards and raised funds for wheelchairs and water purification systems for undeveloped areas.
Kerin delivers Meals on Wheels and piloted and provided private plane transportation for a Border Collie rescue group, delivering adopted dogs to their new homes all over the country.
He has served on the Citizens Bond Advisory Committee and the Wylie Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and currently sits on the city of Wylie Animal Control Board of Directors and the board for In-Sync Exotics. He has been the veterinarian on site for the Wylie Chamber of Commerce rodeo each year and has aided in the arena preparation.
His volunteer work includes veterinary services at the South Dallas projects. "This special Equine program provides underprivileged kids an opportunity to learn responsibility by caring for horses," Martin said.
Kerin and his staff have been voted Best Veterinary Clinic in Wylie by The Wylie News' readers, and he volunteers to speak about animal care and veterinary medicine at many local group meetings.
"Dr. Chuck Kerin has been making our community a better place to live since moving here in 1984," Martin said in his letter. "It is with honor and pride that I nominate Dr. Charles 'Chuck' Kerin to receive the Community Builder Award for 2011."
Kerin said he was appreciative and honored to receive the award. "My grandfather was a Mason," he said. "He was as close as you can get to someone who can walk on water."
He said he had been blessed with great parenting and grandparenting, which had fostered in him a sense of the importance of giving back rather than entitlement.
Kerin has been a vet for 27 years. His clinic is located at 707 Parker Rd.
The Wylie area has been very good to him and his family, Kerin said. "I believe it's our responsibility to give back. I enjoy doing things for the city.
"The way I try to live my life is I believe we reap what we sow. If you sow good seeds, you get good crops; if you sow bad seeds, you get bad crops," he said. "This is a wonderful harvest for the work I've done, and I'm so very appreciative."
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GARCIN: So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? ...Ah, I see; it's life without a break. (27)
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GARCIN: You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me – and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. But I can't go on doing that without a break. (31)
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[Valet goes out.] [Garcin refrains from looking at Inez.] (64)
This is one example of Garcin's accommodating nature, though he doesn't yet realize the value of keeping his head down. By not looking at Inez, he's trying to avoid reducing her to a mere object.


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USA defender Jay DeMerit insists his team will not fear facing England in their opening World Cup match.
Watford confirm they will be releasing six players this summer, including club captain Jay DeMerit.
Watford captain Jay DeMerit is set leave Vicarage Road this summer.
Watford have opened talks with four players regarding new contracts, including defender Adrian Mariappa.
USA defender Jay DeMerit has admitted it will be difficult to contain Wayne Rooney at the World Cup.
Jonathan Spector and Jay DeMerit insist they are looking forward to locking horns with England.
Watford captain Jay DeMerit has undergone surgery on the freak eye injury he suffered in September.
Watford will take at least 10 days before deciding whether Jay DeMerit will have an eye operation.
Watford defender Jay DeMerit fears a lengthy spell on the sidelines after a freak eye accident.
Sky Sports News understand that Charlton have made a bid for Watford's Jay DeMerit.
Jay DeMerit is hoping Brendan Rodgers has some 'aces' up his sleeve for their FA Cup clash with Chelsea.
Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock has slammed referee Michael Oliver after his side slipped to a 4-3 FA Cup defeat at Watford.
Watford caretaker manager Malky Mackay admits Aidy Boothroyd's exit has come as a shock.
Watford duo Jay DeMerit and Jon Harley are hopeful that Danny Shittu will remain at Vicarage Road.
Adrian Boothroyd has soothed fears that Watford defender Jay DeMerit has suffered a serious injury.
Watford defender Jay DeMerit has ended speculation over his future by signing a new deal at Vicarage Road.
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One of the few reliable restaurants near Dam Square, the perennially popular Brasserie Harkema draws a buzzing mix of young locals, professionals, tourists, and everyone in between. Part of the attraction is the convivial party mood driven by the warehouse-size dining room itself, which is brightened by jewel-colored stripes of paint and cubical wine racks positioned above the open, tiled kitchen. The cheerful waiters poured into tight white T-shirts are a draw, too. However, it's the easygoing but confident menu—a primer in contemporary bistro dishes, such as chunky peasant paté, grilled tuna with wasabi mayonnaise, a very Dutch stewed veal on pommes au gratin, and coconut parfait—that keeps the massive space filled.—Raphael Kadushin
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The parliament of Morocco has unanimously amended an article of the penal code that allowed rapists of underage girls to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.
The move follows intensive lobbying by activists for better protection of young rape victims. The amendment has been welcomed by rights groups.
Article 475 of the penal code generated unprecedented public criticism.
It was first proposed by Morocco's Islamist-led government a year ago.
But the issue came to public prominence in 2012 when 16-year-old Amina Filali killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist.
She accused Moustapha Fellak, who at the time was about 25, of physical abuse after they married, which he denies. After seven months of marriage, Ms Filali swallowed rat poison.
Although women activists are pleased about the amendment - and it shows the Islamist-led government is slowly starting to listen to them - some say there is still much room for improvement as the law does not necessarily protect women from violence or put an emphasis on the seriousness of rape.
Rights groups say one in four women in Morocco is a victim of violence. The most vulnerable live in the countryside where only about 20% of women are literate and attitudes are more conservative. In such areas, child marriages and forced marriages after rape have been a common practice for centuries.
Women's rights groups now want new laws to reflect the spirit of the 2011 constitution. World leaders praised it, saying Morocco was a role model for democracy in the Arab world. It states that men and women should be treated equally, yet also included Article 475.
The case shocked many people in Morocco, received extensive media coverage and sparked protests in the capital Rabat and other cities.
Article 475 provides for a prison term of one to five years for anyone who "abducts or deceives" a minor "without violence, threat or fraud, or attempts to do so".
But the second clause of the article specifies that when the victim marries the perpetrator, "he can no longer be prosecuted except by persons empowered to demand the annulment of the marriage and then only after the annulment has been proclaimed". This effectively prevents prosecutors from independently pursuing rape charges.
In conservative rural parts of Morocco, an unmarried girl or woman who has lost her virginity - even through rape - is considered to have dishonoured her family and no longer suitable for marriage. Some families believe that marrying the rapist addresses these problems.
While welcoming the move, rights groups say that much still needs to be done to promote gender equality, protect women and outlaw child marriage in the North African country.
"It's a very important step. But it's not enough," Fatima Maghnaoui, who heads a group supporting women victims of violence, told the AFP news agency.
"We are campaigning for a complete overhaul of the penal code for women."


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Toyota USA now offers OEM CNG forklifts and has teamed up with Fuelmaker to provide CNG refueling appliances. |
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Toyota in the US has highlighted the introduction of CNG forklifts
among it's environmental achievements for the past year in an
environmental update released last week.
In February, Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. (TMHU) began offering
a compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system option for a number of its
forklift models.
The system is certified to meet strict U.S. EPA and CARB mandates for
emissions of hydrocarbon, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon. The fuel
system's closed-loop design automatically adjusts and optimizes the
air-fuel mixture ratio, working in conjunction with a three-way
catalytic converter.
According to the release, TMHU is the only lift truck manufacturer to offer a factory-installed CNG option.
Toyota has also teamed up with FuelMaker to provide CNG refueling
systems to Toyota's forklift customers. The systems allow on-board
refueling of lift trucks in less than two minutes and are available for
fleets as small as a single forklift and as large as more than seventy.
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Build a Better Firewall-Linux HA Firewall Tutorial
Many enterprise networks require redundant HA (High Availability) infrastructure for key systems like network firewalls. This article demonstrates how you can use a combination of open-source packages to build and manage a Linux-based HA firewall pair that includes support for many of the advanced features commonly found in commercial firewalls.
The collection of open-source packages that I use to create the HA firewall in this article are iptables, conntrackd, keepalived and Firewall Builder. The network diagram in Figure 1 shows the example environment that will be configured.
The example uses a pair of servers running Ubuntu Server 10.10 that will be configured to run in an Active-Backup configuration. This means traffic will be going through only one firewall at any given time. More complex Active-Active solutions also are possible, but are beyond the scope of this article.
The conntrackd and keepalived packages are installed on both servers using apt-get. Since many commands require root privileges to run, the examples are shown using user root to help keep things concise.
Conntrackd is a dæmon developed by the netfilter.org project, the same organization that develops iptables. Conntrackd synchronizes the state of active connections between two or more firewalls running iptables.
In an Active-Backup configuration, like the example in this article, each time a connection is allowed through the active firewall, information about this connection is sent to the backup firewall. In the event of a failover, the backup firewall already will have information about the active allowed connections, so that existing connections do not have to be re-established after the failover occurs.
The example here is based on one of the example configuration files that comes with conntrackd. This configuration uses the FTFW reliable protocol to synchronize the connection data between the firewalls. There is also a script called primary-backup.sh that provides integration between keepalived and conntrackd. For Ubuntu, these example files are located in the /usr/share/doc/conntrackd/examples/sync/ directory.
Run the commands listed below to copy the sample config file and failover script to the default directory for conntrackd, /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf:
root@lj-fw-1:/# cd /usr/share/doc/conntrackd/examples/sync root@lj-fw-1:/# gunzip ftfw/conntrackd.conf.gz root@lj-fw-1:/# cp ftfw/conntrackd.conf /etc/conntrackd/ root@lj-fw-1:/# cp primary-backup.sh /etc/conntrackd
Open the /etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf file for editing, and find the section in the file called Multicast. Edit the default values in this section to match the example network environment shown in Figure 1.
Multicast { IPv4_address 220.127.116.11 IPv4_interface 192.168.100.2 # IP of eth2 interface, # used for conntrackd synch Interface eth2 Group 3780
Next, find the section at the bottom of the configuration file called IgnoreTrafficFor and edit the default values in this section to match the example network environment:
IgnoreTrafficFor { IPv4_address 127.0.0.1 # loopback IPv4_address 192.168.1.2 # eth0 interface IP IPv4_address 10.1.1.2 # eth1 interface IP IPv4_address 192.168.100.2 # eth2 interface IP }
Repeat the same process for the lj-fw-2 server, making sure to use the correct interface IP addresses for the lj-fw-2 server.
Two Interface Firewalls
This example uses a dedicated interface for the conntrackd synchronization traffic, which is recommended for optimal security and performance. If your firewall has only two network interfaces, modify the "Multicast" section of conntrackd.conf to use the inside interface name and IP address.
When the package is installed, an /etc/init.d/conntrackd script is created. To test the configuration, start conntrackd and then run the status command to verify it is running properly (note: conntrackd needs to be started on both the lj-fw-1 and lj-fw-2 firewalls):
root@lj-fw-1:/# /etc/init.d/conntrackd start root@lj-fw-1:/# conntrackd -s cache internal: current active connections: 1
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I can't stop thinking about A. And I hate myself because of it.
I feel so empty. I just want him so bad, his kiss, his touch, his embrace... I want to hear his voice and I want to make him laugh...
I don't think I've obsessed over a boy this bad before. Not to the point of crying day after day and thinking about harming myself.
I want to run away. I want to forget everything. And sometimes, I want to go to sleep and never wake up.
I think I might tell him how I feel. How badly I want him and such. I just hope he doesn't ignore me.
heh, not sure you have such a huge back catalog of men you've been with to say you've never obsessed over a boy like this before?! That's a short list and a short period of time, no?
I understand all of your feelings, aside from why you feel the need to beat yourself over it.
Sure, total dick move on his part to not be sure he was over his ex, etc., but it seems your feelings are slightly out of relation to your actual relationship, no?
I mean, you knew him long enough for him to cause you to harm yourself, want to run away, die? Did I miss when all this occurred?
If anything, might be a lesson how much emotional investment you might experience when you have sex, and to hold back longer in the future.
But, at the end of the day, if you are incomplete without him, then you are incomplete with him. You want to bring a complete, realized person to a relationship, not this notion that you are a half looking to be whole. He needs to augment and improve your life, but not be your life.
I would examine why you want someone back who isn't ready to give you the love you need, or at least says he can't. You can't use relationships to distract you from the personal work you might need to do, or else they will always just be band-aids on things that need healing first.
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The Luxembourg Palace was first constructed for Marie de Medicis in 1612 and the designer was Salomon de Brosse. It was originally intended as a Florentine palace to suit the taste of Marie de Medicis. In addition to the impressive Florentine design, there are decorations and embellishments of such as Rubens paintings which can be found on the walls of the large art gallery there. The library also has masterpieces from Eugene Delacroix. The practical usage of the palace has changed many times. The Jardin du Luxembourg was a prison during the Revolution but it is now a building that is used to house the Senate.
The gardens of Luxembourg are a majestic sight for any passer by and they completely surround the palace itself. This extremely large park has grand sprawling lawns and an abundance of colorful flowers to please the senses. The sight always amazes the visitors who walk around comfortably along the winding paths through the park. The exquisite beauty of the various flowers and the shadows under the cool trees is very pleasurable. Children can even rent small boats here, and sail in the pristine ponds while their grandparents relax on the benches.
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Traffic Deaths Rise On Election Day
Researchers noticed an 18 percent spike in traffic fatalities on days a presidential election was held. What do you think?
"As county chairman of the Republican Party, I'm naturally concerned about this disturbing trend, and would like to urge all eligible voters to consider staying home to vote on Nov. 4."
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Victoria Wardlaw
If Council were really thinking economics, then they would see a volatile market - businesses are closing, people are buying online! The changing economic climate, as I believe, will result in greater value for local produce, local products and services. I believe Ballarat should be developing the site to lever on the huge number of visitors we attract on weekends. A recent report demonstrated, that there is a significant number of visitors that come to Ballarat to visit friends and family. Now - what are these visitors doing? How much money are they spending when they visit Ballarat? How can we use the Civic Hall site to engage these visitors? An all weekend market, incorporating local arts/crafts/foods/ameatur theatre? Wow - this would be something that the visitors would frequent on more than one visit, maybe every visit to Ballarat would incorporate a visit to an 'all weekend indoor market' - unlike Sovereign Hill, the Eureka Centre, Wildlife Park. \r\n\r\nIs there a petition going round at the moment?


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Increased competition, patent expirations, and dwindling new-product offerings have put pressure on companies to offload risks by outsourcing. This trend has benefitted established contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) globally. But for emerging India-based biopharmaceutical manufacturers, the short-term outlook remains a question. As we argue in our report, Advances in Biopharmaceutical Technology in India, the country is still widely perceived as having problems that may hinder future growth in outsourced biologics manufacturing.1
CMOs that make small-molecule products have definitely been enjoying a boom. From 2004 to 2005, the global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing industry doubled, from about $12 billion to $25 billion.3 By 2006, it had expanded by another 50% to about $35 billion.4
Biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing has tougher requirements for technology, human capital, and regulatory aptitude. In recent years, there have also been signs of adequate capacity, and would-be newcomers to the business have faced significant barriers to dislodge existing players.5,6 The potentially expansive market for biosimilars has yet to take off because the US and Europe have been slow in issuing guidelines in this area.
Despite all this, growth of biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing has been fairly robust at about 25% annually.7 And as Figure 1 makes clear, there is going to be the need for outsourcing capacity at CMOs. Some of that may well be directed toward India.8
Changes in the country's political landscape may affect the pharmaceutical industry market in the future.
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The draft guidance contains policies for drugs that are processed with additional manufacturing steps such as remixing, dilution, and repackaging.
The agency releases five draft guidance documents related to drug compounding and repackaging.
Market forces may limit the success of CMOs.
FDA announced that it would postpone a meeting that would be critical for the advancement of Celltrion's Remicade biosimilar in the US.
Drug shortages are declining, but they're still a serious concern for regulatory authorities, policy makers, and bio/pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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More on "Lip Balm"
Last year I wrote a post, "Drug Claims and Lip Balm" which discussed the use of the phrase "lip balm" as the identity of a product. Unlike "lipstick" or "lip gloss," the specific term "lip balm" is cited in the over-the-counter drug monograph for "skin protectants" as one of the approved ways to identify a skin protectant (which is a drug). The issue came up again recently on a newly updated FDA webpage, Cosmetic Export Certificates. On that page, which is essentially a FAQ about how to get a cosmetic export certificate, lip balm was mentioned in one of the questions, "Is my product really a cosmetic under the law?"The answer to which was:Many personal care products are actually drugs under U.S. law, such as products with claims of–
… Skin and lip balm
Clarification from the FDA
I immediately sent the following to the FDA for clarification:I am seeking some clarification on the use of the term "lip balm" as used to identify a product. 21 CFR 347:50, Labeling of skin protectant drug products, specifies the use of the term "lip balm" as one way in which skin protectants used on lips may be identified. Within the handcrafted soap and cosmetic industry, the term "lip balm" has become a generic term used to identify lip products that are intended only to moisturize (and sometimes color) the lips. The ingredients in these products are generally a combination of food grade hard and soft oils, a wax (typically beeswax, but sometimes other food grade waxes), and optionally a flavor and/or color. Such manufacturers do not make claims that the product is a "skin protectant", nor do they include sunscreen or other active ingredients. … Clarification from the FDA on whether the use of the term "lip balm" is allowed to identify lip products other than those that are claimed to be skin protectants would be of great assistance to the handcrafted cosmetic community. If you could provide answers to the following questions, it would be greatly appreciated:It took a few weeks to get an answer. The response I received back from the FDA was:Is the use of the term "lip balm" RESTRICTED in use to only identify skin protectant products?
In other words, does the use of the term "lip balm" cause the product to be considered skin protectant, even if no skin protectant claims are made and the product, by virtue of actual claims would otherwise be considered a cosmetic?
These types of products would be considered cosmetics granted they were not making drug claims (as in claiming to diagnose or treat any type of disease).So, apparently it IS okay to use the term "lip balm" to describe a product, so long as there is no claim that it will diagnose or treat any type of disease. Keep in mind that "chapped lips" is a "disease" in the eyes of the FDA, so preventing or treating chapped lips would be a (drug) claim to diagnose, treat or prevent a disease, making the product an unapproved drug. On the flip side, a claim that your lip balm product "improves appearance" would be only a cosmetic claim, and keep it in the cosmetic product category.
Keep in mind …
The information I've provided here is what I received from the FDA. It was not worded as an "official opinion" of the FDA, and I have no idea what side-check the data went through before being sent to me. I want to believe that all the information received in any form of communication from any FDA staff is always accurate, but my experience tells me that there have been times that FDA staff haven't been totally correct. So take the information with a (small) grain of salt and be watchful in how you use the term "lip balm" to describe any lip product.Comments (11)
Lisa Farrell
Good Gracious! And thanks for the heads up and good work , always appreciated !
lLisa Farrell
I just realized I have a question:) Can you still say balm at all, as in foot balm? or cuticle balm?
I did some searching and couldn't find anything within the regulations or on the FDA site that restricts the use of the term "balm" except for the places where it's used as "lip balm".
I also checked the definition of "balm" at http://www.yourdictionary.com, http://www.definitions.com and King James Bible Dictionary. Among the various definitions are several that refer to "healing or soothing," and some refer to "treatment", but other definitions include "a pleasing aromatic fragrance," "anything healing or soothing, esp. to the mind or temper," and several other similar definitions.
Based on the definitions for "balm," it could be used to identify either a drug OR a cosmetic – so it comes back to the intended use of the product. If the intended use is to treat, cure, mitigate or prevent disease, or to alter the function or structure of the body, then it would be a drug. If it is applied to the human body to improve appearance or beautify then it's a cosmetic.
A "foot balm" that is intended to make the feet smoother, softer and more attractive (and maybe smell good) would be a cosmetic. A "foot balm" that is intended to prevent or cure cracked, dry feet or that is promoted as anti-fungal would be a drug.
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Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to get this valuable information from the FDA for us!
LlLisa Farrell
Thank you for the info Marie!!
Hello how are you?
My lip balm has cocoa butter in it, is this considered a drug according to the fda? Thanks for your amazing website and I just ordered your book!!Thanks in Advance
Cocoa butter is cocoa butter. It's a common ingredient in cosmetics.
There IS a monograph for using cocoa butter at 50% – 100% as an active ingredient for a skin or lip protectant. Using it at that rate and claiming the product actually PROTECTS the skin or lips causes the product to be a drug. In order to be marketed as such it would need to follow the regulations for Skin Protectant Drug Products for Over-The-Counter Human Use, covered in 21 CFR 347, AND the manufacturer would need to be registered with the FDA as a drug manufacturer and follow all the required good manufacturing guidelines for drug manufacture (which are in regulation).
Hello Marie,
Thank you for posting all of your wonderful research. It can be so confusing searching through the FDA's website pages. I was wondering about lip balms that are designed to ease cold sores. What can I say on the label? Medicated? Sooth cold sores? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I own you labeling book and am purchasing your GMP book now. Thanks!
Hi Hilary,
Cold sores are a "disease" and are caused by the "function and structure of the body". Anything that claims to treat cold sores would be claiming to modify the function or structure of the body or to cure, mitigate, or prevent the disease of cold sores. Either way, those would be drug claims, and would very likely make the product a "new unapproved drug" in the eyes of the FDA.
Remember, it has to do with the INTENT of the product. Any product with the INTENT to treat, cure mitigate or prevent disease is a drug (which, of course, requires FDA approval in most cases, as well as an approved drug manufacturing facility). Products with the intent to make a person more attractive or beautiful or to alter the APPEARANCE (not the function or structure) of the body is a cosmetic and doesn't require FDA approval.
Be very careful marketing or making claims for a product that is intended to treat cold sores.
Hi Marie,
With the recent updates to the FDA website it now states that lip balm would be considered a drug, have you seen this section? http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm242716.htm
We were just discussing it over at soaping101 and wondering about it.-
Marie Gale
There are a couple of places where the FDA uses "lip protectant" (including the term "lip balm") as an example of a cosmetic that is also a drug. I contacted the FDA last year about that, and was told that the term "lip balm" may be used for cosmetics and it is NOT considered a drug just by the use of the name alone. I don't think the updates to the FDA website changes that.


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IT TOOK just 20 minutes to build, but Chris Soghoian's hastily constructed website capable of generating fake airline boarding passes led to a rebuke from a congressman, a raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an investigation by the Transport Security Administration (TSA), worldwide media coverage—and ultimate vindication. With a series of similar exploits that have exposed security flaws and privacy violations, he has demonstrated his ability to hack the media with just as much facility as he manipulates computers. At the age of 30 he has established himself as the most prominent member of a new generation of activist technology researchers who delight in causing a media stink in order to shame companies and governments into fixing problems with their systems.
The boarding-pass example occurred in 2006, when Dr Soghoian, then a graduate student at Indiana University, became irritated by an obvious flaw in airport procedures used by TSA screeners. Although screeners checked the name on each passenger's boarding pass against a government-issued identity document, they had no way of verifying that the boarding pass itself was valid. Fake boarding passes could easily be created for any flight using a computer and image-manipulation software, as had already been pointed out by Bruce Schneier, another security guru, in 2003. Charles Schumer, a senator, even issued a press release in February 2005 explaining how easily security could be bypassed in this way.
Yet it took Dr Soghoian to light the right kind of firecracker under this known problem. In October 2006 he threw together a web page that could generate fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines that appeared valid to TSA screeners. The page received enormous press attention, even though he never printed out or used a false pass himself. Ed Markey, a congressman, called for Dr Soghoian's arrest. The FBI had his website shut down and seized his computers. The TSA opened an inquiry. But when the simplicity of the "hack" became apparent, along with Dr Soghoian's academic status, Mr Markey apologised and suggested that rather than investigating Dr Soghoian, the TSA should hire him instead. Dr Soghoian's computers were returned a few weeks later and the TSA investigation was closed. This year the TSA finally began testing equipment to validate boarding passes at airports.
Dr Soghoian has since perfected this modus operandi and used it to expose problems with internet encryption, online privacy and electronic surveillance. In each case he identifies a problem, creates a technology demonstration to highlight it and sometimes files Freedom of Information Act requests or complaints to government agencies. He then presents the results neatly packaged for the news media. The organisations targeted by Dr Soghoian usually start off by accusing him of being mistaken or naive, before admitting that he is right and modifying their policies, or issuing a statement saying that a fix was already in the works.
Dr Soghoian has, among other things, revealed the extent to which Sprint, an American telecoms operator, was disclosing its customers' satellite-positioning data to law-enforcement agencies; shamed Google, an internet giant, into upgrading its encryption; exposed a woefully misguided attempt to attack Google by a public-relations firm hired by Facebook, a rival internet giant; embarrassed Dropbox, a provider of online file-storage, over its marketing claims and technical practices; and pushed for the adoption of a "Do Not Track" scheme to allow internet users to opt out of targeted advertising. "Every privacy scandal essentially has to take the form of a firestorm," says Dr Soghoian. "I try to focus on things that are really important that haven't gotten enough attention." He is now campaigning against the widespread trawling of internet traffic by law-enforcement agencies, calling instead for a more targeted focus on specific cases or leads.
The FBI made me do it
Having grown up surrounded by computers (his father used to be a software engineer), Dr Soghoian says he slid into computer science without even considering other disciplines. He became interested in computer security in particular during his undergraduate studies, and was then drawn to the specialised field of privacy. But it was only when the FBI raided his home in 2006 and his PhD adviser suggested that he take a law class that Dr Soghoian decided to concentrate on the intersection between computing and the law. He wrote his thesis on governmental use of third parties to monitor electronic communications and was awarded his doctorate in July 2012.
But it would be wrong to characterise Dr Soghoian simply as an academic or an activist, because he has an unusual gift for working outside conventional institutional strictures. While completing his PhD, he was also attached to America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a technical adviser. This came about as a result of Dr Soghoian's support for the "Do Not Track" standard, and his efforts to make it easier for people to prevent their use of the internet being tracked by advertisers. Turning such tracking off can be quite tricky, and must be done for multiple groups, or networks, of advertisers.
This prompted Dr Soghoian to develop two add-ons for the Firefox web browser that demonstrated simple ways to turn off tracking automatically. The first manipulated "cookies", the tiny snippets of information stored by web browsers, to disable tracking. The second, developed with the help of Sid Stamm, a programmer, sends a special message with every page request asking that the user not be tracked. Dr Soghoian got the idea for this approach from Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher. But it will work only if websites are required to detect and act on such messages. At first this suggestion was ridiculed. In 2009, however, Dr Soghoian was contracted by the FTC to provide lawyer-to-geek translation for its staff. In this role he was able to garner support for his "Do Not Track" scheme within the FTC, and technology firms including Microsoft and Twitter have subsequently backed it. The advertising industry dislikes it, but seems resigned to accepting it in some form.
A few months after joining the FTC Dr Soghoian recorded a Sprint executive speaking at a surveillance trade show attended by telecoms firms, law-enforcement agencies and equipment-makers. The executive explained that Sprint had built an automatic system that had provided 8m lookups of customers' locations in the preceding year in response to requests backed by court orders. (Sprint said later that a single court order could generate several thousand lookups.) Dr Soghoian briefed the press and posted the audio online. He insisted that he was doing so in his role as a graduate student, rather than an FTC contractor. The scale of tracking caused a furore that persists three years later about the ease and scale of mobile-phone surveillance. When Dr Soghoian's first year at the FTC was up, the agency did not renew his contract. He blames the fuss caused by the Sprint recording. (The FTC will not comment.)
Dr Soghoian is one of a group of researchers, some of whom are affiliated with academic institutions and many of whom work together, who have risen to prominence by showing how tedious technical flaws can affect ordinary people. Ashkan Soltani, who like Dr Soghoian has worked as an adviser to the FTC, has shown how some companies have devised "evercookies"—cookies that are very difficult to eradicate. Along with Jonathan Mayer of Stanford Law School, he showed how Google was bypassing tracking preferences in Apple's web browser, Safari, which resulted in Google having to pay a $22.5m fine. Mr Kaminsky spotted a huge flaw in the internet's addressing system in 2008, and then worked closely with large technology firms to fix it. And Dr Stamm is now a privacy advocate at the Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the development of the Firefox web browser.
First among equals
These researchers insist they are acting solely in the interest of protecting individual privacy. They are certainly not in it for the money. Dr Soghoian has spent three years living the life of an ascetic in Washington, DC, where he rides a bicycle and resides in the basement of a house he shares with four other people. "There are so many events with free food and drink that you never need to buy anything to eat," he says. After his funding from Indiana University ran out in 2008, Dr Soghoian received several grants and fellowships. He gleefully points out the varied political leanings of his patrons. He has received some funding from the libertarian-leaning Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), backed by the arch-conservative Charles Koch. But as he moved to investigate business misdeeds rather than those of government, the IHS money was replaced by a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations, a group run by Mr Koch's nemesis on the left, George Soros. That funding ended in July.
Can Dr Soghoian's reputation as a knight in digital armour be squared with his obvious flair for self-promotion? Yes, says Jules Polonetsky, director of the Future of Privacy Forum, a think-tank based in Washington, DC, who by his own admission does not always see eye-to-eye with him. "People would be surprised by the number of times that this otherwise very public media bomb-thrower has quietly worked to get a company to simply solve a problem when it could have been a front-page story," says Mr Polonetsky. Dr Soghoian's agenda is "not about money, not about fame or anything like that," says Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lobby group with which Dr Soghoian sometimes collaborates. He just uses the glare of the media to get results.
Though known for his strong views on privacy and surveillance, Dr Soghoian is no absolutist. In April he published a paper in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal on how best to grant law-enforcement agencies access to individuals' location data, with proper checks and balances. It was co-written with Stephanie Pell, who was on the Department of Justice team that prosecuted people accused of being linked to al-Qaeda. Writing the paper, says Dr Soghoian, involved finding a balance between Ms Pell's knowledge of the utility of location-tracking in law enforcement and his own concerns about unwarranted privacy intrusions. "The marginal cost of spying on one more person is essentially zero now," he says. "The economics of modern surveillance are not beneficial to the consumer."
As a respite from his campaign to defend personal privacy, Dr Soghoian likes to go to India. But he may have to find somewhere else to holiday. "India is rapidly becoming a surveillance state," he says. Such trips may be less frequent in any case, because Dr Soghoian now has a new job at the American Civil Liberties Union, mediating between geeks and lawyers, as he did at the FTC. His new employers must be well aware that they have captured lightning in a bottle—and should not be surprised when it escapes.


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Hello Amber!
If you haven't already, cut your background fabric. In addition to the print and solid fabric pieces listed below, you will need the following pieces of background fabric:
- 1 piece 2" x 4½" for the ears
- 2 pieces 1½" x 1½" for the chin
To make Amber, you will need the following pieces of fabric:
Print Fabric Pieces
- C – 1½" x 3½"
- D – 1½" x 3½"
- E – 1½" x 3½"
- F – 1½" x 3½"
Solid Fabric Pieces
- A – 2" x 2"
- B – 2" x 2"
- G – 1½" x 4½"
*Note: Pieces C, D, E, and F are single pieces of fabric. Cut 1 of each.
If you're using charm squares for your solid fabric, use the above diagram as a cutting guide.
Unless otherwise noted, all seams are sewn with 1/4" seam allowance and pressed open.
Make the Block
- Sew together pieces C, D, E, and F.
- Make a horizontal cut through the pieced unit, 1½" from the top.
- Sew the top of the C/D/E/F unit to the top of piece G.
- Sew the bottom of the C/D/E/F unit to the bottom of piece G.
- Use pieces A and B and the 2" x 4½" piece of background fabric to make an ear unit, as described in the basic block instructions.
- Make the chin by sewing the 1½" x 1½" pieces of background fabric to the bottom corners of the block, as described in the basic block instructions.
- Sew the ear unit to the top of the block.
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The figure shows the combination of swells directed at Tourmaline over a normal October, based on 1984 NWW3 model predictions since 2006 (values every 3 hours). The wave model does not forecast wind or surf right at the shore so we have chosen the most applicable grid node based on what we know about Tourmaline, and at Tourmaline the best grid node is 30 km away (19 miles).
The rose diagram illustrates the distribution of swell sizes and directions, while the graph at the bottom shows the same thing without direction information. Five colours show increasing wave sizes. The smallest swells, less than 0.5m (1.5 feet), high are coloured blue. These happened only 3% of the time. Green and yellow illustrate increasing swell sizes and red illustrates the biggest swells, greater than >3m (>10ft). In each graph, the area of any colour is proportional to how commonly that size swell happens.
The diagram implies that the most common swell direction, shown by the largest spokes, was SW, whereas the the prevailing wind blows from the WNW. Because the wave model grid is away from the coast, sometimes a strong offshore wind blows largest waves away from Tourmaline and out to sea. We group these with the no surf category of the bar chart. To avoid confusion we don't show these in the rose plot. Because wind determines whether or not waves are surfable at Tourmaline, you can load a different image that shows only the swells that were predicted to coincide with glassy or offshore wind conditions. During a typical October, swells large enough to cause good for surfing waves at Tourmaline run for about 97% of the time.
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I was bored a litle so i watches some of the onld sumoner spotlights. In them i noticed evelynn, and when i saw her i asked myself does this champion still exist? I remember she was fun to play, you saw her alot, and had a feeling that she is alive. At some games sometimes i see some champions that you don't see alot in games, and that makes me wanna play them again, but there is no evelynn, it is like she is dead. Evelyn was one of the funniest champion to play, and now after some time(she got nerfed a lot of time ago) you see her nowere, it is like she doesn't exist in League of legends. She was favorite champion to many players, and if you had a bad games you played a game with her and it was better. I am not asking for alot, Riot please make her feel like she is a part of lol, i would love to see some evelyns in games of LoL again. I hope i am not the only one thinking this way.
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http://euw.leagueoflegends.com/board...d.php?t=697347 I'v made some posts that could possibly bring back her viability.
You play her wrong. You look like people whining about AP Garen being too weak.
AP garen does better than eve, Mpen ultimate OP!
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Some here do not have sense about sarcasm.
Do NOT even THINK about this. SERIOUSLY. You want more people to play as Eve? You want more newbies thinking that she's the worst champion because they played one game with her and sucked? Because that's the only thing that's gonna happen. More useless people will play her and ruin games because they know nothing about her gameplay.


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Historic Cold Spring Village will present is annual Antique and Folk Arts Show and Sale this weekend. The show runs 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7 and 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 8.
For the past 27 years, antiques dealers from across the Mid-Atlantic region have gathered along Historic Cold Spring Village's shaded, clamshell lanes to display and sell their wares.
The village's restored historic buildings, which date from 1691 to 1912, will be open with historical interpretations and demonstrations of the trades and crafts from the mid-1800s.
Featured items at the show will include country and Victorian furniture, silver, ephemera, glass, linens and textiles, pottery, primitives, toys, books, Americana and more.
New this year is the Needle Arts Coop, a learning center featuring interactive lessons and information on handmade crafts and skills. Take-home kits and supplies are available for purchase along with specialty items made by local and village artisans.
The Country Store will also be open, featuring a selection of handmade artisan wares, heritage toys, books, preserves and more.
At 2 p.m. Saturday, visitors will be treated to Pinelands bluegrass from the Piney Hollow Drifters.
Historic Cold Spring Village is a nonprofit, open air living history museum that portrays the daily life of a rural South Jersey community of the Early American period. It features 26 restored historic structures on a wooded 30-acre site. From late June to early September, interpreters and artisans in period clothing preserve the trades, crafts and heritage of "The Age of Homespun."
Special events are held each weekend at the village through mid-September. Fun and educational activities for children are featured Tuesday through Sunday from late June through Labor Day.
Historic Cold Spring Village is on Route 9 three miles north of Cape May. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for children ages 3-12 and free for children under 3.
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I have been sporadically writing here since 2005. At that time I thought I was bisexual with straight tendencies. Now I am almost certain that is not the case.
Over the years I have had boyfriends, and I am currently married to a man. This is apparently completely irrelevant.
I've come back a few times and visited what I have written here. Most of it was a lot of trying to prove to myself who I was, and denying that I wasn't what I wanted to be.
I looked back at the entry before this one - I quit high school three times. I went to a normal high school, left for legitimate reasons. Tried again, left for the same reasons, and the third time..
I left because leaving before left me in a position where I was to be doomed to be in Highschool until..
Uh.. Now.
I've been hiding for nearly four weeks, I quit that school. The dynamic of a highschool is just too retarded.
Seriously, who cares what brand of pants you're wearing? Clubs don't exist like that in the real world.
Why did I even think to do it?
I don't even know where to begin here. I suppose the base of this entry has to do with my recent daily activity, which is going to school.
I met someone, we're a pair now. And well. He just..keeps amazing me. Anyway, we went out tonight, to the movies, on my wallet. To see Across the Universe, which is good, but pretty much like a very long music video, and less of a musical.
So, it's been three weeks since I've moved. Since I last saw Ruthie, since I last lived in the place where Kia did..
Out of the *&@#(#@&! Blue, I check an old email account for something else, and stumble upon an old Loowa account email saying I had a message, So I check it..
Something tells me in the back of my eternally crammed, mildly insane mind. That I need to write, not w-r-i-t-e. As in writing slow ponderous thoughts-Which coincidentally is -exactly- what I am doing w-right now.
For Serious.
The last thing I wrote about my pathetic amobea-like existance was a small entry containing my excitement to see a girl I met through school. I spent a few days at her house.
It was amazing. Everything was amazing. But we just didn't connect the way I wanted to. She..among several others. Were really just after my ass. Sad but true.
Enough caps. But Oh my god, I'm seeing her. A ferry boat defection made it harder but my mom is driving me to see her.
I'm staying a few days.
Oh my god, I have to work tommorow, I haven't packed.
I'll write a novel about it when I get back.
Wish me luck!
I don't know where I left off, on my Journals here.
But I imagine maybe a bit about leaving my boyfriend was on here, and for once, I am actually permanently away from him, we got back together, and two days later we were apart, and he hates me.
So I'm going to steal the hard drive that was going to go in his computer I was almost done building for him, and put it in mine.
I wrote this as a birthday present for my mom, well part of it(the present, not the poem >.<) her birthday is on Valentines day.
It is very different than other things I've written...
Every Day
I walk
Every day
I smile
Every Night
I think
Every Night
I slumber
Every Morning
I lay
Deep in Contemplation
Of what lies ahead.
Every Day
I walk
Every Day
I smile
Every Night
I strip
Yesterday consisted of just about nothing. My mom and I both had dentist appointments. That wasn't fun.
I got in contact with my friend, he isn't turned agaisnt me. Yay.
But then I have also been trying to fix my friendship with another person. For whom I badly wrote a poem...Here it is.
Anywhere wandering
mattering not the color of the sky
ground beneath my feet
I suppose alot of you never knew me, and the ones who do, probably aren't here, or don't remember me.
But I needed to come back, to a familiar place, a place that cared. To blog, since the place I had been blogging on, is not safe for such times. Not safe for people to read. For people I've hurt, for people who have hurt me.
My life has recently plummeted in to the darkness of chaos.
I've broke up with my boyfriend, got back together.
Supported a grown man with marriage problems, had him fall in love with me, write me explicit letters. Try to kiss me..
Filed a police report agaisnt him....
Been sick.
Still sick.
I need someone to talk to..
We aren't anymore. I ended it. I don't know how I feel yet. I know he isn't doing so hot. We are going to try to be friends. But it will be awkward for awhile..
The thing with the Older guy is still just as complicated..
My Ex is complicating things as well..
There are some guys at work who like me..
But I don't want anything to do with them.
Guys are frustrating, I think I need to date a girl. Since I actually prefer them. But I just haven't had a chance to enjoy the company of one in awhile.
I have a little story to shall with you all. From this morning..
It all started around 9:00AM, I woke up. Blinked and my eye hurt. This has happened before, My eye swells up. Last time we didn't know what caused it really. It just went away. So we made an appointment for today(at 1:30) because Eye-swelling can be a symptom of a disease that I might have but they don't know yet.
Anyway, So I get up and start making toaster pastries when I hear this sad little yelping squeaking coming from outside the house. I quietly mumble to myself. "Oh *bleep*" and I see as I had suspected, My 2 year old Cat creature with something brown and furry in his mouth.


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Two years later, in 1912, came the event that transformed Vorse's life. Thousands of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, went on strike over low wages and dangerous working conditions, and Vorse felt compelled to witness it. In A Footnote to Folly, her 1935 memoir, she writes that she was moved specifically by a police riot that had prevented strikers' children from boarding a train to Philadelphia, where sympathetic families had promised to take them in. After reading that news, she set aside her current assignment (a report on the reunion of the vaudeville team of Weber and Fields) and vowed that she would get a Lawrence assignment before nightfall.
Harper's Weekly took the bait, and Vorse boarded a midnight train with her lover—soon to be husband—Joe O'Brien, a freelance reporter with a wide circle of radical friends. The ensuing article, Vorse's first piece of labor reporting, deftly explains the organizational context of the strike and the American Federation of Labor's refusal to engage with the workers. Its tone is Olympian and at arm's length and, to modern eyes, Vorse probably spends too much time exoticizing Lawrence's immigrant neighborhoods (we read of "goats' cheese and salami hung up in the windows" and "beautiful long-eyed Syrian women, their hair down their backs") and not enough time conveying the voices of individual workers. But the article includes enough wage and rent figures to make clear why the workers were desperate enough to strike. Lawrence's leading employer, the American Woolen Company, was so impressed that it withdrew its advertising from Harper's.
Vorse had been drifting toward left-wing politics for some time. In 1911, she witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, a few blocks from her Sheridan Square home. The same year, she volunteered in a campaign to reduce infant mortality in New York by providing low-cost sterilized milk to poor mothers. Her research demonstrated that "when the wage scale dropped below a certain point, children died, mothers were starved," she wrote in A Footnote to Folly. "A society that allowed children to die because their parents didn't make enough money seemed senseless and vicious."
But Lawrence was a catalyst much more powerful than those earlier events. Vorse's biographer, the Rutgers University historian Dee Garrison, notes that "a peculiar fusion…occurred among the outside observers. Lincoln Steffens, Fremont Older, William Allen White, and Vida Scudder were only a few of the reporters and writers who formed lifelong friendships as a result of the strike. Like Vorse and O'Brien they were moved by the almost religious spirit of the Lawrence workers." Vorse herself later wrote that she and O'Brien realized in Lawrence that "we could make one contribution—that of writing the workers' story—as long as we lived."
As it turned out, Vorse had another fifty-four years to live, but O'Brien had only three. He died of stomach cancer in 1915, shortly after Vorse returned from a grueling tour through wartime Europe. Now widowed for a second time, Vorse might have been tempted to retreat into domesticity, to return to writing fiction and to concentrate on her three children. (She and O'Brien had a son in 1914.) But she did not. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that her life for the next forty years was an endless repetition of her trip to Lawrence: she would visit a strike-torn town for a few weeks, write an article or two, and move on to the next site. When money ran short, she would churn out a few short stories. As Murray Kempton wrote in an appreciation of Vorse in his Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (1955), "she would stop and hole up in some hotel to dictate the easy flow of soft, popular language that paid her enough to return to the hard road of her choice."
A Harper's article from 1929 about a textile strike in Gastonia, North Carolina, embodies the strengths and weaknesses of Vorse's mid-period work. Without resorting to cliché, she makes the town's poverty visible and morally urgent. She gives horrifying accounts of mob violence against the workers, which culminated in the fatal shooting of one of the strike leaders, a mother of five. Like almost all of Vorse's labor articles, the Gastonia piece records petty acts of violence that might otherwise have been lost in the memory hole. ("Two policemen, after a celebration in Mecklenburg County, chased a man into the Catawba River and playfully shot at him.") She offers a cogent explanation of how Gastonia was structured as a company town, and she sketches three-dimensional portraits of a few of the organizers.


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Leon Basset (TV Series)
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Leon Basset | |
Actor | Linds Edwards |
Gender | Male |
Hair | Brown |
Age | Early 30's |
Occupation | Sheriff Deputy (Pre-Apocalypse) |
Family | Unknown |
First Appearance | "Days Gone Bye" |
Last Appearance | "Bloodletting" (Flashback) |
Death Episode | "Days Gone Bye" (Zombified) |
Cause of Death | Either bitten by zombified Don or Patty (Alive,Determinant) Shot by Rick Grimes. (Zombified) |
Status | Dead |
Series lifespan | "Days Gone Bye" (Alive and Zombified) |
Ethnicity | Caucasian-American |
Rick shoots Leon in the head at close range. | |
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- "Maybe we'll get on one of them video shows, you know? Like 'World's Craziest Police Chases.' What do you think?"
- —Leon to his fellow officers.[src]
Leon Basset is a sheriff deputy at the King County Sheriff's Department in AMC's The Walking Dead. Leon also appears in the game, Dead Reckoning, where it explains how he fared during the initial outbreak and ultimately how he reanimated.
Season 1
"Days Gone Bye"
Leon was a back-up officer along with Lambert Kendal, assisting in the highway police chase that put Rick into a coma. He was seen carrying a pistol and seemed to be distracted and unfocused on the job at hand, and even mentioned that they should capture the footage of the police pursuit and submit it to "The World's Craziest Police Chases." Rick ordered him to focus and to arm himself just as the criminals arrived at the standoff. He, along with the Linden County Sheriff's Department officers, exchange gunfire with the criminals and eventually took down the suspects, however, Rick was shot in the shoulder before the last one was killed. Shane then yelled at Leon to call an ambulance and to inform them that there was an officer down.
He may have been seen with Lambert at King County Elementary School when Shane goes to tell Lori that Rick has been shot.
Dead Reckoning
- Main article: Leon Basset (Dead Reckoning)
Season 1
"Days Gone Bye"
Later, he was encountered by Rick, Morgan Jones, and Duane Jones as a walker when the trio was leaving the King County Sheriff's Department. He was on the opposite side of the station's chain link fence, banging on it. He was missing his hat and sidearm, while his radio microphone was dragging along the ground. Not wanting to leave him as a walker, Rick calmly walked up to him, putting a bullet into his former colleague's head, ending his suffering.
Killed By
- Don (Infected\Alive, Determinant)
- Patty Taylor (Infected\Alive, Determinant)
Leon can either be killed by infected Patty Taylor or if Shane manages to save him, zombified Don grabs him and devours him.
- Rick Grimes (Zombified)
As Rick, Morgan Jones, and Duane Jones were leaving the police station after stocking up on weapons, ammo, and supplies, Leon appeared and began smashing up against the fence. After explaining that Leon was careless and dumb, Rick walked up to Leon and shot him in the head.
Killed Victims
This list shows the people Leon has killed:
- Criminal 1 (Alongside his Fellow Officers)
- Criminal 2 (Alongside his Fellow Officers)
Lambert Kendal
All that can be inferred about Lambert's relationship with Leon, is that the two of them were partners before the zombie apocalypse ensued.
Rick Grimes
Rick and Leon interact briefly right before the encounter with the criminals, and its safe to assume that Rick didn't think much of Leon, due to Rick's reference toward him "careless and dumb". This is due to Leon's lack of concern at the task at hand, even forgetting to pull the slide on his Glock 17 because of his thoughts on getting a video on a show.
Shane Walsh
Not much is known of the two's relationship other than they were colleagues. However, he along with his partner, Lambert, were seen in the background in the episode, "Bloodletting", helping Shane give the bad news to Lori.
TV Series
Season 1
Season 2
- "Bloodletting" (Flashback)
- In the Comic Series, it is an ordinary walker that is hitting the chain link fence, but Rick does not kill him because Morgan tells him to save his bullets. In the TV Series, this ordinary walker is replaced with Leon, and Rick does kill him.