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This undated photo provided by Frederick Reed shows Dejah Reed, an Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge. A new report from doctors to be published Monday, April 22, 2013, advises against taking the challenge that involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. The fad depicted in wildly popular YouTube videos has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. (AP Photo/Frederick Reed)
CHICAGO (AP) — Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
The fad involves daring someone to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. But the spice is caustic, and trying to gulp it down can cause choking, throat irritation, breathing trouble and even collapsed lungs, the report said.
Published online Monday in Pediatrics, the report said at least 30 teens nationwide needed medical attention after taking the challenge last year.
The number of poison control center calls about teens doing the prank "has increased dramatically," from 51 in 2011 to 222 last year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
"People with asthma or other respiratory conditions are at greater risk of having this result in shortness of breath and trouble breathing," according to an alert posted on the association's website.
Thousands of YouTube videos depict kids attempting the challenge, resulting in an "orange burst of dragon breath" spewing out of their mouths and sometimes hysterical laughter from friends watching the stunt, said report co-author Dr. Steven E. Lipshultz, a pediatrics professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Cinnamon is made from tree bark and contains cellulose fibers that don't easily break down. Animal research suggests that when cinnamon gets into the lungs, it can cause scarring, Lipshultz said.
Dr. Stephen Pont, a spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and an Austin, Texas pediatrician, said the report is "a call to arms to parents and doctors to be aware of things like the cinnamon challenge" and to pay attention to what their kids are viewing online.
An Ypsilanti, Mich., teen who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung after trying the cinnamon challenge heartily supports the new advice and started her own website — http://nocinnamonchallenge.com — telling teens to "just say no" to the fad.
Dejah Reed, 16, said she took the challenge four times — the final time was in February last year with a friend who didn't want to try it alone.
"I was laughing very hard and I coughed it out and I inhaled it into my lungs," she said. "I couldn't breathe."
Her father, Fred Reed, said he arrived home soon after to find Dejah "a pale bluish color. It was very terrifying. I threw her over my shoulder" and drove to a nearby emergency room.
Dejah was hospitalized for four days and went home with an inhaler and said she still has to use it when she gets short of breath from running or talking too fast. Her dad said she'd never had asthma or breathing problems before.
Dejah said she'd read about the challenge on Facebook and other social networking sites and "thought it would be cool" to try.
Now she knows "it's not cool and it's dangerous."
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|CONFERENCE | Co-presented with the American Jewish Historical Society | Supported by the Atran Foundation, the David Berg Foundation, and Dr. Joseph K. McLaughlin
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Since the nineteenth century, Jews have played prominent roles in a variety of leftist political movements. At the same time, associations between Jews and communism have been a frequent leitmotif of antisemitic thinking. While the political Left often spoke out against antisemitism and promised Jews tolerance and an end to distinctions between Jews and non-Jews, specific, prominent, leftists espoused antisemitic ideas. In addition, Jews cultivated their own, uniquely Jewish, socialist parties and ideologies. In recent years, the relationship between Jews and the Left has been further complicated by left-wing opposition to the State of Israel and debates about the extent to which this opposition bleeds into outright antisemitism. YIVO, in association with AJHS, brought together historians, political scientists, philosophers, and journalists from Europe, Israel, and America to discuss some of the important topics pertaining to the relationship between Jews and the Left.
|Jonathan Brent, Jack Jacobs: Welcome & Introductory Remarks
|Session 1: Israel, Zionism, and the Left: Past and Present
Chair: Ronald Zweig
|Mitchell Cohen: "Anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism and the Left."
|Yoav Peled: "Delegitimation of Israel or Social-Historical Analysis? The Debate over Zionism as a Colonial Movement."
|Ronald Radosh: "When the American Jewish Left loved Israel: When and Why did They Change?"
|Anita Shapira: "Socialist Zionism and Nation Building."
|Session 2: Antisemitism and the Left, from Karl Marx to Present Day
Chair: Jonathan Brent
|Norman Geras: "Universalisms genuine and spurious."
|Lars Fischer: "Marxism's Other Jewish Questions."
|Moishe Postone: "The Dualisms of Capitalist Modernity: Thoughts on History, the Holocaust, and the Left."
|Keynote Address
Chair: Jack Jacobs
|Michael Walzer: "The Strangeness of Jewish Leftism."
|Session 1: Jews and Communism in the Twentieth Century
Chair: Marci Shore
|Harvey Klehr: "Jews and the American Communist Party."
|Tony Michels: "Dynamics of Disillusionment: Communism, Anti-Communism, and American Jews."
|Antony Polonsky: "Jews and Communism in Poland and the Soviet Union."
|Session 2: Jews, the New Left, and the Counterculture
Chair: Jonathan Karp
|Riv-Ellen Prell: "Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1968: Godparents of the Jewish Student Left."
|Judith Friedlander: "Crumbling Ideologies Offer Opportunities for Rebuilding at the New School for Social Research (1968-1989)."
|Paul Berman: "The New Left and the Jews: Personal Memories and Reconsiderations."
|Session 3: Jewish Women on the Left
Chair: Marion Kaplan
|Barbara Engel: "Are Jewish Women Distinctive? The Case of the Russian Populist Left."
|Deborah Hertz: "Money, Love and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg."
|Alice Kessler-Harris: "The American Agenda of the Minimalist Jew."
|Closing Remarks
Introduction by Daniel Soyer
|Ezra Mendelsohn: "Reflections on Jews and the Left."
|Paul Berman is a writer on politics and literature whose essays and reviews appear in The New Republic (where he is a contributing editor), The New York Times Book Review and many other journals. He has at different times served on the staff of The Village Voice, The New Yorker and Slate. His books include a two volume study of the international Generation of 1968, A Tale of Two Utopias and Power and the Idealists, and another two volumes on Islamism and Western responses, Terror and Liberalism and The Flight of the Intellectuals. He has edited a number of anthologies, including Debating P.C, Blacks and Jews, and Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems.
|Jonathan Brent is the Executive Director of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City. From 1991 to 2009 he was Editorial Director and Associate Director of Yale Press. He is the founder of the world acclaimed Annals of Communism series, which he established at Yale Press in 1991. Brent is the co-author of Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 (Harper-Collins, 2003) and Inside the Stalin Archives (Atlas Books, 2008). He is now working on a biography of the Soviet-Jewish writer Isaac Babel. Brent teaches history and literature at Bard College.
|Mitchell Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of CUNY as well as former co-editor of Dissent. His books include Zion and State (Columbia University Press) and The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (Princeton University Press).
|Barbara Engel is Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth Century Russia (1983); Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 (1995); Women in Russia: 1700-2000 (2004), and most recently, Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia (2011).
|Lars Fischer is the Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations in Cambridge, is a Fellow and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society and is the Secretary and Bulletin editor of the British Association for Jewish Studies. Among his publications is a monograph on The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany, published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
|Judith Friedlander is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY, where she has served as Dean of Social Sciences and Dean of Arts and Sciences. Among her published works are Being Indian in Hueyapan and Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968. Currently she is writing a book on the history of the New School for Social Research, where she served as Dean of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science (1993-2000) and held the Eberstadt Chair of Anthropology. Her article on Tony Judt which has just been published in French Historical Studies (Winter 2012) addresses some of the questions raised by this conference.
|Norman Geras is Professor Emeritus in Politics at the University of Manchester. His books include The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust and Crimes against humanity: Birth of a concept. His blog can be found at http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/
|Deborah Hertz is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California at San Diego. She is the author of Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Yale University Press, 1988; in German translation, four editions), and How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin (Yale University Press, 2007; paperback 2009; German edition 2010). Her new book in-progress is entitled From the Shtetl to the Barricades: How Jewish Women Became Radicals in Russia and Beyond.
|Jack Jacobs is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of On Socialists and "the Jewish Question" after Marx (1992), and of Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland (2009) and is the editor of Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 (2001). He is currently writing a book, under contract with Cambridge University Press, on Jewish identity, antisemitism, and the development of the Frankfurt School.
|Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU, and the author of Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 (2008), Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998), The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991), among other books, and editor of such works as Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 (2005). Her work has received National Jewish Book Awards and other major prizes.
|Jonathan Karp is the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society and an Associate Professor in the History and Judaic Studies Departments at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe (2008), as well as coeditor (with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett) of The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (2007) and Philosemitism in History (with Adam Sutcliffe, 2011). He is completing a book entitled Chosen Surrogates: Blacks and Jews in American Culture.
|Alice Kessler-Harris is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University where she is also Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Her books include In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (2001) and, most recently, A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (2012). Among American Jewish scholars, she is widely known for introducing Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers to new audiences.
|Harvey Klehr is Andrew Mellon Professor of Politics and History at Emory University. He is the author or editor of thirteen books including The Secret World of American Communism (1995), which was a selection of the History Book Club, Book of the Month Club and Conservative Book Club. His newest book is Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, published by Yale University Press. He has also written for professional journals as well as for Commentary, The New Republic, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard. He served as a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 2004-2010.
|Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and in the department of Russian and East European studies at the Hebrew University. His first book (1970) dealt with the Jewish workers' movement in Tsarist Russia; his most recent one, dealing with the Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb (Hebrew version 2006), won the Bialik Prize in Israel for Jewish history in 2008.
|Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2005) and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History, which will appear in July 2012 from NYU Press.
|Yoav Peled is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and a lawyer. His book, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, co-authored with Gershon Shafir (Cambridge University Press 2002), won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for best book in Middle East studies in 2002. Peled has edited or co-edited five collections of essays. The latest is Democratic Citizenship and War, published by Routledge in 2010. He is Co-Editor in Chief of The Public Sphere: Tel Aviv Journal of Political Science.
|Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, and author of such books as Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), and The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia (3 vols.). He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Independent Lithuania and the Kulczycki prize for the best work in 2011 in the field of Polish Studies.
|Moishe Postone is Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern European History and The College, and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. He has written on Marx, Critical Theory and anti-Semitism.
|Riv-Ellen Prell, an anthropologist, is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, and is affiliated with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Gender, Women and sexuality Studies. She is the author of Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism and Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation. Her paper is drawn from her forthcoming book, Baby Boomers and their Jewish Summer Camps: the Making of a Cultural Revolution.
|Ronald Radosh is Professor Emeritus of History at CUNY, an Adjunct Fellow at The Hudson Institute, and a columnist for PJ Media. He is author or co-author of many books, including, with Allis Radosh, A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. The book won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Gold Award in 2009 for the best book written on the Middle East and the United States. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and other publications.
|Anita Shapira, Professor Emerita at Tel Aviv University, served that institution as Ruben Merenfeld Professor in the Study of Zionism. Shapira is currently the Chair of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at TAU, and Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Her best known works are Berl Katznelson: a Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Land and Power, the Zionist Resort to Force, 1882-1948, Yigal Allon: Native Son, and Joseph Hayyim Brenner, A Life Story. She is currently working on a biography of David Ben Gurion. She has won many prizes and awards, including, in 2008, the Israel Prize.
|Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University, is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 and the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons. Her second book, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, is forthcoming in 2013.
|Daniel Soyer is Professor of History at Fordham University in New York. He is author, along with Annie Polland, of Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920, forthcoming from New York University Press.
|Michael Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just war, and economic justice. His books, Just and Unjust Wars and Spheres of Justice, have played a part in the revival of practical ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political life. Walzer is a co-editor of Dissent. He is currently working on volume three of The Jewish Political Tradition.
|Ronald Zweig is the Henry and Marilyn Taub Chair of Israel Studies, NYU. He is the author of Britain and Palestine During the Second World War; German Reparations and the Jewish World; and The Gold Train.


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His fingers find hers and entwine gently and they lie there, still and silent, for just a second or two. She sighs heavily and rolls towards him, kicking off the twisted sheet. He groans and murmurs something too low for her to hear. "What time is it?" she whispers. With his free hand he fumbles for the alarm and she perceives the tiny light of the clock flick on and then off. "Two," he moans, releasing her hand and flipping over onto his back. "Go back to sleep. It's too early for coffee."
This is the second night in a row, yet not the first since the beginning of this adventure, they've been awakened by their dreams, dreams of cream-colored cabinets, countertops in marble and wood; dreams bordering on nightmares of making decisions, choosing dishwashers and ovens, drawing and redrawing floor plans; stools and faucets swirl through their brains, mocking them, terrifying. If anything can go wrong, it certainly will in the maze of their dreams.
By day, the search and planning is near to thrilling, exciting in the flipping through catalogues and choosing this design and that cabinet. Watching their very clever son create their kitchen on his computer screen, a three-dimensional plan that allows them to walk through the room, stand behind sink and stovetop as if they are cooking, sidle up to the bar and practically slide onto a stool (they can almost smell the food cooking) is absolutely thrilling! Yet at night, while they sleep, the stress, the doubts, the fear of failure come to life and haunt them both as they toss and turn and images of rogue kitchens chase them through dark alleys and laugh at their failings.
Afternoons, son and I, sitting side by side on the sofa, finalize the plan, adding handles to the cabinets, choosing sink and dishwasher (Hallelujah! Finally a dishwasher after two years of privation!) and faucet… he so wants to be architect, designer and chef de chantier, supervisor of renovations, that he has convinced us to allow him to design the kitchen and bathroom, order everything from Ikea and Leroy Merlin and do it ourselves. Our purpose was to renovate this apartment for the least cost, doing most of the work ourselves, from the parquet and flooring, from the knocking down of walls and putting in doorways to the installation of kitchen and bath that this may work out for the best. With the help of his brother who recently spent a year in New Orleans rebuilding houses in the Lower Ninth Ward, as if in preparation for renovating our own home, and a few of his friends, this might just turn out fine.
Yet the dreams materialize, waking us in the night exhausted and drained, waking us in the morning wondering if we are making the right choices. But we know we are. We see the livingroom come to life as the dividing wall falls; we see the beauty of the raw wood appear as we yank off carpeting and scrape away glue; we admire the elements of our future kitchen, brush our fingertips across surfaces, slide imaginary cakes in the shiny new oven and dream of moving in. Thoughts of our rough night dissipate as we pull on work gloves and grab tools. This project that we have made our own, a project shared with our sons who, now adults, participate as equals, bringing knowledge, experience and ideas to the table, sitting with us and discuss, argue, measure and count, is the next step in Starting Over.
Our apartment project, Our Great Adventure, defines our summer and carries us towards autumn. The mild weather is helping us along by making working conditions if not pleasant at least bearable. But this is the project we needed as a family, a common cause, something that brings us together, working together with, at the end, something we can all be proud of, something that contains a part of each of us. A project shared, starting off the next phase of our lives, four adults now off to conquer the world separately and individually, bringing us together, keeping us together.
And while the men work, I spend time at home with Marty, watching over him and keeping his needs met. And I bake for the guys. And what better than an old family favorite, a stunning Caramelized Peach Upside Down Cake, the cake itself light, fluffy and moist, the peaches tender, sweet and fruity mingling with a delicate caramel which only heightens, never overpowers, the magnificent flavor of fresh, seasonal peaches, a favorite fruit.
Peaches, peaches, glorious peaches! My childhood was punctuated by peaches eaten on the front porch, perched in the tree shading my parents' bedroom window, and sitting in the backseat of the station wagon, squished in between my battling brother and sister, on those long, long summer vacation drives up to New York. While citrus was my winter's lifeblood, peaches were my summer passion, a love affair that wove its way between thick slices of watermelon and ice cold popsicles, nourishing me heart, body and soul.
I have never been one to eat oranges or grapefruit in May, June or July, no, I was certainly taught better than that! Citrus meant winter when there was a chill in the air and the ground crackled underfoot, when one dashed out quickly into the garage, tugging a sweater or robe tighter around one's shoulders to grab an orange or two or a tangerine or three, braving the winter cold for the pleasure of fruit. Sadly, sadly I watched the waning of the season and the coming of spring, braced myself for that seemingly eternal period between my beloved grapefruits, oranges and clementines and the following winter when they would, once again, appear in the garage, divided by the long, long months between. During the winter I couldn't imagine a day without citrus, plunged into the heady scent and flavor of these favorites I just couldn't conceive of a day without. Long after the last citrus had disappeared, I waited forlornly for the following November, December, January when citrus would make its reappearance and I could heave a sigh of relief.
Yet, come summer I turned to other pleasures. Once the first stone fruit appeared on the supermarket benches or piled high, fragrant and plump, on the ramshackle wooden farmer's stalls in service station parking lots up and down South Patrick Drive, I forgot all about those tangerines and grapefruit. Peaches, that age-old harbinger of summertime, school out, each and every day our own. Kids running wild, up and down the street, making up games as we went along, sitting in the shade of a tree in someone's front yard with an improvised picnic for lunch. Or waiting for the metallic ting ting of the ice cream truck every afternoon, or that chorus of moms' heads stuck out a series of back doors, yelling us in for dinner.
All grown up, I find it impossible to break such ingrained habits. Nothing has changed; citrus is still the highlight and the heart of my winter; peaches still mean summer to me. Sweet and refreshing, eaten fresh, they lose nothing in the baking, their tenderness and natural sweetness only more intense. I have been baking this perfect Caramelized Peach Upside Down Cake for twenty years and it has always been and still is my husband's favorite for breakfast, snack and dessert. I find it impossible to resist.
And as this is peach season, how about a few more peach recipes, both savory and sweet?
Sweet & Sour Chicken with Peaches
Nectarine or Peach Jalousie
Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler
Peach Prosecco Bellini Sorbet
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½ cup (100 g) firmly packed brown sugar, light or dark
4 Tbs (60 g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
Pinch ground nutmeg
4 ripe peaches, white or yellow, about 14 – 16 oz (455 – 450 g) total
4 Tbs (60 g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
¾ cup (150 g) granulated white sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 ¼ cups + 1 Tbs (180 g) flour
2 tsps baking powder
¾ tsp salt
½ cup (125 ml) milk
Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Have ready a deep round cake pan 8 ½ to 8 ¾ inches (21 ½ to 22 cm); I prefer using a nonstick pan.
For the caramel, cream 4 tablespoons (60 g) of the softened butter with the brown sugar and a pinch of ground nutmeg until smooth, blended and creamy. Using a spatula, spread evenly in the cake pan all the way to the edges.
Peel and pit the peaches and slice into approximately half-inch (one cm) wide or slightly larger wedges. Place the peaches in the pan on top of the brown suger-butter in concentric circles, pushing close together.
Prepare the cake batter by first creaming the remaining 4 tablespoons butter with the white sugar until smooth and creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, beating briefly after each addition until blended; beat in the vanilla. Stir the baking powder and salt into the flour and beat the flour into the batter in two additions alternating with the milk in two additions, scraping down the sides as necessary. The batter should be well blended, smooth and creamy. Pour the batter over the peaches in the cake pan.
Bake the cake for about 35 minutes, covering the cake loosely with a square of aluminum foil after about 25 minutes when the cake is browned. The cake is done when the center is set and firm and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean. The caramel should be bubbling a bit around the edges.
Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool on a rack for 10 minutes. At the end of 10 minutes, carefully slide the blade of a knife around the edges to loosen, place a serving platter or cake plate upside down inverted on top of the cake pan and, protecting your hands, grab both the pan and the cake plate firmly and flip over (invert) so the cake is flipped upside down – the cake now on the platter and the caramel side up – and gently lift off the pan. Allow to cool before serving.
We love the cake as is, son claimed it better with a bit of whipped cream.


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It has finally happened. Directors/producers Todd McFarlane and Terry Fitzgerald officially turned in a complete edited version of Disturbed's "Land of Confusion" music video to Warner Bros. Records last Friday, June 23. TME and all involved are exceptionally proud of how the animated project turned out. Everyone, from the band members to the management to the record label, is extremely impressed with the hard work TME put forth to create this video, and all are anxious to see it premiere.
"Land of Confusion" is the first music video TME created in 100 percent High Definition (HD) from the very beginning. Extra meticulous time and thought went into this project, from the pre-production phases to the overseas animation to the final HD online editing process. "I wish everyone could see this video in true 1080P HD," says Fitzgerald, "because the details in the backgrounds and the 3-D tanks and planes are truly mind-blowing."
The finished product is slated to make its public debut next Friday, July 7 on Disturbed's AOL Music Page: http://music.aol.com/artist/disturbed/415878/main
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We are so proud of our "Land of Confusion" music video that we want to share it personally with you! We've decided to create limited-edition super-glossy lithographs of one of the penultimate scenes from the video to be offered as giveaways at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con in July. Stop by the McFarlane booth (#2601) and ask for your copy. Remember, these lithos are super limited so get there early, because once they're gone, they're gone!


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The Plague is the Warhammer Online guild of Old School Gamers. Old School Gamers has been around in one form or fashion since 1999. Members of OSG are team players and are 18+. We expect to enter the Warhammer World with extreme prejudice as we carve our way through the digital landscape! Members for our team are always being accepted. While guild membership is separate from OSG, we hope that everyone who joins will want to be a part of our team. We are a multi-gaming group first and foremost with varied interests and something for every gamer out there!
Novice Member
Joined: 8/22/08
The Black Tempest
EU RvR-RP, Destruction, All Careers and Races welcome!
Novice Member
Joined: 10/15/04
Deus Vult (God Wills it)
Deus Vult is an U.S. Destruction hardcore guild currently looking for players who excel at MMOs. DV is made up of a group of friends that have been playing MMOs for 5-6 years at least and we would like to add more to our little group. We are all quite professional at certain games that we've played in the past (some of us have won money for games all the way from Counter-Strike to World of Warcraft). All of us have raided end-game in WoW and have had a top team in a bracket in PvP. Sorry to drop WoW in this thread, but it's the easiest way to show our abilities to you.
A lot of us started in UO and especially DaoC. We know what's going on and we are going to be tearing through RvR zones while taking keeps for ourselves. As of right now we will be primarily doing RvR until we know more information of raids and such.
What this guild is looking for is the following :
* Ventrilo with Microphone (don't be a mute)
As of right now we are in the process of putting up our website. However, if you are interested in a guild that will dominate the one of the most popular servers come release and fit the criteria, feel free to app on our website. We will be more than happy to give you our ventrilo and give you a little interview on your past games (most importantly being MMOs) and among other small questions of what you'll be doing in Warhammer.
We're looking forward to see anyone who's up for the challenge. We are a fun bunch but we have more fun dominating. If you are like us, then by all means, inquire.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 6/09/07
Lets keep things simple:
Guild Name: Legion of Malice
1) We have been in closed beta quite a while now. It will not be hard for us to help new players get their sea legs.
2) We pride ourselves on being friends in and out of games.
3) We started this guild to grow our small community of friends. We are about quality not quantity. If you are tired of getting lost in all the cliques of huge guilds we may have a home for you.
4) We are a friendly adult guild (18+) that realizes life comes before games. At the same time we are committed to the games we play.
5) We are an experienced group of PvP minded players. We will run organized groups that focus on the PvP aspects of the game. We will not ignore PvE, we just choose to put more effort into PvP.
We look forward to meeting you!
Apprentice Member
Joined: 11/05/06
Shut up
Agony | AG | Agony Gaming
(we'll wear one of these tags if others aren't available)
MxO Vet – 04-06
waiting for war.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/19/04
Tyranny is a Destruction based guild made up of experienced and mature MMO players. We intend to create a strong presence in WAR, topping whatever server we end up on.
We feature 3 elements: Hardcore, Casual, and Helpers. The Hardcore element is the strong foundation of the guild, fighting for our presence and receiving all of the benefits of being a member of Tyranny.
The casual element is for the largest portion of our member base, made up of those who cannot meet all of the requirements of a hardcore member or who do not want to. Nothing is expected of these members except to be active in a given 30 day period or give notice on extended leaves.
The Helper element is a special brand given to either Casual or Hardcore members who are most interested in helping out new and old members. Helpers are expected to be the first to respond if someone asks for help, but by no means are they required. These members are extremely important to getting new members up to speed and getting other members to higher levels faster than any other guild on our server.
While we will not strive to be the largest guild, we will strive to have a better organization, with more member perks, and better tactics than any one else.
Website: http://www.thesg2.com
Contact: Sovereign
US Destruction Guild, All Classes Welcome!
Dawn of the Phoenix
Server: U.S. Core rules
Faction: Order
Guild website: http://dawnofthephoenix.guildlaunch.com
Recruitment: Open, 18+
Description: Dawn of the Phoenix is a newly formed Order guild with an emphasis on tight knit groups and a friendly atmosphere. We aim to have roughly 50-60 core players who log on regularly, with a mix of both casual and hardcore players. We are most likely set for the Mad Dog server. There is a structure and leadership in place to help keep everything moving forward and going as smoothly as possible, but ultimately it's player to player interactions between guild members that we feel are key to success. We're all here to kick back, have fun and work together-not to add any more stress and drama to our daily lives! On the other hand we will be organized and coordinated when it comes to raids, large-scale pvp events, and circumstances where such efforts are not only advantageous, but required for certain goals to be achieved in game.
Novice Member
Joined: 9/04/08
Squig Pro Quo 'SPQ' are recruiting for all sorts. We're hitting the ground running with 25 members stolen from our WoW / Lotro/SWG and AoC guilds. We know our MMOs very well and nearly cleared the WoW Black Temple for what its worth. Then we realised there was more to life. Anyway we're all bored to death with WoW and want to have some fun concentrating on PVP/RVR. We fall under the so called mature grown up bracket, huge Warhammer fans, like to have a laugh and the usual stuff. We'll be in the open beta so you are more than welcome to join us and say hello. We'll be recruiting from the start. You'll be joining a solid group of friends who know each from many other MMOs some even way back to SWG. We currently consist of Brits, Scandinavians and Dutch there's no restriction we even accept people from the Isle of Wight. Everyone is welcome as long as you like to have fun and a laugh and like winning!
Squig Pro Quo is part of the Sunfall umbrella of MMO game guilds. If you plan to game on Euro English servers, like the evil destruction side check out our forum and say hello. We'd love to meet you. Forum link below.
Novice Member
Joined: 4/07/08
-1.a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence.
<Paragon> was created specifically for Warhammer Online. We are a collection of hardcore gamers and their friends/family from many previous MMO titles. Some core members have been playing with each other for over ten years, and most recently have come from World of Warcraft and Age of Conan.
With over a decade of leadership experience, we strive to be the best on our server and the world. Inquire about our WowJutsu. Very selective and very elitist we make the necessary sacrifices to be the best; and require every new member to do the same. Our paramount mission is to be the best and promote an aura of excellence. We are professionals who will never settle for second best; and have many accolades under our belt to prove it, from Ulitma Online to Warhammer.
Hardcore experience is a must but if your someone who has had to carry the weight of others, now is your chance to be among peers who do not need to be spoon fed strats or encouraged to do what it takes to be prepared... we're veterans of the genre and only except members with similar experience.
Pledging starts now, put your applications in, interviews begin Sept 7th
More about Paragon:
Many of us play easily more than 40+ hours a week in preceding MMO's, as we have a strong passion for gaming. Many of us probably spend at least 5-10 hours blogging or participating in some form of Meta-Game on top of that. Whether we have no lives or not is really a subjective assessment; and really no one cares at this point, we've all been told we have no lives by somebody. Some players hate on hardcore gamers and hardcore gaming but we sacrifice a lot to be on the top... health included, especially on opening. Paragon indeed has its spectrum of members in the guild, as we have a long history and many friends / family that migrate with us, but our core must fulfill requirements and perform at an expected high level of play to remain core. Warhammer is not the first MMO for anyone in our guild, everyone has played at least 3 years of MMO's before WAR; even our casuals.
Hardcore people who are fanatic about the genre are who we are looking for, because we don't want to waste any time while we raid. We want people serious about content, serious about progression and serious about character development to apply and will not take anything less. A guilds raiding success is based on how productive your structured time is... two guilds spending the same amount of time on content can have two very different outcomes. We play seriously and are rewarded for it, it is a game, but during raids it's all business. It's business time!
I personally work in the Online Gaming space, and MMO Gaming has become my biggest hobby and is part of my occupation. So, I personally have spent the last 11 years in the genre, and log in easily 42+ hours a week, for the last 6 or 7 years. I attend E3 almost every year, except last year, and I went to PAX this year, yesterday, to speak to Paul Barnett myself, and I have my pics with him and video on our site for those interested. Im a genuine fan of the genre and the community subculture and want to be with hobbists who are just as passionate. Maybe I should've said,
"Looking for Alpha Nerds"
We have yet to accept a single app yet from this site, and this is only one avenue among many paths we've taken for recruitment and we still need to see more apps from players that are like us and share the same enthusiasm for the game and genre. And, we dont accept applications... until we see people's in game performance. Oh and regarding our name, it's serious I guess but, we take ourselves seriously... my motto is,
"It's not a hobby, it's a lifestyle"
The hunt for solid, hardcore members has begun but this is only a small step. Hope I've cleared some things up. Again, we're not trying to be anything we aren't but we're not looking to spoon feed folks, we want already trained and experienced raiders as we will not take the time to teach simple principles like: Pathing 101, Aggro Management 205, Healing Rotations 352, or Line of Sight 102 classes.
Novice Member
Joined: 2/14/08
All Out Assault
POC: Allomein
Realm: DESTRUCTION
Guild Focus: Realm vs. Realm
Server Type: Core Ruleset
Server: Tyrion (Subject to Change)
Recruitment status: Open
History: AoA is a multi-game guild that has been around since 1996. MMOs AoA has been active in include Star Wars Galaxies, WoW, DDO, Tabula Rasa, LOTRO, POTBS, and AOC. AoA currently has thriving LOTRO, POTBS, and AOC divisions and smaller numbers of players in other MMO's such as WoW and DDO. AoA currently has members testing two games; Warhammer Online and Stargate Worlds. AoA is also active in a broad range of other games including shooters like Team Fortress II, as well as consoles. When you join AoA, you are not only joining a great guild in a particular game, you are joining a community of gamers. That sense of community and longevity is what makes AoA special. AoA is seeking mature players. We recognize that as adults, we have lives and don't have requirements about leveling at a certain pace or making certain milestones by certain dates. Our real requirement is that everyone has fun, is helpful to their fellow guildies, is active to the extent their schedules permit, participates as part of the community, and that everyone contributes to the WAR division's goals and objectives as best they can. Our WAR division will be very focused on RvR, and we would like to attract players that share an interest in having a lead role in that aspect of the game. AoA will enjoy every aspect of the game be it PvE, PvP, or economy - but our goals and objectives will be focused on excelling in RvR and our events and officer structure reflect those objectives. Along those lines, AoA will play a lead role in alliance building, offering up tools to facilitate alliances such as forums and our large vent server.
AoA believes that it is important to "know thy enemy." As a result, we remained undecided on which side we would ultimately choose during beta and encouraged our members to test all the races and classes in both Destruction and Order. We have made our selection and have decided upon DESTRUCTION.
How to apply: Head on over to the AoA forums, register, and make a post in the "post here for access" thread, or contact me in game, or in these forums. You can also hop onto our vent and join our warhammer channel to talk to us. See information in my signature.
We are also interested in potential allies. Feel free to visit our site or email at firstname.lastname@example.com
All Out Assault War Division Leader
Novice Member
Joined: 2/09/04
BKB (Black Knight Brotherhood) is recruiting for members in Warhammer online.
BKB is an older experienced guild. Many of the members have played together for quite a while. BKB is looking for mature and responsible players to help the guild grow in Warhammer.
Visit this site for more info:www.bkbwar.com
Novice Member
Joined: 9/10/08
Our recruitment thread here on these forums: [Click Here]
Apprentice Member
Joined: 7/05/04
Knights of Alliance: Obsidian Order
Main website: http://allianceknights.net/koawh/
Forum webadress: http://www.allianceknights.net/forum/index.php
Chapter Leader: Ramsonne
Allegiance: Destruction
Recruitment: Open
For additional questions contact "Nobody" (That's his name, not a joke) on our forums and he'll be glad to answer anything you want to know.
What makes us different? (short version):
Long [-winded] Version:
Our leadership has a proven track record for even-handed judgement and competence. And each of our chapters benefits from the out of game infrastructure that assists KoA in outperforming most other guilds. Namely third party voice programs, forums, server hosts, website hosting and design, extensive contact information databases, etc.
The KoA Warhammer chapter will again make us a decisive force in global outcomes in our gaming venue. We have a well-organized, para-military structure intent on engaging Order in ruthless RvR. Our http://allianceknights.net/forum community forums are very active and we encourage potential recruits and friends alike to open up the lines of communication with us there. We look forward to hearing from you!
Novice Member
Joined: 8/24/08
REGIMENT NAME: Second Foundation
The purpose of Second Foundation is to fascilitate, inspire, and support free minded people and activities. The primary mission, is to encourag, and help each other, as we explore all aspects of Warhammer Online, with joy in our minds and love in our hearts. The point, so to speak, is to create a mechanism to help us enjoy the game more by helping us find, and assist, other like minded people.
Novice Member
Joined: 3/04/08
Come check out the:
We are Order and Open RvR.
See our recruitment site at Warhammer Alliance here.
Penance: Swearing, binge gaming, jail, drunken MMO domination, bar fights, and terrifying farm animals. Yeah, we do it all. See for yourself.
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-Matt Groening
Novice Member
Joined: 7/21/04
If you're not into being a blood-lusted torture-porn addicted sex slave of the god of murder then Witch Elf isn't for you.
Main website: www.wds.gamerdna.com
Forum webadress: http://www.gamerdna.com/GuildForum.php?f=106545
Chapter Leader: Atychia
Server: Volkmar
Allegiance: Destruction
Recruitment: Open (6man team base)
Limits: 17+, Must not take everything seariously
Small group of people playing team base forms~
AkA My team consist of (Mara, WE, Sorc, DoK, Zeal, Chosen Team Flank 1)
We Demand Sacrifice is not only the guild name, it is a code that all guild members shall follow. We demand sacrifice not only from our opponents in their inevitable slaughter, but also from our guild in complete cooperation and dedication to the team and furthering the guild's ambitions.
All members shall be treated with the same dignity and respect, as this is the way it should be.
Let the focus point of this community be the utter destruction of anyone who stands before us and the camaraderie given life by effective coordination.
Msg me in game "Soju" if want more info were not forcing the use of forums or anything like that all we ask is for you to get a mic and vent <3


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Situated in the heart of Europe, Germany has plenty of fantastic tourist attractions and unique sights to offer. Visitors from all over the world travel to Germany to see architectural treasures and fascinating places of natural beauty. The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) is interested in gathering the most popular attractions and has its international visitors name their German favorites. 15,000 named their personal favorite. The 100 most mentioned were put together into Germany's top 100 attractions in our new app. Attractions and sights that received the same number of votes also share the same ranking position. The app is available on our website for both Apple and Android devices.
The results of the rankings for the TOP 100 for 2014 are updated. Voting was possible worldwide on our website and also via the TOP100 App. We just announced the results of the ranking. Find out more in our press release.
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Social and Service Clubs
Social Clubs exist to enhance the quality of the social and spiritual life of the Anderson University community by providing opportunities for involvement in service, social, and spiritual activities for students.
Social clubs have been in existence at AU for many years and may be formed with
essentially the same criteria as interest clubs, with these exceptions:
- at least 15 eligible students must be interested in being club members and signatures must be obtained.
- SGA and representatives of the Department of Student Life must review the club proposal before it will be approved.
- Must have a faculty/staff advisor
- New social clubs may become active only at the beginning of the academic year.
Women's Social and Service Clubs
Alacritas: established in 2003 by a group of ladies who wanted to have a club based on the foundation of their love for God and one another. Alacritas means "zeal" in Latin, as well as fervor and devotion.
- Current Advisor: Elizabeth Ranfield and Tamara Shelton
- Student Contact: Lauren Cooper
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Camarada: A service based social club whose mission is to promote the interests of Anderson University by serving the Anderson community and to provide an opportunity for women to unite, have Christian fellowship with one another, to give ourselves in service to others, and to challenge each other to grow in the Lord while striving to set a Christ-like example within the campus, community, and abroad.
- Current Advisor: Julie Short and Lolly Bargerstock-Oyler
- Student Contact: Katie Wenchlewicz
- E-mail: email@example.com
L'Amifidel: Promotes spiritual growth as we exemplify each other and magnify our Lord, Jesus Christ; challenges each member to reach her full potential concerning academic and social goals; renders Christian service to the University and surrounding community and strives for CLUB UNITY and EQUALITY as we support each other through encouragement and prayer.
- Current Adivsor: Gayla Roberts
- Student Contact: Julie Ely
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Men's Social and Service Clubs
Adelphi - Adelphi's mission is to be an apostolic brotherhood, whose goals are to humbly foster Christ-like servitude and to accept, love, and cherish all.
- Advisor - Dr. James Scott
- Student contact - Hayden Linville
Avanti Boosters: We are a Men's Service and Social Club at Anderson University. We are the oldest of all clubs on AU's campus, with 75 years of tradition on our shoulders! Our 75 years of rich tradition and history have shaped and helped define the Anderson campus into what it is today.
- Current Adivsor: Scott Borders
- Student Contact: Dan Glass
- E-mail: email@example.com
- FB: https://www.facebook.com/AvantiBoosters?fref=ts
Dativus: established in 1971 at Anderson College, was created for the purpose of Christian servanthood and fellowship both within the community and abroad. Our mission is to unite as brothers and uplift each member, as well as the campus, in the name of the Lord.
- Current Advisor: Paul Salzman, Joe Davis, Jake Banwart
- Student Contact: Jacob Lewis
- E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Novus Dux: was founded in 1985 by Seniors Scott Brooks and Jeff Malott. Novus Dux means 'New Leaders' in Latin and members strive to fulfill a life of servanthood through leadership.
- Current Advisor: Scott Kennedy, Sam Blanchard
- Student Contact: Caleb Baker
- E-mail: email@example.com
- FB: novusduxfacebook.com/novusdux
Recruitment Activities commence at the beginning of the fall semester. If you're interested in learning more about individual club activities, please contact that club.
All recruitment activities must be in accordance with the guidelines and lifestyle expectations contained in the Anderson University Student Handbook [PDF], current Indiana State law, as well as the Anderson University Social Club Guidelines.


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Vivian Linder
Douglass-Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library
2300 E. Yesler Way
Art Partners Program
The city of Seattle's Art Partners program commissioned an additional interior artwork by Vivian Linder. The program provided an emerging artist from the library's local community the opportunity to work with an established artist, like Marita Dingus, to create a permanent public artwork. Linder's artwork features a series of three earth-toned relief panels that depict the artist's interpretation of a pre-Columbian figure in the central panel. The figure is flanked in both the left and right reliefs by Linder's adaptation of figures that appear in West African art. These cultural translations evoke the rich heritage of the library's surrounding neighborhood.


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The Aiken Department of Public Safety responded to vehicle break-ins on Richland Avenue, Pine Street and Dillon Avenue.
Aiken Public Safety responded to a call of shots fired on Sirius Drive around 3:10 p.m. on Monday. Officers said a man had discharged a pellet gun.
The Aiken County Sheriffs Office responded to vehicle break-ins on Jerusalem Branch Road in Salley, Demedicis Boulevard in Warrenville and Atomic Road in Beech Island.
The Sheriffs Office responded to burglaries on Cedar Road in Aiken, Columbia Highway in Ridge Spring, Trotter Court in Jackson, Pine Log Road in Aiken, Bettis Academy Road in Graniteville, and Windham Way in Aiken.
A Graniteville woman told the Sheriffs Office that she left her home for a short time on Saturday and returned to find the bushes in her front yard on fire. The fire damaged the bushes and the siding on her home. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
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For those of you who haven't taken advantage of Charleston Restaurant Week yet, the biannual event ends on Sunday.
So what are you waiting for?
With more than 140 participating restaurants, there's definitely something for everyone, whether its seafood, steak, ethnic cuisine or Southern fare.
The event, put on by the Greater Charleston Restaurant Association, offers a great opportunity to try a new eatery or revisit an old favorite.
For a full listing of participating restaurants, go to www.charlestonrestaurantassociation.com.
Current champ Bruce Dodds, who works as a sales rep, is going up against Rob Shultz, a payroll administrator.
1. Which King Street restaurant is named for a type of apple?
2. What downtown restaurant is named after a local dog?
3. What does S.N.O.B. stand for?
4. Which restaurant is located on the grounds of the Wentworth Mansion?
5. A participating restaurant is named for what local attraction that's believed to be almost five hundred years old?
6. 39 Rue de Jean is on what street?
7. What hotel is the Barbadoes Room located in?
8. Name the downtown restaurant where you can also play skee ball and classic arcade games.
9. A participating restaurant shares a name with which Greek god. What is it?
10. Where can you find Jasmine Porch and The Ocean Room?
1. I believe it's Macintosh.
2. Could it be Parson Jack's?
3. Slightly North of Broad
4. I really have no clue.
5. 500? Well, then it's probably Angel Oak.
6. The giveaway is in the restaurant name, so, obviously, John Street.
7. The Mills House
8. I don't know.
9. Zeus, maybe.
10. On Kiawah, at The Sanctuary, if you need me to be that specific.
1. Macintosh, isn't it? Right on King Street.
2. Don't know this one.
3. Slightly North of Broad
4. Know there's one there but can't think what it is.
5. Angel Oak
6. Somewhere downtown, I know that.
7. Swamp Fox?
8. Only place that comes to mind is The Alley on Columbus.
9. Athena. I'm guessing.
10. Wild Dunes
Bruce makes it two in a row and will return next week in an effort to make it a three-peat.
1. The Macintosh
2. Poogan's Porch
3. Slightly North of Broad
4. Circa 1886
5. Angel Oak
6. John Street
7. The Mills House Wyndham Grand Hotel
8. The Alley's Home Team Kitchen
9. Zeus (Grill and Seafood)
10. The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort
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Last Saturday's half sentence post went well, but there's only half a brain on this team, and its synapses are fried.
Fried synapses are gross. They smell bad, like a fizzled out smoke bomb (Happy Fourth of July y'all!) and they elevate cholesterol to unhealthy levels.
Anyway, back to task.
Give us your best half … not your spouse, your best half sentence, so we can use the brain we do have for more pleasant things, like not thinking.
We'll post your best halves in the weeks ahead.
Apparently, our half brain works okely dokely. We knew we couldn't post 'em in the weeks behind.


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Friday, June 6, 2014
Tragedy struck in Moncks Corner Friday afternoon, as a 21-year-old St. Stephen man drowned after jumping into the Tailrace Canal from the Hwy. 52 bridge in Moncks Corner.
According to Berkeley County Coroner and Rescue Squad Chief Bill Salisbury, 21-year-old Mathew Gourdine of St. Stephen jumped into the water at 3:18 p.m. and did not surface. Berkeley County Rescue Squad, SC DNR, Berkeley County Sheriffs Office, and several local fire departments responded and started a search.
According to Salisbury, at 4:20 p.m. the Rescue Squad recovered the body of Mr. Gourdine.
His death has been ruled as an accidental drowning, Salisbury reported. The death was investigated by the Berkeley County Coroners Office and the South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources.
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Quality and safety
The quality of our product and the associated safety of our guests is very important to us. We also want you and your kids to feel in good hands!
"We seek transparency and want to let you know how we work!"
For this reason, we aim to get tested and certified by external certification bodies on a regular basis in order to guarantee our guests an above the average standard in the industry.
The quality of A&O hostels has been reviewed and certified by the following institutions:
All our houses have been awarded with two stars by the DEHOGA, the German Hotel & Catering Association responsible for the hotel star rating; excluding A&O Köln Dom and A&O Hamburg Reeperbahn. Some of our properties also received the extra 'Superior' for above-average performance in this category.
Since 2007 A&O is tested by TÜV Rheinland annually with regard to our 'Youth Hostel Quality Standard'. In this procedure the institution determines whether our offer 'Youth Hotel' has been implemented appropriately for young people. This is seen from the perspective of a customer, checking if certain standards were met, such as the cleanliness of the rooms, the hygiene in A&O's bathrooms, the breakfast or the competence and friendliness of staff.
Furthermore, the optimal organisation and consistent quality of the internal processes is evaluated as well as the compliance of youth protection regulations.
We have met all the criteria to the satisfaction of TÜV and, as a result, have been vertified with the quality label 'Youth Hostel Quality Standard'.
'Reisenetz' is the Association of Youth Travel which awarded A&O with its quality label 'checked quality', interestingly being the first and single accommodation chain to have ever received this label.
Bundesforum Kinder- und Jugendreisen e.V.
The Federal Forum for Children and Youth Travel runs its own test system called QMJ (quality management for youth travel). This quality label informs about defined standards and awards its stars accordingly, similar to the DEHOGA association. Most German A&O hostels have been certified with 4 out of 5 possible stars (the exception being Berlin Zoo with 3 stars).
CO2 footprint
Last year A&O has instructed an independent institution called Viabono to check all our buildings on their CO2 emissions. This CO2 emission check allows a measurement of the climate impact on human activities. The average level of CO2 emissions of all A&O hostels is 8.96kg CO2/ overnight stay. This value in fact corresponds to the climate efficiency class B in the categories youth accommodations, being 3 times lower than in other two and three star hotels. The average value is 26 kg CO2/ overnight stay. We can achieve this climate friendly value by means of our simple and functional facilities plus our optimal use of space.
We are pleased to claim that we have been the first German hostel chain to have ever carried out such an emission check so far.
Here you find some examples of our certifications:
A&O Berlin Friedrichshain A&O Hamburg Reeperbahn A&O Wien Stadthalle
Because we really care about the environment and want to educate our guests, we have developed a CO2 calculator in cooperation with Viabono making it possible to plan eco-friendly school trips. To do the CO2 check, simply click here.


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One argument I see on this forum is faction lock. Some people are against it, because they want to explore the entire world of Tamriel with 1 character or perhaps with a few characters, but races that are within the same faction as the factions are configured currently. This means people will repeat content if their favorite races are in the same faction. Fans from the other side of the argument say that you can create 1 race from each faction and still explore the entire world. Some others say that the faction lock will bring back the realm pride that DAoC had. If fans are BOTH saying they want faction pride AND you should reroll all 3 factions to see the entire game, doesn't this fly in the face of having realm pride?
In DAoC, people generally stuck with 1 realm over a course of years. Playing the same realm and with the same people for months on end, if not years, is what generated that realm pride. If fans expect players to reroll 3 characters (at least) to see all 3 factions content to settle the argument of being limited in content due to faction lock, aren't you also contradicting yourself on the whole realm pride rebuttal?
I think people will play all 3 factions, thus eliminating or at best seriously reducing realm pride known in DAoC as being a staple for its good RvR.
So I think the realm pride rebuttal is irrelevant to future discussions.
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This sense of community, faction pride and realm pride ended with SWG, which wasn't long after DAOC.
That was about the time WoW came out and MMOs went mainstream, thus going from 500 players online per faction to 5000+.
Ask some family from the 1960s how sociable life was with their neighbors, friends and complete strangers then ask them to compare that to life today. There's simply too many people in the world today which turns a lot of people kinda bitter; the same principal applies to MMOs.
Hell.. I basically talk to my neighbors once a month in passing if i'm lucky.
In GW2, aside from the odd bit of general channel chat, I stuck entirely to my own guild.. like most do now.
Faction pride has nothing to do with being able to have an alt on the other faction or not, its about identity, it doesn't matter that i can roll an alt, its a matter of which faction/people you identify with most while playing. Faction pride is "this is me a mine", i don't have a problem with the game encouraging me to see all sides of the conflict, each character wont be able to interfere in another's pvp campaign anyway, so getting to see each perspective with no repetition of content before deciding on a main is a good thing imo
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver". - Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no realm pride by keeping other factions out of your maps. Thats just that, limitations to the game and limitations to the exploration part of the game. Why not let everyone explore other factions maps with the risk of getting caught by faction guards? If im a sneaky player i can go anywhere without getting caught. Maybe even trigger events in enemy factions that would lead to massive faction conflicts in Cyrodil.
The faction pride (when it comes to players), comes from being able to beat other factions and take over their territories. Allowing players to wander the entire Tamriel has nothing to do with faction pride. Theres even more pride in being able to (again) sneak to other factions areas, do stuff, and get out successfully.
Creativity and imagination (even the one that make sense with X or Y Lore) is dying by the hands of ¨the easy way out¨
Originally posted by deakon
Let's say the average person in a particular faction plays 20 hours a week. Once that average person rolls an alt in another faction, you now have that 20 hours cut down to even fewer. Count another reroll to a 3rd faction and it's even fewer still. How are players gonna bond, which is important for realm pride, if everyone hardly sees the same players day in and day out like they did in DAoC?
I haven't heard anyone speak of identifying with any faction, or character for that matter, since before WoW came out. I doubt things are just suddenly going to change for ESO. It's wishful thinking and hype getting to a person. People will play and game ESO the same way players have been since WoW became mainstream. They'll have multiple alts, and across differing factions no less. There won't be realm pride the way people keep speaking. That's obviously my opinion, but an opinion based on over a decade of MMORPG gaming, with every new release and then some under my belt.
As for the poster who said DAoC only had 500 people per faction, that's not true. DAoC had just over 3000 per server, so an average of 1000 per realm on each server. That's a whole lot of people. You didn't know everyone or even close to it, but you were encouraged to group during the months it took you to level up, so you got to know 10's if not over a hundred players over the course of that journey. Servers don't have much higher of a cap even still. Further more, many games take that population and split them up across several instances of the same zone to keep the performance up. So numbers isn't a problem. People just aren't loyal to 1 faction anymore, on top of there being mostly solo content to level up off of.
Originally posted by rojo6934
A part of being proud of your faction (faction pride) is loyalty to that faction. A person isn't loyal to their faction if they have an alt in the other 2 factions. That's what I'm getting at. ESO fans expect a player to reroll twice to see the entire world on one hand, and on the other hand they say having racially locked factions will increase realm pride. I disagree, not to mention TES has never been about limiting the game world by racial factions.
If Bethesda released all of Tamriel in a single player game, I wonder if ESO fans would be okay with racially locked factions, or if they'd expect to see the entire game world, just like the entire map was explorable in all their previous games. Fans wouldn't be okay with that, yet they have a double standard for ESO. ESO is still supposed to be a TES game, yet Zenimax has butchered the IP by forcing a TES game into a DAoC mold. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit.
As much as I loved DAoC's RvR system, it doesn't fit in a TES game. Leave RvR to IP's better suited for it, like Camelot Unleashed and The Secret World.
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It still can have server pride if all your alt is on different server (aka the mega server purposely place your alt on other server).
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Casual pve types that don't play endgame will roll all 3 factions and get triple the length out of the game that they do out of a all chums together in pve game like say tsw.
People interested in endgame pvp will stick to 1 char and have faction pride. I mean you say this yourself, most people in daoc stuck to 1 faction.
Originally posted by nate1980
You know what else hasn't been done since before wow was released? Faction locked content, might be an explination as to why you havent.
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In DaoC, realm pride was introduced the first time. And it was restricted to one realm per account per server. You could not travel to the other realms with your character. Yes, i think this was part of building up realm pride. The other realms were always the enemy. No chance questing side by side with them. No chance to dive into their lore. Not chance to develop sympathies with them. The players of the other realms choose to be an enemy of mine, and therefore I tried too destroy them (virtually) where I find them.
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Was it disloyal to date other people before you got married ?
Were you disloyal to your wife/husband by dating other people before your marriage ?
Are you any less proud of your eventual decision to marry that special person, having dated people other than your wife ?
Do most of the societys we live in force one to make a choice of a marriage partner with out getting to know other potential partners ? (Neither does ESOL)
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I think most people who create alt characters will still end up with one main character and a specific guild they enjoy playing with the most. Usually when you make friends it's at that point that you begin to be loyal to whatever faction you ended up in. Players may make other characters solely to be able to explore all of Tamriel. I don't think this will have any impact at all on Faction Pride.
I do think that instead of Realm Pride, because of the megaserver you will see more emphasis on Guild Pride.
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It is kind of weird though, since you can jump to an alt and spy on opponent or sabotage the other party. I dont' really like the idea.
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Originally posted by laokoko
You cant do that, because no two characters on the same account will be in the same campaign. They thought of that. You can actually develop realm pride for all 3 realms, and while that does sound contradictory, its not. Like someone else said, you will most likely have a main, even if you roll alts, and that main will be in a guild all on the same Alliance, competing in one campaign.
Your other alts, will be in other guilds in the other Alliances, and they cannot enter the same campaign as your main. So although you are in a different alliance (realm), you still wont be able to "spy" or "sabotage" for your main Alliance. I think some of you are forgetting that fact.
Originally posted by deakon
The majority of games with factions have faction locked content. WoW, WAR, SWTOR, etc. All of those games don't share the same quests. The locations they visit may overlap to provide some chance for PvP, but they're not shared.
Originally posted by nate1980
They are shared, same lands, same mobs and for the most part same story from a different perspective, this will be different lands, mobs, stories
Originally posted by deakon
Different lands, but we don't know if it'll be different mobs and stories. I'm sure it'll be a step above the other games I mentioned though. Guess we'll see.
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Originally posted by m0lly
The same could be said about DAoC. I never played DAoC so I don't have the fond memories I see countless others having, but I simply must say I lost alot of my anticipation for this game when learning that my Breton cannot walk into Skyrim or Summerset Isles.
This has confirmed my fears that this game is going to focus alot more on PvP then PvE and immersiveness. When I heard about Skyrim, which was a huge world to explore, was only about 1/6th of all of Tamriel I was overjoyed to think of just how big this game world would be and how long it would take to travel from one end to the other by horseback. We are talking a minimum of YEARS to explore it all. Then they announced they were focusing on explorers finding little nooks and crannies and actually having loot there to encourage exploration, but alas, it is all killed with the confirmation that you choose a main and now you are stuck in only 1/3rd of the whole world.
I'm a PvE to the max kind of guy and usually hate PvP, but I was even excited for PvP in this game. Even though I prefer PvE, I am not a carebear by any means. I was excited to be sneaking around in enemy territory and PKing in the open world or doing my own quests and have the excitement of trying to fend off a surprise attack. It adds an element of dynamic open and changing world events that do not have to be implemented by the devs or pre-scripted. it adds immersiveness and realism.
I agree with one of the posters above who mentioned that its seems the devs are trying to squeeze TES into a DAoC mold and I DO NOT like it at all. DAoC from what I understand had some great features(from what i've read about it: I like the 3-faction PvP, siege weapons/catapults, and large scale PvP wars of 100 or more poeple in 1 big open field), but with that said DAoC is form the past and this MMO need to look to the future.
Again, I must say I was extremely excited when I first heard of this game and even purchased Skyrim AFTER hearing about TESO simply to become familiar with the lore and some class building as it's completely different from what I am used to, being mostly an MMO gamer. I LOVE the freedom of Skyrim and would simply be happy with Skyrim Online.
Picking a race and being locked to a faction is fine with me. I also want faction pride as well, BUT I do not want to be limited in the area I can walk or ride my horse to. Unfortunately, I have lost all interest in a game that doesn't allow me to explore everything with my main character. I'm not a big fan of Alts. So, alas, I am saddened but as I look here at more and more information on the newest MMOs coming for 2013-2014 it seems I will have to wait more towards 2015 and Project Titan perhaps to see what I am really looking for in an MMO of the "next-generation"
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Originally posted by Rukushin
If you have no desire to play alts a 3 faction game is not designed for you. Your last few sentences tells us this is not going to be something you will enjoy from what we know so far. Best wait on Archage for your 2013 fix :)
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A photographer in New York City used a telephoto lens to capture candid images of his neighbors in their homes, going about their daily lives. And then he sold them.
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According to the Associated Press, Arne Svenson took pictures of residents in a building across the street from his Tribeca home. The images depict mundane activities such as putting a child to bed, talking on the phone or taking a nap.
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ROADSIDE tributes to car crash victims in Copeland will be removed from the site after 12 weeks, under new guidelines.
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The council's newly introduced Roadside Memorials Policy allows "the placing at the roadside of temporary floral and other temporary tributes for a 12-week period following a fatal crash". Prior to this limit being introduced, there had previously been no formal policy on the issue in Cumbria, where floral roadside tributes are a familiar sight on many major routes. Roadside memorials have always been removed by Highways staff if they became an obstruction to the road itself, as any hazard would be.
A local funeral director told The Whitehaven News: "I think putting any sort of limit on it is putting a restriction on a family's grief.
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A Cumbria County Council spokesperson said: " We recognise that memorials are personal and meaningful to families and friends of victims and the new approach takes this into consideration, however as the local highways authority, the county council has a duty to ensure memorials do not cause distraction to other road users or endanger those attending them.
"We have engaged widely with other interested parties on this issue and the key principle of the new approach is to allow the placing of flowers or tributes by the roadside for up to 12 weeks following a fatal crash after which a sensitive approach is recommended to their removal."
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All as i can say is i hope you never lose a relative or a loved one to a tragic car accident Michelle Hutton.For some families it is more than just a tribute to owe they have lost, it is also acceptance as to who they have lost.
Very selfish attutude michelle hunton,people do not always die in a bed,if they are killed horrifically on a roadside or on the road is the pain of the bereaved the same as someone who died in a bed ,i don't think so,everybody is different,some take a long time to heal and some never heal from a loss,as any councillor will say everybody is different and they all heal in their own way and their own time,who are we to tell them when to stop,besides how many people see these tributes and slow down because they know what it means,how many lives has that saved.Why do you regard a tribute as "clutter".
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