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Reasons behind the 'shutdown'
October 3, 2013
Americans ought to be very clear on why some sectors of the federal government "shut down" Tuesday morning....
LOL Whistler!
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"This poll was conducted by telephone October 1-2, 2013 among 1,021 adults nationwide. Data collection was conducted on behalf of CBS News by Social Science Research Solutions of Media, PA. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones."
"Most Americans want compromise. Majorities think the President and the Democrats in Congress and the Republicans in Congress should compromise in order to come to an agreement on the budget."
Compromise or Stick to Positions?
Pres. Obama & Dems should compromise 76%
Cong. Reps should compromise 78%
Pres. Obama & Dems should stick to positions 21% 18
Cong. Reps should stick to positions 18%
Poll Facts: EVERYBODY should quit posturing and have the conversation needed to get things done in DC. EOS
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I feel good....Verts is FINALLY quoting me after much haranguing. Now verts and I will be able to move forword together. To come together to move our Democrat Party forword together....
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I see all the "progressive" posters are out looking for some George Soros money. Is he still only paying $10 a post or is he giving out a bonus so you guys can afford your obamacare???
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More posts from the liar in chief, bdgi. What about your post on Will? Gonna admit it was a spoof just like the one Fox news put on concerning the Muslim museum? Typical uniformed righty.
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We can be sure about one thing, Obama is either golfing or in Las Vegas making political speeches. He shoves his views down Americans throats and then goes play.
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Hey, everyone, BDGI is telling a pants on fire lie again. His story about Will did not happen. It is completely false. It is out there to check out. Another false statement put out on facebook probably by other irrational wingers to fool the public. And our liar in chief, BDGI was right there to gobble it up.
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You still don't know what you are talking about, bdgi. You can only ridicule, denigrate, make fun of, or express yourself in an inappropriate manner. I have told many people to come to the blog and view your rantings. You can only lie, bloviate, and make false claims. Go Ahead, bdgi, continue with your out of state rhetoric of hatred. Only a coward operates in the manner that you do. I am sure your favorite color is "yellow".
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Another factual presentation by whistler. Keep up the right wing work.
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As long as we are talking about Harry Reid's comment and the distortions being put forth, lets talk about something that needs no distortion. How about the cuts to the cancer research program voted in by these same white coated Republicans? Well, they voted to cut upwards of 1.5 Billion dollars from that same program. Actually, as far back as 2010, Eric Cantor himself, proposed a 1.3 billion dollar cut to this program. Hypocrites all. Now, that is factual, righties.
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Well, well, whistler, why are you always claiming things negative about us liberals. Could it be that you know that most all of the garbage the Republicans are putting forth is just that- garbage. Maybe you just have no facts to support their lies. Or, maybe, that is the way you are.
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Billdoesntgetit---Responding to your claim that I said I didn't have insurance.
I have always carried health insurance and have never said I didn't. In fact, I have always paid 100% (that means all) of my premium which amounted to more than $5500/year (nearly 20% of my income). Enough detail for you, you little toad?
I suspect your claim that I was an uninsured individual somehow might bolster your assertion that I and anyone else who uses the ACA (which is everyone who get insurance) is a mooch. Crawl in a hole you worm.
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Welcome to Minot, West Virginia! Land of the bigots, bottom-feeders and beer drunks.
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So, BDGI, you were talking about BC/BS of San Francisco? Wow, you are still fibbing on it. Thier rates have to be approved by the state first. They have not gotten the approval. Is this the same BC/BS that has doubled it cash reserves in the last seven years to almost 4 Billion Dollars? you are just bloviating.
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Did you realize that 72% of those polled in the CBS poll disapprove of shutting down the federal government over differences on the Affordable Care Act. Republicans are the biggest liars of all.
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"The CBS poll says it all. 78% of Americans want Republicans to compromise"
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"The CBS poll says it all. 78% of Americans want Republicans to compromise"
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"The CBS poll says it all. 78% of Americans want Republicans to compromise"
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Did you realize that 72% of those polled in the CBS poll disapprove of shutting down the federal government over differences on the Affordable Care Act.
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It is amazing that BDGI is so knowledgeable about the rates. Hmmm, BC/BS is at 18% increase for next year. Wonder where you got that figure since they have to get approval of their rate increases and to this point have not gotten that approval. You must be have a gift? I kinda liked what the Republicans said about the HCA program for kids. Boy, have they changed. They just cut 1.55 billion dollars from the research program in the past year and prior to that have proposed cuts of over a billion dollars to that research program. Hypocrites. Now, I hear they are concerned about the food programs for kids and moms, but they just cut billions from those programs: Hypocrites . What other programs will the liars and terrorist be concerned about. Oh, by the way, 78% of those polled in the CBS poll think the Republicans should compromise. Also, more people blame the REpublicans than the democrats.
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she used her car as a weapon--no talk of background checks on cars--he hit a biker who slowed down in front of him--no background check (or arrest yet) there either. bdngi: too much fox talk for you today. they have warned for 6 years now our world would come to an end (ismw) with Obama and the only real danger so far is this shutdown by hired guns who will not honor their negotiated agreement on a cont. resolution. the public is on to them more every day. heard some red talk today on why romney lost. they don't get it. we don't want an aristocrat on a dressage horse (except for 1% of us). we want an Eisenhower or T. Roosevelt.
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Billdoesntget****e---Noticed a post directed at me about the ACA. Yep been in contact with BCBS and the policy looks great and the tax credit is fantastic. I'll sock away the savings for couple of years 'til I qualify for Medicare. Hope that's OK with you, or do you resent Medicare recipients too? You small minded, infantile, self-centered ignorant troll.
You seem to be a little out of control Billdoessntget****e...Don't go driving erratically in DC.
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the cost of ins. on ACA will be high per bengazi news, but no one will know until insurers know who they have signed up. insurers are at risk of high prices because insured can switch to lower cost plans. we had a similar system in the fed. in about 1979 Mail Handlers offered great ins for less $30 per mo. for a family. MH drew many customers away from the higher priced plans. i had MH for 30 years until our hosp. dropped their ppo agreement with MH. do not believe anyone who tells you what the cost will be because no one knows--not even the ins. companies.
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the reds and blues agreed to a continuing resolution(temp budget) but come time to sign it, reds refused without a piece or more of ACA. negotiations were over. This is the history of the behavior of the t party. blues said the demands of the t party are so vile and undemocratic that they must stand their ground here, because they have seen this b4, and unless they stop it now it might go on 4 ever. The majority of voters blame the reds and do not want a shut down. The blues are right to break the t party. the cr they agreed to is near the very radical ryan budget--but that is not enough for the tp. the blues have the high ground and every civil servant and business affected by this shutdown knows it. as the days pass and the lies on bengazi news are exposed, the t party may well be demolished--cramer included. Farm bill under cramer--ha ha tp does not want the entire dept. of ag. at least this tp self-destruction got bengazi news off bengazi.
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"We're not finished committing suicide here," said Republican strategist John Weaver, a veteran of the McCain and Huntsman campaigns. "We also have the opportunity to kill immigration reform, and the odds are that we will do that, just to make sure we're the angry-white-man party."
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Wyandanch Man Collects $26,000,000 Prize from Friday the 13th Mega Millions Drawing
Forty-five-year-old Isabel Zelaya of Wyandanch, Suffolk County, is not the superstitious sort. That explains why Zelaya, a night shift worker for the Hicksville-based Coral Graphics Services, Inc., scoffed at his friends who advised him against spending $3 on a chance to win a $26,000,000 Mega Millions jackpot drawn on Friday the 13th.
"I knew it was my lucky day no matter what the calendar said," gushed Zelaya, who purchased the sole jackpot winning ticket for the March 13, 2009 Mega Millions drawing. "I'm living proof that luck trumps superstition." The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 176 million.
A native of El Salvador whose family settled in New York 26 years ago, Zelaya said he only started playing the Lottery within the past year with the dream of starting his own business.
"I want to be my own boss for a change," said the former restaurant worker and aspiring restaurateur. "Winning the jackpot gives me the chance to make my life different. It's a happy feeling."
The father of two purchased his winning Quick Pick Mega Millions ticket on March 13, 2009 at the P & T Supermarket at 1293 Straight Path in Wyandanch. He claimed it the following Monday at the Lottery's Customer Service Center in Garden City. Zelaya opted to receive his $26,000,000 jackpot prize in one lump sum payment with a cash value of $17,716,535 before required tax withholdings. His net check will total $12,073,818.
In keeping with the New York Lottery's policy of awarding a $10,000 bonus to its retailers who sell a jackpot winning Mega Millions ticket, the Lottery will also award a $10,000 prize check to Segundo Peralta, the owner of the P & T Supermarket of Wyandanch, a Lottery retailer since 2003.
New York joined the Mega Millions game in May 2002. On March 6, 2007, Mega Millions made history with a jackpot of $390 million – setting the record for the largest jackpot ever in Lottery history.

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Juneberries are like any other berry – they are susceptible to infections, insect pests and bird damage. They can be grown organically on an organic spray program, but they will suffer if you attempt a "no-spray" approach. In fact, you can cause diseases to easily spread by letting them grow uncontrolled in a juneberry planting.
The pathogens that cause leaf spot, rust, brown rot, and powdery mildew, as well as the bacteria that causes fire blight can all infect your juneberry plantings before during, or after fruiting. Juneberries can be damaged by Japanese beetles, chafers, root and leaf aphids, or sawfly larvae.
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TUCSON - Freshman pitcher Alicia Hollowell threw a two-hit shutout and Arizona made the most of nine hits to beat San Diego State, 6-0, in the final game of Arizona's Hillenbrand Invitational softball tournament.
UA jumped out to a 2-0 lead with a single by Autumn Champion and a home run by Mackenzie Vandergeest in the bottom of the first.
Wendy Allen blooped a double to drive in two runs in the third, then Lisha Ribellia followed a Shelly Shultz walk with another two-run double to make it 6-0.
San Diego State loaded the bases in the fourth but came away scoreless. Arizona stranded three runners in the fifth and sixth but couldn't get a key hit to blow the game open.
Hollowell improved to 12-2 and losing pitcher Celena Velasquez is 3-2.
Arizona (21-2) finished 4-0 in the tournament, while San Diego State (12-8) finished 3-2 in the matchup of the top records in the round-robin format.
The Wildcats did not allow a run in its four games and blasted 12 home runs.
In the preliminary game early Sunday, Northern Iowa beat New Mexico State 3-1 in morning action The Panthers (8-6) finished 2-2 in the tournament. NMSU (2-20) finished 0-5.
UNI took a 1-0 lead in the first with a walk, a sacrifice and two errors by NMSU, then added to the lead in the second with a two-run home run by Angela Higgins.
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No More Playing Dressed Up: Resort 2013 Collections.
You know the feeling after you've seen an entire collection from a particular designer or design house, you find yourself getting a bit emotional over a couple of pieces that caught your eye, and then it becomes embedded into your mind like a virus that's only cure is you owning those must-have fashion loves of your life.
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Despite recent reports about how new government programs have reduced Salmonella contamination on poultry, this Thanksgiving is no time to be lax about food safety. In fact, the best data available indicate that more than nine out of ten turkeys carry bacteria that could cause food poisoning, according to Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
While no one invites Salmonella or Campylobacter home for the holidays, said DeWaal, consumers must expect these unwelcome guests every time they bring home a turkey.
A leading consumer analyst of laws and regulations governing food safety, attorney DeWaal was the morning newsmaker at the National Press Club today. She reviewed recently released data on the contamination rates of turkeys and on the successes and failures of the first years operation of the new federal food-safety system, called the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system.
DeWaal reported that a major U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey of turkeys conducted in 1996-1997 found that Campylobacter was present in 90 percent of the turkeys tested. USDAs survey found that 97% of turkeys were contaminated with one or more of five types of dangerous bacteria. The data were collected before the HACCP system was implemented in large meat and poultry plants, including many turkey plants, but there is no evidence that Campylobacter contamination has declined.
Campylobacteris the number-one cause of bacterial food poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Campylobacter can also cause a serious neurological disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can lead to temporary paralysis, similar to polio.
The latest government data show that this is no time to lower the safeguards in the kitchen, she said. While it is imperative that the industry and the government work to ensure safer turkeys, consumers remain the last line of defense against food poisoning.
CSPI recommends the following precautions:
All those steps, said DeWaal, will pay off with a healthy and worry-free holiday celebration. She added that, although there is a lot that consumers and the food industry can do to make food safer, the government has a critical role to play, too.
DeWaal compared the performance of the new HACCP systems in place for meat, poultry, and seafood. Last January, the USDA implemented the new HACCP systems in the 300 largest meat and poultry slaughter and processing plants. Government data for the first six months of the USDA program, said DeWaal, found a 93% compliance rate. Under that program the average Salmonella contamination rate in chicken had been reduced by half, from 20% down to 10%. She added that turkey and red meat also showed improvement.
Compared with the large meat and poultry plants, the seafood industry has turned in a dismal performance, said DeWaal. Last December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented HACCP systems in 3,800 seafood plants. FDA chose not to require any pathogen-reduction standards or testing. Within six months of implementing the HACCP system, only 30% of the seafood plants that FDA inspected were in compliance. FDA found that 70% of the domestic seafood plants it inspected had serious or critical violations. Importers did even worse.
The lessons from HACCP implementation in the meat, poultry, and seafood industries are clear, said DeWaal. We cant rely on an industry honor system to ensure the safety of food. For HACCP food-safety systems to work, they must be combined with a strong inspection force and standards for the reduction of microbial hazards.
DeWaal discussed Congress record on food-safety issues. While Congress did provide $75 million in new food-safety funding for the National Food Safety Initiative, she noted that it failed to enact mandatory recall legislation, failed to pass a bill to improve the safety of imported food, and failed to create a unified agency to oversee food safety.
Food safety is truly a kitchen-table issue for the American public, said DeWaal. I hope that the next Congress will complete the work that needs to be done if Americans are to have safe food, not only on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of the year.
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Whether you have celiac disease, a gluten intolerance or just don't want a diet that includes gluten, there's something for you at the Gluten-Free Food Allergy Fest.
The festival, put on by Gluten Free and More magazine, is part of a nationwide series that started in San Diego and will expand to seven cities next year, according to GlutenFreeFoodAllergyFest.com.
"The Gluten Free Food Allergy Fest is a celebration for our gluten-free community," event organizer Sheila Cafferty told Natural Awakenings magazine. "It's a show that provides education and information about celiac disease, gluten sensitivity and information about the gluten-free diet is really for everyone as most of us know someone that struggles with a gluten intolerance or other food allergies and food sensitivities. Even those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and those with autoimmune diseases can greatly benefit on the gluten-free diet."
Exhibitors include Costco, Whole Foods, Greenwood Family Chiropractic, Kroger, Green Bean Delivery, Sam's Club and more. Presenters include Dr. Stefano Guandalini, founder and medical director of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, Alicia Woodword, LCSW and editor of Gluten Free and More, gluten-free Italian chef Mary Capone, as well as several chefs, doctors, writers and others impacted by gluten intolerance.
"Consumer shows are a natural extension of our brand and the services we provide to the Celiac and food allergic community," said Gluten Free and More vice president Tom Canfield said on the festival's web site. "The shows offer consumers a fun way to interact one-on-one with manufacturers and vendors to sample products, and learn more about allergy-friendly and gluten-free goods and services."
The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. August 23-24 in the Expo Hall at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. One day adult admission is $15, two-day adult admission is $25, seniors and military one day is $12, children's tickets are $5, and children 5 years old and younger are free.


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Florida Marlins: Nate Robertson designated; West, Volstad to take his place?
In a less than surprising move, the Marlins designated left-hander Nate Robertson for assignment Wednesday, a day after another rough start in which he gave up eight runs (seven earned) over five innings in a 10-0 loss to the Rockies.
The Marlins also placed backup catcher Brett Hayes on the disabled list with a left wrist contusion and selected the contracts of catcher Brad Davis and right-hander Jorge Sosa from Triple-A New Orleans. Hayes took a couple of foul tips off the same spot during Tuesday's game. He was unable to hit when his turn came up in the ninth inning.
Originally drafted by the Marlins, Robertson's numbers took a dive the last two months. Since a May 26 no-decision against the Braves in which he did not allow an earned run over six innings, Robertson was 2-4 with a 7.08 ERA. His overall ERA climbed to 5.47, the highest among 47 National League pitchers with at least 100 innings and 92nd out of 97 100-plus inning pitchers in all of baseball.
The Marlins have 10 days to trade or release Robertson. It's doubtful he would accept an assignment to the minors. A team in need of a left-hander for the bullpen could take a flyer on Robertson. He's held left-handed hitters to a .269 average (21 for 78) with .696 on-base plus slugging percentage. Plus, any team that acquires Robertson would only owe him the pro-rated share of the $400,000 league minimum. The Marlins acquired Robertson for left-hander Jay Voss from the Tigers, who are paying $9.6 million of Robertson's $10 million salary.
As far as who will take Robertson's rotation spot, the Marlins could give Sean West another look. He is 3-3 with a 3.50 ERA in nine starts for the Zephyrs since coming off the disabled list. More importantly, he appears to have corrected the command issues that hampered him in spring training. Wednesday, right-hander Chris Volstad is scheduled to make his third start since his demotion to New Orleans. The Marlins could give him an abbreviated outing tonight and bring him back on short rest Sunday. West' was originally slated to start Thursday for the Zephyrs.


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I bought SX130IS last year.
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I had shortlisted Fujifilm S2950 and SX130IS. Fujifilm had higher zoom and higher megapix and bridge body.
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John Dixon • Bradford, Darlington, Derby, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Scarborough, Sheffield, Sunderland, Wakefield, York • 6 Sep 2009
Within seconds of introducing us once again to Clive Webb and Danny Adams, all thoughts of the weather were dispelled as the pair launched in to a comedy routine. The press, and invited school children, were hooked on silly jokes and sight gags from the off. The father and son act were back in town launching this year's show, a brand new version of Cinderella , which will have the usual twists to the story, as only Michael Harrison can do.
Each year Michael manages to break the previous year's box office record and bring us a more spectacular show than the last and this production sounds on target to keep up that tradition. Flying (with no wires) an evil raven (called the Little Waster), a horse that flies over the audience, 3D, dancing penguins, "real" rain and a Baroness, as well as the ugly sisters, are all in store for us this year.
Michael Harrison's smash hit run of pantomimes started five years ago with Cinderella, starring Jill Halfpenny, Clive and Danny, this year the leading lady will be Roxanne Pallett from Emmerdale, making her panto debut, along with David Ducasse from the pop group Scooch as Dandini. Chris Hayward, in his third successive panto at the Royal, and Phil Corbitt, (who played Blackheart the pirate last year) will both returning with Clive and Danny for Cinderella.
The Theatre Royal looks on course to have the best pantomime in the Country once again and I am already counting down the days until December 1st when the magic of panto is back with us once again.
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Rock Creek traveled to the Clay Center wrestling tournament on Saturday, placing two in the finals for the first time. Rock Creek had two wrestlers go undefeated in pool play, Juniors Marc Reiss (126) and Jesse Correll (220). Reiss won his finals match 10-4 over Norton's Alec Hager, currently ranked in the 3-2-1A state and Correll took second. Garden City won the tournament, with Rock Creek coming in 14th place in the team standings. At 120, Randall Thomas went 1-3, taking sixth. Chase Ridder and JT Weers also finished 1-3 on the day.
The Mustangs travel to Marion County for a dual tournament this Friday to round off the first semester wrestling action.
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July 5, 2013
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Former Saluki track and field and cross country student-athlete Lucas Cherry was named a winner of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, an award worth $7,500 given nationally to 174 student-athletes each year.
Given since 1964, the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship is given to 29 male and 29 female student-athletes each fall, winter and spring season. To qualify, student-athletes must be in their final year of eligibility, excel academically and athletically, plan to pursue graduate coursework and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2.
The honors keep racking up for Cherry, who just last month won the Missouri Valley Conference Emerson Excellence Award (a postgraduate scholarship worth $5,000) and the MVC Dr. Charlotte West Scholar-Athlete Award. Cherry is the first Saluki since Bryan Mullins (men's basketball, 2009) to earn both the MVC and NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships.
Cherry, now an SIU graduate with an accounting degree, has been a stalwart Saluki representative on the track, in the classroom and in the community during his time at Southern. The Carbondale, Ill., native is a three-time MVC Scholar-Athlete, a two-time All-MVC performer in the 3000 meter steeplechase, a two-time MVC Elite 18 recipient, and a 2012 first-team selection to the CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District team.
This spring, Cherry won the 3000 meter steeplechase at the prestigious Kansas Relays. He was a spring recipient of the Missouri Valley Conference Leadership and Service Award. An MVC President's Council Academic Excellence Award winner, Cherry was also honored as the SIU College of Business Outstanding Senior of the Year and SIU College of Business Outstanding Senior of Accountancy. He plans to pursue a Masters of Business Administration at Oral Roberts University this fall.


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I found this answer, outlining the exercise, to be interesting. However, I have trouble solving the differential equation.
The question starts by attempting to solve the following integral without complex analysis:
...So we let
$$ F(y) = \int\limits_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\sin xy}{x(1+x^2)} \ dx \ \ \text{for} \quad\quad y > 0$$
Next, the portion I'm referring to (from which this question proceeds) starts with
$$\displaystyle F''(y) - F(y) + \pi/2 = 0$$
I find part of a solution to the differential equation to be
$$F(y)=\pi/2+e^y c_1 + e^{-y}c_2$$
I'm having trouble finding the constants. Could someone please explain this step in great detail, as I'm somewhat of a novice.


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Fix a logic $L$ and consider the category $\mathbf{AlgTh}_L$ with theories of $L$ as objects and theory interpretations as morphisms. For nice enough logics, this category has pushouts (which we will assume is the case).
Question: how large a 'graph' has been actually built using this (old) idea? There are plenty of flat lists of objects of such a category, for example Wikipedia has two: algebraic structure and list of algebraic structures (with lots of overlap as well as being non-trivially different), Jipsen has a list (not all of which are properly defined) and a graph with 48 entries. One can find other partial graphs too: page 136-141 of the CASL reference manual or the specialized-for-groups graph of Coq Theories required to prove the Feit-Thompson theorem. There are even similar lists for (modal) logics. But I have yet to find a decent (categorical) graphs. Has it not been done?
[I am interested in this because I am building such a graph, and I don't want to waste my time inventing things that have already been done. Also, I want to be as complete as I can.]


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Hesperides & the golden-apple tree, Athenian
red-figure hydria C5th B.C., British Museum
THE HESPERIDES were the goddesses of the evening and golden light of sunset. The three nymphs were daughters of either Nyx (Night) or the heaven-bearing Titan Atlas. They were entrusted with the care of the tree of the golden apples which was first presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia (Earth) on her wedding day. They were assisted in their task by a hundred-headed guardian drakon named Ladon. Herakles was sent to fetch the apples as one of his twelve labours, and upon slaying the serpent, stole the precious fruit. However, Athena later returned them to the Hesperides.
The Hesperides were also the keepers of other treasures of the god. Perseus obtained from the artifacts he required to slay the Gorgon Medousa.
The three nymphs and their golden apples were apparently regarded as the source of the golden light of sunset, a phenomena celebrating the bridal of the heavenly gods Zeus and Hera.
[1.1] NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 215)
[1.2] EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Pref, Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17)
[2.1] ATLAS & HESPERIS (Diodorus Sicululs 4.26.2)
[2.2] ATLAS (Pherecydes Frag, Hyginus Astronomica 2.3)
[3.1] HESPEROS (Scholiast on Euripides Hippolytus)
[4.1] ZEUS & THEMIS (Servius on Virgil's Aeneid 4.484)
[5.1] PHORKYS & KETO (Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius 4.1399)
HESPE′RIDES (Hesperides), the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hesperia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions ; sometimes they are called the daughters of Night or Erebus (Hes. Theog. 215; Hygin. Fab. init.), sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1399), sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or Hesperides (Diod. iv. 27), and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis. (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 484; Schol. ad Eurip. Hipp. 742.) Instead of the four Hesperides mentioned above, some traditions know only of three, viz. Hespere, Erytheis, and Aegle, Arethusa, and Hesperusa or Hesperia (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1427; Serv. l. c.; Stat. Theb. ii. 281); whereas others mention seven. (Diod. l. c.; Hygin. Fab. init.) The poets describe them as possessed of the power of sweet song. (Hes. Theog. 518; Orph. Fragm. 17; Eurip. Herc. Fur. 394; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1399.) In the earliest legends, these nymphs are described as living on the river Oceanus, in the extreme west (Hes. Theog. 334, &c., 518; Eurip. Hipp. 742); but the later attempts to fix their abodes, and the geographical position of their gardens, have led poets and geographers to different parts of Libya, as in the neighbourhood of Cyrene, Mount Atlas, or the islands on the western coast of Libya (Plin. H. N. vi. 31, 36; Virg. Aen. iv. 480; Pomp. Mela, iii. 10), or even to the northern extremity of the earth, beyond the wind Boreas, among the Hyperboreans. In their watch over the golden apples they were assisted or superintended by the dragon Ladon.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Hesiod, Theogony 211 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"And Nyx (Night) bare hateful Moros (Doom) and black Ker (Violent Death) and Thanatos (Death), and she bare Hypnos (Sleep) and the tribe of Oneiroi (Dreams). And again the goddess murky Nyx, though she lay with none, bare Momos (Blame) and painful Oizys (Misery), and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Okeanos. Also she bare the Moirai (Fates) and the ruthless avenging Keres (Death-Fates) . . . Also deadly Nyx bare Nemesis (Envy) to afflict mortal men, and after her, Apate (Deceit) and Philotes (Friendship) and hateful Geras (Old Age) and hard-hearted Eris (Strife)."
Hesiod, Doubtful Frag 3 (from Servius on Vergil's Aeneid 4. 484) :
"Hesiod says that these Hesperides . . . daughters of Nyx (Night) , guarded the golden apples beyond Okeanos : `Aigle and Erytheia and ox-eyed Hesperethoosa.'"
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 114 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"The Hesperides (Evenings) . . . by name Aigle, Erytheis, Hesperie, and Arethousa."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Nox (Night) and Erebus [were born]: Fatum (Fate), Senectus (Old Age), Mors (Death), Letum (Dissolution), Continentia (Moderation), Somnus (Sleep) [Hypnos], Somnia (Dreams) [Oneiroi], Amor (Love)--that is Lysimeles, Epiphron (Prudence), Porphyrion, Epaphus, Discordia (Discord), Miseria (Misery), Petulantia (Wantonness), Nemesis (Envy), Euphrosyne (Good Cheer), Amicitia (Friendship), Misericordia (Compassion), Styx (Hatred); the three Parcae (Fates), namely Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos; the Hesperides Aegle, Hesperie and Aerica." [N.B. Aerica is an adjective not a name, literally "aerial."]
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. 17 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) :
"Their [Aether and Hemera's] brothers and sisters, whom the ancient genealogists name Amor (Love), Dolus (Guile), Metus (Fear), Labor (Toil), Invidentia (Envy), Fatum (Fate), Senectus (Old Age), Mors (Death), Tenebrae (Darkness), Miseria (Misery), Querella (Complaint), Gratia (Favour), Fraus (Fraud), Pertinacia (Obstinacy), the Parcae (Fates), the Hesperides, the Somnia (Sleep, Dreams) [Hypnos & the Oneiroi]: all of these are fabled to be the children of Erebus (Darkness) and Nox (Night)."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 26. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"Now Hesperos (Evening) begat a daughter named Hesperis (Evening), who he gave in marriage to his brother [Atlas] and after whom the land was given the name Hesperitis; and Atlas begat by her seven daughters, who were named after their father Atlantides, and after their mother Hesperides."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 3 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Pherecydes [C5th B.C. Greek mythographer] says that . . . Atlas' daughters [the Hesperides] kept picking the [golden] apples from the trees."
The Hesperis Erytheia was the mother of Eurytion, the herdsman of Geryon who lived on the island of Erytheia near the home of the Hesperides.
Stesichorus, Geryoneis Fragment S8 (from Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2617) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric III) (C6th to 7th B.C.) :
"Over the waves and the waves and the deep brine they [the infant Eurytion and his mother Erytheia, one of the Hesperides] came to the beautiful island of the gods, where the Hesperides have their homes of solid gold."
Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S7 (from Strabo Geography 3. 2. 11) :
"The ancient writers seem to call the Baetis [a river in southern Spain, now called Guadalquivir] Tartessos, and Gadeira [Gades, now Cadiz] and the nearby island Erytheia. This, it is supposed, is why Stesikhoros would say of Geryon's herdman [Eurytion] that he was born : 'almost opposite famous Erytheia . . . by the limitless silver-rooted waters of the river Tartessos in the hollow of a rock."
The Hesperides were goddesses of the garden of the golden apples in the west. It was the golden glow of these apples that was probably thought to be the source of brilliant sunsets.
Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1023 (from Berlin Papyrus) (trans. Campbell) :
"The choir-leaders of the Hesperides (Evenings) driving their two-horse chariot along the path of night to the new turning-point, where Nyx (Night) passes through the light-bringing radiance in the eastern air; and she brings the day's light, flying over the misty wave, a guide for sailors."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. 418 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
"[Memnon addresses Akhilleus :] `Of birth divine am I, Eos' (Dawn's) mighty son, nurtured afar by lilly-slender Hesperides (Evenings), beside the River Okeanos.'"
For the MYTH of the origin of the sunset see :
The Hesperides & the Bridal Apple of Hera (below)
The Hesperides as the goddesses of evening were also the heralds of the bridal night. They were depicted in art attending the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and serving the gods ambrosia at the bridal feast.
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 4. 128 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
"Singing of Peleus' Bridal of Delight [the wedding of Peleus & Thetis], which all the blest Immortals brought to pass by Pelion's crests; sang of the ambrosial feast when the swift Horai brought in immortal hands meats not of earth, and heaped in golden maunds; sang how the silver tables were set forth in haste by Themis blithely laughing; sang how breathed Hephaistos purest flame of fire; sang how the Nymphai [i.e. the Hesperides] in golden chalices mingled ambrosia."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13. 333 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"There, as they say, by the Tritonian Lake [in Libya], Kadmos the wanderer lay with rosycheek Harmonia, and the Nymphai Hesperides made a song for them, and Kypris [Aphrodite] together with the Erotes (Loves) decked out a fine bed for the wedding, hanging in the bridal chamber golden fruit [apples] from the Nymphai's garden, a worthy lovegift for the bride; rich clusters of their leaves Harmonia and Kadmos twined through their hair, amid the abundance of their bridechamber, in place of the wedding-roses. Still more dainty the bride appeared wearing these golden gifts, the boon of golden Aphrodite. Her mother's [actually her stepmother Elektra] father the stooping Libyan Atlas awoke a tune of the heavenly harp to join the revels, and with tripping foot he twirled the heavens round like a ball, while he sang a stave of harmony himself not far away."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38. 135 ff :
"The light that shone on that bridal bed [of Helios & Klymene] come from the starry train; and the star of Kypris, Eosphoros [the Star Venus], herald of the union wove a bridal song. Instead of the wedding torch, Selene (Moon) sent her beams to attend the wedding. The Hesperides (Sunsets) raised the joy-cry." [N.B. Helios the Sun's wedding had to be held after sunset since he could not attend his wedding and be present in the sky at the same time.]
For MYTHS of their role as goddesses of the wedding see :
The Hesperides & the Bridal Apple of Hera
(2) The Hesperides, Eris & the Golden Apple of Discord
Gaia (the Earth) produced the golden apples of Hesperia (the West) to celebrate the bridal of the heavenly gods Zeus and Hera. These were entrusted to the care of the Hesperides, handmaidens and daughters of the goddess Nyx (Night), who heralded the onset of night and bridal of these two gods with the golden glow of sunset. Apples, in Greek tradition, were a symbol of love.
Euripides, Hippolytus 742 ff (trans. Vellacott) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"The apple-bearing Hesperian coast, of which the minstrels sing. Where the Lord of Okeanos denies the voyager further sailing and fixes the solemn limit of Ouranos (Heaven) which Giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love and holy Gaia (Earth), the giver of life, yield to the gods rich blessedness."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 113 - 4 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"The golden apples of the Hesperides . . . These apples . . . Gaia (Earth) had given them to Zeus when he married Hera. An immortal serpent guarded them . . . With it the Hesperides (Evenings) themselves were posted as guards, by name Aigle (the Radiant), Erytheis (the Red), Hesperie (the Evening), and Arethousa (War-Swift)."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 17. 2 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"In the temple of Hera is an image of Zeus, and the image of Hera is sitting on a throne with Zeus standing by her . . . The figures of the Horai (Seasons) next to them, seated upon thrones, were made by the Aiginetan Smilis . . . The [statues of the] Hesperides (Evenings), five in number, were made by Theokles, who like Dorykleidas was a Lakedaimonian."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3. 83c (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) :
"As for the so-called apples of the Hesperides, Asklepiades [writer C2nd A.D.], in the sixtienth book of his Egyptian History, says that Ge (Earth) brought them forth in honour of the nuptials, as it was called, of Zeus and Hera."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 3 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Constellation Serpent . . . He is said to have guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides, and after Hercules killed him, to have been put by Juno [Hera] among the stars. He is considered the usual watchman of the Gardens of Juno [Hera]. Pherecydes says that when Jupiter [Zeus] wed Juno, Terra [Gaia] came, bearing branches with golden apples, and Juno [Hera], in admiration, asked Terra (Earth) [Gaia] to plant them in her gardens near distant Mount Atlas. When Atlas' daughters [the Hesperides] kept picking the apples from the trees, Juno [Hera] is said to have placed this guardian there."
The Hesperides were the keepers of the treasures of the gods. Perseus obtained from them the artifacts he required to slay the Gorgon.
Hesiod, Theogony 270 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"The Gorgones who dwell beyond glorious Okeanos in the frontier land towards Nyx (Night) where are the clear-voiced Hesperides."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 38 - 39 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Perseus said he would return them [the eye and tooth of Graia] after they had directed him to the Nymphai [probably the Hesperides]. These Nymphai had in their possession winged sandals and the kibisis, which they say was a knapsack . . . They also had the helmet of Haides. When the daughters of Phorkys had led Perseus to the Nymphai, he returned them their tooth and eye. Approaching the Nymphai he received what he had come for, and he flung on the kibisis, tied the sandals on his ankles, and placed the helmet on his head. With the helmet on he could see whomever he cared to look at, but was invisible to others."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 46 :
"[Perseus] gave the sandals, kibisis, and helmet back to Hermes, and the Gorgon's head to Athena. Hermes returned the aforementioned articles the the Nymphai."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 17. 3 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"[Amongst the scenes depicted on the bronze walls of the temple of Athena in Sparta :] There are also represented Nymphai bestowing upon Perseus, who is starting on his enterprise against Medousa in Libya, a cap and the shoes by which he was carried through the air."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 31 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"When he [the River Akheloos] fought with Hercules to win Dejanira in marriage, he changed himself into a bull. Hercules tore off his horn, presenting it to the Hesperides or the Nymphae, and the goddesses filled it with fruits and called it Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty)."
Herakles was sent to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides as one of his twelve labours. Upon completion of the task they were returned by Athene to their rightful place in the west.
Aeschylus, Fragment 109 Prometheus Unbound (from Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics 6. 17. 1) (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"[Prometheus directs Herakles to the far west in his quest for the golden apples of the Hesperides :] Follow this straight road; and, first of all, thou shalt come to the Boreades (north winds), where do thou beware the roaring hurricane, lest unawares it twist thee up and snatch thee away in wintry whirlwind."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 113- 114 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Eurystheus ordered Herakles to get golden apples from the Hesperides as an eleventh labour. These apples were not, as some maintain in Libya, but rather were with Atlas among the Hyperboreoi. Gaia (Earth) had given them to Zeus when he married Hera. An immortal serpent guarded them . . . With it the Hesperides (Evenings) themselves were posted as guards, by name Aigle, Erytheis, Hesperie, and Arethusa."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1390 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) :
"[The Argonauts ported their ship across the Libyan desert :] They set her [the ship Argo] down from their sturdy shoulders in the Tritonian lagoon.
Once there, it was their first concern to slake the burning thirst that was added to their aches and pains. They dashed off, like mad dogs, in search of fresh water; and they were fortunate. They [the Argonauts] found the sacred plot where, till the day before, the serpent Ladon, a son of the Libyan soil, had kept watch over the golden apples in the Garden of Atlas, while close at hand and busy at their tasks the Hesperides sang their lovely song. But now the snake, struck down by Herakles, lay by the trunk of the apple-tree. Only the tip of his tail was still twitching; from the head down, his dark spine showed not a sign of life. His blood had been poisoned by arrows steeped in the gall of the Hydra Lernaia, and flies perished in the festering wounds.
Close by, with their white arms flung over their golden heads, the Hesperides were wailing as the Argonauts approached. The whole company came on them suddenly, and in a trice the Nymphai turned to dust and earth on the spot where they had stood. Orpheus, seeing the hand of Heaven in this, addressed a prayer to them on behalf of his comrades : `Beautiful and beatific Powers, Queens indeed, be kind to us, whether Olympos or the underworld counts you among its goddesses, or whether you prefer the name of Solitary Nymphai. Come, blessed Spirits, Daughters of Okeanos, make yourselves manifest to our expectant eyes and lead us to a place where we can quench this burning, never-ending thirst with fresh water springing from a rock or gushing from the ground. And if ever we bring home our ship into an Akhaian port, we will treat you as we treat the greatest goddesses, showing our gratitude with innumberable gifts of wine and offerings at the festal board.'
Orpheus sobbed as he prayed. But the Nymphai were still at hand, and they took pity on the suffering men. They wrought a miracle. First, grass sprung up from the ground, then long shoots appeared above the grass, and in a moment three saplings, tall, straight and in full leaf, were growing there. Hespere became a poplar; Erytheis an elm; Aigle a sacred willow. Yet they were still themselves; the trees could not conceal their former shapes--that was the greatest wonder of all. And now the Argonauts heard Aigle in her gentle voice tell them what they wished to know.
`You have indeed been fortunate,' she said. `There was a man here yesterday, an evil man, who killed the watching Snake, stole our golden apples, and is gone. To us he brought unspeakable sorrow; to you release from suffering. He was a savage brute, hideous to look at; a cruel man, with glaring eyes and scowling face. He wore the skin of an enormous lion and carried a great club of olive-wood and the bow and arrows with which he shot our monster here. It appeared that he, like you, had come on foot and was parched with thirst. For he rushed about the place in search of water; but with no success, till he found the rock that you see over there near to the Tritonian lagoon. Then it occurred to him, or he was prompted by a god, to tap the base of the rock. He struck it with his foot, water gushed out, and he fell on his hands and chest and drank greedily from the cleft till, with his head down like a beast in the fields, he had filled his mighty paunch.'
The Minyai were delighted. They ran off in happy haste towards the place where Aigle had pointed out the spring."
Strabo, Geography 3. 2. 13 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"The poets who came after Homeros keep dinning into our ears similar stories [myths set in Iberia] : the expedition of Herakles in quest of the kine of Geryon and likewise the expedition which he made in quest of the golden apples of the Hesperides."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 11. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"At Olympia [in the temple of Zeus around his statue] there are screens constructed like walls which keep people out. Of these screens . . . parts show pictures by Panainos. Among them is Atlas, supporting heaven and earth, by whose side stands Herakles ready to receive the load of Atlas . . . [elsewhere in the painting] two Hesperides are carrying the apples, the keeping of which, legend says, had been entrusted to them."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. 19. 8 :
"The third of the treasuries [at Olympia], and the fourth as well, were dedicated by the Epidamnians [text missing] It [a scene consisting of a series of wooden statues] shows the heavens upheld by Atlas, and also Herakles and the apple-tree of the Hesperides, with the Drakon coiled round the apple-tree. These too are of cedar-wood, and are works of Theokles, son of Hegylos. The inscription on the heavens says that his son helped him to make it. The Hesperides (they were removed by the Eleans) were even in my time in the Heraion (Temple of Hera); the treasury was made for the Epidamnians by Pyrrhos and his sons Lakrates and Hermon."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 26. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"[Diodorus presents a late classical rationalisation of the Hesperides myth in which the drakon is a shepherd named Drakon, and the golden apples are sheep :] The last Labour which Herakles undertook was the bringing back of the golden apples of the Hesperides, and so he again sailed to Libya. With regard to these apples there is disagreement among the writers of myths, and some say that there were golden apples in certain gardens of the Hesperides in Libya, where they were guarded without ceasing by a most formidable Drakon, whereas others assert that the Hesperides possessed flocks of sheep which excelled in beauty and were therefore called for their beauty, as the poets might do, 'golden mela' [mela meaning both apples and sheep], just as Aphrodite is called golden because of her loveliness. There are some, however, who say that it was because the sheep had a peculiar colour like gold that they got this designation, and the Drakon was the name of the shepherd of the sheep . . . But with regards to such matters it will be every man's privilege to form such opinions as accord with his own belief. At any rate Herakles slew the guardian of the apples, and brought them to Eurystheus . . .
But we must not fail to mention what the myths relate about Atlas and about the race of the Hesperides. The account runs like this: In the country known as Hesperitis there were two brothers whose fame was known abroad, Hesperos and Atlas. These brothers possessed flocks of sheep which excelled in beauty and were in colour of a golden yellow, this being the reason why the poets, in speaking of these sheep as mela, called them golden mela. Now Hesperos begat a daughter named Hesperis, who he gave in marriage to his brother and after whom the land was given the name Hesperitis; and Atlas begat by her seven daughters, who were named after their father Atlantides, and after their mother Hesperides. And since these Atlantides excelled in beauty and chastity, Busiris the king of the Aigyptians, the account says, was seized with a desire to get the maidens into his power; and consequently he dispatched pirates by sea with orders to seize the girls and deliver them into his hands . . .
[Herakles came across Busiris in Egypt and slew him.]
Meanwhile the pirates had seized the girls while they were playing in a certain garden and carried them off, and fleeing swiftly to their ships had sailed away with them. Herakles came upon the pirates as they were taking their meal on a certain strand, and learning from the maidens what had taken place he slew the pirates to a man and brought the girls back to Atlas their father; and in return Atlas was so grateful to Herakles for his kindly deed that he not only gladly gave him such assistance as his Labour called for."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 21 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
"[From a description of a painting depicting Herakles wrestling the giant Antaios :] Herakles has already secured the golden apples here shown and has won renown for his exploit among the Hesperides--to overcome them was not such an amazing feat for Herakles, but rather the drakon (serpent)."
Virgil, Aeneid 4. 480 (trans. Fairclough) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
"Near Oceanus' bound and the setting sun lies Aethiopia, farthest of lands, where mightiest Atlas on this shoulders turns the sphere, inset with gleaming stars. Thence a priestess of Massylian race . . . warden of the fane of the Hesperides, who gave dainties to the dragon and guarded the sacred bows on the tree, sprinkling dewy honey and slumberous poppies."
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 6. 256 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
"[Amongst the scenes depicted on the shield of Eurypylos, grandson of Herakles :] There were the Golden Apples wrought, that gleamed in the Hesperides' garden undefiled: all round the fearful Drakon's dead coils lay, and shrank the Maids [Hesperides] aghast from Zeus' bold son."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5. 3 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"[On the Atlantic coast of Africa is the river Lixos] about which the most marvellous legends are told by the old writers : this was the site of the palace of Antaeus and the scene of his combat with Hercules, and here were the gardens of the Hesperides. As a matter of fact an arm of the sea stretches inland here with a winding channel which, as people nowadays explain the story, had some resemblance to the guardian Dracon; it embraces within it an island . . . On the island there also rises an altar of Hercules, but of the famous grove in the story that bore the golden fruit nothing else except some wild olive trees."
[N.B. The Lixos is probably the Moroccan river Draa.]
Seneca, Hercules Furens 526 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
"Let Alcmena's son [Herakles] . . . bring back the apples from the cheated sisters [the Hesperides] when the draco (dragon), set to watch over the precious fruit, has given his ever-waking eyes to sleep."
Statius, Thebaid 2. 281 (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
"The dolorous fruit of the Hesperides and the dread gold of Phrixus' fleece."
At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Eris, the goddess of discord, cast a golden apple amongst the goddesses addressed "To the Fairest." According to Colluthus, and perhaps representing a much older tradition, the apple was plucked from the garden of the Hesperides.
Colluthus, Rape of Helen 58 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry C5th to C6th A.D.) :
"[Eris was enraged at being turned away from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis :] And now she bethought her of the golden apples of the Hesperides. Thence Eris took the fruit that should be the harbinger of war, even the apple, and devised the scheme of signal woes. Whirling her arm she hurled into the banquet the primal seed of turmoil and disturbed the choir of goddesses. Hera, glorying to be the spouse and to share the bed of Zeus, rose up amazed, and would fain have seized it. And Kypris [Aphrodite], as being more excellent than all, desired to have the apple, for that it is the treasure of the Erotes (Loves). But Hera would not give it up and Athena would not yield."
Authors of late antiquity attempted to rationalise the myth of the Hesperides when they identified the golden apples with a variety of fruit, such as the orange.
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3. 83c (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) :
"Juba, king of Mauretania [writer C1st B.C.], mentions the citron [orange] in his History of Libya, asserting that among the Libyans it is called the Apple of Hesperia, whence Herakles brought to Greece the apples called, form their colour, golden. As for the so-called apples of the Hesperides, Asklepiades [writer C2nd A.D.], in the sixtienth book of his Egyptian History, says that Ge (Earth) brought them forth in honour of the nuptials, as it was called, of Zeus and Hera."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3. 82d - e :
"Apples of the Hesperides is a term recorded by Timakhidas [Greek writer C1st B.C.] in the fourth book of his Banquets. And Pamphilos [grammarian C1st A.D.] says that in Lakedaimon these are placed on the tables of the gods [at the Theoxenia Festival]; fragrant they are, and also not good to eat, and they are called apples of the Hesperides."
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3. 84b :
"Aristophanes [comedy C5th - 4th B.C.] in the Boiotian Women . . . A : Take these apples my girl . . . B : I thought you were going to say these golden apples come from the Hesperides, whence there are only three of them."
The Hesperides dwelt on the Hesperian (evening or western) shore of Okeanos on the island of Erytheia. Erytheia was later identified placed in southern Spain or North-West Africa.
Hesiod, Theogony 215 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"The Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Okeanos."
Hesiod, Theogony 270 ff :
"The Gorgones who dwell beyond glorious Okeanos in the frontier land towards Nyx (Night) where are the clear-voiced Hesperides."
Hesiod, Theogony 333 ff :
"Keto was joined in love to Phorkys and bare her
youngest, the awful Drakon who guards the apples all of gold in
the secret places of the dark earth at its great bounds."
Hesiod, Theogony 517 ff :
"Atlas through hard
constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms,
standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced
Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him."
Hesiod, Theogony 744 ff :
"There [at the ends of the earth] stands the awful home of murky Nyx (Night) wrapped in dark clouds. In front of it [Atlas] the son of Iapetos stands immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying hands, where Nyx (Night) and Hemera (Day) draw near and greet one another as they pass the great threshold of bronze : and while the one is about to go down into the house, the other comes out at the door." [N.B. "In front of Atlas" means the garden of the Hesperides, the goddesses of evening.]
Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag S8 (from Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2617) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C6th to 7th B.C.) :
"The beautiful island of the gods, where the Hesperides have their homes of solid gold."
Euripides, Hippotyus 742 ff (trans. Vellacott) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"I would win my way to the coast, apple-bearing Hesperian coast, of which the minstrels sing. Where the Lord of Okeanos denies the voyager further sailing and fixes the solemn limit of Ouranos (Heaven) which Giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love and holy Gaia (Earth), the giver of life, yield to the gods rich blessedness."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 26. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"Now Hesperos (Evening) begat a daughter named Hesperis (Evening), who he gave in marriage to his brother [Atlas] and after whom the land was given the name Hesperitis."
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5. 3 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"[On the Atlantic coast of Africa is the river Lixos] about which the most marvellous legends are told by the old writers : this was the site of the palace of Antaeus and the scene of his combat with Hercules, and here were the gardens of the Hesperides. As a matter of fact an arm of the sea stretches inland here with a winding channel which, as people nowadays explain the story, had some resemblance to the guardian Dracon; it embraces within it an island . . . On the island there also rises an altar of Hercules, but of the famous grove in the story that bore the golden fruit nothing else except some wild olive trees."
[N.B. The Lixos is probably the Moroccan river Draa.]
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5. 30 :
"Benghazi is situated at the tip of the horn of the Syrtis; it was formerly called the City of the Hesperides (Hespiritis), mentioned above, as the myths of Greece often change their locality; and in front of the town not far away is the river Leton, with a sacred grove, reported to be the site of the gardens of the Hesperides."
[N.B. Benghazi is now a city of north-western Libya.]
Virgil, Aeneid 4. 480 (trans. Fairclough) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :
"Near Oceanus' bound and the setting sun lies Aethiopia, farthest of lands, where mightiest Atlas on this shoulders turns the sphere, inset with gleaming stars . . . The fane of the Hesperides."
Other references not currently quoted here: Euripides Madness of Heracles 394; Pliny Natural History 6.31 & 6.36; Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius 4.1399; Scholiast on Euripides Hippolytus; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid 4.484; Servius s.v . Hesperides; Orphic Fragment 17; Pompelus Mela 3.10


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39 comments:
- Caroline @ The Feminist Housewife said...
Wow, that is one GORGEOUS nursery!
- July 16, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- Ines said...
A wonderful comination - that dark brown and the beautiful blue color!
All looks very comfy and inviting!
I love that sofa with the frame over it- a really great idea!!!
Babytime is a wonderful time... yes- that´s what dreams are made of!
Enjoy your day, Lovely-
- July 16, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- Karena said...
I agree, love the palette of colors. I have wanted the pelican print since I first saw it. A warm and cozy home.
Art by Karena
- July 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Emily W. said...
I want to live in that nursery, and I am thirty-one years old. I must have that curtain fabric!
- July 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Liz @ It's Great To Be Home said...
Oh my goodness! I've never seen such a sophisticated (but inviting) nursery - I'm with Emily W., I want to move in!
- July 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Lindsey said...
Seriously, it took me a second to see the crib too! What a dream! Then I saw the rocking horse and thought what that room would look like after that baby starts crawling...and walking.
- July 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- Sarah @ TheUglyDucklingHouse said...
What is that side table made out of? It looks like what I imagine the frame of a drum to be like. Very neat!
- July 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Alexandra Rae said...
Fantastic! This is the greatest nursery ever. I love how chock full these rooms are (my preference!) with lots of interesting contrast and pattern. Thanks for the inspiration.
- July 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I have spent a ridiculous amount of time studying every one of these pictures!!I love everything about these rooms! PLEASE someone tell me where I can find that curtain fabric.Thanks!
- July 16, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- Erin said...
Shannon, here is the fabric for the curtains in the nursery! Is that the one you were wanting to know about?
- July 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM
- Patricia Torres said...
Oh my!! this is gorgeous!! I just couldnt move on to the next pic... Each one more inspiring than the other.. Simply loved the first two..
- July 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Sparky said...
Where can we find that gorgeous paper mache' peacock?
- July 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Susie @ Maddie's Nest said...
Just when I think I am about there with my nursery decor.....I see something like this. I didn't "get" that is was truly a nursery until I saw the change table....Wow.... Have a great weeekend.
- July 16, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Thank-you Erin!! I have already called Martyn Lawrence to inquire!!
- July 16, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
That pelican print is a stroke of genius! Love it all.
- July 16, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Andrika King said...
Wonderful nursery! Can't wait to share with my readers! If anyone is interested the crib and changer are by Kalon Studio and the Pelican is from Oly Studio.
- July 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Jenn said...
I love the relaxing first photo, the nursery, and the purple flowers... centerpiece ;)gorgeous! thanks for sharing... xx Jenn
- July 16, 2010 at 3:42 PM
- leanne said...
I'm loving the yellow and turquoise! so fresh.
- July 16, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- Laura Trevey said...
Elegant, yet soooo comfortable!!
Have a BB&B weekend ~~
- July 16, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Augusta said...
Really like that pelican-picture :)
- July 16, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Hello Lover... said...
That is the most ridiculously amazing nursery ever. I want to be that baby!
- July 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Geb said...
One amazingly perfect nursery. Love the window seat, too!
- July 16, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- mrsben said...
L-O-V-I-L-E-E and I too am lusting over the fabrics.
As a hobby-sewer, it is times like this I wish I had the perks of an Interior Designer so I could have access to those lovely textiles. -Brenda-
- July 16, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Heartfire At Home said...
They are truly amazing pics - love them! The curtain fabric, the cushions (oh my), the alaphabet pics in the frames, the pelican artwork, the furniture.... EVERYTHING!!!!
- July 17, 2010 at 1:40 AM
- MM Design Associates said...
Love the sunburst mirrors; the color palette is simply beautiful!
- July 17, 2010 at 1:49 PM
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- July 17, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Mandi said...
oh my goodness all of those spaces are BEAUTIFUL! definitely marking them for some inspiration!
- July 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Ellen said...
What a wonderfully comfortable nursery.....who knew?
- July 17, 2010 at 9:27 PM
- Catherine at Design Editor said...
That nursery is insanely fabulous! You'd never want to leave!
- July 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Camilla @ Designalogue said...
Swoooooon on the copper lights in the sitting room!
- July 19, 2010 at 7:09 AM
- Michelle said...
Serious fabric lust! Do you know where to find the fabric on the daybed?
- July 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- Erin said...
Michelle, you can find it here!
- July 19, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Laura Bielecki said...
Such a sophisticated Nursery! I absolutely love the color scheme and patterns... plenty to look at with a lot of room for the child to grow and perfect for boy or girl! Thanks for sharing :)
- July 19, 2010 at 9:25 PM
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- July 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Janell @ Isabella and Max said...
Adore that nursery!!! The design of these rooms has really changed in the last couple of years, very exciting! Janell
- July 20, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- printer ink said...
Very impressive, thanx for sharing!
- July 31, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- "Ich bin ein Berliner" said...
Anyone know where to get this lovely turquoise bird (on top of the changing table)?
- August 10, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Mark Brandon said...
Nice! I wonder how long did it take to be finish do you have DIY projects?
- February 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM
- Clipping Path said...
Wow! Fantastic design. It's tough to make anything special. This design, the sofa in particular, is gorgeous!
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The Atlanta Hawks defeated the Miami Heat Saturday night to clinch their seventh straight playoff berth. With the 98-85 victory at Philips Arena, Atlanta (37-43) clinched the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference and eliminated the New York Knicks from postseason contention.
Despite 27 points from LeBron James and 24 points from Dwyane Wade (playing in his first game after missing nine straight with a hamstring injury), the Hawks led throughout in a game that can only further boost Atlanta's slim hopes in the first round of the playoffs. There are two games left in the regular season before the playoffs begin this weekend.
The Hawks will be facing either Miami or Indiana in the first round. The Hawks crushed the Pacers earlier this week by 19 points to gain a 2-2 split in their season series with Indiana. The Hawks split their season series with Miami 2-2, as the home team won all four games, but Atlanta did almost steal a win in Miami earlier this year prior to Horford's injury, losing 121-119 in overtime.
Lou Williams scored 18 of his 23 points for Atlanta in the fourth quarter, including the Hawks' last twelve points. Jeff Teague led the Hawks with 25 points. All-Star Paul Millsap did not have a huge night, but filled the boxscore line with 11 points, eight rebounds, five assists, and two steals. DeMarre Carroll added 17 points and six rebounds as well.
The offensive output for Miami, aside from James and Wade, was pretty poor. The point total of 85 points for Miami was their third-lowest on the season - and they couldn't make the excuse of resting their key players in the effort, either. The Heat are now 1/2 game behind the Pacers for the top spot in the East with two games left. While the top seed will face the Hawks, the #2 seed will get wither the Charlotte Bobcats (41-39) or the Washington Wizards (42-38) in the first round.
The Hawks, on the other hand, are just happy to be in the postseason considering the grueling year they've faced. Between season-ending injuries to Al Horford and Gustavo Ayon, a lineup held together seemingly with duct tape for a couple of months, and a 1-14 stretch in February, this team still has managed to get into the postseason for the seventh straight season. That streak is now the longest active streak in the NBA.
"We worked so hard all year. Injuries and everything that can happen to a team happened. We were able to still make it to the playoffs...I'm happy for the guys," said PG Jeff Teague.
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Beware of the Oger ... because he's funny, romantic, and chivalrous.
True love and friendship can't be scared away from the big, green oger - Shrek - who wins a best friend, a romance, and the audience of Shrek the Musical now playing at the Alliance Theatre through March 16, 2014.
Based on the popular movie comes the musical theater adapted version of Shrek. It follows the same story line of the original Shrek with some added new hits like the very popular song "Let your freak flag fly."
The cast was all Atlanta based and could easily transition to any Broadway stage with their talent level. Each member evenly shares the laughs throughout the production - and mind you those laughs come from all ages, children to parents to grandparents and all those adults who wanted to come without kids because who doesn't love Shrek.
Bring the kids out to enjoy professional theater in Atlanta that will be the envy of the school bus chatter about what did you do this weekend.
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At first, it wasn't clear who it was.
Saturday, at David Clowney's football camp, someone was wearing a Brown jersey with the number 84 on the back.
Turns out that it was former Miami Norland and University of Miami defensive lineman Kareem Brown, who is trying to keep a roster spot with the Jets.
Turns out that Ernest Wilford isn't the only guy in the AFC East learning how to play tight end.
"Thank God Bubba (Franks) is up there to help me out, and he's helped me out a lot," Brown said. "Bubba has so much knowledge of the game, it's not even funny. Bubba can honestly call things out before they happen, and I'm like, 'How do you see that stuff?' But he's been around, and he's seen it, and he's done it. His experience helps him out tremendously, and in turn it helps me out."
Brown wore No. 98 as a defensive player for the Jets.
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"It feels funny on my back," Brown said. "I've just glad they thought of me in that light, though, good enough to make that transition. Because it's not easy, and not everybody can do it."
Brown plans to swing by the Miami campus soon.
"It's going the right direction," Brown said of the Hurricanes. "Coach Shannon is doing a good job. It's just that he doesn't have a lot of leeway with the program. You know, two losses is a bad season. We can't use that excuse that we're young anymore. So hopefully, this year, we pull it together, man. Because all of those freshmen, they have a year under their belt."


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In light of the recent news concerning Chelsea King, one very important factor to remember while running is being safe. It's devestating when incidents like this happen but it is a somber reminder to us all that we may not be as safe as we think while running. It's easy to forget that other people are not paying attention to you and there are so many accidents a year that being alert is going to keep you alive for longer and to enjoy more races.
Remember to keep an id on you at at all times. You can do this through numerous different options. Some chose to wear a RoadID, which can identify any medications you are allergic to or any thing that any doctor may need to know about you. Some others may chose to have their complete ID on them, which can easily be done by wearing a 'shoe wallet'. Shoewallet has graciously also offered a discount code of 25% discount through the 10th if you use the code: springdiscount2010 If you are out on a long run, you can also carry a credit card for any reason you may need to stop and get water or you can carry a small amount of money. I personally use the iFitness belt and keep my ID and very small amount of cash in there for any reason that it might be necessary. I also have my cell phone with me and that allows me to make calls if need be.
Also remember to wear something bright, blinking and/or reflective. Making sure people see you out on the roads is imperative for your safety. So many people don't pay attention and it's easy to get distracted while driving. When I cross the street I ALWAYS make sure to make complete eye contact with the driver of the car, because I have had some close calls where I thought a drive saw me but in reality they didn't. Paying attention when running by cars is super, SUPER important.
If you are running at night, run in a well-lit area and make sure that people know where you are. If you are planning a run, see if there is a group you can run with because we've all heard safety in numbers. If you MUST listen to music when you run, turn down the volume and be sure to be extra aware of your surroundings. Sometimes at night a run can be even better without music and the calming night sounds can enrich your run exponentially.
Lastly, make sure you know the area you are running in and how far out and back you to have to or where the loop might take you. The last thing you want to happen for yourself is getting lost on a run and not making it back at the time you planned on. This can worry loved ones, and also ruin a great night run if you get lost and have no way to contact anyone. You can check out Map My Run before hand to make sure you know the route. Make sure people know how long you are going to be out for and where you are running, just in case something does happen.
Here are some links to check out from Run the Planet if you wanted to know more about safety and running.
The Importance of Carrying an ID
Check out the slide show for more safe running products and remember to be safe, alert and aware of your surroundings at all times.


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Nerif, the Oracle the Intelligence Hero DotA 6.78
Nerif, the Oracle is a IntelligenceQueen of Pain - Akasha dota 2 Skills Item Build guide. Read more ... » HeroDota 2 Hero Kunkka Preview. Read more ... » from Sentinel. Few have the knack for plucking the strings of fate, let alone seeing them for what they are. Fate is as mysterious as it is fickle, but for Nerif it has always been a burden. Those chosen must answer the call, and since boyhood he has been raised into the hallowed role of Oracle, proclaiming destiny's path to those worthy to hear of it. Though many of his ilk have chosen more peaceful routes to serving fate, he never felt that the future must be passively proclaimed. With the view of fate before him, his powers were suited by nudging and pulling threads and, where needed, severing them to better the life of all. It was inevitable that his abilities would culminate in deadly battle – he knew would come to pass, and he is ready to cut lives short to lengthen others.
Nerif Statistics:
AgilityBroodmother - Black Arachnia dota 2 Skills Item Build guide. Read more ... »: 15 + 1.7
StrengthTiny - Stone Giant dota 2 Skills Build guide. Read more ... »: 18 + 1.9
Intelligence: 23 + 2.9
Nerif, the Oracle skillQueen of Pain - Akasha dota 2 Skills Item Build guide. Read more ... » 1: Fortune's End
Channeling, Enemy Target – Channels Nerif's power into a bolt of scouring energy for up to 3 seconds. When released the bolt strikes the targeted enemy, dealing damage and purging in an AoE around them. The purge duration is equal to the time spent channeling.
Cast Range: 650
Damage: 75/150/225/300
Purge duration: Up to 3 seconds
Cooldown: 12
Manacost: 130
Nerif, the Oracle skill 2: Fate's Edict
Target Ally/Enemy – Nerif enraptures the target, rendering them unable to attack, granting them 100% spell resistance, and increasing the damage they take from other damage types by 50%. Can be cast on both allies and enemies.
Duration: 3/4/5/6
Cast Range: 700
Cooldown: 14
Manacost: 50
Nerif, the Oracle skill 3: Purifying Flames
Target Ally/Enemy – Burns away impurities from the target, dealing heavy damage and causing them to regenerate life each second for 9 seconds. Can be cast on both allies and enemies.
Damage: 90/180/270/360
Regeneration per second: 11/22/33/44
Duration: 9
Cooldown: 3
Manacost: 30/45/60/75
Cast Range: 750
Nerif, the Oracle skill 4: False Promise
Target Ally – Temporarily alters the target ally's destiny, delaying all damage, healing and regeneration effects on them until False Promise ends. Ally is granted invisibility while attacking and moving. Removes all negative status effects when applied.
The delayed healing is doubled when it is provided at the end of the duration.
Cast Range: 1500
Duration: 7/8/9
Manacost: 100
Cooldown: 20
Nerif is a really fun hero to play in DotAAI Map Dota 6.76 AI, DotA 6.76b AI & DotA 6.76c AI. Read more ... » as he can practically harass any other hero continuosly if skillsBroodmother - Black Arachnia dota 2 Skills Item Build guide. Read more ... » are timed properly! Nerif makes the laning stages for the opponent hero's to be very hard due to his insane combos and forcing them to back off to fountain to heal themselves or buy more consumables. He also has a good base dmg output with an excellent range which makes lastLearning Dota2 part 3: Last Hitting. Read more ... » hittingLearning Dota2 part 3: Last Hitting. Read more ... » not too hard! Nerif can turn around fights as his skills could turn the tides of the fight as his heal is really dependaple with only 3 seconds of cooldown. After obtaining your ultimate, running aroud the mapBleach vs Naruto v1.7b Map Download. Read more ... » (roaming) to get kills is a viable option as you have low cooldown spells and with low mana cost.


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