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A federal grand jury today returned a two-count indictment against two men previously charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
Cheryl Marquardt of Whitman was less than a quarter-mile away from the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon when the explosions went off, while her two daughters, Kellianne and Noelle, were right near the finish line waiting for her.
Mayor Thomas Menino has informed survivors and families of victims of the Boston Marathon bombings that a memorial spontaneously created in Copley Square after the attack is being removed.
The transit police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects will be discharged from the hospital.
An overflow crowd packed St. Ann Parish in Dorchester on Sunday morning for a celebration of the life of Martin Richard, a Dorchester boy killed April 15 by one of two bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon. Seated in the front pew were his family: Parents Bill and Denise, brother Henry and sister, Jane, 7, who lost her left leg below the knee in the bomb attack. The church rocked with a Bruins-style "Mar-tin!, Mar-tin!" chant led by his father.
They were called heroes Monday night, but Stephen and Kaitlyn Shinney said they were just doing what anyone would do when they rushed to help people injured in the Boston Marathon bombings.
The Seach Primary School in Weymouth will hold a fundraiser for Hary Volmar's daughter Mery Daniel, who was severely injured while watching the Boston Marathon. Volmar, of Brockton, has driven a bus for the Seach School's schoolchildren for the last three years.
If there's a silver lining in the Boston bombings, let it be that we are now liberated to stop pretending that so long as we're kind and generous to our enemies, they will reciprocate and peace will prevail.
The administrator of a fund created to help people injured in the Boston Marathon bombings and the families of those who died in the attack plan to meet with victims next week with hopes of cutting the first checks by the end of June.
Inundated with papers after a request for information on public assistance received by the immediate family of suspected terrorists, the chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight said Monday the information is under review.
U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it "lies and hypocrisy" and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism.
As thousands of police officers from across the country gathered to remember slain police officer Sean Collier, the Hull lieutenant who supervised him was on his motorcycle, having volunteered to escort buses loaded with police officers back and forth to the memorial service.
Patriot Ledger reporter Lane Lambert and his wife spent last week visiting family in Alabama, where he grew up. He says seeing the first TV report about the Boston Marathon bombing was all it took to yank their hearts back to Boston, their adopted home.
The manager of the Marathon Sports store on Boylston St. was standing just a few feet away from where the first blast went off. "The first thing I did was I ran to the door, and tried to get people inside," a very emotional O'Hara said as he relived the events of that day.
At mid-day Sunday, on Nichols Street in Watertown, a magnolia tree was in full bloom, the sun was shining, the sky was cloudless and blue, and a young boy was riding his bike on the sidewalk with his mother's help. Families went in and out of houses. It all seemed so normal. Normal is just what I wanted, after a harrowing day of lockdown on Friday and first steps toward recovery on Saturday.
A defiant David Ortiz stood on the Fenway Park infield and told the crowd, "Stay Strong," bringing a rousing cheer from Bostonians weary from a week of bombings, stay-at-home orders and a manhunt that locked down the city for a day.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard Saturday as people around the city breathed easier and investigators tried to piece together the who and why of the deadly plot.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley will celebrate a Mass on Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombers and for the public safety workers who helped in the aftermath of the tragedy and in the investigation.
At 12:30 p.m., the Back Bay houses of worship will gather at 12:30 pm at the makeshift memorial at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets for the victims of the Marathon bombings.
Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters. A town shattered by a colossal explosion. A violent manhunt that paralyzed a major city, emptying streets of people and filling them with heavily armed police and piercing sirens.
The website Scambook reports that fradulent efforts started almost immediately after the Boston Marathon to exploit the tragedy. The site recommends donating to well-established organizations like the Red Cross, Boston Children's Hospital or One Fund Boston. Before giving to another site, Scambook has five tips for making sure it is legitimate.
Sean Collier, 26, the police officer killed in a shootout Thursday night with the brothers suspected of being the Boston Marathon bombers, worked several summers as a seasonal police officer in Hull. "It's tragedy," Hull Police Lt. Dale Shea said. "He was a wonderful kid."
In a passionate plea, an uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged one of his nephews to turn himself in Friday, saying he had brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity.
Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police. One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt was underway for the other, a 19-year-old native of Russia who graduated from high school in Cambridge, authorities said. The two men are brothers from Chechnya, and lived in the U.S. for several years. The suspect who was killed was identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and the suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, shown above, is still at large.
The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who died early Friday morning following a shootout with police was a boxer who trained in Allston.
One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt was underway Friday for the other, a 19-year-old native of Russia who graduated from high school in Cambridge, authorities said. The two men are brothers from Chechnya, and lived in the U.S. for several years. The suspect who was killed was identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and the suspect still at large as of Friday morning as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19.
The Boston Marathon bombing has prompted outpourings of generosity all over the country – from creation of charitable funds that already contain millions of dollars to the holding of bake sales on the streets of the South Shore.
Gov. Deval Patrick said the only two bombs recovered from the Boston Marathon crime scene were the two that exploded.
The two explosions at the Boston Marathon caused 176 casualties, including three deaths and 17 critical injuries, the city's police commissioner said at a press conference Tuesday.
Noting the tragedy of the explosions Monday at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 100, the IRS said it will be providing individual tax filing and payment extensions. Details will be announced Tuesday.
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Like other high-tech chairs, the Aura caters to its owner's posture: in this case, with a seven-way adjustable chair that can be ordered with inflatable and deflatable cushions. That's only the beginning. Irritated by glare? The entire workstation can be rotated up to 120 degrees. In fact, it can be programmed to rotate 120 degrees every day over eight hours to follow the … Read more


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Mögulegt er að gjalds verði krafist fyrir aukagesti. Slíkt fer eftir stefnu hvers hótels fyrir sig.
Krafist er skilríkja með mynd og kreditkorts eða innborgunar við innritun vegna tilfallandi gjalda.
Það fer eftir framboði hverju sinni hvort hægt sé að verða við séróskum og þær gætu haft í för með sér aukagjald. Ekki er hægt að tryggja að hægt sé að verða við viðkomandi óskum.
**Þessi þjónusta kann aðeins að vera í boði í sumum herbergjum eða einingum. Viðbótargjald kann að vera tekið fyrir tiltekna þjónustu.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a fitness facility.
Mögulegt er að gjalds verði krafist fyrir aukagesti. Slíkt fer eftir stefnu hvers hótels fyrir sig.
Krafist er skilríkja með mynd og kreditkorts eða innborgunar við innritun vegna tilfallandi gjalda.
Það fer eftir framboði hverju sinni hvort hægt sé að verða við séróskum og þær gætu haft í för með sér aukagjald. Ekki er hægt að tryggja að hægt sé að verða við viðkomandi óskum.
No complaints other than breakfast was a little weak.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
Nothing spectacular, but fine.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"Excellent Guest Service"
I have stayed at this hotel several times and the service is always excellent. The young lady working the front desk when I checked in was extremely friendly. When I walked into my room the air conditioning was already on! This may seem a strange thing to mention, but I travel frequently throughout the south and am always amazed how many places turn […] off the air conditioning in the rooms in the summer. When it's over 100 outside and I've been on the road for hours the last thing I want to do is walk into a hot, muggy hotel room. The room layout is great for a business traveler and the beds are very comfy too. Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"A Good Place to Stay"
Very comfortable room with all the amenities. Enjoyed the breakfast and brief conversation with the manager the following morning. Housekeeping staff and the young lady managing the breakfast were all courteous and friendly. I will return when I'm back in the area.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
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"good location"
my stay was very quiet, but I do dislike the lingering smell of cigarette smoke. The breakfast was good and the staff person was very attentive-constanting cleaning tables, checking on the food. The only complaint I had was the shower/bathtub was so high from the level of the food that I would almost trip getting out and the shower head leaked and was […] not very strong or for a very tall person. The pillows on the bed would have been more comfortable if they were a standard size. I would stay there again Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gesta á Expedia
"Charged me twice... Still haven't fixed it"
Our stay was ok. But the lady in the morning, Kelly was rude when I asked why I got charged twice. She told me that she couldn't call anyone to fix it until Monday because it was thanksgiving. So now 3 days later.... I still do not have the money back in my account from being charged twice. And I still have a problem with her 'not being able to call […] someone' on thanksgiving. However she did pull her phone out in front of me, lean on the counter and text someone. I don't think I would be upset if she was kind and helpful about it, but she wasn't she was just flat out RUDE. Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
It was nice and really enjoyed the breakfast.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"Great hotel!"
Our family spent 3 nights recently, and couldn't have been happier. The rooms were very clean, comfortable, and up-to-date-- felt like a new hotel. Service was friendly, breakfast was good... we were all completely satisfied with our stay. Next time we're in town we will certainly book here again.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
There were clothes from a previous guest in the closet, food from a previous guest in the fridge, the non smoking room smelled like smoke. I'll never stay at this hotel again.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"Nice room"
We have stayed here several times. Nice room, convenient location and pretty quiet.Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"non-smoking room?!"
Just needed to stay over night for a wedding. Everything was beautiful in the hotel... Until we went into our non-smoking room on the 2nd floor. The moment we opened the door there was a very strong cigarette and funk smell. We went down the front desk and requested a different room but all the doubles were occupied. The clerk said he can spray it and […] were thinking, "its just one night". We left for dinner. We came back and the smell was still there. My sinuses started swelling and I couldn't breathe. For some reason I could not get used to the smell. I didn't get any sleep that night. Wasn't sure if the person who stayed before us smoked in the room or if its because the whole first floor is smoking and it just rose to the 2nd floor. Either way my family and I were very uncomfortable. Everything else was great. I'm just sensitive to smells. Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"Pass on this hotel."
I tend to trust the chain motels/hotels when traveling for work to places I am unfamiliar with so I chose this brand because I was happy when I stayed with them in Ardmore, OK. I know the ownership/management makes a difference, but I didn't realize how much. The location is good, right at a major intersection, but the noise from the road is very loud […] and made it difficult to sleep. The front desk clerk had difficulty with my check in, even though I provided her with my confirmation number, and it took about 30-minutes to get checked in. The room was okay. Nothing special. It seemed clean. There was no lid to the toilet. That might not sound like much, but with a small bathroom, its just awkward. For cleanliness, you need to be able to close the lid with flushing. Also, the towel rack hangs right above the toilet. My coworker said the washcloths kept falling off the rack into the toilet in her room. I had a near miss when I dropped my brush. The TV made a continuous buzzing sound when it was turned off. The guests in the room above mine seemed to be running sprints 27/7 across the ceiling. I know this isn't the hotel's fault, but they kept me up until almost midnight and started again and 4 AM. The breakfast service was from 6 AM - 9 AM. There were no fruit choices or yogurt, or anything remotely healthy for that matter. It appeared that the spread of donuts, cereal, sausage patties, biscuits, and gravy were put out at 6 AM and left until 9 AM, then put away and put back out the next day. Nothing seemed to be replenished or freshened up. I used the "make your own" waffle machine each morning because at least I knew that would be somewhat "fresh". I had breakfast at about 7:30 each morning and by that time everything seemed to be pretty gross. I chose this hotel because of the indoor pool and fitness facility, however the filter system in the pool didn't seem to be working. The water was completely stagnant and a film of body oil and hair was floating on top. The wor Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
"Horrible Experience"
I WOULD NEVER STAY HERE AGAIN AND WOULD NEVER REFER ANYBODY TO THIS HOTEL. Front Desk Employee was more concerned with her show on TV, which is what she said when I checked in. Employee didn't know how to check people in and how to do her job. I had to raise my voice & demand that she call a manager for assistance. Had to do this for 30 minutes before […] she called her manager. Turns out she didn't know how to check somebody in. Employee blamed me for her not know how to do her job. The walls and floors were thin. Room looked like it had extra furnishings that somebody had laying around. Made reservation here to utilize business center for internet access. Was needing to check weather in another state, Employee tells me when I get there that they don't have internet access in the business center. Told employee that I stayed here for the fact they advertised they had it. Told employee she would need to get on internet & check for me. She stated that the whole building didn't have internet access. It was cut off completely. It was 45 minutes from the time I checked in to when I got to my room at 1:00am. Lesa meiraÓsvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
Good price for this hotel. Great staff - very helpful. The only bad thing - breakfast (we rather went to a restaurant).Ósvikin umsögn gests á Hotels.com
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Applebee's home office number......DineEquity inc.
Applebee's home office number......DineEquity inc.
Fla-Fla.......Come Home!!!
that nigger would not have tipped if she was a pastor or just a street nig
DineEquity also owns ihop..........
Fla-Fla.......Come Home!!!
The pastor should have an issue with Applebee's 18% gratuity policy for parties over 8, not the server.
Love the life you live
Live the life you love ~ Bob Marley
I do not feel there should be an automatic gratuity put on my bills. I tend to over tip in general (especially restaurant staff it is very tiresome work). I feel you should tip based on the degree of service.
It is like when you go to the hair salon and you end up tipping 5 different people just because they touched your hair for a minute (ok this is a female issue let me get back on topic).
Working in the service industry you will sometimes encounter cheap, rude and inconsiderate people. It just goes with the job. While I am sure it was momentarily gratifying to make the bill public it wasn't worth losing your job over. Don't worry people like the pastor will get whats coming to them eventually. Hasn't the pastor ever heard the term God don't like ugly!
This has more to do with race & lack of class, then religion.
most of you are fucking retarded. That 18% was not added on, it was put there so you can see how much it would be.
And as for blaming the server for TIMELY serves... ever heard of the thing called a KITCHEN?
Learn to read a receipt and feel free to figure out the server doesnt cook your food.
One person drapes you with a cloth and brushes your hair gets you a beverage, then the stylist (I usually go to a owner who really should receive no gratuity (but I still tip) consults with me. Then he has his assistant help with holding the foils for the hi-lights then they have somone else shampoo you, then they have someone put a hair color on, then owner will cut my hair and then have his assistant blow dry. By the time I leave I think I have shelled out 50 extra bucks in addition to the $200.
And for all the men who are reading this and are saying who gives a fuck. I apologize in advance for my post
From the article....
Bell, seen above, said her notation on the receipt was a "lapse in judgment that has been blown out of proportion." Despite scratching out the tip added to the bill, Bell claimed that she left a $6 tip in cash, adding that she subsequently discovered the 18 percent gratuity had been charged to her credit card.
learn to read.
According to The Consumerist, the receipt was not uploaded to Reddit by the Applebees worker who waited on Bells party. Instead, the server showed it to waitress Chelsea Welch, who photographed the receipt and later shared it online. Welch told The Consumerist she was fired yesterday. In a statement, Applebees spokesperson Dan Smith reported that, Our franchisee has apologized to the Guest for violating the patrons right to privacy. The individual responsible for the leak is no longer employed by the franchise, Smith added.


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Family Rosaceae
, shrubs
, or herbs, deciduous or evergreen
. Stems erect
, scandent
, arching
, prostrate
, or creeping
, armed
or unarmed
. Buds usually with several exposed scales
, sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple
or compound
; stipules paired
, free
or adnate
to petiole
, rarely absent, persistent
or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade
often serrate at margin
, rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate
, corymbose
, racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic
, bisexual
, rarely unisexual
and then plants
dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate
. Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx
segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted
below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed
. Stamens usually numerous
, rarely few, always in a complete
at margin of or above disk; filaments
usually free, very rarely connate
; anthers
small, didymous
, rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous
, superposed
. Styles as many as carpels, terminal
, lateral
, or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged
, usually exalbuminous
, very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy
and convex
abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.
Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan
, mostly in N temperate
zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.
Many plants of this family
are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions
. The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars
and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc.
The dried fruits of the genera
Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial
value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry
. Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots
are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals
The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note
that the patterns
of relationship
are complex
and the group is taxonomically difficult. [1]
Genus Cerasus
or shrubs
, deciduous. Branches unarmed
. Axillary
winter buds
1 or 3, lateral buds
flower buds, central bud a leaf bud
; terminal
winter buds present. Stipules soon caducous
, margin
, teeth often gland-tipped. Leaves simple
, alternate or fascicled on short branchlets
, conduplicate
when young; petiole
usually with 2 apical nectaries or nectaries sometimes at base
of leaf blade
margin; leaf blade margin singly or doubly serrate, rarely serrulate. Inflorescences axillary, fasciculate-corymbose or 1-or 2-flowered, base often with an involucre formed by floral
bud scales. Flowers opening before or at same time as leaves, pedicellate
, with persistent
or conspicuous
bracts. Hypanthium campanulate
or tubular
. Sepals 5, reflexed
or erect
. Petals 5, white or pink. Stamens 15-50, inserted
on or near rim
of hypanthium. Carpel 1. Ovary superior, 1-loculed, hairy
or glabrous
; ovules 2, collateral
, pendulous. Style terminal, elongated, hairy or glabrous; stigma emarginate
. Fruit a drupe, glabrous, not glaucous, without a longitudinal
. Mesocarp
succulent, not splitting
when ripe
; endocarp globose
to ovoid
, smooth
or ± rugose
About 150 species: temperate
Asia, Europe, North America; 43 species (29 endemic, five introduced
Many species of cherry are cultivated for their edible fruit or as garden ornamentals
- Domain:
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
- Infraphylum:
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida () - Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum:
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum:
- Phylum:
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom:
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Kingdom:
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
Publishing author
: P.A.Schmidt Publication
: Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol.
Ges. 91: 32 2006 .
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Say what you like about Hideo Kojima, but one thing is certain. He does know how to fuck with your head.
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MGS: Peace Walker reviews start sneaking in, EG goes with 8
Kept you waiting, huh? Reviews for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker have started to trickle in? How has it fared? Hit the link for everything so far.
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Kojima and Shinkawa landing in London June 18-19
Konami has announced that Hideo Kojima and and art director Yoji Shinkawa will be in London for two days, as part of their World Tour promoting the release of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
They'll be signing things too.
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MGS: Peace Walker sells under 500k in first week in Japan
Curious to know how well Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker did in its first week? Spoiler: under half a mill.
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Konami releases 700Mb of MGS: Peace Walker assets
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker may well be the greatest PSP game ever made. Here's 174 pictures of it. Warning: spoilers.
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Playtest: Why MGS: Peace Walker deserves that Famitsu 40/40
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is one of the greatest games I have ever played on the PSP, a system I had all but given up on before spending the best part of a day playing Hideo Kojima's game at a recent preview event organised by the publisher.
That is the main thing you need to know. Secondly, even after four or five hours of playing and slowly getting into the experience, I was still left with the feeling of having only just scratched the surface of a 30-40-hour marathon I will relish. With Peace Walker there are no concerns at all about, "How am I going to find the time to play through this?" I just will.
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Tue, May 04, 2010 | 07:16 BST
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Western version of MGS: Peace Walker uncut version
Hideo Kojima's not happy: he's revealed that the western edition of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be uncut when it releases in the summer, but in Japan, it has had one scene cut.
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SCEA has revealed the Big Boss PSP pack for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, slated to launch alongside the stand-alone game and the Limited Edition Bundle in June.
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker trailer capsizes the boat
You'll be glad to know there are no monsters in the following Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker trailer that's after the break.
But there is cardboard box loving, however.
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 | 19:55 BST
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker has loads of product placement
Konami has revealed all the different tie-ins and product placements for Metal Gear Solid:Peace Walker, and some of them are slight surprising.
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MGS: Peace Walker gets characters trailer
Konami's released a brand new trailer of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, following this morning's completion party. Get it after the break.
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Peace Walker/Monster Hunter team-up gets screened
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Big Peace Walker announcement is Monster Hunter collaboration
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Tue, Apr 06, 2010 | 10:31 BST
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker includes optional install
Kojima Productions has confirmed on its production blog that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will have an optional install.
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"Big Peace Walker announcement" coming on Wednesday, says Kojima
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Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | 12:34 BST
MGS: Peace Walker gets last gameplay video
Konami's released the fifth and final gameplay trailer of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
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Following the announcement in February, the subsequent weeks were pretty quiet around the MeeGo mobile platform. The reason why: no code.
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One reason for the silence is the particularities of the merger. While Intel meant its Moblin platform primarily for netbooks and smartphones based on its Atom processor, Nokia's Maemo and its related devices are based specifically on the ARM platform. Many Maemo fans thus fear that Maemo will get short shrift in relation to Moblin. That this is not the case was raised rather vehemently by Valtteri Halla, coleader of the MeeGo technical steering group, in a blog the beginning of March. According to Halla, Nokia's N900 will serve as a reference design next to Intel's Atom motherboards for MeeGo development. Work is supposedly being done at a high pitch to get the first MeeGo release out by the end of March.
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While ARM and x86 are being developed in parallel, the merger required three commonalities, which Hallas describes as the "big ticket items":
- Qt should be implemented as the widget set (which is no surprise after Nokia's takeover of Trolltech). Maemo was originally based on the Gtk widget set, but a transition to Qt was already planned for MeeGo from the start.
- The package manager should transition from apt-get to RPM (or yum), which Intel had been advocating, a decision with a direct bearing on the third big ticket item:
- The build environment. For this, the three partners, Intel, Nokia and the hosting Linux Foundation, settled on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Intel had already integrated Moblin into the build service with some success.
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Before code can be released, a common code basis and repository are needed. Recently the MeeGo team requested from the steering group to form a repository working group that would be responsible for managing the public repository.
Then there are a number of smaller ticket items to discuss. As Hallas writes, some agreement prevails as to using X.org as the X server, Connman as the network manager, Gstreamer, D-Bus and the commonly developed Ofono telephony solution. Another item under discussion is the browser. While some developers are already working on Firefox Fennec for MeeGo, Arjan van de Ven, on the MeeGo developer list, is advocating Webkit or Chrome for better performance reasons:
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E tera Najuk Badan heKiya koi meheka gulabKiya koru tarif teriHar yada he la jawab…The above is the song of undying love for his beloved. Anyone loves songs will imagine the very passionate moment with his sweetheart listening this piece of music. Even if you are ill-fated enough to have a darling for your life, this song will craft a home for love in your heart. This is the power of music where language and location does not matter at all at least to the lovers of music. And Mehdi Hassan; the legend of ghazal has conquered the hearts of all music lovers in the world; especially in the subcontinent. The passionate lovers of music cannot assume a day without his music unheard and unsung. But all his pieces of music turned into sad songs for the aficionados of ghazals. Ghazal is the most idealistic form of romantic songs especially in our country. It encompasses various classical form of sonata with it which is particular of this continental music taste. He was driven by his own fashion of music which made him unrivaled and only one of its kind in ghazal.But his pleasant voice will not tirelessly deliver charismatic songs any more swaying the audience beyond time. This exceptional voice will keep silence forever and will not render any song for anyone. He just passed away at 84. He was born in 1927. The little child just born will not listen the live sweet voice of this ShahenShah-e-Ghazal. Only the dusty road of Rajasthan and his countless fans will remember his classical voice and sing---"rim jhim ki barsat he or jagi hui jajbat he…"Who knew that a child born in a tiny village of Luna in Rajasthan would entertain all the people of this subcontinent before or after the division in 1947. The undivided subcontinent tore into three different parts in the dead of night based on religion. For this bitter reality, the traditional musician family had to migrate to Pakistan after 1947. He left behind in childhood in Rajasthan which he missed for all of his life. Though history has forced him to move to Pakistan, his music was spread all over the region by this time. The language of music is not subject to any specific country or people. He moved to Pakistan, left behind India and moved the hearts of all the Pakistani, Indian and Bengali people. The overtone of music is all pervasive and everlasting. Mehdi Hassan left behind millions of fans in this continent. He died after a long battle against ailment.Once, a movie without the song of Mehdi Hassan could be thought of. It was inevitable part of the movies in late 50s onward. He could not sing about for last two decades or more. But what he already rendered for us will remain forever.On his demise, we keep him in our prayers for eternal peace of his soul. EAP
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Unless you are a professional philosopher or a committed atheist, you probably have not heard of Antony Flew. Eighty-four years old and long retired, Flew lives with his wife in Reading, a medium-size town on the Thames an hour west of London. Over a long career he held appointments at a series of decent regional universities â Aberdeen, Keele, Reading â and earned a strong reputation writing on an unusual range of topics, from Hume to immortality to Darwin. His greatest contribution remains his first, a short paper from 1950 called âTheology and Falsification.â Flew was a precocious 27 when he delivered the paper at a meeting of the Socratic Club, the Oxford salon presided over by C. S. Lewis. Reprinted in dozens of anthologies, âTheology and Falsificationâ has become a heroic tract for committed atheists. In a masterfully terse thousand words, Flew argues that âGodâ is too vague a concept to be meaningful. For if Godâs greatness entails being invisible, intangible and inscrutable, then he canât be disproved â but nor can he be proved. Such powerful but simply stated arguments made Flew popular on the campus speaking circuit; videos from debates in the 1970s show a lanky man, his black hair professorially unkempt, vivisecting religious belief with an English public-school accent perfect for the seduction of American ears. Before the current crop of atheist crusader-authors â Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens â there was Antony Flew.
Flewâs fame is about to spread beyond the atheists and philosophers. HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins, has just released âThere Is a God: How the Worldâs Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind,â a book attributed to Flew and a co-author, the Christian apologist Roy Abraham Varghese. âThere Is a Godâ is an intellectualâs bildungsroman written in simple language for a mass audience. Itâs the first-person account of a preacherâs son who, away at Methodist boarding school, defied his father to become a teenage atheist, later wrote on atheism at Oxford, spent his life fighting for unbelief and then did an about-face in his old age, embracing the truth of a higher power. The book offers elegant, user-friendly descriptions of the arguments that persuaded Flew, arguments familiar to anyone who has heard evangelical Christiansâ âscientific proofâ of God. From the âfine tuningâ argument that the laws of nature are too perfect to have been accidents to the âintelligent designâ argument that human biology cannot be explained by evolution to various computations meant to show that probability favors a divine creator, âThere Is a Godâ is perhaps the handiest primer ever written on the science (many would say pseudoscience) of religious belief.
Flewâs âconversion,â first reported in late 2004, has cast him into culture wars that he contentedly avoided his whole life.
Read the rest from The New York Times Magazine here. I'll be commenting on this later.
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November 4, 2007 | 8:42 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
The bloggers-aren't-real-reporters story seems to make for intermittent newspaper filler. I, of course, disagree with the premise, in part because so many mainstream reporters now also blog for their media outlet. I apply the same standards to blogging as I do to my stories that appear in The Jewish Journal or the magazines I freelance for. I credit sources that I pull information from and occasionally include reportage on The God Blog that appears no where else.
But plenty of my former colleagues in the daily business still think it's worth kvetching about the evolving definition of "journalism." Deadspin found it in the Detroit News.
Detroit News sports reporter person Chris McCosky was asked to fill space on the weekend, so he went with the "bloggers are not real reporters because they don't talk to people" story:
A lot of times these bloggers use the work of legitimate reporters. They will lift facts and segments of stories and cut and paste them onto their blog. Rarely, if ever, though, do they bother to credit the source.
Bloggers are having a field day speculating on how Joel Zumaya really injured his shoulder. Nobody believes a heavy box fell on him. So the Internet is rife with stories about how he fell off his dirt bike.
As a Tigers fan, I knew about Zumaya's untimely injury, but I didn't hear about the dirt bike angle. Unfortunately, McCosky didn't cite which blog said this, so I'll never know.
But because there is no accountability, because there are no repercussions for being wrong, because they will never have to look Zumaya in the face, who cares? Make up whatever you want.
Well, I wasn't gonna make stuff up, but ... oh why not.
One day Chris McCosky got piss drunk and stumbled into a day care, punching any children that got in his way. He stole seven vanilla cupcakes and three kids' blankies. He tied the blankies totogether, forming a cape, and pretended to fly out of the day care. Once he reached the sidewalk, he crashed into an unsuspecting Joel Zumaya, who was out walking his Yorkshire terrier. McCosky was unhurt, as Zumaya's right shoulder broke his fall. According to numerous reliable eyewitness accounts, McCosky promptly got up, stole a dirt bike that was parked on the side of the road, and drove to work.
Deadspin's Sussman forgot to mention in his fictitious reporting that McCosky kicked Zumaya's terrier before stealing his dirt bike.
November 3, 2007 | 10:32 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
"I seen the devil a million times. And I beat him up and sent him back to Hell again."
That is what Albert Rosa, a rather colorful Holocaust survivor who lives in Los Angeles, told me yesterday.
November 2, 2007 | 1:36 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
To Nazi hunters, Aribert Heim is the most coveted target still at large. The German and Austrian governments, as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, all believe that the so-called Butcher of Mauthausen is alive, and they are offering $430,000 for information on him. They periodically send investigators around the world to find him, most recently to Chile.
There is just one small problem: Heim is now said to be dead, executed in 1982 in California by a secretive cell of Jewish avengers.
So, at least, says Danny Baz, a retired Israeli air force colonel who claims he was a member of The Owl, a covert Jewish death squad made up of former American and Israeli military and intelligence officials. Baz claims that the group spent years tracking down and killing Nazis who fled to the Western Hemisphere after World War II.
Bazâs sensational allegations appear in âNot Forgotten or Forgiven: On the Trail of the Last Nazi,â a memoir released last month by mainstream publisher Grasset in France, where it received broad media coverage.
Baz has been fiercely condemned by the Wiesenthal Center and other Nazi hunters since the book appeared in mid-October. The American government backs the critics.
âThis is a bunch of baloney,â said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investigations at the U.S. Justice Department. âWhat is true is that there is a real person who calls himself Danny Baz and is trying to make some money with this book at the expense of the truth.â
Read the rest at The Forward.
November 2, 2007 | 11:42 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Sam Harris, the atheist superstar, says Americans are living in a "God-drunk society."
America is now a nation of 300 million souls, wielding more influence than any people in human historyâand yet 240 million of these souls apparently believe that Jesus will return someday and orchestrate the end of the world with his magic powers. This hankering for a denominational, spiritual oblivion is not a good bet, much less a useful idea.
And yet, abject superstition of this kind engorges our nation from sea to shining sea. Consequently, the rest of the developed world has learned to view America like a rich, southern auntie: She may be bumptious, bloviating, smarmy, and God-drunk, but sheâs got all the money; everyone is in her debt, and everyone is hoping that sheâll just shut up and go to sleep.
This is one of many short essays in The Atlantic Monthly's 150th issue, out now, on "The Future of the American Idea." The complete essays are available online by subscription only.
Curiously, The Atlantic editors also invited "Left Behind" author Tim LaHaye to pen a piece about the religious beliefs of our Founding Fathers.
November 2, 2007 | 9:39 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
THE four-hour journey through the bush from Kano to Jos in northern Nigeria features many of the staples of African life: checkpoints with greedy soldiers, huge potholes, scrawny children in football shirts drying rice on the road. But it is also a journey along a front-line.
Nigeria, evenly split between Christians and Muslims, is a country where people identify themselves by their religion first and as Nigerians second (see chart 1). Around 20,000 have been killed in God's name since 1990, estimates Shehu Sani, a local chronicler of religious violence. Kano, the centre of the Islamic north, introduced sharia law seven years ago. Many of the Christians who fled ended up in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, where the Christian south begins. The road between the two towns is dotted with competing churches and mosques.
This is one of many religious battlefields in this part of Africa. Evangelical Christians, backed by American collection-plate money, are surging northwards, clashing with Islamic fundamentalists, backed by Saudi petrodollars, surging southwards. And the Christian-Muslim split is only one form of religious competition in northern Nigeria. Events in Iraq have set Sunnis, who make up most of Nigeria's Muslims, against the better-organised Shias; about 50 people have died in intra-Muslim violence, reckons Mr Sani. On the Christian side, Catholics are in a more peaceful battle with Protestant evangelists, whose signs promising immediate redemption dominate the roadside. By the time you reach Jos and see a poster proclaiming âthe ABC of nourishmentâ, you are surprised to discover it is for chocolate.
In fact, religious front-lines criss-cross the globe.
Most obviously, Americans and Britons would not be dying in Iraq and Afghanistan had 19 young Muslims not attacked the United States in the name of Allah. The West's previous great military interventions were to protect Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo from Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croatians. America's next war could be against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Other conflicts have acquired a new religious edge. In the poisonous war over Palestine, ever more people are claiming God on their side (with some of the most zealous sorts living miles away from the conflict). In Myanmar (Burma) Buddhist monks nearly brought down an evil regime, but in Sri Lanka they have prolonged a bloody conflict with Muslims. If India has an election, a bridge to Sri Lanka supposedly built by the god Ram (and a team of monkeys) may matter as much as a nuclear deal with America.
The Economist, not often a magazine I'd turn to for religious reportage, just published this 18-page special report on "the new wars of religion," complete with nine stories and a disclaimer that concludes the main article:
First, many numbers in religion are dodgy: most churches inflate their support and many governments do not record religion in their censuses (in Nigeria the best source is health records). Second, in a field where many believers claim to know all the answers, it poses mainly questions. And lastly, given the emotion the subject arouses, the chances are that some of what follows will offend you.
I could hardly discuss all the stories here, but here's one of the sidebars "Holy Depressing."
SHEIKH Yazid Khader and Rabbi Yaacov Medan both live in the occupied West Bank. Both are devoutly religious men who feel they have been betrayed by secularists. The sheikh, a local Hamas leader, has just emerged from another bout of Fatah custody (depressing when the rival Palestinians, he says, should both be fighting âthe Zionist enemyâ). The rabbi, a leader of the settler movement, is still seething about the Israeli government's forcible ejection of its own settlers from Gaza. Both men are obstacles to any chance of peace in the Middle East.
Not that they see it that way. Both insist that their religions are peaceful ones and each has solutions to the current impasse. Of course Israel should keep its settlements in the West Bank (illegal under international law), argues the rabbi: it is part of the land God gave it. But a system of tunnels could be constructed for the Palestinians to find their way round them. For his part, the sheikh refuses to accept Israel's right to exist: Palestine is a waqf, land placed by God in Muslim hands for eternity. But if Israel retreats to its 1967 borders, Hamas would generously grant the infidels a hudna or truce, initially for ten years.
If you are concerned about religion's effect on politics, there is no more discouraging place to visit than the tiny sliver of land that is Israel-Palestine. Forty years ago the trouble there amounted to a territorial dispute between two fairly secular tribes. Religious Zionismâas opposed to the traditional, secular kindâwas a fringe movement. Many of the Palestinian leaders were Christians or Marxists. But the six-day war of 1967 set off a chain of sectarian reactions on both sides. Polls show that most people on both sides still want a two-state solution, but many of the growing number determined to stop such an outcome now enlist God on their side of the argument.
They're right: That will definitely offend some people.
November 1, 2007 | 4:02 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
A regular topic on The God Blog is my quest to balance my Jewish heritage with my Christian beliefs. This has played out in posts about Jewish exceptionalism and that unanswerable question: Who is a Jew? Well, Slate takes on both those topics in this story about "Jewgenics":
Are Jews a race? Is Jewish intelligence genetic?
If these notions make you cringe, you're not alone. Many non-Jews find them offensive. Actually, scratch that. I have no idea whether non-Jews find them offensive. But I imagine that they do, which is why Jews like me wince at any suggestion of Jewish genetic superiority. We don't even want to talk about it.
Actually, a bunch of us did talk about it, three days ago at a forum at the American Enterprise Institute. The main speaker was Jon Entine, an AEI fellow and author of a new book, Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People. He was joined by fellow AEI scholar Charles Murray and by Laurie Zoloth, a bioethicist at Northwestern University. Entine and Zoloth are Jewish. Murray isn't but talks as though he wishes he were. "One of my thesis advisers at MIT was a Sephardic Jew," he announced proudly, turning the old "some of my best friends" cliché upside down.
Entine laid out the data. The average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is 107 to 115, well above the human average of 100. This gap and the genetic theories surrounding it stirred discomfort in the room. Zoloth, speaking for many liberals, recalled a family member's revulsion at the idea of a Jewish race. Judaism is about faith and values, she argued. To reduce it to biology is to make it exclusive, denying its openness to all. Worse, to suggest that Jews are genetically smart is to imply that non-Jews are inherently inferior, in violation of Jewish commitments to equality and compassion. My friend Dana Milbank, who's a better (if I may use that word) Jew than I am, watched the discussion, went back to his office, and wrote a column in the Washington Post poking fun at all the talk of superior Jewish intellect. The column, as usual, was really smart.
But what if Judaism as a genetic inheritance is compatible with Judaism as a cultural inheritance? And what if the genes that make Jews smart also make them sick? If one kind of superiority comes at the price of another kind of inferiority, and if the transmission of Jewish values drives the transmission of Jewish genes, does that make the genetics and the superiority easier to swallow?
Apparently so.
November 1, 2007 | 12:21 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Some Christian pastors—particularly in lower income, urban areas—are coupling Dianetics with the Bible.
Scientologists do not worship God, much less Jesus Christ. The church has seen plenty of controversy and critics consider it a cult. So why are observant Christians embracing some of its teachings?
Two pastors who spoke recently with CNN explained that when it comes to religion, they still preach the core beliefs of Christianity. But when it comes to practicing what they preach in a modern world, borrowing from Scientology helps.
Here's what is wrong with that equation: Scientology, which clearly fits the sociological definition of a religion, is proscribed by its officials as a complimentary belief system to any religious worldview. I watched a promotional video from Scientology's international headquarters in Hollywood in which the narrator talked about how good Christians and Muslims were using Scientology to improve their lives. (The narrator proceeded to say, and I paraphrase the gist, "Do you have to believe in Scientology? No. But you'd be an idiot not to.)
If the narrator was being sincere—and if you believe everything you see on "South Park" then you know none of the leaders of Scientology actually are—that would mean that these pastors that CNN interviewed are preaching something that looks a lot like L. Ron Hubbard's creation.
They say they are not scared off by programs with ties to a church that critics say has aggressive recruiting, secretive ways and rigid theology. As men of God rooted in Christian values, they do not see Scientology as a threat to their faith, but rather as a tool to augment it.
Scientology was founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer. Followers are taught that they are immortal spiritual beings called thetans. Although the church says there is a supreme being, its practices do not include worshipping God.
"I'm looking for solutions, and the people that I help, they don't ask me who L. Ron Hubbard is," said McLaughlin, who works with addicts. "You know what they say? 'Thank God.' "
Rick Ross, who runs a Web site that tracks cults and controversial religious figures, goes on to say that this the kind of mainstream acceptance Scientology's leaders desire. For more, read this excellent piece from Rolling Stone.
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Sara Blomqvist (Sweden): from Gare du Nord, Paris
Imagine my surprise running into Sara Blomqvist (DNA, NY) on the lower level of Gare du Nord station today in Paris. We caught up for a few minutes before she had to jet off. Then when I arrived to my place in Paris, I was greeted with this lovely Dior invite. It was like the universe handed me a 2 for 1 special today.
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Prepared by Lewis Shin, BS and Glenn Tung, MD of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI.
The patient is a 19-year-old man with a 10-month history of nasal congestion and worsening epistaxis for the past 3 months. Previous medical history is significant for bilateral retinoblastoma at age 3 that was treated with left eye enucleation and ocular implant, and conventional radiation treatment of the right globe. Computed tomography (CT), enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, MR angiography, and conventional catheter angiography were performed.
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) of the nasal cavity.
A left eye prosthesis and calcification of the right globe is consistent with treated bilateral retinoblastoma (figure 1). A large, enhancing nasal cavity mass extending into the nasopharynx with feeding vessels from branches of the left external carotid artery was found (figures 2 and 3).
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma constitutes < 0.5% of all head and neck neoplasms. It is a histologically benign, yet locally aggressive, vascular tumor that occurs most frequently in males from 5 to 25 years of age. Complications occur when there is local invasion of surrounding tissues. The most common route of local spread is medially through the sphenopalantine foramen to the posterior oropharynx and nasal cavity. Consequently, JNA should be suspected in a boy or adolescent male with a history of chronic nasal obstruction or recurrent, atraumatic epistaxis and a soft-tissue mass in the nose or nasopharynx. 1
Diagnostic imaging should be performed prior to an invasive procedure since it may suggest the diagnosis, thereby reducing the risk of catastrophic hemorrhage associated with biopsy. In a study of 72 patients, Lloyd et al 1 report three findings on CT and MR imaging that should suggest a diagnosis of JNA: 1) a soft-tissue mass in the nasopharynx or nasal cavity; 2) a mass in the pterygopalatine fossa; and 3) erosion of posterior osseous margin of the sphenopalantine foramen extending to the base of the medial pterygoid plate. In addition, JNA can grow into the maxillary and sphenoid sinuses, orbit, and central skull base. 2 There have been rare reports of JNA originating in the maxillary and sphenoid sinuses. 3,4 On CT, bone involvement can best be seen on thin-section axial or coronal images. On MR imaging, JNA appears as a heterogeneous mass with signal voids that are consistent with the highly vascular tumor; intense enhancement with gadopentetate contrast material is typical (figure 2). 1,2
The differential diagnosis for this large nasal mass includes antrochoanal polyp; inflammatory sinonasal polyp; neurofibroma; adenoidal hypertrophy; and malignant neoplasm, such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma, lymphoma, or rhabdomyosarcoma. CT and MR imaging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma show an inhomogeneous mass arising from the nasopharyngeal mucosa or submucosal space with skull-base erosion or intracranial extension. 2 Lymphoma may arise from adenoidal tissues of the nasopharynx or Waldeyer's ring and can be associated with lymphadenopathy. Imaging of rhabdomyosarcoma reveals a soft-tissue mass with frequent bone destruction and mild enhancement on CT, but marked enhancement on MR imaging. 2
The carcinogenic effects of radiation therapy have been confirmed since the classic study of radiogenic osteosarcoma by Cahan et al. 5 Four criteria were cited in this study for a tumor to be considered radiation-induced. These criteria include: 1) absence of microscopic and radiographic evidence of malignancy prior to radiation treatment; 2) development of the tumor in the field of radiation treatment; 3) a relatively long latency (exceeding 5 years) between treatment and discovery of tumor; and 4) histologic confirmation of the tumor. 5 Sarcoma is the most common malignant, radiation-induced neoplasm; most often, osteosarcoma in bone and malignant fibrous histiocytoma in soft tissue. The most common benign radiogenic tumor is osteochondroma. 6 This case of JNA fulfills the criteria for radiogenic tumor, since it arose in the treatment field 16 years following conventional radiation therapy for retinoblastoma. Furthermore, there was no radiologic or histologic evidence of a naso-pharyngeal tumor prior to radiotherapy.
Interestingly, patients with retinoblastoma are at increased risk for developing a second primary tumor even without radiation treatment. Even though the majority of cases of retinoblastoma are unilateral, the majority of second neoplasms arise in patients with bilateral retino-blastoma. 7 This risk of second tumors is increased even further in patients receiving radiation therapy. In a study of 688 patients with retinoblastoma, tumors that developed in the field of radiation treatment included 24 cases of osteosarcoma, 6 cases of fibrosarcoma, and 5 cases of soft tissue sarcoma; no cases of juvenile angiofibroma were reported. 8
In conclusion, we believe that this may represent a rare case of radiogenic angio-fibroma following radiation treatment of bilateral retinoblastoma. However, we cannot exclude the alternative that it represents the rare occurrence of two unusual diseases in the same patient.
1. Lloyd G, Howard D, Phelps P, Cheesman A: Juvenile angiofibroma: The lessons of 20 years of modem imaging. J Laryngol Otol 113:127-134, 1999.
2. Som PM, Curtin HD: Head and Neck Imaging. St. Louis, Mosby,1996.
3. Kitano M, Landini G, Mimura T: Juvenile angiofibroma of the maxillary sinus. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 21:230-232, 1992.
4. Tsunoda A, Kohda H, Ishikawa N, Komatsuzaki A: Juvenile angiofibroma, limited to the sphenoid sinus. J Otolaryngol 27:37-39, 1998.
5. Cahan WG, Woodward HQ, Higinbotham NL, et al: Sarcoma arising in irradiated bone. Cancer 1:3-29, 1948.
6. Rabin BM, Meyer JR, Berlin JW, et al: Radiation-induced changes in the central nervous system and head and neck. Radiographics 16:1055-1072, 1996.
7. Abramson DH, Ellsworth RM, Zimmerman LE: Nonocular cancer in retinoblastorna survivors. Trans Am Acad Ophthalmol Otolaryngol 81:454-457, 1976.
8. Abramson DH, Ellsworth RM, Kitchin FD, Tung G: Second nonocular tumors in retinoblastoma survivors: Are they radiation induced? Ophthalmol 91:1351-1355, 1984.


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Stonington — The Lisbon man in custody in Rhode Island after an alleged abduction and motor vehicle chase was charged Tuesday by police in both states.
Daniel Candales, 42, of 187 Ross Hill Road, Lisbon, was involved in a domestic disturbance with his former girlfriend Monday and allegedly abducted her 9-year-old daughter during a custody transfer in the parking lot of the Stonington police station.
Police issued an Amber Alert for the girl and pursued Candales' pickup truck through several towns until he was stopped in Richmond, R.I., and the girl was safely recovered.
On Tuesday, Stonington police charged Candales with risk of injury, reckless driving and breach of peace and were going to file a warrant for his arrest Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
Hopkinton police also filed Tuesday, charging Candeles with reckless driving and eluding law enforcement in high speed pursuit.
Connecticut court records show Candales has a lengthy arrest record, including violation of protective orders and restraining orders, stalking and criminal possession of a firearm. He is due in New London Superior Court Monday on those charges.
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Kathy Buszkiewicz has exhibited throughout the world, and her work is represented in many collections. She traveled to Indonesia in 1991 and that same year curated Ethnographic Jewelry: Ritual, Power, Prestige, an exhibition of more than 250 works of art. She has received three Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Viktor Schreckengost Teaching Award from the CIA.
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