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The Saturday Comedy Sessions w/ Julian Deane, Special Guest, Phil Jerrod & Alex Boardman
THE SATURDAY NIGHT COMEDY SESSIONS (EST. 2001) IS YORKSHIRE’S LONGEST RUNNING INDEPENDENT COMEDY NIGHT. IT FEATURES FOUR STAND UP COMEDIANS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE EVERY SATURDAY EVENING FROM 7PM UNTIL 10PM.
*Please note that due to the indefinite closure of another Leeds venue, some acts have had to change and may not be able to perform on the shows that they were originally intended to. We are doing our best to keep the listings (on our calendar page) as up to date as feasibly possible with the current situation. If this causes any major inconvenience please contact [email protected] or on 0113 242 7353.*
Past acts to grace the stage include Reginald D Hunter, Alan Carr, Jason Manford, Russell Howard, John Bishop & Russell Kane to name but a few. Recent acts include the likes of Katherine Ryan, Gary Delaney, Justin Moorhouse & Chris Ramsey.
Please note, there is limited seating available at the comedy club. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are sold for the Comedy Night as an event and not for individual comedians. Line-ups are subject to change. Fancy dress is not permitted.
Seating is on a first come first served basis; tables cannot be reserved.
Please respect your fellow customers by keeping conversation noise levels to a minimum. Repeated disturbances may result in your ejection from the building.
At the discretion of management and security of The HiFi Club, same sex groups of 5 or more may be asked for a behavioural bond of £10 per person upon entry to ensure the smooth running of the comedy event. This behavioural bond will be returned at the end of the show as long as the rules of the venue have been adhered to.
For group enquiries and bookings please contact us directly on 0113 242 7353 (Monday – Friday 9am – 6pm).
Time7-10pm
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Home / festival / music / neon lights / news / 17 more music acts announced for Neon Lights festival
17 more music acts announced for Neon Lights festival
Unknown Thursday, July 28, 2016 festival, music, neon lights, news
Singapore’s premier music and arts festival, Neon Lights has finally unveiled 17 more amazing music acts who will be joining the previously announced headliners Sigur Ros and Foals for the festival’s 2016 line-up!
The acts that will be joining the second edition of Neon Lights include Canadian indie-electro duo Crystal Castles, Swedish alt-folk hero Jose Gonzalez and the original Godfather of Funk himself, Detroit’s George Clinton.
“We feel we are upping the ante with the range and quality of music acts in this year’s festival, with a strong mix of international acts alongside the best new stars from the Singaporean indie scene. We’ll be announcing a few more music acts, plus the array of entertainment in our arts areas in September,” said Neon Lights’ festival director Declan Forde.
Other international acts confirmed for the two-day festival are; Canadian neo-funk star Neon Indian, English folk-songstress Lucy Rose, English electronic producer Gold Panda, Canadian jazz and hip hop fusion Badbadnotgood, English instrumental math rock band 65daysofstatic, and newbie band from London, Pumarosa.
Meanwhile, the homegrown local performers who will be showcasing their talents as well includes acoustic superstar Gentle Bones, singer-songwriter Linying, electronic dance rock quartet Cashew Chemists, as well as another electronic funky pop quartet, Disco Hue.
Neon Lights will take place at Fort Canning Park, Singapore on 26 and 27 November 2016.
Only a limited number of early bird tickets remain available, and they can be purchased from neonlights.sg.
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Tribes, Thekla presents Tribes: 14+ Event
www.tribesband.com
When you’ve clawed your way - secret gig by word-of-mouth demo-swap by rooftop video shoot - out of the North London underground rock scene, survived homelessness and recording your debut album while living in a van in the car park of a Liverpool studio, seen that album hit the Top Twenty and garner impressive Album Of The Year rankings, sold out the Shepherd’s Bush Empire and made serious impact on the US college radio circuit, how would you celebrate? Easy. You’d hire a huge house in the Malibu hills while recording your second album ‘Wish To Scream’ in LA, record all day, party some nights and surf at dawn.
For seven weeks towards the end of 2012, while staying in an ex-rehab clinic in the hills above Malibu (“It was pretty cost effective to go out there, it was pretty much the same as going to Liverpool again, which was ridiculous”), Tribes jammed out their new songs for twelve hours a day, taking in contributions from visiting local legends such as Bob Dylan’s organ player, Bowie’s pianist, Greg Smith of The Eagles and Brenda Holloway’s Motown gospel choir. “The whole thing was this open-door policy of people coming down and friends of the producer who’d play mandolin or piano,” says Johnny. “We’d always be the core of guitar, bass and drums and people would just play around us. It was great, brilliant fun.”
“I hope people can recognise us as a British band that’s not going anywhere that can deliver albums quickly, that’s what I want,” says Johnny, and Dan agrees. “This feels like our first record as the band we wanted to be. There’s a lot of clarity on it, real songwriting, With our ability to write songs now we feel pretty strong. We’ve started writing the third record already, we’ve got sketches here and there and it’s all sounding good.” You’ve come a long way, ‘Baby’.
Plus special guests
TUESDAY 28 MAY
THEKLA BRISTOL
The Grove, Bristol BS1 4RB
Doors 7.00pm
Tickets £12.50 advance
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"Big Dog" Ready to Take a Bite Out of Opponent at UFC 81 (Plus Other Lame Metaphors)
Ricardo Almeida, a.k.a. "Big Dog", returns to the dog house known as the Octagon at UFC 81, where he'll take a bite out of last-minute replacement Rob Yundt. When news broke that original opponent Alan Belcher had left the yard with his tail between his legs, the word around the kennel was that Almeida would have no one to play with - until Zuffa announced Yundt as the new chew toy. Has the Big Dog learned any new tricks since his last MMA outing nearly four years ago? Will Yundt be able to resist the urge to roll over and play dead? Or is he nothing but a hound dog? We'll know on Saturday!
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Who the Heck Are Zach Makovsky, Wilson Reis and Charlie Brenneman?
Tonight's ShoXC event in Atlantic City may have some star power attached to it thanks to Eddie Alvarez, Paul Daley and Sammy Morgan, but there's no doubt some of the names on the undercard will leave fans scratching their heads. Who the heck are Zach Makovsky, Wilson Reis and Charlie Brenneman? Who on earth is James Jones? What has Matt Makowski done to deserve a fight on one of ProElite's shows? Folks, MMA Journalist goes to almost every MMA event in New Jersey and takes copious notes just to be able to answer these questions! -Zach Makovsky: A Combat in the Cage champ with rock-solid wrestling mixed with Muay Thai, this Fight Factory representative has wins over two BJJ black belts. How did he do it? With nonstop aggression. -Wilson Reis: Reis is a BJJ black belt with a nearly flawless top-game. The big question mark here, though, is if he'll be able to put Makovsky on his back. -Charlie Brenneman: A Ring of Combat champ with unstoppable takedowns and relentless ground-and-pound. That's all you really need to know. -James "Binky" Jones: Another Ring of Combat champ, Binky's all about submitting opponents from the guard. Obviously, he's pretty good at it. -Mark Getto: Getto's a former Extreme Challenge Northeast champ, and he sports wrestling mixed with submissions. His 3-1 record is pretty deceptive, as he's fought some of the toughest fighters in the Garden State (for example, his first MMA bout was against Frankie Edgar). -Sergio Vignare: A Ricardo Almeida-trained grappler, Vignare isn't afraid to throw some leather when the fists start flying (hence his knockout win over Brett Linebarger and his knockout loss to Greg Soto). -Drew Puzon: Another Ricardo Almeida-trained grappler, Puzon's got some skills on the ground. However, his weak spot seems to be strong wrestlers. Um, uh-oh. -Matt Makowski: Look up "Matt Makowski" in the dictionary and you'll see "razor-sharp Muay Thai" listed as the definition. Which shouldn't be enough to win MMA fights, but Makowski had little trouble defeating a Renzo Gracie-trained black belt with it.
Madeleine Cloud Genia Ready for MMA Debut
Following a rigorous nine-month training cycle, up-and-coming scrapper Madeleine Cloud Genia announced to the world that she's ready for her MMA debut on Tuesday. Tipping the scales at seven pounds, the loud and forceful warrior was purportedly fielding offers to compete in the UFC and IFL's infant weight classes, but was also considering fighting on the Kimbo/Tank EliteXC undercard. Said coach Gabriella Genia: "Put that tape recorder down. Are you going to change her diaper or what?"
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UFC to Allow Special Rules for Penn vs. Stevenson Bout
In an effort to make the bout more competitive, the UFC has decided to allow special rules for Saturday's UFC 80 lighweight championship contest between BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson, a Zuffa official announced yesterday. For the first frame of the five-rounder, Stevenson will be allowed to utilize a prehistoric weapon, i.e., a large stone or club. If the fight goes into the second round, Stevenson will be allowed to incorporate a medieval melee weapon of his choice, up to and including a longsword, battle axe or flail. In the unlikely event that the bout lasts into the third round or beyond, the TUF2 winner will then have the option of shooting Penn with either a taser or a low-caliber handgun. "We didn't want anyone dying," said the Zuffa official, who asked to remain anonymous. "I mean, otherwise, BJ would kill Stevenson. At least this way Stevenson has a chance."
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MMA Grammar Lesson - Please Take Notes
As an editor and as a fan, I read a ton of MMA-related articles. A ton. And when I'm not weighing all that paper on a gigantic scale (did you know 2,000 pounds of paper fills up an entire room?), I'm picking out the same grammatical mistakes again and again. So listen up, all you budding sports writers and aspiring journalists tackling mixed martial arts for the first time, 'cause I'm only going over this once: 1. The name of our sport is "mixed martial arts". Note how it's not hyphenated or capitalized. Writing "Mixed-Martial-Arts" is incorrect; if you insist on doing that, please go back to watching naked bullriding on ESPN8. 2. The "rear naked choke" finishing hold is not hyphenated. Hyphenating it is a sure sign you belong in the realm of knitting and crocheting. 3. Writing "guillotine choke" is redundant. Just "guillotine" is fine. No one is going to assume fighter A chopped off fighter B's head with an old French execution apparatus. 4. "Armbar" is one word, as is "leglock" and "anklelock". Writing otherwise means you suck. Hard. 5. Plain old "jiu-jitsu" doesn't need to be capitalized. However, "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu" deserves its capital letters because it's a proper noun - and you learned about proper nouns in grade school. I hope. 6. You don't capitalize "heavyweight" or "champion", unless it's a proper noun (like "UFC Heavyweight Champ" or "Reality Fighting Heavyweight Champ"). By all means, please use capitals in those instances. This same rule applies with the other weight classes, too. 7. Please hyphenate "light-heavyweight". And if you argue that the UFC doesn't hyphenate the word when they do their on-screen graphics, I will kick you in the groin for assuming the UFC's on-screen graphics would trump Strunk & White's Elements of Style. 8. Please capitalize "Octagon". It's a proper noun. Zuffa went to great lengths to trademark it - and they would sue your ass into oblivion if you used an eight-sided cage. So please, do it for them.
WCO Show Totally Awesome in Bizarro Universe
The World Cagefighting Organization debut event, which featured the likes of Renato "Babalu" Sobral, former UFC champ Ricco Rodriguez, MMA legend Mark Kerr and the much-maligned but oft-misunderstood Mike Kyle, was a resounding success in the Bizzaro Universe this Saturday. For the thousands of rabid fans crammed into the San Diego Sports Arena, the night was jam-packed with thrills and action - and for those fighters who gave it their all, it was a night of heart, honor and redemption. "I would fight for the WCO again for sure," said Babalu, who reportedly earned a handsome sum for his first bout back since his suspension. "They took care of me and delivered on all their promises." No word yet on when the WCO will return, but as they ran a smooth show, paid all the fighters, and meshed flawlessly with the California State Athletic Commission, it was certainly a hit in the Bizarro Universe. In other news, the WCO completely shit the bed in our universe.
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Ten Things Learned From Reading "Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History"
MMA Journalist purchased a copy of former UFC champ Matt Hughes' book, "Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History", the day it went on sale. As it rarely contained words of more than two syllables, and subjects not pertaining to God received only a cursory examination, it's entirely possible to finish the book in one night. Ten things learned from reading "Made in America": 1. Hughes really likes Jesus. 2. Hughes really does not like Frank Trigg. 3. Hughes could go either way on Tim Sylvia. 4. Mullets were cool back in Hillsboro when Hughes was growing up. 5. Hughes ain't a playa, he just crushes a lot. 6. Twins Matt and Mark needed a big brother to kick their asses when they were young. Seriously. Those kids were destructive as hell. 7. The Randy Couture love/hate saga has thankfully been resolved. 8. Don't go to a wedding in the Midwest without being prepared to brawl. 9. Hughes is not afraid to take a leak on a Las Vegas bar if the bathroom is too far away. 10. Hughes really, really likes Jesus.
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An Interview with "Woofy", Former IFL Team Mascot
No more Los Angeles Anacondas, no more Quad City Silverbacks, no more Portland Wolfpack. For 2008, the IFL is getting rid of its contrived teams and replacing them with actual team vs. team competition (think: a squad from Xtreme Couture taking on a squad from Team Quest). It sounds like a smart move for the struggling promotion, but MMA Journalist caught up with former New York Pitbulls mascot John L. Millborne, a.k.a. "Woofy", to get his perspective. Sporting a large styrofoam bone and a trumpet that shot confetti, Woofy was a fixture at events whenever the Pitbulls competed. Now he's out of work. How are you? -Good, man. Real good. How do you feel about the IFL getting rid of its original teams? -Well, it was hard to accept at first. I mean, I have student loans and bills to worry about. But business is business, and I don't think the fake teams the brass had thought up in the beginning were really adding any value to the IFL product. Plus, do you have any idea how much it costs to maintain a furry six-foot tall dog costume? Those cleaning expenses were through the roof! Will you miss being Woofy? -Being Woofy was both good and bad. It was good when the Pitbulls won the championship this past year. Andre Gusmao carried me around on his shoulders and I got photos of a ring card girl doing some funny things with my giant styrofoam bone. And the bad? -When Renzo submitted Pat Miletich in Illinois, some angry Miletich fans threw me in a dumpster. Also, I think Ben Rothwell bit me. I'm not sure. Fucker. Sounds like you had a lot of interesting experiences, eh? -You have no idea. And I wouldn't have had them if not for the IFL. Cool. Well, best of luck to you, Woofy. -Thanks, bro.
Eddie Alvarez Signs with EliteXC, Will Fight for M-1 Global, Then Cure Cancer
Former BodogFIGHT champ Eddie Alvarez - one of the most popular East Coast fighters ever - has recently signed with EliteXC, MMA Journalist has learned. Known for his charisma, extremely heavy hands and ability to raise the dead, the Philadelphia native will headline the January 25th ShoXC event at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, squaring off against Hawaiian slugger Ross "Da Boss" Ebanez in a bout that is sure to please the legion of faithful who will no doubt pack the venue. Alvarez will also be fighting for M-1 Global at some future date, EliteXC's notoriously restrictive contracts notwithstanding, and then will either cure cancer or feed thousands with a few loaves of bread and some fish.
A Slew of Surprises
Unpredictability is one of the cornerstones of MMA's appeal, and with the UFC, the IFL, and M-1 Global's Yarennoka event all taking place in the span of a few days, "unpredictability" came at us like a runaway freight train. Who would've guessed that Georges St. Pierre would dominate Matt Hughes with takedowns and ground-and-pound before nearly tearing his arm off? Not I. Who out there really believed Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva would go the distance, knowing they'd be throwing the kind of leather that would render nearly every other light-heavyweight in the world unconscious? Not me, pal. Matt Horwich dropping Benji Radach, Brett Cooper trouncing Rory Markham, and Ryan Schultz beating the tar out of Chris Horodecki? Nope. No friggin' way. Even Hong Man Choi's performance against Fedor was a shock. After over a decade, this sport still manages to surprise and thrill. You've got to love it.
Results of MMA Journalist "Best of 2007" Online Poll
The emails have been read and the results are in for MMA Journalist's "Best of 2007" online poll. Thanks to all those who sent in their opinions, and an even bigger thanks to all those who used a spell-checking program, proper grammar, the English language or managed just the slightest bit of coherence. So without further ado, the best of 2007! -Best Fighter to Party With: Adam Smith, who fought at the September 29th Strikeforce event at the Playboy Mansion and subsequently tested positive for cocaine and marijuana. Blow, weed and Playboy Bunnies? Rock on, brother. Rock on. -Best Sinking Ship: BodogFIGHT. Holy Titanic, Batman! -Best Punch to the Armpit: Kimbo Slice's uppercut to Bo Cantrell at the November 10th EliteXC "Renegade" show. When done right, no can defend. -Best Reporter for Screwing Things Up: Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports. Um, how much did Couture make? Right... -Best Crying: John Koppenhaver, who defeated Jared Rollins at the TUF 6 Finale, then bawled his eyes out. There, there War Machine. Jared didn't die. Look, see? He's standing up and walking around. -Best Stock to Buy: the IFL's. Ha! Just kidding.
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Stella Oduah: Frequently Asked Questions By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
The revelation that the Aviation Minister Ms. Stella Oduah arm-twisted the National Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to buy two armored BMW cars for $1.6 million dollars has raised a lot of questions. How we answer some of these questions will determine if we will be able to reduce corruption in our society. I will now tackle some of your frequently asked questions.
Q1. Why Ms. Stella Oduah?
Answer: Because she was caught, red-handed, if I may add.
Q2. Isn’t that what they’ve all been doing? They are all corrupt.
Answer: When a police radar clocks your car for driving faster than the speed limit and you are pulled over, that some other drivers were driving faster than you will not let you off the hook. That they all do it does not exonerate you.
Q3. Why now? Isn’t this a calculated attempt to frustrate her? Is this issue not orchestrated by the special interests she sidelined in order to carry out impressive work she is doing in the aviation sector, like the airport renovations?
Answer: Every person in authority deals with special interests. In a place where there is no transparency and standards, people in power favor some and disfavor others. This is something that following laid down procedures will save them from. Those you did not favor may be unhappy, or even be antagonistic. For every Dangote favored there is an Ibeto disfavored. They may wish that you disappear from your position, but they will not force you to spend $1.6 million to buy two armored cars.
Q4: Stella Oduah is not the first person to be caught misappropriating public funds. There is Farouk Lawan, Dimeji Bankole, why is everyone piling on her?
Answer: I went back to look at news reports of the time when major corruption scandals broke. They looked to me as if everyone was piling on those people, too. In fact, it appears as if those who complain that a particular corruption suspect is being piled on are the same people who derided another suspect in the past.
The only change that I see in Stella Oduah’s case is that Nigerians are getting more frustrated by the day. And social media is expanding the more. If you think Stella Oduah had it rough, wait until the next scandal that will break. In fact, President Jonathan complains of being the most criticized Nigerian president but my pity is with the next president- whoever that may be. It’ll be rough, rough, rough.
Q5. Are we not innocent until proven guilty in a court of law?
Answer: Yes. But that’s in a sane society. In a society where a suspected thief is lynched on the street or a police officer regularly shoots a suspect and plants evidence on him, what do you expect? Isn’t it ironic that some of the same people who are quoting the law in the case of Ms. Oduah will gladly pour petrol and light the matches on a suspected thief?
Q6. Isn’t the fact that she’s a smart Igbo woman a factor?
Answer: I hope she is not the first smart Igbo woman in government. And I hope she will not be the last. If my memory serves me right, in September of 2007, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Etteh was accused of authorizing the spending of N628 million naira (about $5 million) to renovate her official residence and that of her deputy and also for the purchase of 12 official cars. She was forced to resign by public outcry, even when President Olusegun Obasanjo was solidly behind her. I don’t remember her being a smart Igbo woman.
Q7. Isn’t this whole thing a plot by the opposition to embarrass the president?
Answer: As far as I know, the opposition did not order the purchase of the two cars. And the opposition did not take delivery of the cars, either.
Q8. But someone leaked the information. And that person must be working for the opposition. Don’t you think?
Answer: The person who leaked the information is working for Nigeria. He or she is a hero- a Nigerian hero. We need more of them everywhere. That he or she is now facing 10 years in jail should worry us all. Meanwhile, if convicted of violating procurement act, Stella Oduah will only get 5 years in jail. For a thoroughly corrupt society like ours, we need a law that protects whistleblowers. We need it yesterday.
Q9. The Yoruba Lagos-Ibadan press is just lynching an Igbo woman. Can’t you see that?
Answer: The Lagos-Ibadan press phenomenon is like the Kaduna mafia. Like a phantom, it exists and at the same time it doesn’t exist. That the media in Nigeria is fractured and flawed is not in question. But the majority of the Lagos-Ibadan media is owned by people from the minority ethnic groups. By the way, Igbo people own enough newspapers in the Lagos-Ibadan axis that, if what is going on is an ethnic war to expose corrupt practices of government officials from other ethnic groups, the Igbo have the means to get into the game.
Of course, that is not what is happening. But should that be, Nigeria would be the beneficiary if all corrupt elements are exposed.
The engine driving the Stella Oduah’s story does not come from the Lagos-Ibadan press. Saharareporters broke the story. And Saharareporters and Premium Times have kept the heat on. The Lagos-Ibadan press is reluctantly following along. Saharareporters and Premium Times are not owned by Yoruba people.
Online, the Igbo own more news websites than any other ethnic group. So nothing stops them from exposing the corrupt practices of other government officials. And you can be sure that once the evidence is out, the Lagos-Ibadan press will join in to lynch the suspect.
Q10. Why is the press not reporting that Governor Babatunde Fashola also bought a bulletproof car?
Answer: The simple answer is that the press has no evidence to support that story. The only reason why the Stella Oduah’s story gathered momentum was that Saharareporters presented irrefutable evidence. Those who have such evidence on any politician will always find a media outlet that will publish it. In the media, there is a difference between what is known and what can be supported by evidence. People in the media know a lot but are limited in some cases by a lack of proof. And that is where they need help from the public and whistleblowers. If, for any reason, no media will touch an authentic story with verifiable evidence, the democratization of the media means that anyone can put such material in public domain. The social media has made it so simple.
Politicians are frustrated by social media. They can buy up all the reporters and editors in Nigeria but they cannot buy every Tunde and Obi and Sani with a cell phone in hand.
Q11: What will now happen to the airports if Stella Oduah is sacked?
Answer: Somebody will take over from her and carry on from where she stopped. If she is the only person that can do the work in a country of 160 million people, then, you should know that we have more serious problems than we thought.
Q12. Now that you’ve said all these things, how can we eradicate corruption in Nigeria?
Answer: Aside from the structural flaws, the single most challenging issue facing Nigeria is corruption. It has eaten so deeply into every facet of Nigerian life that it undermines what would otherwise have been beneficial initiatives. Can corruption be effectively tackled without first undertaking the task of restructuring? My answer would be no, because the synergy needed to push for a clean society is difficult to gather in a structurally weak country like Nigeria. The reason why Mr. Andy Ubah and his group will destroy government properties in Awka and nothing could be done is because of the prevailing structure that places the center over the region. People in each state or region can handle their renegades but not when the federal might is behind the renegades.
But what could be done while we await the inevitable restructuring of Nigeria?
First, why are we so corrupt? We are corrupt because we have a poor and lawless country where there is no freedom of information and whose leaders/citizens – who have no shame – are overloaded with exaggerated sense of importance. Those are dangerous combinations.
They have guaranteed corruption in all societies where such propensities exist. It is the same in Bangladesh. It is the same in Mexico. It is the same in Haiti. And it is the same in Kenya.
Anyone living in the West can attest to the fact that without the enforcement of law and order, these western societies would, in a short time, deteriorate into corrupt societies. The primary task of lawmakers and law enforcement agencies is to stay one step ahead of the lawbreakers. It is a perpetual battle that every generation redefines. In the case of Nigeria, the ball was dropped soon after independence, as men became gods and civil service became self-service.
What we have in Nigeria is power without accountability, action without consequences and citizens without a say. Everyone, it seems, is either already corrupt or is searching for a chance to be corrupt. The few who are not yet corrupt are busy fighting off the pressure to be corrupt. Those who are rich by means of corruption have nothing to fear and those who are poor because of corruption have nothing to love. In a society where corruption thrives, the dream of a fair and just society can never be attained. And with that dies the hope of a prosperous society for all.
It is, therefore, in the interest of all Nigerians that corruption is eradicated. Corruption does harm to everyone of us. It is indirectly responsible for a great percentage of all unnatural deaths of Nigerians. When a corrupt politician connives with a corrupt contractor to award and execute a frivolous road contract and people die in accidents due to poor roads, it is an indirect result of corruption. When a corrupt businessman connives with a corrupt hospital administrator and supplies adulterated medications to hospitals and patients die in doctors’ care, it is an indirect result of corruption. When a policeman confuses bribery with bonus, frees a criminal and the criminal kills an innocent man, it is an indirect result of corruption.
Tackling corruption will require a three-way act – prosecution, prevention and education. So far, none of these is happening in Nigeria at the level it should. Prosecution of corrupt practices must be swift, severe and steady. It must proceed with a thorough investigation. It must be across the board. It must be carried out by competent individuals. Prevention of corruption entails the reduction of opportunities for corruption in existing procedures and practices of government departments and private organizations. Education of the citizenry must integrate the importance of ethics in civic and business life.
Without leaders who uphold higher standard of integrity, the task is hard to begin. The tendency for blackmail is great when leaders are themselves stained by the oil of corruption.
In such situation, emphasis should be built around public institutions. An efficient public complaint structure should be established as an avenue to initiate actions. Civil servants must have firm and independent-minded monitors. With citizens’ rights enthroned, accountable democratic institutions could be built from down to up.
process of making bids, awarding contracts and procurements must be made public. If the Ministry of Works, for instance, says that it spent 400 billion Naira in road constructions in the last year, the public should know how the bidding was done, who won the contract and why. Also, the public should know who supervised the job, who approved the job completion, and who should follow up with the maintenance. Nobody should need to invoke the Freedom of Information Act before they find out how much elected officials and civil servants make.
To build a clean society we have to start by creating an open one. Any Nigerian should be able to know the assets of our public officials. Public servants who declared marginal assets when they went into office and came out with mega wealth should be probed and the source of their newly found wealth exposed. The same should go for public officials who throw money around. We should be able to demand and receive information on what each public official costs us and where the money goes. Those found wanting in their handling of public funds must be punished severely and should be made to pay restitution. As we close up loopholes to embezzlement, we have to teach our children social contract and the beauty of abiding by it.
Eradicating corruption in Nigeria may sound like an oxymoron now but, if we really mean it, we can make it happen.
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The Best Little Stillhouse in Texas – Perhaps Anywhere
When most people think of great bourbon whiskey, they automatically think Kentucky: Pappy Van Winkle’s, Jim Beam, Blanton’s, Maker’s Mark, etc.
Well, we in Texas know better.
Along U.S. Route 290, a little more than 10 miles west of Johnson City, is unincorporated Hye, Texas, and its largest nearby business and tourist attraction, Garrison Brothers Distillery.
Founded in 2006, Garrison Brothers is the award-winning maker of fine Texas bourbon whiskey that can stand shot glass-to-shot glass with the best barrel-aged distilled spirits originating in the Blue Grass state or Tennessee.
As proprietor Dan Garrison is proud to note, everything about his bourbon is pure Texas, from the organic corn, winter wheat and barley that comprise the sweet bourbon mash, to the pure nutrient-rich rainwater, captured on site, and filtered with an ultraviolet light purification system.
“If we’re going to make bourbon from Texas, it damn well better be authentic,” Dan proclaims.
[Hear my full RANCHCAST with LEM LEWIS interview featuring Dan Garrison. By clicking at the bottom of this article.]
Dan Garrison signs each and every bottle before it ships.
The intense summer heat of Blanco County, with temperatures nesting at 110 degrees, is the perfect humid subtropical climate for aging bourbon; better even, Dan notes, than Kentucky, Scotland, Ireland, or other regions of the world where they also distil fine whiskeys.
Garrison Brothers bourbon is aged in white American oak barrels in barrel barns Dan and his crew designed themselves. The summer swelter causes the bourbon to expand inside the barrels, forcing the liquid into the wood where it absorbs the tannins and sugars that leach from the barrels.
The tannins and sugars are what gives Garrison Brothers’ bourbons their beautiful colors and distinctive smooth flavor.
“Bourbon whiskey is the nectar of the gods,” Dan tells me on a recent visit to his distillery ranch. (We, of course, drink to that. Salud!)
The superior quality of Dan’s bourbons is no Texas boast.
In 2016, for the second time, Garrison Brothers’ Cowboy Bourbon – a small batch production that is aged for a total of five years and left at barrel-proof (137 proof), unfiltered and uncut – was given the U.S. Micro Whisky of the Year Award by Jim Murray’s annual Whisky Bible. Out of a possible perfect 100, the Garrison Brothers bourbon scored 96.5.
Garrison Brothers Distillery has rapidly become a Texas institution, with busloads of tourists and tasters regularly flocking to his ranch to drink in both the friendly Lone Star State ambiance and the distilled spirits. (The Garrisons have a cow-calf operation on their property that they lease out; running the bourbon business demands all of their focus.)
Incredibly, Dan and his salaried team rely on hundreds upon hundreds of volunteers to help inspect, seal, and box his craft bourbon. Once a year at the company’s annual bottling party, volunteers pour in from throughout Texas for two days, during which they’re fed and given a shot of “courage” every half hour in compensation for their hard labor.
“We have about 9,000 people on our waiting list to come out and bottle with us. It’s infectious,” Dan says. “We get truckers, we got lawyers, we got teachers, we got dentists. Space Shuttle captains. We’ve had them all.”
The experience is one that fosters a bond among men and women who were previously strangers. “Bourbon brings people together,” Dan explains. “It encourages them to share their stories. It encourages them to share their histories and their problems and their opportunities, so they talk. And when you talk, you get to know each other better, and you become friends. And that’s what Bourbon is all about.”
Best Workforce in Texas
Indeed, sometimes, Dan confesses, “I don’t think we’re in the Bourbon business. I think we are out there to set an example of what a business can really be like.” Dan, who swears he employs the best workforce in Texas when it comes to hard-working, friendly, loyal staff, says he and his coworkers have “created a corporate culture that crosses all slices of life. I’m really proud of that.”
Dan shares with me his story of shopping for the ranch that is now home to Garrison Brothers Distillery. Professionally, he began working in software and technology marketing back in 1995. And for a brief period of a few weeks, it looked he was poised to cash in on about 25,000 stock options that would leave him a very, very wealthy man.
Unfortunately, Enron collapsed and then the Internet bubble burst, not only leaving Dan without his anticipated fortune but also leaving him in serious debt to the IRS.
“I decided to get away from life for a little while, and I went to Kentucky,” Dan recalls. That proved to be a most fortuitous move.
In Kentucky, Dan became a student of how locals made bourbon and the ins and outs of turning a good bourbon into a better bourbon.
“I thought to myself, ‘Holy Shit,’ if we can do this in Texas, Texans are going to love it,” he says. And so his bourbon adventure began.
Dan screened 36 different ranch properties before eventually coming across the right one just outside Hye, Texas. One night, he recalls, well before he’d formally launched his distillery, he drove his truck to the top of a hill overlooking the property and on a napkin scratched out a sketch of where one day all the buildings would go and what they’d look like.
Like Walt Disney
Sure enough, much like Walt Disney looking at orange groves in California and presaging Disneyland, Dan Garrison’s vision became a vibrant reality. In fact, that napkin, with his moonlit scrawls on it, sits in a frame in his office: proof that Dan’s dream also came to pass, exactly as he envisioned it.
When Dan finally did get up and running back in 2006, Garrison Brothers Distillery became the first legal bourbon or whiskey distillery in Texas history, and at the time, only the second bourbon ever successfully produced outside of Kentucky or Tennessee.
The first Garrison Brothers bottles shipped in 2011, and they’ve been in great demand almost from day one.
“Garrison Brothers Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey is NOT for everyday drinking,” the company notes on its website. “If you’ve been drinking Kentucky bourbon all your life, then you’re in for something special when you crack open your first bottle of Garrison Brothers. But once you step up, that step backward is a long step indeed.”
Although Dan and his family, who help him run the business, plan to grow their business sevenfold by 2022 – from 10,000 cases a year currently to 70,000 cases – he admits when success came he initially bit off more than he could chew – expanding distribution outside of Texas in a manner that wasn’t sustainable.
“We blew it,” trying to do “too much too fast,” Dan says. Rather than stretch their limited resources as far away as Florida and California, the Garrison family has recently decided to keep their focus on Texas, and only Texas, for the next couple years.
“Some say Texans are a little too proud of their state,” Garrison Brothers quips on its website. Confining their marketing efforts to the Lone Star state “isn’t going to help the situation,” the company adds wryly.
Garrison Brothers produces a variety of bourbons and plans another release of its Cowboy Bourbon later this year, as well as the introduction of some experimental bourbons that they’ve been working on for years. Despite the company’s renewed focus on its Texas home market, its bourbons can be found, by lucky patrons, in discerning establishments as far away as London, England.
Set You Back a Little
As Garrison Brothers readily acknowledges – almost boasts – in its marketing materials, buying a bottle, case, or barrel of its craft bourbons will “set you back a little.”
Indeed, there are many less expensive bourbon whiskeys, but few that can compete on taste and on the special pride that comes with sipping an extraordinary Texas-made smooth bourbon whiskey. In fact, to this day, Dan Garrison personally signs every bottle of bourbon – as though it is artwork – before his spirits ship; and he pledges to keep doing so, no matter how large the company grows.
On a personal note, besides being a rancher, real estate broker, hunter, pilot, blogger, and podcaster, I’m a certified whiskey sommelier and all-around lover of whiskey, especially bourbon.
It makes me especially proud to have the opportunity to showcase Dan and his Garrison Brothers, because they’re our Hill Country neighbor, producing world class bourbons born and bred in Texas, and showcasing for all of America to see alternative ways to be a successful rural producer.
If you’re a bourbon lover, like I am, you owe it to yourself to join the bourbon cognoscenti who recognize and enjoy Garrison Brothers as one of the very best bourbons to be found anywhere.
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Lewis Mundt: How Did I End Up Here?
The first poetry slam I went to was in the summer of 2004, while I was a student at the Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth. Every summer the creative writing class hosted a “poetry splam” (it’s a portmanteau of slam and SPAM, which makes perfect sense to us and no sense to you) and first place earned you a spot in the institute talent show.
In the movie version of my life, I won the 2004 splam, performed at the talent show, and never looked back. In reality, I’m sure someone did ask me to read, but I’m also sure I shook my neckbeard and fedora and said something like, “Absolutely no not happening no thanks scared scared scared.” And I did that for the next five summers (at some point I got rid of the fedora and neckbeard, which is probably the reason any of you talk to me.)
Before that first slam, though, our class watched a video of Saul Williams performing “Amethyst Rocks,” and that’s when spoken word got me by the throat.
Over the next six years, I read and watched and learned everything I knew how to. I taped Def Poetry Jam every week and made my mother watch it with me the next morning. I listened religiously to spoken word podcasts and joined Facebook fan groups. I drew fake covers for books I figured I’d eventually get around to writing. I read textbooks and biographies and Internet forums and whatever else I could get my hands on in my small Minnesota town. I became a spoken word superfan (and this was long before Button Poetry made it easy).
All the while, I knew without a doubt that performing was something other people did. I wrote poetry constantly, but I’d only ever show it to my high school English teacher. On an especially courageous day I might send a few to a New York press along with a note reading I AM THE NEXT KURT VONNEGUT, GODDAMMIT.
How that was supposed to help my case for sad love poems, I’m still not sure.
Once I was in my BFA program and building my self-esteem back up (see again: disposal of fedora, filling in of real beard, college radio show no one listened to), I did decide to slam in the spring of 2010. I biked down the street to Macalester College and signed up with a poem about a friend who passed away in 2006, with really no idea of what I was doing.
I was also talked away from using the stage name Calico, advice for which I am forever indebted to Dylan Garity.
I bombed and felt good about never performing again (“hell no thanks no scary scary scary”), but Miles Walser introduced himself afterward and said he liked my poem. I said thanks and did some self-deprecating it’s-the-first-time-I’ve-done-this-sorry-for-ruining-your-night thing, and Miles paused for a second before telling me, “You know what you’re doing. You should probably come back.”
I came back. That summer I volunteered as much as possible at the National Poetry Slam in St. Paul, cruising the venues to meet the superstar poets I’d only ever seen on HBO. I sent my first slam poem to Indiefeed and it debuted on the channel. In September I started the Hamline University Poetry Slam with a lot of help from the community, because really I had no idea what I was doing, and we placed 9th at the national competition. I competed in every slam I could find, volunteered, started an open mic, booked a tour I never went on, set up one-off readings at coffee shops and bars, self-released three chapbooks in as many years, and essentially walked through every open door I could find.
Of all those doors, though, the one I still get a rush to walk through is the one that lets me organize shows. In April I started my position at Word Sprout producing The New Sh!t Show Minneapolis, a series of all world premieres that flies gloriously on and off and on and off the rails for about two hours every third Friday of the month. I still direct and coach the slam at Hamline, and we’ve been at nationals every year since 2011. My friend Cristopher Gibson and I perform around the state under the name Sharkhooks, often booking our own gigs for small crowds we stick around and chat with afterward. I’ve been afforded the opportunities to organize and host publishing showcases, music festivals,
My joy as an organizer isn’t in trying to hype for my own art, though. It’s been about that in the past, but always left a bad taste in my mouth. My joy, whether it’s coaching or just hosting an open mic, is in trying to make spaces as comfortable as possible and see what happens from there. My joy is in telling our New Sh!t Show performers to “get fucking weird with it” and watch them step outside their usual artistic boundaries. My joy is introducing myself as the least professional stage presence you’ll ever meet and watching the crowd be willing to relax (more on that in a future post). My joy is in shaking things up but still helping to present incredibly professional and engaging art, because I do believe there’s space for both in a venue, and that’s why I do what I do.
Anyway. I get long-winded and there are things I need to save for the rest of my blog residency here at Word Sprout, but that’s a little about how I grew from a tiny, shivering neckbeard to a tiny, shivering baldy.
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Steve Austin tries cocktails for the first time…
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BuzzFeed, known for their often hilarious videos, has invited WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin to try out several cocktails for the first time to see how they stack up against his favorite alcohol beverage – beer!
“I’m not sure what the fuck this is but I’m about to find out,” Austin said when he was given a Birthdaytini. “It tastes like sugary dog shit,” was his overall assessment of the drink.
Austin seemed to enjoy the Cosmopolitan and Appletini cocktails as he finished them all and said “not bad” for Sex On The Beach. However he did not enjoy the Jolly Rancher Shot calling it “one of those red piles of shit” which gives you a “case of sugar diabetes and no buzz.” As he said it best, “Fuck that drink!”
The former champ then said he’s going to haul ass if “you don’t have better shit than this to drink,” at which point he was given a beer, his own beer as a matter of fact: Broken Skull IPA. “Now that’s a tasty beverage,” Austin said.
You can see the hilarious video below.
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Thousands turnout for Wales Comic Con as stellar line-up brings huge crowds to the town
Published: Monday, Apr 29th, 2019
NOTE: This content is old - Published: Monday, Apr 29th, 2019.
Thousands of movie, tv and comic books fans from across the world braved the wet and windy weather conditions over the weekend to visit Wales Comic Con.
The two day event, which takes place over various parts of the Wrexham Glyndwr University campus, brought its biggest ever line-up and offering to the town.
It was an event of two parts, with Storm Hannah on Saturday bringing torrential rain and strong winds to Wrexham; along with gridlocked traffic around the B&Q Roundabout and criticism over the lack of parking on site and in the nearby area. With a huge Wrexham home game taking place just a stones throw away at the Racecourse, the clash of two big events in one part of town meant these problems were further exacerbated.
However thousands of people still braved the elements to meet some of the biggest names in film and television, including David Tennant and Billie Piper (Doctor Who), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Kiefer Sutherland (24) and Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time).
After taking on feedback from previous years, the weekend’s event saw a change in the usual format. Gone were the vendors from the sports hall – with criticism in previous years that the space wasn’t big enough to accomodate the stalls and the autograph / meet and great areas.
Instead the stalls were based in a large marquee on the university’s all weather pitch. The bad weather meant that the venue was used by many to keep dry on Saturday, causing queues outside until the crowds inside had died down.
However once inside the marquee visitors had the chance to view dozens of stalls selling everything from movie and TV prints, unique and handmade gifts, comic books, jewellery, retro games, t shirts, Harry Potter merchandise, fudge and much, much more! The new space also meant that there were far more stalls on offer than ever before – and going by the bags people were seen carrying, it was a change that was appreciated by guests!
For this event sports hall was dedicated solely for the chance to meet the guests, with cast members from Being Human, The Hunger Games, The Umbrella Academy, Red Dwarf and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on hand for autographs and selfies.
Sunday was a more colourful affair – with the drier and brighter weather meaning more people donned their Cosplay costumes for the event. One of the best parts and highlights of Wales Comic Con for many visitors is the way it brings everyone together and the way people interact with each other.
Walking through the university campus were the likes of Hagrid, Thor, Doctor Who the cast of Suicide Squad, Spiderman and Star Wars (to name but a few!) all posing for photos with visitors and children.
And despite the fact there were long queues both days to get in the signing hall, spirits were kept high thanks to Darth Vader and his team of Stormtroopers who were doing the rounds and speaking to the crowds. There were also the much appreciated free chocolate bars being handed out by the team at Kinder Bueno.
Elsewhere on the campus was the popular gaming section, Cosplay competition and the popular Question and Answer sessions with the stars of Gotham, Lord of the Rings, Stargate and The Hunger Games.
There were also a number of food vendors on offer, including the likes of Bank Street Social, Woody’s Pizza and Brockley Bean Cafe.
Feedback of the event has been mixed, with the bad weather on Saturday certainly putting a dampener on the spirits for some of those who were left standing outside in the rain. However the praise for the calibre of guests coming to Wrexham and the changes made on previous years due to guest feedback, mean that Wales Comic Con is still a firm favourite for so many visitors and for the town’s events calendar.
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Adult Contemporary Review: Sometimes "The Understory" is the Best Story of All
Title: The Understory
Author: Elizabeth Leiknes
Format: E-galley
Publisher: Bancroft Press
She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully.
And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into the homes of others, and feeling, for a short while, like a different, better person.
But one night, as an uninvited guest in someone's empty room, she discovers a story sadder than her own: a boy named Cooper Payne, whose dream of visiting the Amazon rainforest and discovering the moonflower from his favorite book, Once Upon a Moonflower, died alongside his father.
For reasons even she doesn't entirely understand, Story decides that she will help Cooper and his mother. She will make his dream come true.
When the decision is made, the lives of other broken people start to come together: Hans Turner, the door-making magician who can't shut the door on his past; Martin Baxter, the author of Cooper's beloved book, who wrote it with the daughter he misses every day; and Claire Payne, Cooper's mother, struggling to keep her son sheltered from the anger that threatens to consume her.
The Understory is a magical, moving, funny, and poignant story of failure and success; of falling apart and rebuilding; and of coincidences that never really are. Part comedy, part drama, and part fairy tale, Elizabeth Leiknes's second novel is a wonder you won't soon forget. -Goodreads
This is a story about the interconnectedness of the human condition and how words can be the catalysts that cause some of the greatest elevations of the human soul.
Story Easton is a woman so eager to shed the tattered rags of her life that she slips stealthily into the lives of others in the dead of night by way of unlocked windows, untended doors, and empty rooms.
The stories that she reads on the faces, in the voices, and in the houses of all the lives that she enters serve as a call to action for Story.
Her key...
Once Upon a Moonflower
The story of the magic of the Amazon rainforest and a girl who was once the magic of her father's life.
Just as the shrubs and plants that grow beneath the canopy of a forest are its understory; the pain, loss , and regret shared by Cooper, Claire, Martin, Hans, and Story serve as the floor from which the seeds of love, forgiveness, understanding, determination and hope sprout and flourish.
The true magic of this story lies in the fact that the one tangible thing that connects all of these lives is just that...a story. The one thing that offers hope, release, and redemption is the written word.
This book stands as its own testament to the alchemical power of literature to transform thought into action and action into transformation of the force that is life.
Labels: 5 Stars, Adult Contemporary Review, Elizabeth Leiknes
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Tag big bill broonzy
Many, many decades ago, CBS disposed of their remaining American Record Corporation and Brunswick Record Corporation marketing materials, some of which found their way into the hands of collectors. These were still fairly plentiful as late as the 1980s, but have since become increasingly scarce on the open market. Here are a few of the most interesting examples, all in “warehouse mint” condition (we have multiple copies of some items, in case anyone’s interested in trading for similar material).
Shaped, die-cut display piece for Josh White’s “No More Ball and Chain” (1936)
Circular die-cut folder for Duke Ellington’s “Reminiscing in Tempo.” The inside panels contain quotes from recent reviews, and the back lists Ellington’s current Brunswick releases. (1935)
Race-record handouts for a couple of 1937 releases by Big Bill Broonzy. Identical handouts exist for the corresponding Romeo releases.
1935 flyer for the Carter Family on Conqueror, a client label
produced for Sears by ARC.
Window hanger for Billy Costello’s “Popeye” release (1935)
Four-panel folder featuring selections from Fred Astaire’s
Jukebox display card for Louis Prima’s New Orleans Gang
(c. 1936)
Gene Autry photo, with photo on the front and record list on the back. (1937)
Hoosier Hot Shots handout, with photo on the front and record list on the back. Also exists in black-and-white. (1936)
For a detailed history of ARC-BRC and associated companies, be sure to check out American Record Companies and Producers, 1888-1950 — a limited edition available from Mainspring Press while supplies last.
The Playlist • The Famous Hokum Boys on Homestead (1929)
May 9, 2015 mainspring001
Some years ago, 78 Quarterly (an otherwise terrific magazine) ran an ongoing list of “The World’s Rarest Records,” which amounted to a few well-known collectors playing a game of “Mine’s bigger than yours.” Since 99.99% of the collecting community wasn’t polled on whether they owned any of the records in question, the rarity of some items was grossly over-estimated.
Case in point: Homestead 16098, which the 78Q gang assured readers was unknown on Homestead. Well, we’ve run across two copies over the years, one in Gettsyburg PA in the 1980s, and just recently, another one in Denver. Rare? Sure, in this form at least (the same recordings were also issued on the other ARC labels). World’s rarest? We wish! Anyway, enjoy…
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/msp_famous-hokum_thats-the-way.mp3
FAMOUS HOKUM BOYS: That’s the Way She Likes It
New York: April 9, 1930
Homestead 16098 (ARC mx. 9598 – 2)
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/msp_famous-hokum_papas-getting-hot.mp3
FAMOUS HOKUM BOYS: Papa’s Getting Hot
https://78records.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/msp_famous-hokum_eagle-riding.mp3
FAMOUS HOKUM BOYS: Eagle Riding Papa
Homestead 16099 (ARC mx. 9595 – )
This selection from a tape dubbing supplied by the late Gilbert Louey (take # not noted)
The Famous Hokum Boys were Big Bill Broonzy (guitar/vocal), Thomas A. (“Georgia Tom”) Dorsey (piano/vocal), and Frank Brasswell (guitar). The studio supervisor for this session was Arthur Satherley.
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Guess What North Dakota College Is the Toughest to Enter?
Larry LeBlanc
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Fiscal Times used the methodology from Niche.com to determine the toughest college to enter in every state.
The most popular college in each state isn't necessarily the most difficult college to enter, and with a new the freshman semester starting in a few months, I thought this would be a good topic to research. The team at Niche.com used the SAT and ACT scores from each state and district to come up with the list of the most difficult college to enter in every state.
In North Dakota, which college do you think is the toughest to enter? NDU or NDSU? That would be incorrect.
From a story we published last year, we know it's not Bismarck State College as they have nearly a 100% acceptance rate.
The most difficult college in North Dakota to enter is The University of Jamestown with a acceptance rate of 64.4% with a composite score of (25% of student body)1066-SAT and 25-ACT.
For the complete review, click here.
Filed Under: University of Jamestown
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Knicks waive Enes Kanter, Wesley Matthews
The New York Knicks have waived center Enes Kanterand guardWesley Matthews, the team announced Thursday.
The Knicks had talked to teams about potential trades for the past several weeks, sources said, but Kanter's $18.6 million expiring contract proved too difficult to move at Thursday's deadline.
"From the moment he arrived in New York, Enes passionately embraced our franchise and our city," Knicks general manager Scott Perry said in a statement. "He is a courageous individual and we thank him for his many contributions both on the court and in the community. We wish him the absolute best moving forward, personally and professionally."
Kanter, a vocal critic of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish government, skipped the Knicks' game in London last month over fears for his safety.
The 26-year-old issued a statement after his release on Twitter, saying he wishes "nothing but the best" for the Knicks.
"Each day I spend in the NBA is a blessing and I look forward to my next adventure," Kanter posted. "... As grateful as I am [to the Knicks], I am also excited to continue playing basketball and showcasing that I can be one of the most dominant forces in the paint. New York will always have a special place in my heart and I look forward to returning here and playing in front of these amazing fans again."
The Boston Celtics are among the teams opposing executives expect to have interest in Kanter.
Matthews,who has an expiring contract, plans to sign with theIndiana Pacers, sources told ESPN. Hewas traded to New York by the Dallas Mavericks as part of the Kristaps Porzingis deal. He averaged 13.1 points in 44 starts for the Mavericks this season, his 10th in the league.
The Houston Rockets were among the playoff teams who had interest in signing Matthews after his buyout, sources said.
The Athletic first reported the planned agreement between Matthews and Indiana.
Kanter, 26, had appeared in just three of the Knicks' past 12 games and had been vocal about his displeasure over his reduced role.
Coach David Fizdale has prioritized playing and developing younger players in recent weeks. Newly acquiredDeAndre Jordan has started ahead of Kanter, and Fizdale said he wanted Jordan to help younger players Luke Kornet and Mitchell Robinson learn how to defend.
Kanter has averaged 14 points and 10.5 rebounds -- tied for 12th in the league -- in just 25.6 minutes per game this season, but he ranked last out of 68 qualified centers in ESPN's defensive real plus-minus metric. He is tied for third in the NBA in offensive rebounding (3.9 per game) since the start of the 2017-18 season.
The Knicks (10-43) acquired Kanter in a 2017 trade that sent Carmelo Anthony to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
New York didn't execute any trades before Thursday's deadline. The Orlando Magic expressed interest in Frank Ntilikina but were told that New York was not trading the second-year guard, sources told ESPN. The club also received interest in recent days for big man Noah Vonleh, sources said. Vonleh, a free agent this summer, is having a strong season (8.6 points, 8.5 rebounds per game) in New York.
The Knicks also decided to keep Jordan, despite suggestions that the veteran would be bought out. The club now has three open roster spots. New York also has roughly $70 million in cap space this summer -- enough for two max contracts.
Opposing teams expect the Knicks to be aggressive in pursuing the top free agents in the coming offseason, a group that includes Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Kyrie Irving.
Some close to Durant see New York as a possible landing spot for the back-to-back NBA Finals MVP if he chooses to leave the Golden State Warriors, according to league sources.
ESPN's Ian Begley contributed to this report.
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Many of you have asked “What can I do?” There are many calls to action and many ways to engage. NOW IS THE TIME TO FIGHT! The list below includes only a few examples. The posts start with time sensitive material. Some of the dates have passed, but I have kept them on as documentation. The bottom has more general ways you can take action. This post is continually being updated, so please check back frequently. If you have information that belongs on this post, please email me at [email protected].
Join and support upcoming mobilizations at the border:
Thursday, June 21st – Faith mission to the Ursula processing center in TX, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Please email Jordyn Bussey at [email protected] to join the delegation of rabbis, ministers, bishops, and other faith leaders who will be ministering to children and holding a vigil outside of Ursula.
Interfaith Vigil to End the Separation
of Immigrant Families
Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 6:15 pm
Grace Cathedral – Outdoor Plaza
1100 California, San Francisco
Join us to pray and bear witness in response to the government’s policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the border. Some two thousand children have already been separated from their parents. The San Francisco Interfaith Council, in partnership with co-host Grace Cathedral and our faith partners from diverse traditions, will gather in solidarity and prayer at 6:15 pm on Thursday, June 21st at the outdoor plaza of Grace Cathedral. Please encourage your faithful to attend. If your faith community has issued a statement on this critical issue, you are encouraged to forward it to the SFIC for inclusion on our website. Please email statements to: [email protected]
Saturday, June 23rd – Families Belong Together March in San Diego, CA, led by San Diego Indivisible. See additional details on Facebook.
Saturday, June 23rd Bay Area Protest:
Sunday, June 24th – Action in Tornillo, TX, led by Voto Latino. Visit www.stopseparation.org to sign up and learn more.
Thursday, June 28th – Mass mobilization at the Brownsville Federal Court in TX, led by the ACLU. Join the #FamiliesBelongTogether rally in Linear Park at 11 a.m. RSVP here or on Facebook and contact Natalie Montelongo at [email protected] with questions. Date TBD (Possibly July 1st) – Moms march from El Paso to Tornillo, TX, led by Paola Mendoza. Email [email protected] for more details and to join.
June 25th-: PARENTS EVERYWHERE CARE: This is a group of parents, activists and organizations from San Francisco who are going to Texas.
Please share this post far and wide and check our postings for further updates. Please contact Julie Chronister at [email protected]u for more information or to help organize. If you would like to donate to help us take action, effect change, and support those on the ground in Lower Rio Grande Valley, TX please consider a donation @ https://paypal.me/pools/c/85juWteIIH. Funds are being directed towards ground level efforts and organization directly helping children and their families.
Tuesday, June 26th – 7am – 7pm — Day of Action at West County Detention Center— 5555 Giant Hwy Richmond, California 94806. Action begins at 7:00AM. Vigil until 7:00PM. Press conference/rally at 12NOON with members of the Richmond City Council and representatives of local organizations. All organizations endorsing the action are invited to participate. Individuals drIving to the action are encouraged to stop by the Richmond BART Station (east side) to help shuttle. Van shuttle begins at approximately 8:30AM and will continue throughout the day, twice an hour. Bring sunscreen, water, snacks and signs. We are absolutely committed to non-violence.
Tuesday, June 26, 6:30pm, Refuse Fascism Bay Area chapter planning meeting, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco (Sports Basement, 3rd Floor)
Thursday, June 28, 6pm, Join Refuse Fascism at Indivisible’s Vigil and protest. San Pablo and Central, El Cerrito. The theme of this protest will be to oppose turning the former Concord Naval Weapons Station into a concentration camp for immigrants.
Thursday, June 28, 7pm – Showing of the film The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! A Better World Is Possible!, a talk by Bob Avakian. Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA.
Friday, June 29 – Lawyer Moms of America Action! Lawyer moms around the country are gathering at senators’ offices to deliver an open letter stating their opposition to the current federal policy of separating migrant children from their parents. RSVP and view more details on Facebook.
Saturday, June 30th – Join and support a mass mobilization on June 30th in Washington, DC and across the country. Join a march on Washington and Families Belong Together rally led by MoveOn and others. Distributed actions will be planned across the country. To partner on the DC event or 6/30 distributed events, please RSVP here for a partners call at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 19th. RSVP here even if you can’t make it to receive follow up details on how to plug in.
National RSVP Page: FamiliesBelongTogether.org DC Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/401815953659712/
Partnership Form: http://moveon.org/partner to cosponsor the event publicly, join working groups (DC logistics, DC press, DC turnout, and coordination of distributed actions), anchor major rallies in other cities, and more. Volunteer with local organizations. Sacred Heart Church, NETA, ProBAR, and the Texas Civil Rights Project are just some of the organizations you can help if you are in TX or willing to travel there. Please refer to the Families Belong Together Guide on How to Help for more details.
Saturday, June 30th, Bay Area Actions:
We also encourage you to join the June 30th Moveon.org march for families being separated at the border. Women’s March San Francisco is working in close collaboration with the organizers and are excited to share this event with the community. VOLUNTEER TO KEEP THE RALLY SAFE: Sign up here.
MAKE CALLS: Weigh in with Members of Congress! Encourage your network/membership to urge their Members of Congress to use Congress’ oversight authority to stop separating families and to VOTE DOWN the two anti-immigrant bills moving through the House this week. The House is expected to vote on two anti-immigrant bills on Thursday, June 21st: one proposed by Rep. Goodlatte and another proposed by Speaker Ryan. Neither bill addresses the administration’s policy of separating families, and neither bill fixes the administration’s decision to end DACA.
You may also call:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Comment Line at (202) 282-8495
U.S. Department of Justice Comment Line at (202) 353-1555
The White House Comment Line at (202) 456-1111
On family separation: The ACLU has a call tool specifically for Senators; the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has a call tool that directs calls, tweets, facebook posts, and emails to all Members of Congress. Herd on the Hill will be hand-delivering letters to Congress starting June 19th and continuing ‘as long as it takes’ on the issue of family separation at the border. Individuals can compose letters for delivery on the Herd on the Hill portal that will be cloud-printed in DC and walked over to the House and Senate. You play a crucial role in our fight. And our jobs aren’t done –
United We Dream’s call tool opposing both the Goodlatte bill and Ryan bill: 844-505-3769 directs calls to target House moderates; when folks call the line, they will hear a recording directing them on asks.
Continue speaking out on social media to raise awareness about the administration’s cruel policy. Keep tweeting at @realDonaldTrump and @SecNielsen to stop forcibly separating families. We Belong Together’s demands for the Administration can be RT’d here. Ask the administration: what are its plans to reunify the families it has torn apart?
Sample tweets can be found here. Use #FamiliesBelongTogether Graphics.
Sign and circulate a petition to your membership/network.
The ACLU, MomsRising, MoveOn, and CREDO have petitions to Sec. Nielsen. Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and Change.org also have a new petition out to the Department of Homeland Security. The Women’s March has a petition to Ivanka Trump.
Define American has a petition to Attorney General Sessions. The National Domestic Workers Alliance has a petition to President Trump. The Women’s Refugee Commission also has a petition that is easy to sign and share.
Write Letters: Use this link to send a letter to your Senator through the Jewish Community Relations Council website:
Your Senator needs to hear your voice advocating for immediate action to stop separating families at the border.
Ivanka’s Rabbi in Washington DC is:
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, TheShul, 2110 Leroy Pl. NW, Washington DC. 20008.
However small or big Ivanka’s influence, as a senior official, she should be admonished or shunned due to the cruelty and hatred shown by the administration.
Contribute financially if possible.
Purchase something off of the Sacred Heart Amazon Wishlist or donate directly to organizations leading this work on the ground and nationally:
ProBAR and IJP (ProBAR is currently representing 1,000+ kids)
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
The Florence Project
RAÍCES #FreeOurFamilies Family Reunification Bond Fund
Refuse Fascism
National Immigrant Justice Center
Women’s Refugee Commission
Texas Civil Rights Project
RMIAN
Fuerza del Valle
Grassroots Leadership
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Legal Services for Children
Other orgs can be viewed in Slate’s roundup.
Lawyers: Look here:
Tailored asks and resources for lawyers looking to engage and for organizations needing lawyers/support for legal services: L4GG: If you are a lawyer, please join more than 1,000 lawyers who have signed up to volunteer to do legal work for immigrants separated from their children here. If you are an organization needing volunteer lawyers, please email Traci Feit Love, President and Executive Director at Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), at [email protected].
Friends in Los Angeles who are interested in volunteering to provide legal help to families at the border, please follow link (sponsored by Wilshire Blvd Temple) and complete the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedmJZktl3z9bhhcA5zundjEZDZ52pvmW_M-7toCQGtJsLAfA/viewform.
We The Action: We The Action is a digital platform that makes it easy for lawyers to find and volunteer for critical, impactful—and often urgent—legal needs posted by We The Action’s nonprofit partners. WTA currently has several projects available for lawyers who want to help parents and children who have been separated at the border. Many of these projects can be done remotely, with any bar license.
Lawyer Moms of America Action on Friday, June 29th: Lawyer moms around the country are gathering at senators’ offices to deliver an open letter stating their opposition to the current federal policy of separating migrant children from their parents. RSVP and view more details on Facebook.
VOLUNTEER to take a case with Legal Services for Children SF. They have a long list of cases awaiting placement, including children in detention. Please contact Pro Bono Director Ashley Melwani, [email protected].
Thank you for all that you’re doing to keep families together!
This document was compiled by me along with your suggestions and the Immigration Hub in collaboration/partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, JCRC, We Belong Together, the ACLU, America’s Voice, MomsRising, MoveOn, and United We Dream.
It’s already past time that we stand up and act. Do all that you can to stop Trump and his cruel, authoritarian ways!!!
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OK, so he didn’t get 10 percent, and he surely didn’t win. But Eobert Sarvis held on to most of the support that he was getting in polls taken before the 2013 Virginia governor election.
What does this mean for Sarvis and for the Libertarian Party whose banner he carried?
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“A record-breaking number of Virginia voters have sent a message that they prefer the open-minded and open-for-business libertarianism of Robert Sarvis to the crazy social agenda of the Republicans and the crony capitalism of the Democrats,” said Chuck Moulton, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Virginia.
In a word, no. Sarvis didn’t get 6.5 percent of the vote in the three-way race because that many voters preferred the Libertarian Party agenda to that of the Ds or the Rs. Sarvis was a protest vote in an election featuring two largely disliked major-party candidates who couldn’t get out of their own way en route to the trainwreck that Election Day was for both.
This election cycle was built for the Republicans to win, but then they went and nominated the most extreme gubernatorial candidate that either party has put up in the top spot in a generation. Ken Cuccinelli was an accident of history in 2009, riding the considerable coattails of Bob McDonnell and Bill Bolling in an attorney general race that absolutely no one paid any attention to, and rode his misuse of state funds suing anybody and everybody who happened to meet his disfavor to become the darling of the hard right flank of the party.
He struggled to gain support in spite of the continued headwind he should have gotten from McDonnell, who despite being tied up in scandal in the final months of his single term in office will leave with an approval rating surpassing that of Tim Kaine and just trailing that of Mark Warner, his two immediate Democratic predecessors.
Meanwhile, Democrats, hamstrung by the statewide GOP sweep in 2009 that left them with no one better to run, went with McAuliffe, who outspent Cuccinelli by $17 million, got the rub from President Barack Obama, former President Bill Xlinton and future President (?) Hillary Clinton, among others, and still managed to win by just two and a half points.
Both candidates couldn’t overcome their negatives – McAuliffe’s image of being the creepily slick car salesman, Cuccinelli’s image of being the batcrap crazy doctrinaire – to a point where only the hardest of hard-core Democrats and Republicans were excited about pushing the button for their preferred candidates.
The rest of us were choosing between the lesser of two evils. Enter Sarvis, who could barely get through the media logjam to get any attention to his campaign, and when he did manage to get some time in the spotlight did little to distinguish himself.
No doubt that he got the votes of dogged Libertarians, but he also picked up more than his fair share of disaffected Democrats, Republicans and independents who couldn’t follow their neighbors into voting for one of the two carnival hucksters.
Moulton said today that the Libertarian Party is “excited to build on this success by expanding its membership and running ever more highly qualified candidates in 2014 and beyond.”
More power to them, but Sarvis isn’t leaving behind anything in terms of a foundation that can be built upon.
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in the past week, peaking just after the game last Saturday, and there was a huge spike in queries about the Brownlow Medal on Monday night.
While footy appeals to people of all ages, some of the most passionate fans are of the junior variety. Kids love watching and learning about football almost as much as they love playing it. That’s why the AFL has partnered with YouTube to create a new AFL Bounce channel, with a raft of new and original content for the next generation of players and fans.
AFL Bounce on YouTube is a mash-up of all things footy. The channel features collaborations with AFL stars, along with well-known characters like Cookie Monster and leading YouTube Kids creators like Oddbods and the best trick-shots from Un-Bouncelievable.
"AFL Bounce is about reaching kids and helping them connect with the stories, heroes and passion of the game in ways that are meaningful to them,” Kylie Robertson, AFL Kids Market Development and Innovation Lead said.
The AFL Bounce channel is available on YouTube and through the YouTube Kids app. Fans in Melbourne this week can experience AFL Bounce at the interactive Kids Zone, part of the Foxtel Footy Festival in Yarra Park outside the MCG until Saturday 1 October.
Posted by Sanoop Luke, YouTube Kids Content Manager, who recently watched Cookie Monster meets AFL Legend Richo on AFL Bounce
As footy fans count down to the AFL Grand Final this weekend, we need no reminding of the way football captures the imagination of Australians, right across the country.
Google searches for the AFL Grand Final increased more than 15 times in the past week, peaking just after the game last Saturday, and there was a huge spike in queries about the Brownlow Medal on Monday night.
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IndyCar drops Oriol Servia's penalty, gives it to Scott Dixon
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Oriol Servia was initially penalized for hitting a tire barrier, but later, IndyCar ruled that his collision was caused by trying to avoid Scott Dixon, who had spun out.
Oriol Servia thought it was an easy call by IndyCar’s race control, but he was surprised it took as long as it did Saturday.
Servia initially was penalized for causing a red-flag situation in qualifying by running into the tire barrier in turn one. The penalty for that is the removal of the two fastest laps in the session.
But as Servia pointed out to anyone who would listen, he hit the tires to avoid hitting Scott Dixon, whose car was sitting sideways in the middle of the track after a harmless spin.
“What was I supposed to do, hit him?” said Servia, whose Panther DRR car broke its front wing assembly. “It was either hit Dixie or hit the tires. The track was completely blocked.”
The final ruling was that Dixon would be stripped of his two fastest laps for causing the situation in the first place. That dropped him to the 27th starting place for Sunday’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
“Tough call,” Dixon said. “Obviously, my car was still running, and I was getting ready to pull away.
“I was trying to select a gear when I was told to sit still because there was a car coming. Oriol wouldn’t know if I was trying to go backward or forward.”
Servia will start 18th.
Marco Andretti also was penalized in the session for disrupting the qualifying lap of JR Hildebrand. Andretti will start 26th.
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Boys' Basketball
York tops Hersey to win Palatine title
By Greg Swiderski
Daily Herald Correspondent
The York Dukes were awarded the first place championship at the Ed Molitor Thanksgiving Classic at Palatine High School Saturday afternoon.
York finished with a 3-1 record along with Stevenson and Hersey but was awarded the championship on tiebreakers.
The Dukes, who defeated Hersey 54-38 Saturday, could not have done it without the help of guards Erik Cohn, the tournament MVP who scored 17 points, and Nick Kasich, who notched 16 points.
"Eric had a solid tournament all the way around and Nick's big third quarter helped us open up the lead," said York coach Vince Doran. "When Hersey cut the lead to 35-30, our seniors took over the game."
The Huskies trailed 34-22 with 5:49 left in the third quarter before they started an 8-1 run over the next two minutes.
Jacob Kluczewski, who led Hersey with 10 points, scored three baskets and Jace Coffaro scored 2 points during the run.
Kosich hit for 4 free throws before Hersey's Jason Schmidt hit on a 3-point play.
Kosich scored a basket and then connected on a trey before Cohn finished the quarter with a 3-pointer for a 47-33 lead.
Hersey was not able to recover.
"As a senior," said Kosich, "I felt I had to step it up in the quarter. We handled their run and then came back with one of our own. After their run our defense played much better. We felt if we could hold them under 40 points we could win. In the third quarter, my teammates were able to get me the ball."
Cohn was Mr. Consistency in all four games scoring and played strong defense.
"One thing I wanted to do in this tournament was to play stronger defense and I think I did. It's coming along," said Cohn. "I'm happy with my offense, I just need for it to be consistent. We need to get off to fast starts in our games."
Hersey had difficulty getting much going in the first quarter by shooting 2-for-6 and comiting 4 turnovers, leading to 5 Dukes points.
"York stuck to their game plan and seeing over their zone was difficult for us," said Hersey coach Austin Scott. "But we did some good things in this tournament. We shared the ball and we found our shooters. What we need to work on is being more disciplined and that comes from the top. That's what we'll work on in practice."
"Hersey's going to be a fun team to watch," said Doran. "They played very hard."
Davis Belford and Dan Clawson each scored 7 points for the Huskies.
York suffered a big loss when guard Nate Shockey went down with a sprained left ankle in the first quarter.
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WHAT ARE sources of faith in buddhism religion?
Best Answer: Faith is the logical deduction of reason that forms trust in the truth of the buddha's teachings. Because we find some truth and merit to what the buddha is saying, we listen, study, and practice. Because we do not fully understanding all of what the buddha is saying yet, we use this initial logic and rationalization as a trust and faith that the buddha is right.
So in Buddhism, we practice and cultivate, and that becomes the concrete proof/evidence of the truth in the buddha's teachings. That proof reinforces our faith and motivation to continue listening to the buddha and practicing more of the buddha dharma.
The faith in Buddhism is not blind because we can prove everything to ourselves. We can find the answers to our faith, as opposed to a heavy-faith-based religion such as Christianity. You can't really prove that God is your omnipotent creator, the meaning of life, the source of your nature, that God manages our destinies and affairs, cause/effect/retribution is God's will, God's heaven, the salvation by Jesus, etc. In Christianity, you die in hopes that you were right. Whereas in Buddhism, that faith is practiced and proven over time.
For example, the fundamental aspects of how we came to be, is understood and discovered over time as we study and practice more. As we progress, we start to see how this world really works, mechanically. In Christianity, it's a blind race to the finish line for that topic.
If your question was actually more superficial, then I'll re-answer it here:
People bow to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas out of respect, gratitude, and dedication to the Buddha Dharma. They practice and cultivate the nature of giving and humility by making offerings of fruits, vegetables, incense, to the buddhas. Simply put, it's paying respects to someone you look up to.
Venerating and paying respects to the buddhas is a way to tune your nature back to the buddhas. Gazing upon the buddhas is like looking at your final destination. Seeing the accomplished ones... we renew our motivation and dedication. The practice of veneration also creates affinities and memories with the buddhas so that in the future, the buddha dharma will always be close to you. You'll always find the buddha dharma again and never steer far from it.
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas cultivated in which their abilities are inconceivable. They vowed in the past to relieve countless difficulties and sufferings of living beings. So that is why the Buddha told us about many other buddhas and bodhisattvas and their specific vows that serve as functions. So people in Buddhism often look to the buddhas and bodhisattvas for help and guidance in affairs and matters that are out of their control. Their sincerity brings forth a mind and heart of faith and trust. And when those extraordinary responses take effect, that person's faith skyrockets and they end up listening to the dharma and practicing the dharma even more.
Greg L · 1 decade ago
Faith is a mental factor (aspect of mind). In the world there are many different types and meanings. In Buddhism this is also true. For example, believing faith believes in the object or good qualities of the observed object, and is based on logical reasoning, fact or direct experience. Admiring faith observes the good qualities and admires, while aspiring faith aspires to acquire those qualities or experiences.
The source of faith is mind.
Buddhism says have wisdom first and then let faith follow. If faith is based on wisdom, then faith is genuinely strong. If you have faith first and then hope wisdom follows, you may be disappointed if the facts don't bend the way you want them to be. You may even be stuck in faith with little to follow after it, which gives some people even more and more faith as then there's nothing much else to base life on.
FF · 1 decade ago
You've got all the answers you need here so far, so i just wanted to comment on PANG's answer...
Okay, Pang, you seem to show knowledge MOST when it comes to being an information wiki. But when it comes to actual depth of understanding, I think you need to see the full picture of buddhism.
Pang, faith in buddhism is not how we perceive faith in other religions like christianity. Faith in buddhism is trust. When the buddha says not to just blindly believe, the buddha just means to practice and see for yourself. But you tell me what is that feeling that motivates you in the first place to practice.
When you sit there and meditate, and you aren't even enlightened yet, you tell me what keeps you going. There has to be a little bit of faith inside you that believes the buddha has some merit to what he's saying. You have to have at least an ounce of logical and rational belief that you will attain what the buddha claims you will attain.
In terms of faithful practices such as repentance, recitation, and bowing, if you really step out of your wiki-shell and read some answers from people like "nice world" or Greg, you'll see that in buddhism, faith-based practices are forms of practice. And for those who rely on faith more heavily, will be attracted by such practices. And the we just gained a few more buddhists that just developed an affinity with the buddha.
PANG, if you weren't so wiki'd, you wouldn't be so closed to literary meanings and be more open to the contextual meanings BASED on the entirety of the buddha dharma. You demonstrate a most common error in studying the dharma and I really think you should stop being so literal to the buddha's word and start giving it some open thought.
So far, I see Greg and "NIce World" really demonstrate fundamental understanding, and less about silly facts and wiki-data. stop hold onto word-for-word, and let each sentence be a puzzle piece in the entire dharma, not each sentence as a puzzle piece without the puzzle. PANG, you could learn a thing or two from those guys.
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Actually PANGGGG...
if I were wrong in my assessment of you, then you would have taken the buddha's words that you posted, and actually followed them. ahem ahem... don't just take his word for it... remember? You gotta apply thought, practice, and study.
And if you really gave his words some thought in regards to his instruction on faith, you'd get the bigger picture. Buddha just means to not sit there and believe. He means that you must practice! But you use wisdom to see that faith is what motivates you. What you trust and believe to be true IS FAITH! I think this is a matter of simple english here, actually.
Wake up PANG! PANGGGGGG!!!
Darren B · 1 decade ago
Buddhism is not a religion.
It is a philosophy, or rather, the writings of a philosopher converted into a life philosophy.
There is nothing about faith anywhere in Buddhism.
I implore you, however, to continue reading about it. It is a beautiful thing, and will free you from the shackles that "faith" requires of you.
nunovy · 1 decade ago
The self, levels of human understanding and enlightenment. It does not involve anything but the power from within. It's a very self empowering type of belief system.
Oh and how could i forget. Responsibility for one's actions. That's huge in Buddhism as well. That we are all responsible to take account of our actions, pretty much for eternity actually.
The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni Buddha, referred to his teachings as a "system of training."
He declined to refer to the teachings as a religion (which would require faith) or a philosophy (which would require analysis and study).
Buddhist training -- meditation, chanting, study, and other practices -- cultivates wisdom, compassion, clarity, generosity and other qualities that reduce suffering.
This training puts each practitioner directly in touch with the truth of life. The truth is simply a fact. And facts require no more faith than does sunshine. (We don't have to have faith in the sun. It just shines freely without any attention from us.)
Those who have given this answer a "thumbs down" have demonstrated how very little they know about Buddhism.
The Buddha explicitly rejected any role for faith in his teaching. When he was dying, he instructed his followers as follows: "Don't take my word for any of this. Find out the truth of these matters for yourself."
And in the Kalama Sutra, he said, "Do not believe in anything because it is
written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders."
There are certainly those who would like Buddhism to be a religion of faith -- and there might be some initial comfort in this. But this impulse flies in the face of Buddha's teaching.
Darren B: Your "silly facts" are simply Buddha's own words. How inconvenient this great teacher is for you.
P'ang · 1 decade ago
I could go into a long dissertation and explanation but I prefer the short answer: the etymology of the word "faith" is from the Latin words "fides" (trust) and "fidere" (to trust). It is with these meanings in mind that I use the term "faith". I put my faith (trust) in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. They are both the sources of and the object of my faith (trust). I believe that says it all.
May all be at peace.
John P (I'm only a bug) · 1 decade ago
No faith required in Buddhism, mate.
It's all intellect, psychology, critical thinking, logic and reason.
It's filled with real philosophy as opposed to sentimental speculation.
The Buddha's Kalama Sutra
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
But when, after observation and analysis, you find anything that agrees with reason, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
There are none. Buddhism isn't a belief in a supernatural entity. It's a belief about life and humanity.
lainiebsky · 1 decade ago
Why aren't Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism as pushy about their faiths as Christianity and Islam?
Isn't Buddhism the largest religion in the world?
WHY HINDUISM & BUDDHISM ARE LESSER VIOLENT RELIGION UNLIKE CHRISTIANITY & ISLAM?
BUDDHISM IS A MUCH BETTER RELIGION THAN CHRISTIANITY,DO YOU AGREE?
Is there a single religion apart from buddhism that does not support inequality and intolerance?
How are ugly people surprised and offended when they get rejected?
Why would aliens use anything other then neutrinos for long distances comunitation? Isnt there things that get in the way of radio signals?
Jehovah's Witnesses, how much influence does your governing body have over your lives?
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Bert Jansch's freewheeling fifth album, Birthday Blues, occupies a unique place in his solo discography. Released in 1969, the same year Basket of Light propelled Pentangle into the UK pop charts, Birthday Blues almost sounds like a Pentangle LP missing John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee. Backed-up by bandmates Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, Jansch neither holds back his characteristic moodiness nor takes himself too seriously. What's more, Jansch is in love. Heather Rosemary Sewell isn't just the inspiration for one of the song titles; she also designed the cover, whose Hans Feurer front photo shows Bert holding the couple's puppy. With just enough of a Donovanesque pop sense, Pentangle producer Shel Talmy keeps the overall feel of these recordings fresh, warm and immediate. As its playfully ambivalent title suggests, Birthday Blues reveals an artist fully comfortable in his own skin. Blues and folk influences are woven together into songs at once directly personal, yet generously light and free. The most 'pop' of Jansch's '60s solo recordings and perhaps one of his most underrated, Birthday Blues is a deep and rewarding family affair at the height of his musical powers. This vinyl release has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes and features liner notes by Richie Unterberger.
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Papers of Dr Honoria Somerville Keer, 1883-1969, medical graduate, University of Glasgow, ScotlandMedical Career PapersPhotographs and postcards taken during the First World War (family photographs are under ref. DC 171/4/5)PhotographsChateau de Chanteloup, Troyes
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Papers of Dr Honoria Somerville Keer, 1883-1969, medical graduate, University of Glasgow, ScotlandDC 171
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Scroll from the Scottish Women's Hospital presented to Dr KeerDC 171/3/3
Visitors' Book from the aviation hut in SalonicaDC 171/3/4
Correspondence between the Colonial Office, the Government of Nigeria and Dr KeerDC 171/3/5
Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial ServiceDC 171/3/6
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DiaryDC 171/3/8
British Medical Association Round the World Tour itineraryDC 171/3/9
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Itinerary for a special excursion arranged for the British Medical Association partyDC 171/3/11
Letter from Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence to Dr KeerDC 171/3/12
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"Notes for a lecture" on West Africa and its diseasesDC 171/3/14
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Gathering of medical and military personnelDC 171/3/15/1/47
Dr McIlroy, Colonel Niclot and Dr KeerDC 171/3/15/1/49
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D-backs Farm Rumblings: Jake Lamb working his way back
Phoenix Rising FC signs Liverpool defender Corey Whelan
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By Vince Marotta | June 17, 2019 at 7:23 am
UPDATED: June 17, 2019 at 11:27 am
There’s a lot going on in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ minor league system.
The MLB Draft is complete. The D-backs selected 45 players over the three-day event and now many will begin their pro baseball careers.
In addition, the Hillsboro Hops and Missoula Osprey have started their seasons, the Dominican Summer League is in full swing and the Arizona League gets cranked up this week.
Here’s a quick look at everything going on in the D-backs’ organization.
Reno Aces (Triple-A Pacific Coast League)
For the Week: 2-4
For the Season: 29-40 (4th place in Pacific Northern Division; 7.0 games behind Sacramento)
Jake Lamb, still working his way back from a quad injury suffered in early April, went 2-for-2 with a run scored, a walk and three RBI in leading the Aces to a 6-4 win over the Memphis Redbirds Monday night. The former National League All-Star got Reno on the board with an RBI single that scored Abraham Almonte in the bottom of a three-run first inning. Then in the second inning, Lamb delivered again, singling in Almonte and Matt Szczur to put the Aces up 5-2.
You guys mind if we keep him awhile, @Dbacks?
Lamb drives in two more to give the Aces a 5-2 lead in the 2nd. #Aceball♠️| #AllinForAceball pic.twitter.com/DT2dfGigHY
— Reno Aces (@Aces) June 11, 2019
Lamb had himself a decent week for the Aces, hitting .313 (5-for-16) with a home run and six RBI. He also walked five times in 21 plate appearances, so he was able to post a solid .476 on-base percentage.
Ricky Nolasco, a 36-year-old right-hander, made his Reno debut Wednesday night throwing 3.2 innings in a 9-8 road loss to Round Rock. Nolasco, who signed a minor league deal with Arizona back in February, allowed three hits and two earned runs while striking out six. He had previously pitched in two games for Jackson earlier this month. Nolasco was out of baseball last season after being released by Kansas City in March of 2018, but has 114 big-league wins on his résumé in action with the Marlins, Dodgers, Twins and Angels. Reno staked Nolasco to a 6-0 lead, and the Aces were still up by four runs when he exited with two outs in the third inning, but unfortunately the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead.
John Ryan Murphy, Wyatt Mathisen and Szczur each drove in three runs in leading a 17-hit attack in a 16-3 pasting of Round Rock on Friday. All three homered, as did Lamb for Reno, who posted its second-highest run total of the season and the 11th double-digit scoring game of 2019. Right-hander Taylor Widener started and pitched well, going six innings and allowing just four hits and two runs while striking out nine.
💣💣💣
Jake Lamb’s first homer for the Aces since 8/2/14 @ El Paso #AllinForAceball | @MiLB | @Dbacks pic.twitter.com/w6j6Gxh55E
Jackson Generals (Double-A Southern League)
For the Season: 39-31 (2nd place in North Division; 5.0 games behind Montgomery)
The Generals played a lot of baseball Monday and Tuesday, thanks to Mother Nature. Monday and Tuesday saw Jackson host Mississippi in what amounted to back-to-back double-headers, which included the conclusion of a game suspended earlier this season due to rain. The Generals could only muster a total of five runs in the four games, but were able to eek out a 2-1 win in the first game Tuesday thanks to a two-run home run from third baseman Drew Ellis in the third inning.
Left-hander Bryan Valdez allowed just one run over 7.1 innings in a 5-1 win over Biloxi Wednesday. Valdez allowed seven hits and walked two with three strikeouts in picking up his third win at the Double-A level. The win pushed his minor league record to 15-5 with a sterling 2.38 ERA in stops in the Dominican Summer D-backs, Hillsboro, Kane County, the Arizona League D-backs, Missoula, Kane County, Visalia and Jackson.
Andy Young clubbed a grand slam home run in the seventh inning Thursday which proved to be instrumental in Jackson’s 5-4 win over Biloxi. Young’s blast, his 8th of the season, gave Jackson a 4-3 lead. Biloxi would tie things up in the top of the eighth, but the Generals answered again in the bottom of the frame when Jamie Westbrook singled in Ellis with one out in the inning. Right-hander Cameron Gann was able to get the last three outs in the ninth for his first save of the year.
So…what do like on your #GrandSalami?! The @jacksongenerals @AndyjYoung15 definitely likes #Crushed Peppers 🔥🔥🎆🎆⚾⚾💪💪 #GrandSlam
BOT 7| BIL 3, JXN 4 pic.twitter.com/5Jo43mHzGg
— Jackson Generals (@jacksongenerals) June 14, 2019
Ellis continued his power-hitting ways Saturday when he smashed two home runs in a 6-3 win over Biloxi. The 23-year-old former second-round pick gave Jackson a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the first with a three-run shot off of Shuckers starter Cameron Roegner. He then added a two-out solo shot in the sixth off of reliever Devin Williams that stretched Jackson’s lead to 6-1.
That’s ✌️ for Drew!#Dbacks No. 14 prospect Drew Ellis recorded his first career multihomer game in @MiLB with two blasts for the @jacksongenerals.
Live stats for all @Dbacks top prospects: https://t.co/6Tw9BSi2b0 pic.twitter.com/kboIg2RPbH
— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) June 16, 2019
Visalia Rawhide (High-A California League)
For the Season: 44-22 (Clinched 1st place in North Division)
Second baseman L.T. Tolbert had a two-run home run and Japanese right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa allowed just three hits and one run over six innings in Visalia’s 3-1 win over Modesto Monday night. Yoshikawa had a rough introduction to American pro ball by giving up 11 earned runs over his first three appearances, but since then, he’s settled down and looked like a different pitcher. In his last five starts dating back to May 16, the 24-year-old is 2-0 with a 1.08 ERA and a 0.92 WHIP. Yoshikawa has fanned 24 and walked just eight in that span.
RAWHIDE WIN 3-1! Shumpei Yoshikawa earns his second career win and @LtTolbert1 has his first HR as a member of the Rawhide! Series is tied up 2-2. Winner of tomorrow’s game takes the series. First pitch is at 6pm.
— Visalia Rawhide (@VisaliaRawhide) June 11, 2019
Right-hander Josh Green combined with relievers Kyler Stout and West Tunnell on a two-hit shutout in a 1-0 seven-inning win over the San Jose Giants Wednesday. Green, 24, pitched five scoreless frames while striking out four before handing things off to the bullpen, which finished off the win. Third baseman Alex King provided the offense for Visalia with a second-inning solo home run. Green won his sixth consecutive decision and lowered his stellar season ERA to 2.12 in the process.
Right-hander Jeff Bain continued his strikeout tear in a 4-3 loss to San Jose Thursday night. Bain fanned nine Giants hitters over six innings to bring his season total to 83, a mark that is tied for second-most in the California League. In his last two outings, Bain has struck out 22 and walked three in 13 innings of work.
Jake McCarthy, last summer’s 39th overall pick by the D-backs, finally connected on his first home run of the season during a 10-5 win over San Jose Friday. The former Virginia Cavalier connected on a three-run shot in the sixth inning off of Giants reliever Aaron Phillips. McCarthy had five home runs in 85 college games and hit three in 55 contests last summer for Hillsboro after being drafted.
Pretty cool feature on Visalia play-by-play broadcaster Jill Gearin and other women calling minor league games from the Boston Herald.
Kane County Cougars (Single-A Midwest League)
For the Season: 35-34 (4th place in Western Division; 9.5 games behind Quad Cities)
Blaze Alexander, the D-backs’ ninth-best overall prospect according to MLB Pipeline, delivered a big night by going 3-for-4 with a home run and three runs scored in Kane County’s 9-3 win over Quad Cities Monday. Alexander, an 11th-round pick out of IMG Academy in Florida last summer, cracked a solo shot in the second inning to tie the score at 1-1. In the fifth, he was hit by a pitch and scored on Eddie Hernandez’s three-run triple. The 20-year-old would add two singles late in the game.
Joey Rose and Hernandez combined for eight hits, four runs scored, two doubles, two home runs and seven RBI in the Cougars’ 10-4 win over Burlington Tuesday. Designated hitter Zack Shannon also contributed a three-run homer in the winning effort. Rose’s big night came in his first game of the season.
Levi Kelly, Andy Toelken, Wesley Rodriguez and Blake Workman combined on a three-hit shutout in an 8-0 win over Beloit Sunday. Kelly, a 20-year-old right-hander whom the D-backs selected in the 8th round of last summer’s draft, threw five scoreless innings, striking out four. The win was Kelly’s second straight after earning seven consecutive no-decisions to start the season.
#YourCougars close first half with shutout win
RECAP: https://t.co/cg57hDca7g pic.twitter.com/Qli9MlTlZA
— Kane County Cougars (@KCCougars) June 16, 2019
Hillsboro Hops (Short Season-A Northwest League)
For the Season: 2-1 (2nd place in South Division; 1.0 game behind Salem-Keizer)
Your 2019 Hillsboro Hops Opening Day Roster!#AllHoppedUphttps://t.co/IR5PxCCUyh
— Hillsboro Hops (@HillsboroHops) June 10, 2019
The Hops started their 2019 season Friday night with a 2-0 loss at Eugene, but didn’t take long to rebound. Right-hander Marcos Tineo threw five scoreless innings and struck out five before handing things off to a quartet of relievers who preserved the zero in a 4-0 win over the Emeralds Saturday night.
Hillsboro followed that up with another 4-0 blanking of Eugene on Sunday. Adrian Del Moral, a 20-year-old right-hander from Mexico, was brilliant in his season debut, going five scoreless innings while yielding just one hit and striking out seven.
Missoula Osprey (Rookie Pioneer League)
For the Season: 2-1 (2nd place in North Division; 1.0 game behind Idaho Falls)
Wilfry Cruz, a 21-year-old right-hander, allowed just one unearned run over five innings in leading the Osprey to a season-opening 6-4 win over Great Falls Friday night. Cruz struck out four and didn’t walk a batter. The Dominican native is looking to build on a 2018 season (also spent in Missoula) during which he went 5-2 with a 5.27 ERA in 14 starts.
Shortstop Liover Peguero and first baseman Francis Martinez each drove in three runs while center fielder Kevin Watson clubbed a two-run home run for the Osprey in an easy 9-0 win over Great Falls Sunday. Five Missoula pitchers combined to blank the Voyagers on just four hits and five walks.
D-backs 1 (Dominican Summer League)
For the Season: 7-6 (Tied for 2nd place in Baseball City Division; 1.0 game behind Padres and Reds)
Endy Estrada, a 17-year-old Venezuelan outfielder, is off to a great start in the Dominican Summer League for the D-backs. Estada is batting a robust .404 (19-for-47) with five doubles, two triples and a home run in his first 12 professional games. From June 7 to June 12, Estrada had a stretch of four straight multi-hit games.
For the Season: 9-4 (Tied with Phillies White for 1st place in San Pedro Division; 2.5 games ahead of Cubs2)
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NLTK's Swadesh List in the Bulgarian-Macedonian part | Списък на Суадеш
While browsing the Swadesh list from the NLTK corpus, especially the Bulgarian and Macedonian* columns.
The Swadesh list is a corpus from comparative/historical/developmental linguistics, which is trying to map how languages evolved by tracking the most stable subset of words. It's also suggestive in the field of language acquisition/child language/developmental psychology/evolutionary psychology, because one can imagine which words would appear first in the vocabulary of a primitive human society and may reach to the same or similar basic concepts as the real ones.*
For the record, I've "discovered" such sort of a list before discovering Swadesh one, inspired by developmental psychology, while trying to imagine and write down a short set of words/concepts which would appear first and in what sequence. I wanted to generalize on them - on the complexity and specifics of these basic concepts, why and how they may appear. For example, the eyes of the mother are among the first "objects" that a child sees. Soon after the child sees the moon and the sun (in the sunset and the dawn). They are all circular, the eyes are spherical... That's answering the question "who invented the wheel"... It was... in front of humans' eyes forever.
The "wheel", in the transportation domain, was rather constructed or built after the tools got good enough, the groups of people grew enough and/also/therefore allowing roads to be built - both by cleaning out forests or utilizing areas which were dry and flat.
Bare in mind that in general Bulgarian linguistics deny that Macedonian is an independent language, it was started to be forcefully and violently diverted in the Yugoslavian period and afterwards. Of course there were difference which have grown, but if people talk in their local dialects in Bulgarian, there are differences between Thrace (where I live) and all other regions such as "Shopskiya Kray", Northern-West, Northern-East, in different villages. There's one prominent dialect in Rhodopes/Smolyan which is almost impossible to decode.
Bulgarians and macedonians don't need translators in order to communicate. Macedonian sounds like a dialect, sometimes funny, I guess it sounds the same for the other side.**
The similarities are most apparent and harder to deny if you know the grammar which is harder to change forcefully by the political authorities (than replacing or adding a few letters in the alphabet, adding lots of foreignisms). For example, among the Slavic languages, it's only Bulgarian and Macedonian (?) which have determiners (as "the", but it's in the end of the word) and are analytic, there are no cases, but prepositions - as in German and Latin languages.
Bulgarian Swadesh list in NLTK
I don't know who's responsible for the translations and making them official.
However, IMO:
1. Где - as of now it's a kind of archaism for къде .
"Онуй" for "that" is a dialect? and funny form of онова .
It's used in the expressive phrase "туй-онуй" and is funny because "уй" sounds like "хуй". That word is the same as the one in the famous greeting in Russian "Пошол на хуй". :)
2. "Бастун" is given for stick, however this is a foreignism and a specific instance/application of the general term "пръчка" ("прачка" in Maced.), "палка" is also used for some specific "sticks" ("palka" is given for other Slavic languages). Edit+: "шосе" is also strange instead of път.
3. For other words there are also many translation.
баща/татко (in Macedonian - татко, I don't know what's the frequency there or how they've decided.
4. 'To swell" in Bulgarian is actively used in many variations which match the roots in other Slavic languages as given in the list:
"подувам се" is given as a translation, but it's also:
1. подпухвам (пухнуць и др.)
2. набъбвам (набабрува, мак.)
3. отичам ( otékat, oteći и др.)
4. бухвам (набухати, беларуски?)
4. "Овошка" for "fruit" is another funny item, instead of the more common and ordinary word "плод".
"Овошка" is appropriate for a "fruit tree", short for "овощно дърво" such as an apple tree etc.
Etc., that's what I spotted at a first glance.
I think there should be many words for each entry and more structural data.
How to use it? Install NLTK:
python -m pip install nltk
import nltk
nltk.download()
Find the corpus, download it. Then:
from nltk.corpora import swadesh as sw
sw.entries()
Here they show how to get translations between the language pairs:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23479912/how-to-translate-words-in-ntlk-swadesh-corpus-regardless-of-case-python
* For instance, I think that "mama" is produced by the first random sound-producing attempts of the baby, "ma" is maybe the simplest syllable, "mama" is more reliable than "ma", because it's repeated (suggests it's a pattern) and yet two repetitons are enough. The baby called their mother "mama".
http://artificial-mind.blogspot.bg/2010/04/learned-or-innate-nature-or-nurture.html
**E.g. the Macedonian word for "boyfrend" is "дечко", which in Bulgarian means a little boy or an infantile adolescent/teenager boy, somebody acting inappropriately as a younger child.
"Барам" in Macedonian means "to search" in the search engines, while in Bulgarian it's an expressive word, a stem/root for "to touch" as:
- Обарам/обарвам, набарам/набарвам, прибара/прибарвам, да се барна
However it actually has an old/deducible meaning of "search" by a gradual explorative touching.
"Обарвам" can be applied for "to search (somebody)", because it involves touching, but it's also to erotically touch somebody.
Extending the line, there are a lot of funny false-cognates in the Bulgarian-Serbian relation.
"Сине" in Serbian is an address to a "daughter", while in Bulgarian it is an address to a... "son". (However there are Bulgarian dialects where "син" means "daughter", too).
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XL Catlin appoints Dan Riordan as President, Global Political Risk & Trade Credit, Insurance
London and New York Thu Apr 21, 2016 — XL Catlin today announced it has appointed Dan Riordan as President, Global Political Risk & Trade Credit (PRTC), reporting to Neil Robertson XL Catlin’s Chief Executive, Global Specialty, Insurance.
Commenting Mr. Robertson said: “Dan is highly respected in the PRTC market. He brings a wealth of experience to this newly created role which will see him take responsibility for the strategic leadership of the global PRTC business.”
The appointment also marks a structural change at XL Catlin with PRTC becoming a separate underwriting unit, having previously been under the umbrella of Crisis Management, led by Stephan Ashwell. Joe Blenkinsopp will continue in his role as Global Chief Underwriting Officer reporting to Mr. Riordan.
Commenting further Mr. Robertson said: “We have appointed Dan and made the changes to our structure because we want to fully focus on developing our share of this significantly, growing market. Global geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty has led to an increase in demand and over time we will be looking to add further resources in our key underwriting regions to respond to this growth opportunity.”
Mr. Riordan has held senior positions at Zurich between 1997 and 2015, most recently serving as CEO of Global Corporate in North America and previously as President of Specialty Products. He has had a long association with the Berne Union, holding the position of President between 2013 and 2015. He joins XL Catlin on May 2nd, based in the US.
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Lions’ leftovers eaten by many small critters
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Carcasses are consumed by many mammals, birds, study finds.
Published 10/11/17 in Jackson Hole News & Guide by Mike Koshmrl
An incredible diversity of wildlife — from chickadees to grizzly bears — make use of cougar-killed carcasses that are distributed around the mountains and valleys of Jackson Hole.
Remote cameras left at carcass sites by Panthera's Teton Cougar Project over four years found that magpies and red foxes were by far the most common scavengers gleaning lion leftovers. But some 39 species were documented in total, a finding that surprised not only Cougar Project leader Mark Elbroch but the larger scientific community.
“We documented a greater diversity of scavengers than any other study in the world to date,” Elbroch said.
A synthesis of the Cougar Project’s findings was published in the latest edition of the scientific journal Biological Conservation. Elbroch, Connor O’Malley, Michelle Peziol and Howard Quigley co-authored the study, titled “Vertebrate diversity benefiting from carrion provided by pumas and other subordinate, apex felids.”
A number of behavioral and physiological traits in cougars explain why lion-killed carcasses are a major draw for other species: their timidity in the face of other large carnivores, small stomachs, hunting style and a tolerance of small scavengers.
“It seems like they have evolutionarily evolved to be able to tolerate big loses of food,” Elbroch said. “It’s pretty remarkable.”
If a mountain lion kills, say, an elk, the cat tends to bed nearby and allow all sorts of scavengers to come in, he said. It’s a different story with species like wolves and bears, which tend to clean up carcasses immediately or bed almost on top of them while guarding food.
The data bears out the different styles of storing food. The Cougar Project’s 242 motion-sensored cameras deployed from 2012 to ’15 found three times more scavenger species at lion kills than at carcasses left from wolves or humans.
A statistically significant portion of all the animals that call Jackson Hole home were drawn to lion kills. Elbroch and colleagues detected 28 percent of all mammals in the valley and 11 percent of bird species.
Not all critters recorded were eating left-behind flesh. A mole gathered elk hair and constructed a nest made entirely of wapiti insulation. A ruffed grouse was clearly eating, but perhaps was swallowing something other than ungulate meat.
“With the birds,” Elbroch said, “it’s tough to tell. Is it eating insects off the carcass or the carcass itself?”
What species surprisingly didn’t make an appearance?
“Given the number of cameras we had on the landscape sitting on free food,” Elbroch said, “I think it’s important to note that we didn’t ever detect a wolverine or a Canada lynx.”
While the Cougar Project’s research may lead to the suspicion that mountain lions are purposely wasteful or picky, that’s not the case, Elbroch said. In the wintertime snow and ice often claims carcasses by covering them up and locking them in. Come summer, bears steal half of all lion carcasses.
“And they also get full,” Elbroch said. “We’ve seen up to 18 days on an elk carcass, but even then they just get so full. They’re like little balloons.”
The Teton Cougar Project’s paper is attached to the online version of this story at JHNewsAndGuide.com. The study lists the entire suite of documented scavengers, from dark-eyed juncos to bushy-tailed woodrats.
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Tomb Raider 30-day Challenge Day 3: Do you like the movies? Why or why not?
UPDATE: This month-long challenge has officially finished, but you're still welcome to post your comments below at any time. We'd love to hear what you think.
So how does everyone feel about the Tomb Raider movies? Do you like them? Why or why not? And while we're on the subject, who do you think should play Lara in the third film?
Posted by Stellalune
Labels: 30-day challenge (2011), Classic Tomb Raider, Community, Films/Movies
Stellalune Sep 3, 2011, 10:53:00 AM
I'll admit I'm not a big fan of the films. I don't dislike Angelina Jolie. I've enjoyed some of her other movies, but very few game-to-movie translations hit the mark. For me, seeing a real person try to be Lara just seems weird.
My ideal Tomb Raider movie would be all CG like the Final Fantasy movies or Avatar. And who knows, with Square Enix at the top of the TR food chain now, maybe that idea's not as far-fetched as it once seemed.
As for TR3 the movie, I'm clueless. None of the names I've heard so far do it for me. I like Olivia Wilde but I don't think she's Lara.
ryan marshall Sep 3, 2011, 11:01:00 AM
I liked the Angelina movies. It was what got me more into Tomb Raider in the first place. I definitely enjoyed the first movie more than the second. I also liked the references to the Dagger of Xian and other artifacts at the auction in TR1. I liked that they didn't just make it a CG animated movie cause that would be typical, and would be like just one big in game cutscene.
And Angelina for TR3! Reboots are such a cop out!
Lady Lara Croft Sep 3, 2011, 11:09:00 AM
If they insist on making another film, being British, I'd love to see a British actress play Lara - but unless they bring in a RADA 'unknown' graduate, there isn't a 'Brit Chick' out there who could fill her boots or any other part of her attire.
Alice in Wonderland Sep 3, 2011, 11:12:00 AM
I like the movies as standalone films, in relation to the games they don't work for me. Angelina is great, but she's American. Being English myself, it annoys me to no end when American actors put on British accents, usually because any flaws are way more noticeable to me. It's really really rare to find a good game-to-film movie though... Like the live-action Tekken film, it was bad. Now they're making a CGI version... If they make a 3rd Tomb Raider, I think that's the way to go, keep it similar to the games in a way that's entertaining :)
TRtbn21 Sep 3, 2011, 11:20:00 AM
I liked the movies, but not because I thought they were that great. I just thought they were fun. And I liked the music, which will get me to watch a movie several times over, regardless of the quality.
As for CG vs. live action... I'm on the fence. I appreciate seeing a real person being able to do what Lara can do in game (more or less), and that was one thing I really did appreciate about Angelina Jolie in the movies - she did the majority of her own stunts. However, we have the tech these days to make a really good CG movie. I think Avatar worked so well because it was mo-capped, and there could be a lot of potential for something like that where TR is concerned. But as ryan said above me, it does run the risk of feeling like one big cutscene if it's done completely CG. I'd be willing to give it a chance, though.
As for who ought to portray Lara in a new movie, same here, Stella - I'm clueless. For all that I pay attention to movies, I'm mostly doing it via the soundtracks, so I'm not as informed about actresses as I might otherwise be!
Jorge Silva Sep 3, 2011, 11:54:00 AM
Well, I like the movies. The first one is very good, the second not that much mas still cool. The stories are not game related but I think it's better that way: an original story that is tomb raider. The manor part of the first movie can relate a lot with the games. And the inclusion of a water scene in the second one is also a connection to the games. I find that Angelina Jolie is really good, she portrays Lara's personality in a very good way.
About the potential actress... I know the odds of Angelina returning are small, but I would love to see her again, simply because I made my mind about it: the "real" Lara Croft is Angelina Jolie, and I always associate them. If not Lara, maybe Megan Fox, because she looks like Angelina. In the end, Angelina rules!
Anonymous Sep 3, 2011, 11:54:00 AM
Yes..and No...Just Lara in real life?-The role of Lara Croft does not belong to anyone.Lara is designed to be perfect-in the real world nobody is perfect.:D
Dani Sep 3, 2011, 11:58:00 AM
I completely agree with TRtbn21.
I loved the movies, I think they bring out a new facet of Lara and her skills (like the parashute over hong kong scene in the Cradle of Life, that left me awed), but I couldn't decide, if it were up to me, to make a CG or Live Action movie, though both would be great.
As for the actress, I have three sugestions: Angelina is great, I love her movies, bot there are parts she can't quite nail down. As for Olivia Wilde, she misses the toughness in lara. Now, Megan Fox would be a nice choice! xD
Ostercy Sep 3, 2011, 12:13:00 PM
I like Angelina and I thought she made a great Lara. Sadly she was let down by the material and the necessity for the American screen writers to give her a Daddy figure in the first movie and to make her politically correct in the second. Even worse this bowdlerisation of Lara's character for US audiences (which Angie, bless her - who "got" Lara - fought against) has left a ghastly legacy even today in the "reboots" of Core's wonderful character. So the movies are quite fun but toxic in their influence and I dread what the team that brought us Cowboys and Aliens will do next to poor old Lara.
Harry Sep 3, 2011, 2:36:00 PM
i liked the films, but I'm a sucker for anything Tomb Raider really haha :L The first one was better than the second IMO though. On the subject of Angelina, I like her :) i thought she portrayed her quite well, and even though she is American, I've heard worse British accents....much worse haha. As for the third film, Angelina has said that she won't do a third movie, so thats out. As for a CGI film, it could work i suppose, but it would have to be done well, with the help of Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix of course. I think if a video game film is going to be made, they need to be made with the people who make the games involved with the project. For example, Valve has said that a Half Life 2 film won't be made unless they are involved with the project. So all i all, i like the films but i think if they make a 3rd they need to make it more faithful to the games :) Here's my blog post about the third movie :D http://harrystombraiderblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/third-tomb-raider-movie.html
Anonymous Sep 3, 2011, 5:44:00 PM
Well, I liked the first film as a stand alone film. Based off a video game though it was pretty bad. The second one is pretty bad though. But I have no idea who should play lara in the 3rd one.
Jana Sep 3, 2011, 6:54:00 PM
I am not a big fan of the movies. I like Angelina in her other movies but she is not Lara and not British. The movies were neither true to the games, nor did they do a good job as stand-alones. They already kind of reinvented her for the big screen, giving her new companions and a new family background, which they should have done with much more detail. (Especially when it comes to her motivation for what she does and who she is.) So if they indeed reinvent her again, this time along with the reinvention of the game, I hope they get it right. They did a good job with Batman, if they put that much detail and devotion into the two, that would be good. Now when it comes to choosing an actress... I am clueless. I don't know many young actresses, maybe the one from Inception, but she didn't have the Lara looks.
ryan marshall Sep 3, 2011, 11:44:00 PM
I think they should definitely do the TR9 game to tie in with the third movie
Joshua Sep 4, 2011, 12:29:00 AM
I LOVE both films! I feel like they executed her likeness well and produced well written and action packed stories. I also cant really see any one other than the fabulous Angelina Jolie ever embodying Lara!
Anonymous Sep 4, 2011, 4:07:00 AM
I liked both Tomb Raider movies, maybe because of Angelina Jolie in it, but maybe because it was so exciting to see Lara's adventures on big screen.
I don't know who should play Lara in third TR movie.
But I agree with the ppl who said that need to be British actress and third TR movie need to be closer to the games.
reborn1995 Sep 4, 2011, 9:34:00 AM
i enjoyed the movies, but when compared to the games, they just don't seem to get Lara's character right to me. The writing in the movies portrayed Lara as little more than a "good guy" gun-slinger. The depth of knowledge and intelligence that Lara has in the games really didn't shine through in the movies i don't think. i think Lara is a little bit more the counterpart of Indiana Jones than the movies let on.
But much more to the point, i just didn't think the story lines of the movies were nearly as good as many of the stories from the games. i think they should make the movies follow more of the games own plot lines and characters.
--guy
Pauly Sep 4, 2011, 10:14:00 AM
I thought Kate Beckinsale could have been Lara Crofts before Angelina Jolie when I first heard they were talking about making Tomb Raider cause of her look , personality and tough combination of that. First movie thought okay n good wish alot more actions like never ending. ..the second one near the end was totally different that I didn't expected but it's the part of life to choose what have to be done ? ! like the begining . i wish could have little bit better to the story line..know it's not easy..not sure if they were in the hurry before deadline ? if animated like Beowulf . they can use them adding alot of creations, imaginations as no limits.for fun m actions
Matt Sep 4, 2011, 12:56:00 PM
I liked the movies, but they changed her too much for my liking. They were very interesting.
cup. Sep 4, 2011, 4:14:00 PM
the movies are okay, but i think the first one is better, part 2 was just like, "eh, cool i guess" im a TR fan, but i think they added too much romance in part 2. a third one would be cool to see. i hope that they pick someone to look and act like lara. angelina jolie did pretty good, but if they are gonna change the person, pick someone that's worth it, yknow?
Airave Sep 4, 2011, 4:42:00 PM
I agree with what you said, Stella.
and I never even wanted to watch them-
but I did; and really enjoyed them,
much to my chagrin, hehe! But really,
I often felt the TR "vibe" in them.
Of course also the Hollywood ones....
But hey, liked!
(edited for bad spelling)
As fair as Lara is concerned I think that nobody will be happy with a human representation because everyone can see a little bit of them selves in her character. Thats what I love about Tomb Raider, Lara is this amazing female heroine with a amazing body and a femme fatal attitude! Although Angelina has done a outstanding job with portraying her (bare in mind she did all the stunts herself...) I agree with all the pomme's who wrote in. I'm australian and cringe when I see a american trying to play a australian, I feel your pain. I have to say though I agree with Pauly that Kate Beckinsale would have done a sick as job, she's played every type of female heroine who has a sick as body (see her in Underworld costume!) and she's British! Although the Tomb Raider films are enjoyable to watch they aren't as fun as the games! So by all means keep making them but don't expect them to outshine the games! xx
jonty1512 Sep 7, 2011, 1:11:00 PM
I agree with Ostercy all the way. The idea was good but the way the Hollywood bods went about it was all wrong. The plots were as thin as a sheet of tracing paper and some of the acting was more wooden than a Scandinavian forest although I thought Jolie did a good job considering what she had to work with. Maybe if they were to follow some of the plots from the games (Legend, Anniversary & Underworld) then they could be onto a winner.
Ericketeer Sep 8, 2011, 12:54:00 PM
I was actually excited when I first heard about the first movie being made and I thought that (by the looks only) Angelina Jollie does look like Lara (from the first few games, of course).
The accent for me was not a problem, because I'm not British. I found no difference there, then again only a British would know.
I loved the few references to the games but I despised that they had to change some of the fundamental things like cutting Winston, and not using the usual Lara costume, etc. Why do they always do that??
As movies they were not great but not bad. They were fun!
If they do another one I'll see it.
Anonymous Sep 10, 2011, 4:33:00 PM
I wish they would make a movie with the 3rd game's style of cutscenes. That Lara looked very nice and nostalgic. But probably, they won't do a such thing :(
Mary Sep 11, 2011, 10:49:00 AM
I really disliked the films.
The worst thing was how publicly Angelina (who I like, and who was well-cast) said she didn't play the games, like it didn't matter.
I was also disappointed by the music, which was a pop/hip-hop soundtrack. So much of the games' sense of place and atmosphere were down to their classical soundtracks.
Those are fan complaints though. On a purely "film" level, I just don't think they were that good. The plots didn't really make sense, and they were quite tedious to watch.
I agree, a third film in CGI would be great!
CountLicorice Sep 14, 2011, 10:50:00 PM
I love the movies. I grew up with them. I think I was like 6 when I went to go see the first movie in theaters. I like how they actually filmed in Cambodia. That's great. The second movie sucked - just kidding I loved it. I'm a great fan of Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, and Gerard Butler.
Hunter Sep 15, 2011, 10:17:00 PM
I enjoyed the movies. When I was first exposed to them, I was younger, so I wasn't as critical as some might be. Now, when I watch them, I still enjoy them, but I agree with those who said a CG movie would be better. Angelina Jolie is one of my favorite actresses - an meeting her someday is on my bucket list - but a good TR movie would have to be with someone who is *actually* the Lara we know.
I do think the producers did a good job with Lara as a character. She was witty and strong, noble and still all-around BA. I think that was nailed. The story was interesting too, and I feel like they took from the games a bit. IE - the bell that they ring in the first movie that opens the frozen doorway. In TR2, I'm pretty sure there was a bell you had to shoot to open a doorway into the Ice Palace....or one of the levels underneath Barkhang.
Overall, the movies are good. I have a poster signed by Angelina, Jon Voight, Noah Taylor and Daniel Craig above my bed. :)
Anonymous Sep 16, 2011, 11:23:00 PM
I thought the 2nd movie was fun to watch, but what struck me in both movies was the distinct lack of "hold your breath" Lara Croft moves - swinging, climbing, and jumping. In the games those things take my breath away... but they were missing (or at least the emotional impact was) in the films.
Speaking of this, I've often hoped the new wave of Tomb Raider games would get even more involved with these moves: choosing toe holds and finger holds, etc. at a closer view. - Don
JLvatron Sep 21, 2011, 10:59:00 AM
While I found TR1 badly scripted, I absolutely loved TR2! Lara Croft was basically the female James Bond.
Angelina did a great job and they should follow the same pattern for TR3!
Raider of Tombs Sep 22, 2011, 1:14:00 PM
Movies: The thought of Angelina Jolie bringing MY favorite heroine to life made me squeal with delight. Then I saw the movies. Not only did they change the characters (Hilary/Winston)/(Bryce/Zip), but the changed the story of her background and added elements with her father that I did not care for. I was not expecting them to turn one of the games into a movie, but AT LEAST keep the characters we know and love the same. It was a huge disappointment for me. Paramount dropped a ball on each of these. *sigh* Besides casting Angie, I will thank them for bringing on (relatively unknown) hotties Gerard Butler and Daniel Craig.
Lara: I absolutely love Angie. She is amazingly beautiful, talented and happens to be my favorite actress. I thought she did an excellent job as Lara and for what the script called for. As for future installments, IF they're not going to bring Angie back (HIGHLY unlikely), Id say grab an unknown actress. Someone they can mold to be our future Lara. With the highly anticipated new game coming in 2012, I am hoping they take care of the fans and give us a new “Lara” we can love and respect.
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CardinalXimenez Sep 27, 2011, 2:30:00 PM
I hated the movies, both as movies and as adaptations, I thought the writing was awful, everything I liked about Lara had been changed in favor of all my most hated actionmovie clichés, and the "feel" of the games was gone: where was the feel of exploring a dusty tomb and hearing growling in the dark, and not knowing if something would come charging out at you? Where were the deathtraps? Lara herself acted more like a caricature, the writers seemed to think "she sometimes blows kisses or winks, so let´s have her do that at random times in the movie", Lara is known for her large chest, so let´s have the actress wear a padded bra, she´s British, so let´s give her a stereotypically British oneliners like "Fascinating".
Grace Larkey Jun 30, 2012, 5:50:00 PM
I feel like I SHOULD like them just because I've been a fan of Lara since I was a very small child, but I'm just not that fond of them. If you can detach your personal gaming experience from them, then it's just as good as any other adventure movie. But I feel like if they were going to adapt the games into movies, I would have enjoyed them a lot more if they had translated the plots from the first 2 games into their theatrical adaptations.
Charlie Donovan Sep 20, 2012, 9:56:00 AM
I enjoyed the films a lot :) I don't like that they don't follow the games continuity however eg: Richard Croft killed by Natla in games, he was killed by the Illuminati in the films.
Anonymous Feb 12, 2015, 8:23:00 PM
I've never even seen the films, but I don't think I'd like them. The only thing I know of them is the snapshots of film that I've seen in the Game Tap retrospective of the Tomb Raider series before Survivor (What I call Tomb Raider [2013]) was released, and I didn't like Angelina Jolie's look.
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Birchwood Blessings
Sermons, Articles, and Other Random Thoughts from the Desk of Pastor Phil
Into Jerusalem
March 23, 2018 ~ birchwoodhomeblog
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
This is of course The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. And I began with this poem today because the concept of divergent roads looms large in this text. Let me explain.
In our Palm Sunday story from Mark today, we see Jesus entering Jerusalem from the east. Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, however, suggest there was also another parade that day. There was a Roman procession entering from the west, a military parade, featuring the governor Pontius Pilate. Now, the comparison of these two processions would have set up quite a contrast. One came as an expression of empire and military occupation whose goal was to make sure Israel’s oppressed masses didn’t find deliverance. It approached the city with mighty horses, weapons and helmets gleaming in the sun, proclaiming the power of empire. But the eastbound procession was quite different. Jesus came in on a donkey, the humblest form of transportation (after walking I suppose) And the crowds, the crowds were spreading cloaks and laying branches on the road in front of him, all the while calling out, “Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest heaven.” The west road was about spreading fear. But the Traveler from the east, he came proclaiming the peaceful reign of God.
Now, historically speaking, these two competing parades are well documented. We know they both took place. But theologically speaking there’s another road I’d like to consider. The one less traveled as it were. And that road is the road to Emmaus. You remember the story.
Jesus appeared mysteriously to a couple of disillusioned disciples on the road to Emmaus on the afternoon of his Resurrection. The disciples thought he was just another a pilgrim heading home. And as they were traveling along, these two disciples tell the incognito Jesus of their shattered hopes and dreams. A dream of liberation from Rome and a hope that rested on the shoulders of the great prophet who they thought would redeem Israel. Remember now, the concept of redemption for these disciples, and for many other Jews including Judas Iscariot, meant that a conquering, sword-wielding Messiah would come and lead them to freedom. They wanted a warrior messiah. So, you can understand why their hopes and dreams had been crushed by the death of Jesus.
But, that’s when it happened. Jesus, still a stranger to the disciples, proceeded to explain that their expectation for a Messiah had been accomplished through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. But they still hadn’t identified him at this point. Upon arriving in Emmaus, however, the disciples invited the stranger into their home to share a meal and stay the night. Jesus agreed. And when it was time for supper, he took the bread, gave thanks, broke it and gave it to them. And it was in that moment, that they recognized the Risen and Living Christ.
So, here we are. We have three roads; three journeys; three different messages. Pilate’s message was “might makes right.” And he could back up his claim with the mightiest military force on earth. But Christ’s message was a little different. Maybe we could say his message was, “right makes might.” You see, as he mounted the donkey that day, as he began to move into Jerusalem, he knew what lie ahead. He knew he was headed toward the cross; toward his execution; toward his death. But he went anyway because he knew it was the right thing to do.
But the story doesn’t end there. It doesn’t end at the cross nor does it end in the tomb. Remember, the third road; the road to Emmaus. Now, this narrative has often been viewed as a message of faith or as a reflection of the sacrament. Others have lifted-up the hospitality of the two men and used them as an example of how to offer a wide welcome in our communities and churches today. And all these applications are correct. But I think it goes deeper than that, especially considering the parade of palms. You see, on the road to Emmaus Jesus was moving outward, away from Jerusalem; symbolically moving away from the cross of death and toward the resurrection of life. So, this story is finally about taking the good news out; taking out a message of hospitality, and sacrament, and faith. Do you see what I’m driving at here? The road to Emmaus is a completion of triumphal journey.
It’s a completion of Christ’s journey in this world, but not ours. Our journey continues. And it continues as we attempt to live-into our covenant with God and as we live-out our faith in the service of others. And as we “hit the road” today, we can ask ourselves a couple of key questions that may facilitate our journey. Questions like: As a congregation, what palm leaves have we spread? In other words, how have we make a difference, both as individuals and as the church, in the world? Or, on a more individual level, where have you seen Jesus? At a stop along the road? In the sacred, healing bread of communion? In the giving or receiving of hospitality? Have you shared our faith by extending an invitation to someone out there, to join us in here?
As we once again move into Holy Week, my prayer for all of us is that we too come full circle, complete our Lenten journey, by encountering the Risen and Living Christ on whatever road we choose to travel.
May it be so. Amen.
[1] Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken. Taken from The Poetry of Robert Frost ed. Edward Connery Lathem. 1916
[1] Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. The Last Week. HarperOne, 2007.
[1] Ibid. Frost.
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What In The Actual Fuck
Surprise! Danny McBride And David Gordon Green Are Making The New HALLOWEEN
Well, we didn't see this coming.
By Phil Nobile Jr. Feb. 09, 2017
The creative team for Blumhouse’s Halloween reboot has been announced and...well, wow.
We’re not even sure what to say here, so we’re just going to paste John Carpenter’s announcement, made via Facebook, while we collect our thoughts.
So you say you want a Revolution?
You want to shake things up and bring back Halloween and make it rock again?
Well so do I.
So here’s the announcement you’ve all been waiting for:
David Gordon Green and Danny McBride are joining the project to complete the creative team. David and Danny will write the script together and David will direct. I will continue in my executive producer role to consult and offer my advice and feedback as needed.
David and Danny both came to my office recently with Jason Blum and shared their vision for the new movie and…WOW. They get it. I think you’re gonna dig it. They blew me away.
I might even do the music. Maybe. It could be kind of cool.
And you’ll get to see it in theaters on October 19th, 2018.
Okay, we’ve had a minute. One undeniable fact here is that David Gordon Green is an exceptional filmmaker. He spreads himself around so much (TV, film, comedies, dramas) that his talent hasn’t gotten the acclaim of, say, Wes Anderson, but Green is the real deal. He’s even tackled genre before, kind of (Your Highness did manage to get a bunch of ‘80s sword & sorcery details right, even if the end result was a perceived miss). He also tried to get a remake of Suspiria going for years, which I once likened to trying to remake an emotion, or a bodily urge. A(nother) remake of Halloween might well fall into that same category, but we can’t say we’re not intrigued by this news.
The package deal of Green and Danny McBride make this the real head-scratcher. We are told that McBride is a huge genre fan, so maybe he’s got a legitimately interesting take? Interesting enough to have Carpenter pondering a return to the synthesizer?
Man, I dunno. This news is insane. Thoughts?
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Japanese BitPoint Cryptocurrency Exchange Loses $32m Following Hack
The year 2019 will not go down in the cryptocurrency history books as the most secure year for trading platforms. Numerous companies have already been hacked this year, and it now seems BitPoint can be added to this growing list. The Japanese trading platform has been compromised and funds have been taken from the company during the incident. It is believed up to $32m worth of funds has fallen into the wrong hands, with the majority of this value belonging to BitPoint clients.
Termination of Funding Services
A lot of BitPoint users were taken aback when the company suddenly decided to terminate both deposits and withdrawals this morning. At roughly 10:30 AM local time, the company issued a brief statement explaining what was going on exactly. Users had already complained about deposit and withdrawal issues in the hours prior to this news, but it seemed that was only the first order of business for the company.
In the statement, BitPoint explains how all of the exchange’s services would be suspended for an indefinite period of time. Unlike what usually happens when such a development occurs, this has nothing to do with server maintenance or anything of the kind. While the initial statement did not include any mention of a hack or breach taking place, it did not take too long for customers to figure out what was going on exactly.
BitPoint Wallet and LITE Apps Affected too
While it is good to see service providers like BitPoint offer an exchange, wallet, and lite application to its users, all of these services have been suspended until further notice. That is only normal, as it remains unclear as to how the hackers managed to breach the company, let alone steal millions worth of cryptocurrency in the process. No service resumption date has been announced at this time, albeit the company expects to offer more information on that front in the coming days.
5 Different Cryptocurrencies Involved
Sources close to the matter confirm the exchange has lost $32m worth of funds as a result of this hack. That sum includes just over $23m worth of customer funds, which indicates the company itself took a massive financial hit as well. All of this money was taken from the company’s hot wallet, which makes one wonder why there was so much money in easily accessible storage in the first place. Especially where officially licensed companies are concerned, one would expect some better security countermeasures to ensure no big amounts of funds can ever be stolen.
At this time, BitPoint provides JPY trading for Bitcoin, XRP, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. It appears funds were stolen in all of these different currencies, although the exact ratios remain a bit unclear at this time. Bitcoin has been its biggest trading pair for some time now, a sit generates nearly 10x the volume of XRP, which is the second most popular offering. Bitcoin Cash is the “weakest” market in this regard, yet it seems the criminals were more than happy to take any BCH they could get their hands on.
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Big Data remains one of the fastest-growing sectors in tech. In fact, revenues for Big Data Analytics software and services are projected to rise from $42 billion in 2018 to $103 billion in 2017, an average annual growth rate of 10.48%.
With so much promise on the horizon, it’s a great time to sell Big Data software and services. Here are ten Big Data companies in the San Francisco Bay area who are currently hiring for sales roles:
1. Amplitude
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Above all, the company achieves high marks on Glassdoor, with an average rating of 4.6 stars. 95% of employees would recommend Amplitude. Besides, its employees enjoy a generous parental leave policy, commuting benefits, and a wellness stipend. In fact, lunches and dinners are catered, and there are weekly yoga classes at the office.
2. Periscope Data by Sisense
Periscope Data offers cloud-native tools for data visualization and analysis. Now that the company has merged with Sisense, cloud machine learning platforms will soon be integrated into the platform. Indeed, Periscope hopes to offer a one-stop tool for Big Data needs.
The newly merged company has more than 700 employees and $100 million in annual revenues. In 2018, Deloitte ranked Periscope Data as the fourth-fastest growing tech company in North America. In fact, Adobe, Tinder, and Spotify are some of Periscope’s best-known customers.
Periscope has a 4.9-star rating on Glassdoor and has won numerous awards for being a great place to work at. Perks and benefits include catered lunches, 100% covered health insurance, and commuter benefits.
3. memSQL
memSQL’s No-Limits Database is a highly scalable SQL database that is optimized for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. In fact, the platform enables users to receive much faster responses to queries that are available through legacy database systems. Besides, Uber and Kellogg use memSQL to power their databases.
Perks of working at memSQL include catered meals, commuter benefits, and comprehensive health insurance. In addition, the San Francisco offices are dog-friendly and employees can personalize their workstation according to their own preferences.
Clever is bringing Big Data to the educational space. In fact, the platform provides educational software applications as an easier way to connect to schools. For this purpose, Clever enables teachers to spend less time dealing with technological mishaps and more time engaging with innovative edtech. More than half of all K-12 schools in the U.S. use Clever in some way. Investors include the Sequoia Fund and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The company ranked #4 on The Wall Street Journal’s list of Top 25 Tech Companies to Watch.
Employees enjoy comprehensive benefits, catered lunches, and Amazon Learning Credits. Clever hosts an annual retreat in the forest of Mendocino.
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Mode Analytics offers a collaborative platform for data analysts. To this end, the company’s goal is to make advanced data analytics available to companies of all sizes. In fact, users can conduct advanced data analytics within minutes. Lyft, Shopify, and Zillow are customers, and the company’s investors include REV and Foundation Capital.
The company strives to provide an inclusive and accessible workplace by offering a variety of working spaces with different volumes and lighting. Employees receive funds for continued education in addition to catered lunches and full benefits. Indeed, Mode Analytics describes itself as a Nerf gun-free office that values collaborative work and constant challenging of bias.
6. SchoolMint
SchoolMint is improving the educational experience by providing tools to manage the school enrollment process and school climate. For example, its Tardy Management program makes it easier for schools to track and deal with tardies and other minor infractions.
Indeed, the platform serves public schools and charter schools. About 10% of schools in the U.S. are SchoolMint customers. This includes Chicago Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District, and New York City Charter School Center.
7. BuildZoom
BuildZoom is harnessing the power of Big Data to revolutionize the construction industry. With this in mind, the platform connects people and businesses to local contractors who best serve their needs. BuildZoom benefits both contractors and people in need of hiring contractors. More than a million users use the platform every month, and that number is growing. The company’s investors are Y Combinator, Founders Fund, and Brick & Mortar Ventures.
8. Blueshift
Blueshift’s platform enables intelligent customer engagement for cross-channel marketing by turning data into actionable insights for marketers. AI powers the platform, which is used by customers such as LendingTree, Udacity, and the BBC. Blueshift recently raised a $15 million Round B, and leading investors include Luma Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners.
Additionally, the company offers a comprehensive benefits package, including life insurance and disability coverage. Employees enjoy a flexible spending account to assist with parking and transportation expenses.
9. Kinetica
Kinetica’s Active Analytics Platform enables users across a range of industries to translate data into actionable insights. To this end, the platform speeds up OLAP workloads, geospatial analytics, and streaming analytics from IoT applications. AI and BI are enabled through the platform. Besides, Kinetica customers include Nvidia, Dell, and IBM. Citi Ventures, Canvas Venture Fund, and Meritech Capital Partners were among the investors in a $50 million Series A round concluded in 2017.
In addition to comprehensive benefits like no-cost health insurance, Kinetica offers perks such as catered lunches and commuter benefits. Kinetica has a 4.0 rating on Glassdoor.
10. UniFi Software
UniFi offers a Data Platform designed to break down data silos within enterprises by making it easier for business users to discover data. In fact, the platform uses AI and machine learning, optimized for the cloud. It can predict what users want to see and show relevant data. Disney and Nike are UniFi customers, among other major companies. Ovum has named UniFi Software as a Market Leader in self-service data prep solutions, while Forrester has named the company as a leader in machine learning data catalogs.
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Largest global anti-wildlife trafficking sting leads to rescue of thousands of endangered animals
Authorities have rescued thousands of endangered animals and identified nearly 600 suspects in the world’s largest anti-wildlife trafficking sting, officials said.
World Customs Organization (WCO) and Interpol announced that “Operation Thunderball,” a coordinated mission from June 4 to June 30, resulted in nearly 2,000 seizures of live animals and animal parts and triggered worldwide arrests.
“It’s landmark. It’s the first time such a large joint network has been mobilized — across 109 countries,” Interpol’s wildlife expert Henri Fournel told The Associated Press. “What we lacked in tackling wildlife crime was a concerted network and this is what we have now.”
Through the operation, officials said they seized 23 live primates, more than 4,300 birds, almost 1,500 reptiles and nearly 10,000 turtles and tortoises.
Officials also found 440 pieces of elephant tusks and an additional 545 kilograms of ivory, five rhino horns, nearly 74 truckloads of timber and almost 7,7000 wildlife parts from many species.
“As clearly illustrated by the results of Operation Thunderball, close cooperation at international and national levels to combat wildlife crime must never be under-estimated,” WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya said in a release.
Interpol said 582 suspects were arrested worldwide, and further arrests and prosecutions are anticipated as the ongoing global investigations progress.
“Wildlife crime not only strips our environment of its resources, it also has an impact through the associated violence, money laundering and fraud,” Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock said in a release. “Operations like Thunderball are concrete actions targeting the transnational crime networks profiting from these illicit activities. We will continue our efforts with our partners to ensure that there are consequences for criminals who steal from our environment.”
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Opinion, Spongebob Squarepants
Published on February 8, 2017
The Political Quandaries of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants is arguably one of television’s most thematically-rich shows. Exploring the lives of a diverse population of undersea inhabitants, the show has found enormous appeal with adults due to its extremely unique blend of brilliant wit, visual experimentation and delightful characters. Let’s explore a few interesting topics examined in the show.
Labourer vs Corporation
The relationship between Eugene Krabs and his employees, Spongebob and Squidward, is a deeply harmful one. Krabs takes his workers completely for granted, denying them basic rights and often expecting an unfair amount of dedication: he’s regularly shown keeping them in the restaurant at unthinkable hours and demanding physical exertion for the means of greater profit. Krabs, a profoundly greedy individual, fails to see past potential for profit: profit that is rarely shared with his workers. On the occasions that his business rival, Sheldon Plankton, aims to sabotage Krabs’ business by undercutting his operation, Krabs defies employment law entirely. Plankton, a complicated character with dubious morality (who is, let’s not forget, married to a computer), displays a certain degree of compassion for Spongebob as worker, and treats him with significant respect in the workplace with the aim of learning the Secret Formula. On the other hand, Plankton displays fascist/empirical tendencies once he grasps power: in 2004’s Spongebob Squarepants Movie, he enslaves the citizens of Bikini Bottom with mind-controlling bucket helmets and commands them to build a statue in his honour. Ultimately, the cruel and selfish nature of Krabs’ character is more apparent on the show, but that’s mostly due to his greater screentime.
Squidward’s Sexual Repression
Note: this argument is largely invalidated by the episode “Love That Squid”, in which Squidward falls for a woman called Squilvia.
Much is made of the very physical, but totally platonic friendship between Spongebob and Patrick Star: two childlike, asexual characters. Yet the potential for sexuality in Squidward is far more compelling: this is a seemingly middle-aged man who hires professionals to visit his house and give him pedicures. The primary obstacle to a sexual lifestyle is Squidward’s stunning narcissism: his house is decorated with large, framed self-portraits. He doesn’t own a pet or have any true friends, spending his free time playing the clarinet, creating art and watching ‘House Fancy’. His lifestyle has some stereotypical elements of the single gay man, and some of the straight bachelor. Squidward has possibly repressed his own desires, be they aimed at men or women, and replaced that aspect of his character with a love of self. A combination of Squidward’s narcissism and grave unhappiness causes him to glorify his weekend freedom as the one time he can enjoy his few simple passions. In one episode, Squidward is shown laying flowers at the graveside of “his hopes and dreams”. While his life truly is tragic- despite his knowledge of art and music, he works in a greasy fast food restaurant. Squidward’s constant self-pitying and meanness toward Spongebob and Patrick, who rarely mean him any harm, makes it difficult to sympathise with his situation. If Squidward were a bit nicer, surely he’d be more successful in life.
The Role of the Immigrant
Sandy Cheeks is the one resident of Bikini Bottom who is established as a proud immigrant: she hails from Texas, USA. As she’s a land mammal, she cannot breathe underwater, and hence she wears a spacesuit and bowl helmet, and lives in an airtight dome. A handful of episodes explore Sandy’s experience as an outsider and as an immigrant: she’s often homesick for Texas, and tries to emulate the Texan experience in the undersea environment. Sandy is far from family, and her isolation amidst her fishy friends is one of the show’s sadder elements. Nevertheless, with Spongebob and Patrick for company, and with the constant distraction of innovation and invention, Sandy enjoys a broadly happy existence.
Starfish Intelligence
While Spongebob’s behaviour can often be quite clever and thoughtful, Patrick Star’s is almost always instinctive, reactionary and lacking much consideration. The specific state of Patrick’s stupidity is dealt with in a number of ways: his older sister is shown to be significantly more stupid even than him, putting some perspective on his character. When Squidward loses his temper at Spongebob and Patrick, Spongebob’s reaction is typically to apologise and attempt to aid Squidward in some way; Patrick merely stands in ignorance of his wrongdoing. His lack of empathy for others also manifests itself in his stubbornness: Patrick is known to storm off in fury when his values are questioned. His independent living situation is admirable, considering his dependent personality. Spongebob enjoys Patrick’s company largely because they share a love of play, and lead simple existences, but one wonders if the Starfish might find friends of more similar intelligence elsewhere.
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Posted by Arantor on October 04, 2013, 08:11:15 PM
I wanted to give everyone a heads-up as to what's been going on with SMF development lately.
First up, team changes. In recent days, both myself and Miss All Sunday have joined Oldiesmann and emanuele on the SMF dev team, to help shake out the bugs and get 2.1 ready. Together we're cracking on with everything
This brings me to my second point - if you want to see what's been going on, it's all on Github - https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1 - warts and all. As we add things to the repo, you will be able to see them, and if you look at the commit list, you can see just how busy things have been with us lately
For those who haven't braved Github - and I'm not sure I'd blame you - here's what we've been up to. This isn't a complete blow by blow - there's lots of things in there that I don't need to spell out, but here's the main stuff.
* Bug fixes related to the disregard function
* Various bug fixes to our integration of SCEditor
* Various display bugs
* SSI posts function not allowing permission overrides
* Some minor code clean-ups
* Better handling of the upgrader for certain theme-related changes
* Stronger privacy around email addresses
* Improved documentation in SMF itself when you click the (?) icons
* Censoring is now primarily a global option rather than a per theme option like it used to be
* SMF no longer warns about an out of date database when it isn't out of date
* Better anti spam defences that work in the background without having to do anything
* Personal text can be set up to be shown on registration and also disabled through the Advanced Profile Fields page
* Anti spam Q&A should now be able to support multiple languages (different questions per language) as well as multiple answers per language
* The header area can no longer be collapsed, it's just 'as it is' - themes can re-add it if they wish, but with the revised theme in 2.1, it was just less useful than before
* General overhaul of the moderation centre; the 'live news from SMF' block is no longer in use there and we've been working on the layout to make it more useful in general
* Various minor bug fixes
So as you can see it's been a crazy few weeks - and the ride isn't slowing down either!
I think it's fair to say that we're still not quite ready to push out a public beta for 2.1 yet, but we're getting closer; most of what we're doing is bug fixing, not new features, and the more bug fixing we do, the sooner we can get to a public release for everyone to play with and help us nail down more bugs.
So please, do have a look on Github at where we're at, please do try it out if you feel brave enough and if you do have a fix for bugs you find, please do let us know - the more bugs we can shake out, the better it is for everyone
Any questions, please let us know! (Of course, the standard 'when will 2.1 be ready?' / 'when I can download it?' will receive fairly blunt answers: "when it's ready, not before" and "you can download the in-progress version from Github if you desire but support will naturally be limited")
Bigguy on October 04, 2013, 09:01:33 PM said
Great update. Nice to know things are moving forward.
margarett on October 04, 2013, 09:25:03 PM said
Good news And thanks for the update
Ricky. on October 05, 2013, 12:42:25 AM said
Thats an useful update. Thank you for penning it down for us.
Colin on October 05, 2013, 02:55:05 AM said
kat on October 05, 2013, 10:20:05 AM said
What busy bunnies!
Ta, dev chaps and chapess!
Dzonny on October 05, 2013, 10:59:47 AM said
Thanks for the update Arantor, keep rocking!
Burke ♞ Knight on October 05, 2013, 11:20:24 AM said
Going great so far!
Keep up the great job Dev team!
Irisado on October 05, 2013, 04:58:09 PM said
Onwards and upwards, it's great to see. Thank you for posting the updates .
Antes on October 05, 2013, 05:14:01 PM said
Thanks for the updates
Chalky on October 05, 2013, 05:15:49 PM said
Thanks indeed, it's great to see
iMiKK on October 05, 2013, 08:27:20 PM said
Thank Developer team for the updates.
Wish the final version will be released soon.
How be we wish for the beta first and then RC, then final.
GravuTrad on October 07, 2013, 05:32:35 PM said
Great news! Thanks Arantor.
Johnny54 on October 07, 2013, 06:50:41 PM said
Nice to hear the developer team grew with 100 %
Even better to hear that progress is being made on 2.1
4Kstore on October 09, 2013, 07:31:25 PM said
new life in the team is always good, thanks for the great work you do
maxg on October 10, 2013, 09:09:04 AM said
Thank you for the update and for joining the team, great to hear!
I wish you Guys the best moving forward on this, this great news indeed!
TomW on October 24, 2013, 06:57:33 PM said
Thanks for jumping in, Arantor & MissAllSunday ! I've been watching Git and it truly has been exciting to see an update almost every day.
Alpay on October 26, 2013, 05:15:54 AM said
Thanks ^^
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<< 1. Brave New World2. Invalid3. Complaints4. Quicksand5. Misunderstandings6. Thirty Years7. Blue8. Flying Cars9. Daughter10. Bongo Drums11. Silver Bodysuits12. Spike the Cryptic Guy13. Exposition Part 114. Exposition Part 215. Angel, Imprisoned16. Menage a Google17. Visitor18. Dishes19. The 4th Floor20. The Chosen Two21. Style, Charm and Abs22. Clean Slate23. 2003 and Beyond!24. Stay25. Crater of Embarrassment26. Kick or Lick?27. Breaking and Entering28. Nostalgia and Brilliance29. Everything30. Old Habits31. An Offer32. A Rude Awakening33. The Crazy 8834. Three35. Small Talk36. Trial37. Not Ready38. Faith the Genius39. Character40. Monsters41. Cake42. Compromise 43. Buffy's type44. Fighting Him45. The Accused 46. Spike & Bette Midler47. The Prosecution48. Run, Spike, Run!49. Useful Things to Know50. Elephant & Castle51. Logic & Reason = Dead52. Faith Gone Bad53. Nympho Summers and William Pratt54. Legally Boned55. Ghosts56. The Verdict57. Free58. Being Buffy 59. Better >>
A/N: The chapter title and subsequent mention of it is taken from Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films.
Buffy sat in front of Cain Travers and tried to keep the petulant look from her face. It wasn’t easy but she just about pulled it off. Spike had told her to dress up nice for the arrogant teen. She hadn’t been able to keep the petulant look from her face that time. Still, she had taken his instruction and made a little effort to look more presentable – like a valuable employee. Spike had decided she needed to make a good impression when Cain had summoned her for the meet. The vampire said she’d need all the help she could get. Buffy didn’t like to admit he was right.
The boy was leaning forward on the desk, not looking very impressed. “In order for me to back you 100% in this, you’re going to have to give me somethin’ in return.”
Buffy snorted, not missing his implications. “Yeah. Never gonna happen, kid.”
“Not remotely interested,” Cain sneered. “I’m talkin’ commitment. Need to know you’re loyal to us.”
“I’m here, aren’t I?”
“You’ve quit in the past. Disowned us, if you will,” he held a hand to his chest and looked at her. “That hurt.”
Buffy arched an eyebrow. “Oops?”
“Fact is; The Council doesn’t know you aren’t just goin’ to drop us like a sack of shit once we save your arse. We need your word, Summers.” He sat back comfortably in his chair, the desk separating them.
She nodded. “Sure. Which word would you like? I’ve got lots. Some of them even have more than one syllable.”
“You’re playing a game that you’re in no position to win, love.”
Buffy knew he was right and knew that if Spike was with them he’d have been saying the exact same thing. Telling her to go along with whatever Travers wanted. She needed to shake the attitude and start trying to dig herself out of this hole she’d somehow gotten stuck in. If that meant being nice to this little prick, she guessed she could do that.
“You have my word,” Buffy said simply.
Cain eyed her sceptically. “That’ll do. For now. There’s somethin’ else I need from you too.”
“Of course there is,” she replied, keeping her scowl to a minimum.
“I need to know what you can do. I’ve read the Diaries but they’re just words. I need to see it. You’re older than most Slayers,” he smiled. “You might be rusty. I need to know I’m investing in something I can actually use.”
She didn’t like the phrasing. Didn’t like the suggestion that she was just something he owned, a tool to do his bidding. Except really, that’s all she was. Just another weapon. Still – she could go along with it, for a little while at least. She knew when to be defiant and when to feign allegiance. He had said before that he’d support her in the trial but if she really wanted him to help all he possibly could she’d have to do as he asked and prove her worth.
“What do you want me to do?”
Cain’s smile widened. “I’m glad you asked.”
Cain took her to a building on the other side of town. The Council’s one floor office was obviously too small for what he had in mind. The thought didn’t fill Buffy with a lot of confidence. When they pulled up outside the large brick building in his ridiculously fast car, she took a breath and got out. Cain didn’t bother to lock the car and instead bounced up the steps to the front door, beckoning her to hurry up.
She sighed and followed at a slow pace. He pushed the door which opened readily. Buffy followed him in, wearily. As he closed the door behind her she took in the big empty space. The wooden floor was polished and marked with lots of different colour lines arching in all directions. She recognised that the place had once been used as a gym. Now it was just the shell of a gym. The place looked like it hadn’t been used in a few years, at least. The insanely huge windows kept the place brightly lit and Buffy watched dust motes fly through the beams of light streaming through the glass.
“What is this?” She asked.
Cain took a step in. “Time for your test to begin. I will be takin’ notes so behave yourself, girl.” He went to stand in one corner.
As Buffy was about to question further and possibly punch him in the face a girl appeared from a side door. She went to stand over the opposite side of the hall. She was dressed simply in sweats and a tank top, barefoot. Long chestnut hair pulled back tightly in a ponytail, her dark eyes met Buffy’s and she bowed.
Buffy wasn’t surprised. Of course it would be a fight. It always was. She shed her jacket and tossed it aside along with her boots. Tight jeans and a halter neck top weren’t the best fighting garb but she’d worn worse. She’d never forget that one time with the cat-suit.
“Begin,” Cain said.
Then he was promptly forgotten.The girl ran across the floor, which was at least the length of a basketball court, at full speed. Her gaze was focused and intent. Buffy wondered, as she approached, what she was. There was no way Cain would put a human up against her. So she must have been a vampire. Or a demon of some sort. A shifter maybe. She had no more time to think because the girl was only a few feet away now and leapt up in the air quite unexpectedly.
Buffy just managed to dodge sideways as a slender foot hit the air where her face had previously been. The Slayer rolled over the floor and up into a standing position, turning back to her attacker.
The girl had followed her movements and was on the offensive again, coming after her with several sharp punches aimed at her face and torso. Buffy blocked each one fairly easily, the impacts on her arms were hard though and she had no doubt she would bruise. The girl was strong, whatever she was.
She was also fast because she’d dropped down and swept the legs out from Buffy before she’d had time to react. The Slayer tumbled ungraciously to the floor and the girl was on her before she had even recovered. She straddled Buffy and landed a hard punch to her cheekbone that Buffy didn’t appreciate. When she tried again Buffy sat up and head butted her with as much force as she could muster.
The girl toppled off her and hit the floor with a thud. Buffy sat up and rubbed her own forehead – it hurt like a bitch. Head butting will do that to you. She stood up and then reached down and grabbed the girl by the front of her top, pulling her up she spun her around and let go. She hit the wall bodily and slumped down onto the floor, unconscious.
She took a deep breath, letting her heartbeat slow. Her head was throbbing. Without looking at him she said. “We done?”
“Hardly,” Cain replied.
“Figures,” Buffy pulled her hair up into a tight ponytail with the band around her wrist.
She waited for her next opponent whilst looking at the girl she had already defeated. For some reason she seemed familiar…or similar, if that even made sense. She couldn’t place it, so she didn’t even try.
From the same door the first test had come from came the second test. This time there were two. Both female, again. Both dressed like they were ready for a fight. Both faces cold and without hate, just ready. Like any good fighter.
One girl had long red hair, the other blonde. The redhead stepped forward and motioned her to come and get them. Buffy smiled and shook her head, returned the motion. You come get me.
It all just felt so stupid. She shouldn’t have to do this kind of thing anymore. She’d proven herself a long time ago. Still, she readied herself in a defensive stance and kept her focus. It wouldn’t do to get arrogant.
The redhead’s lips quirked in a smile and she nodded. The two of them approached slowly, cautiously. Good for them. Buffy watched them like a caged tiger. She was the predator here, not the prey. As she expected, they split up and walked around her in a circle, one always in front of her and the other always behind. It was a rookie move. Or a classic, depending on how you looked at it.
Buffy remained patient. Making the first attack would be a mistake. It was what they wanted and Buffy didn’t like to give people what they wanted. Just ask Spike, she thought.
As she knew they would, they got impatient. They were young. Had to learn that timing is everything. Red jumped her first. Of course. Buffy let the girl land on her back but instead of falling to the floor as planned; she simply used the girl’s weight to toss her over her shoulders. She collided painfully with Blonde, taking them both down.
As they scrambled to untangle themselves and get up, Buffy waited. Red looked embarrassed, her skin flushed. Blonde looked pissed. Buffy remained expressionless. The redhead took a step towards her so they were less than two feet apart.
“Show us what you can do,” she taunted.
Buffy tilted her head. “I think I just did.”
She didn’t like that. The girl lashed out at her and Buffy jumped backwards out of reach. The girl didn’t give up easily though. She followed her with a quick succession of jabs. A couple caught Buffy in awkward places such as her shoulder and ear. The ear hit actually hurt quite a bit. Buffy had had enough of Red. She reached up and simply shoved her in the chest backwards. Red stumbled back, shocked at the straightforward manoeuvre. Buffy took that opportunity to slam her foot right into her stomach. The force sent her flying several feet through the air before gravity took effect and she impacted with the hard floor, skidding across it.
Buffy didn’t have a chance to see if that had floored her for good because Blonde’s fist was suddenly in her face making her see stars. She couldn’t see for several moments and so blindly ducked the next blow that was coming, hearing the air whistle over her head as the fist missed. Buffy ran forwards and rammed her head into the girl’s midriff, continuing forward and taking the girl for the ride. She slammed her back into the wall as hard as she could and Blonde screamed out in pain. Buffy figured that’d be the end of her but instead she got a double fisted punch to the spine for her trouble.
The Slayer grunted as her legs fell out from under her in the pain of the hit. She landed on the floor on her knees, wheezing. Blonde, still half screaming, swept her foot up and kicked Buffy underneath the chin. The force of the blow snapped Buffy’s head back sickeningly and her body followed the momentum, arching backwards until her back struck the floor. Her neck felt like it had cracked. She fought back the bile rising up her throat and managed to roll onto her front.
She was met with the sight of two pale feet with toenails painted blue. She rolled her eyes up and saw Red had recovered. Oh, joy.
Buffy rolled sideways out of the way just as the foot slammed down on where she had been. Shaking aside the rising nausea and the minor issue of a possible broken neck, Buffy dragged herself to her feet and stood to face them. Blonde was scowling, Red smiling. She guessed that summed them up.
Buffy wanted to hate them but found she couldn’t. So she settled on breaking their faces. It was only right. They rushed her together this time. Teamwork at it’s best. Buffy lashed out both fists simultaneously with pinpoint precision at the last moment. Both hit their target - the girls’ noses.
As they comically tumbled to the ground in unison Buffy noted that she’d never had that move actually work before. Cool.
She stepped forward and placed a foot on Red’s chest as she tried unsteadily to sit up, wheezing through her broken nose.
“I wouldn’t do that,” Buffy said, panting. “Stay down. Live. Whatever you are.”
The girl laughed bitterly at that but didn’t try and rise again. Blonde had already given some signal that she’d surrendered.
Cain clapped and brought attention to himself. “Nice. I’m seeing potential.”
“Potential?” Buffy growled. “How about you come over here and I kick your ass?”
“No,” he said simply. “But I do have another fight for you.”
Buffy instinctively walked to the end of the hall furthest from the doors her other opponents had come from. She had her back to the wall to keep her eyes on the door. Her neck obviously wasn’t broken but her head was throbbing and her vision was a little cloudy in one eye. She spat on the floor and it came out bloody, with what looked like a fragment of tooth. Not good.
“What’s next? Three?” She said, not caring about appearing petulant anymore. She’d earned it.
Cain smiled. “Not quite.”
Buffy watched as the doors open and girls emerged. Lots of girls. All filing out in a row one by one and all ready to kick her ass. As the other half of the hall started to look a lot more crowded Buffy began to feel like Uma Thurman against the Crazy 88.
Finally the door swung shut which a swish.
Buffy didn’t count them exactly but she was guessing there were at least fifteen maybe twenty girls down there, all different heights, different ethnicities and probably different shoe sizes. They all looked remarkably toned and ready for battle though. And as she looked down at these girls she realised what she had been feeling all through the fights. The familiarity, the similarity. They were all like her.
They were Slayers.
She stopped. “How?”
“Took you long enough,” Cain rolled his eyes. “Your Rosenberg, that’s how. Her and your old gang, that is. Who’d have thought all it would take was a spell to give us a real army?”
Willow. So…this was how they’d won against The First. The Potentials had become the Actuals. It all made sense and at the same time didn’t. There was supposed to be only one. Buffy thought of Faith. Obviously it was possible for there to be more than one but…this many? She couldn’t get her head around it.
Cain cleared his throat calling her attention back to him again. “Question is; are you ready to take on this lot?”
Buffy looked away from him and into the eyes of the girls in front. They didn’t know her, didn’t care to know her. They’d been given orders to destroy her. Orders they would follow because they knew no better. Buffy didn’t want to fight them but she would, if it meant living.
“Can we get on with this?” She scowled, readying her fists and running through strategies in her head.
Cain nodded. “As you wish.”
The girls took that as their signal. A hum of energy filled the gym and then it happened. Twenty Vampire Slayers ran towards her and Buffy watched them come. As with all dramatic moments in her life it happened in slow motion. She could tell these girls were young and none too experienced but they were still Slayers and they outnumbered her greatly. Her outlook on this situation wasn’t exactly sunny.
She took a few deep breaths and didn’t even flinch as they approached. In a second they’d be only a couple of feet away. She tried to think something profound but her mind went blank and all she could hear were their feet pounding on the floor and her own breathing.
And then.
They all came to a sudden and unnatural stop. From the way they all seemed to turn around Buffy guessed something must have happened. She blinked and everything seemed to pop into real time again. She heard voices and confusion. And then she realised what she’d heard in her peripheral hearing a moment ago. She’d heard the word “Enough!” shouted loudly and violently. Shouted by Spike.
The sea of girls parted and she saw him there, standing in front of the door of the gym as it swung shut. To say he looked angry wouldn’t have done it justice. He looked like anger.
“I was just about to say that,” Cain protested.
Buffy’s fists were still raised in a Judo pose and only then did she lower them slowly.
Spike moved so fast he actually blurred and Cain was up against the wall with the vampire’s hand around his throat. Gasps slipped out from the Slayer’s mouths but none of them rushed to stop him. Buffy didn’t blame them but she needed the asshole. As she pushed through the girls towards the vampire and the boy she heard Cain gargle “I was about to stop them! Get off me, you knob!”
Spike’s only reply was to squeeze his windpipe harder.
“Spike,” Buffy placed her hand on his neck-choking-arm (her theory about him being a neck grabber now firmly enforced). “You probably should let him go now. His face is turning purple.”
He glanced at her and dropped the teen who promptly sat on the floor, holding his neck and coughing. The vampire turned to her and reached up. Buffy was wary of any choking but instead he held her face in his hands and looked her over, concerned.
“I’m okay,” she said.
Spike nodded and let her go, looking back to Cain. “I take it she passed your moronic tests?”
“With flying colours,” Cain narrowed his eyes at the man. “We’ll do all we can for her. I’ll personally see to it.”
Buffy breathed a sigh of something resembling relief.
“You had bloody better,” Spike growled then turned to Buffy. “Let’s go and get you patched up.”
Buffy picked up her jacket and boots. “Can there be ice cream?”
“And beer.”
“And explanations as to how there is an army of Slayers now?”
“Bloody hell, exposition again?!”
The door swung shut behind them, cutting off the sound of Cain’s ragged breathing and the Slayer’s gossiping.
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Abacus Series – Level 1 Of 8 is a unique book designed and published by Nava Vision for children aged 3 years and above, to encourage them to attain better usage of abacus to solve various problems. Compiling this book with valuable and unique content, and binding it up expertly has been a group effort of our Nava Vision Team. This unique book promotes brain growth, creativity and personality development in young children. The book starts with the basics of counting numbers and proceeds to abacus representations. We have provided many learning sessions for the students to practice and learn various concepts. The book also concentrates on mental abacus, which is very crucial, as it improves imagination and students need to be independent of the abacus kit once they are well-versed with the arrangement of beads. This book will inculcate the best practice of using mental abacus in the early stages of a child’s life.
Abacus Level 1 of 8 series by: NAVA VISION ₹300.00
Negativity brings Unhappiness by: Sunil Sachwani ₹260.00
This book has the capacity to impact the mental health of the reader positively. In today’s competitive world, everyone is chasing the socially defined term known as “Success”. People have developed a tendency to prove themselves on the parameters which have been recognized as a status symbol. A majority of them think that this will enhance their reputation in society. This seems to be an illusion. Everyone is competing with others to establish supremacy as a result of which competition from self has become a distant dream. The fact is that success and failure are the various states of the mind. The suicide rate is on the rise among the students and adults. The economic crisis may be one of the causative factors for this but the deterioration in the mental health due to the psychological strain is the major attributing factor behind the development of the suicidal tendency. The courage to sustain social pressure is detrimental to the mental well-being of an individual. The real happening mentioned in this book delivers a message for the students, parents, and society that the aspired targets are important for building the bright future but the setbacks in the journey of life must be handled with a constructive emotional approach so that “Failure in one aspect of life does not convert a whole person into a failure”.
VALUE THE COURAGE WITHIN by: Divesh Dik ₹75.00
The book all about speaking your heart out. The book tells that there is a lot of things that happen in the world. We can not have the same type of feelings always. We can not express all of those feelings to others too.
But sometimes words help us expressing our feelings when speech does not support our heart.
ALFAAZON NE SUNAAI DAASTAAN by: Chinmaya Chintan Mishra ₹199.00
There was a day when he was shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. But he never gave up to solve that mystery & today he is a Warrior of Death, along with his mother and his love Shivi.
From anxiety attacks to a successful businessman; from bomb-blast to war; from meditator to celestial being; from a friend to lover; from yema to Warrior;
I unfold to you the breath-taking story of Satya & Shivi in & as :
Shivi & Satty: & The Warriors of Death.
Shivi & Satty: And the Warriors of Death by: Anupama Gupta ₹210.00
Owing to his long teaching experience and personal association with the students and teachers of Economics and keeping in mind their needs and requirements, the author has written this book with the motto to enable the students to understand the principles and theories of economics and to learn their applications in real life.
INTRODUCTORY MACROECONOMICS by: Ritvik Tolumbia ₹400.00
Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has turned hundred and thirteen years in 2018 and has emerged as one of the most remarkable conservation accomplishments compared to the other protected areas in the world. Kaziranga is blessed with two-thirds of the world’s Indian one-horned rhino population. Besides the celebrated Rhinos, it is inhabited by many other mammals including tigers, elephants, panthers, swamp deer, wild buffaloes, bears, and thousands of birds. Kaziranga is home to the world’s highest density of tigers in protected areas. The repeated flooding and erosion of river Brahmaputra, poaching, weed menace, stray Rhinos, pollution in neighboring areas, etc. are serious threats to the conservation of biodiversity at this world heritage site. As it is not possible for the government alone to protect the park from these threats, we all must undertake the responsibility to work for the conservation of biodiversity and ensure that Kaziranga becomes a unique and safe place for flora, fauna and human beings.
Kaziranga National Park, The world Heritage Site by: Dr. Mainu Devi ₹380.00
The title of the book is “Sonda Matir Gondho” (English meaning: “Sonda”-smelling like dry earth wetted with rainwater, “Matir” (Soil) and “Gondho” (fragrance) is consisting with 101 Bengali poems. Best wishes letter has been received from the Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal State for this book.
Through 101 (one hundred and one) Bengali poems the poet has made an attempt to ignite the minds of the general people at large for developing care, concern, sympathy and empathy among themselves and has tried to make an appeal to all class of people irrespective of caste, creed, sex and religion to develop “Humanity” for transforming our world more bright and vibrant. On the poem titled “Sesh Hasi” renowned poet Joy Goswami has commented “Khub Valo” and on the same poem distinguished poet Pobitro Mukhopadhyay has appreciated “Valo Hoyeche”. The poem “Tritiyo Purush” has received comment “Bhab Valo, Bhabna Valo, Apni Bhalo Thakur, Valo Likhun Aro” from distinguished poet Anil Ghorai and on the same poem eminent poet Sunondo Sanyal has extended his best wishes by commenting “Antorik Suveccha Janai”.
Sonda Matir Gondho by: BANKIM BIHARI MAITI ₹299.00
History enthusiast Eric finds himself fascinated with the legend of a grave—a grave that has been kept hidden from the world, known only to a few privileged members of The Society of Archaeology. In the quest to unlock its mystery and find the hidden meaning of the symbols, he and his best friend Shabir embark on a life-changing journey. Starting at a place called Paradoma in Paris, their quest takes them around the world; from the exotic city of Venice, to smack-dab in the middle of old Texas. With the help of Professor Abraham a symbologist, Maria an Astrophysicist, and George a sharp college-dropout. Eric and Shabir find themselves face to face with ancient communities that have long been at war with each other due to the difference in ideology. But the search for a better world is not easy; it always comes at a cost. Will they finally succeed in doing what they set out to do? Or will they lose everything they hold?
Grave The Hidden Truth by: Priyanka Khetawat ₹210.00
This poetry book is intended to reveal my daring metaphysical thoughts to the readers when a mind encompasses the transcendental realm of spirit. This would be of pleasure if this
poetry makes sense to the readers.
Avikarsh by: Dr. Amal Kumar Ghosh ₹118.00
Yahweh Diaries is a universal book for humanity at large. The sole motive of writing Yahweh Diaries was to make mankind aware of the true creator and almighty God, YAHWEH. Torah is the only book that has its origin from the Divine Creator Yahweh, to make the people understand that by following the Ten Commandments of Yahweh God and 613 mitzvoth, along with rigorous meditation, we can reach the pinnacle of spiritualism. The book deals with the power of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is everything; What you think, you become. We are capable of incredible feats. All we need is to become aware of the limitless power of our subconscious mind.
Yahweh Diaries by: Maverick ₹200.00
Creation of the book Bikhre khayal is an experiment, wherein literature of two different languages are compiled together to form a book. This book is a compilation of Gazals and Nazm of Urdu literature along with poems of Hindi literature. In ‘Bikhre Khayal’ book you will come across poems which will help you to think over your thoughts with freedom along with beautiful and mesmerizing Gazals and Nazms. The specialty of the poem is that it is closely related to ones experience and is capable to make one laugh, cry and enjoy. Poems may sometimes leave no impact or mark on some people, as in absence of emotions they are unable to connect to it. I would like to end my thoughts with lines of a poet “Jinke Pair a Pari Biwai, the ka Jane Pir Parai
Bikhre Khayal by: Santosh ₹199.00
“Confessions of a Traveloholic” is a compilation of thirteen travelogues within the frame of a travel book. The author’s aim of publishing this book is to share his experiences with like-minded people and fellow travelers. The author has personally experienced when planning his own trips that going through travel experiences of others have assisted him to make his own trip much better & easier. The book makes an interesting and eclectic read, written in a manner that any reader would be able to relate to these travelogues, being of varied nature. The travel experiences of the author are of regions/places both within as well as outside India. He shares important information about the destination along with practical tips for a hassle-free trip to these locations. So go ahead and ‘Live these Trips’ through the author’s eyes. From bachelor trips to trips with family; from challenging bike rides to backpacking trips with a baby; from trekking expeditions to exploring exotic foreign locales – it’s all present in these Confessions!
Confessions of A Traveloholic by: Ashish Raisinghani ₹449.00 ₹349.00
‘The Sublime Truth’ is a collection of poems portraying self-realization, healing, immortality and the ultimate goal of salvation. Every poem in it is a reflection of my encounters with self, truth and attaining spirituality. The innate capacity of us as humans to exercise introspection and the thirst to learn about our ultimate purpose and essence are highlighted in them. Interestingly, in this quest to seek thy purpose, as a woman, I also try to reflect her relationship with her soul mate, friends, and family. From day to day experiences to soul searching endeavors, the decisions she makes, the vows she tries to fulfill, the upheavals she faces, the sacrifices she makes, the fate she accepts, these poems celebrate the strong character of a woman. These poems are what I feel, what inspires me, how I overcame the loss of my greatest strength, my mom. They rotate around the outrageous courage to accept hatred and still not lose faith in your dreams. They are not just only poems; they are the thoughts of my subconscious soul woven into words, aged over decades, enlightened by the beautiful wisdom of my mom. They embark my journey of seeking truth, enchantment, and awareness.
THE SUBLIME TRUTH/THE PORTRAIT OF THY SELF by: Dr. Shikha Chandel ₹99.00
Namak Ka Kuan by: Dhirendra Prasad Singh ₹150.00
This story focuses on the fact “The friendship is the greatest of all other relationships”.
Safar Zindagi ka by: RAKESH RAHI ₹146.00
Amidst the twists and turns in life, we encounter certain tales which leave a spectrum of memories behind. This is one such tale which is engulfed by the memories of Sameer and Sehar, but as we inch ahead in this journey, we will surely realize that it’s the story of everyone who tries to put themselves in the shoes of Sameer or Sehar. From the crazy campus days, Sameer lands to corporate as an IT professional where he meets Sehar in his first job and they fall in love. What trespassed their journey such that it pierced each block of their canvas of love? What dismantled the township of ‘Sameer-ki-Sehar’? Sehar was his first love, but was she his last love as well?
A heartbreaking, romantic and emotional tale based on a true love story which will force you to reciprocate the deep feelings coated on its every bite.
You Are My Last Love by: Kounain Shahi ₹210.00
Do you think we take birth and die just once? Of course, we take birth only once, which means that we also die just once, but the irony is most people die every day too. They die when they lose out on their dreams and they die feeling bad when they see the world around them full of evil and sufferings such as girls getting raped, innocent people getting killed for silly reasons, corruption, trees being cut down in the name of development, awful traffic jams adding to pollution and the various other stressful things they witness every day. Hence, most human beings continue to go through the stress of feeling miserable by being a silent witness to the evil walks of people in their society or experience the same in their own lives on a daily basis.
Re-Born tells about the changes we can bring in our lives as well as into the lives of others, in order to make this world a beautiful place for all of us to live in!
I hope after reading this book everyone will try to become selfish
Re-Born by: Sunil Kumar M ₹79.00
This book is a collection of dreams interpreted, thoughts decoded, and experiences retold. In essence, capturing glimpses of things that are, those that were and those which could have been, it leads one to a doorway to the other side, a way out.
A way out by: Mainak Basak ₹120.00
Collection of poems
Man ranjinee by: Dr Manav Verma ₹125.00
Every heart has a pain to share. Every mind has a thought to express. Every life has a story to tell. Not just the life on earth, the in-animates that share this planet with us also have a voice that is perpetually ignored. I strongly believe that it’s only through voicing that understanding happens. A powerful expression has the ability to trigger a utilitarian thought. Letters have a power- the power to instil a mom’s strength in her daughter, the power to shout out the injustices of the world towards the weak, the power to germinate empathy and understanding in the soiled minds of the people. Letters are the scented roses in the garden of love and powerful missiles in the reign of thoughtless actions. This book contains a few letters that voice the opinions of people, apprehensions of a nation, requests of a parasite, the expectations of God and more. It’s my word to you that this book will reach the last nerve of your body and your heart will involuntarily say, “Yes! True.”
LETTERS to touch the petals of your heart by: SWETHA VANGAVETI ₹150.00
This tiny book contains the original research work of the contributors, and any matter of plagiarism is to be borne by the writers. Moreover, all the findings and suggestions are for academic purpose, which was permitted to be utilized by the officials and academicians.
However, outsources should be done only for the welfare of the people, but not for direct profit making. There are seven contributors in this book with a diverse field of studies. But the qualities rather determine the result; as such the book might have better opportunities to serve more on the stakeholders. It is named ‘Revelar’ a collection of a research paper. The book came out of the hard work and pains of our professors in the chase for information. Therefore, it would be a great privilege to note that the book would serve as a bulk of knowledge-bank for the readers in the mission of imperfection.
Revealer by: Sakhaw Liana ₹350.00
When life crashes, it’s easy to feel depressed. Love is the most beautiful feeling in this world. Sometimes, this beautiful feeling is indescribable, and that’s what I am struggling with. I couldn’t propose the girl, whom I loved from the last five years. Does trouble seem to follow you and even know your address? Like everyone else, I too had friends who stood beside me in every twist and turn. Our life was running on the track until we got involved in the ragging. Then the chaos started to happen. The pillar of our friendship couldn’t bear the heat of politics and fell down. On the eve of New Year, Ranveer made a plan of reunion. After that, I experienced many shitstorms and my life got screwed. This is not just a story of love and friendship. It is about teenage feelings, revenge, politics and drug addiction. Being a teenager, I have made a lot of mistakes and if you have also made the same, this is the story for you.
The adventures of Teenage by: Jitender ₹235.00
This book is a Sanjeevani potion in an elixir adapted to time and circumstance.
The rest depends on the reader as to how he uses Sanjeevani potion with positive in his life.
I hope this book will make you aware of different aspects of human life.
Ek kadam apni or by: Sagar Yogi ₹225.00
30 ways are real-life lessons and teachings that one can work upon to have a life and business they want. Know what it takes to Break-free from this inspiring masterpiece mixed with psychology and human behaviors. You can read and implement these Powerful ways to become who you want to and achieve the highest potential of yourself. Be it business or actualizing your dreams, this book has 30 simple ways for you to understand what is required for you to understand you have what it takes to become who you want.
Break-Free – 30 Ways to Break-free into a life and business you want by: Iffat Khan ₹650.00
This is my second effort in making my dreams, my thoughts and my ideas come true. As compared to the first one, nothing seems less this time as well; the focus, the energy, the effort, the challenges were quite similar. As they say, practice makes a man perfect; in my case, writing has made me more curious. After penning down my ideas in my first endeavor, The Joy of Retail – A Different Kettle of Fish, this is now the second project. The first book brought me to this one and what comes next is yet to be seen. I must share, however, that writing is a medium, that if utilized, can change your life perspective immensely.
The Joy of Retail-Volume 2 by: Ashish Marwah ₹460.00
Collection of stories.
Metro Ke bhoot by: J.C Sharma ₹79.00
It’s a love story and the story revolves between four friends the interesting part would be when the story turns into a love triangle and shows how misunderstandings can turn the ways …..it will be interesting to know what happens in the Payal life..and how the unexpected love turns her life
UNEXPECTED LOVE – Fulfilled all my expectations… by: Sweety Naick ₹100.00
Collection of poems.
RAJNEETI – NETAJI KAHIN by: Rakesh Mohan Thapliyal ₹99.00
This book takes you through the life of a poor boy named Raju who against all odds becomes the greatest chess player of all time thus achieving the very first goal he had set in his life. This book is a product of my imagination and the names of some persons and places have been changed. This book does not intend to offend any culture, tradition, religion or person.
The Poor Grandmaster by: Sumitendray Singh ₹100.00
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Gillian Darmody
Angela Darmody
Lucy Danziger
Sally Wheet
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Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
Near Atlantic County, New Jersey
Nucky's organization
Shot by Tommy Darmody in 1931
Nolan Lyons (1884)
Marc Pickering (1897)
Enoch Malachi "Nucky" Thompson, Sr., played by Steve Buscemi, is the protagonist of the series Boardwalk Empire. He is loosely based on the real New Jersey crime boss and politician Enoch L. Johnson (1883-1968), who was in control of Atlantic City for two decades, between 1911 and 1931. Guest stars Nolan Lyons and Marc Pickering portray the character in flashbacks to his youth in the late 19th century. For decades, Nucky ruled Atlantic City with an iron fist. He is shown to be one of the most powerful people in the country.
Nucky is a corrupt Republican politician and crime boss. He begins the series as the Treasurer of Atlantic County, New Jersey. His brother, Eli Thompson is the Atlantic County Sheriff. Nucky, following in the steps of his predecessor and mentor, Louis Kaestner, is the boss of a political and criminal organization that controls every business (whether legal or illegal) and aspect of life in Atlantic City. Nevertheless, the shrewd and charming Nucky is as beloved by the people of Atlantic City as he can be, shaking all the right hands, kissing all the right babies, and investing no small part of his money back into those same businesses, parties and charities. His popularity is particularly high among Irish immigrants (he being the eldest son of one) and the African-American community, which he controls through his ally Chalky White. Very little happens in "The World's Playground" that he doesn't know about. In addition, Thompson's political influence extends well beyond his official jurisdiction in Atlantic County, as he managed two successful election campaigns for Walter Edge sending him to the US Senate as well as making sure he was appointed governor, and he is reputed to have the final say among the New Jersey delegation when it is time to nominate a new Republican presidential candidate.
Nucky has had a troubled personal life. His sister Susan Thompson died of tuberculosis when they were children. His father Ethan Thompson was physically abusive during his childhood. He became involved in politics during his teens under the wing of Commodore Louis Kaestner, whom he eventually succeeded when Kaestner was convicted of election fraud in 1912. Nucky's first wife Mabel Thompson killed herself in 1905 after losing their infant son. He has been consumed by his work since but has had superficial relationships with girlfriends. He had a casual relationship with former Ziegfield Follies dancer Lucy Danziger for three years by 1920. He also treated Jimmy Darmody as a surrogate son and protégé when he was growing up, partly out of guilt in his role in exposing his mother Gillian Darmody to being raped by The Commodore when she was only 12, which resulted in Jimmy's conception.
Part corrupt politician, part gangster, part crime boss, and all-greedy, Nucky senses the opportunity to further increase his fortune and power through bootlegging when Prohibition becomes official nationwide on January 16, 1920. His expectations are proven right, but at the same time the new business turns out to be more challenging than expected, and consumes his personal life as the gangs competing for a share of the profit become more and more violent.
Nucky is the first son of Ethan and Elenore Thompson. He has a younger brother, Eli, and a sister, Susan. Susan was a sickly child and died of tuberculosis during Nucky's childhood. He and Eli were jealous of the attention Susan got from Elenore because of her illness. Ethan was alcoholic and abusive, though apparently only to Nucky. When Nucky was a child and his baseball glove was stolen by a group of four older children, his father forced him to challenge them to a fight. They were twice his size and Nucky ended up in the hospital for 11 days. On his ninth birthday, Nucky went to reach for food before his father and his father responded by searing the flesh of Nucky's right palm with a hot poker before reminding him that "Daddy eats first."
Nucky began working in politics in the 1890s under Commodore Louis Kaestner. Like Kaestner, Nucky is nominally a Republican but his politics are dominated by self-interest and maintaining a stable economy for Atlantic City. Kaestner was the boss of the political and criminal organization that controlled protection rackets, informal welfare, and election rigging in the city. He held the post of Atlantic County Treasurer but controlled the Mayor, the City Council, and the Atlantic County Sheriff's Office, and had influence in state and federal government.
Nucky worked to procure women for The Commodore's parties and was responsible for setting The Commodore up with 12-year-old Gillian Darmody after he saw her in a May 1 parade in 1897. Gillian was raped by The Commodore and became pregnant with his child. She named her son Jimmy. Nucky felt responsible for the boy and made an agreement with Gillian to always look out for Jimmy. He was an active figure in Jimmy's childhood taking him on hunting trips and preparing him as an eventual successor to lead the organization.
Nucky spent 1 year at State Normal college in Trenton when Mabel enrolled to become a teacher. Nucky never liked the idea of Mabel being with other men when he wasn't around and therefore decided to become a teacher as well so they could be together. Nucky's time at college was however cut short when the Commodore called upon Nucky to come home and help him run Atlantic City.
Nucky's first wife Mabel Thompson.
Nucky was the Atlantic County Sheriff from 1908 to 1912. During this period he married Mabel Thompson. In 1912, the Atlantic City organization was the target of a campaign of depuration led by the then Democratic Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson; Nucky and The Commodore made a deal under which The Commodore would take the fall and go to jail for a number of years, while Nucky would succeed him as County Treasurer and take control of the organization, ensuring that things continued the same and The Commodore still received a share of the profits.
Enoch Jr. and Mabel's tombstone, as seen in A Return to Normalcy.
Shortly after Nucky took over, Mabel gave birth to their first and only child, a son named Enoch Jr., on December 16, 1912. Enoch Jr. was a small and frail child and Nucky was terrified of holding or even looking at him. Being busy with his new appointment, Nucky opted to leave the baby alone with his mother for days. It wasn't until several days later when Nucky returned home and finally decided to hold him. To his horror, he discovered that Enoch Jr. had been dead for days and that Mabel, in complete denial, had continued to dress him, wash him, and act as if he were alive. After Enoch Jr.'s funeral Mabel fell into a severe depression and ultimately committed suicide on January 19, 1913, severing her wrists with Nucky's shaving razor.
Nucky immersed himself in his work and built up the financial ties of the organization to the community, ensuring that all residents and businesses paid their dues. His brother was elected Sheriff after he became Treasurer. In 1916 he paid for Jimmy to attend Princeton University. He was shocked and disappointed when Jimmy dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the US Army. Jimmy did not discuss his reasons for leaving and Nucky assumed that he was unable to handle the academic pressure. Jimmy's college girlfriend Angela Ianotti moved to Atlantic City and gave birth to their son Tommy in 1917. Nucky helped to support the family while Jimmy was fighting in World War I. Meanwhile, Jimmy was injured by shrapnel from a German grenade near the end of the war and did not return to Atlantic City until January 1920. Nucky hired him as a driver upon his return.
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Main article: Nucky Thompson Season 1
Nucky Thompson (center) meets just as Prohibition is enacted with NYC gangsters Arnold Rothstein (top-left) and Lucky Luciano (bottom-left) and Chicago's Big Jim Colosimo (top-right) and Johnny Torrio (bottom-right) in order to trade illegal liquor. ("Boardwalk Empire")
Just as Prohibition begins in January 16, 1920, Nucky makes preparations to enter bootlegging and profit from what he correctly predicts to be an extremely lucrative business. However, his first deal to supply alcohol to New York City crime boss and gambling legend Arnold Rothstein is thwarted by the ambitions of Jimmy Darmody. He and Al Capone steal the alcohol as it passes through Hammonton, New Jersey and sell it to Chicago crime boss Johnny Torrio instead. At the same time they hand over Nucky's distillery operation to the prohibition agents, keeping them busy while they make their move in Hammonton. The hijacking is bloody and ends with four of Rothstein's men killed and one badly wounded, who identifies Jimmy before he dies. The incident results in a feud between Nucky and Rothstein, who blames Nucky for the hijacking, a political scandal that compromises the Republican prospects in the 1920 Atlantic City local election as well as tipping Nucky's hand to the Bureau of Prohibition, attracting the attention of senior prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden. Nucky responds by exiling Jimmy, who takes refuge in Chicago under the protection of Torrio.
The difficulties of the bootlegging business continue when Nucky takes control from Mickey Doyle and gives it over to Chalky White. Nucky doesn't want to be connected to Doyle anymore, following his arrest. In retaliation and in a plan to get back his business, Doyle relays information to his partners, the D'Alessio brothers, about Chalky and they try to have him killed but end up killing his driver. Chalky is furious, but Nucky makes it clear to him that the last thing they need in an election year is a race war. Chalky reluctantly agrees and the task of finding those responsible is handed over to Eli Thompson.
To make matters even worse for Nucky, one of Nucky's Aldermen, George O'Neill, is knocked down by Ignacious D'Alessio and robbed of all the collection money for the day, which angers Nucky. At first he assumes it's Luciano that's behind the theft but Luciano is later released with a warning.
Nucky begins a serious relationship with Margaret Schroeder, a poor Irish immigrant and mother of two, pregnant with her third child. Nucky meets her when she approaches him for help regarding her abusive husband, Hans Schroeder. After Margaret suffers a miscarriage as a result of one of Hans' beatings, Nucky has him murdered and framed for Jimmy's hijacking, momentarily putting a stop to speculation that the current administration of Atlantic City is soft on crime, although Van Alden is not convinced. At first Nucky is not interested in a romance with Margaret seeing that it could cause trouble, but she impresses him with her wit, education, energy, and conviction in the following months, in contrast to his duller current girlfriend, Lucy Danziger.
Margaret moves into a house paid for by Nucky, and he enjoys the chance to play the family man with her and her children. However, she struggles to come to terms with his criminality and they eventually break up following a failed assassination attempt carried out by the D'Alessio brothers on orders from Rothstein, after which Margaret accuses Nucky of murdering her late husband.The D'Alessios also shoot Nucky's brother Eli and rob Lolly Steinman's casino. This threatens Nucky's whole organization and prompts him to recruit Jimmy back as an enforcer. Jimmy also returns from Chicago with disfigured war veteran Richard Harrow, who acts as a bodyguard for Nucky and his family following the attempt on Nucky's life.
Nucky burning his childhood home to the ground.
Old memories come back to haunt Nucky when he visits his childhood home in which his father is still living. Nucky remembers the abuse he suffered at his father's hand, as well as the fact that his father always favored Nucky's brother, Eli. After a fall and a broken leg cause his father's declining health to take a turn for the worse, Nucky insists his father can no longer live alone, and decides to give the house to his alderman, Damien Fleming, claiming that a decent family could make it livable again. But after receiving one last insult from his father, Nucky decides instead to burn the house to the ground and, by doing so, bury his past.
Nucky strikes a deal with Warren Harding's campaign manager, Harry Daugherty. ("Hold Me in Paradise")
Nucky also plans to improve road links to Atlantic City in order to facilitate the arrival of tourists and alcohol to the town, and is incensed when Senator Walter Edge does not intend to give him the funding he needs, instead planning to hand it to the mayor of Jersey City Frank Hague, with whom he is a silent partner in a paving company. To counter this, Nucky forges connections with Warren Harding's presidential campaign by delivering the New Jersey delegation at the 1920 Republican National Convention and concealing Harding's mistress in Atlantic City during the election season to avoid any scandals. In return he asks that Edge not be made Vice President and that Congress approve the road funding he wants.
In May, Nucky's ally on the north side of Atlantic City, Chalky White, is visited by a kid posing as a Mr. Louis (in reality Meyer Lansky) who visits Chalky with a proposition to cut Nucky out and offers to buy alcohol from him, though he is only there to get information about Nucky's operations. Chalky dismisses the idea and believes Nucky has sent the kid to test his loyalty to him. Chalky brings this up with Nucky but Nucky doesn't understand what he's talking about. This all becomes clear later when Nucky Thompson is visited by Mickey Doyle, who, after seeing that his business with the D'Alessio brothers and Arnold Rothstein doesn't go as planned, turns back to Nucky and offers to give him all the information he has about his opponents, including the fact that the D'Alessio brothers were behind the lynching of Chalky's man and the robbery of his ward boss. With this new information, Nucky comes up with a plan where Chalky will cut a deal with Meyer Lansky whereby the D'Alessio brothers will attempt to make a huge pickup of alcohol. The plan goes awry when Chalky realizes that it was the D'Alessio brothers that had his driver killed earlier in the year and he only captures Matteo, Lucien and Lansky. The two brothers are killed at Chalky's warehouse but Lansky is released by Nucky so he can tell his boss about what he experienced in Atlantic City.
Arnold Rothstein and Nucky Thompson makes peace.
By the end of the year the wars have reached a stalemate, with Rothstein awaiting trial and the remaining D'Alessio brothers in hiding. However, Johnny Torrio sets up a business meeting between Nucky and Rothstein so they can settle their dispute. Rothstein asks for Nucky's assistance in escaping prosecution over his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. In exchange Nucky demands that Rothstein pay him $1,000,000 and give up his association with the remaining D'Alessio brothers, Rothstein agrees to this when Nucky reveals he is a good friend of Chicago's state attorney Hartley Replogle.
Earlier in the year Nucky met with his mentor Louis Kaestner to discuss the upcoming election. As mayor Bacharach is losing ground and popularity and Eli is alleged by the press to be corrupt, Kaestner instructs Nucky to replace both the mayoral candidate and the sheriff so they can pretend to create change for the community. Nucky offers Edward Bader, a well respected owner of a construction company, a chance to run for Mayor, which he accepts, and gives the sheriff's position to Eli's deputy Raymond Halloran, much to Eli's discontent.
Despite having garnered a lot of support for his candidate following his press conference regarding the D'Alessio brother's role in the Hammonton massacre, Nucky uses a variety of well practiced election rigging techniques to ensure his incumbents retain their positions in the local elections and is pleased when Harding simultaneously takes the White House. He also reinstates his brother as sheriff in Atlantic City, believing this will solve their dispute.
He also reconciles with Margaret after their initial breakup, and they continue their relationship. However, his aloofness and perceived arrogance has alienated The Commodore, his brother Eli, and Jimmy, and the three begin a plot to usurp his position.
In mid-February 1921, The Commodore influences the Ku Klux Klan to attack Nucky's bootlegging connection, Chalky White in order to put him out of business as well as enabling them to steal the alcohol. This incident later becomes a big problem for Nucky when it becomes clear that Chalky White killed one of the clan members while they were fleeing the scene. Playing both the white and black side of the community Nucky makes sure Chalky White is arrested for his own safety and at the same time promises the black community that the men responsible will be brought to justice.
Nucky and his cronies plan to make millions with the construction of highways in New Jersey. ("21")
The attack coincides with Nucky investing heavily in cheap farmland in Gloucester County, expecting the land value to skyrocket once the proposed highways begin construction in their place. At the meeting Nucky accepts a bribe from Ernie Moran to be the sole provider of gravel to the roads.
Nucky's rivals turn his local political subordinates against him leading to his arrest for election fraud based on their testimony. He secures bail but becomes even more frustrated when The Commodore uses his connections in the Coast Guard to block his shipments of liquor from Bill McCoy.
Nucky suffers another setback when he in March 1921 is visited by Johnny Torrio's protegé Al Capone. Capone is in town to inform Nucky that Chicago will no longer be buying alcohol from him, instead they will be buying from George Remus.
Nucky responds to his setbacks by forming a partnership with his past nemesis, Arnold Rothstein, and his connection in Philadelphia Waxey Gordon. They use Philadelphia's ports to land Nucky's shipments which is delivered to Atlantic City by Charlie Luciano and Meyer Lansky to Chalky White who has agreed to get back in business. Nucky also has a meeting set up by Ernie Moran with Sinn Fein fund raiser John Mcgarrigle which ends with Nucky making a donations to maintain the support of his Irish American voting base. During the meeting he is introduced to Owen Slater who will be staying in the states. As an ex-Irish Republican Army soldier Owen soon proves his worth to Nucky and is employed as his driver, bodyguard, and enforcer, replacing Jimmy.
On the legal front, Nucky along with his attourney Isaac Ginsburg and loyal alderman Damien Fleming forms a plot, which involves adding the charge of human trafficking across state lines, to have the charges against him elevate to the federal level and then use his influence in the government to avoid conviction.
Nucky's plans to avoid prosecution are however soon thwarted when Senator Edge puts pressure on the Harding administration, threatening to launch a sub committee to investigate the proposed bureau of veteran’s affairs if his current prosecutor, Charles Thorogood isn't replaced with a new one, someone out of Nucky's reach, this comes in the form of the feared Esther Randolph.
Nucky is shot through the hand. ("Peg of Old")
The Commodore is in April incapacitated by a stroke, Jimmy and Eli however continue to act against Nucky. He retaliates by having Owen blow up Mickey Doyle's bootlegging warehouse where Jimmy has all of his liquor stored, destroying their whole supply and causing problems for Jimmy. After the loss of their supply Eli seeing that Jimmy alienates the commodores financial backers, fears that the coup will fail and attempts to betray his co-conspirators but Nucky rejects his overture and the tension multiplies between the brothers. Enraged, Eli responds by pushing for Nucky's assassination and with the backing of Jimmy's trading partners and the eventual order from Jimmy himself another unsuccessful attempt is made on his life, after receiving a bullet to the hand and being only seconds away from being murdered by Jimmy's hired assassin, the hitman is killed by special investigator Clifford Lathrop.
Nucky visiting Ethan's open coffin with Eli sitting behind him.
Not long after the attempt on his life, Ethan Thompson dies suddenly and Nucky visits his fathers open coffin. While there Eli also arrives and they start to discuss their current situation and their past. During their conversation Nucky makes it clear to his brother that he's only there for their mother and sister and not to pay respect to his father. In the end however, despite his fathers cruel treatment of Nucky, he bursts out in tears when he's about to tie his fathers shoelace.
After having a meeting with Arnold Rothstein and Johnny Torrio, Rothstein gives Nucky an advice to "do nothing" until the time is right. Needing time to regroup and money to fund retaliation, Nucky visits his opposing faction and explains that he's stepping down as head of his organization leaving it all in their hands. Now free of his position as County Treasurer, Nucky pretends to take his father's body to Ireland for burial in order to trade weapons for whiskey with the IRA which after some setbacks is a succesful plan.
While away to Ireland, Margaret's daughter Emily is paralyzed by polio. This causes the (until then lapsed) Catholic Margaret to fear that she is being punished by God for her relationship with Nucky.
Nucky returning from his trip to Ireland, subsequently floods Atlantic City with cheap but high quality liquor, thwarting Jimmy's fledgling bootlegging efforts. Nucky with the help of Chalky White also triggers a citywide strike by African-American workers that undermines Jimmy's leadership credentials as well as causing a rift between Jimmy and his bootlegging associates.
Nucky meanwhile is desperate to have his case dropped and pushes Isacc Ginsburg to try and work out a deal with the opposing witnesses. Ginsburg however is not as optimistical and don't believe that innocence is an option for Nucky and instead suggest he take the fall and serve his short-term. Nucky is enraged by this and fires Ginsburg immediately. Having no legal adviser, Nucky turns yet again to Arnold Rothstein to have his former attorney Bill Fallon take over his defense, which he does.
Seeing as Nucky has triggered a citywide strike among African-Americans, he hires his shoeshiner, Harlan to work for him as a butler until the strike is over. While discussing his case with Fallon, Harlan lingers and Fallon eventually realizes he wants to tell them something regarding their discussion. It turns out that Harlan was present when Nelson Van Alden drowned Nucky's mole Eric Sebso about a year ago. They take this information to prosecutor Esther Randolph, Nelson manage to escape but the threat of having the head of prohibition enforcement in Atlantic City testify against Nucky is gone. Fallon also makes it clear to Nucky that in case he is convicted he should get his finances in order. This prompts Nucky to place the land he owns in Gloucester County in Margaret's name, for safekeeping.
Nucky and Margaret's wedding. ("To the Lost")
All of Nucky's succesful moves against the organization, coupled with Jimmy's wife being murdered by a disgruntled bootlegging partner, Manny Horvitz, drives Jimmy to attempt to reconcile with Nucky. Nucky allows Jimmy to end the strike in exchange for Jimmy convincing the key witnesses against him to drop their testimony—and failing that, to murder them. The guilt-striken Margaret is however still seriously considering testifying against him to absolve her of her sins, but Nucky assures her loyalty by convincing her that he loves her and the children and also asks her to marry him so she won't have to testify against him. she accepts his offer and Father Brennan declares them husband and wife.
A mistrial is declared as all witnesses recant or fail to give their testimony. Nevertheless, Nucky still murders Jimmy personally, unable to forgive his 6 months rebellion against him. He also arranges for Eli to plead guilty to the charges in his place so that they cannot be tried again and promises him that he will look after his family.
Realizing that she was conned into marrying him and that his pretense to leave the criminal life was not real, Margaret gives the deed to all of Nucky's land to the Church. Having no idea that his land is not his property anymore, Nucky along with mayor Bader, Damien Fleming, Eddie Kessler and Ernie Moran drives out to "their" land and celebrates the future.
Nucky's first argument with Gyp Rosetti. ("Resolution")
Nucky is succeeded by Damien Fleming as new County Treasurer but he remains in control of the organization, posing now as a philanthropist after he supposedly gave his land away to Saint Finbar's church.
In the mean time Nucky also manages to become one of the biggest bootleggers in the country by paying Harry Daugherty $40,000 a month for blocking any investigation against him and his allies. However, as scandals begin to plague the Harding administration, Daugherty suggests that Nucky keep a lower profile and pay him only through a courier, Gaston Means. Nucky's answer to the first piece of advice is to cancel all his liquor sales except Rothstein's, and he announces it to his buyers during an Ancient Egyptian-themed party in the family home on New Year's Eve 1922. Though many of the attendants are unhappy with the news, none of them take it as bad as Gyp Rosetti, a violent and extremely susceptible New York City gangster who takes everything personally and never forgets an insult.
Nucky and Billie in her apartment. ("Ging Gang Goolie")
Meanwhile, the distancing caused by the land deal fiasco has turned Nucky and Margaret's marriage into a farce. While they pretend to be a couple in public, Margaret lives with the children in the house (all while limiting their contact with Nucky as much as she can) and Nucky in his suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Nucky finds consolation in a young vaudeville actress from New York, Billie Kent, and even though she is a well known "free spirit" who does not promise Nucky fidelity or even to talk him about her personal life, he becomes increasingly obsessed with her, using Billie simultaneously as a substitute for Margaret's affection and as a way to shut out his guilt over killing Jimmy. Nucky's infatuation gets to the point where he neglects business to spend time with her and further her career. This has dramatic consequences when Rosetti takes over the strategic small town of Tabor Heights and uses it to block Nucky's liquor shipments to Arnold Rothstein.
A deal is in the following days cut between Rosetti and Nucky in which Nucky will help keep his business intact with a one month-shipment, the deal however goes awry when Rosetti feels insulted by Nucky when he wishes him good luck and he once again settles down in Tabor Heights to continue blocking his shipments as well as starting his own import operation.
Meanwhile Eli also gets out of jail, and while Nucky is reluctant to give him another chance following Eli's betrayal of him, he begins to earn his respect again when he deduces an ambush on a convoy by Gyp Rosetti ahead of time, even though he fails to stop it resulting in several of Nucky's men killed and their cargo stolen. For the deduction he is promoted to co-run the warehouse with Mickey Doyle.
Nucky makes an unlikely ally in Washington - Esther Randolph. ("Ging Gang Goolie")
Following Rosetti's reclaiming of Tabor Heights, Nucky makes a deal with a beefed up but reluctant Rothstein to take out Rosetti, who he knows is under the protection of feared NYC mob boss Joe Masseria. The attempt fails to kill Rosetti but temporarily drives him out of Tabor Heights, restoring the liquor trade for the moment.
Daugherty also tries to save his own skin when a sub committee is launched to investigate if the efforts by the Bureau of Prohibition is undermined by the Department of Justice, by using Nucky as a scapegoat and indicting him for bootlegging, Nucky counters by forming an alliance with Gaston Means, Esther Randolph and US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon to arrest the even bigger bootlegger George Remus instead and by doing so forces the Department of Justice's hand, in return Nucky proposes that he runs the great Overholt distillery for Andrew Mellon, giving him a cut of the profit, which he agrees to. Later When Means informs Nucky that Daugherty's aide Jess Smith might implicate him in the case, he pays Means to murder Smith, which is accomplished when Smith commits suicide.
Rosetti successfully convinces Masseria to back him and provide him muscle in an attempt to wrestle Atlantic City from Nucky's hands. Gyp takes over Tabor Heights again, and this time gets his liquor import started, sending boats out to unload liquor there directly.
Nucky's assistant, Eddie Kessler arrives one day at Nucky's office and tells him that one of the newspapers has noted that "James Darmody has drowned". Since Nucky is the one who murdered Jimmy less than 2 years earlier, Nucky is confused from these news. Nucky therefore decides to pay Gillian Darmody a visit to offer his condolences. While there Gillian explains that he just came back from one of his adventures and that he had begun to use narcotics. The meeting however ends abruptly when Gillian tosses a drink in Nucky's face and accuses Nucky of killing her son. Nucky denies that he ever did something like that and goes on reminding her that without him she couldn't exist in Atlantic City. This meeting will later on have drastic consequences for Nucky, Gillian through Charlie Luciano will learn where and when he, Rothstein and Nucky will have dinner the next day.
Gillian informs Gyp about the planned dinner for the three gentlemen and he has a bomb planted at Babette's that eventually fails to kill either of them, but causes the death of Nucky's mistress Billie Kent. Injured and shaken by the loss, Nucky appeals to Rothstein and other mobsters to back him in a war against Rosetti and Masseria but they all turn him down feeling that business with Nucky is just more trouble than it's worth.
Nucky fights for his life when Gyp Rosetti's men invade the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. ("Two Imposters")
To respond to this, Nucky has agent Sawicki provide him with information about Masseria's whereabouts and assigns Owen Sleater to kill him, he sends Eli to Chicago for reinforcements from Torrio, sends Mickey Doyle to get the Overholt distillery running as well as instructing Bill McCoy to travel to Tabor Heights and cut a deal with Rosetti in order to gain information about his operation and strength.
The hit on Masseria doesn't go as planned , having been tipped off, he has Owen killed and sends his body back in a liquor crate to Nucky's suite at the Ritz. Margaret's heartbroken reaction reveals to Nucky that the two had an affair, and she leaves with the children for Brooklyn at Nucky's behest. Mere minutes later, Gyp goes on a rampage through town beginning at the Ritz, injuring Nucky's butler Eddie and forcing the two to seek refuge with Chalky White on the north side of town. Eli, who was previously sent to Chicago by Nucky to make a deal with Torrio and bring back muscle to fight of Rosetti, ended up cutting a deal with Al Capone instead and brings him and several of his men to Atlantic City.
Nucky and Eli look for Gyp Rosetti in The Artemis Club. ("Margate Sands")
A gang war sweeps the town for a week, leaving several bodies behind making the press in Atlantic City question the mayor if he really can control the town or not. After a conversation with his brother, Nucky comes up with a plan, and has Mickey Doyle call Rothstein and inform him about his distillery. Rothstein catches the bait and demands a 99% share of the production in exchange for convincing Masseria to withdraw his support from Gyp, which he achieves by offering him a partnership dealing heroin that he has stolen from Luciano and Meyer Lansky. However, Nucky gets revenge on Rothstein twice by denouncing his takeover of the distillery to Mellon, who orders Rothstein's arrest as well as having all of Masseria's men as they are leaving killed, ruining their just-forged alliance. He and Eli then go to Rosetti's base in Gillian Darmody's brothel but find that most of the men have already already killed off by Richard Harrow; Gyp's second in command Tonino has however not escaped and they find him hiding in a closet, and with him they cut a deal, pardoning him in exchange for killing Gyp and leaving Atlantic City forever. Nucky then heads to Brooklyn to forgive Margaret and to offer her to come back to a life with him. Margaret refuses to go back, and Nucky decides to drop his public persona entirely, confessing to his brother that they won't get involved with people they can't trust anymore.
In 1924, Nucky has made good on his promise to Chalky White and have given him the opportunity to open a nightclub on the boardwalk where Babbettes use to be. Nucky however has to quickly settle a conflict between Chalky and Dr. Valentine Narcisse whom because of Chalky's lieutenant, Dunn Purnsley, has caused the death of Narcisse's talent promoter Dickie Pastor. Nucky offers Narcisse 10% of the club and assures Chalky that it's better to settle it than risking going in to a war and to avoid losing acts for the club that Narcisse controls. Nucky also makes peace with his enemies in New York in February, giving up a lot of money to Joe Masseria to stop him from attacking him.
He has also moved out of the limelight in Atlantic City and now resides alone, estranged from Margaret Thompson and her children, in a hotel at the very end of the boardwalk, the Albatross Hotel.
Nucky is also shown to have grown more comfortable around his brother and his family again and now spends a lot of time with them. He particularly grows closer to his oldest nephew William Thompson during the year whom he sees a lot of himself in as well as his former protegé Jimmy Darmody. Willie during the year gets in trouble after he and his roommate, Clayton, accidentally murders a fellow student, Henry Gaines, by means of a prank after he humiliated Willie. Willie calls on his uncle and Nucky with his connections, his advice and schooling on Willie's testimony to the DA gets him out of trouble for the moment, pinning the crime on Clayton instead. This incident later prompts Willie to leave college and after a violent confrontation with his father, Eli Thompson, moves in with Nucky temporary until he decides he wants to start at the bottom of the political ladder and work his way upwards, Nucky agrees and gets him a job at Mayor Edward Bader's office.
Nucky's former bootlegging associate, Bill McCoy has been arrested down in Tampa and is released in early 1924. He then offers Nucky to come down to Tampa and investigate a land-deal that they could use to set up a new bootlegging business down there by sending trucks up to Atlantic City with rum and then return them with whiskey to Tampa, using the land with waters on three sides to unload their alcohol from the Bahamas and Cuba. Nucky at first is reluctant to go in on the deal since he finds out that there are developments coming to the area they're buying as well as finding out that McCoy is really just trying to get Nucky in on this bad deal in order to settle a conflict over money with a local racketeer, August Tucker, Nucky's possible partner in the land-deal. Nucky however have a change of heart about the deal when he connects with a speakeasy owner named Sally Wheet whom Nucky is intrigued by as well as sensing that maybe Tampa could provide new opportunities to him despite not being the ideal deal. Nucky's initial reaction to the deal has however caused Tucker to confront McCoy at his hotelroom to shake him down for the money he owes him, McCoy kills Tucker before Nucky is able to call him informing him that he indeed will go in on the deal. Nucky however doesn't intend to go in to this project alone with a risk looming. He first seeks out Arnold Rothstein to get in on the deal, but after witnessing Rothstein's obsession with winning at a poker game where Rothstein lose a lot of money to Nucky, he withdraws the offer and instead lets Rothstein's protegé Meyer Lansky step up and join him the endeavor along with his partner Charlie Luciano.
A new prohibition officer, Warren Knox arrived in Atlantic City in 1924. Knox is however a man with an ulterior motive for coming there. He early on murders his boss in the city, Agent Sawicki to get closer to dealing directly with the Thompsons. Knox is later shown to actually be named James Tolliver and to be an agent with the newly formed Bureau of Investigation, working under-cover in the Bureau of Prohibition. Tolliver is driving an operation under the wing of J. Edgar Hoover with the idea of a nationwide conspiracy involving criminals from different cities with Nucky Thompson serving as it linchpin. Nucky meets with him along with supervisor Elliot to discuss Knox job new job, making clear to him that they will never meet again and that he'll be addressing Eli Thompson if he happens to have any concerns. Nucky is after the encounter immediately suspicious of Knox and calls Gaston Means to look him up, nothing however is found about him to raise more suspicion.
Eddie Kessler is still in Nucky's service in early 1924 but is growing tired of having the same low-ranking job he's had for 11 years. Eddie threatens to quit his service if he doesn't get treated with more respect and thereby demands a promotion. Nucky agrees to the promotion and makes Eddie in charge of depositing money that comes from Edward Bader's construction projects. Eddie is however taken into custody early by agent Tolliver whom believe Eddie is the weakest link in Nucky's organization. Eddie ends up giving information about a connection Nucky has with Chicago. Unable to cope with this betrayal, Eddie commits suicide. Eddie's death has a big impact on Nucky and because of it reaches out to his wife Margaret, feeling unable to talk to anyone about losing his friend. The encounter with Margaret is however not pleasant and Nucky is not able to honestly talk about Eddie with her. He however gives a gift to her son, Teddy Thompson and Margaret tells him she is sorry for his loss and that no one could care for him like Mr. Kessler.
After this brief and tense reunion with Margaret, Nucky and his partners travels down to Tampa again to work out the details of the operation. Nucky arrives and gets aware of that Tucker has disappeared according McCoy and instead is introduced to a new possible partner, Vincenzo Petrucelli. Nucky decides to take a little time to consider this new partner that unbeknownst to him is Masseria's cousin. This causes Luciano to back out of the deal, afraid of crossing Masseria. Lansky however stays in on the deal with Nucky and Petrucelli whom Nucky accepts as a partner. Nucky also gets closer to Sally during the second visit, talking openly about his conflicted feelings about losing his friend recently, while also engaging in a sexual encounter with each other. Because of the strengthened relationship between the two, Nucky decides to put her in charge of the operation down in Florida which she is later shown to handle well when she watches over the first shipment that is being transported up to Atlantic City and to a surprised Nucky. During her visit they continue to bond with each other and she is also introduced to his nephew.
Mayor Bader approaches Nucky towards the end of May about the upcoming election and where they stand. Nucky believes that they should continue with what they're doing since they're keeping each other happy. Bader however is worried about where Chalky's allegiance lies and that he needs the colored vote to win the election, furthermore explaining to Nucky to have Chalky put his house in order since it would benefit them both. Nucky despite feeling that it's Bader's problem, goes to Chalky telling him to just that. Chalky takes the advice and throws down the gauntlet to Narcisse whom has been up to this point encroaching on Chalky's territory by selling heroin and influencing the community with his preaching.
Agent Tolliver, having lost his link to Nucky's organization in Eddie Kessler, doesn't intend to back away from Nucky and tries to find a new link. He begins by gaining the trust of Eli, by helping them out with getting access to Eddie's bank accounts where he stored money from Bader. Eli however notices that Knox has a handkerchief with initials that doesn't match his name. Eli goes to Nucky with the information and decides to have Means look in to it again, Means is however shown to work with agent Tolliver and therefore feeds Nucky with fake information. Nucky however does not feel comfortable either way, saying that he has a vague feeling of unease, not being able to put his finger on what's wrong.
Tolliver's next move, after having discovered through his agents that Nucky's nephew was freed of a manslaughter charge earlier with obvious help from Nucky that was pinned on the formers roommate, confronts Eli and lets him in on who he really is and whom he works for. Tolliver threatens to arrest his son unless Eli agrees to help them bring Nucky down.
In 1931 Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky began a power struggle to take over organized crime in New York City as well as Philadelphia, and Atlantic City. After a brief war with Nucky's organization, Nucky was forced to to retire from his criminal empire or else they would kill his nephew William who Lucky had previously kidnapped and held as a hostage. Shortly after Tommy Darmody confronts Nucky on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and shoots Nucky twice in the body, and once in the cheek in retaliation for having his grandmother incarcerated as well as the death of his father. Tommy appears he was hauled off by internal revenue agents and was sentenced to a prison for murder most likely, while Nucky lays dead.
Main article: Thompson family
Ethan Thompson: Father (deceased)
Elenore Thompson: Mother (deceased)
Elias "Eli" Thompson: Younger brother, former Atlantic County Sheriff, traitor, turned bootlegging manager
Susan Thompson: Sister (deceased)
Mabel Thompson: First wife (deceased)
Margaret Schroeder: Second wife
Enoch Thompson Jr.: Son (deceased)
Teddy Schroeder: former Stepson
Emily Schroeder: former Stepdaughter
Anne Thompson: Niece
Clarence: Maternal Uncle (deceased)
Enoch: Maternal Uncle (deceased)
Lucille "Lucy" Danziger: Former girlfriend
Annabelle: Former girlfriend
Ukulele Girl: Former Lover
Billie Kent: Lover (deceased)
Sally Wheet: Lover (deceased)
Commodore Louis Kaestner: Former mentor, rival (deceased)
Gillian Darmody: Former prostitute, rival
Chalky White: African American Community Leader and bootlegging partner, Friend (deceased)
Edward Bader: Atlantic City Mayor (Republican) and construction magnate, ally
Harry Bacharach: Former Atlantic City Mayor (Republican)
Damien Fleming: Atlantic City Alderman and Republican Ward Boss, ally, successor as treasurer
Frank Hague: Jersey City Mayor (Democrat), ally
Harry Daugherty: Attorney General (Republican), ally, turned enemy
Jess Smith: Department of Justice aide, ally, turned enemy (deceased)
Walter Edge: New Jersey State Senator (Republican), enemy
Edward Edwards: Governor of New Jersey (Democrat), enemy
George O'Neill: Atlantic City Alderman and Republican Ward Boss, traitor (deceased)
Jim Neary: Atlantic City Alderman and Republican Ward Boss, traitor (deceased)
Al Boyd: Atlantic City Alderman and Republican Ward Boss, traitor
Paddy Ryan: Chief Clerk of Atlantic City's fourth ward, traitor
John McGarrigle: Sinn Fein fundraiser, ally (deceased)
Ernie Moran: Order of Ancient Celts, Atlantic City businessman, ally
George Baxter: Regional cutlery salesman and associate
Harry Prince: Atlantic City businessman, friend
Ray Halloran: Former Atlantic County Sheriff, Department of Justice informant, convicted murderer (arrested)
Criminal organization
Main article: Nucky's organization
Eli Thompson: Brother, Former Underboss
Bill McCoy: Bootlegging supplier, ally
Lolly Steinman: Gambling Lieutenant, ally
Mickey Doyle: Bootlegging Lieutenant, Underboss, former rival (deceased)
Manny Horvitz: Former Bootlegging Lieutenant and enforcer (deceased)
Owen Sleater: Former Underboss and enforcer (deceased)
Tunney: Bodyguard and driver (deceased)
Arquimedes: Bodyguard and Enforcer (deceased)
Sean: Enforcer (deceased)
Johnny Torrio: Chicago crime boss, ally, traitor
Arnold Rothstein: New York crime boss, ally, former rival (deceased)
Waxey Gordon: Philadelphia crime boss, bootlegging partner
Daniel Fitzgerald: Irish whiskey exporter
Bill Neilan: Irish Republican Army leader, arms dealing customer
George Remus: Former bootlegging customer and rival (arrested)
Richard Harrow: Former enforcer, former bootlegging rival (deceased)
Al Capone: Former bootlegging rival, turned ally
Lucky Luciano: Former bootlegging customer and rival
Meyer Lansky: Former bootlegging customer and rival
Frankie Yale: Former customer (deceased)
Gyp Rosetti: Former customer and enemy (deceased)
Joe Masseria: Former boss of New York, enemy (deceased)
Salvatore Maranzano: Boss of New York, ally (deceased)
Tonino Sandrelli: Gyp's lieutenant, enemy (deceased)
Victor Sickles: Corrupt Tabor Heights Sheriff and ally (deceased)
Edward "Eddie" Kessler: Assistant, bodyguard, driver (deceased)
Isaac Ginsburg: Ex-attorney
Bill Fallon: Former attorney
Prudence: Former housemaid
Katy: Former housemaid
Pauleen: Former cook
Lillian: Former nanny
Harlan: Shoe care professional, one time butler
Phillip: Former footman
Nelson Van Alden: Former prohibition agent, fugitive (deceased)
Eric Sebso: Prohibition agent, mole (deceased)
Esther Randolph: Prosecutor on election rigging charges, turned ally
Charles Kenneth Thorogood: Former prosecutor on election rigging charges, mole
Solomon Bishop: Former prosecutor on election rigging charges
Clifford Lathrop: Department of Justice investigator
Stan Sawicki: Prohibition agent, mole (deceased)
Hans Schroeder: Ordered death, killed by Eli Thompson and Ray Halloran.
Billy Winslow: Ordered death, killed by Eric Sebso.
Pius D'Alessio: Ordered death, killed by Richard Harrow.
Ignacious D'Alessio: Ordered death, killed by Richard Harrow.
Leo D'Alessio: Ordered death, killed by Jimmy Darmody.
Sixtus D'Alessio: Ordered death, killed by Al Capone.
Jim Neary: Ordered death, killed by Richard Harrow.
James "Jimmy" Darmody: Murder victim, one time friend and pupil, shot in the face and head for betraying Nucky.
Nate Honig: Ordered death, killed by Manny Horvitz.
Rowland Smith: Murder victim, thief, shot in the back of the head for stealing booze from Nucky.
3 of Gyp Rosetti's unnamed gunmen, shot during a break-in.
Random unnamed Rosetti gunman, shot in the back of the head.
Gyp Rosetti: Ordered death, killed by Tonino Sandrelli.
Memorable Quotes Edit
"First rule of politics, kiddo: never let the truth get in the way of a good story." ("Boardwalk Empire")
"In just a few hours liqour will be declared illegal by the distinguished gentlemen of our nation's congress... to those beautiful ignorant bastards!" ("Boardwalk Empire")
"Do you know who dies for their countries? Fucking rubes." ("Boardwalk Empire")
"You young fellas... no appreciation for the art of conversation." ("Boardwalk Empire")
"Did the envelope catch on fire?" (receiving a roll of cash from the fire chief) ("The Ivory Tower")
"You want to see how I do business? Show your face again in Atlantic City!" ("The Ivory Tower")
"I used to think you'd own the world one day. You were like that kid in the Alger story, 'Ragged Dick'. You did everything right. And then..."
"That fucking imbecile is going to be the next President of the United States!" ("Hold Me in Paradise")
"You know it's a shame you didn't see Hardeen last night. It's an entertaining act, but if he weren't Houdini's brother nobody'd give a fuck!
"We all have to decide how much sin we can live with." ("A Return to Normalcy")
"Success breeds enemies, which you'll discover soon enough after women win the vote."
"You can tell me what ever you want, but don't scream, don't cry and don't throw anything..."
"I do expect to have everything" ("Anastasia")
"Seven years ago- almost eight- I'd just become treasurer. I was new to the job. Very busy. My wife had just given birth. We named him "Enoch"- after me. She wanted that. He was tiny, frail, and I was terrified to hold him. A week passed. I had my hands full with some county business or another. An audit... I was busy. Very busy. I came home one night. It was late. She was in the nursery rocking him in her arms. I crossed to them... She looked so calm, so contented. It gave me the courage to finally want to hold him. I pulled back the blanket... ... ... I looked at his face and I could tell right away he had been dead for days. She'd been caring for him nearly a week. Bathing him... changing his diapers, his bedclothes. I took him from her and cradled him in my arms. That was the only time I ever held him. We buried him in the churchyard, but she couldn't accept it. She'd completely broken with reality. Melancholia. I saw it, I knew it. But the doctor said time would heal her. And I was very...very busy. A few weeks later she slashed her wrists with my razor. The times with you and the children in the house... eating breakfast- just that- I've never been happier or more terrified in my life. And now you know more about me than any other person on earth." ("A Return to Normalcy")
"I keep my promises, James. And I'll make one now. I will ruin you. All of you." ("A Dangerous Maid")
(to Jimmy about his parents) "He never even asked her name. Just pointed to the one he wanted. The rest was understood." ("A Dangerous Maid")
(to Eli, after he comes asking for a reconciliation) "Alright... we'll sort it out... But there is something I have to ask of you. I need you to get on your knees... Bend down to the ground... And kiss my fucking shoes, you piece of shit! You come crawling back here because you don't have the balls to finish what you started! [Slaps Eli] Fuck that little cocksucker you call a partner! Fuck his conniving cunt of a mother! Fuck that [slap] old man! I'll see his corpse in a ditch! [Double slap] AND FUCK YOU BROTHER!!" ("Gimcrack & Bunkum")
"You don't know me, James. You never did. I..am not..seeking..forgiveness." ("To the Lost")
"If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders."
(to Eli) "You think I'm bottomless don't you? You just keep reaching in. And no matter what you do it's alright. No. Matter. What. You sit down with my enemies. You make choices you can't ever take back. And still... still you call yourself 'my brother'. Don't you know how that hurts me?" ("Sunday Best")
"What's that mean?" (repeated line)
"Arnold Rothstein, Waxey Gordon, Frankie Yale, Peg Leg Lonergan and "Wild Bill Lovett" they're all coming, they are going to sit down and when the meeting is over Joe Masseria will be a dead man. Gyp Rosetti wont have anyone to protect him and i'll wear that fucking dagos guts like a neck-tie"
Dr. Narcisse, there is something I've been wanting to ask you for quite some time.. Who the fuck do you think you are?
If it gets easier, you'll see. (Last Words for Farewell Daddy Blues episode and the Series Finale and an Alternate Ending of Boardwalk Empire)
Don’t be so dramatic, its only money.
Season one appearances
Boardwalk Empire The Ivory Tower Broadway Limited Anastasia
Nights in Ballygran Family Limitation Home Hold Me in Paradise
Belle Femme The Emerald City Paris Green A Return to Normalcy
Season two appearances
21 Ourselves Alone A Dangerous Maid What Does the Bee Do?
Gimcrack & Bunkum The Age of Reason Peg of Old Two Boats and a Lifeguard
Battle of the Century Georgia Peaches Under God's Power She Flourishes To the Lost
Season three appearances
"Resolution" "Spaghetti and Coffee" "Bone for Tuna" "Blue Bell Boy"
"You'd Be Surprised" "Ging Gang Goolie" "Sunday Best" "The Pony"
"The Milkmaid's Lot" "A Man, A Plan..." "Two Imposters" "Margate Sands"
Season four appearances
"New York Sour" "Resignation" "Acres of Diamonds" "All In"
"Erlkonig" "The North Star" "William Wilson" "The Old Ship of Zion"
"Marriage and Hunting" "White Horse Pike" "Havre De Grace" "Farewell Daddy Blues"
Season five appearances
Golden Days for Boys and Girls The Good Listener What Jesus Said Cuanto
King of Norway Devil You Know Friendless Child Eldorado
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Amazing Grace - Acknowledgements and Introduction
Chapter One: The Face at The Window
Chapter Two: The Lost Boys and Girls
Chapter Three: Another Window Opens on Strange Connections
Chapter Four: Dead Babies and Iron Skillets
Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux
Chapter Six: Violets and Bulls in the Graveyard
Chapter Seven: Trapezes and Dog Days
Chapter Eight: The Farm
Chapter Nine: The Stand Off
Chapter Ten: Shrinks and Rebels or Being Fifteen is an Awkward State
Chapter Eleven: Graveyards, Psychopaths, Psychics, and Meetings on the Bridge
Chapter Twelve: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Chapter Thirteen: Oysters on the Half Shell
Chapter Fourteen: Pearls in the Oyster
Chapter Fifteen: Blitzkrieg
Chapter Sixteen: Dances with Sunlight
Chapter Seventeen: Mirror! Mirror! On the Wall...
Chapter Eighteen: The Wolf and the Dove
Chapter Nineteen: The World's Most Beautiful Baby
Chapter Twenty: Minks and Turkey Basters
Chapter Twenty-one: Parties, Mosquitoes, Hives, Hypnosis and Fishing Boats
Chapter Twenty-two: The Devil in the Details
Chapter Twenty-three: In The Forest
Chapter Twenty-four: The Poisoned Apple
Chapter Twenty-five: The Boat Ride to Damascus
Chapter Twenty-six: Another Face at the Window
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Noah Syndrome or The Lost Love
Chapter Twenty-eight: The Ark in Montana
Chapter Twenty-nine: The Dream
Chapter Thirty: A Knight in Armor
Chapter Thirty-one: The Cleft in the Rock
Chapter Thirty-two: Moving to Montana
Chapter Thirty-three: Synchronicity City
Chapter Thirty-four: That's Hollywood!
Chapter Thirty-five: The Crane Dance
Chapter Thirty-six: Hailing the Universe
Chapter Thirty-seven: Missing Child, Missing Time
Chapter Thirty-eight: Flying Black Boomerangs
Chapter Thirty-nine: Flying Black Boomerangs Redux
Chapter Forty: Aliens, Demons and Vampires
Chapter Forty-one: Aunt Clara
Chapter Forty-two: Green Slime
Chapter Forty-three: Hungry Aliens, Stinky Demons, and the Return of Keith
Chapter Forty-four: Comets and Cassiopaeans
Comets and Catastrophes
Fire And Ice: The Day After Tomorrow
Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda
Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!
The Younger Dryas Impact Event and the Cycles of Cosmic Catastrophes - Climate Scientists Awakening
Majesterium and the Tipping Point
The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction
New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection
The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets
Wars, Pestilence and Witches
Thirty Years of Cults and Comets
Comet Biela and Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
Tunguska, the Horns of the Moon and Evolution
Letters From the Edge
Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls
Cosmic Turkey Shoot
Impact Hazards on a Populated Earth?
Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline
Cosmic COINTELPRO Timeline - Introduction
JFK: The Debris of History
The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Bushes and the Lost King
Sim City and John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy and All Those "isms"
John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Organized Crime and the Global Village
John F. Kennedy and the Psychopathology of Politics
John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War
John F. Kennedy and the Titans
John F. Kennedy, Oil, and the War on Terror
John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans
John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy
Jupiter Nostradamus Edgar Cayce and the Return of the Mongols
Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 1
Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols Part 10
The Cassiopaean "Hit" List
The Cs Hit List 01: Prophecy, Prediction, and Portents of Things to Come
The Cs Hit List 02: Space and Weather Science Gone Wild
The Cs Hit List 03: History Is Bunk
The Cs Hit List 04: Nature, Nurture, and My Monkey Genes
The Cs Hit List 05: Dr. Greenbaum and the Manchurian Candidates
The Cs Hit List 06: Let's Do the Planetary Twist to the Tune of the Brothers Heliopolis
The Cs Hit List 07: Sun Star Companion, Singing Stones and Smoking Visions
The Cs Hit List 08: Of Oracles and Conspiracies: TWA 800, 9/11, H1N1, and VISA
The Cs Hit List 09: DNA, Rational Design and the Origins of Life
The Grail Quest and the Destiny of Man
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man I
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part II: The Terror of History
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III: Time
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III-Time, cont.
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part III-2: Time, cont.
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part IV: Machiavelli and the ETs
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part V: The Chalice and the Blade
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VI: A View of History from Us in the Future
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VII: The Nordic Covenant and the Coral Castle
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part VIII: Oak Island and the Shepherds of Arcadia
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part IX: Alchemy and St. Germain
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part X: The Fulcanelli Phenomenon
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XI: Rennes-le-chateau and the Accursed Treasure
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XII: The Priory of Sion
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XIII: Visa to Magonia
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XIV: The Shepherds of Arcadia Reprise
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XV: Jesus: The Man and the Myth
The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part XVI: The Crucifixion: The Big Lie
The Wave Volume 1
The Wave Chapter 1: Riding The Wave
The Wave Chapter 2: Multi-Dimensional Soul Essences
The Wave Chapter 3: Dorothy and The Frog Prince Meet Flight 19 in Oz or, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
The Wave Chapter 4: The Cassiopaeans Get Taken Out of the Closet and Go for a "Test Drive"
The Wave Chapter 5: Perpendicular Realities, Tesseracts, and Other Odd Phenomena
The Wave Chapter 6: Animal Psychology or That which was A, will be A. That which was not-A, will be not-A. Everything was and will be either A or not-A.
The Wave Chapter 7: Balloons, Anti-balloons and Fireworks or Laura Falls Into the Pit and Ark Comes to the Rescue
The Wave Chapter 8: Everywhere You Look, There Is the Face of God
The Wave Chapter 9: The Beast of Gévaudan, Spring-Heeled Jack, Mothman, And Other Dimensional Window Fallers
The Wave Chapter 10: The Truth Is Out There, But Trust No One!
The Wave Chapter 11: Roses Grow Best In Manure
The Wave Chapter 12: All There Is Is Lessons
The Wave Chapter 13: All There Is Is Lessons (Some Further Remarks)
The Wave Chapter 14: All There Is Is Lessons, or Candy Will Ruin Your Teeth
The Wave Chapter 15: All There Is Is Lessons, or He Hideth My Soul in the Cleft of the Rock
The Wave Chapter 16: All There Is Is Lessons, or Laura Finds Reiki and Ends Up in the Soup... Pea Soup, That Is
The Wave Chapter 17: All There Is Is Lessons, or Wandering Around in Third Density Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
The Wave Chapter 18: All There Is Is Lessons, or A Trip to "Alligator Alley"
The Wave Chapter 19: All There Is Is Lessons, or Dr. Greenbaum and the Soul Hackers
The Wave Chapter 20: Black Lightning Strikes... or Marjoe Gortner Meets Ted Patrick
The Wave Chapter 21: Roswell Revisited or Shades of the X-Files
The Wave Chapter 22: The Nexus Seven Meet the Cassiopaeans
The Wave Chapter 23: Lucifer and the Pot of Gold or The Quest for the Holy Grail of No Anticipation
The Wave Chapter 24: The Bacchantes Meet Apollo At Stonehenge And Play The Third Man Theme
The Wave Chapter 25: A Walk In Nature Among The Names of God Where We Have An Interview With the Vampire And Discover a Cosmic Egg
The Wave Chapter 26: The Tree of Life
The Wave Chapter 27: Stripped to the Bone The Shamanic Initiation Of The Knighted Ones: Technicians of Ecstasy
The Wave Chapter 28: Technicians of Ecstasy: The Shamanic Initiation Of The Knighted Ones Part 1
The Wave Chapter 29: The 3-5 Code: The Journey From Jerusalem To Oak Island Via the Pyrenees
The Wave Chapter 30: Grape Wine In a Mason Jar: Jesus, Di and Dodi Take Off From the Denver Airport In Winter to Rain Contrails Upon Our Heads
The Wave Chapter 31: The Priory of Sion and The Shepherds of Arcadia
The Wave: Chapter 32 Torah, Kaballah, And When I Dream…
The Wave Volume 5/6
The Wave Chapter 33: Introduction
The Wave Chapter 34: The Channel
The Wave Chapter 35: A Strange Interlude
The Wave Chapter 36: A Vile Superstition
The Wave Chapter 37: Critical Channeling
The Wave Chapter 38: The Feminine Vampire
The Wave Chapter 39: The Court of Seven
The Wave Chapter 40: Secret Agents From Alpha 1
The Wave Chapter 41: The Realm of Archetypes
The Wave Chapter 42: The Tradition
The Wave Chapter 43: The Head of Bran
The Wave Chapter 44: The Crane Dance
The Wave Chapter 45: The Gulf Breeze
The Wave Chapter 46: The Theological Reality
The Wave Chapter 47: Semiotics and The Content Plane
The Wave Chapter 48: The Juvenile Dictionary
The Wave Chapter 49: Frequency Resonance Vibration
The Wave Chapter 50: Shifts in the Matrix
The Wave Chapter 51: The Pyschomantium
The Wave Chapter 52: The Cryptogeographic Being
The Wave Chapter 53: Strange Birds
The Wave Chapter 54: Glimpses of Other Realities
The Wave Chapter 55: Albert Einstein, Free Energy and the Strange Deaths of Morris K. Jessup and Stefan Marinov
The Wave Chapter 56
: Intolerance, Cruelty, and the Economics of Intelligence
The Wave Chapter 57: It's Just Economics
The Wave Chapter 58: Alien Reaction Machines
The Wave Chapter 59: An Encounter with the Unicorn
The Wave Chapter 60: The Unicorn's Closet
The Wave Chapter 61: Ira's Inner Cesspool
The Wave Chapter 62: Secret Games at Princeton
The Wave Chapter 63: Murdering the Feminine
The Wave Chapter 64: Crossing the Threshold
The Wave Chapter 65: The Way of the Fool
The Wave Chapter 66: The Zelator
The Wave Chapter 67: Food for the Moon and the Burning House
The Wave Chapter 68: As Above, So Below
The Wave Chapter 69: The Whirlpool of Charybdis, the Sirens and the Navigator
The Wave Chapter 70: You Take the High Road and I’ll Take the Low Road and I’ll Be in Scotland Afore Ye!
The Wave Chapter 71: If I Speak in the Tongues of Men and Angels or, Jaguars: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Love and Complex Systems
The Wave Chapter 72: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Love and Complex Systems: Debugging the Universe
Truth or Lies Part 1
Who Wrote The Bible
The Ark of the Covenant and The Temple of Solomon
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Egyptian Chronology: I'm My Own Grandpa!
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The Haunted Universe by D. Scott Rogo
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Stan Gooch's "Cities of Dreams"
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The Voice of Reason During Millennial Madness
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Is the World Coming to an End? Not necessarily - but the future doesn't look bright!
Will the World End on Thursday?
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Meteor Clue To End of Middle East Civilisations Found
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Comet Elenin Update!
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Fallout Around the Breakfast Table
Comet Elenin: Harbinger of What?
Witches, Comets, and Planetary Cataclysms
Disclosure and Comets
All For One and One For All
Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax
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On Radiometric Dating
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The Nature of Punctuational Crises and the Spenglerian Model of Civilization
A Survey of Channeling
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Abovetopsecret: Ethics and Google Bombs
Abovetopsecret.com, Project Serpo Psy-ops, and the Pentagon's Flying Fish.
Al Gore and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy
Alex Jones and 911 Scholars: The Parable of the Good Shepherd
Alien Abduction, Demonic Possession, and The Legend of The Vampire
Aliens and Cosmic COINTELPRO
Aliens Don't Like to Eat People That Smoke!
America: Who Is Responsible?
America's Nervous Breakdown
Amir Peretz and The Faith Based School of Politics
Anti-semitism, British Academia and the Israel Lobby
Beware The Ides of April: Cho Seung-hui and the Mosaic Distinction
Big Lies, Small Lies, Brazen Lies
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Burton Mack and 9-11
Chaos and Consent: Working Towards the Fuhrer
Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies
Comments on the Pentagon Strike
Condoleezza Pregnant: Giving Birth to Monster
Critical Notes on Val Valerian
Crocodile Condi vs Baby Babs Boxer
Darkness Over Tibet - Part 1
Did Nostradamus Predict 9-11 and WWIII?
Eíriú-Eolas Breathing and Meditation Program
Enochian Aliens? Agents of Cosmic COINTELPRO and The Stargate Conspiracy?
Four and a Half Years
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From the Fire Comes Light Part 1
From Where I Sit: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
George W. Bush: A Cancer on the Body Politic
Happy New World
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How to Spot COINTELPRO Agents
Indecent Haste... Hypocrisy, Saddam and Stoning Satan
Internet Free Speech Under Threat! Eric Pepin - Higher Balance Institute Sue QFG for 4.47 Million Over SOTT Forum Comments!
Is Cassiopaea a Cult, or under attack by COINTELPRO AGENTS?
Is Mel Gibson a modern day Suetonius?
Karl Rove's Rewriting of History is Nothing New - Hopefully, there will be another Procopius to Write About the Neocons
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The Wally-World of Wickedness!
Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview on BBC Radio
Let's All Light Up!
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Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?
Order out of Chaos
Organic Portals Part 1
Paris Under the Nazis - New York Under the Neocons - The Darker Context
Paul Craig Roberts sez "We Are All Prisoners Now"
Picknett and Prince on the Cassiopaeans
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Protocols of the Pathocrats
Reader's Comments on "Adventures with Cassiopaeans"
Ross Institute: COINTELPRO or Agent of Mossad?
Schwaller de Lubicz and the Fourth Reich Part 2
Signs of the Times Attacked by Abovetopsecret.com Psy-ops!
Smokescreens, Snowjobs and Long Knives
SOTT-Cassiopaea: Anti-Cult, Anti-Defamation and Psychopath Free Zone
Stupid Is as Stupid Does
Supplement to the St. Pete Times Article: "The Exorcist in Love"
Tales From The Crypt: The Mummy Returns to Bring Religious War
Terrorism and the Three Sillies
The Beast of Revelation and His Empire
The Body Snatchers
The Companions Devoted to Liberty
The Destruction of the 911 Truth Movement
The Gift of the Magi to the Elect - A Christmas Essay
The Man Behind the Curtain - Operation Pincer Memorandum
The Most Dangerous Cult in The World
The Most Dangerous Idea in the World
The Mystic vs. Hitler
The Politics of History
The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others
The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code
To Bee or not to Be
Transmarginal Inhibition
Truth Is Public Property
Truth, Lies, Reality
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V is for Vendetta, COINTELPRO and the Alternative Media
War Crimes and Conscience
Where Troy Once Stood: The Mystery of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey Revealed
Will the REAL "Dr. Grant Gartrel(l)" please stand up?
World Cup Zidane - Materazzi : Italy's Shameful Win
Albert Einstein, Free Energy and The Strange Deaths of Morris K. Jessup and Stefan Marinov
Chemical Hallucinations, Mind Control, and Dr. Jose Delgado
Cosmic Spam: "We are contacting you for a mutually beneficial transaction..."
Evidence That a Frozen Fish Didn't Impact the Pentagon on 9/11- and Neither Did a Boeing 757
HAARP and The Canary in the Mine
Mahmoud Ahmad and The Secret Cult of 9-11
Mass Mind Control
MOSSAD and Moving Companies: Masterminds of Global Terrorism?
The Fifth Column
The Inquisition and the Origins of Fascism and Mind Control
The New Pearl Harbor Who Benefits?
William Milton Cooper Killed in Entrapment
Word Control = Thought Control = World Control
Dossier 9-11 and After
The Global Game of Survivor: America's Next Four Years
The Mossad Happy Dance
World Trade Center Terrorist Attack: Those who Do Not Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat It
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Discernment Or Machiavelli and the ETs Part 1
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Gnosticism and the Christian Myth
Questions About Ascension
Shocks and Signs of The Times
Stalking or Precis on The Good and The Evil
Supernovae: Vehicle of Ascension?
The Cult of the Plausible Lie
The Way Out is the Way In
Why You Don't Create Your Own Reality - an antidote to fatuous New Age paradigms
Born from the Ashes and Blood Part 1
Christianity or Machiavelli and The ETs
Cosquer - The Cave Beneath the Sea
Hoagland, Hyperdimensions, Space and Time
Judaism and Christianity - Two Thousand Years of Lies - 60 Years of State Terrorism
St Malachy and The Toil of the Sun
The Genesis of Evil on a Macrosocial Scale
Knowledge and Being
A Course in Knowledge and Being, Part 1
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NWO & Global Elite
666 - The Mark of the Beast?
The Denver Airport Material
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The Greenbaum Speech
Our Haunted Planet
Crop Circles Catalog
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Monsters: Chicken Man, Demons, and Ica Skulls
The Chilbolton Crop Circle and The Cassiopaeans on Crop Circles
The High Strangeness of Dimensions, and the Process of Alien Abduction
Psychopathy Studies
A basic hypothesis of Psychopathy: Excerpts From The Mask of Sanity, by Hervey Cleckley, 5th edition
A Structural Theory of Narcissism and Psychopathy
Discussion of Psychopathy Traits: Excerpts From The Mask of Sanity, by Hervey Cleckley, 5th edition
Eight Ways to Spot Emotional Manipulation
How Psychopaths View Their World
Psychopath vs. Antisocial Personality Disorder and Sociopathy
Psychopaths in Sheep's Clothing: An Excerpt from the book In Sheep's Clothing By George K. Simon
The Inner Landscape of the Psychopath
The Psychopath - The Mask of Sanity
The Psychopath as Physician: Excerpt from The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.
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The UFO Phenomenon
In January the Grace Russian Company was formed, the joint owners being W. R. Grace & Co. and the San Galli Trading Company of Petrograd. American International Corporation had a substantial investment in the Grace Russian Company and through Holbrook an interlocking directorship.
Leon Trotsky wrote in his autobiography, My Life, “My only profession in New York was that of a revolutionary socialist.” Yet the Trotsky family apartment in New York had a refrigerator and a telephone, and, according to Trotsky, that the family occasionally traveled in a chauffeured limousine. The stylish living standard is also at odds with Trotsky’s reported income. The only funds that Trotsky admits receiving in 1916 and 1917 are $310, and, said Trotsky, “I distributed the $310 among five emigrants who were returning to Russia.” Yet Trotsky had paid for a first-class cell in Spain, the Trotsky family had traveled across Europe to the United States, they had acquired an excellent apartment in New York – paying rent three months in advance – and they had use of a chauffeured limousine. All this on the earnings of an impoverished revolutionary for a few articles for the low-circulation Russian-language newspaper Nashe Slovo in Paris and Novy Mir in New York! Trotsky claimed that those who said he had other sources of income are “slanderers” spreading “stupid calumnies” and “lies,” but obviously Trotsky had an unreported source of income.
Portugal, Fatima. Such phenomena including disks, like an “aircraft of light,” described exactly in these terms by the witnesses of the fifth apparition. Also observed were double supersonic detonations, light protuberances, electro-static charges, and moving “stars,” mysterious white flowers or snow that dropped down from the “aircraft of light,” but disappeared when it made contact with the ground. These descriptions of “snow” or mysterious white “flowers” are quite similar to the descriptions of “angel hair” that are well known from some famous UFO cases. This was accompanied by additional unexplained aerial phenomena, in the form of glowing spheres and disc-shaped objects. The story given was that a silver disc appeared just as “the rain stopped and the clouds rolled back, the sun dimmed out and everything took on a gray, opaque appearance”. The disc then dove in an erratic, zigzag pattern at the crowd, stopped just above their heads and then slowly maneuvered back into the sky. As it faded from view, the sun brightened and began to shine again normally. A local reporter took a photo of the disc.
Germany Bonn. The flamboyant fighter pilot Baron Manfred von Richtofen, known as the Red Baron not only shot down 80 enemy planes for the Germans during World War I, it is claimed that he also was the first human in history to gun down an alien spaceship! Former German Air Force ace Peter Waitzrik says he watched in astonishment as the deadeye fighter pilot shot a UFO with undulating orange lights out of the sky over Belgium in 1917. Then, Waitzrik says, he stared in disbelief as two bruised and battered occupants of the downed craft climbed from their spaceship and scampered off into the woods — apparently never to be seen again.
“The Baron and I gave a full report on the incident back at headquarters and they told us not to ever mention it again,” the feisty, 105-year-old retired airline pilot recently told a reporter. “And except for my wife and grandkids, I never told a soul. But it’s been over 80 years, so what difference could it possibly make now?”
The aging Waitzrik said he and Baron Manfred von Richtofen — the renowned Red Baron — were flying an early morning mission over western Belgium in the spring of 1917 when the UFO suddenly appeared in a clear, blue sky directly ahead of their Fokker triplanes. “We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before,” recalled the easygoing great-great grandfather of five. “The U.S. had just entered the war, so we assumed it was something they’d sent up. “The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed in the woods. Then the two little baldheaded guys climbed out and ran away.” Waitzrik said he assumed the glittering silver spaceship was some sort of enemy invention until the flying saucer scare that began in the late 1940s convinced him that his buddy had shot down a UFO. “The thing was maybe 40 meters (136 feet) in diameter and looked just like those saucer- shaped spaceships that everybody’s been seeing for the last 50 years,” the awed oldster said. “So there’s no doubt in my mind now that that was no U.S. reconnaissance plane the Baron shot down, that was some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods weren’t Americans, they were space aliens of some kind.”
The Soviet Union is formed after Tsar Nicholas II is overthrown. It is often said that Jacob Schiff of Kuhn and Loeb financed the Russian Revolution, however, documents in the State Department files confirm Jacob Schiff was in fact against support of the Bolshevik regime. This position, as we shall see, was in direct contrast to the Morgan-Rockefeller promotion of the Bolsheviks.
Woodrow Wilson, who ran for office again on the slogan, “He kept us out of the war”, begins his second term. In December, the US enters World War I.
G. Amsinck & Co., Inc. of New York; control of the company was acquired by American International Corporation in November 1917. Amsinck was the source of financing for German espionage in the United States.
American International Corporation formed, in November, and wholly owned the Symington Forge Corporation, a major government contractor for shell forgings. Consequently, American International Corporation had significant interest in war contracts within the United States and overseas. It had a vested interest in the continuance of World War I.
American International Shipbuilding Corporation was wholly owned by AIC and signed substantial contracts for war vessels with the Emergency Fleet Corporation: one contract called for fifty vessels, followed by another contract for forty vessels, followed by yet another contract for sixty cargo vessels. American International Shipbuilding was the largest single recipient of contracts awarded by the U.S. government Emergency Fleet Corporation.
The directors of American International and some of their associations in 1917:
J. OGDEN ARMOUR Meatpacker, of Armour & Company, Chicago; director of the National City Bank of New York; and mentioned by A. A. Heller in connection with the Soviet Bureau
GEORGE JOHNSON BALDWIN Of Stone & Webster, 120 Broadway. During World War I Baldwin was chairman of the board of American International Shipbuilding, senior vice president of American International Corporation, director of G. Amsinck (Von Pavenstedt of Amsinck was a German espionage paymaster in the U.S.), and a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation, which financed the Marburg Plan for international socialism to be controlled behind the scenes by world finance.
C. A. COFFIN Chairman of General Electric (executive office: 120 Broadway), chairman of cooperation committee of the American Red Cross.
W. E. COREY (14 Wall Street) Director of American Bank Note Company, Mechanics and Metals Bank, Midvale Steel and Ordnance, and International Nickel Company; later director of National City Bank.
ROBERT DOLLAR San Francisco shipping magnate, who attempted in behalf of the Soviets to import tsarist gold rubles into U.S. in 1920, in contravention of U.S. regulations.
PIERRE S. DU PONT Of the du Pont family.
PHILIP A. S. FRANKLIN Director of National City Bank.
J.P. GRACE Director of National City Bank.
R. F. HERRICK Director, New York Life Insurance; former president of the American Bankers Association; trustee of Carnegie Foundation.
OTTO H. KAHN Partner in Kuhn, Loeb. Kahn’s father came to America in 1948, “having taken part in the unsuccessful German revolution of that year.” According to J. H. Thomas (British socialist, financed by the Soviets), “Otto Kahn’s face is towards the light.”???
H. W. PRITCHETT Trustee of Carnegie Foundation.
PERCY A. ROCKEFELLER Son of John D. Rockefeller; married to Isabel, daughter of J. A. Stillman of National City Bank.
JOHN D. RYAN Director of copper-mining companies, National City Bank, and Mechanics and Metals Bank.
W. L. SAUNDERS Director the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 120 Broadway, and chairman of Ingersoll-Rand. According to the National Cyclopaedia (26:81): “Throughout the war he was one of the President’s most trusted advisers.”
J. A. STILLMAN President of National City Bank, after his father (J. Stillman, chairman of NCB) died in March 1918.
C. A. STONE Director (1920-22) of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 120 Broadway; chairman of Stone & Webster, 120 Broadway; president (1916-23) of American International Corporation, 120 Broadway.
T. N. VAIL President of National City Bank of Troy, New York
F. A. VANDERLIP President of National City Bank.
E. S. WEBSTER Of Stone & Webster, 120 Broadway.
A. H. WIGGIN Director of Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the early 1930s.
BECKMAN WINTHROPE Director of National City Bank.
WILLIAM WOODWARD Director of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 120 Broadway, and Hanover National Bank.
The positions of the twenty-two directors of American International Corporation with other institutions is significant. The National City Bank had no fewer than ten directors on the board of AIC; Stillman of NCB was at that time an intermediary between the Rockefeller and Morgan interests, and both the Morgan and the Rockefeller interests were represented directly on AIC. Kuhn, Loeb and the du Ponts each had one director. Stone & Webster had three directors. No fewer than four directors of AIC (Saunders, Stone, Wiggin, Woodward) either were directors of or were later to join the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. William Boyce Thompson, who contributed funds and his considerable prestige to the Bolshevik Revolution, was also a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York – the directorate of the FRB of New York comprised only nine members.
In 1917 the three Class A directors of the FRB were Franklin D. Locke, William Woodward, and Robert H. Treman. William Woodward was a director of American International Corporation (120 Broadway) and of the Rockefeller-controlled Hanover National Bank.
The three Class B directors were William Boyce Thompson, Henry R. Towne, and Leslie R. Palmer. We have already noted William B. Thompson’s substantial cash contribution to the Bolshevik cause. Henry R. Towne was chairman of the board of directors of the Morris Plan of New York, located at 120 Broadway; his seat was later taken by Charles A. Stone of American International Corporation (120 Broadway) and ofStone & Webster (120 Broadway).
The three Class C directors were Pierre Jay, W. L. Saunders, and George Foster Peabody. Nothing is known about Pierre Jay, except that his office was at 120 Broadway and he appeared to be significant only as the owner of Brearley School, Ltd. William Lawrence Saunders was also a director of American International Corporation; he openly avowed pro-Bolshevik sympathies, disclosing them in a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. George Foster Peabody was an active socialist. In brief, of the nine directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, four were physically located at 120 Broadway and two were then connected with American International Corporation. And at least four members of AIC’s board were at one time or another directors of the FRB of New York.
Woodrow Wilson was the fairy godmother who provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia to “carry forward” the revolution. This American passport was accompanied by a Russian entry permit and a British transit visa. Jennings C. Wise, in Woodrow Wilson: Disciple of Revolution, makes the pertinent comment, “Historians must never forget that Woodrow Wilson, despite the efforts of the British police, made it possible for Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport.”
Consequently, by virtue of preferential treatment for Trotsky, when the S.S. Kristianiafjord left New York on March 26, 1917, Trotsky was aboard and holding a U.S. passport – and in company with other Trotskyire revolutionaries, Wall Street financiers, American Communists, and other interesting persons, few of whom had embarked for legitimate business. This mixed bag of passengers has been described by Lincoln Steffens, the American Communist:
The passenger list was long and mysterious. Trotsky was in the steerage with a group of revolutionaries; there was a Japanese revolutionist in my cabin. There were a lot of Dutch hurrying home from Java, the only innocent people aboard. The rest were war messengers, two from Wall Street to Germany….
Notably, Lincoln Steffens was on board en route to Russia at the specific invitation of Charles Richard Crane, a backer and a former chairman of the Democratic Party’s finance committee. Charles Crane, vice president of the Crane Company, had organized the Westinghouse Company in Russia, was a member of the Root mission to Russia, and had made no fewer than twenty-three visits to Russia between 1890 and 1930.Richard Crane, his son, was confidential assistant to thenSecretary of State Robert Lansing. According to the former ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Crane “did much to bring on the Kerensky revolution which gave way to Communism.”
And so Steffens’ comments in his diary about conversations aboard the S.S. Kristianiafjord are highly pertinent:
” . . . all agree that the revolution is in its first phase only, that it must grow. Crane and Russian radicals on the ship think we shall be in Petrograd for the re-revolution.”
Crane returned to the United States when the Bolshevik Revolution (that is, “the re-revolution”) had been completed and, although a private citizen, was given firsthand reports of the progress of the Bolshevik Revolution as cables were received at the State Department. For example, one memorandum, dated December 11, 1917, is entitled “Copy of report on Maximalist uprising for Mr Crane.” It originated with Maddin Summers, U.S. consul general in Moscow.
The unlikely and puzzling picture that emerges is that Charles Crane, a friend and backer of Woodrow Wilson and a prominent financier and politician, had a known role in the “first” revolution and traveled to Russia in mid-1917 in company with the American Communist Lincoln Steffens, who was in touch with both Woodrow Wilson and Trotsky. The latter in turn was carrying a passport issued at the orders of Wilson and $10,000 from supposed German sources. On his return to the U.S. after the “re-revolution,” Crane was granted access to official documents concerning consolidation of the Bolshevik regime: This is a pattern of interlocking – if puzzling – events that warrants further investigation and suggests, though without at this point providing evidence, some link between the financier Crane and the revolutionary Trotsky.
Documents on Trotsky’s brief stay in Canadian custody are now de-classified and available from the Canadian government archives. According to these archives, Trotsky was removed by Canadian and British naval personnel from the S.S. Kristianiafjord at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 3, 1917, listed as a German prisoner of war, and interned at the Amherst, Nova Scotia, internment station for German prisoners. Mrs. Trotsky, the two Trotsky boys, and five other men described as “Russian Socialists” were also taken off and interned. Their names are recorded by the Canadian files as: Nickita Muchin, Leiba Fisheleff, Konstantin Romanchanco, Gregor Teheodnovski, Gerchon Melintchansky and Leon Bronstein Trotsky (all spellings from original Canadian documents). […]
The Trotsky party was removed from the S.S. Kristianiafjord under official instructions received by cablegram of March 29, 1917, London, presumably originating in the Admiralty with the naval control officer, Halifax. The cablegram reported that the Trotsky party was on the “Christianiafjord” (sic) and should be “taken off and retained pending instructions.” The reason given to the naval control officer at Halifax was that “these are Russian Socialists leaving for purposes of starting revolution against present Russian government for which Trotsky is reported to have 10,000 dollars subscribed by Socialists and Germans.”
On April 1, 1917, the naval control officer, Captain O. M. Makins, sent a confidential memorandum to the general officer commanding at Halifax, to the effect that he had “examined all Russian passengers” aboard the S.S. Kristianiafjord and found six men in the second-class section:
“They are all avowed Socialists, and though professing a desire to help the new Russian Govt., might well be in league with German Socialists in America, and quite likely to be a great hindrance to the Govt. in Russia just at present.”
The next document in the Canadian files is dated April 7, from the chief of the General Staff, Ottawa, to the director of internment operations, and acknowledges a previous letter (not in the files) about the internment of Russian socialists at Amherst, Nova Scotia:
“. . . in this connection, have to inform you of the receipt of a long telegram yesterday from the Russian Consul General, MONTREAL, protesting against the arrest of these men as they were in possession of passports issued by the Russian Consul General, NEW YORK, U.S.A.”
The reply to this Montreal telegram was to the effect that the men were interned “on suspicion of being German,” and would be released only upon definite proof of their nationality and loyalty to the Allies.
No telegrams from the Russian consul general in New York are in the Canadian files, and it is known that this office was reluctant to issue Russian passports to Russian political exiles. However, there is a telegram in the files from a New York attorney, N. Aleinikoff, to R. M. Coulter, then deputy postmaster general of Canada. The postmaster general’s office in Canada had no connection with either internment of prisoners of war or military activities. Accordingly, this telegram was in the nature of a personal, nonofficial intervention. It reads:
DR. R. M. COULTER, Postmaster Genl. OTTAWA
Russian political exiles returning to Russia detained Halifax interned Amherst camp. Kindly investigate and advise cause of the detention and names of all detained. Trust as champion of freedom you will intercede on their behalf. Please wire collect.
NICHOLAS ALEINIKOFF
On April 11, Coulter wired Aleinikoff,
“Telegram received. Writing you this afternoon. You should receive it tomorrow evening. R. M. Coulter.”
This telegram was sent by the Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraph but charged to the Canadian Post Office Department. Normally a private business telegram would be charged to the recipient and this was not official business.
The follow-up Coulter letter to Aleinikoff is interesting because, after confirming that the Trotsky party was held at Amherst, it states that they were suspected of propaganda against the present Russian government and “are supposed to be agents of Germany.” Coulter then adds,” . . . they are not what they represent themselves to be”; the Trotsky group is “…not detained by Canada, but by the Imperial authorities.” After assuring Aleinikoff that the detainees would be made comfortable, Coulter adds that any information “in their favour” would be transmitted to the military authorities.
On April 11 Arthur Wolf of 134 East Broadway, New York, sent a telegram to Coulter. Though sent from New York, this telegram, after being acknowledged, was also charged to the Canadian Post Office Department.
Pay close attention to this: In the Trotsky affair, here we have two American residents corresponding with a Canadian deputy postmaster general in order to intervene in behalf of an interned Russian revolutionary, a Canadian or Imperial military matter of international importance. Coulter’s subsequent action suggests something more than casual intervention.
After Coulter acknowledged the Aleinikoff and Wolf telegrams, he wrote to Major General Willoughby Gwatkin of the Department of Militia and Defense in Ottawa – a man of significant influence in the Canadian military – and attached copies of the Aleinikoff and Wolf telegrams. He wrote:
These men have been hostile to Russia because of the way the Jews have been treated, and are now strongly in favor of the present Administration, so far as I know. Both are responsible men. Both are reputable men, and I am sending their telegrams to you for what they may be worth, and so that you may represent them to the English authorities if you deem it wise.
Coulter intimates that he knows a great deal about Aleinikoff and Wolf. His letter was in effect a character reference, and aimed at the obvious source of the internment problem – London.
Gwatkin was well known in London, and in fact was on loan to Canada from the War Office in London.
Aleinikoff then sent a letter to Coulter to thank him
“most heartily for the interest you have taken in the fate of the Russian Political Exiles …. You know me, esteemed Dr. Coulter, and you also know my devotion to the cause of Russian freedom …. Happily I know Mr. Trotsky, Mr. Melnichahnsky, and Mr. Chudnowsky . . . intimately.”
It might be noted as an aside that if Aleinikoff knew Trotsky “intimately,” then he would also probably be aware that Trotsky had declared his intention to return to Russia to overthrow the Provisional Government and institute the “re-revolution.”
On receipt of Aleinikoff’s letter, Coulter immediately (April 16) forwarded it to Major General Gwatkin, adding that he became acquainted with Aleinikoff
“in connection with Departmental action on United States papers in the Russian language” and that Aleinikoff was working “on the same lines as Mr. Wolf . . . who was an escaped prisoner from Siberia.”
Previously, on April 14, Gwatkin sent a memorandum to his naval counterpart on the Canadian Military Interdepartmental Committee repeating that the internees were Russian socialists with “10,000 dollars subscribed by socialists and Germans.” The concluding paragraph stated: “On the other hand there are those who declare that an act of high-handed injustice has been done.”
Then on April 16, Vice Admiral C. E. Kingsmill, director of the Naval Service, took Gwatkin’s intervention at face value. In a letter to Captain Makins, the naval control officer at Halifax, he stated, “The Militia authorities request that a decision as to their (that is, the six Russians) disposal may be hastened.” A copy of this instruction was relayed to Gwatkin who in turn informed Deputy Postmaster General Coulter.
Three days later Gwatkin applied pressure. In a memorandum of April 20 to the naval secretary, he wrote, “Can you say, please, whether or not the Naval Control Office has given a decision?”
On the same day (April 20) Captain Makins wrote Admiral Kingsmill explaining his reasons for removing Trotsky; he refused to be pressured into making a decision, stating, “I will cable to the Admiralty informing them that the Militia authorities are requesting an early decision as to their disposal.”
However, the next day, April 21, Gwatkin wrote Coulter:
“Our friends the Russian socialists are to be released; and arrangements are being made for their passage to Europe.”
The order to Makins for Trotsky’s release originated in the Admiralty, London. Coulter acknowledged the information, “which will please our New York correspondents immensely.”
We can conclude that Coulter and Gwatkin were intensely interested in the release of Trotsky, but we do not know why. There was little in the career of either Deputy Postmaster General Coulter or Major General Gwatkin that would explain an urge to release Leon Trotsky.
Dr. Robert Miller Coulter was a medical doctor of Scottish and Irish parents, a liberal, a Freemason, and an Odd Fellow. He was appointed deputy postmaster general of Canada in 1897. His sole claim to fame derived from being a delegate to the Universal Postal Union Convention in 1906 and a delegate to New Zealand and Australia in 1908 for the “All Red” project. All Red had nothing to do with Red revolutionaries; it was only a plan for all-red or all-British fast steamships between Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.
Major General Willoughby Gwatkin stemmed from a long British military tradition (Cambridge and then Staff College). A specialist in mobilization, he served in Canada from 1905 to 1918.
Given only the documents in the Canadian files, we can but conclude that their intervention in behalf of Trotsky is a mystery.
Lieutenant Colonel John Bayne MacLean, a prominent Canadian publisher and businessman, founder and president of MacLean Publishing Company, Toronto, with a long-time association with Canadian Army Intelligence, wrote for his own MacLean’s magazine, in 1918, an article entitled “Why Did We Let Trotsky Go? How Canada Lost an Opportunity to Shorten the War.” The article contained detailed and unusual information about Leon Trotsky which provides two clues. Government records since released by Canada, Great Britain, and the United States confirm MacLean’s clues to a significant degree. MacLean’s opening argument is that
“some Canadian politicians or officials were chiefly responsible for the prolongation of the war [World War I], for the great loss of life, the wounds and sufferings of the winter of 1917 and the great drives of 1918.” Further, “the man chiefly responsible for the defection of Russia was Trotsky… acting under German instructions.”
Who was Trotsky? According to MacLean, Trotsky was not Russian, but German
Odd as this may seem it does coincide with other scraps of intelligence information: to wit, that Trotsky spoke better German than Russian, and that he was the Russian executive of the German “Black Bond.”
According to MacLean, Trotsky in August 1914 had been “ostentatiously” expelled from Berlin; he finally arrived in the United States where he organized Russian revolutionaries, as well as revolutionaries in Western Canada, who “were largely Germans and Austrians traveling as Russians.” MacLean continues: Originally the British found through Russian associates that Kerensky, Lenin and some lesser leaders were practically in German pay as early as 1915 and they uncovered in 1916 the connections with Trotsky then living in New York.
In the early part of 1916 a German official sailed for New York. British Intelligence officials accompanied him. He was held up at Halifax; but on their instruction he was passed on with profuse apologies for the necessary delay. After much manoeuvering he arrived in a dirty little newspaper office in the slums and there found Trotsky, to whom he bore important instructions. From June 1916, until they passed him on [to] the British, the N.Y. Bomb Squad never lost touch with Trotsky. They discovered that his real name was Braunstein and that he was a German, not a Russian.
Such German activity in neutral countries is confirmed in a State Department report (316-9-764-9) describing organization of Russian refugees for revolutionary purposes.
Continuing, MacLean states that Trotsky and four associates sailed on the “S.S. Christiania” (sic), and on April 3 reported to “Captain Making” (sic) and were taken off the ship at Halifax under the direction of Lieutenant Jones. (Actually a party of nine, including six men, were taken off the S.S. Kristianiafjord. The name of the naval control officer at Halifax was Captain O. M. Makins, R.N. The name of the officer who removed the Trotsky party from the ship is not in the Canadian government documents; Trotsky said it was “Machen.”) Again, according to MacLean, Trotsky’s money came “from German sources in New York.”
MacLean states further that Trotsky was released “at the request of the British Embassy at Washington . . . [which] acted on the request of the U.S. State Department, who were acting for someone else.”
The theme of MacLean’s report is that Trotsky had intimate relations with, and probably worked for, the German General Staff. While such relations have been established regarding Lenin – to the extent that Lenin was subsidized and his return to Russia facilitated by the Germans – it appears certain that Trotsky was similarly aided. The $10,000 Trotsky fund in New York was from German sources, and a recently declassified document in the U.S. State Department files reads as follows:
March 9, 1918 to: American Consul, Vladivostok from Polk, Acting Secretary of State, Washington D.C. For your confidential information and prompt attention: Following is substance of message of January twelfth from Von Schanz of German Imperial Bank to Trotsky, quote Consent imperial bank to appropriation from credit general staff of five million roubles for sending assistant chief naval commissioner Kudrisheff to Far East.
This message suggests some liaison between Trotsky and the Germans in January 1918, a time when Trotsky was proposing an alliance with the West. The State Department does not give the provenance of the telegram, only that it originated with the War College Staff. The State Department did treat the message as authentic and acted on the basis of assumed authenticity. It is consistent with the general theme of Colonel MacLean’s article.
Official documentation clearly demonstrates two faces to Trotsky: one for the public, and one in private. For example, the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the U.S. State Department received on March 23, 1918, two reports stemming from Trotsky; one is inconsistent with the other. One report, dated March 20 and from Moscow, originated in the Russian newspaper Russkoe Slovo. The report cited an interview with Trotsky in which he stated:
“…any alliance with the United States was impossible: The Russia of the Soviet cannot align itself… with capitalistic America for this would be a betrayal It is possible that Americans seek such an rapprochement with us, driven by its antagonism towards Japan, but in any case there can be no question of an alliance by us of any nature with a bourgeoisie nation.”
The other report, also originating in Moscow, is a message dated March 17, 1918, three days earlier, and from Ambassador Francis:
“Trotsky requests five American officers as inspectors of army being organized for defense also requests railroad operating men and equipment.”
This private request to the U.S. is of course inconsistent with the public rejection of an “alliance.”
So long as we see all international revolutionaries and all international capitalists as implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial point – that there has indeed been some operational cooperation between international capitalists, including fascists. And there is no a priori reason why we should reject Trotsky as a part of this alliance.
First there’s Trotsky, a Russian internationalist revolutionary with German connections who sparks assistance from two supposed supporters of Prince Lvov’s government in Russia (Aleinikoff and Wolf, Russians resident in New York). These two ignite the action of a liberal Canadian deputy postmaster general, who in turn intercedes with a prominent British Army major general on the Canadian military staff. These are all verifiable links.
In short, allegiances may not always be what they are called, or appear. We can, however, surmise that Trotsky, Aleinikoff, Wolf, Coulter, and Gwatkin in acting for a common limited objective also had some common higher goal than national allegiance or political label. This is the only a logical supposition from the facts. (WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION By Antony C. Sutton. 2001, HTML version created in the United States of America by Studies in Reformed Theology)
Olof Aschberg and Nya Banken in Stockholm were central to Bolshevik funding.
With the entry of the United States into the war, Barnes and Gray, Hoover’s helpers in the Belgian Relief Operation, were given important posts in the newly created U.S. Food Administration, which also was placed under Herbert Hoover’s direction. Barnes became President of the Grain Corporation of the U.S. Food Administration from 1917 to 1918, and Gray was chief of Marine Transportation. Another J. Henry Schroder partner, G. A. Zabriskie, was named head of the U.S. Sugar Equalization Board.
Hoover chose Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss as his principal assistant in theU.S. Food Administration. Strauss was soon to become a partner in Kuhn Loeb Company, marrying the daughter of Jerome Hanauer of Kuhn Loeb. Throughout his service with the Belgian Relief Commission, the U.S. Food Administration, and, after the war, the American Relief Administration,Hoover’s closest associate was one Edgar Rickard, born in Pontgibaud, France. After Hoover became Secretary of Commerce under Coolidge, Hamill tells us that Hoover awarded his friend the Hazeltine Radio patents, which paid him one million dollars a year in royalties.
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Polynesian technology has arrived in Mendocino!
The evolution of modern-day canoe design is prospering in Mendocino County. Bob Cummings of Secret Harbor Boat Works has been hard at work for more than 30 years building redwood outriggers. Working closely with Catch a Canoe, the Stanford Inn’s outdoor adventure shop, Bob has created several unique variations that all share certain key elements. A foot-operated rudder system allows easy control for both novice and experienced paddlers. The outrigger floats, or the twin hulls of the catamaran, provide a measure of stability not found in other canoes or kayaks. In addition, the narrow, efficient hull and float design reduces the amount of effort typically needed for canoe propulsion.
The Canine Cruiser series was created specifically for people and their pets. A raised padded floor provides a comfortable area for dogs to sit, stand or lie down, while the outrigger floats ensure superior stability.
Other redwood outriggers can accommodate couples or families, and hold between 2 and 8 persons. Safety, ease of control, and the beauty of re-purposed old growth redwood all combine to make a voyage up big river an unforgettable experience.
Dock photo featured in “Outside Magazine” April 2018. Photo by Rick Hemmings.
Even though we specialize in redwood outriggers, polyethylene kayaks are available in both sit on top and decked versions. Single and tandem versions can be rented with no prior experience required. Kayaks sit lower to the water and provide an easy ride with a double bladed kayak paddle—expect a slightly wetter experience due to paddle drips and sit on top dynamics.
Catch a Canoe’s first rentals were fiberglass canoes made in Los Angeles called Nona’s. We still have one available after 45 years in service! We also offer kevlar canoes from Wenonah. The star of the show however, are our unique, locally made redwood outriggers. Even if you’re old school when it comes to canoes, why not try something new?—you’ll still get to use a wood or kevlar canoe paddle with every stroke!
Big River Estuary can be the perfect place to try this popular new sport—depending on the conditions that is. Calm mornings with a slowly moving tide is best, please check in with Catch a Canoe for updated reports. We offer lightweight composite boards from Boardworks. The Raven is 12’ long and very stable, while it’s bigger 14’ brother, the Great Bear is best for first timers.
Reservations are offered seasonally and only for paddle-craft. During fall, winter & spring boats may be reserved beforehand. This period lasts from Labor Day through the start of Memorial Day weekend. First come first serve and no reservations are in effect from Memorial Day until the start of Labor Day weekend. Exception: Parties of 8+ may reserve year round.
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ABOUT MENDOCINO, CALIFORNIA
Mendocino sits atop beautiful ocean bluffs surrounded on three sides by Mendocino Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs comprise the Mendocino Headlands and offer walking trails that afford incredible views of the ocean and the lovingly restored 1850’s New England style Victorians which now house restaurants, specialty shops, galleries and provide lodging for Mendocino artists. Historic buildings line the cliffs. At times the Pacific roars and crashes against the headlands with such force spindrift floats up to Main Street. The air tastes salty.
In a complex surrounding what was once a Victorian carriage house is the Mendocino Art Center, described by the National Endowment for the Arts as a “rural miracle.” The Mendocino Art Center serves area artists as well as artists and aspiring artists throughout the United States.
All this is the nature of Mendocino, located about 150 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 1. Besides the natural beauty, visitors to Mendocino will find a variety of things to see and do.
The history of Mendocino and its founding families can be explored at the Ford House and the Kelley House museums.
The Mendocino Community presents a variety of events from monthly art openings that celebrate art on the Second Saturday of every month to the annual Mendocino Music Festival providing performances in a huge tent on the Headlands in July. Other annual events include a Whale Festival, the Mendocino Art Center’s Garden Tour featuring exquisitely created home gardens with a luncheon at the Stanford Inn’s Raven’s Restaurant, an old-time 4th of July parade, the renown Art in the Gardens presented by the Mendocino Botanical Gardens, Winesong celebrating fine wines and local culinary talents in a tasting followed by an auction and celebrations of the Christmas holidays with lights and singing at the inns and lodges of Mendocino, Little River and Elk, and much more.
Hikers and mountain bikers enjoy bluff-top excursions to view seabirds, the seasonal gray whale migration and spring wildflowers. Nearby Big River Beach is ideal for family picnics and Big River is an ecological treasure which is easily explored by canoe or kayak which can be rented at Catch A Canoe & Bicycles, too!
Montgomery Woods up Comptche Ukiah Road offers virgin redwood groves with the tallest living tree in the world. Redwoods and Douglas Firs dominate the Russian Gulch State Park as well as other nearby State Parks including Van Damme and Hendy Woods. Many of these parks allow dogs on their trails. And at MacKerricher State Park Lari Shea offer horseback riding along the beach.
The town is compact and shopping and dining destinations are within easy walking distance of one another. Mendocino is an art collectors dream. Coast artists show their works at the Mendocino Art Center and in the scores of privately owned galleries. Performing arts include productions by the Mendocino Theatre Company,
Visit Mendocino, enjoy a stay at the Stanford Inn by the Sea, Explore Big River on a bicycle or kayak. And dine at Ravens Restaurant. What could be better?!
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The Bellevue School District uses Metro Transit services for student transportation to and from Big Picture School. The initial issuing of new cards will be at our Taking Care of Business Day in August. During the school year, an ORCA Card administrator visits each school once a week to issue cards. Students will be issued their first ORCA Card each year at no cost. Learn more…
Driving to School
All fines must be paid prior to purchasing a parking permit. Fines may be paid before or after school or during lunch.
Students must possess a valid driver’s license and proof of insurance for a permit to be issued.
The student parking fee is $100 for a single driving permit. Permit fees may be paid with cash or check.
Parking fees are non-refundable.
Students and parents must read, complete, sign and date the parking application.
Once capacity is reached, a waiting list will be started, and permits will be issued at the approval of the principal. The Carpooling Contract must be completed in order to share a permit. Public transportation is also encouraged.
Before filling out the application, please read the Bellevue School District Parking Policy and the Bellevue Big Picture School Parking Policy. Obtain the required signatures on the application.
Parking a student car on the Big Picture School campus is a privilege. To gain and maintain this privilege a student must register his or her car in the office, obtain a parking permit, and drive safely! Parking permits cost $100.00 per year. Students who choose to purchase a parking permit are not eligible to obtain a Metro bus pass.
Student parking areas are open to all students with valid parking permits. During the hours 6:30am- 4:00pm all staff and visitor parking areas are off limits to students. Additional restrictions in staff areas may occur during school events.
By issuance of a permit, the Bellevue School District and/or Bellevue Big Picture School do not assume liability for any property damage to any private automobile parked on its property. The owner-operator(s) of all private vehicles accepts responsibility for their own property and agrees they are parking at their own risk.
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Michelin stars to be presented in Aarhus, Denmark
The prestigious international hallmark of gastronomic perfection, awarded to a bevy of restaurants throughout the Nordic region, will in early 2019 be held in the City of Aarhus in Central Denmark Region. A fitting location for the presentation of the ‘Michelin Guide Nordic Countries 2019’ it is the first time that the event is to be held outside a Nordic capital.
In February 2019, a stellar assembly of the Nordic countries’ leading chefs and restaurant owners will be meeting in Denmark’s dynamic cultural mecca of Aarhus. Here, the gastronomic artists of five countries and their territories will receive the coveted global recognition of their art, as they receive the Michelin stars with which to adorn their establishments.
“We are looking forward to celebrating the Nordic restaurants in Aarhus, a city that has rapidly developed into an economic, cultural and culinary Danish powerhouse. As a major international academic, cultural and business community, with its own busy port and marinas, it has embraced new ideas and traditions – something that has firmly permeated onto the gastronomy scene,” says Director of International Development for Guide Michelin Gwendal Poullennec.
“The city's top restaurants are innovative, but are located side by side with simpler establishments that share an infectious enthusiasm for the choice, prime, raw materials that Denmark offers. It is precisely this mix of traditional cuisine such as the national smorgasbord, the New Nordic cuisine and inspiration from around the world that draws epicurists to Aarhus,” Poullennec adds.
Due to take place on February 18, 2019 in the imposing Concert Hall Aarhus – where the world’s leading opera, ballet and orchestral ensembles are regular features - some 500 guests will be witnessing the star-studded awards.
“We are very proud that Michelin has chosen to launch the Nordic Michelin Guide in Aarhus. Aarhus and Central Denmark Region have undergone significant gastronomic development in recent years, driven by world-class chefs and local producers. The event is an international recognition of the region’s efforts,” says Aarhus Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard, who is hosting the event along with VisitAarhus, Central Denmark Region, Business Region Aarhus and the Food Organisation of Denmark.
A university city that dates back to the 7th century, Aarhus has much to offer the discerning visitor. A lengthy list of historical sites such as The Old Town Museum, the peat-preserved Grauballe Man and Viking Museum look back into history, while a wealth of music both old and modern, bear testament to the city’s conviction that there has to be something for everyone. Gastronomy is no exception, with a broad array of restaurants, wine bars and pubs catering for all tastes and purses.
In Michelin terms, 2015 saw Aarhus as the first city outside the Danish capital to have a restaurant awarded a Michelin star and see its visitor figures rise by 17%. In 2018 four restaurants have been awarded stars.
“Last year, Aarhus and Central Denmark Region were awarded the permanent title of European Region of Gastronomy, signalling the quality of products and innovation among our local producers. At the same time, the city was the European Capital of Culture. There is no doubt that we are Denmark’s food production region and the Michelin event underlines the efforts that have been made,” says President of Central Denmark Region Anders Kühnau.
For CEO of VisitAarhus Peer H. Kristensen the 2019 event has added yet another jewel to the diamond necklace of events that the city has invited into its clean, green, healthy and travel-friendly fold.
“Our Michelin stars twinkle brightly on the map of the Nordic region. But we have no intention of just resting on our laurels. We continue to develop the city and region around us, in order to further anchor ourselves as a gastronomic must-see region,” Peer H. Kristensen concludes.
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Rapid A1c Availability Improves Clinical Decision-Making in an Urban Primary Care Clinic
Christopher D. Miller, MD,
Catherine S. Barnes, PHD,
Lawrence S. Phillips, MD,
David C. Ziemer, MD,
Daniel L. Gallina, MD,
Curtiss B. Cook, MD,
Sandra D. Maryman, MD and
Imad M. El-Kebbi, MD
From the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Diabetes Care 2003 Apr; 26(4): 1158-1163. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.26.4.1158
OBJECTIVE—Failure to meet goals for glycemic control in primary care settings may be due in part to lack of information critical to guide intensification of therapy. Our objective is to determine whether rapid-turnaround A1c availability would improve intensification of diabetes therapy and reduce A1c levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—In this prospective controlled trial, A1c was determined on capillary glucose samples and made available to providers, either during (“rapid”) or after (“routine”) the patient visit. Frequency of intensification of pharmacological diabetes therapy in inadequately controlled patients and A1c levels were assessed at baseline and after follow-up.
RESULTS—We recruited 597 subjects. Patients were 79% female and 96% African American, with average age of 61 years, duration of diabetes 10 years, BMI 33 kg/m2, and A1c 8.5%. The rapid and routine groups had similar clinical demographics. Rapid A1c availability resulted in more frequent intensification of therapy when A1c was ≥7.0% at the baseline visit (51 vs. 32% of patients, P = 0.01), particularly when A1c was >8.0% and/or random glucose was in the 8.4–14.4 mmol/l range (151–250 mg/dl). In 275 patients with two follow-up visits, A1c fell significantly in the rapid group (from 8.4 to 8.1%, P = 0.04) but not in the routine group (from 8.1 to 8.0%, P = 0.31).
CONCLUSIONS—Availability of rapid A1c measurements increased the frequency of intensification of therapy and lowered A1c levels in patients with type 2 diabetes in an urban neighborhood health center.
Although diabetes is a common disease that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality (1,2), there is strong evidence that achieving good glycemic control can delay or prevent complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes (3,4,5,6). However, many patients continue to have high levels of glucose and A1c (7,8,9) and remain at risk for end-organ damage.
The reasons for failure to achieve the American Diabetes Association (ADA) goals for glycemic control are not well understood. Patient-related factors such as income, age, years of education, occupation, and literacy (10,11,12), as well as failure to keep appointments (13), poor adherence to prescribed hypoglycemic medications (14), and lack of understanding of diabetes and the importance of good glycemic control (15), can limit the effectiveness of management. However, provider-related factors may be even more important, since providers often fail to intensify diabetes therapy appropriately when patient glycemic control is poor (16,17). Such “clinical inertia” (18,19) slows the process of achieving therapeutic targets and could compromise the ability of health care systems to reduce the morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with diabetes. Moreover, interventions aimed at overcoming clinical inertia can improve glycemic control in a municipal hospital setting, where many patients are affected by poverty and limited literacy (18).
Clinical inertia might be due in part to lack of information available to providers. For example, patients may not monitor their blood glucose levels at home (20) or bring monitoring records to their clinic appointments. Also, while A1c values are the standard indicators for glycemic control, it is often inconvenient for patients to have laboratory tests before office visits in order to have recent A1c measurements available at the time of the visit. As an alternative, the development of A1c assays that can be performed within minutes in a clinic setting could potentially give providers the information they need to guide clinical decision-making. The use of rapid A1c determinations has been shown to improve patient management in specialty diabetes clinics (21,22) and to improve A1c values in some patient populations (22,23). However, although >90% of office visits of patients with diabetes are to primary care providers (24), there has been little experience with the use of rapid A1c measurements in primary care settings. We conducted a prospective controlled trial in a neighborhood health center to determine whether the availability of A1c values at the time of a patient’s visit would increase the frequency of intensification of diabetes therapy by providers and improve A1c values at follow-up.
The study was conducted at the Dekalb/Grady Health Center in Atlanta, GA, a neighborhood primary care clinic affiliated with the Grady Health System and supported by faculty from the Emory University School of Medicine. The clinic is staffed by three family practitioners, two general internists, and three nurse practitioners. Approximately 750 patients are seen in the clinic each month, and ∼27% have diabetes. Patients with diabetes routinely have capillary glucose determinations (Advantage Accu Data System; Roche, Basel, Switzerland) before seeing their providers.
The study was designed as a controlled trial and approved by the Emory University Institutional Review Board. Before the start of the study, the providers were given a brief review of the evidence justifying good diabetes control, as well as strategies for patient management in routine use at the Grady Diabetes Clinic. This included both glucose and A1c goals as well as use of different hypoglycemic agents in implementing a stepped care program tailored to meet the needs of different patients (18,25). Specifically, providers were encouraged to advance pharmacological therapy for patients with A1c ≥7.0% to achieve the ADA goal of A1c <7.0% (26).
From 1 February 1999 through 31 October 1999, patients with type 2 diabetes of at least 6 months’ duration were enrolled in the study. The 6-month criterion was used to allow the patients and providers the opportunity to improve glycemic control through diet and exercise alone. During each visit, patients with diabetes had an A1c level measured with a DCA 2000 instrument (Bayer, West Haven, CT) (normal range 3.4–6.2%; intra-assay coefficient of variability 0.6–2.4%, interassay coefficient of variability 4.3%). The DCA 2000 is a NGSP (National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program)-certified instrument. For convenience, patients whose baseline visits fell on an even numbered day of the month were assigned to the “rapid” group, and their A1c values were revealed to the provider at the time of the visit. Patients whose baseline visits fell on an odd numbered day of the month were assigned to the “routine” group, and their A1c values were made available to the provider after the patient had left the clinic (similar to routine practice). Therefore, the providers acted as their own control, seeing patients in both groups. A similar alternate day or block randomization scheme has been used in other studies (21,27).
Study visits included a baseline and two follow-up visits 2–4 months apart. However, not all patients had two follow-up visits; of 597 patients who had a baseline visit, 440 patients had only one follow-up visit and 275 patients had two follow-up visits. Such loss to follow-up has been observed in our clinic before (13) and is also common in other settings (28). Follow-up visits were scheduled on the same even/odd day assignment as the baseline visit to prevent contamination between the arms of the study. Providers used a data collection sheet to record whether patients brought blood glucose-monitoring records home, patient diabetes medications, and any changes that were made during each visit. All data were entered into a computerized database after each visit.
Intensification of diabetes therapy was defined as an increase in the dosage of hypoglycemic agents that the patient was taking at the time of the baseline visit or the addition of a new agent. Frequency of intensification was expressed as the percent of poorly controlled patients who had therapy intensified, relative to the number of patients who needed intensification. Based on the ADA goal of A1c <7.0% (26), intensification of diabetes therapy was considered necessary if the A1c level was ≥7.0%. The amount of intensification was determined as milligrams of oral agents or units of insulin. Hypoglycemic agents available through the Grady Health System formulary at the time of the study included sulfonylureas (extended-release glipizide and glyburide), metformin, and insulin, and intensification of therapy involved these agents exclusively.
We examined the effect of rapid A1c availability on both frequency of intensification and amount of intensification in all 597 baseline patient visits to determine whether availability of the current A1c value would change provider behavior. The frequency of intensification of therapy was evaluated in patient groups with different levels of A1c. We also determined the frequency of intensification of therapy in relation to random (nonfasting) capillary glucose at the baseline visit because we have previously found that providers tend to intensify therapy in response to elevated random glucose levels (16,29). In addition, we examined the effect of rapid A1c availability on A1c levels in the subsets of patients who returned for follow-up.
Averages are expressed ±SE. χ2 test and/or two-tailed unpaired t test were used to determine differences in baseline characteristics, frequency of treatment intensification between groups, and the amount of dosage adjustment between groups. Paired t tests were used to evaluate changes in A1c values. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to examine factors contributing to the decision of whether therapy should be intensified. A P value <0.05 was considered significant. StatView version 5.0 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) was used for the analyses.
A total of 597 patients were enrolled in the study (routine, n = 280; rapid, n = 317). Their average age was 61 years, BMI 33 kg/m2 (data available for n = 431), diabetes duration 10.0 years, and A1c 8.5%. The majority of patients were African American (96%, data available for n = 498) and female (79%). At the baseline visit, 22% of patients were being managed with diet alone (average A1c 7.6%), 54% were using oral agents alone (A1c 8.6%), 10% were using insulin in combination with oral agents (A1c 9.0%), and 14% were using insulin alone (A1c 8.6%); 24% of the patients brought in home glucose-monitoring data. Among patients in the routine group, 28% had a A1c <7.0%, as compared with 32% in the rapid A1c group (P = 0.25). Demographics did not differ between the routine and rapid A1c groups in the full set of 597 patients with a baseline visit, the 440 patients with one follow-up visit, or the 275 patients with two follow-up visits (Table 1). We also compared the characteristics of patients with at least one follow-up visit with those with no follow-up visits. There was no difference in diabetes duration, BMI, sex, or race between the two groups, but there were minimal differences between patients with and without follow-up in age (61.7 vs. 58.8 years, respectively, P = 0.01), random blood glucose (208 vs. 188 mg/dl, P = 0.04), and A1c (8.3 vs. 8.9%, P = 0.009).
Intensification at the baseline visit
Approximately two-thirds of patients in the rapid and routine groups had A1c ≥7.0% at the baseline visit and were considered eligible for intensification of therapy. Among these patients, providers intensified diabetes therapy in 51% of the rapid patients vs. 32% of the routine patients (P = 0.0003). Patients managed with oral agents alone were intensified more frequently if they were in the rapid A1c group (48 vs. 29%, P = 0.003), and a similar but nonsignificant trend was noted for the patients managed with other approaches (Fig. 1).
There was little tendency of providers to intensify therapy if the A1c level was <8.0%, when therapy was intensified in 12% of patient visits on average (Fig. 2). The increased frequency of intensification conferred by availability of A1c levels became apparent and significant when A1c was 8.0–8.9% (rapid group 51% vs. routine group 23%, P = 0.007) and remained so at A1c levels ≥9.0% (rapid group 65% vs. routine group 46%, P = 0.006).
Since the majority of patients (80%) were not fasting at presentation, we also analyzed the intensification in relation to random capillary glucose levels (n = 258 and n = 221 for the rapid and routine groups, respectively). When random capillary glucose levels were >300 mg/dl, intensification of therapy occurred in ∼60% of patient visits in both groups, but intensification was less frequent when glucose levels were lower (Fig. 3). The tendency of A1c availability to increase intensification was significant for patients with random capillary glucose 151–200 mg/dl (rapid group 54% vs. routine group 10%, P = 0.001), or glucose 201–250 mg/dl (rapid group 67% vs. routine group 37%, P = 0.04).
Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine factors contributing to the decision to intensify diabetes therapy in those patients with elevated A1c levels. After correction for age, race, sex, duration of diabetes, BMI, and glucose levels, both higher baseline A1c (P < 0.001) and the availability of rapid A1c levels (P = 0.026) increased the likelihood of intensification of therapy by providers. Age, race, sex, duration of diabetes, BMI, and capillary glucose levels did not influence the decision to intensify after adjustment for A1c levels (Table 2). Since the majority of our patients were African American, we reran the logistic regression excluding race as a factor; however, it did not affect the significance of baseline A1c (odds ratio 1.36, CI 1.15–1.61) and A1c availability (2.03, 1.10–3.74) in determining intensification of therapy. Availability of home blood glucose records did not influence intensification of therapy; however, only 24% of patients brought in records, and the completeness and time frame of these records were not documented (data not shown).
Amount of intensification
There were no significant differences between the rapid and routine groups in the amount of change in dosage of sulfonylurea, metformin, or insulin. For example, in patients treated with insulin alone and having an A1c ≥7.0%, average A1c was 9.5% and average insulin dosage was 51 units/day (0.59 units · kg−1 · day−1); only 32% of patients had any increase in insulin dosage, averaging 8.5 units or 0.11 units/kg (11.1 units in the rapid group vs. 4.6 units in the routine group, P = 0.19).
Changes in A1c
A1c levels did not change significantly in either group at the first follow-up visit (average time between visits 108 ± 3 days). The average A1c level decreased from 8.5 ± 0.1 to 8.3 ± 0.1% in the rapid group (P = 0.13) and from 8.2 ± 0.1 to 8.1 ± 0.1% (P = 0.56) in the routine group. However, there were major differences in A1c responses between patients in whom therapy was advanced and those in whom it was not. If baseline A1c was ≥7.0% and therapy was not intensified, A1c did not change from the baseline visit to the first follow-up visit (8.7 ± 0.1 vs. 8.7 ± 0.1%, routine and rapid groups combined, n = 178). For patients whose therapy was intensified, A1c fell from 9.7 ± 0.3 to 9.1 ± 0.3% in the routine group (P = 0.02) and from 10.1 ± 0.2 to 9.1 ± 0.2% in the rapid group (P < 0.001), but the changes in A1c did not differ significantly between the routine and rapid groups (Fig. 4).
Since the impact of intensification of therapy would be expected to be cumulative, we also examined changes in A1c in the 134 routine and 141 rapid patients who had two follow-up visits. They had an average interval of 98 days between the baseline and first follow-up visit and 90 days between the first and second follow-up visit, and these values did not differ between groups. Intensification of therapy in poorly controlled patients occurred in 55% of the rapid and 29% of the routine patients at the baseline visit (P < 0.001), as well as in 43% of the rapid and 32% of the routine patients at the first follow-up visit (P = 0.11). The A1c level decreased in the rapid group (from 8.4 ± 0.2 to 8.1 ± 0.1% P = 0.04) but did not change significantly in the routine group (8.1 ± 0.2 to 8.0 ± 0.1%, P = 0.31). However, despite these improvements, 73% of patients in the routine and 70% of patients in the rapid group remained inadequately controlled with A1c levels ≥7.0%.
There are three major findings of our study. First, in patients with A1c ≥7.0%, glycemic control did not improve if therapy was not intensified, whereas A1c levels improved significantly if therapy was intensified. Second, availability of rapid A1c determinations led to more frequent intensification of therapy in inadequately controlled patients. Finally, availability of rapid A1c determinations was also associated with modest but significant decreases in A1c levels in patients who returned for two follow-up visits.
Interestingly, we found that availability of rapid A1c determinations enhanced intensification of therapy if patients had modest elevation in capillary glucose levels (random glucose 151–250 mg/dl) or substantial elevations in A1c (>8.0%). Our findings suggest that providers are more likely to advance pharmacological therapy in patients exhibiting mild hyperglycemia if a rapid A1c level is available. Our results also show that knowing that an A1c level is high makes it more likely that therapy will be advanced, although there was no difference in intensification of therapy between the two groups for patients having a A1c in the 7.0–7.9% range. Therefore, availability of rapid A1c is likely to change provider behavior significantly in patients with moderate-to-severe hyperglycemia (A1c >8.0%), but may not change their decision-making for patients with mild-to-moderate hyperglycemia. It could be argued that such behavior is consistent with ADA guidelines, which suggest action only when A1c levels exceed 8.0%. However, we believe that therapy should be intensified for A1c ≥7.0% because the ADA goal is a A1c level <7.0% (26) and because micro- and macrovascular damage is already occurring when A1c is at 7.0% (30).
It seems likely that the limited impact of rapid A1c availability on glycemic control reflects the low frequency of intensification of therapy and possibly the use of increments of medications that were too low. For patients treated with insulin alone and having an A1c ≥7.0%, the average dose of insulin was 51 units/day (0.59 units · kg−1 · day−1) but only 32% had any increase in insulin dosage. Moreover, when the insulin dose was increased, the increment averaged 8.5 units (0.11 units/kg) and the average A1c only decreased from 9.9% at baseline to 9.7% at the first follow-up visit (P = 0.71). Previous studies have suggested that higher dosages of insulin are needed in order for insulin therapy to be effective in patients with type 2 diabetes. In a study using intensive insulin therapy for type 2 diabetes, Henry et al. (31) found that the average daily insulin dose required to achieve glycemic control was 100 units at 6 months of follow-up; patients in that study had an average BMI of 31.4 kg/m2. Although the study by Henry et al. indicates that typical insulin needs for good control may be on the order of 1 unit · kg−1 · day−1, the dose of insulin used in the present study was <60% of this amount. These findings suggest that our study patients would have benefited from an increase in both the frequency and amount of intensification of pharmacologic therapy.
The added benefit of rapid A1c measurements may be modest in settings where intensification of therapy is already aggressive. A previous study of the utility of rapid A1c determinations failed to show an impact of rapid A1c on intensification in the Grady Diabetes Clinic (21), largely because providers had already been targeted by quality improvement efforts aimed at overcoming “clinical inertia” (19) and intensifying therapy in patients with elevated glucose levels (16,17,18). In another study, Cagliero et al. (23) found in their diabetes specialty clinic that rapid A1c availability led to decreased A1c values at follow-up, but the difference in change in A1c between groups was not statistically significant. In a preliminary study, Marrero et al. (22) reported that rapid A1c availability in a primary care setting improved glycemic control over a 6-month period in insulin-treated patients and improved decision-making for non-insulin-requiring patients with A1c >9.0%. Consistent with their report, we also found a greater impact in patients with higher A1c levels.
One limitation of this study is that the majority of patients are African Americans; however, we feel that it should not affect generalizability to other ethnic groups. Another limitation was length of follow-up, which may have affected both provider behavior and effect on glycemic control. Although lack of resources precluded a longer study, a longer time interval would have given providers more of an opportunity to see the outcomes of their decisions. If the providers recognized that lack of intensification was associated with continued high A1c levels, and that use of small therapeutic increments was followed by only limited improvements in glycemia, they might have been prompted to intensify therapy both more frequently and aggressively. Moreover, it seems likely that the impact of A1c availability on glycemic control would be cumulative; modest decrements in A1c at each visit would be more significant after 12 months of care, similar to the benefit of increased frequency of intensification of therapy in the Grady Diabetes Clinic (18). In addition, we were unable to collect data on the impact of the intervention on the frequency of hypoglycemia. While findings from specialty clinics indicate that severe hypoglycemia should be rare in patients with type 2 diabetes (23,32), and utilization of rapid A1c determinations should reduce hypoglycemia by limiting intensification of therapy in patients with A1c <7.0%, the UKPDS (U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study) experience (4) indicates that improvement in glycemic control will probably be associated with some increase in symptomatic hypoglycemia.
The present study shows that rapid A1c availability can improve the frequency of intensification when glucose levels are elevated. However, the reduction in A1c may be modest unless technological innovation is accompanied by measures to help ensure that primary care providers will take full advantage of the added information. Thus, attainment of better diabetes control nationwide is likely to demand the complementation of technological and pharmacotherapeutic advances with strategies that enhance providers’ clinical decision-making.
Intensification of therapy at baseline visit in patients with A1c ≥7.0%.
Intensification of therapy at baseline visit according to A1c level. ○, routine A1c; •, rapid A1c. *P = 0.032; †P = 0.002.
Intensification of therapy at baseline visit according to random capillary blood glucose level. ○, routine A1c; •, rapid A1c. *P < 0.001; †P = 0.012.
Baseline and first follow-up A1c levels in patients with A1c ≥7.0% according to whether pharmacological therapy was or was not intensified.
Baseline patient characteristics
Logistic regression: factors predicting intensification of therapy
This work was supported in part by awards from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD; the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; and the Emory Medical Care Foundation (HS-09722 and DK-48124 to L.S.P., I.M.E.-K., C.B.C., D.C.Z., and D.L.G.; DK-07298 to C.D.M.; and EMCF-98005 to I.M.E.-K.).
The DCA 2000 instrument was provided on loan by Bayer (West Haven, CT) for the duration of the study. This work was presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the ADA, San Antonio, TX, 9–13 June 2000.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Imad M. El-Kebbi, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Diabetes Unit, 69 Jesse Hill Jr. Dr., SE, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail: ielkebb{at}emory.edu.
Received for publication 13 August 2002 and accepted in revised form 10 January 2003.
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Question: Have you used most the stuff u did in science now
Asked by poppyyyy to Tadhg, Susanna, Sophie, Rochelle, Priyanka, Pete, Nikolai, Miriam, Matt, Laura, Joe, Holly, Helena, Daniel, Beth, Ali, Alex on 21 Mar 2019.
Joe Bathelt answered on 21 Mar 2019:
Yes, most of the things I learned in school were pretty useful. I now wish I had paid a bit more attention, especially in maths. I had to relearn a lot of it because I missed the opportunity in school. I think the most useful aspect are the skills that I learned, like how to find information, critically think about it, and present ideas well in written form.
Miriam Hogg answered on 26 Mar 2019:
Yes I think so.
The things I learned in school, GCSE and A-Levels gave me a basic introduction to science, everything I learned in university and after that was based on the science I learned in school. I do physics specifically but the biology and chemistry I learned at school are very helpful in some of my work.
As a physics student, maths is especially important to my work and I was terrible at it in school. However I loved physics enough to do the maths even though I hated it. 😛
We live in an increasingly science and technology driven world so even if you aren’t interested in it as a career I think people should understand the basic working of these things.
Nikolai Adamski answered on 26 Mar 2019:
Yes, probably most of the topics covered in science classes at school will have come back, either at university or later during my work life.
Mathematics especially is very important in all scientific disciplines. That is because as scientists we measure things, whether that is the distance between stars, the weight of a new aeroplane engine or the size of a grain. Scientists use mathematics as a language to describe these measurements, put them into relation with one another and also describe them to other scientists. This is part of what is called the “scientific method”, which is a way to explore the world around us in a rigourous and reproducible manner.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t paying much attention at school during math, so had to catch up later 🙁
So if you want to go into science (regardless which discipline), I recommend that you try and pay as much attention in math classes as possible (and take good notes).
Nathan commented on 8 Apr 2019 :
It’s not always about using the exact ‘stuff’ you learn in school – some things you learn to improve your ability to reason and think critically. Those generalised skills are what is important.
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Zoo season 3, episode 7 review: Why did it have to be snakes?
After seeing the preview released by CBS for this week’s episode of Zoo we have been dancing with excitement at the fact that Mitch’s father Max is going to be stopping by. He was a major insight into Mitch’s youth as he revealed that Allison was once Mitch’s girlfriend and that Max not only stole […]
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Tonight, Zoo season 3 episode 6 arrived with much of what the previews promised: An episode that was stuffed full of interesting backstory about Abigail Westbrook. She’s been the woman at the center of the hybrid creation, and tonight, we saw some of what drove her to be so aggressive and convinced that her way of running […]
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Last week on Zoo season 3, we saw all hell break loose. Dariela sound out Clementine, Leanne was killed, and Jamie was arrested for that murder. How do you top that? Well, we’re pretty sure that happened within the first few minutes of the hour… Tonight, we a couple of moments that could qualify as the most […]
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The darkness has subsided: The journey to justice for Jordan McNair
Posted on November 2, 2018 by John Stavros
COLLEGE PARK, MD — What a mess. The University of Maryland has fired head football coach DJ Durkin just a mere 24 hours after his reinstatement, the school announced Wednesday evening.
From the start, this whole process has been a mismanaged debacle. Tuesday, Coach Durkin was reinstated by the university’s board of regents. The board also informed Athletic Director, Damon Evans that he would retain his title. University President Wallace D. Loh announced that he would be retiring in June of 2019.
Here’s a look at the events that led to Durkin’s demise.
May 29th- 19-year-old Maryland offensive Jordan McNair collapsed during a conditioning workout. McNair was said to be showing signs of extreme exhaustion during 110-yard sprints. At a local hospital, McNair’s body was found to have a temperature of 106-degrees. McNair died 15 days later on June 13th.
June 14th- Maryland held a press conference with Damon Evans and Durkin. Evans detailed a timeline of events that led to McNair’s consequent collapse and eventual hospitalization. Evans announced that an external investigation would take place. Maryland hired Rod Walters, a Sports Medicine Consultant, to lead an external investigation in the death of McNair.
August 10th- ESPN releases an article reporting a toxic coaching culture under Coach Durkin and strength and conditioning coach Rick Court. The articles report an environment rooted with bullying and humiliation.
“Multiple sources close to the program describe past behavior of intimidation, humiliation and verbal abuse that created a culture of fear for the players. The sources also reveal allegations of unhealthy eating habits and using food punitively against the players.”
Maryland quickly announced that four staff members would be placed on administrative leave. Durkin, Court, head football athletic trainer Wes Robinson and director of athletic training Steve Nordwall, were all placed on administrative leave. Offensive coordinator Matt Canada served as interim head coach in Durkin’s absence.
University President Wallace D. Loh released a twitter statement on August 11th.
I am profoundly disturbed by media reports of intimidating conduct by Maryland football coaches and staff. Today, AD Damon Evans has placed Head Football Coach DJ Durkin on administrative leave while a comprehensive examination is conducted https://t.co/W5LoMoQp4f
— Wallace D. Loh (@presidentloh) August 11, 2018
August 14th- President Loh and Evans held a press conference to announce initial report findings from the McNair investigation. Evans announced that the three staffers – Robinson, Nordwall , and Durkin – would remain on administrative leave. He also shared that Court resigned. President Loh stated the following:
“The university accepts legal and moral responsibility for the mistakes that our training staff made.”
“Some of our policies and protocols do not conform to best practices. Some of the actions of our athletic training staff, not the coaching staff, [but] our athletic training staff – they basically misdiagnosed the situation. No vital signs were taken; other safeguard actions that should have been taken were not. For me, that was enough to say I need to come and personally apologize.”
“We will do everything possible that the situation that Jordan McNair found himself in will never happen again,”
Aug. 17th- The Board of Regents takes over both the investigation into the workout in which McNair collapsed as well as the investigation into the football team’s “toxic” culture.
Sept. 21st- The board releases the Walters Report findings that led to McNair’s death. The report found that Maryland’s athletic trainers were too late in recognizing McNair’s symptoms. The trainers did not properly treat him for heatstroke, including not implementing cold water immersion. The report also found that the field is typically equipped with cold water immersion tanks, but they were missing on May 29 because the practice switched location from the stadium to the practice field.
“Although change of venue is not uncommon in outdoor sports, it is essential that sufficient time must be allowed to ensure minimal medical equipment is set up by the athletic training staff prior to practice initiating.”
Rod Walters also provided a timeline of events from the workout on May 29th, proving that more than 90 minutes elapsed from the time Jordan collapsed to the time he was transported to an area hospital.
Oct. 23rd – Oct. 25th: The Board of Regents held meetings to discuss the findings in the report on the Maryland football culture under Durkin. The report found that there was “no toxic culture” at Maryland, and that the culture of the program did not contribute to the death of Jordan McNair. The investigation did find disturbing things about the program under Durkin’s management. The finding included instances of bullying and humiliation by Court, in addition to reports of a dysfunctional athletic department.
Oct. 26th- The Board of Regents holds another meeting in Baltimore where it hears from Loh, Evans, and CoachDurkin.
Oct. 30th- The Board of Regents announces the recommendation to reinstate Durkin and for Evans to retain his title as Maryland’s athletics director. President Loh announced that he will retire as president in June 2019. USM board chair James Brady stated:
“We believe that Coach Durkin has been unfairly blamed for the dysfunction in the athletic department,”
“While he bears some responsibility, it is not fair to place all of it at his feet.”
We will implement all recommendations made by the commission & the Board of Regents. Together AD Damon Evans & I will spearhead these reforms to ensure the safety & well-being of all student-athletes https://t.co/iWjd76iVfd
— Wallace D. Loh (@presidentloh) October 30, 2018
Durkin would return to the team that afternoon. Reports claim that players, including starters, walked out of the meeting. Many players expressed displeasure on social media.
Every Saturday my teammates and I have to kneel before the memorial of our fallen teammate. Yet a group of people do not have the courage to hold anyone accountable for his death. If only they could have the courage that Jordan had. It’s never the wrong time to do what’s right. pic.twitter.com/AaZVmLGTtS
— Ellis McKennie (@emck_cubed97) October 30, 2018
Bruh you know I’m right here with you. Accountability is something people apparently struggle too much with and yet it doesn’t hurt them, but it comes right to us and led to the position we’re in today https://t.co/HoYkAWljJ5
— Tre Watson (@MDQue_33) October 31, 2018
Oct. 31st- Amidst mounting pressure and backlash, President Loh makes the executive decision to fire Durkin. Loh gave the order to Damon Evans who informed Durkin late Wednesday. Durkin was reportedly shocked by the decision, and leaves without addressing the team.
This seemingly never-ending disaster has put a real question mark on the University of Maryland’s credibility. From start to finish, the situation has been mismanaged from the medical treatment of Jordan McNair during that May 29th workout to the tone deaf decisions of the Maryland Board of Regents. Thus leading me to question the character of Durkin. The ultimate responsibility of the student athletes’ welfare on this football team falls at his feet. A failure by any staff member, medical or football personnel, is a failure of Durkin’s.
There are absolutely zero excuses as to why trained medical staff couldn’t properly diagnose a heat stroke. Per the Walters report, McNair showed all of the clinical signs of a heat stroke. They failed. The staff was either unprepared, uneducated, or ignorant as to the the severity of the situation. Either way, Durkin is responsible and a life has been lost.
At the start of this nightmare, I thought to myself there is absolutely no way Durkin can come back from this. What parent in their right mind would trust their child’s well being in the care of a program that has already shown to be incompetent? As the report came out, it justified my feelings toward the situation.
Along with most of the country, I was shocked. While shock loomed over us all, I guarantee nobody was more shocked than Jordan’s parents, two people who just lost their son due to negligence, and those responsible were given a free pass. Marty McNair shared his displeasure,
“I feel like I’ve been punched in the stomach, and somebody spit in my face.”
Reports of fights in the locker room over the Durkin decision reemphasized the report findings that this program is full of dysfunction and it doesn’t start at the football team. It’s now clear to the world that the dysfunction starts at the University’s administration.
The University of Maryland’s leadership was unprepared for the type of backlash that they would receive following the decision to reinstate Durkin. The only person who was proven to have morals, as well as the intestinal fortitude to make the ultimate decision to fire Durkin was President Loh. Through reports, Loh was said to act alone and was solely responsible for firing Durkin.
While darkness has loomed over the University of Maryland during this unfortunate series of events, remembering and honoring Jordan McNair is the light that will lead players and the remaining coaching staff through this time. Long Live Number 79.
Image Credit: USA TODAY
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Hi Hunster,
I found the bug, it should be working now. Akoopal (talk) 23:17, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Akoopal, you are my favourite person in the world right now. Thank you so much for getting this working again. — Huntster (t @ c) 02:03, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
Experimental aircraft of the United States
Hi, I am checking all the Category:United States tri-service aircraft designations navigational boxes and I have created categories at moment not present. In this particular case I didn’t see “X-planes” category. Chesipiero (talk) 11:20, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Sun_white.jpg
See my reply at User_talk:Ulflund#File:Sun_white.jpg. Ulflund (talk) 03:42, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
File:Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM - Mangalyaan) ISRO spacecraft-with-Labels.png
Ce fichier, dérivé d'un autre fichier (ajout de labels), a été supprimé alors que la décision de suppression du fichier original n'a pas encore été prise. Une fois de plus, Hunster, vous vous dispensez de respecter les procédures internes les plus basiques et vous montrez que vous n'avez aucun égard pour le travail des contributeurs. --Pline (talk) 06:22, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
I don't read French as I think you know, and Google translate is missing some context, but it seems obvious that you are not understanding the copyright situation. The ISRO images are copyrighted, and derivative works of copyrighted images are still copyrighted. That the original was deleted is irrelevant, as the admin who closes a DRs can view the deleted information. I'm not displaying a lack of respect for contributors, but respect for copyright. — Huntster (t @ c) 17:06, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
File:Geistnebel VdB 141.jpg
You deleted the file. What was the problem? As I stated, I took it from here. NOAO's conditions of use: "These electronically available materials are considered intellectual property and are intended for use for educational, academic, and research purposes", "NOAO allows reproduction, authorship of derivative works, and other transformations of the original work strictly for personal, non-profit/non-commercial/non-retail use without further permission". The very picture is underlined "Minimum credit line: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF"" (see here) - which I exactly implemented in the article Ghost Nebula. (The stupid deletion request there is another problem, but of no interest at this point.)
Question 1): What to do? Choose another CC than BY-SA?
Question 2): Could it be you got a hint to delete, by some user, maybe StringTheory? (I got reasons to ask.)
Greetings, --Consecutor (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Consecutor, NOAO files are copyrighted All Rights Reserved. They allow usage under certain terms, but that is not the same as being freely licensed. 1) NOAO does not license under Creative Commons. You cannot upload NOAO works to Commons, period...beyond the All Rights Reserved issue, they do not allow free Commercial reuse, which is a prerequisite for use on Commons. 2) I was not asked to mark for deletion, I performed a search for NOAO files and tagged them. Please let me know if you have any other questions. — Huntster (t @ c) 22:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
OK. Replaced by a picture definitly declared as "licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" ([1]). Greetings, --Consecutor (talk) 18:09, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Consecutor: Very good, nice find! I really enjoy Adam Block's astrophotography. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:29, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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File:Antares Orb-3 launch failure (201410280011HQ).jpg
I am concerned about this image's copyright status. At NASA JSC Web Site Policy Notices, it says "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the copyright owner prior to use." At the Flickr source for this image, it notes the image is CC BY-NC 2.0. This makes it not eligible for use in commercial uses, and thus not compatible with Commons licensing. Thoughts? --Hammersoft (talk) 14:22, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hammersoft: This is a long-known issue on Flickr that NASA seems to be either unable or unwilling to fix. These images are public domain, as they were taken by a NASA employee or contract photographer during the course of their duties for NASA. This is the same as for any government entity, such as the White House or the various branches of the military. Per U.S. law, such works may not be copyrighted. The JSC notice is primarily applicable when NASA posts images from private companies and foreign governments, such as when they post images taken by United Launch Alliance or Roscosmos.
Regarding a similar issue, NASA's prime contract photog Bill Ingalls stated (and I wish I could find the conversation) that while he does operate a private photography business, any photographs taken for NASA under his contract were absolutely copyright free. NASA public relations has said the same thing. I'll try reaching out to HQ and other accounts again and see why the licensing at Flickr can't be fixed to the U.S. Gov license, but there should be no issue for us on Commons. — Huntster (t @ c) 22:10, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Huntster! Please delete my picture. [2]. Thank you --Vincent Eisfeld (talk) 08:34, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Done — Huntster (t @ c) 08:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Huntster, I don't know if you already noticed, but related changes is repaired again. Akoopal (talk) 20:40, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Akoopal, indeed! Thanks for your help in keeping this functioning. — Huntster (t @ c) 20:54, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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All the best and a good start. Sorry that I missed your rfa. --Túrelio (talk) 14:00, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Congrats and
Support. Sorry that I missed your RFA. --Steinsplitter (talk) 15:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
YAY!! Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:51, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your support, all. I'll do my best, and am always open to advice. — Huntster (t @ c) 18:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Congrats! If you need anything or have any questions, you know where to find me. INeverCry 19:40, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, and wilco! — Huntster (t @ c) 22:59, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Congratulations, Huntster! I've missed your RfA since I was quite busy lately, but wanted to let you know that I would've supported it too. Trijnsteltalk 13:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Trijnstel :) — Huntster (t @ c) 15:25, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Thanks a lot for your new corrected version. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:17, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I enjoy photomanip challenges like this, makes me less terrible at such things. — Huntster (t @ c) 19:16, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
Looks like you're working on (at least somewhat) the same thing I am. Nice. :) Revent (talk) 15:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Revent, indeed! I'm always on the lookout for low res images to upgrade :) — Huntster (t @ c) 15:51, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
I'm actually trying to systematically go through the archive and do it for all that we have, though I'll probably take a break from it after the Mercury program stuff. If looks like most of them came from the JSC archive, which is all 640x480 images, and a lot have borders or are very yellowed. There are also a pretty good number we don't have at all, though some might just not have the number listed... I'll have to compare it to what's actually in the categories. Revent (talk) 16:00, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
It is rather discouraging that there are so many image databases on the NASA.gov domain alone, and now Kennedy, HQ, and at least one other center are switching to Flickr, but not transitioning their existing archives, nor are they using public domain license tags, which prevents the use of automated tools to transfer material to Commons. It's a horrible mess, especially when different divisions publish the same image at vastly different resolutions on different parts of the NASA.gov site. Good luck in your endeavours, and let me know where I can assist if needed. — Huntster (t @ c) 18:03, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Self-review
Hi Huntster, possibly I'm wrong, but you can't do this. According to the review guidelines image-reviewers may not review their own uploads. May I assume that administrators are not applied the same policies than non-admin reviewers? Best regards and sorry for the inconvenience --Discasto talk | contr. | es.wiki analysis 18:04, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Discasto, that's news to me, but of course rules get changed all the time without those affected being aware of it. Thanks for the heads up. The reason I did that is because something apparently has broken and those images were not auto-reviewed by the Upload Wizard as is normally done for Flickr uploads. Anyway, now I know. — Huntster (t @ c) 18:44, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
File:Otto Reckstat.jpg
Hello Huntster! Please delete my picture. Thank you! --Vincent Eisfeld (talk) 10:57, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Vincent Eisfeld, done. In the future, however, I would suggest you follow the procedure at Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion rather than asking on a random person's talk page. — Huntster (t @ c) 16:49, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
MY updated images from NASA
Hi. I uploaded new versions of images from NASA, check these images I got.
NSSDC (larger image)
NASA Human Spaceflight
NSSDC (more brighter)
NASA Human Spaceflight (flipped, cropped, rotated)
Planetary Photojournal
Planetary Photojournal (larger image)
HubbleSite (higher resolution with cropped version)
HubbleSite (higher resolution)
I uploaded the large images from NASA. Thanks. :) --Jcpag2012 (talk) 10:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Deletion requests for the stars (artist's impression not from SDO images at NASA)
I will vote these star images that not from NASA photos.
File:Rigelis.jpg
File:Arcturus orange giant.png
File:Image of Sol.png
File:Rigel and sun.jpg
Bad general SDO image of the Sun from NASA, not an artist impression. --Jcpag2012 (talk) 09:54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Jcpag2012, why are you notifying me of this? Also, please remember to sign your posts. — Huntster (t @ c) 07:34, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Because they are not artist's impressions of it, I vote four pictures uploaded by Es08, who is uploading the Suns. Bad images from SDO, thanks for sure. :) --Jcpag2012 (talk) 09:58, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Huntster! What the felps are you doing again? --PjotrMahh1 (talk) 14:22, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
PjotrMahh1, Allure of the Seas was launched 20 November 2009, *not* in 2010. Yes, it had its maiden voyage and certifications, but that isn't how the category names are designed. Please do not move it back to 2010 without consensus. — Huntster (t @ c) 14:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Are you sure? Can you check Category:Ships by name? I can help you if you want.--PjotrMahh1 (talk) 14:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
B. How to name the category
1.In general, name the category with the ship's name as painted on the vessel (when the picture was taken). Sample: This photo shows "Isla de Botafoc" in 2008. The category is named "Isla de Botafoc (ship, 1980)". This even if the ship had other names before and afterwards. 2.The general format for category titles is "<name of ship> (ship, <year>)". <year> is the year the ship was completed, see Category:Ships by year built for further information. Samples: "Golden Hind (ship, 1973)" or "Pacific Dawn (ship, 1991)". --PjotrMahh1 (talk) 14:35, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
PjotrMahh1: Yes, and Allure was launched in 2009, when her hull was completed. See Royal Caribbean's own press release about the launch, which in this case was her transfer out of the construction drydock. See also an article by Marine Reporter which mentions the launch date. Look, if you want to challenge this, that's fine. Perhaps the other folks working in ships will agree with you. But keep the category at its old name until such a time as there is agreement on this matter, okay? — Huntster (t @ c) 14:39, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Well, I make categories for ships everyday using [[:|Category:Ships by name]] under How to create a category for a ship, and Oasis of the Seas was launched on November 21, 2008. May I move the Category:Oasis of the Seas (ship, 2009) to Category:Oasis of the Seas (ship, 2008)? What do you think about it?--PjotrMahh1 (talk) 14:48, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
PjotrMahh1: Interesting conundrum! I hadn't noticed that. Yes, I would suggest it should be under "2008", but again it might be better to leave both at their old category names until others have weighed in. — Huntster (t @ c) 14:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
The article in Wikipedia Allure of the Seas was written by me in much languages and I know that she was launched 2009, but we must write the year the ship was completed, then so are the rules,--PjotrMahh1 (talk) 15:00, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
, this is ‘my upload’ today, Vision of the Seas was launched 1997, but I write Category:Vision of the Seas (ship, 1998), is it correct? --PjotrMahh1 (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
PjotrMahh1, I'm not going to dispute the 2010 in the name. Looking at a variety of other categories, I see this seems to have become the standard, though it didn't used to be that way. Guess I'm just behind the times. I've gone ahead and moved the "Aboard" category to 2010 as well. And yes, your image looks fine to me. — Huntster (t @ c) 16:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much, Huntster, regards,--PjotrMahh1 (talk) 16:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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Android: Netrunner Organized Play
Android: Netrunner The Card Game
Computer aids for running Swiss tournaments?
By prune, September 15, 2012 in Android: Netrunner Organized Play
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Just wondering what people's experience has been with using software or Excel templates to manage a Swiss tournament (which is the offical format for Android Netrunner tournaments).
Is it just as easy to do it by hand? I haven't done one in ages, but managed ok with a notepad and index cards back in the day.
Also, are there tools that allow you to enter the points each round, or are some of them so MtG or Chess centered that they only allow the scoring from those games? What I mean is that MtG gives 3 points to the winner, or 1 to each in the case of a draw; chess gives 1 point to the winner, or 1/2 to each for a draw. Meanwhile the Netrunner pairings and final rankings are based on the Prestige points, which vary from 0 to 6.
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As the size of most A:NR tournaments should be small enough to not have to take into account a cut, the prestige system makes pairings fail together relatively easily, you'd likely be fine by hand or with a simple spreadsheet. Even if you would need to track cumulative prestige of opponents for determining a top 4/8, keeping track of that would not make for a very complicated sheet. DCI Reporter would not (I think) work because the range of values it allows for each player per match is too small to track prestige. (Someone more versed in that dark art may know better.)
The current tournament rules do not have a rule for dealing with byes, which is very problematic in a system where players are paired based on a fairly dynamic points system; I wonder if the current expectation is to have the main TO play or drop out based on the number of players? (This is what I would do if organizing in absence of Word of FFG.)
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SC20. More Practice with Stereochemistry
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Contributed by Chris Schaller
Professor (Chemistry) at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Optical rotation
Problem SC20.61.
The polarimetry experiment
Problem SC7.63.
Diastereomers and Physical properties
Problem SC20.101.
The (+) enantiomer of compound A has an optical rotation of 125o. If a pure sample of compound A has an optical rotation of 100o, what is the composition of the sample?
The (+) enantiomer of compound B has an optical rotation of 100o. If a pure sample of compound B has an optical rotation of 95o, what is the composition of the sample?
The (+) enantiomer of compound C has an optical rotation of 18o. If a pure sample of C contains 30% of the (+) enantiomer and 60% of the (-) enantiomer, what is the optical rotation value?
The (+) enantiomer of compound D has an optical rotation of 25o. If a pure sample of D contains 80% of the (+) enantiomer and 20% of the (-) enantiomer, what is the optical rotation value?
A pure sample of the naturally-occurring, chiral compound A (0.050 g) is dissolved in water (2.0 mL) and the solution is placed in a 0.5 dm cell. Three polarimetry readings are recorded with the sample: 0.625o, 0.706o, 0.682o. What is [a]?
A pure sample of the chiral compound B (0.540 g) is dissolved in ether (2.0 mL) and the solution is placed in a 1.0 dm cell. Three polarimetry readings are recorded with the sample: 1.225o, 1.106o, 1.182o. What is [a]?
A pure sample of the (+) enantiomer of compound C shows [a] = 42o. What would be the observed a if a solution of the sample was made by dissolving 0.250 g in 2.0 mL of acetontirile and was then placed in a 0.5 dm cell?
A student has prepared compound D in lab. She is sure the compound contains no impurities; a number of physical analyses have confirmed the structure and purity of the compound. A sample of compound D (0.10 g) is dissolved in methanol (2.0 mL) and the solution is placed in a 1.0 dm cell. Three polarimetry readings are recorded with the sample: 0.995o, 0.904o, 0.936o.
What is [a]?
The optical rotation of D has previously been reported as 25o. What is the optical purity of this sample?
What is the enantiomeric excess of this sample?
What is the composition of this sample?
Why did the previous analyses show that there was only one compound present?
Suppose a student prepared a sample of a compound with known [a] = 40. The student did not realize that her sample contained 10% (by mass) of a non-chiral impurity. After correcting for c and l, what did she measure for [a]?
From the following group of molecules, select:
a pair that are the same compound.
a pair that would have the same physical properties but opposite optical activities.
a pair that have different physical properties but the same connectivity.
a pair that have different connectivity.
a compound that contains chiral centers but has no optical activity.
Chris P Schaller, Ph.D., (College of Saint Benedict / Saint John's University)
SC19. Chiral Catalysts for Production of Enantiomers
SC4. Simple Organic Enantiomers
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Goodbye, Mr. Laurents.
Laurents (left) with long-time partner Tom Hatcher in 1956.
When I turned my phone on after seeing Strawdog’s The Conquest of the South Pole last night, a text popped through. It was a message from my dear friend Jamie, which simply read, “Arthur Laurents died!”
I did a quick search, which wasn’t hard as many of my friends were twittering and facebooking links to his obits. After all, this was the man who wrote the books to two of the best musicals in the history of musical theatre: West Side Story and Gypsy — the latter of which is my absolute most favorite musical ever.
Wow. Death at 93 seems like a life long-lived, but this famously cantankerous guy seemed indestructible. At 89 years old in 2007, he made a major comeback directing Patti LuPone in a landmark production of Gypsy at City Center — a production that eventually led to the 2008 Broadway revival which earned all three of its leading players Tony Awards (LuPone, Laura Benanti as Louise/Gypsy and Boyd Gaines as Herbie).
And that production almost didn’t happen because of a long rift between LuPone and Laurents, which I won’t go into here — most of you already know the tale anyway.
But what some might not know is the main reason Laurents decided to swallow his pride, mend fences and revive Gypsy with LuPone is because his long-time partner, Tom Hatcher, while on his deathbed, essentially requested Laurents do so.
If that’s not love, what is?
He then directed a well-received revival of West Side Story in 2009 (the national tour based on that production is coming to Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre in July).
Cantankerous old man or not, Laurents was a fiercely passionate artist and his death signifies the end of an era. I hope he’s having a wonderful reunion with Tom up in that great white way in the sky.
Thoughts on “Mainly on Directing” by Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents probably doesn’t like you
Gypsy: The end of an era
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May 6|11 at 12:22 pm Reply
Cranky old man, yes. Undeniably. But, a great artist and a hell of an interesting fella. Mr. Laurents, hats off to you. May you keep on creating great theater wherever you wind up. (I mean, look at all the amazing and dearly departed performers you’ve got t o work with!)
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Saul nodded, taking a breath as he steeled himself for the reaction of his men.
Without another word he moved forward, touching the wound in his side for a moment before he motioned for him to follow along behind him. The steps were short, and he took care not to slip on any of the roots that permeated the forest floor. It took them ten minutes, but eventually the fires of the camp came into sight.
"Alright, hang back." He told Kaska quietly, frowning for a moment before he quickly added. "Actually you may want to do so for a little while, at least pretend you ran off with them or something."
He smiled. This wasn't too dissimilar from a prank he and the others used to play on each other at the public bath houses in Alliria. At the very least Leane would appreciate this.
Not that the other Templars would really understand.
She nodded back, more serious now as stress leeched back into the edges of her demeanor. "Good luck," she breathed, dipping into her damp tunic with a shiver.
It was only after he turned and broke the firelight that she realized she didn't know if he'd be coming back. ... And why would he, right?
She gnawed on her lip, her wet hair plastered to her as the first eyes turned and gaped at Saul.
Notably, many stood up in an instant, swords drawn and eyes on the treeline. He was injured.
Leana stepped forward, expression fierce and demanding. "Saul?"
"I sparred with her." Saul's voice was even, matter of fact. "She cut me, I went to wash it off, she stole my clothes."
Leane was standing at the head of everyone, a hand on her sword hilt, her expression carved from stone. The others glanced at one another, staring, then slowly looking towards the woman at their front. For a few seconds Saul thought that she was about to order a death squad, but then slowly a smile cracked on the woman's face.
A second later she was practically on the floor laughing.
The wound on his side was obviously not deadly, in fact it had already been treated, and the fact that Saul didn't seem distressed at all seemed to lighten the situation even more. The others lowered their swords, a flow of laughter breaking through the camp.
"Yeah yeah." Saul said as he offered the group a rude gesture.
Kaska relaxed back into the moss, jamming on the pants and sitting there watching the playful laughter inside the warm firelight.
An ache formed in her chest, her tear ducts pinching the longer she watched. Leane, as the woman was called, seemed to find no end of mirth to Saul's predicament. Jokes and gestures and gentle elbows were Saul's reality as he stood surrounded by his people.
Kaska swallowed hard and forced away the emotions. Without waiting further, she stood and turned to leave for her clearing, not looking back.
Saul shook his head at the others. "Go and find her."
The Commander needed to make this look right at least. He couldn't very well just walk away from this situation acting like he hadn't been slighted in the least.
"Get my clothes." He kicked Leane's boot as he walked by the woman. "That's an order."
Leane snickered, then did a mock salute and stalked off in the direction that Saul had come from.
Meanwhile the Commander headed towards his pack, strutting through the camp with little to no modesty.
As it was, she might of left too early. Because while Saul had told her to hang back, he hadn't specified to hide out. From her own clearing. So that was where she went, throwing down the med kit and kicking at the dying fire in a small wave of anger.
She made a noise of frustration, tugging at her hair before flopping down and falling silent. She set about the meager task of setting back up her med kit, the fire growing dimmer and dimmer until she was forced to coax life back into it for light.
Leane was a soldier, the best of them.
Not the best fighter, no, that title was bestowed to Ana, but Leane was the best soldier. With sword and shield she could best nearly anyone, she followed orders, and had a sharp mind for tactics that rivaled even Saul's. She had no gifts in anti-magic, but had taken down more undead than most other Templar.
Few were as devoted to her save for Edwin. "His clothes."
Her voice was softer than most would expect from such a hard woman, though there was an edge to it that couldn't be denied.
"What did you do with them?" There was no threat to the way she stood or spoke, though an air around her told of the fact that she was more than ready to fight at any moment. Still, there was a smile on her face, and a light of amusement in her eyes.
Kaska gasped, wielding around in shock, Lia's heavy sword in hand. She gaped up at Leane, instantly wondering how such a woman could move so quietly with that gear in hand. She nearly asked, but the woman's words reminded her of the situation. And of how her hair was braided back, clearly exposing her neck.
A hand flickered up without thought, as if to hide it. She wasn't braced for this, much like Saul with his pain. Being braced would have just made it better. As it stood, a blush was tearing through her cheeks, weakening her story.
"I-" She rasped, then cleared out her throat. "I don't have it. Tossed it in the river," she lied. The cards they had played were still there, scattered and spread out, half covered in dirt from their fevered activities ontop of them.
"He's cheats," she reasoned, the hand dropping from her throat and her chin raising in stubborn pride.
For a few seconds Leane remained quietly, not saying anything. It was too dark to see Kaska blush, the light from the fire making her appear red anyway. Lips thinned for a moment, though they quirked at the edge into a tight smile. "He's terrible."
Leane commented dryly.
"He has to cheat." The woman was of course, no fool, none of them were. It did not take a genius to put the situation together. The long absence, the lack of clothes, the slight torn nature of Kaska's own garments. Leane knew, and she understood.
"I suppose he got what he deserved." She clicked her tongue. "Though you'll have him upset for quite a while."
Kaska snorted, shaking her head and snapping the completed med kit closed. "Don't worry, I'll stay away from him from now on," she reassured. She yanked her braid from the tie and let it unravel and fall around her, the soft waves wet against her collarbone.
"It's not my fault your commander can't wield a sword," she grumbled. She leaned forward and started gathering the cards, making great pains to clean them up and unbend any danged corners.
"He's better at the other thing." Leane commented dryly, and truthfully.
Among the ten of them she had always been the best with a blade, save for...she frowned slightly at his memory, though her head shook slightly to dispel those darker thoughts.
"Boys like flashy things." She explained. "The sword, when properly wielded, isn't flashy."
Leane watched the other woman in silence, gaze like a hawk as she observed the woman that Saul had bedded.
Forest floored?
A laugh caught in her throat, expelling through her nose. A devlish grin grew on Kaska's face, unable to be controlled or smushed out.
"That's one way to put it," she acknowledged, still amused. She eyed Leana back for a long moment ... then sat back, leaving the cards.
"You know we fucked," she stated bluntly, right to the point. There was a tiredness to the statement, a sense of dread.
She inclined her head. "Of course."
Leane had never been much of a liar. She was blunt, direct, had never seen much use for beating around the bush. What was the point of doing so? It just ended with everyone arguing anyway.
"I know that boy better than he knows himself." She mused. "Him and Edwin."
Leane shook her head. "But he's his own man. Grown enough to make his decisions."
She leaned on her sword slightly.
The last of the mirth melted out of her expression, Kaska watching the woman warily. Of course they would know each other so well, this must be one of the family he mentioned. In fact, it seemed like they all were.
She took a steadying breath in, ignoring every instinct she hand to even touch the pommel of her sword. "But you have an opinion on it," she noted, going back to plucking up the cards.
"No." Leane said simply. She was a soldier. Opinions were not hers to have, at least not about this, not about little flings in the woods.
"You're both grown." She glanced briefly back towards the direction of the camp. "Old enough not to go prancing through a field of flowers abandoning all duty."
She chortled slightly. "He certainly wouldn't."
A pause hung in the air.
"But a warning." Leane's voice suddenly seemed much less amused. "He is not one to be wrapped around a finger."
Kaska blinked, glancing up with a disbelieving look. "I don't want anything from him. It was a in the moment thing, that's it," she informed Leane firmly.
"Hell, I didn't even steal his clothing, he dropped them in river and the current took them away. He's Templar, I'm ranger. We fucked. End of story. " She resumed picking up the cards, her lips pressed in a firm line but the rest of her remaining nonchalant.
"I don't want anything from anyone."
Leane let out a tsk, almost as if she were disappointed in the words. She was a Soldier, but she was still a woman. The ways of the world were not unfamiliar to her, and though Valerie and Myrelle were the true damsels of their little group, Leane certainly wasn't as...inexperienced as Ana.
"Pity." She mused for a second.
"If you did." Leane began, her words a bit softer again, not as cutting. "You might make some friends from all this."
Templar, Ranger, that didn't matter much to most of them. Sure there was friendly competition, jokes, but none in their little group had any real prejudice. She was pretty sure in fact that Ana had once dug into the same well as Saul. A fact that amused her to an endless degree.
A knot abruptly formed in Kaska's throat, hard and biting. She didn't say anything, she didn't have to. She knew where that comment came from. Leane was was more blunt than even her, a fact that would impress her if she wasn't busy fighting back a wave of emotions.
It was easier when everyone just ignored her, you know? Incidents like these? Never happened. Still, she couldn't bring herself to be hostile. She couldn't fess up to how those words effected her. But Leane knew, she knew she did.
The bitch.
Leane didn't say anything more, she didn't need to.
In this little exchange she had 'won', if there was anything to win in the first place. She had always been blunt and to the point with everyone, including Saul and the others. It bugged her when people around her beat around the bush, why not just say what you meant?
Left things far easier.
The woman stared for a moment longer, watching Kaska. After a few moments she cocked her head, and then slowly began to turn around and walk away.
She'd made her point.
"Wait." Came her voice, just as it seemed Leane had stepped too deep into the tree line. Kaska wrapped her palm around her pommel, her face stone. "Are you better at a sword than him? " A wordless gesture gave her request. She still needed to train more. She still didn't feel ready.
She stopped for a second, pausing and glancing back at Kaska.
For a moment she considered the other woman, almost as if sizing her up. Her lips glanced over the blade that she held, then swiveled back up towards her.
She took in a breath, cursing Saul beneath her breath before she turned and grabbed the hilt of her sword. It was a holy weapon, forged before the schism and inherited when she'd defeated the blademaster who'd trained her and the others. "Much."
Leane said as she drew the blade.
Come morning Kaska returned, her spare tunic on and body clean. Still, in the crisp morning light, the developed bruises shone clear as day across her flesh. Her tunic hid what marks were on her body, but no amount of hair left down over her shoulder could hide the pleasure that had been taken around her neck.
Well, pleasure to her. To the ranger she traveled with, it looked like she was nearly murdered. He jumped to her side with a soft curse, the fresh thing realizing he had failed her by not checking in, especially after Sauls return, how had he not-
A firm hand on his chest silenced him as Kaska pushed by him, leaving him a touched stunned, a hand still left dangling on his pommel. At his next words, she insistently shook her head, ending the conversation.
She walked with chin held high through the bodies of men, no shame to her cheeks as she boarded the boat and took up her old spot on the edge. Ever cold and stiff, her thoughts now occupied on what today would bring.
No one really reacted to Kaska, mostly because they were all too focused on themselves.
They all knew what would be happening today, what they faced at the other end of this boat journey; The lich. Death was always a possibility for a Templar, in fact it was all but guaranteed most of the time. Yet they were still human, they wanted to live and they wanted to make it through the next day as much as anyone else. It was a fact that they all wore on their faces.
Even Saul.
By the time Kaska boarded the ship and took up her place on the boat Saul and the others had all but packed up the camp. A few of the fires were still going, but as everyone prepared go leave those too were quickly quenched and quieted.
It was time for the last leg of the journey.
Then it would be time to fight.
It was a little... shocking to go unnoticed. Perhaps she built up situations in her head more than they needed to be? Perhaps no one paid half as much thought to her as she presumed.
Or perhaps they were all just preparing to possibly die. A feat they went through on many previous occasions. Perhaps more than even the average Ranger, she acknowledged begrudgingly.
Dangerous work like this was usually not amongst a Ranger's tasks. Keeping peace. Stopping thieves. Protection for the wealthy ... yes. But bracing against the supernatural? She watched on with a new nugget of respect, the ship gilding smoothly away.
I'm coming, Lia. Hang in there.
Saul was putting on his armor when Leane approached him, her hand coming up to tighten one of the straps of his platemail.
"Hate wearing this while on the river." The Commander grunted quietly, lips thinning for a second as Leane patted him on the back and gave him another piece of the platemail. Wearing heavy armor was dangerous on water, especially fast moving water.
Yet he didn't want to take the chance of being attacked and not having the armor that would save him.
According to Kaska the Lich wouldn't know they were coming, but with things like this it was best not to take any chances if you didn't have tog. Specifically with Liches. Bastards always knew something you didn't.
"You'll survive."
Leane assured him quietly as he strapped another piece of plate over his chest, tying it into place before he turned around. The boat was speeding along, taking them up river quickly. They would be there soon.
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Making a Differential in Greater Cincinnati
Written by: Pete Scalia
It’s no secret that Cincinnati continues to be a hub for technology-based companies. It’s also a great place for businesses that help startups use technology to grow their business.
Tim Metzner is a partner at differential.io – a local company that helps its clients reach their full potential.
Cincinnati Profile: What is differential.io?
Tim Metzner: Differential is a venture studio that helps validate, build, and launch startups. We turn ideas into profitable businesses. We serve as an early-stage co-founder powering design, development, and marketing, and supporting recruiting and fund raising efforts.
From the Differential homepage.
CP: How/Why did you come up with the idea?
TM: We launched Differential in February of 2013 after months of planning and discussion with local entrepreneurs and leaders. We wanted to build a company that would be a dream job for our team and great asset to the startup community.
Entrepreneurs have historically had two options for launching a tech startup: find a technical co-founder, or hire an agency. The first is very hard (especially for non-technical founders) and the second is expensive and risky because most agencies are used to working with big brands, not startups.
Differential provides a third option. We integrate with your early stage startup, building the first version of your product – in some cases, working at a discounted rate in exchange for equity. This ensures our long-term interests are aligned, meaning your success is important to our success.
CP: Why did you decide to base your company in Cincinnati/not move somewhere else?
TM: Our team was already big supporters of the Cincinnati startup ecosystem, helping to organize events and meetups along with mentoring, supporting, and working for startup companies. We believe that Cincinnati is well-positioned to be a great place to launch and grow businesses and we’re excited to drive that forward.
CP: Why should other businesses consider launching in/relocating to Cincinnati?
TM: Because of resources, momentum, and widespread support of entrepreneurial efforts, there has probably never been a better time to launch a business in Cincinnati. In addition, the cost of living is very reasonable and it’s truly a great town to raise a family; which for me, personally, is what made Cincinnati a no-brainer for launching Differential here.
Also, because we’re still a growing tech scene, if you can build some momentum for your startups, there’s an opportunity to quickly make a huge impact and get great coverage for your company (vs. the coasts where you’re much more likely to get lost in the clutter).
CP: What sort of support systems/networking opportunities are there in Cincinnati for tech entrepreneurs?
TM: More than ever. There are many active meetup groups, events like Startup Weekend (the next event is November 15, 2013) and organizations like Cintrifuse, all focused on driving the Cincinnati tech startup ecosystem forward.
CP: What do you (personally) love about Cincinnati?
TM: The food, fall season, countless parks, the people, the Banks, our sports teams, the skyline (especially from the “cut in the hill” as you’re returning from out of town), and our history.
Pete Scalia is the Editor of Cincinnati Profile. A popular television personality, voice actor and musician, he often wonders which is harder to keep up with - his wife's busy schedule, or his pet Vizsla, Dino. Some of Pete's favorite things are spending time with family, fine watches, classic and exotic automobiles, and a good cigar. As a musician, Pete toured nationally with CEA winning funk artist (and Bootsy Collins protégé) Freekbass. He also survived a summer tour opening for classic rock legends Ted Nugent and Bad Company. Locally, Pete plays in the party band Snidely Whiplash, with his father (or is it brother?) Tony. As someone who lives with rheumatoid arthritis, Pete is also an advocate for the Arthritis Foundation. Send him an e-mail at pscalia@cincinnatiprofile.com.
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Voter ID rules protect seniors, minorities from fraudsters, says new study
(Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images)
Neil Munro White House Correspondent
August 02, 2012 12:10 AM ET
Criminal justice data shows that blacks and poor people are the most common victims of voter fraud and are the greatest beneficiaries of voter identification rules, according to a new study.
The courtroom evidence “completely contradicts the [progressive claim] that blacks, seniors, college students and other disadvantages groups are being victimized,” said Horace Cooper, an adjunct fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.
“The truth is … [that] the criminals — more often than not — are Democrats violating the rights of people who tend to be black or senior,” he told The Daily Caller.
A large investigation in Virginia, for example, showed that 30 percent of fraud allegations were centered in Richmond, which has the highest percentage of African-Americans in the state. In the state a wide investigation of voter fraud produced criminal charges against 38 people.
Good voter identification procedures would reduce that fraudulent voting, and aid minorities most, Cooper said.
The new study damages progressives’ claims that the popular demand for voter identification laws mask a GOP effort to suppress the vote of racial and ethnic minorities who support Democratic candidates.
That claim has been central to a variety of Democratic efforts to block voter ID laws in critical swing-states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
For example, the New York-based Brennan Center claims that “as many as 11 percent of eligible voters do not have government-issued photo,” and that people should be allowed to use other form of identification when voting.
President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has also sued to block voter ID laws. Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly suggested these laws are racist and intended to suppress African-American voting.
But GOP politicians and activists say voter ID laws are needed to suppress a significant level of fraudulent voting in general elections and in primaries.
The campaign for better voter-identification laws has public support — polls show overwhelming support for new laws — as well as support from the Supreme Court.
The court has already approved voter ID laws in various states, including Georgia, despite furious opposition among progressives and Democratic activists.
Cooper’s study highlighted cases where inadequate voter ID rules allowed political operatives to submit fraudulent votes under the names of local minorities.
Three times as many Democrats as Republicans have been charged with voter fraud, he said.
In Troy, New York, four Democratic officials have pled guilty to forging mail-in ballots. The fake ballots were submitted under the names of people who “live in low-income housing [because] there is a sense that they are a lot less likely to ask any questions. … What appears as a huge conspiracy to nonpolitical persons is really a normal political tactic,” Democratic Committeeman Anthony DeFiglio told the police as he plead guilty.
A particular problem is fraudulent voting during low-turnout primary elections, which allows corrupt Democratic party bosses to keep control over elected representatives, former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told TheDC.
“The people who engage in the in-person fraud, or the theft and interception of ballots, or the people who try to [arrange votes by] illegal felons and aliens … are doing so at the expense of minorities that they fear won’t show up” during the election, Cooper said.
Often, “it is their view that minorities aren’t reliable voters and that they need to manipulate the outcome on their behalf,” he said.
“If that’s not bigoted and racist, I don’t know what it,” he added.
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Bernie Sanders Wants Huge ‘Robin Hood’ Stock Tax To Make College Free
Eric Owens Editor
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate and self-proclaimed socialist who wants the United States to morph into a vast Scandinavia, is holding a Tuesday press conference to explain how he will soak the rich to make tuition at public, four-year colleges and universities free.
Sanders will propose legislation to fund his free-college scheme with massive new taxes on stock transactions, Bloomberg reports.
The Vermont senator’s bill, if passed, would add a 50-cent tax for every “$100 of stock trades on stock sales, and lesser amounts on transactions involving bonds, derivatives, and other financial instruments,” according to a press release from a group called Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street.
The Robin Hood group notes that the new federal surcharge would reduce and decrease trading — and suggests that such an economic shrinkage would improve the economy.
“The Robin Hood tax would also slow the growth of automated high frequency trading, which makes the stock market more dangerous,” the group’s press release claimed, according to Bloomberg. “A small tax would make risky HFT unprofitable, and help reduce the excess speculation on commodities like food and gas that drives up prices, which will protect the economy from computer-generated collapses and market manipulation.”
Sanders also believes encumbering capital transactions will help the economy by ultimately creating laborers with bachelor’s degrees.
“We live in a highly competitive global economy and, if our economy is to be strong, we need the best-educated work force in the world,” he said in a Sunday press release. “That will not happen if, every year, hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and if millions more leave school deeply in debt.”
Sanders does not say if he believes more jobs will be available after a new tax scheme hits capital markets.
As of Friday, just 14 percent of the college seniors in the class of 2015 have steady, career-type jobs lined up for their lives after graduation. Thus, 86 percent of America’s college grads — about five out of every six — have zilch in the way of career prospects for their post-campus lives. (RELATED: Just 14 PERCENT Of This Year’s College Grads Have Real Jobs Waiting)
If imposed uniformly, the Robin Hood tax would add $500 to the cost of each $100,000 in transactions for small-time investors and American retirees looking to create liquid assets.
Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton, another Democratic presidential candidate, floated the idea that government largesse should allow students to graduate from four-year colleges with no loan debt in an attempt to lure college-age and twentysomething people to vote for her. (RELATED: Hillary Clinton Floats Debt-Free College To Subsidize Rich People, Fancypants Schools)
“What voters are looking for in this election is someone who is going to be a champion for everyday people,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNBC.
The Clinton campaign was otherwise short on details.
The notion of college without debt as any sort of real political possibility in today’s political and economic climate is a new development. For example, a group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (BoldProgressives.org) has been pushing the new welfare benefit only since January.
Leaders of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee believe that depressed turnout among Democrats in the 2014 election was due to a shortage of audaciously progressive ideas — not enough hope and change, if you will.
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‘Let Him Arrest Me’: Ex-Trump Aide Says He’ll Rip Up Mueller Grand Jury Subpoena
Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter
March 05, 2018 3:24 PM ET
A former Trump campaign aide who was recently interviewed by the special counsel’s office says he plans to rip up a grand jury subpoena on live television.
Sam Nunberg told The Washington Post that he was issued a subpoena by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to appear before a federal grand jury on Friday. The two-page subpoena also demanded that he produce records of his communications with President Donald Trump and nine current and former Trump associates.
Nunberg was interviewed by Mueller’s investigators in February as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign. (RELATED: Ex-Trump Aide Offers Explanation For Why Trump Couldn’t Have Colluded With Russians)
But Nunberg told The Post that he plans to ignore the subpoena. And more than that, he said he plans to rip up the document during an appearance on Bloomberg TV.
“Let him arrest me,” Nunberg said. “Mr. Mueller should understand I am not going in on Friday.”
Nunberg began working for Trump in 2011 but was fired from the Trump campaign in 2015 because of racially insensitive comments he had posted online years earlier.
Since his firing, Nunberg has publicly criticized Trump.
“Donald Trump won this election on his own. He campaigned his ass off. And there is nobody who hates him more than me,” he told The Post.
Mueller’s subpoena seeks Nunberg’s communications with Trump, and several campaign advisers, including Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Carter Page, Corey Lewandowski and Rick Gates.
Mueller also seeks records of Nunberg’s contacts with Roger Stone, a longtime Trump pal who introduced Nunberg to Trump’s circle.
“I’m not spending 80 hours going over my emails with Roger Stone and Stephen K. Bannon and producing them,” Nunberg said.
Most of the names on the subpoena list have clear contacts to Nunberg. As a member of Trump’s inner circle, he was in regular contact with Hicks, Lewandowski and Stone. But Nunberg’s links to former Trump advisers like Carter Page are unclear.
Page, who joined the Trump campaign months after Nunberg was fired, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he has never met or communicated with Nunberg.
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Meet the 2018 Homecoming Court
Homecoming festivities early in the week.
Brian Meng/Daily Senior Staffer
Northwestern students will elect their 2018 Homecoming Wildcat on Friday. Meet the nominees below.
Ali Qureshi
Weinberg senior Ali Qureshi said he is running because he was captivated by the homecoming parade when he witnessed it as a freshman. It was a fairy-tale moment for him, he said.
Qureshi started the cricket club at Northwestern. He said his favorite aspect about Northwestern is the people on campus, and the diversity and various perspectives that make NU unique.
“Honestly, I have lived and breathed the school spirit for the past three years,” Qureshi said. “I feel that being on the court will be an amalgamation of the entire journey.”
Ziare Paul-Emile
Ziare Paul-Emile loves to create art for her community, and theater has been a defining part of her NU experience.
The communication senior was on a Waa-Mu panel last year that tackled the issue of diversity, and was instrumental in the implementation of closed captioning in Waa-Mu’s show last spring.
“To be able to show even more and highlight what I’ve been doing through (being) Homecoming Wildcat would be super cool,” she said.
Paul-Emile has thought of NU as her home since the moment she set foot on campus.
“When I walked in for Wildcat Welcome, I felt at home,” Paul-Emile said. “In a split second I would do this all over again.”
Annie Krall
Annie Krall has known she wanted to be on homecoming royalty court since she was eight years old, after attending a Northwestern homecoming game. The daughter of two alumni, her parents have been season ticket holders since they graduated from NU.
“The entire homecoming court came out, and I always remember thinking, ‘Those have to be the coolest kids on campus,’” she said. “It feels very full-circle that 8-year-old me is now 21-year-old me on homecoming court.”
The Weinberg senior spent her time at NU bringing medical initiatives to benefit young women to campus, including Go Red Goes to Campus and Texas Two Step CPR.
But the most significant part about the school has been the people, she said.
“This school just draws the most incredible individuals in the nation,” Krall said. “I have been so blessed on campus to have met so many different types of people.”
Kathryn Karnaze
Medill senior Kathryn Karnaze believes it’s important to spend time on what she loves, and not resume-padding activities, which many NU students tend to forget, she said.
“You have to understand timing of life, and you have to embrace timing and send positive thoughts into the universe because that’s how good things happen to you,” Karnaze said.
That’s why she’s going to celebrate being a part of NU’s homecoming court and all the relationships she’s made with people on campus this year.
“It’s just kind of been a fun treat almost to see how people are being really nice,” Karnaze said. “The quality of people that Northwestern accepts and just the people who go here, are people who I vibe with.”
Meredith Belloni
Weinberg senior Meredith Belloni didn’t know what to expect when she transferred to Northwestern her sophomore year from Tulane University, she said. She added that now, as part of this year’s homecoming royalty, she’s glad that she can show transfers that they can also find a community at NU.
“I (am) in it to have a good time, not necessarily to get the crown or anything,” Belloni said.
Belloni hopes that all students, especially transfers, take advantage of all the opportunities that NU offers.
“I used to go to a school where there just wasn’t nearly this much stuff going on,” Belloni said. “There’s just something for everyone.”
Fabian Gomez
The best thing McCormick senior Fabian Gomez learned during his time at NU was the importance of being genuine to oneself.
“You should always know exactly what you want out of university, and out of friends, and not to waste your time and energy hanging out with people you don’t want to hang out with, taking classes you don’t want to take, just not being true to yourself is a waste of time and energy,” Gomez said.
Gomez loves how the students of Northwestern are passionate and enthusiastic about a diverse range of interests.
Gomez said the process of Homecoming has been a blast, from meeting the other royalty to seeing the huge amount of work that gets put into the event. He thinks it will be fun if he is crowned, “Mean Girls style.”
Sydney Marcus
Earlier in her Northwestern career, Sydney Marcus’ friends were annoyed at how much purple pride she had, so they signed her up to be a tour guide. Undeterred, Marcus began telling them how about all the fun new information she had learned in tour guide training.
Marcus, a McCormick senior, said she is sad to be leaving campus at the end of next year. In particular, she said the spirit her classmates show is her favorite part of being a Wildcat.
“I like that the school is full of people who are super passionate about really different things,” Marcus said. “It’s all just a bunch of people who want to share that with others.”
Braden Thuraisingham
Soccer player Braden Thuraisingham hasn’t been able to be as involved in the weeklong homecoming festivities as he would like, but he’s still excited about being royalty.
“I really wish I was able to attend more events,” the communication senior said. “But the soccer season has been extremely busy and our schedule this year has me traveling quite a bit.”
For the most part, Thuraisingham said, NU makes it possible for him to pursue “world class academics” while also competing at the “highest level” of collegiate athletics.
“Almost no other universities can offer the same thing, and it’s one of the reasons I committed here back in 2015,” he said.
Andrew Harlan
For communication senior Andrew Harlan, the best thing about NU is the people.
“I’m surrounded by a group of people who are incredibly passionate about all of the things they do,” he said. “The people at Northwestern really made me a better person. I feel really lucky to know all those people.”
Becoming Homecoming Wildcat would be a good way to round out his NU experience, Harlan said.
“Being Homecoming Wildcat would be a nice way to commemorate all the friendships I’ve made here,” he said. “Northwestern people are very passionate and very compassionate, and I strive to be one of those people.”
Nigel Anderson
In his bio on the Northwestern Homecoming website, Nigel Anderson wrote he is a biological studies major who hopes to go to medical school after graduating from Northwestern, but not before taking a gap year to travel and work as an EMT. The Indianapolis native is the diversity and inclusion chair of his medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, and researches visual pathways in the Horvath lab.
In his bio, Anderson wrote that his NU experience has been “nothing short of magical.”
”I believe in this university and believe that I represent everything it does to take young people and shape them into educated, confident, and aware individuals with purpose,” he wrote.
Jessica Saffold
Jessica Saffold has a long list of activities she’s been involved with at Northwestern: Significant Others a Capella, Chi Alpha Student Ministry, CUP, ASG, and the Northwestern Community Ensemble, to name a few. In her bio on the Northwestern Homecoming website, Jessica Saffold wrote that she also likes to spend her time reading and exploring Chicago.
The social policy and international studies major wrote she loves Northwestern, even down to the school color purple.
“Through my time at Northwestern, I’ve had the opportunity to learn about and engage with different corners of the campus and love meeting and interacting with people,” she wrote.
Yashwardhan Bairathi, Cameron Cook, Clare Proctor, Wilson Chapman, Gabby Birenbaum, Benjamin Rosenberg, Rishika Dugyala and Catherine Henderson, contributed writing reporting.
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Peel Hunt restated their hold rating on shares of Land Securities Group (LON:LAND) in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, ThisIsMoney.Co.Uk reports.
Several other brokerages also recently commented on LAND. Deutsche Bank raised shares of Land Securities Group to a buy rating and lifted their target price for the stock from GBX 940 ($12.28) to GBX 1,020 ($13.33) in a research note on Wednesday, April 24th. UBS Group reaffirmed a buy rating on shares of Land Securities Group in a research note on Friday, May 10th. Liberum Capital reaffirmed a buy rating on shares of Land Securities Group in a research note on Tuesday, March 12th. Barclays cut their price target on shares of Land Securities Group from GBX 790 ($10.32) to GBX 755 ($9.87) and set an underweight rating on the stock in a report on Friday, May 10th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Land Securities Group from GBX 970 ($12.67) to GBX 990 ($12.94) and gave the company an equal weight rating in a report on Thursday, March 14th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. The company currently has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus target price of GBX 914.25 ($11.95).
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Shares of LON LAND opened at GBX 884.20 ($11.55) on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 0.47, a quick ratio of 0.42 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 36.38. Land Securities Group has a 52 week low of GBX 784.20 ($10.25) and a 52 week high of GBX 985.50 ($12.88). The firm has a market capitalization of $6.56 billion and a P/E ratio of -28.07.
The business also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, October 4th. Investors of record on Thursday, September 5th will be issued a GBX 11.60 ($0.15) dividend. This represents a yield of 1.32%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, September 5th. Land Securities Group’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently -1.43%.
In related news, insider Nicholas Cadbury purchased 3,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 14th. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 888 ($11.60) per share, for a total transaction of £26,640 ($34,809.88).
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The Chemical Brothers rework latest single in ‘Eve of Dubstruction’
by: Josh Stewart Jun 21, 2019
If the saying is true and it is, in fact lonely at the top, it’s a good thing that The Chemical Brothers have each other, as the English electronic duo has sat atop Mt. Dance Music now for over two decades.
Falling on the 20th anniversary of the group’s pioneering album Surrender, The Chemical Brothers’ newest release, not only commemorate an iconic career in dance music but gazes into the future as the group preps for a headlining set at this year’s Glastonbury.
“Eve of Dubstruction” is a dark and techy reimagining of No Geography’s opening track, the perpetually groovy “Eve of Destruction.” True to its name, the reworking has all of the tools to level even the sweatiest of dancefloors. The original version’s menacing bassline still carries the track, but a room-filling clap, head-swaying synth melodies, and staggering builds, each unseen in the original release, all help put the twist at the end of the punch in “Eve of Dubstruction.”
The band returns to North America at the beginning of August to play shows in New York and Montreal before returning to their international tour. Tickets and dates can be found here.
Photo credit: Hamish Brown
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Monsoon finally hits Kerala coast, hope for states reeling under intense heat wave as rainy season begins in country
By DB POST Digital // June 8, 2019
The four-month rainy season officially began in the country as the southwest monsoon hit the Kerala coast on Saturday after a delay of a week.
Several parts of Kerala are receiving a good amount of rainfall.
India Meteorological Department’s Director General-designate Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the monsoon made an onset over Kerala on June 8.
The news will augur well for the country as large parts have been reeling under an intense heat wave and water levels in reservoirs in the west and south India have dipped to low levels.
The north Indian plains, central India and parts of south India have been recording temperatures over 45 degrees Celsius. Mercury has soared to over 50 degrees in parts of Rajasthan.
On Thursday, IMD said the arrival of monsoon in Delhi is likely to be delayed by two-three days from its usual onset on June 29. However, Skymet said it may take at least a week longer.
The city is likely to receive normal monsoon. Northwest India too is likely to have normal monsoon.
IMD predicts normal monsoon
The IMD has made a forecast of 96 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA) which falls on the border of normal and below normal rainfall. The LPA of the season rainfall over the country as a whole for the period 1951-2000 is 89 cm.
It has, however, maintained monsoon will be “normal” for 2019.
The rains in June are likely to be impacted due to El-Nino, although a weak one. It is generally believed that El-Nino, associated with the heating of Pacific waters, has an impact on the monsoon.
The delay in monsoon has no correlation to the overall quantum of the rainfall. However, monsoon will be late in other parts of the country due to its overall delay.
Monsoon arrived in the south Andaman Sea, its first Indian outpost before it reaches the mainland, on May 18.
Last month, the IMD said monsoon will reach Kerala on June 6, a delay of six days from its usual onset. However, conditions were not favourable for its progress.
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02.11.2012 — Review
MAY IT KEEP THE WOLVES IN THE HILLS AND THE WOMEN IN OUR BEDS, A collision of interests selected by Ryan Gander at Mexico
The latest exhibition at Mexico, an ambitious collectively-run art space in central Leeds, brings together a selection of conceptually deft and formally inventive artworks by four artists. With no singular ‘curator’ as such, the exhibition has been generated through a process of dialogue and collaboration, with Ryan Gander acting as facilitator. After an invitation to work with Mexico, Gander proposed a title and the names of four artists, and from that initial starting point a show was built. The majority of pieces on display have been made new for the exhibition, created with the title in mind.
It would seem from past projects that Gander, as well as diffusing the role of the curator, has an aversion to overarching curatorial themes, and this exhibition is no exception. Other than the title, there is no prescribed theme, merely the abiding sense of an exhibition brought into being through the desire to exhibit four outstanding artists together in one space. It is a simple premise that works to good effect, where emphasis is placed not on thematics, but on the the quality and strength of the work displayed.
Several works make reference to music, but without deploying sound itself. One such work is by Rob Lye, a series of four unflattering filmic portraits. Placed in pairs, the screens show close-up footage of head and shoulders, with each individual engaged in an unseen activity below the frame. We witness fast and frantic movements, as heads bop and jerk, faces perspire, jaws clench with concentration and cheeks become ruddy. Motions at first seem masturbatory, yet these subjects are in fact caught in the act of drumming. Devoid of sound, we are made to focus upon bodily movement and facial expression, the involuntary and often embarrassing faces that are made whilst playing drums. The work intimately situates the viewer within seemingly private moments of practice, play and endurance. Performing the beat to Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana, a distinctive drum part often learnt by beginners, the work makes reference to states of teenage fandom, and processes of learning.
A work by John Newton gives sculptural form to a drum beat, as he transcribes a drum tab using BB gun pellets, the material used to perhaps evoke the violence of a militaristic drum beat. Another work by Newton takes the form of a customised denim jacket adorned with plain black patches. Described as a “monument to a conversation”, the jacket appears to be in mourning. The subject of Newton’s memorialised conversation was black metal, and the patches effectively evoke the black metal scene whilst also conveying a funerary quality. Imbued with traces of the personal, Newton’s sculptural works seem generated from encounters within daily routine. Like Lye’s portraits, they convey a sense of intimacy, commemorating or simply making reference to moments of everyday life.
Lucia Quevedo‘s works similarly take quotidian starting points. Her petite, slight sculptures combine a sharpness of wit with a skilled and precise use of materials. Using a delicately spare visual vocabulary, Quevedo manipulates the materiality of her objects in subtle and absurd ways. The result is a series of idiosyncratic forms. In one work, through the use of marble, she gives classical form to slices of delicatessen ham. Continuing the manipulation of food stuffs, Quevedo renders a block of ceramic ‘butter’ in a lurid and cartoonish canary yellow. One particularly effective work takes the form of an amputated rounders bat. Sliced in half, the bat sits atop an equally slim sliver of plinth. The effect is to make the bat appear unnaturally submerged within the plinth, thus giving the plinth a soft malleable quality.
Like Quevedo, Jacqueline Bebb‘s elegant sculptures play with form and functionality. Beautifying the mundane or the purely functional, Bebb infuses her ambiguous forms with a multiplicity of meaning. Making objects that respond to specific narratives, Bebb uses the the sculptural medium to forge dialogues with particular moments and histories. In one work, Bebb displays a group of beautifully crafted wooden spikes. Bebb uses form and material to dismantle the original connotations of a railing spike, whilst also being suggestive of a multiple and shifting functionality.
The lengthy title of the exhibition may at first seem oblique and ambiguous, yet once unravelled it can be read as a profound proclamation. The title is a slight variation on the statement “May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds” (words spoken by the Spartan King Menelaus after the fall of Troy), a declaration that expresses a desire for ‘the Gods’ to maintain the peace and status quo. In Gander’s chosen title ‘the Gods’ have been replaced by ‘it’, which we can read as meaning art. Here Gander invites us to put our faith and trust, not in the gods, but in the protective power of art. The sentiment conveyed by the title is a desire for artistic life to prevail; may art keep us safe, alive and well.
MAY IT KEEP THE WOLVES IN THE HILLS AND THE WOMEN IN OUR BEDS, A collision of interests selected by Ryan Gander was shown at Mexico Project Space, Leeds, between 21st September to 5th October.
Alice Miller is a History of Art postgraduate and writer based in Leeds.
Published 02.11.2012 by Bryony Bond in Reviews
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Denis Kabi's Blog
ITCHY PALM
April 10, 2010 · Filed under Short Stories
by Denis Kabi
Gwethoa is a Gikuyu language word which means to scratch oneself. Scratching oneself could be caused by all kinds of things – a rash, an infection, insect bites, allergies, sharp pain et cetera. But amongst the Gikuyu community, not all causes of itching are natural. Most Gikuyu believe that some causes of itching are supernatural – the intense need to itch a certain area of the body seen as a sign sent by the gods to a lucky person hinting that immeasurable blessings are in store.
A sizeable number – say, 99.9 percent – of this incongruous community’s population are said to have a strong propensity for certain rectangular pieces of printed paper. This potent propensity is also exhibited for small circular minted pieces of metal.
A popular aphorism even states that, “If you want to know that a prostrate man in a morgue is a Gikuyu, then throw a coin to the floor and let it clink noisily. If he is from this community, the man will swiftly wake up to claim the coin.”
Most Gikuyus find such insinuating aphorisms offensive. “Ni koruma maratoruma,” they lament. (They are abusing us.)
It is a widely held belief in Gikuyuland that the specific area of the body which is screaming to be itched holds a clue to the type of blessing that the gods are preparing. This area of the body is not the feet; not the legs; not on the torso; not on the neck; not on the head, no, not the head. It is somewhere else. Somewhere on the bendable appendages joined to the sides of the torso.
Most Gikuyu believe – in the same manner they believe muratina is a far much superior beverage than Tusker – that at the end of these bendable appendages lies the flat fleshy area that needs to be scratched in order to attract the blessings of the gods.
It can now be revealed here that this flat fleshy area is called the palm. Yes, the palm of the hand. (Not the palm tree.) Now, let’s be clear; it’s not the side of the hand that the knuckles are on. It’s the other side of the hand. Mwena ucio onge. Yes, that side.
Most Gikuyus believe that an itchy palm is a sure sign that the person with the itchy palm will come into contact with large sums of money in the near future. The myth of the itchy palm is so widespread that even the religious types have faith in it.
Kimonyi was a Nairobi-based businessman. He was 30 years old and everybody called him Kim. Kim ran an export-import company which specialized in exporting and importing bulk grain. A shrewd Gikuyu, Kim would keep a close watch of the cereals industry in Kenya and beyond, keen to find out which regions or countries had a bumper harvest and thus a surplus; and, alternatively, which regions or countries had experienced a failed crop and thus had a deficit.
Upon learning that a certain region or country had a bumper harvest and a surplus of grain – for instance maize – Kim would dash to his bank and ask for an overdraft. Since his credit balance and cash flow were always healthy, the bank manager would say, “Okay, Mr. Kimonyi, you can have a ten million shilling overdraft.”
Upon hearing these words, Kim would punch the air in excited glee and then shake the man’s hand so vigorously that the bank manager’s shoulder joint became sore and he couldn’t move the hand for the rest of the day.
As soon as the money was in his bag, Kim would quickly depart from his Nairobi home and travel to the region of Kenya – or the African country – where there was a reported bumper harvest. Kim would swiftly check into a hotel and patiently lie low (like the infamous envelope), keeping an eye on the price of the grain, waiting for the price to sink to its lowest possible point. As soon as the supply outstripped demand and the grain price fell so low that farmers began selling it at throw-away prices, Kim would step in to ‘save’ the farmers.
Kim would henceforth use his overdraft money to buy as much of the low-priced grain as his finances would allow. He would then hire a couple of long-distance trailers to transport the sacks of grain to his Nairobi warehouse where he would store the grain for several weeks. He would then return to Nairobi and keep a close watch of the cereals market, looking out for the highest prices of grain that the regions which had grain deficits would offer.
Time and again, the southern Sudan import companies were the ones who offered the highest price for purchase of bulk grain. And to his delight, the Sudanese import companies paid for the grain in US dollars – and almost always in cash.
It was in late 2009 and most regions of Kenya that had experienced adequate rainfall (and consequently planted various grains) reported bumper harvests of various grains – wheat, maize, beans, sorghum, millet et cetera. Desperate farmers packed their surplus grains in sacks and then hired large lorries to transport the sacks to the government-owned silos, hoping to off-load the grain at a decent price. In the open market, supply had outstripped demand and the price of various grains fell sharply. The government-owned silos bought as much of the grain as their silos could hold, but alas, a large number of the farmers’ lorries had to be turned away.
The frustrated farmers were even interviewed on a local TV news bulletin, and were heard lamenting about their difficulty in finding buyers for their surplus grain harvest. “We have been left with no choice but to dump the grain on the tilled fields and use it as fertilizer in readiness for the next planting season,” a forlorn farmer said in the interview, the tone of pain clear in his breaking voice.
That night, Kimonyi and his wife, Wanja, were seated in the sitting-room of their up-market apartment eating supper while watching the nine o’clock news bulletin.
“Except North-Eastern Province, every other region of Kenya has reported a bumper harvest of grain,” said Kim to his wife as he lifted a slice of pizza to his mouth and took a large bite of it and proceeded to chew vigorously. “There’s way too much supply of grain, particularly maize, but very little demand for it in the market. What do you think I should do, Wanja?”
“I think you should wait and see how the markets of neighbouring countries react,” answered Wanja and picked up as slice of pizza from the open pizza box and lifted it to her mouth and took a bite of it and chewed slowly. “Maybe southern Sudan didn’t get a bumper harvest. Maybe they have a grain deficit and will soon put advertisements in the local papers requesting for suppliers of grain to send quotations.”
“You’re right, Wanja,” said Kim as he bowed his head slightly to take a bite of the slice of pizza and then chewed vigorously and turned to gaze at his 25 year old wife. “You’re always right. I’m glad I married a university graduate. I’m glad I disregarded my mother’s advice to marry an O-level village girl. What do village girls know about grains? Or pizza, for that matter? City girls make the best wives, for they know how to pronounce the word pizza properly – not pee-zah; but pitsah.”
(Wanja was one of those chunky, light-brown Gikuyu women who were weaned on waru. She had graduated recently from a local private university with a degree in computer science and thus could Google effortlessly.)
“Nindahona…I’m full. I cannot eat anymore pizza,” announced Kim after swallowing the last mouthful of his slice. He picked up a serviette and wiped the excess grease from his mouth and hands with it, and then crumpled it and threw it on the coffee table. He grasped a bottle of Coke and unscrewed its top and took a swig from it and replaced the top and set the bottle back on the table.
As Wanja got up and cleared the table and left for the kitchen, Kim sighed loudly and reclined on the comfy sofa and used the remote to switch the TV channel to another which was airing an English Premier League soccer match. (Their TV set was the new type that doesn’t have a kisogo.)
Wanja soon finished clearing the remnants of their meal in the kitchen and came back to the sitting-room only to find her husband fast asleep on the sofa. She saw that he’d been watching a soccer match on TV and so decided not to disturb him. “Maybe he’ll wake up in a minute or two and continue watching the noisy game,” she told herself. She dimmed the lights and quietly retired to the master bedroom where she spent some time exfoliating before she too fell asleep on the large executive bed.
As the soccer match progressed noisily on TV, and Kim snored lightly in his sleep, a hairy worm crawled covertly through the space under the front door of the apartment. The hairy brown worm (called munyongoro in Gikuyu) hastened across the smooth tiled floor and soon scaled the side of the leather sofa which Kim was reclining on. The worm then crawled over Kim’s belly and down his arm and finally settled on his right hand’s open palm. It was the aroma of the pizza on the man’s unwashed hands that had attracted the munyongoro. The worm spent the rest of that night licking and rolling on his palm, leaving its skin-irritating saliva and spike-like hairs over the skin surface. (Kim’s left hand was folded over the TV remote, grasping it, making its greasy surface inaccessible to the worm.)
The next morning Kim woke up from the sofa and immediately felt the overwhelming need to scratch his right hand’s palm. Gwethoa moko. He put down the remote and used his left hand’s nails to scratch the right hand’s palm and soon realized that the intense itchy feeling couldn’t go away.
He switched off the TV – which had stayed on all night – and rushed to the bedroom to wake up his wife and inform her about his itchy palm. When Wanja woke up and heard about it, she immediately jumped out of the bed and held Kim’s palm close to her eyes to examine it.
“It’s a sign!” Wanja suddenly exclaimed with rising excitement. “Your itchy palm is a sign that money is coming. Mbeca nyingi niciroka…big money is coming our way! We’re going to be rich, Kimonyi, my dear! Rich beyond our wildest dreams!”
“What should I do? What should I do?” Kim asked with rising excitement.
“Whatever you do, don’t wash your hands,” Wanja said excitedly and protectively held the man’s hand and made him sit on the edge of the bed. “If you wash your hands, the good fortune will go away. Where’s your mobile phone?”
Kim sat on the edge of the bed and kept scratching his itchy palm. “Somewhere in the sitting-room,” he said and watched Wanja scurry out of the bedroom door and return shortly afterwards carrying Kim’s Nokia handset.
“Here, call the bank manager,” said Wanja, sitting beside Kim and handing him the shiny cellphone.
“Call the bank manager?” Kim protested in puzzlement. “Isn’t it too early? I don’t think the bank has opened its doors yet, woman.”
“Look at the time,” Wanja insisted, pointing at the digital clock displayed on the screen of the cellphone. “It’s already past 8:30 a.m. and most banks open at 8:00 a.m. Here, take the phone and call him.”
Kim reluctantly grasped the handset. “What do I tell the bank manager?”
“Tell him you want a 20 million shillings overdraft,” she said and pressed the keys of the cellphone, scrolling down the phonebook list until she found the bank manager’s telephone number. She instantly pressed the ‘call’ button and raised his hand to his ear. “Here, hold the phone against your ear.”
Kimonyi reluctantly did as instructed and clasped the handset against his left ear, holding it with his left hand. He kept rubbing his itchy palm against his knee. “Twenty million shillings overdraft?” gasped Kim in wonder as he heard the phone begin to ring. “Honestly, Wanja, don’t you think we are getting a little ahead of ourselves here?”
“No, we are not. Your itchy palm is a sign that the time is right to buy as much of the low-priced maize as our finances can allow,” she said seriously, fixing him with a stern look. “We’ll store the bags of maize in the warehouse – as we usually do – and then look for a buyer. Your itchy palm could be a sign that a bulk buyer of maize is right now about to put an advertisement in the daily newspaper, seeking for suppliers of bulk maize. Talk to the bank manager about this plan.”
“Should I mention my itchy palm?” Kim whispered as the phone kept ringing.
“No, don’t mention the itchy palm,” whispered Wanja, leaning close to her husband’s ear to listen in on the phone call.
“When do I tell him we want the money?” Kim asked, still scratching his palm over his bended knee.
“Today, if possible,” whispered Wanja eagerly as the call was finally picked up by the bank manager.
“Good morning, Mr. Kimonyi,” said the bank manager good-naturedly. “How are you doing today?”
“I’m doing fine, Mr. Sibuor,” said Kim, chuckling to conceal his anxiety. “And you, omera? How are you doing?”
“Heh heh heh…me I’m doing fine, bwana. Yawa, how can I help you?” said the deep-voiced bank manager genially.
“I want an overdraft,” said Kim and hushed to listen to the bank manager’s reaction. He turned briefly to exchange a worried glance with his wife.
“Mmhhhmm…an overdraft. That can be arranged. How much money do you need?” asked Mr. Sibuor curiously.
“Twenty million shillings only,” said Kim and hushed to listen to the man’s reaction. He again turned briefly to exchange a worried glance with his wife.
“That’s a bit over the maximum limit of ten million,” said the bank manager reluctantly. “But if you need the money quickly, then you have no choice but to apply for a regular loan.”
“A loan? How long will that take?” Kim asked disappointedly. Wanja exhaled loudly with displeasure and rolled her eyes.
“Forty-eight hours or so,” said the bank manager helpfully. “Come over to my office today and bring with you your land titles, car logbook, and the title of your apartment. We can finalize the paperwork today and you’ll get your money by the close of business tomorrow.”
“Really? You’ll give me the money?” exclaimed Kim in a rising tone of rapture. Upon hearing this, Wanja threw her hands around her husband’s shoulders and listened keenly to the conversation.
“Yes, our bank will loan you the money,” said Mr. Sibuor confidently. “That’s why we are in business – to serve our customer’s financial needs. I’ll see you in an hour or two. Bye-bye.” And he disconnected the line.
“Wanja, my dear, we’re getting the money!” said Kim ecstatically, turning to gaze with wide eyes at his equally ecstatic wife. “You were right when you said my itchy palm is a sign that money is coming. Mbeca nyingi niciroka! We are going to be rich, daughter of Mumbi! Rich beyond our wildest dreams!”
The couple laughed out loud together and hugged and rolled on the bed. “You know what, Wanja?” Kim asked when they stopped laughing and rolling, and he lay on top of her.
“What?” she asked expectantly, her eyes wide and sparkling with delight.
“Remember your wish to travel to South Africa to watch the 2010 World Cup which starts in a couple of week’s time?”
“Yeeeeeees…?” asked Wanja with a rising tone of eagerness.
“I’m taking you to South Africa to watch the World Cup!” Kim announced grandly.
Wanja akeuga mbu! She then wept uncontrollably with joy.
That day after Kim showered and dressed up in a neat designer business suit, he went to the bank and applied for a loan and was asked to hand over the titles of his land, car and apartment to the bank. This he did, albeit halfheartedly.
A day after applying for the loan, the bank released twenty million shillings to him. Kim soon departed from home and travelled to the regions of Kenya where maize was plenty and low priced. He bought as much dry maize as the money he’d gotten would allow. He then hired a convoy of 22-wheel trailers to transport the numerous bags of maize to his Nairobi warehouse.
That night, when the last of the bags of maize were off-loaded from the trailers and stacked high in the warehouse, a terrible rainstorm hit Nairobi. It rained so hard that the warehouse was flooded to the rafters.
When the rains subsided, something called aflatoxin (a fungal infection) set on the damp maize, effectively ruining the entire stock. Mbembe cikethoka!
“Haiya!”
“The maize has to be incinerated. All of it,” a KEBS (Kenya Bureau of Standards) official had declared after inspecting the maize in the warehouse a week later.
On that sad day, Wanja and Kim watched as the damp, reeking bags of maize were loaded into trailers and transported to the Dandora dumpsite where they were dumped and consequently doused with petrol and set on fire. (They’d followed the trailers in their shiny new car.)
Weeping uncontrollably while clinging on to each other, Wanja and Kim watched in horror as the mountain of maize bags worth 20 million shillings burnt to ashes. Mohu!
That afternoon, when the downtrodden couple returned to their Valley Road apartment, they found a group of handymen hired by auctioneers carrying their belongings into a waiting lorry.
“Wait! What the heck do you think you’re doing with our stuff?” an angry Kimonyi had shouted at the handymen.
“The bank you borrowed a loan from has hired our auctioneering firm,” said one of the men, removing a sheath of papers from his coat pocket and outstretching his hand to show Kim and Wanja the official documentation authorizing the seizure of their properties.
Even their new car which they’d just drove to the apartment in was confiscated and driven away by the auctioneers, closely trailed by the large lorry packed with their household belongings. Kinya thafuria magekuwa! (They even carried the cooking pots!)
When the lorry was out of sight, and the downtrodden couple tried to open the front door of the empty apartment, they found it locked. Locked, for crying out loud!
“We have lost everything…riu togweka atia?” Wanja began to weep. “Everything we had, we’ve lost…boo hoo hooo…”
Wanja and Kim have since moved to Kariobangi, a neighbourhood in Eastlands Nairobi, where they’ve rented a small single room in a humble residential plot. They have to share the sole bathroom and loo with 50 other residents of the plot.
Wanja now runs a small kibanda (wooden stall) where she sells onions, tomatoes, cabbages and sukuma wiki. She now spends most of her time chopping up sukuma for her customers. Her proficiency with the knife has greatly improved.
Kimonyi, oh poor Kimonyi, spends his days pushing a handcart packed with jerricans of water, selling the water to his clients. Business, he was recently heard lamenting, is bad.
Though a far cry from their earlier ostentatious lifestyle, the Kimonyis are gradually adapting to life in Kariobangi. They’re planning to follow the proceedings of the up-coming football World Cup on their newly acquired kameme (very small radio).
Next time your palm gets itchy, bwana, be wise. Don’t tell your wife about it. But if she happens to find out, blithely disregard her advice. It’ll save money…lots of money…
© Denis Kabi, 2010
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Black Panther Review
“You are a good man, with a good heart. And it’s hard for a good man to be a king.”
Since the fantastic first look at Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in Civil War, I’d been eagerly anticipating this solo film and a full look at his world. It certainly didn’t disappoint, going beyond my already high expectations in a wonderfully realized film with both captivating moments of superhero action and deep, resonant themes that provide a lot to think about. This is a film that shows deep respect for culture and tradition while carefully considering the forces and necessity of change, largely through Michael B. Jordan’s fantastic showing as a villain who has validity in his point of view but flaws in his chosen course of action. Eric Killmonger’s rhetoric isn’t easily dismissed, and the moral questions he inspires in T’Challa both anchor and plague our hero’s story.
Mention should also be made of Black Panther’s excellent portrayal of women as an important part of their society in a seamless way that speaks to true respect. The new king is surrounded by several confident, powerful women who are rightfully treated as the experts they are, have significant roles in the narrative, and are amazingly brought to life by pitch perfect performances by Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letita Wright, and Angela Bassett (among others).
I’m not going to attempt a full laundry list of all the other ways in which Black Panther excels, but it’s simply excellent and continues the evolution of Marvel Cinematic Universe in important ways. It reminded me a bit of the also incredible Thor: Ragnarok, in elements like the way secondary characters are getting deeper and more nuanced development as well as (further) refining the impeccable balance of drama and humor the MCU’s known for. This is one of the very best movie’s I’ve seen in recent memory, and it’s wonderful to see a film strive for such depth and meaning while entertaining and succeed so thoroughly.
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Zhang Hongtu
Editorial: Duke University Press Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-02-05
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese art, Zhang created the first example of "China Pop" art, and his oeuvre is as diverse, intellectually complex, and engaging as it is entertaining. From painting and sculpture to computer generated works and… multimedia projects, Zhang's art is equally rich in terms of China's history and its current events, containing profound reflections on China's oldest cultural habits and contemporary preoccupations. He provides a model of cross-cultural interaction designed to make Asian and Western audiences look more closely at each other and at themselves to recognize the beliefs they hold and the unexamined values they adhere to. From his early work in China during the Cultural Revolution to his decades as an artist in New York, Zhang reflects the complex attitudes of a scholar-artist toward modernity, as well as toward Asian and Western societies and himself.� Placing Zhang in the context of his cultural milieu both in China and in the Chinese immigrant artist community in America, this volume's contributors examine his adaptations of classic art to reflect a contemporary sensibility, his relation to Cubism and Social Realism, his collaboration with the celebrated fashion designer Vivienne Tam, and his visual critique of China's current environmental crisis. Zhang's work will be on display at the Queens Museum in New York City from October 17, 2015 to March 6, 2016. Contributors: Julia F. Andrews, Alexandra Chang, Tom Finkelpearl, Michael Fitzgerald, Wu Hung, Luchia Meihua Lee, Morgan Perkins, Kui Yi Shen, Jerome Silbergeld, Eugenie Tsai, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Lilly Wei Co-published by the Queens Museum and Duke University Press.
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DOJ Advisory: Online Application for NBI Clearance now available
The Department of Justice today announced that beginning on 24 January 2014, applicants for the NBI Clearance can now apply and fill out the complete form online at www.doj.gov.ph/nbi or www.nbi.gov.ph.
"With the implementation of the new NBI system, we shall continue to roll-out and implement solutions to progressively eliminate queues and simplify processes," said Secretary of Justice Leila M. de Jima. "Online application is the logical next step after the switch," she added.
The NBI system is now run by the DOJ, a first in the agency's history and substantially upgrades the old systems.Newly appointed NBI Director Virgilio L. Mendez said "This is just our third full week of operation under our watch but we expect significant progress in the coming weeks with the delivery of additional equipment and increase in personnel." He added that the Renewal Module will be implemented next.
The NBI Clearance System is a component of the flagship National Justice Information System (NJIS) to link and share information among justice sector institutions.
After the online registration, applicants may proceed directly to any of the fifty-five (55) sites nationwide for payment and biometric enrollment for the release of the clearance. A list of these areas is available at http://www.nbi.gov.ph.
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2017 Countdown #2: Best Underrated Gem
Every year, there are those few dramas with famous headliners that get a ton of hype even before they hit the air. But what about the other ones that fell under the radar because they didn’t have as famous or popular of a cast? Never fear; that’s what we’re here for! As true drama fans, we’re willing to give everything a watch a least once. In our neverending quest to find the best drama, we’ve come across quite a few that were truly excellent, but didn’t get nearly enough attention this year.
2017 Countdown’s #2: Best Underrated Gem is for the dramas that deserve spotlights shone on them!
Best Underrated Gem of 2017
Anna: As I’ve become older, my taste in dramas have, undoubtedly, changed. (Less flower boys, and more successful professional men, please.) But, if there is one drama theme that I’ve always tried to steer clear of is the school theme. There are some really great ones that I’ve watched and loved over the years, but it’s gotta be something special. In 2017, however, Solomon’s Perjury was that for me. This drama captivated me with its murder-mystery storyline and strong performances by its mostly rookie cast of actors and actresses. The twists in the plot were well done and propelled the story forward in a logical manner. What I liked the most about this drama was, surprisingly, the school setting. Unlike other school-themed dramas, the school itself in Solomon’s Perjury played the role of an actual character in the story. Perhaps because it was not burdened by a famous cast or viewer expectations, but Solomon’s Perjury was allowed to do whatever it wanted and consequently became one of my favorites in 2017.
Runner-up: Estelle and I came across The Sound of Your Heart completely by chance when we were hanging out on a Friday night and browsing Netflix. Right away, I was hooked onto the show and loved how irreverent and funny it was. The jokes in it aren’t the most sophisticated, but can’t we all appreciate a well-done poop joke once in awhile? The cast (Lee Kwang Soo, Jung So Min, etc.) is solidly funny and charming in its own right. I also appreciate that the drama is made up of relatively short standalone episodes. Since that Friday night, I’ve watched The Sound of Your Heart many more times and continue to laugh each time.
Estelle: Though I’ve gotten older, my taste in drama has more or less remained the same, unlike Anna (hehe). I’m still a sucker for a good school drama, not because I want to recapture lost youth or anything like that, but because I love the innocence, the simpleness, and perhaps some of that nostalgia – bits that remind me of how easy it was to just go next door to split a late night pizza with friends. Maybe my already biased opinion towards school themed dramas has something to do with it, but I really thought Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo was beautifully written, and showed us a different heroine whom we can all appreciate. I have already dedicated an entire post to this drama, so I won’t bore you all with details about how much I love it, but it is definitely one I would watch again and again. Also, it doesn’t hurt that the girl outshines the guy in this – I mean c’mon dramaworld, let’s break out of these predefined gender stereotypes already, it’s almost 2018!
What were your favorite dramas from this year that more people should know about and watch? Any that you came across by chance and loved?
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone, and stay tuned tomorrow for the finale of our 2017 Countdown… Best Drama!
2017 Countdown #3: Best Actor & Actress
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2 thoughts on “2017 Countdown #2: Best Underrated Gem”
humbledaisy1 says:
Well, I just started the completely ridiculous and fluffy “Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me” and so far, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Most dramas set in schools with rich kids appeal to me about as much as Heirs did. But I’ve only heard discussion of this on My Drama List so that makes it an overlooked gem to me.
sparksofember says:
I agree Weightlifting Fairy was a rare gem. But my vote goes to Cambrian Period. Perhaps this wouldn’t be so underrated if it had gotten subbed by Dramafever or Viki. But since it didn’t, there are precious few who have even heard of this drama which was very different from most dramas I’ve seen and a well-told, gripping story and swoony romance.
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by Lisa Dean, June 2019
Lisa is the Head of Global Compliance in Thinkstep's global EPR compliance division and has over 7 years experience as a Compliance Consultant.
On 29 May 2019 the SB-54 was passed in state senate and its companion bill, AB-1080 was passed in the state assembly on 20 May 2019. The Bills enact the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act.
What does this mean for you?
The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) is required to adopt regulations by 1 January 2023, that would require manufacturers and retailers of single-use packaging or priority single-use plastic products to source reduce those products and ensure that those products are recyclable or compostable. The following requirements would be placed on manufacturers if the Bills pass the final vote:
Single-use products and packaging are to be source reduced to reusable packaging and products to the greatest extent feasible
All single-use products and packaging should be recyclable or compostable by 2030
Manufacturers are to meet a waste reduction rate of no less than 20% on and after 1 January 2024; no less than 40% on and after 1 January 2028; and no less than 75% on and after 1 January 2030. The targets are to be met through source reduction, recycling, or composting
What is a priority single-use plastic product?
A priority single-use plastic product are the 10 single-use plastic products that are the most littered in California. This will be determined by the department based on litter surveys conducted in California between 2017 and 2020.
The only products expressly exempt from the scope of the bills are medical devices and products that are required to be sterile; prescription medicine; and the packaging used for such products.
An increase in single use plastic bans
In April 2019, New York imposed a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags, the Law is due to come into effect in March 2020. Hawaii also has a single use plastic bag ban and has since proposed a Bill that would prohibit restaurants and government agencies from using plastic items such as bottles, straws, utensils and foam containers, by 2022. Further afield, the European Parliament approved a Single-Use Plastics Directive on 27 March 2019.
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China bans same-sex romance from TV screens
By Shen Lu and Katie Hunt, CNN
Updated 0759 GMT (1559 HKT) March 3, 2016
Two men cuddle in this screen grab from Chinese same-sex drama "Addicted Heroin" taken from a video uploaded on the show's official YouTube channel. It was pulled from Chinese online video streaming websites last week.
TV shows shouldn't include gay relationships, affairs, one-night stands and underage love
Move comes after popular gay online drama was banned
Latest example of what appears to be a government campaign for stricter morality
Beijing (CNN) Chinese censors say television shows shouldn't include story lines involving gay relationships, plus other topics that "exaggerate the dark side of society," according to new guidelines.
The eight-page document on "vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content" posted on the website of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association, was dated December 31 but was widely reported in Chinese state media this week.
It comes after a popular same-sex drama "Addicted Heroin" was pulled from online video streaming websites last week, unleashing an uproar on social media. The show can now only be viewed on YouTube, which is blocked in China.
As well as homosexuality, the guidelines deemed extramarital affairs, one-night stands and underage love off limits.
"No television drama shall show abnormal sexual relationships and behaviors, such as incest, same-sex relationships, sexual perversion, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual violence, and so on," the regulations state.
The document also listed a wide range of topics forbidden on TV, including those that might damage the country's image, promote lavish lifestyles, undermine national unity and illustrate feudalism and superstitions.
Propaganda machines goes into overdrive
Morality campaign?
It's the latest example of what appears to be a government campaign for stricter morality in China and greater control over public life.
Last year, the country's censors took 120 songs deemed "harmful" to society offline.
The Shanghai Auto Show banned "car babes" -- scantily clad models who in previous years had posed provocatively on car hoods to draw crowds -- while a major cosplay convention said it would levy a fine of $800 on women who reveal "more than two centimeters of cleavage."
And in December 2014, government censors pulled a TV show set in the Tang Dynasty off air for the ample bosoms it featured. It later re-appeared with the cleavage blurred out.
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Hundreds Of Illegal Marijuana Grow Operations Sprout In Shadow Of Mount Shasta
MOUNT SHASTA, Siskiyou County (KPIX 5) — It’s happening in the shadow of Mount Shasta — hundreds of marijuana gardens pockmarking the landscape in neighborhoods that have little in the way of housing.
For law enforcement officials in Siskiyou County, it’s a state of emergency.
“This is a monumental effort but, then again, we’ve got a monumental problem,” says Sheriff Jon E. Lopey.
What’s unfolding in this county is a race between growers and the law to see who can get to the countless grow gardens first.
“We’re in harvest season. We’re really putting a lot of resources into it and a lot of personnel, trying to take out as much as we can before it gets harvested and goes off back east or wherever it’s going,” said Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Gilley.
You can see the enormous extent of the grow gardens from space. Fire up Google Earth and you can count grow after grow dotting the high desert landscape like an outbreak of measles.
“I have a one-mile-square photograph and you can pick out 80 gardens in that one square mile,” said Sgt. Gilley.
All of this is happening in a county that is decidedly not part of the “Emerald Triangle.” In fact, elected officials and voters have passed laws aimed at keeping marijuana out of Siskiyou County.
“Our county does not allow outdoor cultivation of cannabis,” asserts Sheriff Lopey.
Siskiyou County has some of the cheapest — as well as most scenic — land you can find in California. You can purchase nearly three acres for about $16,000. That brings in people who see an opportunity. The sheriff thinks those people represent a nationwide problem.
“I think … that this is an organized-crime effort. (They) basically take over large geographic areas to grow illegal marijuana. That’s basically what it amounts to,” Lopey said.
Source: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/10/27/marijuana-illegal-grow-mount-shasta-siskiyou-county/(contains video report) October 2017
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Donna Kay Erickson Gramlich (1950–2006) was one of the “faces” of Little Miss Sunbeam, the mascot of Sunbeam Bread. She was born in Champaign, the daughter of Darrell B. and Dorothy (Curtis) Erickson. Petite, blond, and attractive, Donna portrayed Little Miss Sunbeam from the age of five. She was a student of the well-known Thelma Leah Rose’s dancing school of Urbana. In addition to dancing, Donna was also an accomplished singer; her dual skills won many local and national talent and variety shows. While on tour for Sunbeam Bread, she made television and personal appearances before large audiences across the United States. Donna went on to become a flight attendant for TWA and a certified nursing assistant at the Champaign County Nursing Home.
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Gender, Rank and IR: Missing Role Models
2016-03-29 / Steve Saideman / 1 Comment
Last week, I asked a question online that was asked of me and then I asked at the ISA two weeks ago:
Can you name women of color working in the US or Canada who do IR and are full professors?
At the ISA, folks could only name one or two. On twitter and facebook and my blog since then, the total has increased to eleven:
· Neta Crawford of Boston University.
· Condoleeza Rice, who was a full prof at Stanford before becoming provost and then worst National Security Adviser.
· Jacqueline Braveboy Wagner, City College of New York.
· Reeta Tremblay of U of Victoria.
· L.H.M Ling of the New School.
· Katherine Moon of Wellesley.
· Zehra Arat of U of Connecticut
· Christine Chin of American U
· Saadia Pekkanen of U of Washington
· Nazli Choucri of MIT
· Sheila Nair of Northern Arizona U.
Not great. Sure, we could be missing a few, but this short list demonstrates the point that my friend was making: there are damn few role models/mentors in US/Canada IR for women who are not white.
One can quibble with the various modifiers/restrictions in the question:
what is IR? I tended to exclude a few names of those who are experts on one country or an area and do not do foreign policy/international relations type questions. I am sure we could get the list to be significantly longer if we included women who do one area of the world. Indeed, some of the women above can be considered area studies people but have done some IR-ish stuff. While the ISA is
broadly inclusive so that it includes area studies people, the point of this exercise was about whether women who do IR might have mentors, not whether there are women who do IR or comparative. Also, in the conversation I had with my friend, her concern was in part about the implicit and sometimes explicit expectations to be an expert in the area of the world her family comes from rather than being an expert on general IR stuff. There is a tendency to push people of color to study stuff like an area of the world or race and ethnicity, whereas white people can be expected to study anything.
why US/Canada? Well, the friend is in US/Canada North America and was pondering the availability of mentors. There was no intent to diminish the contributions of women of color at schools in other parts of the world. While the internet makes it possible to confer with people around the world, one is likely to meet up with people in the same region
why women of color? That was the way it was put to me. We could use other ways to talk about race, such as visible minority (the Canadian way to refer to these kinds of identities), but I stuck with the term that was most inclusive. And identity is always tricky: are Arab Americans people of color? Traditionally, not so much. Since 9/11? Maybe. I asked a full prof I know whether she was a person of color and she said she was not, but understood how some might see her fit that category. Anyhow, I was not aiming at perfect coding, but at getting a general idea, and the paucity of names is suggestive.
A quick look at this reveals a few patterns: no Latinas, three African-Americans and then Asian-Americans making the majority of the list. So, yeah, there are few role models for African-American women and none for Latinas who want to do IR. There are few women of color that undergraduates, grad students and junior profs can look to and think “well, they made it so maybe I can, too.””
Most of the women listed are post-positivist, which could mean either that women who do such work are more likely to make it through the leaky pipeline, or there might be an affinity for a particular kind of IR by women of color, or maybe sampling bias as one of my key sources of names knew these people because their work speaks to each other.
One Canadian, several in the Northeast/New England area, a few from the West Coast, and nothing in between or down south. So, if you want to meet your mentor, it means traveling for most folks.
How do we “fix” this? How do we have more women full professors of color in IR? Obviously, whatever barriers exist to promoting women and people of color need to be broken down. I used to work at a university where there was an apparent barrier between associate and full, and that helped to perpetuate the gender imbalance. Indeed, in Canada anyway, it seems like the process to become tenured is far easier than becoming Full even though the former means lifetime employment and the latter might mean a raise. In the US? I don’t know. But there has been stuff written on the leaky pipeline, so we need to find the leaks and plug them, including discrimination in citation patterns and in listings on syllabi and differential service obligations (women end up doing more service, which may not help them get promoted).
A different friend of mine told me at the ISA that none of the female associates have received outside offers, and all of the male associate profs in her department have received such offers even though the women have better research scores. How does that happen? Such a perfect (and awful) correlation of gender and opportunities? Getting outside offers is one way for people to get promoted faster, and it seems at least in that one case (more survey work required) one key tool to fast promotion has been denied. So, perhaps one way to deal with this problem is to make sure that senior searches take seriously the full range of candidates and not just the first names that come to mind?
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Substance Use Experiences and Hepatitis C Treatment Decision-Making Among HIV/HCV Co-infected Adults: A Dissertation
Lisa Marie Fink Ogawa, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects between 150,000 to 300,000 human immunodeficiency (HIV) positive adults in the US (Alter et al., 1999; Sherman, Rouster, Chung, & Rajicic, 2002). The majority of co-infected adults (50%-90%) have acquired HCV through substance abuse (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 1998; CDC, 2006b). A patient's decision to begin HCV treatment is not straightforward. HCV evaluation and treatment involves a significant amount of time, energy, effort, and compliance on the part of the patient. There is limited information on how adults with HCV mono-infection make decisions about HCV evaluation and treatment (Fraenkel, McGraw, Wongcharatraee, & Garcia-Tsao, 2005). Even less is known about how adults with HIV/HCV co-infection with a history of substance abuse make treatment decisions. The purpose of this study was to describe substance abuse experiences and to explore how these related to patient decision-making about HCV treatment in HIV/HCV co-infected adults. Qualitative descriptive design and secondary data analysis were used to study these phenomena. Data were managed by using NVivo software and analyzed by secondary data analysis and qualitative content analysis.
Five major themes with sub-themes emerged during the data analysis. They were: (1) The Evolution of Substance Abuse (with sub-themes: substance abuse initiation, escalation, polysubstance abuse, normalcy: a family of addicts, the enemy within, and transmission and disclosure), (2) Revolving Door: Going Back Out (with sub-themes: specific events as a trigger, emotions as a trigger, alcohol as a trigger, and destructive relationships as a trigger), and (3) Reconstructing Life (with sub-themes: defining moments in substance abuse addiction and maintaining sobriety), (4) HCV Infection Treatment Issues (with sub-themes: HCV treatment: not a priority, fear, and misinformation, and desire to use stimulated during HCV treatment), and (5) Get Clean and Try It.
The participants spoke about how their substance abuse evolved from inception to sobriety, and for some it remained a problem. Relapse and recovery were fragile in nature especially in these adults with HIV/HCV co-infection. The decision-making process is influenced by substance abuse experiences, however more research is needed to uncover specific factors influencing these decisions.
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Ravi Gururaj’s Qikpod hits legal hurdle
Pankaj Mishra May 27, 2016 3 min
One of India’s most ambitious startups, Qikpod, which raised a record amount of funding in a seed round last November, has run into trouble with a fight between its founder and an associate reaching the courts over ownership of the company.
Neeraj Ray, an early associate of serial entrepreneur Ravi Gururaj’s e-commerce locker startup, Qikpod, has filed an injunction suit against the latter, accusing Gururaj of not giving him promised equity in the startup. Injunction means a court order prohibiting a person to do something.
A Bangalore civil court has passed an interim order, a copy of which FactorDaily has reviewed, refraining Gururaj’s venture from either “allotting or issuing new shares in the company”, or from “commercially launching the Meralocker Qikpod product during pendency of the suit”.
Gururaj has approached the Karnataka High Court, which has has given an interim stay on the trial court order and asked Ray to present his case on June 3. Gururaj, who chairs industry body Nasscom’s Product Council, is a serial entrepreneur with at least two successful exits to Nadaq-listed buyers, according to his LinkedIn profile
QikPod had raised $9 million in seed funding from Accel Partners, Flipkart, Delhivery and Foxconn Mobile late last year. This was billed as the largest seed round fund raising in India. Qikpod aims to set up a network of automated electronic parcel lockers across the country to help with delivery of ecommerce orders.
“The contention of the plaintiff is that due to his innovative ideas he had important portfolios and he invented a product which would serve delivery box or locker for stoic packages delivered by the e-company such as Amazon, Flipkart, etc., and he named the product as Meralocker,” the interim order said.
“The launch of the product Qik Pod and issuance of shares in the Company is subject to court orders. We have no other statement to make, as the matter is still pending before the court,” Ray said in a statement.
Ray, a technology industry veteran working with UK-headquartered British Telecom until few weeks ago, was involved with Gururaj’s startup idea sometime for few months, according to another person familiar with the venture.
Gururaj emailed the following comment to FactorDaily on Thursday:
A false and frivolous case has been initiated by Mr. Neeraj Ray. The allegations made and reliefs sought are false and unsustainable. We have, already, approached the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore, challenging the ex-parte ad-interim injunctions granted by the Hon’ble Trial Court on 26.04.2016. The Hon’ble High Court was pleased to grant an interim order of stay; which in effect, allows us to proceed with the launch of our ‘QikPod’ product.
I would like to make no further comments on the merits of the matter, as the same is sub-judice. In any event, as things stand, the commercial launch of our ‘QikPod’ product will proceed as planned.”
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Fishing Rodeo draws anglers of all ages
May 18, 2016 by Tammy Cheek
Children from 1 year old to 14 fished Anchor Park’s banks for catfish during the 32nd Annual Bob Watt Youth Fishing Rodeo.
The event, hosted by town of Farragut, took place at Anchor Park in Farragut on May 14 and was sponsored by the Watt family, Farragut resident Charley Benziger and Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, which stocked the pond with about 600 pounds of catfish on Monday, May 9.
“It’s just a beautiful day, and the kids are excited about fishing,” Stephanie Brown, Farragut resident, said. “[Daughter Nellie-Kate, 2,] kept saying, ‘Fish. Fish.”
“Do the fish know we are fishing for them?” Hamza Muhammed, a Farragut boy, asked. “Are they that smart?”
“I think it’s wonderful,” Betty Watt, widow of the late Bob Watt, after whom the event was named, said. “It’s so special to our family.”
“This is just the highlight of our year to do this,” Rachel Watt David, Betty and the late Bob Watt’s daughter, said.
“Bob was born and raised in Farragut, and he knew the area,” Betty said. “He used to hunt and fish here.
“It used to be Farragut Fishing Rodeo, but when he was an alderman in Farragut and left office, [former] Mayor Eddy Ford renamed the event Bob Watt Youth Fishing Rodeo,” Betty said.
David said her father was honored and humbled the event was renamed after him.
Lauren Cox, Farragut Special Event and Program coordinator, said 104 children attended this year and by 10 a.m., some had caught quite a few so far.
This year’s winners for the biggest fish were Nevaeh Pray, girls 6 and under category; Xavier Truman, boys 6 and under; Greysen Delph, girls 7 to 9; Aiden Gaston, boys 7 to 9; Kate Giancalone, girls 10 to 13; and Ben Crutchfield, boys 10 to 13.
There was a tie, Victoria Khomenko and Jonathan Godderz for the most fish caught, and Alyvia Dubay won for the smallest fish, Cox said.
Volunteers handed out bait and fishing rods and reels to children who needed them, fixed fishing lines and got fish off hooks for weighing, she said.
“It’s pretty nice,” Jonathan Goedderz, 9, of LaFollette, said. “I like to fish.”
“We saw the ad. My daughter picked it up online,” Jim Goedderz, Jonathan’s grandfather and LaFollette resident, said. “It’s a chance to spend time together. He likes to fish and I like to fish.”
Dylan Kimble of Knoxville brought four poles for which to fish with his grandmother, Julia Stumpft of Clinton.
“Mama saw the poster in Knoxville,” Dylan said. “I like it. I like the sport, and I know how to do it.”
“I came to supervise the tournament champ,” Stumpft said. “In the past, he won the championship.”
“We love it,” Caitlin Curtis, Farragut resident, said. “It’s such a great, cute event. We just moved here last summer. They didn’t have anything like this where we were from.”
Jennifer Roles, Lenoir City resident, said she brought her children, Kingston, 7, and Emery Roles, to do some fishing.
“I just thought it would be fun to do,” Roles said.
“I like it,” Kingston said. “I like being patient and watching the line.”
“It’s exciting,” Alena Khomen-ko, Hardin Valley resident, said. “It’s fun for little ones. I wish they had something like that when I was growing up.”
Patty Carter, Hardin Valley resident, brought her grandchildren, Preston Wagener, 6, and Jacob Stoner, 7, to Anchor Park for the fishing rodeo.
“Bryan Watt, part of the [late] Bob Watt family, told us about the fishing event,” Kelley Stoner, Jacob’s mother, said.
“I went with daddy fishing once, but I ate most of the [bait] corn,” Preston said.
“The last time I fished it was in a little lake at my grandfather’s,” Jacob said.
“I thought we were going to catch a bunch of fish,” Craig Dicus, Farragut resident said. He brought wife, Maggy, and sons, Joseph, Jackson and Cooper.
“…and get off the video games,” Maggie Dicus said. “It seems like two people set it up to do this.”
“It’s our first time coming,” Craig Dicus said. “The boys enjoy casting more, and reeling [the fish] in.”
“It’s our second time,” Kevin Kral, Knoxville resident, said. “We love it. It’s good to bring the kids, and even if they don’t catch anything, it’s still fun trying.”
“My son is very interested in fishing,” Ivy Yin, Farragut resident, said. “He never did this before, so we came here to try.”
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Alber Elbaz Rings In 10 Years at Lanvin with a Song, Celebs, and a Glamorous Fall Collection
The creatures who inhabit the fashion world are often prickly and polarizing but Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz, who tonight celebrated 10 years at the
Leah Chernikoff
The creatures who inhabit the fashion world are often prickly and polarizing but Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz, who tonight celebrated 10 years at the label with the presentation of his fall 2012 collection and a party immediately following, is pretty much beloved by all. And for good reason. The smiley, bespectacled, bow-tied designer is self-deprecating and doesn't take himself too seriously. (He once said, when asked about the pressure designers face today "I don't take drugs because if I did I'd love them - I'd be a junkie. And because I'm Jewish, I'd probably be a dealer too." There was also that time he danced to Pitbull.) He's enormously talented but stays humble. Oh and he's generous. Very generous. Most people receive presents when they celebrate a milestone anniversary. Elbaz gives them out.
Here is how the designer chose to ring in 10 years at Lanvin last night:
The invitation, doodled over with a cartoon sketch of Elbaz and a string of hearts, told guests to arrive at La Halle Freyssinet, a massive space in the 13th arrondissement, at 8:30 for the show that would be followed by "d'une fun party." Guests arrived at the space to find the venue in full birthday party mode: three-tiered cakes and hors d'oeuvres like finger sandwiches and balls of foie gras and chocolate lined the runway.
Everyone gets champagne. Dapper waiters were stationed along the runway with champagne, but if you didn't feel like waiting around and getting a flute for yourself, waiters passed out champagne to everyone--from the front row (which included celebs like Tilda Swinton, Jessica Alba, Pharell Williams and Dita Von Teese) to the folks standing in the 12th.
The show. It was an exciting, over-the-top, celebration that kicked off with a series of classic Lanvin shapes--peplum-hipped dresses and form-fitting numbers with high collars and low backs done in neoprene so they held their signature Lanvin ruffles--in bold jewel tones. From jewel-tones, actual jewels worked their way into the collection. After a series of black looks that played with structure and volume (work that short flared skirt, Karlie), gem stones, big ones, sparkly ones, were arranged boldly over the front of dresses. Then came the furs, the ruffles, the peplums, the silk prints, all of it more-is-more and more worked. The A-list model line-up played up their looks, with Aymeline Valade "werking" her ruffles and elbow length red gloves like models used to in the '70s and '80s. The last looks elicited shrieks and claps and whistles from the crowd.
After the show. A curtain parted and there was Alber, standing on a stage hung with strings of lights and chandeliers standing behind a microphone. The entire crowd rose to their feet with cheers and applause. When everyone quieted down (it took a while) Alber announced he was going to sing. He was dedicating the song, he said, to all the people in fashion who had helped him "realize his dream...I love you." "I rehearsed a few times but I'm a terrible singer," he said before launching into a very sweet rendition of "Que Sera Sera." What a healthy attitude to have in fashion.
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An izakaya in Gotanda, Tokyo. The signboard on the right shows a menu with regular dishes (left) and season's entry – nabe (right).
An izakaya (居酒屋) (Japanese: [izakaja])[1] is a type of informal Japanese pub. They are casual places for after-work drinking. They have been compared to Irish pubs, tapas bars and early American saloons and taverns.[2]
3 Dining style
4 Typical menu items
4.1 Alcoholic drinks
5.1 Akachōchin
5.2 Cosplay
5.3 Oden-ya
5.4 Robatayaki
5.5 Yakitori-ya
6 In literature, TV drama and film
The word izakaya entered the English language by 1987.[3] It is a compound word consisting of i (to stay) and sakaya (sake shop), indicating that izakaya originated from sake shops that allowed customers to sit on the premises to drink.[4] Izakaya are sometimes called akachōchin (red lantern) in daily conversation, as such paper lanterns are traditionally found in front of them.
Taipei izakaya in 1951
Historian Penelope Francks points to the development of the izakaya in Japan, especially in Edo and along main routes, as one indicator of the growing popularity of sake as a consumer good by the late 18th century.[5] Before the Meiji period, people drank alcohol in sake shops while standing. Some stores started using sake barrels as stools. Later, snacks were added.[6]
An izakaya in Tokyo made international news in 1962, when Robert F. Kennedy ate there during a meeting with Japanese labor leaders.[7]
Dining style[edit]
People at an izakaya, sitting by the bar and facing the kitchen.
Izakayas are often likened to taverns or pubs, but there are a number of differences.[8][9][10]
Depending on the izakaya, customers either sit on tatami mats and dine from low tables, as in the traditional Japanese style, or sit on chairs and drink/dine from tables. Many izakaya offer a choice of both as well as seating by the bar. Some izakaya restaurants are also tachi-nomi style, literally translated as "drinking while standing".[11]
Usually, customers are given an oshibori (wet towel) to clean their hands; the towels are cold in summer and hot in winter. Next, a tiny snack/an appetizer, called an otōshi in the Tokyo area or tsukidashi in the Osaka-Kobe area, will be served.[12] It is local custom and usually charged onto the bill in lieu of an entry fee.
The menu may be on the table, displayed on walls, or both. Picture menus are common in larger izakaya. Food and drink are ordered throughout the course of the session as desired. They are brought to the table, and the bill is added up at the end of the session. Unlike other Japanese styles of eating, food items are usually shared by everyone at the table, similar to Spanish tapas.
Common formats for izakaya (as well as much other) dining in Japan are known as nomi-hōdai ("all you can drink") and tabe-hōdai ("all you can eat"). For a set price per person, customers can continue ordering as much food and/or drink as they wish, usually with a time limit of two or three hours.
Izakaya dining can be intimidating to non-Japanese because of the wide variety of menu items and the slow pace. Food is normally ordered slowly over several courses rather than all at once. The kitchen will serve the food when it is ready rather than in the formal courses of Western restaurants. Typically a beer is ordered when one is sitting down before perusing the menu. Quickly prepared dishes such as hiyayakko or edamame are ordered first, followed with progressively more robust flavors such as yakitori or kara-age, finishing the meal with a rice or noodle dish to fill up.[13]
Typical menu items[edit]
A mock-up of an izakaya style menu
The wide variety of izakayas offer all sorts of dishes. Items typically available are:[14][15]
Alcoholic drinks[edit]
Sake (nihonshu)[16] is a Japanese rice wine that is made through the fermentation of rice that has been polished to remove the bran. Unlike wine, the alcohol in sake is produced by the starch being converted into sugars.
Beer (biiru)[10][16]
Shōchū
Sour mix (sawā)
Chūhai
Some establishments offer a bottle keep service, where a patron can purchase an entire bottle of liquor (usually shōchū or whisky) and store the unfinished portion for a future visit.[17]
Food[edit]
Main article: Sakana
Cold edamame beans and a cold Japanese beer
Izakaya food is usually more substantial than tapas or mezze. Many items are designed to be shared.
Edamame – boiled and salted soybean pods[10]
Goma-ae – various vegetables served with a sesame dressing[18]
Karaage – bite-sized fried chicken
Kushiyaki – grilled meat or vegetable skewers
Salads[10]
Sashimi – slices of raw fish[10]
Tebasaki – chicken wings
Tofu[10]
Agedashi dōfu – deep fried tofu in broth
Hiyayakko – chilled silken tofu with toppings
Tsukemono – pickles
Yakisoba noodles[10]
Yakitori – grilled chicken skewers[10]
Rice dishes such as ochazuke and noodle dishes such as yakisoba are sometimes eaten at the end to round off a drinking session. For the most part, the Japanese do not eat rice or noodles (shushoku – "staple food") at the same time as they drink alcohol, since sake, brewed from rice, traditionally takes the place of rice in a meal.[citation needed]
Types[edit]
Izakaya were traditionally down-to-earth places where men drank sake and beer after work.[19] That trend is complemented by a growing population of independent women and students. Many izakaya today cater to a more diverse clientele by offering cocktails and wines as well as by improving the interior. Chain izakaya are often large and offer an extensive selection of food and drink, allowing it to host big, sometimes rowdy, parties. Watami, Shoya, Shirokiya, Tsubohachi, and Murasaki are some well known chains in Japan.[20]
Akachōchin[edit]
Akachōchin ("red lantern") with kanji "Izakaya" written on it
Akachōchin for nikomi (right) and nobori banner for nabe (center)
Izakayas are often called akachōchin ("red lantern") after the red paper lanterns traditionally displayed outside.[21] Today, the term usually refers to small, non-chain izakaya.[citation needed] Some unrelated businesses that are not izakaya also sometimes display red lanterns.[22]
Cosplay[edit]
Cosplay izakaya became popular in the 2000s. The staff wears the costume and waits on customers. Sometimes, shows are run. Costumes include those for butlers and maids.[23][24]
Oden-ya[edit]
Main article: Oden
Establishments specialising in oden are called oden-ya. They usually take the form of street stalls with seating and are popular in winter.
Robatayaki[edit]
Main article: Robatayaki
Robatayaki are places in which customers sit around an open hearth on which chefs grill seafood and vegetables. Fresh ingredients are displayed for customers to point at whenever they want to order.
Oden street stall in the property of Sensō-ji in Asakusa
Activity at a robatayaki. Seafood and vegetables to cook displayed
Yakitori-ya[edit]
Chicken skewers (Yakitori)
Yakitori-ya specialise in yakitori.[25] The chicken skewers are often grilled in front of customers.
In literature, TV drama and film[edit]
Izakaya appear in Japanese novels with adaptations to TV drama and film. They have also inspired manga and gekiga. A modern novel Izakaya Chōji (居酒屋兆治)[26] is an example where the main character manages an izakaya; in the film adaptation, Ken Takakura played the part of Chōji.[27] A TV drama was produced in 1992 on Friday Drama Theater, Fuji Television.[28]
Images of izakaya in jidaigeki novels and films reflect the modern drinking and dining style of today sitting at tables. This was not often seen in countryside – aside from station towns along kaidō highways in the 17th to mid-19th century. Capacities at izakaya were restricted in major cities in the period that jidaigeki TV shows and films/movies set in Edo.[clarification needed]
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ITC CEO Yogesh Deveshwar To Quit Next Year
Mumbai: ITC Ltd, India’s largest cigarette maker, said Yogesh Deveshwar would step down as chief executive next year and serve as non-executive chairman for three years thereafter.
ITC’s board had “strongly urged” Deveshwar to continue as CEO, but he wanted the company to have a younger leader, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The company did not name a successor to Deveshwar.
Deveshwar, 69, joined ITC in 1968, according to the company’s website. He has been the CEO and chairman of the company for more than two decades.
In a notification to the BSE, the company said, “When Mr. Deveshwar assumed office as Executive Chairman in January, 1996, the company was confronted with formidable challenges….The contributions of Mr. Deveshwar are far too many to recount but an attempt is being made to cover some of the salient ones.”
The statement from the company also noted that when Deveshwar under his tenure and leadership, the company’s revenue has grown from Rs 5,200 crore to Rs 51,582 crore, a near ten-fold jump.
Between 1991 and 1994, Deveshwar led state-owned carrier Air India as chairman and managing director. He’s also a director on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India.
ITC, which is nearly 25% owned by British American Tobacco Plc, sells four of every five cigarettes in India. The Indian company has been hit by higher taxes on tobacco products and a government push to discourage tobacco consumption.
On Wednesday, intraday the company’s shares were trading down 0.35% or Rs 1.25 at Rs 357.30 a piece.
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Suhana’s Snap With The ATM Card Is Attaining All The Attention
by Soumya · June 7, 2019
Being a celeb-kid, it’s almost next to impossible for a person to avoid attention from the public. From their biggest decisions to their small little habits, everything becomes a matter of interest to the people. Similar is the case with Shahrukh Khan’s little sweetheart, Suhana Khan. Suhana Khan is one of the most discussed kid-stars in the B-Town. Last year, the beautiful lady appeared on the cover page of ‘Vogue’ and left all the jaws dropped and all the hearts in awe.
Recently, she posten an image of her on her private Instagram account and the image came to the limelight soon after its appearance on her profile. Suhana donned a beautiful strapless dress and a light pendant, a matching bracelet and a little make-up complemented her look very well. However, it wasn’t the thing that caught all the attention but it was her ATM card that was kept inside her mobile cover. To this, fans filled her account with the comments. One of the comments was, “Woh card mujhe de de thakur…(Give that card to me).” Some other comments were like “ATM card in her mobile cover. There’s definitely few crores in it for daily expenses, lucky girl” and “Oh she keeps her ATM card like every other common person”.
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Suhana moved away from her home at the mere age of 16 and she thinks of it as the best decision of her life. During an interview with Vogue, she mentioned, “Moving away at age 16 was the best decision of my life. Living in a different environment and meeting so many new people helped me gain a lot of confidence. It’s about being able to do the little things, like walk on the street or take the train—stuff that was so hard to do in Mumbai. But living away also made me appreciate home so much more.”
Apart from being a perfect daughter and a beautiful model, she’s also an amazing theatre artist. Her father and B-Town’s ‘Baadshah’, Shahrukh Khan appreciates her very much but at the same time desires hard work and efforts from her side. In an interview with Glossy, he said, “Suhana is more theatre-oriented and has been doing plays in college. The best part is that she doesn’t want to learn (acting) from me. She wants to be an actor in her own right. She can be an actor if she has the passion and guts to work five times harder than me and get paid 10 times less than I do, if times don’t change for women actors. I want her to experience what my female co-stars have gone through. My daughter will be an actor like them and I want to feel the pain.”
Well, we look forward to see Suhana entering the Bollywood very soon.
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Adoption & Foster Care Stories
Read first person accounts from those impacted by discrimination in the child welfare system, and who would benefit from passage of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act.
Christian Social Worker Speaks Out on Why She Opposes Adoption Discrimination
“It pains me greatly to have worked for an agency that would discriminate against my daughter and others just because of the person that they love.”
LGBTQ Pastor Urges Members of Congress to Pass the Every Child Deserves a Family Act
“As a person of faith, I cannot agree with those who oppose this legislation based on freedom of religion. Faith calls us to love, to put the needs of another before our own. Allowing loving LGBTQ families to open their homes to foster children is a blessing to all involved… and should never be illegal.”
Tristan in Nevada
“When I would tell my foster mom about the type of bullying I was experiencing at school, she just told me to ‘suck it up’ and that I should expect this type of treatment because I am different,” Tristan said.
Dana & Christy in Michigan
They may seem to be the ideal prospective adoptive parents. Yet when they reached out to state-contracted child placing agencies to move forward with adoption, they were turned away because they are a same-sex couple.
How Discrimination Almost Kept a Celebrated Doctor from Adopting his Daughter
The process of adoption brought Christopher Harris through three different agencies, having faced discrimination at the first two. Although he superseded all requirements — having five recommendation letters and taking additional parenting courses on top of extensive paperwork — Harris often found himself waiting for months to years with no word from the agencies where he had placed all his resources.
Lucina's Story
“I grew up around openly LGBTQ Black foster children and I saw first hand how people treated them. I was fearful of becoming one of those foster children that were forced into treatment facilities due to being open about who they are. For years I told my social workers that I was Christian to protect myself from Islamophobic foster parents…”
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How Jonathan & Franco Navigated Interstate Adoption to Bring Home Their Baby Girl
“Allowing state laws to exclude potential adoptive and foster parents because of their marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity is not in the best interests of the child and reduces access to permanent, loving homes for these children. “
Our Foster to Adoption Journey
“It is comforting to know that during such an important time we do not need to hide who we are or worry that someone along the way will use their personal bias to determine we are unworthy parents for our daughter. It is also heartbreaking to know that while there are thousands of children in need of great homes like ours, many potential LGBT parents are unable to open their hearts and their doors to these children due to the discrimination that remains throughout the system.”
Forming Our Forever Family & Advocating for Change
“In the two years it took to become his dads, he had become accustomed to calling us daddy and papa. Our happiest moment was the day that we got to tell him that we were going to be more than his foster dads. He was ecstatic when he found out that he didn't have to leave and that we would be a forever family!”
Our Adoption Story
“Five years after obtaining a civil union and then a marriage license, we started the process all over with a new agency. We were welcomed with open arms. New forms were printed without 'mother and father,' but rather 'parent A and parent B'. We now have three beautiful adopted children.”
Our Adoption Story: "Strength, Love and Conviction"
“Children like my daughter need homes. They need a chance. Same sex couples offer as much love and safety as a heterosexual couple. We have strength, and love and conviction and these children need us. There are so many children in care, we shouldn't be turning away any homes. “
Fulton County's 2018 Foster Parents of the Year
“My wife and I have been foster parents since Oct 2016. We have cared for 10 children so far.
Our adoption hearing for our 2-year-old daughter is this month. We were voted Fulton County foster parents of the year for 2018, despite the belief that we shouldn't be able to be foster or adoptive parents by some. “
"Love is what children need": Lena's Foster to Adoption Story
“Love is what children need. They don’t need perfection or someone’s idea of appropriate. They don’t require two parents, both sexes as parents, or religious parents. They need someone who loves them and provides them guidance in right and wrong. Religion does not have a monopoly on that.”
Dave & Adam's Foster to Adoption Success Story
“My family is an overwhelming success story. Although our family is unique in its makeup, our son is proud that he has two dads and is very vocal about it.”
Timothy in Tennessee
“I know that limiting families for children and youth in foster care results in harm. It comes down to a feeling of safety. When I was in care, I knew I couldn’t reveal my identity to my foster parents; if I did, they would kick me out.”
Charise in Oklahoma
From trying to get fertility treatments to finding housing, [Charise and Erica] have been literally turned away at the door. The recent passage of Oklahoma Senate Bill 1140 promotes this type of discrimination, with dangerous anti-LGBTQ statues that allow publicly-funded adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents, single mothers and interfaith couples, among others.
The Buckles Family: Finding Abundant Love through Adoption
"Family is made in so many different ways. I really thought that my family would be biologically mine and it would be some how 'less than' if it happened any other way. That hasn’t been the case at all. We have found abundant love.... I really feel like Izzy and Isaac were waiting for us all along."
Trystan & Biff’s Adoption Story
He realizes that any time, their children could have been forced to back to their parents, or they could have faced a homophobic judge. But their family was lucky — their road to adoption was stressful, but legally straightforward.
Terry in Idaho
He recounts not only being shamed for his sexuality, but also forced into following his foster parents’ religious practices and beliefs. During his six years in foster care, Terry was placed with over 20 different families — an experience not unique amongst LGBTQ youth.
Scott and Josh in Florida: It Takes a Village
“We were running away from a community that was our community, and also a community that needed to see us, visibly... They needed to understand that we are out there and we deserve the same rights and laws as them."
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Home for the Holidays: Ellen & Missy’s Adoption Story
“I would just say for any parents looking to adopt, the process at times can seem extremely tedious and it could be hard — the waiting and the process they put you through. But if you want it in your heart it would be beyond anything you can imagine.”
Our Path to Adoption: How We Found An Unexpected Ally
"Grandma told us that before she gave the kids up to foster care, she asked her church for help finding these kids a home. No one came forward. When she went back to church and told the pastor that the kids were with two gay men, all of the sudden the church was full of options. But it was too late, Grandma realized that these kids are the kids that Wes and I have been dreaming of..."
Brittany & Jessica in Mississippi
Brittany and Jessica are still interested in adopting a child from foster care. But despite helping overturn the state’s ban on same-sex adoption, Mississippi lawmakers doubled-down on discrimination in 2016, passing HB1523, a sweeping “license to discriminate” law that authorizes Mississippi child welfare providers to refuse to work with LGBTQ prospective parents.
Drew in Texas
Drew Pierson is a Texas dad who first tried to adopt and foster over a decade ago, but was pushed away and discriminated against by several child-placing agencies for being a gay man.
Jason & Joe in Texas
Jason and Joe, a gay couple living in Dallas, fell in love and knew immediately they wanted to build a life together. But the couple’s dreams would be challenged by bigotry and bias against same-sex families.
David's Story
“As long as I can remember, I have been in DCF care….My mother was amazing. I remember always wanting to tell her that I was gay but just couldn’t muster the courage to. We had one problem though. Money. Every month, on the last week, we would go out to every church we could to get food to last us until the next food stamp payment. To this day I can't stop feeling like I'm not allowed inside a church because of who I am.”
The Nabozny Family’s Foster-to-Adopt Journey
The Nabozny family's adoption success story is a perfect example of the kind of loving family we stand to lose if states are allow to grant a #LicenseToDiscriminate against LGBTQ people in the foster care and adoption system.
Marcus' Story
“In foster care we try so hard to please everyone as best as we can on top of dealing with any past demons. I always feared I would be kicked out of a household for being who I was or not be able to get adopted. Unfortunately, I never did get adopted, but the independence and confidence I gained from that was definitely helpful for me. I began to come out to my friends and other foster youth and was able to embrace and accept who I was.”
Tim's Story
“To this day I can still not figure out why the department thought that it was a good idea to put an LGBTQ youth in a Christian organization that is openly against LGBTQ. While with this organization I felt like I was a prisoner and could not openly be who I was.”
Dameon's Story
“Even worse was having to join [my foster parents] when they would go on anti-LGBT rants just so I could feel secure in that I wouldn’t be kicked out of their home. My story isn’t all bad. Eventually, I became comfortable in who I was – I made friends in high school who identified on the spectrum. They made me feel safe and helped me to understand that I wasn’t an abomination – I’m just human. “
Courtney's Story
“Even though my foster mom, who came to be my adopted mom didn’t accept who I loved; I was stronger than everything I went through. I overcame so much to be who I am. I went through a lot of court dates, trial, losing people and gaining people; it wasn’t easy, but it was my life. I wasn’t going to let one more adult ruin it for me.”
Like a Paintbrush, YOU Create Your Own Destiny
“I finally found a home where I can live my authentic self and began loving who I am as a person, not hiding a part of myself that society has deemed wrong. I was placed with my two dads and 6 siblings. My dads showed me what it was like to witness a true marriage and live a normal life, expressing the meaning of what a family was about.”
Eric's Story
“A common question in child welfare is “what does normalcy look like?” …. As it pertains to LGBTQ youth, there may not even be a stable household open enough for youth to have these conversations to help themselves figure their life out; or being forced to participate in a religion that admonishes individuals who identify as LGBTQ.”
Tristan's Story
“Being in foster care is hard enough without tacking on the extra weight of being LGBTQ….there is no curriculum in the state of Nevada’s foster parent training that focuses on how to care for LGBTQ foster youth. For example, my caseworker’s supervisor saw no problems with my caseworker's behavior toward me, openly admitted to not understanding trans issues and refused attempts to have conversations about it. “
“My foster parents did not know how to be supportive, caring, and understanding. When they found out I was gay, they were angry. My foster dad said that I couldn’t be gay in his house. They did not speak to me….It took a while for them to learn, but now they are accepting and loving, and admitted to their faults in the past. I was their first exposure to LGBTQ people.”
Isaiah's Story
Isaiah was placed in two separate, but very religious foster homes. Read about the two very different experiences and how having a supportive foster family can help LGBTQ youth thrive.
Veda's Story
“I want the general public to know that LGBTQ youth that are in the child welfare system are just like every other youth that are in the system. We all go through hardships and downfalls, but we are all human. At the end of the day, we just want someone to be by our side, support us, and let us know that we’re worth it; that we’re destined to succeed.”
Julia's Story
“Aside from refusing to believe that I was genuinely attracted to the same sex, [my foster mother] also punished me by… Ironically, I would later find out that her actions were not fueled by hate at all and that she herself was also gay. Fearing that the state would remove her foster parent license for influencing my sexuality, she adamantly discouraged me from being vocal or honest about whom I was attracted to.”
Emmie's Story
“My background in foster care left me vulnerable… I had much more to lose than the average young person if those relationships were to dissolve.”
Our Adoption Story: On This Night, We Eat Pizza
“At only two short months of age he’d already had a whole life before we ever entered the picture — beginning with nine months in his first mother’s womb and continuing with social workers, cuddlers, doting nurses and doctors, lawyers and judges who made regular visits to this very courtroom… ”
Our Adoption Success Story: Celebrating Thirteen Years!
“No one can prepare you for the rollercoaster ride of parenting but our success is based on always considering our son’s needs first. We partner not only with each other but with teachers and other LGBTQ parents and our ‘Village’ to find solutions that work.”
Our Foster-to-Adopt Success Story from New Orleans
“The road to adoption is far from easy but definitely worth the trip. We couldn’t imagine our family without our boys.”
Creating Our Family Through Adoption
“Unfortunately there is no standard roadmap for LGBTQ prospective adoptive parents pursuing adoption. Every journey is unique.”
My Adoption Story: Two Moms, Legal Challenges, Loving Who I Am
“In 1992 Janet Simons and Mary Hynes, two white women, were looking to adopt, and visited me at the orphanage my mom had given me to. Two months later I went home to live with them.”
Our Adoption Journey: A Forever Family for Five Siblings
“After all, we thought, we’re both teachers. We’re organized. We’re patient. If anyone can do this for these kids, it’s us. So, we quickly became a family of seven with an 8, 6, 4, 3, and 1-year-old.”
Our Adoption Journey: Overcoming Obstacles in Alabama
“When we adopted, Ginger was listed on the home-study as my ‘roommate’ and legally, I was the parent that was adopting. It wasn’t until same-sex marriage became the law of the land, some 8 years later, that Ginger was able to also legally adopt our daughter.”
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Burial of Ugandan Ebola victim shows flash of confrontation
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
KARAMBI, Uganda (AP) — At last the pickup truck carrying the Ebola victim’s coffin arrived. The woman’s relatives were relieved. But a small group of young people hissed in anger.
They watched the burial team carefully put on protective suits and gloves, itching for a fight. They grabbed the rope meant to lower the coffin into the grave and used it to block the truck’s path. One brandished a stick.
“You will not leave this place if you do not bury the coffin and fill the whole place with soil,” he said, wary of contamination if the grave’s contents were left exposed. For the handful of young men, fear of contact with the deadly virus was high.
The second-worst Ebola outbreak in history has spread this week from eastern Congo into Uganda , and the brief confrontation as one of the first victims was buried late Thursday was a flash of the community resistance health teams have faced for months over the nearby border.
More than 1,400 people have died since this outbreak was declared in August, and the response has been hampered by misinformation and fear in a region that had never faced Ebola before. The disease can spread quickly via close contact with bodily fluids of those infected. Wary residents have attacked health workers or fled.
In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the virus got past the screening conducted at border posts. Earlier this week, it did.
A family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. Some already were showing symptoms. By the time Ugandan authorities who had been alerted by Congolese colleagues found them, a 5-year-old boy was vomiting blood. He was the first to die.
His 50-year-old grandmother, identified by a relative as Agnes Mbambu, was next. Already bleeding, she went straight to a local hospital upon returning to Uganda, relatives and health officials said. On Thursday morning, Ugandan officials confirmed her death.
Burying her took all day and into the night as health workers pulled together the means to do it safely. The need for safe burials conflicts with traditional customs of having loved ones wash and dress the corpse. In Congo, that has led to trouble.
In Karambi village on Thursday, however, the tensions came from waiting and worrying about the disease.
Somber men sat on wooden chairs in a relative’s compound. Five women, professional mourners, rested in the grass. The woman’s brother, Mbusa Godwin, said they had respected doctors’ advice to keep the mourners to a few.
“Everybody feared,” another relative, Rusenge Willy, said. “Everybody feared because we feared the disease so much.”
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But as dusk arrived there was no sign of the burial team, even though Ugandan authorities hours earlier issued a statement saying the woman was already buried. The idea of a nighttime funeral felt disgraceful.
“This is not right,” said the victim’s brother, Gaspari Kinyama, surveying the burial site among some coffee trees. “At least she is going to be buried here among her people. She has that right.”
At 7:30 p.m. the funeral procession arrived. Tensions grew as the burial team changed into protective suits in the glow of car lights. When the team’s leader didn’t commit to covering the coffin with soil to the young men’s satisfaction — it was not clear why — the confrontation almost ended in violence.
Ugandan authorities are now trying to keep Ebola from spreading by tracking everyone who had contact with the infected family. At least 98 such people have been identified, the World Health Organization’s Uganda office said.
Community participation is key, and the coming days will test Uganda’s ability to contain the virus in an area that is a hotbed of anti-government sentiment. Kasese, the town nearest the outbreak, has been tense since the central government jailed a popular traditional leader in late 2016, accusing him of trying to form a breakaway republic.
Days ago, the leader’s mother died. Her funeral is expected this weekend. Now the government says it is restricting public gatherings in order to contain Ebola, which could lead to anger among those who wanted to meet and mourn.
Although Uganda has faced multiple Ebola outbreaks in the past, this is the first time this mountainous area has experienced the virus.
Among some people, even those who know the victims, suspicions are high.
The burial of Mbambu, Uganda’s second Ebola victim, originally was meant to take place some 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, near her father’s grave. But the community there rejected her, said Rhoda Katsumbiro, a resident of the village where her coffin now rests.
“The family members there, they thought they would be affected,” Katsumbiro said. “They feared. We had to bring her here.”
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PETA demands animal cookies be “uncaged”
Posted on August 24, 2018 by DCG | 10 Comments
Why no one takes PETA seriously. IT’S A COOKIE.
Maybe these “animal advocates” should focus more on reducing the number of animals they euthanize.
From Yahoo: After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free.
Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum’s Animals crackers in response to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mondelez in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.
“Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals and the public’s swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment, we urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats,” PETA said in its letter.
Mondelez agreed and started working on a redesign. In the meantime, the crackers’ namesake circus — Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey — folded for good. The 146-year-old circus, which had removed elephants from its shows in 2016 because of pressure from PETA and others, closed down in May 2017 due to slow ticket sales.
The redesign of the boxes, now on U.S. store shelves, retains the familiar red and yellow coloring and prominent “Barnum’s Animals” lettering. But instead of showing the animals in cages — implying that they’re traveling in boxcars for the circus — the new boxes feature a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla wandering side-by-side in a grassland. The outline of acacia trees can be seen in the distance.
“When PETA reached out about Barnum’s, we saw this as another great opportunity to continue to keep this brand modern and contemporary,” said Jason Levine, Mondelez’s chief marketing officer for North America, in a statement.
Mondelez is based in Illinois, which passed a statewide ban on circuses with elephants that went into effect in January. More than 80 U.S. cities have fully or partially banned circuses with wild animals, according to Animal Defenders International.
PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman says she’s celebrating the box redesign for the cultural change it represents.
“The new box for Barnum’s Animals crackers perfectly reflects that our society no longer tolerates the caging and chaining of wild animals for circus shows,” she said.
Nabisco has been making Barnum’s Animals crackers since 1902. It has redesigned its boxes before, but only for limited-time special editions. In 1995, it offered an endangered species collection that raised money for the World Wildlife Fund. In 1997, it offered a zoo collection that raised money for the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. And in 2010, it worked with designer Lilly Pulitzer on a pastel-colored box that raised money for tiger conservation.
The company won’t say how many boxes it sells each year. Canadian boxes already had a different design and aren’t affected.
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Dr. Eowyn
Is PETA run by kindergartners?
Whether the animals in the cookie box are caged or not caged, the cookies are “crunchy “ and delicious; we have a lot of animals roaming the streets and killing innocent people. Those are the real animals that need to be “crunched”.
Brian Heinz
Peta needs to be put on an endangered animal’s list. Then hunt them into extinction problem solved. That is how I feel about them they put an animals life before a human. People have had to fight in court for killing a bear that was trying to kill them and put them in a hospital. Peta goes after them in court and destroys there financials to no end.
TrailDust
truckjunkie
Seriously?? They have NOTHING more important to do with their time and OUR money?
Lophatt
I think we’ve established that they’re insane. They just can’t seem to quit trying to outdo themselves:
Seumas
Shouldn’t PETA be classified as a terrorist organization, considering their tactics, and also the fact they do not treat animals ethically at all, killing a lot of them?
More to the point, why should a bunch of anti-animal rights creeps have such say that they can bully things into adopting such policies? This is a cracker box for goodness sakes, and besides that, the animals will never be free of the cracker box, so they are still in essence caged.
kjf
Well the giraffe did look uncomfortable…
CalGirl
These people are so short-sighted and provincial: In the 1500’s, the German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Durer, drew/engraved a sort of “police sketch” of a Rhino…..never seen by him, but seen in Africa by the person who described it to him. Go look it up. Amazing. His art work informed millions of others in Europe about the animals of distant continents/places, such as the Rhino. Flash forward….zoos and circuses performed this same duty to millions of people who would, otherwise, never see, never maybe even KNOW about the existance of animals from other continents…and then…flash forward to modern day PITA and… Read more »
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Olympic Ins and Outs: London 2012
There is a plethora of sporting disciplines coming together over the next 16 days and its enough to confuse and flummox the most ardent of sporting supporters however, worry not – all you ever need to know about the London Olympics in 2012 is here in this handy desktop viewing guide.
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What will brands gain from London’s Olympics?
Author: Ross McGuinnes @ Metro
Sponsorship has become ubiquitous and nowhere is this more evident that in the world of sport. But does aligning your brand with a big event reap more benefits for global brands than simply plastering their advertising everywhere? As next year’s Olympic Games in London loom, we look at what both sides get out of the relationship.
In millions of households across Britain, the same music blares out from the television on Tuesday and Wednesday nights: ‘THESE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!’
Although the catchy lyrics of the UEFA Champions League theme song refer to Europe’s best footballers, they could also be used to describe the various brands backing the event.
But can anyone name the main sponsors of the coverage? Just how much attention does the average football fan pay to who the ‘proud’ sponsors are?
To those big-money backers, though, simple advertising is seemingly not enough to get their message across. They have to be part of an event that is cherished by millions.
‘Sponsorship now is about how you get your brand ethos, how you connect with the fan worship and how you’re smart and how you own the story that surrounds the sport,’ PR guru Mark Borkowski said
He added that a full partnership with an event such as the Champions League, the World Cup or the Olympics offered so much more than simply taking out some adverts.
‘It gives you an opportunity to craft your story, to be involved at the foundations of these activities,’ he added.
‘Buying advertising gives you spots; you know what you’re getting but we’re all beginning to understand that people probably move out of the ad breaks to actually make a cup of tea, so you’re not connected with it.
‘The emotional connection is absolutely in the sponsorship packages, the PR, the marketing, the advertisers all bound together as one idea, rather than just slapping your logo on a shirt.’
One of the main sponsors of the Champions League is Ford, which last week extended its partnership with the competition, which already stretches back to 1992, until 2015.
Ford’s European chief executive, Stephen Odell, said of the tournament: ‘It is about the best-of-the-best on the ultimate stage, and that’s why Ford wants to be part of it.’
But there is no bigger sporting event next year than the Olympics. The eyes of the world will be on London in the summer – and the sponsors know it.
The 2012 Games has 55 sponsors, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Visa. ‘For those sort of brands it’s a case of keeping you up there,’ said Borkowski. ‘How would it look now if McDonald’s weren’t part of some of those big events? They will be trying to push into grass roots sport.’
This sense of corporate social responsibility means McDonald’s will showcase the produce of British farmers providing its food during the Games in London. It is also helping to train 70,000 volunteers for the event.
McDonald’s has been an official sponsor of the Olympics since 1976.
‘Sponsorship is essential to the successful staging of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,’ a spokeswoman for McDonald’s said.
This view is echoed by Locog, the London 2012 Organising Committee, which manages the money contributed by sponsors to ensure the Games run smoothly. ‘Without our sponsors, the Games simply wouldn’t happen,’ a London 2012 spokeswoman said.
For their investment, Olympic sponsors receive exposure but also legal protection. A government act prevents brands which are not official sponsors from getting in on the act.
Borkowski said the biggest brands were increasingly opting to back events rather than individuals because stars can find themselves embroiled in scandals.
‘Brands have felt a lot more troubled about getting the hottest talent – they can misbehave, get injured or do something stupid on tour,’ he added.
He thinks brands tread a fine line between overexposure and success: ‘I think we’re all very cynical about sponsorship now.’
There is another factor that brands are keen to exploit – good old-fashioned word of mouth. Steve Barton, of the Word Of Mouth Marketing Association UK, said sponsors were always looking for ‘added value’. He said IBM’s deal with the Wimbledon tennis championships was a good example of two partners working together.
‘IBM sponsors Wimbledon but then it gets involved with serving up information in real time about the tournament and actually turns it into a demonstration of the brand proposition,’ he added.
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Race to Dubai: Alstom Open de France
From the Chalk white cliffs in Normandy, to the vineyards in Burgundy and everything in between including the Alps, stunning National Parks and Gorges and the azure blue of the Mediterranean. France has it all. Including this week, the European Tour as its travelling company of golfers rolls into town on a links swing on its way to Scotland and The Open. So sit back, relax and enjoy culture and class in abundance; music Maestro! Players -break a leg!
Date: 5th – 8th July 2012
Venue: Le Golf National (Albatross Course), Gay Paris, La France
25 minutes South of Paris is Versailles – you may have heard of it. It’s more over the top than Disneyland Paris, just as expensive and the original symbol of royal absolutism and embodiment of classical French art. In its garden is Le Golf National – a poncy French test of golf and, despite Seve’s best endeavours, host for the Ryder Cup in 2018. It is a confused offering: a links course but target golf where water hazards and bunkers create the demand for a full set of clubs. It has no hidden secrets but is open to being played properly in order to win including aggressively on the first 6; take the birdie chance on the 12th, and protect your score on the final holes.
It’s a strong European field this including Westwood (who missed out on a cracking Irish Open!) (7/1), Poulter (28/1), McDowell (16/1), Rose (16/1), Molinari (22/1) and Casey (110/1 – all Bet365). No Americans have been invited after Bubba Watson riled Francophiles by referring to three French landmarks as the big tower, the archway and the L building and referred to the Palace of Versailles as a castle before ordering a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite and pouring it off his hotel balcony. Im sure the appearance fee of $240,000 softened the pain of no return invite…
In the last 12 years (barring the odd year) it has been a happy hunting ground for the mediocre journeyman pro – with wins for such household names (in their own quaint English villages) for John Bickerton, Phillip Golding (1,000/1 with Bet365) and Malcolm McKenzie in 2006, 2003 and 2002 respectively. However, history dictates it also appears to favour the Scots (the miserable weather perhaps?), the French (zut alore!) and the South Africans (lord knows!) who have all sampled the sweet taste of a garlicky and wine fuelled victory here.
Fabrizio Zanotti (80/1 with SkyBet) caught my eye last week – and his National flag looks vaguely French! After three good rounds including a closing 66 at Portrush netting him a € 149,140 pay day and second place, the micro Paraguayan still waits for the breakthrough victory but for now – he seems to be happy to continue being the bridesmade, not the bride – and as he showed from a full arsenal of shots and skills in Ireland, could be a contender on a tricky track like this.
As a 17 year old, David Drysdale (123/1 with BetFair) marked the score of Roger Chapman and John Daly in the 1992 Muirfield Open. Now himself a player on tour (despite years of nail biting finishes at the low end of the rankings) he is now an established accurate and consistent player who has compiled three top tens in 2012. Like, Zanotti, showed his ample talent with a closing 66 in Ireland to push him into the top 50 in the Race2Dubai and is a Scot – so plays good when its bad outside!
Nottingham Forest supporting Tour vet (22 victories) Lee Westwood (7/1 with SkyBet) looks set to take the field by the scruff of the neck following a lazy week (sadly the best week on Tour for both players, spectators and organisers alike). We all should know his form guide but its good – 4 top 5s in four months, 3rd in the Race to Dubai and over £1m in Euro take home pay already. Plus he’s above red hot Tiger Woods in the World Rankings! A potential winner? I think so…
Mais oui, c’est Victor Duboisson (80/1 with Bet365) qui a looking-a-likely-winner-this-week! With two top fives in his last three outings and with no finish worse than 27th since end of March, the Frenchman is ready for a breakthrough to the league of Tour winners. In 2009 he was world amateur number 1 and now a quiet 132 (in professional ranks) but on home soil, with the whole history of France on his shoulder and Louis XVII looking over him – a likely surge from a strong outing this week will be just what the Les Blues had in mind… But no jumping in the water please.
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State Of Japanese Pro Wrestling Oct ’10 p3
By Alan October 19, 2010 April 16, 2017 All Japan, Pro Wrestling
Now this is an interesting kettle of fish. Everybody I’m sure knows the story of what was the All Japan of the 90’s basically turning into NOAH, and leaving a few remnants to scrape together some semblance of a promotion with guys from all corners of the map. Then of course, Keiji Muto jumped from New Japan and took over as president of the new AJPW. Operating on a small, near indy, scale – modern day All Japan has a unique feel to it modelled after Muto’s “ProWres Love” ideals. Through a combination of booking which gets the most out of a thin roster, and the hard work of a promising crop of young wrestlers, this fed has continued to produce an enjoyable product.
This year has been all about pushing the next generation. Suwama leads the way as the Triple Crown champion, having just won the belts in an incredible 40 minute war of attrition against Minoru Suzuki in Sumo Hall. He’s hot-headed, aggresive and a damn good wrestler. Most importantly he’s over with the crowd, and thus is the perfect man to lead the charge. The afformentioned Suzuki has formed an alliance with his former Pancrase rival from the 90’s, Masakatsu Funaki. These two have looked great in tag matches and complementeach other well with Suzuki’s off the charts charisma balanced out by the more stoic, intense Funaki. The near 15 year break from wrestling has allowed the former shootstyle star to come back in incredible shape with little mileage on his tyres.
Often teaming with Suwama was Masayuki Kono, another young star who just took a big step in his progression by turning full-on heel and being renamed KONO as part of the rudo unit “The Voodoo Murders”. He will be someone to keep an eye on for the next few months. As will the new All Asia Tag Champs – Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya. These are the two youngest heavyweights on the roster and have looked great in recent times, particularly Sanada who has almost all the tools to be a huge star. With top class veterans like Taiyo Kea (who has been in great form this year) there to rub off on them, they can only get better.
The junior division has gone from one I wasn’t really interested in to one that is awesome. Kaz Hayashi has held the title for almost 20 months and has pretty much run out of challengers so it will be interesting to see where they go next as he tries to beat Masa Fuchi’s record for defenses. Underneath Kaz is the ever reliable Shuji Kondo and Minoru, youngsters KAI, Hiroshi Yamato (who is so so great) and BUSHI, and veterans like Super Crazy.
The only negative to All Japan is there propensity to bring in wrestlers who are less than stellar in the ring. Generally if you steer clear of the matches with Akebono, KENSO and the like, you’ll be fine. Some would lump Ryota Hama into this category but his incredible charisma and “lovability” overcomes any shortcomings he has between the ropes. A great great man!
Tagged ajpw, all japan, funaki, muto, state of japan, Suwama, suzuki
By Alan October 8, 2010 April 16, 2017 Dragon Gate, Pro Wrestling
If ever there was a promotion with its house firmly in order it’s Dragon Gate. Compared to the likes of New Japan and NOAH they’re a tiny company, but only if your measuring sticks are things like number of employees, big sponsors, external funding etc. When it comes to ticket sales, popularity and global presence – Dragon Gate are right in line with them and in some cases ahead. They are doing A LOT of things right both in the ring and outside of it.
The product is top notch. If you go to a live show (as I did last month), you’ll see the most jaw-dropping, incredible action you’ve ever seen before your eyes. If you watch the TV show, you’ll see one of the most well produced, engaging and action packed hours of Pro Wrestling television ever. Yes, ever. They know exactly how to book for their fans and they create storylines which range from the hilarious to the emotional.
With guys like Shingo, Masaaki Mochizuki, YAMATO, CIMA and Open The Dream Gate Champion, Masato Yoshino they have what I consider far and away the most talented roster anywhere in 2010. There are no passengers here, everyone works to the high high standard that’s drilled into them from training. I would say my top 20 matches of 2010 has more Dragon Gate presence than any other fed. Matches like Shingo vs. Hulk hair vs. hair, Mochizuki vs. YAMATO and Doi vs. YAMATO were all legitimate match of the year contenders.
Right now a unit shuffle may be on the horizon. The promotion consists of several stables and every so often there will be a big switch sparked by one or two guys changing allegiances. The spark right now is Naoki Tanisaki (a really great wrestler and character) turning on World-1 and taking a lead role in the dastardly Deep Drunkers. Tani now wants to kill W-1 off and will have a chance with an impending “losing faction must split” match.
There are two more big PPVs for them to build to in 2010. November in Osaka and December in Fukuoka. With that, the year will close and 2011 will have the impossible task of topping Dragon Gate’s best year ever.
Tagged CIMA, Dragon Gate, Shingo, state of japan, YAMATO, yoshino
State Of Japanese Pro Wrestling Oct ’10:
By Alan October 6, 2010 April 16, 2017 New Japan, Pro Wrestling
Over the next week or so, I’m going to be posting a series of articles EXCLUSIVELY here at FGB documenting the state of Japanese Pro Wrestling at the moment. Each article will highlight one or maybe a couple of feds. We kick things of with …
New Japan:
One could quite easily make a case that this is the most well rounded wrestling promotion in the world right now. New Japan offer up a bit of everything. You have a junior heavyweight division headed by Ireland’s Fergal Devitt which has been producing one classic MOTYC after another. Matches like Devitt vs. Kanemoto, Devitt vs. Marufuji and Fujita vs. Kanemoto all deserve to finish high in any match of the year list. There is a tag division which after a few years of neglect and tarnishing (cough…Team 3D… cough) is really making a comeback with IWGP Tag Champs, Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson) leading the way. With the G1 Tag League upcoming, this division is about to get even hotter. Then there’s the heavyweight singles guys, and among them are some of the best in the world – guys who are right now in their prime like Tanahashi, Nakamura, Makabe and Goto, and dependable veterans like Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kojima. Shinsuke Nakamura in particular is on fire right now and has a case for being the best heavyweight in the world.
All of this is backed up by sensible booking with a willingness to create interesting storylines that allow the wrestlers to display their characters. There are numerous clear heels which you don’t have in alot of Japanese companies.
The future looks incredibly bright too. Tetsuya Naito looks a lock to be the ace of the promotion for years to come. He has it all – a unique charisma, incredible natural talent, and a great look. His partner Yujiro Takahashi may end up more suited for being the ace of the junior division due to his height but he too has great skills and personality. With the talented Kazuchika Okada due back from his US excursion soon and the new crop of young lions that debuted this year there is even more reason to be optimistic.
Tagged devitt, goto, makabe, naito, nakamura, new japan, njpw, state of japan, tanahashi
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The DOJ Says It's Cool to Start Depositing Legal Drug Money
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