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38 U.S. Code § 544 - Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
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(1) The Secretary shall establish an advisory committee to be known as the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the Committee").
(A) The Committee shall consist of members appointed by the Secretary from the general public, including—
(ii) individuals who are recognized authorities in fields pertinent to the needs of veterans who are minority group members;
(iii) veterans who are minority group members and who have experience in a military theater of operations;
(B) The Committee shall include, as ex officio members, the following:
(i) The Secretary of Labor (or a representative of the Secretary of Labor designated by the Secretary after consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment).
(ii) The Secretary of Defense (or a representative of the Secretary of Defense designated by the Secretary of Defense).
(iii) The Secretary of the Interior (or a representative of the Secretary of the Interior designated by the Secretary of the Interior).
(iv) The Secretary of Commerce (or a representative of the Secretary of Commerce designated by the Secretary of Commerce).
(v) The Secretary of Health and Human Services (or a representative of the Secretary of Health and Human Services designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services).
(3) The Secretary shall determine the number, terms of service, and pay and allowances of members of the Committee appointed by the Secretary, except that a term of service of any such member may not exceed three years. The Secretary may reappoint any such member for additional terms of service.
(b) The Secretary shall, on a regular basis, consult with and seek the advice of the Committee with respect to the administration of benefits by the Department for veterans who are minority group members, reports and studies pertaining to such veterans and the needs of such veterans with respect to compensation, health care, rehabilitation, outreach, and other benefits and programs administered by the Department, including the Center for Minority Veterans.
(1) Not later than July 1 of each year, the Committee shall submit to the Secretary a report on the programs and activities of the Department that pertain to veterans who are minority group members. Each such report shall include—
(A) an assessment of the needs of veterans who are minority group members with respect to compensation, health care, rehabilitation, outreach, and other benefits and programs administered by the Department;
(2) The Secretary shall, within 60 days after receiving each report under paragraph (1), submit to Congress a copy of the report, together with any comments concerning the report that the Secretary considers appropriate.
(3) The Committee may also submit to the Secretary such other reports and recommendations as the Committee considers appropriate.
(4) The Secretary shall submit with each annual report submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 529 of this title a summary of all reports and recommendations of the Committee submitted to the Secretary since the previous annual report of the Secretary submitted pursuant to such section.
(d) In this section, the term "minority group member" means an individual who is—
Source(Added Pub. L. 103–446, title V, § 510(a),Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4668; amended Pub. L. 104–275, title V, § 501(e)(2), (f),Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3341; Pub. L. 106–117, title VIII, § 803,Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1586; Pub. L. 108–183, title VII, § 703,Dec. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 2671; Pub. L. 110–389, title VIII, § 808,Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4189; Pub. L. 111–163, title II, § 204(b),May 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 1144; Pub. L. 113–175, title IV, § 404,Sept. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 1905.)
Prior Provisions
Prior section 544, added Pub. L. 90–77, title I, § 108(a),Aug. 31, 1967, 81 Stat. 180; amended Pub. L. 91–588, § 3(a),Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1583; Pub. L. 93–527, § 5,Dec. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 1704; Pub. L. 94–169, title I, § 105,Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1017; Pub. L. 94–432, title II, § 205,Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1371; Pub. L. 95–204, title I, § 104,Dec. 2, 1977, 91 Stat. 1457, authorized an increase by $79 of the monthly rate of pension payable to the surviving spouse if the surviving spouse was entitled to pension under subchapter III of chapter 15 of this title and was in need of regular aid and attendance, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 95–588, title I, § 112(a)(1), title IV, § 401,Nov. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 2505, 2511, effective Jan. 1, 1979.
Another prior section 544,Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1139, authorized the payment of a pension to children of World War II or Korean conflict veterans, prior to the general amendment of subchapter III of chapter 15 of this title by Pub. L. 86–211, § 4,Aug. 29, 1950, 73 Stat. 434. See sections 1542 and 1543 of this title.
2014—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 113–175substituted "December 31, 2015" for "December 31, 2014".
2010—Subsec. (a)(2)(A)(v). Pub. L. 111–163added cl. (v).
2008—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 110–389substituted "December 31, 2014" for "December 31, 2009".
2003—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 108–183substituted "December 31, 2009" for "December 31, 2003".
1999—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–117substituted "December 31, 2003" for "December 31, 1999".
1996—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–275, § 501(e)(2), inserted ", including the Center for Minority Veterans" before period at end.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104–275, § 501(f), substituted "December 31, 1999" for "December 31, 1997".
Effective Date of 2010 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 111–163applicable to appointments made on or after May 5, 2010, see section 204(c) ofPub. L. 111–163, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.
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One organization traveling throughout the state for the second time this year to raise awareness of families struggling through the economy made a stop in the east Friday.
The "Truth and Hope" tour was in Greenville before heading to Goldsboro and Faison to hear the community's call for help.
Organizers say they want to hear the views of residents who are struggling to find work, housing, transportation and food. Melinda Lawrance, executive director of NC Justice Center says, "
We've learned the depths of the desperation and the amazing courage of the people who are struggling to raise their families, create a good life and be a part of the community with no resources, no support and no infrastructure."
Last year North Carolina's poverty rate was nearly 18 percent. Officials say it hasn't been that high since 1981.
Organizers of the "Truth and Hope" tour plan to have two more tours throughout the state later this year.
Groups organizing the tour are: North Carolina NAACP, UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, NC Justice Center, Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at North Carolina Central University, and AARP of NC.
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WASHINGTON – The Fairfax County School Board will hold a series of meetings this week in order to obtain the community's input on its search for the next superintendent.
In December, the consultant group Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, hired by the board, developed a list of preferred characteristics for the new school system's leader.
Some of the desired characteristics include a candidate that possesses visionary leadership, instructional and organizational excellence and meaningful communication and engagement.
A survey was also developed for parents. The purpose of the survey is to gather information on the characteristics they think are most common among effective superintendents.
The community meetings will take place on the following days:
Final recommendations will be presented at the Fairfax County School Board's next work session on Jan. 30.
The school system's current leader, Jack Dale, will retire at the end of June. He took over as superintendent in July 2004.
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Nystatin for Yeast Infections While Breast-Feeding
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Why It Is Used
Nystatin is used to treat a yeast infection that is causing:
- Red or very pink nipples with burning pain upon breast-feeding or breast-pumping or between feedings.
- Thick, white patches in the mouth and/or a red rash in the diaper area (one type of diaper rash) of the breast-feeding infant.
Nystatin is prescribed as a cream or ointment to treat yeast infections of the breast and nipple. A liquid formulation is used to treat thrush in a baby's mouth. For more information, see the topic Thrush.
How Well It Works
Nystatin often relieves the symptoms of breast yeast infections in 24 to 72 hours. Treatment for thrush in the child usually takes 1 to 2 weeks. To ensure that the yeast has been eliminated, treatment is continued for 7 to 14 days after symptoms clear up.1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you have:
- Hives.
Nystatin rarely causes side effects in a mother or breast-feeding child. If your baby gets too much of the medicine, though, he or she may have diarrhea, belly pain, and/or nausea.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Usually both the breast-feeding woman and her baby are treated at the same time, even if only one of the two has symptoms.
Talk to your doctor if tenderness and redness go away but deep pain in the breast continues. The infection may be inside the breast. You will usually need another prescription medicine that may be taken for a couple of weeks or more.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
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- Rockies, Weiss fill out coaching staff; Jim Wright takes over pitching
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- New hitting coach Dante Bichette wants Rockies to rock Coors Field
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- Jason Giambi felt timing wasn't right for Rockies' hitting position
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Rockies manager Walt Weiss' recruitment of Dante Bichette paid off Tuesday as the former Rockies all-star was named the team's new hitting instructor.
Bichette had been contacted about the job several weeks ago but was uncertain there was a fit. That changed when Weiss was named the Rockies manager last week. Weiss personally called Bichette and asked that he reconsider. And Bichette accepted.
Said Weiss: "We felt Dante was a top-notch hitting guy. And once he showed renewed interest, we went after him full-bore."
Bichette was a four-time all-star with the Rockies and a former teammate of Weiss' in the mid-1990s. Bichette, 48, retired following the 2001 season. He's a career .299 hitter with 274 home runs and 1,141 RBIs.
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"He was the best I ever played with when it came to driving in runs," said Weiss. "He always had a terrific two-strike approach, and he was very, very good with runners in scoring position."
Said Bichette: "Absolutely, that's important (hitting well with two strikes and with runners in scoring position). I think they go hand in hand. Because that's when a pitcher is coming at you with his best stuff. So if you can come through in the clutch, that's the mark of an accomplished hitter."
Bichette expressed an eagerness to see Coors Field return as the site of a thriving Rockies offense, akin to his Blake Street Bombers days.
"That would be ideal to make this a place where pitchers really have a fear coming in here because that breeds mistakes," said Bichette. "And if you're a good offensive team, you can take advantage of that."
Bichette did special-assistant work for the Nationals after he retired. But he has spent the last several years coaching his sons, including Dante Bichette Jr., who is a top prospect in the Yankees organization.
When asked what Bichette might afford younger hitters, Weiss said: "For me, hitting at the major-league level is mostly about the mental approach. Dante always had a great level of awareness when he was in the batter's box. That's what this game dictates. That's what you need to succeed."


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When is the last time that you sat down to eat three square meals a day — or two or even one? If you are a "millennial" (born somewhere between 1980 and 2000) chances are you haven't had much experience with this ritual.
According to trend watchers, 35 percent of meals eaten by millennials are really snacks. Although the Pew Research Center describes this generation as "confident, connected and open to change," others have described them as driven by "cravings, cost and convenience."
The millennials now outnumber the baby boomers, and food marketers have taken notice. To entice this population they are:
As early as 2002, food businesses were targeting this generation with enticing food ads, product placements in TV shows, Hollywood-style commercials and novel ways to create brand loyalty.
It seems that this generation has been captured — and there are downstream health effects. In addition to being large in numbers, many millennials are large in size. One-third of those between the ages of 16 to 27 are overweight or obese. The eventual impact of obesity on health, employment, productivity, insurance costs and health care are greatly concerning.
Who's to blame? Food marketers? The boomers who raised the millennials? The millennials themselves? The pace of modern life? Lack of education about nutrition and health? I'm sure some blame falls in each of these areas — and others as well.
It is going to be a challenge to get millenials to eat healthier. The solutions for the "I-eat-what-I-want-when-I-want" generation will need to capitalize on this generation's traits (confident, connected, open to change) as well as what's driving them (cravings, cost, convenience). And the solutions will certainly need to be creative.
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Hi Jennifer. Great post and insight! I definitely agree with you that the food industry has definitely catered towards us millennials to eat food that is more convenient and cheaper. I think if someone made a study documenting types of food according to cost and convenience, they would have an inverse relationship with they're actual health and nutritional value (I'm sure there's a study somewhere). However, I do agree with one food industry movement right now and that is producing food in smaller portions. Growing up I never realized how much more I ate as an American compared to my other relatives who live on the other side of the world. I believe having a smaller portion of food in front of you helps reduce the likelihood you will overconsume (Brian Wansink has some great research on this).
Lastly, although our millenial generation still has many health hurdles to get past, I think things are looking up:
(1) http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/17/u-s-obesity-rates-level-off-remain-high/
(2) http://blog.fooducate.com/2012/01/18/nyc-relentless-in-obesity-war-this-time-portion-sizes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nyc-relentless-in-obesity-war-this-time-portion-sizes
(A little blunt, but good to know our government officials are getting a little tougher in the fight against obesity).
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Catching a Coral Killer
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First ever case of human-caused marine disease.
Catching a Coral Killer
Coral reefs play an important role in marine ecosystems, so it's concerning to scientists, as well as ocean conservationists, that many coral reefs around the world are in distress or dying off.
"The corals themselves provide three-dimensional structure for the reef, and then the fish and invertebrates inhabit the reef," says Kathryn Sutherland, a Rollins College biology professor who studies the bright orange Elkhorn coral. "These coral reefs provide protection and food for these other organisms."
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Sutherland has identified the first marine disease caused by humans, and it's proving fatal for Elkhorn coral in Florida.
The disease is White pox. It causes a slowing of growth, followed by white patches of tissue loss that occurs all over the coral colony.
Many such diseases as swine flu, avian flu and HIV are known as zoonotic, moving from animals to humans. Sutherland has identified a marine disease that is a "reverse zoonosis."
"This is the first example of a human pathogen infecting a marine organism," she says.
- See the National Science Foundation's Science Nation video and story on this research.


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Brienne of Tarth
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- "All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust."
- ―Brienne to Jaime Lannister
Brienne is the sole surviving child and heir of Lord Selwyn Tarth of Evenfall Hall, on the island of Tarth, located in the Narrow Sea off the coast of the Stormlands. She is unusually tall and muscular for a woman by Westerosi standards and developed a taste for martial activity as a child. Brienne has grown up to become skilled at arms and dreams of becoming a knight.[1]
Brienne's mother died when she was so young that she doesn't remember her.[2] As the sole heir of House Tarth, she posed a fairly promising marriage prospect for men from other noble Houses, but due to her physicality and personality has never seriously pursued a marriage alliance with another House.
She is also called The Maid of Tarth, or, disparagingly, Brienne the Beauty, due to her appearance.
Season 2
Brienne joins the forces of King Renly Baratheon in the War of the Five Kings. She proves herself by winning a tournament amongst his men and asks to be named to his Kingsguard as a reward. Renly grants her request despite her gender and consequent lack of knighthood. Lady Catelyn Stark arrives in the camp to negotiate an alliance between Renly and her son, King Robb Stark. Brienne takes offense when Lady Catelyn doesn't refer to Renly as "Your Grace", and later, escorts her and Renly through the camp as they talk. She tells Catelyn just to call her Brienne, as despite her birth, she doesn't consider herself a "Lady".[3]
Lord Petyr Baelish also visits Renly's camp, as envoy from King Joffrey Baratheon. Renly tells Petyr that he does not trust him and cites Brienne as having true loyalty. This mistrust seems well founded as Petyr offers to open the gates of King's Landing to Renly. While in camp he also proposes that Catelyn exchange Robb's captive Ser Jaime Lannister for her daughters. Brienne also guards Renly during an unsuccessful meeting with his brother King Stannis Baratheon. Stannis threatens Renly for refusing to swear fealty to him.[4] Renly is assassinated by a Shadow while Brienne is guarding him. He is talking to Lady Catelyn, agreeing to recognize Robb Stark as King in the North, as long as Robb gives him fealty as an overlord and recognizes his claim to the Iron Throne. Brienne is arming him for his coming battle with Stannis when the flap of the tent flutters like wind has raised it, then Melisandre's Shadow-creature materializes to stab Renly in the back running him through. Brienne is devastated at witnessing the death, but recognizes that the Shadow had the likeness of Stannis. She cries out and catches him as he falls, getting his blood all over herself. When two other members of Renly's Kingsguard who guard the tent rush in, they blame Brienne for the death and attack her. She is forced to kill Sers Robar Royce and Emmon Cuy, and Catelyn convinces her to flee the camp, as she cannot avenge Renly if she is dead herself.[2]
Brienne swears an oath of fealty to Catelyn, becoming her sworn sword. They travel back to Robb's camp in the Westerlands.[2] Catelyn is devastated by news that her home Winterfell has been captured by the turncloak Theon Greyjoy and her sons made his captives. Robb, still in the midst of fighting for the Riverlands, plans to send word to a vassal in the North, the bastard of one of his commanders Roose Bolton, to free them and leaves to negotiate the surrender of the Crag.[5]
Jaime escapes captivity, killing Torrhen Karstark in the attempt. He is soon recaptured, but Torrhen's father Lord Rickard Karstark demands his head in vengeance. Brienne guards Catelyn as she convinces Rickard to await Robb's return. As the hours until daylight stretch before them, the Karstarks are getting more violent and agitated, calling for Jaime Lannister's death. As it would be death to try to defend him, Brienne tells Catelyn that at this rate Jaime will not live enough for Robb to return.[6] Catelyn decides to free Jaime in an attempt to exchange him for her two daughters who she believes are both being held hostage in King's Landing by the Lannister's. She orders Brienne to smuggle Jaime from the camp and deliver him to King's Landing in order to secure the safety of her daughters. Brienne travels by horse until finding a rowboat to evade pursuit. She suffers the constant antagonism of her captive as he taunts her about her appearance and her likely dismal history with the opposite sex.[7]
When they come upon a tree with the hanging corpses of three tavern girls who have been killed by Stark forces for having relations with Lannister men, Jaime confronts her with the atrocity committed by "her side". Brienne reminds him that she is sworn to Lady Catelyn, not the Starks. Despite their need to continue, Brienne determines to give the women a decent burial and is going to cut them down, when three of the Northern soldiers who killed the women return. Jaime tries to get her to remove his chains so he can defend them, Brienne ignores him. She tells the men that she is escorting a prisoner back to Riverrun for justice. Jaime improvises that he is in chains for stealing a pig. Realizing that Brienne is a woman the Stark soldiers laugh uncontrollably. Brienne suffers it in silence, and at this even Jaime seems sympathetic towards her over this rude treatment. She deflects the men's amusement by asking about the dead women, asking if they were given a quick death, and is told two of them were. When one of the men recognizes Jaime from the Battle of the Whispering Wood, Brienne must fight and kill them, impressing Ser Jaime. She then returns to the task of cutting down and burying the tavern girls.[8]
Season 3
Jaime continue's to be escorted by Brienne to King's Landing. On there way there, they are spotted by a traveler. Jaime urges Brienne to kill the travel, since he believes the man recognised him and will give away their whereabouts, but she refuses.
Later, the pair have to cross a river, which means they can either attempt a dangerous fording or take the bridge, which will probably be watched. Brienne takes the safer route of the bridge, but Jaime manages to distract her long enough to take away her spare sword and cut his bonds. Brienne and Jaime enter into an extended sword fight on the bridge. Jaime, one of the most skilled swordsmen in all of Westeros, nearly overcomes Brienne several times. However, Jaime's mobility is reduced because his hands are still manacled, and he is malnourished after having spent the past full year chained up in a cell. Jaime begins to tire, and Brienne wears him down further by making simple body-blows with kicks and punches. After a protracted fight Jaime finally slumps to the ground in exhaustion. Just then, riders from House Bolton arrive led by a man named Locke. Jaime asks if they want to negotiate, but Locke says they'll have his head if he doesn't bring the Kingslayer back to the King in the North, so there's not much Jaime can do to dissuade him from taking them prisoner.
Brienne and Jaime were taken captive by Locke and a detachment of men from House Bolton. As they ride along, the men sing a rousing chorus of The Bear and the Maiden Fair. Tied up back to back on one of the horses, Jaime warns Brienne that when they make camp for the night, they will rape her, more than once, and that his honest advice is to give no resistance, and just think of Renly. They were only sent to capture Jaime, therefore Brienne means nothing to them, so at the slightest provocation they will kill her without hesitation. Brienne says she will fight even if they kill her, and Jaime agrees that if he were a woman, he would fight to the death before being raped too.
Later that night Locke's men make camp, and do indeed drag Brienne kicking and screaming into the bushes to gang-rape her. Jaime is disgusted by this pointless brutality, so he points out to Locke that Brienne is actually a noblewoman and the sole heir of Lord Selwyn of Tarth, the "Sapphire Isle", and her father will pay them a ransom of her weight in sapphires - provided that she is unharmed. Locke agrees and calls his men back before they are able to rape Brienne, and they tie her up to a tree again.[9]
Without his sword hand, Jaime has lost the will to live, but Brienne taunts him that he cannot take it when life gets real. Although he does not reply when she asks him why he helped her escape rape, he does not reply, but starts eating.[10]
After both are delivered to Harrenhal where Jaime's infected stump is treated, both share an intimate moment at the communal bath. Jaime first mocks Brienne, saying she was unable to protect Renly. Brienne stands up defiantly and Jaime apologizes to her. He begins to confess what really happened when he killed the Mad King. Collapsing into her arms, she calls aid for the Kingslayer, at which he whimpers to himself that his name is Jaime.[11]
Although Lord Bolton intends on sending Jamie to King's Landing, he decides to keep Brienne in Harrenhal, for abeting treason. Jaime tries to protest, but Lord Bolton says he is in no position to make demands. Lord Bolton departs for Robb Stark's wedding, and gives Brienne to Locke. Locke attempts to ransom Brienne to her father, who offers 300 Gold dragons in exchange for her return. Locke, who had been lead to believe Brienne's father owned all the sapphire mines in Westeros by Jaime, believed he was being cheated. Instead of accepting the ransom, he throws her into a gladiatorial pit with a bear, giving her nothing but a wooden sword to defend herself. After hearing that Brienne had been left to Locke's mercy at Harrenhall, Jaime and his escorts return. Jaime jumps into the pit to aid her, and with the help of Steelshanks who is bound by his duty to ensure Jaime arrives in King's Landing safely, the two of them manage to escape the pit. Locke is outraged, but Jaime once again demands Brienne accompany him, asking him whether he believes that Lord Bolton would care more about his amusement or about Jaime arriving safely in King's Landing. Locke relents, and Brienne and Jaime depart together.[12]
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|What is Dead May Never Die
|Garden of Bones
|The Ghost of Harrenhal
|The Old Gods and the New
|A Man Without Honor
|The Prince of Winterfell
|Valar Morghulis
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|Walk of Punishment
|And Now His Watch is Ended
|Kissed by Fire
|The Climb
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|Second Sons
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- "I'm no Lady"
- ―Brienne
Behind the scenes
For her role as Brienne, Christie extensively trained to get into the right physical condition, as well as cutting off her long hair and reading all of the available novels to study her character's development in detail. She has said that Brienne is very different from own personality and style. As a trained dancer and photography model, she favors heels and lots of make-up. In her interview with SFX magazine she talks about the way fans made her aware of the part. She found her name posted on a website as the one who should play Brienne, and then when she asked her agent about this part, he had already been emailed by another fan informing him of it.[13]
Many actresses auditioned, and Gwendolyn Christie came dressed and in character. According to author George R.R. Martin, "This was another one of those cases where there was hardly any debate. The day the first batch of auditions went up for the role, we looked at a dozen actresses who were reading for Brienne, and one actress who WAS Brienne."[14]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Brienne is considered ugly and ungainly, but is immensely skilled at combat. She is taller and stronger than many men, and her father and his head of household guards have trained her for many years in the arts of combat. Some people consider her a freak, whilst other men hope to marry her to inherit her father's wealthy lands. For her part, Brienne yearns for respect, acceptance and a chance to prove her valor in a worthy cause.
According to author George R.R. Martin, Brienne in the books is supposed to be unusually tall and muscular for a woman, but not freakishly so. She is above six feet tall but not near seven feet (i.e. actress Gwendoline Christie matches this at 6 feet 3 inches). She is taller than Jaime Lannister or Renly Baratheon, and significantly more heavyset. Still, she is not quite as tall as either Greatjon Umber or Sandor Clegane (i.e. Rory McCann, who plays the latter is 6'6).
Brienne is the oldest daughter of Lord Selwyn of Tarth. She had two younger sisters but they both died in the cradle. She had an older brother named Galladon, but he drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her as Selwyn's only surviving child and heir. She has been engaged to marry three times (contracts made by her father, none of which ended well).
The books don't make specific mention of her mother: in the TV series she says that she never knew her, implying that she died when Brienne was very young. Brienne has a good relationship with her father and describes him as a good man. She notes that (since her mother died) he is in a relationship with a new female romantic interest every year or so.
She first met Renly when he came to Tarth to see her father who was his bannerman. He treated her with courtesy and respect. He danced with her, and she has been in love with him ever since. Lady Catelyn realizes this the first time she sees Brienne looking at Renly (down at him, as she stands a half-hand taller than him). Brienne always tries to be at Renly's side. She offers to guard him the night before the battle, but Renly says no as he and Loras are going to "pray together privately". He accepts her offer to come before dawn to arm him for the battle, others who hear this snicker, and Lady Catelyn thinks it sad that she is thought of as a joke, because she acts the part of a squire and dresses him just to have the opportunity to touch him.
According to Loras, Renly thought that Brienne was absurd - a woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight. Yet he kept her close, because all his other knights wanted things of him, castles or honors or riches, but all that Brienne wanted was to die for him. It's unknown if this is how Renly actually felt, as Loras said this during the time he believed that Brienne had killed Renly.
Brienne always presents herself or is announced as "Brienne of Tarth", and never "Brienne Tarth", which would also be correct. The reason for this naming preference is not known.
See also
- Brienne of Tarth at A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
- ↑ HBO viewer's guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Baratheon of Storm's End - Brienne entry
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "The Ghost of Harrenhal"
- ↑ "What is Dead May Never Die"
- ↑ "Garden of Bones"
- ↑ "The Old Gods and the New"
- ↑ "A Man Without Honor"
- ↑ "The Prince of Winterfell"
- ↑ "Valar Morghulis"
- ↑ "Walk of Punishment"
- ↑ "And Now His Watch is Ended"
- ↑ "Kissed by Fire"
- ↑ "The Climb"
- ↑ SFX Magazine
- ↑ [http://grrm.livejournal.com/227044.html GRRM's blog
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Thrombosis is the formation of blood clots within vessels. Blood does not normally clot within vessels and the development of such clots may lead to problems. Thrombosis can potentially occur in any blood vessel and may have fatal consequences if it obstructs the flow of blood to a vital organ. In the context of air travel, we are concerned with thrombosis occurring in the deep veins of the lower legs.
The deep veins of the lower legs are situated in the muscles of the calf. Compression of the veins by muscular contraction, cause a pumping effect (the muscle pump) aiding the return of blood to the heart. If the muscle pump is not working (e.g. due to immobilization), the blood flow in the veins may decrease (known as venous stasis) to the point where small clots may form. Most of these are too small to cause problems. However, they may sometimes enlarge significantly or link up to produce a large obstructive thrombus.
Immobility in a seated position is an obvious predisposition to DVT as the veins of the legs can get compressed and cause stasis. DVT is known to occur in passengers on long-distance road or rail journeys as well as those by air. The common factor in all of these is immobility rather than the environment. Pressurized cabins and high altitude of aircraft have no impact on the risk of developing a DVT.
The term "Economy Class Syndrome" was first used in 1977 in a paper entitled "Pulmonary thromboembolism after travel". It is, in fact, an inaccurate term as there is no firm link between air travel in any class per se and the development of DVT. Long periods of immobility in trains, buses and automobiles carry similar risks. The House of Lords report recommends the use of the more appropriate term "traveler's thrombosis".
The normal rate of occurrence in the general population in the UK is 1 per 1,000 to 1 per 10,000 people every year, depending on age. According to the Wright Study 1 in 6,000 passengers develop DVT after periods of immobility of 4 hours or more.
There are certain predisposing factors that are well known to contribute to the risk of having a DVT. These are:
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be successful fishing for crappie, and it's probably the one reason many anglers essentially thumb their noses in even trying for them.
Crappie has been one of my favorite fisheries for years. Don't discount them. On light tackle, they're a tremendous amount of fun; on the dinner table, they make for tremendous eating.
Prime time for crappie fishing is quickly approaching, when they school and head for shallow water to spawn.
The name alone is somewhat confusing. Most will pronounce it "CRAW-pee" while others call them "CRAP-pee." Either way is correct, mostly defined from which part of the country you first heard the name.
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Most foothill lakes and sloughs throughout the region hold crappie, but generally you're going to find larger crappie in lakes and reservoirs. Amador, Camanche and Camp Far West hold good populations. Sloughs, such as Lisbon, will produce good stringers, but you'll usually find the crappie to be smaller. The Port of Sacramento region holds a sizeable population.
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Because the membrane behind their lips is so fragile, it's suggested that you use no more than a fine-wire No. 6 hook. A heavy hook will make a big hole in that soft, thin membrane, and chances of losing fish are greatly increased.
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Hmm 78 views no takers - maybe im asking for too much =/
Hey, im looking for 1 or more people to please help me build an online interactive game for users to play.
Heres my story:
I created an online game 3 years ago which failed.... but there was one great feature i made that put the game uniquely above the rest. It was an interactive map. So i thought - ok i failed that game so time to try again and not make the same mistakes. So i have started again and now have 300 active daily users (and i opened less than 2 months ago) this is steadily increasing. Eventually based on competitors and as long as the features are good i could be getting 500,000 + daily users which is very exciting. Now the game is in an "Egyptian" setting (Ancient egypt). And users train their character and battle other players online. Currently its all text based leaving it to the imagination at most. But i kept the original script for allowing users to interact with a map image.
My game is not for profit - it is free to play and your welcome to play it any time! To avoid my gaming users finding this out i will not post the link to my site directly i don't want to ruin the surprise. But i can tell you in private if you are involved in the project what the site is so you can understand how exciting the potential it can achieve.
Before i start talking about the project:
A little bit about this can work, firstly communication is going to be important to make sure everything works with my coding + the images which is the harder part. I have MSN/Email & Skype all available to communicate via to get this project organised.
If interested:
If you are interested please ether reply here or PM me to exchange email or something so we can discuss as i do not wish to post my email directly in here due to possible spam attacks. Thanks
Now on to what the project is about:
I'm looking for a birds eye view of Egypt with nice realistic desert textures - the river nile + the green vegetation surrounding it also and some of the ocean where the river mouth is.
Quality & Size
The whole of egypt will be split up in to sections so each area of Egypt (lets call them regions) can be worked on one at a time. Its a little complex but theres different zooms.
I can show you photoshop designs of the regions over the map as it forms using simple lines - as that is the most i can do when it comes to images lol!
Time Constraints
I have no time constraints.... the players can wait for the feature and get all excited I don't want rush an artist as you all have other things to do in life aswell etc.
Description of Map
Firstly its desert based as you can guess because its Ancient Egypt. The main important features are the monuments when in a region zoom and city zoom and the river nile with the green vegetation around it eventually leading to the sea. Do not worry about applying villages/towns/cities as currently that is just an after thought - need to get the map done before i lay anything on top.
Reference for geography for egypt : http://www.nil-egypte.net/egypt/map-egypt-touristic.jpg - this is not how the zoom of the map would appear this is just so you know the river and where mountains are.
Quality & Size
Well size wise i will set a specific size when we have formed discussions on where we start, and all agree on which is best to work with - obviously it needs to be of a size that will match my site layout + user friendlyness + keeping it as easy to make as possible for you the artists. For quality - well im not fussy on quality although i will imagine users are - so quality would be discussed during project briefing prior to starting.
Well i don't like to ask for copyright of some one elses work but at the same time it could damage my site if another site gets hold of the project to use for their game. So i just urge with a strong PLEASE do not share the image/project for others to use - if you want to show it as a reference to your work please watermark clearly, that will protect both of us, so no one can use it for their own. Thanks.
Hmm 78 views no takers - maybe im asking for too much =/
You should probably put up a few examples that you like so that those who do such things may gain interest. If you're wanting total satellite realism and accuracy on a regional scale (to allow for zooming and such) then that's probably beyond what most of us here can do...that's the realm of GIS and only a few folks here do that. You're asking for pro-bono work so don't expect to get a masterpiece unless you get lucky and someone has nothing better to do but this being summertime (in the northern hemisphere) things always slow down. Second, I used to play MUDs all the time when I was younger and for one game (Dragonrealms) me and Salius made all the maps ourselves. They were basic but so was the software of the time...things are much better now. Maybe you have an obsessive mapper as a player like me n Salius. As a reward, instead of paying him, you could give him a nice sword or extra spells. In one MUD back in college I got to create my own area within the game and I also got to be a demigod with super cool powers like I could take over a dragon and walk around town and talk to people...they'd always attack first, stupid humans, and when I'd say "ouch" they were not expecting that (normal dragons didn't talk in the game) and they'd get all freaked out then we'd have some ales, sing songs, and go cow tipping. At any rate, if you reward them they will come.
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Have to agree with Ascension, I feel like this would be a stretch for me at the moment. Mainly because while I'm pretty good artistically I'm still learning a lot about doing it digitally as well as map making in general.
It sounds interesting and having a map that is being seen by a bunch of folks would be cool.
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The geographical accuracy is not important in terms of scale - colours etc, it just needs to have desert appearance a river going from the south to the north so users see it and go "thats the nile" where the water would be - as for how accurate the meandering direction is doesn't matter - not to the users. What i meant by the "accuracy" was things like theres green vegetation around the river and then desert further out instead of just a river and sand The satellite image was to show you the main zoom level for the first layer.
For the map type i would say something like : http://www.cartographersguild.com/at...0&d=1233094574
Thats more than amazing but i would need to chat with all who take part (the more people the quicker it be done by using project sharing via my server) prior to starting so theres no confusing on what is needed for the game engine to work - because as the maps are made im coding the game engine to go with it.
Thats only part of the exciting bit - the main excitement is the fact people can walk around the map and visit buildings etc like a proper game Though that stuff is what i have to do.It sounds interesting and having a map that is being seen by a bunch of folks would be cool.
The structure is like this:
3 Tier zoom:
North Region > Zooms - Mini regions inside north regions > Zooms - Towns in the mini reigion
South Region > Zooms - Mini regions inside north regions > Zooms - Towns in the mini reigion
I know the towns/locations etc i can place them on via my scripts
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ill have to abandon this due to lack of interest - shame was hopeing to change the way these maps interacted in a game environment
If you could get a pic up of the region boundary of the part of Egypt that your interested in then maybe I could download the real satellite DEM data for it. Then I can run it through a script of mine to color the DEM into a map - a big one -> really big and then you can chop up the zooms off of it - at least two of the levels I think. How does that sound ? That sounds quite doable to me. At least then you only have the towns to map. You may have to help me out with the vegetation placement a bit but the rest I think I can whoop up no problem. Also, I care not about the copyright - more about the time it takes cos really, I am a bit swamped at mo. Maybe my result could be used as a starting point for someone else anyway.
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Thanks for the reply, yes it is a bit of work but the project once hundreads of people play it will be worth it.
Map boundry:
Then this will help for the colours of the desert:
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Ok, ill take a look at it. Dont know if ill be able to replicate the many colors of sand tho. It may look a bit flat. Still, lets try and see what we get.
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RR those colors look a lot like sandstone tiles we have all over the place here in Arizona. I see them constantly, it would be no problem for me to take a close up photograph of some of the more interesting ones to use as a background texture. I've been thinking of doing this anyway but this would give me added impetus. Not sure if I have a good enough camera but if you are interested I will post back. If not, I may just create one for myself.
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Can anyone provide an update as to crowd size, etc? Thanks.
It would be nice to see at least a close game. Daniel is 10 for 10....
Make that 11 for 11...
Anyone from Iowa City that knows if there's a radio station broadcasting the game? Stuck here in Hawkeye country without a play-by-play.
ISU just scored to make it 10-7 Mizzou, though.
Go Sssssssssyclones!
We're playing great! We should fire our coach every week!
we fired him(asked him to resign) the week before and got blown out by Colorado...
wow....up 11....go clones!!
mizzu TD but misses 2 pt conversion.....21-16 13:46 left
a field goal would be nice... GO CLONES!!
Does anyone have a link where I can stream the audio for the game live? Do any stations stream it live?
Thanks a ton!!
Have they indicated how many people showed up for the game?
Come on Clones HANG ON!!
anyone else wish Kock played more all season?
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