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Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)
This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified August 2015 by Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Washington University School of Medicine
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First received: March 25, 2009
Last updated: August 24, 2015
Last verified: August 2015
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Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to identify potential biomarkers that may predict the development of Alzheimer's disease in people who carry an Alzheimer's mutation.
Alzheimer's Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Alzheimer disease
MedlinePlus related topics: Alzheimer's DiseaseU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Positive predictive power of a biomarker or group of biomarkers [ Time Frame: Variable follow-up assessment based on age in relation to age at onset of affected parent. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Biomarkers obtained by blood draw, lumbar puncture, MRI, FDG PET, PET amyloid imaging [ Time Frame: Variable follow-up assessment based on age in relation to age at onset of affected parent ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Clinical markers also examined from clinical interview and cognitive testing [ Time Frame: Variable follow-up assessment based on age in relation to age at onset of affected parent ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
serum, plasma, cerebral spinal fluid
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2019
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Mutation Positive
Mutation Negative
Detailed Description:
Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents less than 1% of all cases of AD and is an important model for study because the responsible mutations have known biochemical consequences that are believed to underlie the pathological basis of the disorder. Three major hypotheses will be tested:
- First, that there is a period of preclinical (presymptomatic) AD in individuals who are destined to develop early-onset dementia (gene carriers) that can be detected by changes in biological fluids and in neuroimaging correlates in comparison with individuals who will not develop early-onset dementia (non-carriers).
- Second, because all identified causative mutations for AD affect the normal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and increase brain levels of amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42), the sequence of preclinical changes initially will involve Aβ42 (production and clearance; reduced levels in cerebrospinal fluid [CSF]), followed by evidence for cerebral deposition of Aβ42 (amyloid imaging), followed by cerebral metabolic activity (functional imaging), and finally by regional atrophy (structural imaging).
- Finally, that the phenotype of symptomatic early-onset familial AD, including its clinical course, is similar to that of late-onset "sporadic" AD.
The following specific aims will be used to test these hypotheses:
- Establish an international, multicenter registry of individuals (mutation carriers and non-carriers; pre-symptomatic and symptomatic) who are biological adult children of a parent with a known causative mutation for AD in the APP, PSEN1, or PSEN2 genes in which the individuals are evaluated in a uniform manner at entry and longitudinally thereafter with standardized instruments.
- In pre-symptomatic individuals, compare mutation carriers and non-carriers to determine the order in which changes in clinical, cognitive, neuroimaging, and biomarker indicators of AD occur prior to the occurrence of dementia.
- In symptomatic individuals, compare the clinical and neuropathological phenotypes of autosomal dominant AD to those of late-onset "sporadic" AD (using the data sets established by ADNI and by NACC).
- Maintain the DIAN Central Archive, an integrated database incorporating all information obtained from individuals in the registry to permit analyses within, between, and among the various data domains and also to disseminate the data to qualified investigators in a user-friendly manner.
- All DIAN participants who wish to know their mutation status will have the costs of genetic counseling and clinical mutation testing paid for by the grant. The clinical genetic counseling and testing is provided as an optional participant benefit and is not part of the DIAN research design.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Mutation carriers and non-carriers from families with a mutation (which is different from the genetic risk factor Apo-E4) known to cause Alzheimer's disease.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 or older
- Child of an individual with a known mutation in a pedigree with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Cognitively normal, or if demented, does not require nursing home level care
- Fluent in English or Spanish at the 6th grade level
- Has someone who is not a child of the affected parent who can serve as an informant for the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Under age 18
- Medical or psychiatric illness that would interfere in completing initial and follow-up visits
- Requires nursing home level care
- Has no one who can serve as a study informant
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00869817
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00869817
|Contact: DIAN Global Coordinator
|Contact: Angela Oliver, RN BSN MS
|United States, Florida
|Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
|Contact: Dana Haley, MPH CCRP 904-953-9680 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Neill R. Graff-Radford, MD
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana University-Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|Contact: Melissa Wesson, MS, CCRP 317-278-9545 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Bernardino Ghetti, MD
|United States, Massachusetts
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Contact: Sehily Jaimes, BA 617-643-5200 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Reisa Sperling, MD
|United States, Missouri
|Washington University School of Medicine
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63108
|Contact: Wendy Sigurdson, RN, MPH 314-362-2256 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Randall Bateman, MD
|United States, New York
|Columbia University
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Contact: Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer 212-305-5953 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pittsburgh
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15260
|Contact: Eric McDade, DO 412-692-2732 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Eric McDade, DO
|United States, Rhode Island
|Butler Hospital
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|Contact: Courtney Bodge, PhD 401-455-6403 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Stephen Salloway, MD
|Australia, New South Wales
|Neuroscience Research Australia
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2031
|Contact: William S. Brooks, MBBS, MPH +612 9399 1101 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Peter Schofield, PhD, DSc
|Australia, Victoria
|Mental Health Research Institute, University of Melbourne
|Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3130
|Contact: Lesley Vidaurre, RN +61 3 8344 1859 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Colin Masters, MD
|Australia, Western Australia
|Sir James McCusker Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Edith Cowan University
|Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 6009
|Contact: Kevin Taddei +61-(0)8-6304-5107 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Ralph Martins, PhD
|German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Munich, and University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munich
|Munich, Germany, D-81377
|Contact: Theresa Halder +49 89 4400-74828 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Johannes Levin, MD, PhD
|German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen and Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen
|Tübingen, Germany, D-72076
|Contact: Elke Kuder-Buletta +49-(0)7071-2987584 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Mathias Jucker, PhD
|United Kingdom
|Institute of Neurology, Queen Square
|London, United Kingdom, WC1N 3BG
|Contact: Jane Douglas, RN MPhil. 0044 (0)845 155 5000 ext 723560 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Martin Rossor, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Washington University School of Medicine
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Randall J. Bateman, MD
|Washington University School of Medicine
More Information
Additional Information:
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 01, 2015
Additional Information:
DIAN Website
Mintun MA, Larossa GN, Sheline YI, Dence CS, Lee SY, Mach RH, Klunk WE, Mathis CA, DeKosky ST, Morris JC. [11C]PIB in a nondemented population: potential antecedent marker of Alzheimer disease. Neurology. 2006 Aug 8;67(3):446-52.
Fagan AM, Roe CM, Xiong C, Mintun MA, Morris JC, Holtzman DM. Cerebrospinal fluid tau/beta-amyloid(42) ratio as a prediction of cognitive decline in nondemented older adults. Arch Neurol. 2007 Mar;64(3):343-9. Epub 2007 Jan 8.
Godbolt AK, Cipolotti L, Anderson VM, Archer H, Janssen JC, Price S, Rossor MN, Fox NC. A decade of pre-diagnostic assessment in a case of familial Alzheimer's disease: tracking progression from asymptomatic to MCI and dementia. Neurocase. 2005 Feb;11(1):56-64.
Morris JC, McKeel DW Jr, Storandt M, Rubin EH, Price JL, Grant EA, Ball MJ, Berg L. Very mild Alzheimer's disease: informant-based clinical, psychometric, and pathologic distinction from normal aging. Neurology. 1991 Apr;41(4):469-78.
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Bateman RJ, Xiong C, Benzinger TL, Fagan AM, Goate A, Fox NC, Marcus DS, Cairns NJ, Xie X, Blazey TM, Holtzman DM, Santacruz A, Buckles V, Oliver A, Moulder K, Aisen PS, Ghetti B, Klunk WE, McDade E, Martins RN, Masters CL, Mayeux R, Ringman JM, Rossor MN, Schofield PR, Sperling RA, Salloway S, Morris JC; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network. Clinical and biomarker changes in dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease. N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 30;367(9):795-804. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1202753. Epub 2012 Jul 11. Erratum in: N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 23;367(8):780.
|Responsible Party:
|Washington University School of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00869817 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 25, 2009
|Last Updated:
|August 24, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
Alzheimer's disease
antecedent biomarkers
Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) mutation
presenilin I (PS1) mutation
presenilin 2 (PS2) mutation
Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The local community paid tribute to American women pioneers during a Women's History Month celebration at the American Lake Community Center March 24, hosted by 555th Engineer Brigade.
The celebration featured a guest speaker, Clover Park School District's superintendent, Deborah LeBeau, and CPSD middle school student, Anna-Marie Pence, essay contest winner.
LeBeau spoke about this year's theme, "Writing Women Back Into History."
"Today, we recognize decades of progress, and are taking actions to ensure that we continue to acknowledge the ongoing efforts through documenting current accomplishments and experiences, in textbooks and other educational materials," LeBeau said. "Although women have been shaping history since the dawn of civilization, the concept of Women's History Month began to take root in 1857, when women from New York City factories protested (poor) working conditions."
Generation after generation of women fought for equal rights. Susan B. Anthony was one of countless women who stood up for what she believed in during a time when women were considered inferior by society.
Pence shared why she considered Anthony to be among the most important women in American history.
"She worked more than 50 years to earn women the right to vote," Pence said.
Born in 1820, Anthony's activism for women's rights peaked during the 1850s. In 1854, she organized petition drives for women's rights and suffrage. Anthony passed away in 1906, but largely due to her efforts, women voted for the first time in America's history 14 years later.
"Though Susan B. Anthony did not live to see the results of her efforts, she is still one of the most important women in history," Pence said.
Interest in women's issues blossomed in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, there was a growing feeling that women's history needed to be taught in schools.
In 1978, the California Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission began a "Women's History Week." It was the first officially recognized holiday. Schools followed the lead by hosting their own women's history week programs. Three years later, Congress passed a resolution establishing National Women's History Week.
"In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared National Women's History Month," LeBeau said.
LeBeau recognized the accomplishments of women pioneers of the past and present.
From Amelia Earhart flying over the Atlantic in 1928 to Kathryn Bigelow becoming the first female director to win an Oscar this year, women have made countless contributions - many of which were never recorded.
"Undeniably, many of the tremendous contributions made by women in the development and growth of society have not been well-documented or prominently portrayed throughout the years," said Lt. Col. Mark Deschenes, deputy commander for 555th Engr. Bde. "However, history is full of women who led our nation towards change, ... women who continue to break down barriers to benefit the world with their talents, creativity and energy."
In addition to recognizing women pioneers, LeBeau said it's a time to thank those who serve in the Armed Forces. She pointed out that women have served in four major wars since World War II, filling a variety of roles.
"It's a time to honor the sacrifices and accomplishments of women who not only shaped our armed services, but have shaped our country," LeBeau said. "They are Soldiers on the front line, they are leaders, officers and noncommissioned officers standing with our troops."
As women continue to push forward and break down barriers, it is up to us to make sure our history books don't fail to document what they have achieved.
"Although historically the contributions of women have not always been captured with the appropriate prominence in our history books, they are incredibly significant, and every effort should be made to appreciate them," Deschenes said. "Because if we do not, we will lose the understanding of how our culture evolved and miss full recognition of the true fabric of our society."
Laura M. Levering is a reporter with the Northwest Guardian, Joint Base Lewis-McChord's weekly newspaper.

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Fitch Affirms Cimento Tupi's Ratings Business Wire RIO DE JANEIRO -- March 28, 2013 Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following ratings of Cimento Tupi S.A. (Tupi): --Foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'B'; --Local currency IDR at 'B', --Senior unsecured notes due 2018 at 'B/RR4'; --Long-Term National rating at 'BBB-(bra)'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. KEY RATING DRIVERS Tupi's 'B' ratings reflect the execution risks related to the change in its business model, the volatility of its cash flow generation due to the cyclicality of the cement industry, as well as its small business position in an industry dominated by larger competitors. Tupi's low liquidity position relative to short-term debt is also factored into the ratings. Uncertainties due to the delay in the company's startup of its new cement plant further heighten risk. Tupi is expected to receive government licenses to start operation of its Pedra do Sino kiln during May. Receiving the approval in a timely manner will be crucial to avoiding a future downgrade, as the company's size is not sufficient to support its debt obligations over the medium term without the sales volumes that are projected to result from the new plant. Weak Business Profile: Tupi's small production scale and its lack of geographic diversification heighten the risk of its exposure to the volatility of the cement industry. Tupi's cost structure is higher than the largest integrated Brazilian cement producers. The strong credit profile of these large companies could allow them to pressure prices during a downturn in the industry in an attempt to sustain volumes, which would negatively affect Tupi's ability to service its debt. Business Model Shift a Challenge; Behind Schedule Heightens Risks: The company is currently implementing a new operating model. This is a result of the termination of a supply agreement, effective April 2012, for slag from Companhia Siderurgica Nacional S.A. (CSN), a large Brazilian steel company, which is increasing its presence in cement. Tupi's strategy is to expand its unit at its Pedra do Sino plant, which will significantly reduce the company's reliance on slag and increase total overall nominal production capacity to 3.2 million tons of cement per year from 2.4 million. Absent this expansion, Fitch estimates that the company's nominal annual capacity would be reduced to 1.6 million tons. Tupi has already run out of slag inventories and currently faces challenges to find alternative suppliers to maintain current production levels. Operational Constrains Continue to Limit Cash Flow Expansion in 2013: Under current conditions, Fitch foresees limited room for growth in 2013. Tupi generated BRL66 million of EBITDA and BRL41 million of funds from operations (FFO) during 2012. This was quite in line with the agency's expectations, considering the lack of raw material (slag). Free cash flow (FCF), defined as cash flow from operations less dividends and investments, was negative BRL202 million as a result of its expansion project (BRL220 million) and dividends (BRL15 million). If the Pedra do Sino project fails to start operations until July, Fitch expects Tupi's EBITDA to be similar to 2012. FCF will likely be negative by about BRL50 million during 2013 due to high capex. Leverage Trending Up; FX Risks: Tupi is exposed to currency mismatch risks. About 63% of its debt is denominated in USD, and 100% of its cash flow generation is in local currency. As of Dec. 31, 2012, Tupi's total debt was BRL470 million, basically consisting of BRL297 of the bond issuance, BRL103 million of banking loans and BRL34 million relative to tax financings. Tupi forecasted BRL250 million of capex for its expansion plan. Expenses related to the expansion project have increased to about BRL350 million. This cost overrun, along with a weaker foreign exchange rate that increased its debt levels in terms of Brazilian reais, have resulted in leverage levels higher than projected. During 2012, Tupi's net leverage ratio was 6.7x. Fitch's base case forecasts this ratio will climb to 7.7x in 2013. If the company is able to get the new mill operating in the middle of 2013, it should be able to achieve sales volumes in 2014 that would allow it to lower its leverage ratio to 4.5x during 2014. Refinancing Risks: Tupi's liquidity position is quite weak. As of Dec. 31, 2012, Tupi had BRL109 million of short-term debt and BRL23 million of cash and marketable securities. Out of the short-term debt figure, BRL97 million is related to banking loans. Most of this debt was raised during 2013 and Fitch expects it to be rolled over. The level of Tupi's short-term debt coverage, as measured by cash plus FFO/short-term debt) was weak at 0.6x. 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No one is speaking of genetics except you. I posted only about geological evidence that does support a great flood theory. Now, look back at my posts, you'll find no mention of Noah, animals or genetics. Where did you fall off the tracks? BTW, what is "fecking"?<quoted text>
Who cares what you "told me" when your conclusions and premises are false?
Now please explain how despite the genetic diversity of all animals on the planet being inconsistent with the 'great flood' fable, "Dick and Jane find the Ark" proves otherwise.
Fecking moron.
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#159886 Jun 15, 2013
"Facts trump speculation"
Since: Dec 08
#159887 Jun 15, 2013
Sorry loser, the scientific method is not metaphorical. Your fantasy failed. Would you prefer a metaphorical explanation? If so, there are
many fictional works to satisfy your cravings. But that's not science.
#159888 Jun 15, 2013
What does that have to do with you being "too" literal?
#159889 Jun 15, 2013
Wojar, perhaps you're simply stressed out? Too much work in the lab, maybe?
"Facts trump speculation"
Since: Dec 08
#159892 Jun 15, 2013
Sorry, if your proposition fails, it fails.
The evidence is not metaphorical. If your fantasy were true, about the biblical flood, then the DNA evidence would be consistent with your fantasy. Sorry, it proves you're pissing in the wind.
FALSIFIED is too literal?
Grow up.
#159894 Jun 15, 2013
Sorry, the geological evidence says differently. You're geologically challenged and that's ok. Believe what you want.
"Facts trump speculation"
Since: Dec 08
#159895 Jun 15, 2013
Well, sonny, if there were a 'great flood' that immersed the earth, there would be genetic evidence. Whether you were cognizant of that fact or not is not my problem. Capisce?
If there were big floods in past history, so fecking what? We have big floods today.
So you agree that the Noah's ark fable with the gigantic flood that covered the earth is myth and not factual?
A simple yes or no will do.
You're a pathetic coward who cannot answer the question.
"I posted only about geological evidence that does support a great flood theory."
What great flood are you referring to, MORON? A great flood in the Precambrian period? Or are you referring to a little great flood that has nothing to do with your fantasies?
But if you are referring to a "great flood" according to the bible, you're pissing in the wind.
So I don't give a rat's ass if you expressly mentioned Noah.
Capisce. So what the f is your point? MORON?
#159896 Jun 15, 2013
Well gents, it's time to crank up some real horsepower. Four cylinders playing whatever tune my wrist tells them to. Gotta love it! 155HP, 425lbs. What a riot. Enjoy your evenings.
#159897 Jun 15, 2013
Don't worry about it wojar. Geology isn't your thing, I understand. Your anger is showing again. Had any R&R recently?
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#159898 Jun 15, 2013
Well, even Charles Darwin himself as early as 1859 said in his Origin of Species that the 'Cambrian Explosion' with it's sudden, rapid appearance of all major phyla extant today was a major objection that could be made against his theory of evolution by natural selection.
I'm straddling the fence on this one, Woj, smack dab in the middle. I'm not taking any chances with the Big Boss. My primary intent being to draw attention to the Cambrian Explosion ca. 550 million years ago before present, give or take a few millenia.
So don't get me going on stramataphores, viruses and bacterium.
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#159899 Jun 15, 2013
Logic and reason and science is "my thing" loser. If you have no rebuttal, that's not my problem. And "Dick and Jane find God and Noah's Ark" is not science.
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#159900 Jun 15, 2013
Last time I checked, this is 2013, not 1859. They didn't even know what DNA was in 1859.
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#159901 Jun 15, 2013
God kills innocent babies and children and that is your answer, you don't even question it? Again, and I repeat, God's not a murderer, he did not do this. God issued the commandment "Thou shalt not kill". How can he contravene his own laws? All attributed to HIM and you agree.
You believe that killing innocent first sons was a charitable and loving act of God? All of this to free the Hebrew Slaves who, it turns out, had their own slaves? Abraham was the first slave owner.
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Since: Feb 12
#159902 Jun 15, 2013
the slaves were paid? Had fair shelter? And were treated like family members? Have you gone mad?
Here is the Oxford definition of slave : A person who is the property of another and OBLIGED to work for her or him. 2. one who is dominated by another person or by influrnce ; a slave to duty. etc
Treated like family members? Is the above description an accurate one of how you treat your family? If they are paid, housed and treated like family, why was slavery abolished practically all over the world? By atheists by the way as most religions approved slavery.
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#159903 Jun 15, 2013
Sorry, just read your last sentence. "Same is true of wife?". Excuse me. You put the wife in the same category as slaves?
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#159904 Jun 15, 2013
Did Joshua, on orders from Moses, know of Proverbs 25 : 21 - 22 as he killed every man, woman and child in every city of Canaan? Made Hitler look like a bumbling amateur. Did the Crusaders know this when they massacred the Christian Orthodox in Constantinople on their way to more massacres in the Holy Land? Did the Pope and Isabel la catolica know about this when they initiated the "Holy" Inquisition? Did the Conquistadors know of these proverbs when they slaughtered fully 2/3 of the indigenous population of South American in the name of God? God does have broad shoulders as all this and more was done in HIS name.
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Since: Feb 12
#159906 Jun 15, 2013
Liar. You know what I've said about Mohamad and Moslems. Yet, you repeat the same lies over and over again. Why am I not surprised? Find me one instance, for all of today where I have attacked God. YOU have, as you blame every killing, human catastrophe on him, whereas I go after his so-called "messengers" of lies and hate.
I keep asking why Adam and Eve and the temptations, why the great Flood that killed humanity, why Sodom and Gomorrah, all these people killed, including innocent babies and children and instead of explaining , come out with the altar boy stuff and why I lost my religion.
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#159907 Jun 15, 2013
Correct in the Hebrews who were rescued from bondage, or slavery, had their own slaves? Okay. Er, how do you justify tit for tat? Or do you?
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#159908 Jun 15, 2013
I'll show you precisely where when you start answering my request, over 50 of them, for proof of all you've advanced here. I may even tell you to find it.
Just a hint : Did you hear of his wife's slave with whom dirty old Abe made a child called Ishmael that he left to die in the desert along with his mother - the slave? Then right after, his old barren wife had her own child, jealous, she asked Abe to kill the other child and the mother he had sex with . A few years later, old liar (remember Abe was married to his sister and "loaned" her to the Egyptian king, I digress) took his new son Isaac to the mountain to kill him as he heard voices from who else but God that the had to immolate his only son. And it goes on...Yes, God has broad shoulders.
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Since: Feb 12
#159909 Jun 15, 2013
To know the scriptures is to be a Doubting Thomas? wojar and I have quoted bible passages, no comments annexed, just quotes and you, so-called Christians, either disavow them or say we can't question God, even when millions of murders are attributed to him by old misanthrope writers? Not one question we've asked has been answered. Not one single one, except "our little brains can't question God's purpose" or Jacques used to be an altar boy blah blah blah or, from Justice ha ha LRS, profanity and "I can still beat ya" or words to that effect.
Tolerance is not a big thing with believers , I opine.
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The offending changeset that broke hgchanges yesterday turns out to be a merge from an ancient branch to current tip. That makes the diff insanely huge which is why things like hgweb were tripping over it. Kwierso point out that just ignoring those changesets would solve the problem. It's not ideal but since in this case they aren't useful changesets I've gone ahead and done that and so hgchanges is now updating again.
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My handy tool for tracking changes to directories in the mozilla mercurial repositories is going to be broken for a little while. Unfortunately a particular changeset seems to be breaking things in ways I don't have the time to fix right now. Specifically trying to download the raw patch for the changeset is causing hgweb to timeout. Short of finding time to debug and fix the problem my only solution is to wait until that patch is old enough that it no longer attempts to index it. That could take a week or so.
Obviously I'll happily accept patches to fix this problem sooner.
An update for hgchanges
Nearly a year ago I showed off the first version of my webapp for displaying recent changes in mercurial repositories. I've heard directly from a number of people that use it but it's had a few problems that I've spent some of my spare time trying to solve. I'm now pleased to say that a new version is up and running. I'm not sure it's accurate to call this a rewrite since it was entirely incremental but when I look back over of the code changes there really isn't much that wasn't touched in some way or other. So what's new? For you, a person using the site absolutely nothing! So what on earth have I been doing rewriting the code?
Hopefully I've been making the thing a whole lot more stable. Eagle eyed users may have noticed that periodically the site would stop updating, sometimes for days at a time. The site is split into two pieces. One is a django website to display the changes. The other is the important bit that reads the change data out of mercurial and puts it into a database that the website can use. I do this caching because it would be too expensive to work it out on the fly. The problem is that the process of reading the data out of mercurial meant keeping a local version of every repository on the server (some 5GB for the four currently tracked) and reading the changes using mercurial's python API was slow and used a lot of memory. The shared hosting environment that I run this out of kept killing the process when it used too many resources. Normally it could recover but occasionally it would need a manual kick. Worse there is some mercurial bug where sometimes pulling a repository will end up with an inconsistent database. It's rare so many people don't see it but when you're pulling repositories every ten minutes it starts happing every couple of weeks, again requiring manual work to fix the problem.
I did dabble with getting this into shape so I could run it on a mozilla server. PAAS seemed like the obvious option but after a lot of work it turned out that the database size restrictions there made this impossible. Since then I've seem so many horror stories about PAAS falling over that I think I'm glad I never got there. I also tried getting a dedicated server from Mozilla to run this on but they were quite rightly wary when I mentioned that the process used a bunch of memory and wanted harder figures before committing, unfortunately I never found out a way to give those figures.
The final solution has been ripping out the mercurial API dependency. Now rather than needing local mercurial repositories the import process instead talks to them over the web. The default mercurial web APIs aren't great but luckily all of the repositories I care about have pushlog installed which has a good JSON API for retrieving recently pushed changesets. So now the process is to pull the recent pushlog, get the patches for every changeset and parse them to work out which files have changed. By not having to load the mercurial structures there is far less memory used and since the process now has to delay as it downloads each patch file it keeps the CPU usage low.
I've also made the database itself a lot more efficient. Previously I recorded every changeset for every repository, but many repositories have the same changeset in them. So by noting that the database gets a little more complicated but uses much less space and since you only have to parse the changeset once the import process becomes faster. It took me a while to get the website performing as fast as before with these changes but I think it's there now (barring some strange slowness in Django that I can't identify). I've also turned on some quite aggressive caching both on the client and server side, if someone has visited the same page as you're trying to access recently then it should load super fast.
So, the new version is up and running at the same location as the old. Chances are you're using it already so if you're noticing any unexpected slowness or something not looking right please let me know.
Get notifications about changes to any directory in mercurial
Back in the old days when we used CVS of all things for our version control we had a wonderful tool called bonsai to help query the repository for changes. You could list changes on a per directory basis if you needed which was great for keeping an eye on certain chunks of code. I recall there being a way of getting an RSS feed from it and I used it when I was the module owner of the extension manager to see what changes were landed that I hadn't noticed in bugs.
Fast forward to today and we use mercurial instead. When we switched there was much talk of how we'd get tool parity with CVS but bonsai is something that has never been replaced fully. Oh hgweb is decent at looking at individual files and browsing the tree, but you can't get that list of changes per directory from it. I believe you can use the command line to do it but who wants to do that? Lately I've been finding need of those directory RSS feeds more and more. We're now periodically uplifting the Add-on SDK repository to mozilla-central, it's really important to spot changes that have been made to that directory in mozilla-central so we can also land them in our git repository and not clobber them the next time we uplift. I'm also the module owner of toolkit, which is a pretty big sprawling set of files. It seems like everytime I look I find something that landed without me noticing. I don't make for a good module owner if I'm not keeping an eye on things so I'd really like to see when new files are added there.
So I introduce the Hg Change Feed, the result of mostly just a few days of work. Every 10 minutes it pulls new changes from mozilla-central and mozilla-inbound. A mercurial hook looks over the changes and adds information about them to a MySQL database. Then a simple django app displays that information. As you browse through the directories in the tree it shows only changesets that affected files beneath that directory. For any directory you can also get an RSS feed of the same. Plug that into IFTTT and you have an automated system to notify you in pretty much any way you'd like about new changes you'd be interested in.
Some simple examples. For tracking changes to Add-on SDK I'm watching http://hgchanges.fractalbrew.com/mozilla-inbound/file/addon-sdk/source. For toolkit I'm looking at http://hgchanges.fractalbrew.com/mozilla-inbound/file/toolkit?types=added. Types takes a comma separated list of "added", "removed" and "modified" to filter which changes you're interested in. There's no UI on the site for changing that right now, you're welcome to add some!
One other neat trick that this does is mostly ignore merge changesets. Only if a merge actually makes a change not already present in either of the merge parents (mostly happens when resolving merge conflicts) will it show up in the list of changes, because really you don't need to hear about changes twice.
So play with it, let me know if you find it useful or if you think things are missing. I can also add other mercurial repositories if people want. Some caveats:
- It only retains the last 2000 changesets from any repository in an effort to keep the DB size small and fast, it also only shows the last 200 changesets for each page, or just the last 20 in the feeds. These can be tweaked easily enough and I've done basically no benchmarking to say those are the right values.
- The site isn't as fast as I'd like, particularly listing changes for the top level directory takes nearly 5 seconds. I've thrown some basic caching in place to help alleviate that for now. I bet someone who has more MySQL and django experience than me could tell me what I'm doing wrong.
- I'm off on vacation tomorrow so I guess I'm announcing this then running away, sorry if that means it takes me a while to respond to comments.
Want to help out and make it better? Go nuts with the source. There's a readme that hopefully explains how to set up your own instance.
WebApp Tabs, version control and GitHub
The extension I've been working on in my spare time for the past couple of weeks is now available as a first (hopefully not too buggy) release. It lets you open WebApps in Thunderbird, properly handling loading new links into Firefox and making all features like spellchecking work in Thunderbird (most other extensions I found didn't do this). You can read more about the actual extension at its homepage.
Mostly I've been really encouraged during the development of this at just how far our platform has come for developing restartless add-ons. When we first made it possible in Firefox 4 there was a whole list of things that were quite difficult to do but we've come a long way since then. While there are still things that are difficult there are lots of things that are now pretty straightforward. My add-on loads simple XUL overlays, style overlays, installs JS XPCOM components with category manager registration, all similar to older add-ons. In fact I'm struggling to think of things that it is still hard to do though I'm sure other more prolific developers will have plenty of comments on that!
The other thing I've been doing with this extension is experimenting with git and GitHub. I think it's been an interesting experience, there are continual arguments over which is better between git and mercurial with many pros and cons listed. I think most of these were done some time ago before mercurial and git really matured because from what I've seen there is really little difference between the two. They have slightly different default branching styles, but both can do the same kind of branching that the other can if you want and there are a few other minor differences but nothing that would really make me all that bothered over deciding which to use. I think the only place where git has a bonus is with GitHub, and really as far as I can see there isn't a reason why someone couldn't develop a similar site backed by mercurial repositories, it's just that no-one really has.
GitHub is pretty nice with built-in basic issue tracking and documentation though it still has some frustrating issues. It seems odd for example that you can't fork your own project, only someone else's, but that's only a minor niggle really. As project hosting goes I can't say I've come across anything better that I can remember.


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"American Stuffers" has introduced us to Daniel, a father who spends his days turning frozen family pets into stuffed creatures to display in their owners' homes. It's certainly a talent, and it does seem to provide some comfort to people who are grieving for their deceased pets, but it is more than a little bit creepy.
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We love shows about guys doing seemingly impossible tasks with heavy machinery while dealing with weather or logistical issues (like "Deadliest Catch," "Ice Road Truckers" and "Big Shrimpin'"), and "Swamp Loggers" is no exception. Who knew it was so hard to cut down a tree and transport it to its final destination? (Actually, we probably could have figured out that it was hard, if we had ever given it any thought.)
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The guys in Vegas on "Pawn Stars" make it look like a fairly easy gig, talking to people and bringing in experts, but since that show has taken off in popularity, we've been treated to a wider variety of shops and clientele. While Vegas focuses mostly on rare novelty items, the staff of "Cajun Pawn Stars" in Louisiana has to figure out how much to offer for a goat. And the Detroit-based "Hardcore Pawn" has a client base that is far more prone to profanity (much like some of the angry folks who have run-ins with tow truck operators on "Lizard Lick Towing" or with meter maids on "Parking Wars"), and they are often trying to sell worthless goods. It really does take a village.
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6. Non-Professional Cage Fighter
MMA fighters have to start somewhere, and that can mean small-time bouts outside local bars, or even in vacant buildings. It's a dangerous sport, as we've seen on "Caged," involving teens getting punched in the face and tossed into metal fences as they try to stay alive (and support their families).
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How do large and unusual items get from one coast to another? We honestly had no clue, but if you've always wondered how giant gnomes or glittery horses or "Little Shop of Horrors" set pieces get moved, "Shipping Wars" offers that answer. There are a lot of non-UPS folks out there, competing in bidding wars to drive their sometimes pieced-together vehicles around the U.S. while hauling various oversized goods.


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If you have Network DLP then you should check with support to see how to properly interface with your storage. For example, is it a Linux NAS, a NetApp, a DFS?
Most storage allows you to limit which persons/groups can access it, such as an AD group membership like "Persons able to access NAS07", then you have your list of persons who CAN access it. Now, determine from WHERE they access it. PC? Laptop? Phone?
You can use the Host DLP in some of these cases (aside from the phone) to limit where data can be copied to by those persons accessing that storage, and combined with NDLP you can better prevent against other network leaks such as if someone emails it out via their phone or something crazy.


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Linder says Americans spend 7 billion hours a year filling out IRS forms and at least that much calculating the tax implications of business decisions. Economic growth suffers because corporate boards waste huge amounts of time on such calculations rather than making economically rational allocations of resources. Money saved on compliance costs would fund job creation.
Corporations do not pay payroll and income taxes and compliance costs, they collect them from consumers through prices. So the 23 percent consumption tax would allow taxpayers to stop paying the huge embedded cost of corporate taxation. Linder says the director of the Congressional Budget Office told him it costs individuals and businesses about $500 billion to remit $2 trillion to Washington. And studies show that it costs the average small business $724 to collect and remit $100.
In 1945, corporations paid more than one-third of the government's revenues. Now they pay only 11 percent because corporations, especially multinationals, are voluntary taxpayers. In a world increasingly without borders that block capital movements, corporations pay where the burden is lowest. Linder says $6 trillion in offshore accounts would have an incentive to come home under his plan.
Furthermore, by ending payroll and corporate taxes, America would become the only nation selling goods with no tax component -- such as Europe's value added tax -- in their prices. With no taxes on capital and labor, multinationals would, Linder thinks, stampede to locate here, which would be an incentive for other nations to emulate America. ``This,'' Linder says, ``would unleash freedom around the globe.''
Critics argue that ending the income tax, with its deductibility of charitable contributions, would depress giving. Linder says: Piffle. In 1980, when the top personal income tax rate was 70 percent, a huge incentive for giving, individual charitable contributions were $40.7 billion. In 1986 the top rate was reduced to 28 percent, and by 1988 charitable giving was $86.7 billion. The lesson, says Linder, is that we give more money when we have more money.
When Speaker Dennis Hastert published a book last year, he was startled that interviewers were most interested in talking about Linder's bill, which then had 54 co-sponsors. This year Hastert added Linder to the Ways and Means Committee. Linder cheerfully says his bill would reduce Ways and Means to ``a B committee'' by ending the political fun of making the tax code ever more baroque for the benefit of K Street's clients. Bliss.
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With six floors of IT retailers offering the latest technology, the best deals and service centres to fix your computer or mobile woes, Plaza Low Yat is a digital mecca; the plaza is to Malaysia what Sim Lim Square is to Singapore.
Centrally located in the middle of Kuala Lumpur's Jalan Bukit Bintang, Jalan Imbi and Jalan Pudu, the plaza offers various IT hypermarkets, concept stores, cameras, digital games, telecommunications products and services, service centres and digital accessories. If you're visiting Malaysia and you need a local SIM card to make calls, almost every service provider has a shop or stall here, so it's a good place to get hooked up.
There isn't a streamlined arrangement between retailers, just a great variety of products offered by individual shops, which allows the average shopper greater purchasing power and most products can be bargained for here. Always make sure to shop around, negotiate and try to score the best package – with so much competition, it's not hard to get value for money here. It's also good to note that there used to be a couple of retailers selling pirated or fake items, but those have been removed by the government and replaced with stores selling original products, so you shouldn't have to worry about getting ripped off.
Much like the Digital Mall, most cell phone glitches can be fixed here for an average of 40 to 60 ringgit, and you'll also be able to jailbreak most mobile phones. An authorised Apple Service Centre is located at Low Yat, although an assessment fee of 100 ringgit is the standard charge and you'll usually get your beloved back only after three working days.
Restaurants are also here, including Starbucks, Sushi King and Hong Kong Food Culture as well as a good selection of Asian food on the lower ground floor — Kopi Club, Kimchi Mom, Taro Ramen Restaurant and Noor Chicken Rice are all here.
To get here, catch the monorail to the nearest station is Jalan Imbi.
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MANILA – To complement the national government's efforts in disaster preparedness and response, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today formally handed over logistics equipment to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) at a ceremony in Manila.
The equipment, worth over PhP11.6 million (US$260,000), includes 8 mobile storage units, 1 prefabricated office and over 1,500 pallets for DSWD, and 40 satellite phones for OCD. These items were initially provided during the emergency response to the Zamboanga Crisis and Typhoon Yolanda.
"Natural disasters are one of the leading challenges to food security. WFP is continuously supporting the initiatives of the national government in disaster preparedness and response," said WFP Philippines Representative and Country Director Praveen Agrawal at the ceremony. "It is of paramount importance to cultivate partnerships between sectors and promote resilience so that communities will be better equipped for upcoming disasters."
DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman, OCD Administrator, Undersecretary Eduardo del Rosario also attended the event at the DSWD Central Office.
"WFP is one of our strategic partners," said Secretary Soliman. "Their expertise in logistics is valuable in providing knowledge and assistance and in ensuring that the Philippines will be better prepared for future emergencies."
"This donation will go a long way in our efforts in disaster reduction and response. We are grateful to WFP for their generous donation. The forty satellite phones will enhance connectivity for better command and control," said Undersecretary Del Rosario. "I cannot overemphasize the importance of communications during disaster response operations. Timely response is a result of good communication."
In the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda, WFP, as co-lead of the Logistics Cluster, was able to transport more than 26,000 metric tons of relief items for the humanitarian community, including international agencies and non-governmental organisations, as well as the government. In addition, WFP together with DSWD was able to transport and distribute 39,000 metric tons of food assistance to people in need. Internet connectivity was also provided for over 6,000 users through the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, which is also led by WFP.
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I refer to Mary Geoghegan's letter ("Unaccountable parish priest", The Tablet, 28 June ). A similar situation applies in our parish. The incoming parish priest has removed the free-standing altar, installed rails and derides the Second Vatican Council. Seven Tridentine Masses a week and so on … all without reference to the congregation. Sunday evenings are given over to a grand Tridentine Mass with his own imported choir, followed by a get-together in the Hall. This is attended by adherents from all over the diocese.
The bishop only responded to our many requests when I wrote to the papal nuncio and then four of us were invited to discuss the matter with the bishop. Nothing has changed at the parish level, so some of us have decided very reluctantly to attend Mass in other parishes.
It is apparent that we have been sacrificed to the militant Latin Mass Society (LMS) and their adherents. I fear for the Church here in England.
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I found Mary Geoghegan's letter very sad, very dispiriting, but very interesting. It seems to illustrate yet again Lord Acton's letter to Bishop Creighton of 3 April 1887: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The only defence for those of us so ignored is to vote with our feet and find a new "home," a parish or other place of worship with an incumbent who actually realises that by "church" we do not mean an institution but a group of Christians, including the priest, who travel together and share the same set of values.
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The letters of Mrs Oakley and Mr Hartley are surprisingly narrow-minded and intolerant.
The vast majority of parishes in Britain cater for the modern Roman rite and not the old Roman rite. That is a simple, statistical fact.
To think that a couple of parishes, here and there, taking on an old rite mass - not as the main Sunday mass but at odd hours or in the evening - is somehow a conspiratorial "Tridentinist takeover", is bordering upon the paranoid.
But to liken this to where "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" and undermines the parish as a "home" and evidences an incumbent who will not "travel together" with his people and "share the same set of values", begins to savour of the pathological.
It reeks of intolerance. It also overlooks the possibility that the priest might actually be seeking to include in his group of Christians "who travel together and share the same set of values", those with differing, but perfectly permissible, liturgical tastes.
Do the new intolerant Catholics think the other 21 rites of the Catholic Church, from Byzantine to Ge'ez, should also be banished simply because they don't like them?
Do they think the liturgically "different" should be treated as blacks were treated in Apartheid South Africa?
Perhaps they think they should be treated like unwanted immigrants and refused entry into the new, narrow-minded little country of liturgical Apartheid?
For goodness' sake, grow up!
It sad that this sort of thing is happening all over the place. We are the body of the Church. A priest who lords it over his parish,alienates his congregation and sets the clock back is not a good shepherd but a closed-minded tyrant.


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SAN FRANCISCO — One day after the historic initial public stock offering of Facebook Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, the company's founder and chief executive officer, updated his status to "married."
Mr. Zuckerberg wed 27-year-old Priscilla Chan, his girlfriend of nearly a decade, Saturday, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif., home in front of fewer than 100 guests, who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Ms. Chan's graduation from medical school.
Mr. Zuckerberg gave his bride a ring he had designed with a "very simple ruby," according to the guest.
Last Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg turned 28 and Ms. Chan graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, school of medicine, where she had studied pediatrics.
On Friday Mr. Zuckerberg took his Web behemoth public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history.
The wedding had been planned for months and the couple were waiting for Ms. Chan to finish medical school, but the date of the stock offering was not known when the wedding was set.
Food for the wedding included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant.
Mr. Zuckerberg met Ms. Chan at Harvard University, where he founded Facebook in a dorm room in 2004, and they have been together for more than nine years.
Ms. Chan's own Facebook page, which now lists her as married to the founder, said she is a native of Braintree, Mass.
She graduated from Harvard in 2007, then taught science to fourth and fifth graders at the Harker School in San Jose for two years before starting medical school, according to her profile.


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New Arrivals on June 10 – Naruto Tenten and Uzumaki Cosplay Costumes
By Sherry | Published: June 10, 2011
Tenten and Uzumaki costumes were added into the rich collection of Naruto cosplay costumes just now. Exquisitely made from deluxe material, they will be irreplaceabley great deals. Naruto Shippuden Tenten Cosplay Costume If includes a jacket, pants and gloves. Available on size S, M, L, XL, it can be also customized. It will be shipped [...]
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