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Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 13
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 13
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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HARYANA GOVT APPOINTS SAME RETIRED HC JUDGE AS COMMISSIONER, GURUDWARA ELECTIONS WHO IS CHAIRPERSON OF STATE LAW COMMISSION
By AJIT USA
CHANDIGARH – Recently on Dec 26, 2022 a Gazette Notification has been issued by Haryana Government signed by T.V.S.N. Prasad, Additional Chief Secretary of the State’s Home Department which mentions that in exercise of the powers conferred under sub-section (1) of Section 13 of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara (Management) Act, 2014, the Governor of Haryana appoints Justice HS Bhalla (Retd) as Commissioner, Gurudwara Elections. The terms and conditions of his appointment shall be issued later on. Justice Bhalla is a former Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court who also remained as Judge in High Court of Orissa. He superannuated in Nov, 2011.
An Advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court, Hemant Kumar asserts that Section 13 (1) of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara (Management) Act, 2014 stipulates that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a suitable person to be the Commissioner Gurudwara Elections in whom shall vest the powers of superintendence, direction, control and preparation of electoral rolls for and conduct of elections of members of the Committee i.e. Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee established under Section 3 of the aforementioned 2014 Act. Further, Section 13 (3) states that a person shall not be qualified for appointment as the Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections unless he is a Citizen of India and possesses judicial, administrative or executive experience as a senior officer for a period of not less than ten years.
Hence, not even a retired High Court but even a retired IAS or HCS or any senior Administrative Officer with sufficient experience can be appointed as Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections.
Meanwhile, Hemant says that a year and a half ago on 28 May, 2021, the Haryana Government via a Gazette Notification signed by the then State’s Chief Secretary, Vijay Vardhan, appointed Justice HS Bhalla (Retired) as Chairperson of Second Haryana State Law Commission. The ibid Law Commission was constituted vide a Notification issued by Administrative Reforms Department of State Government wherein it is mentioned that the Chairperson shall be a person who has been a Chief Justice or Judge of a High Court. Further, the tenure of the State Law Commission shall be three years and the State Government may extend the tenure of the Commission from time to time.
Hemant opines that although there seems to be no legal embargo or impediment if Justice Bhalla (Retd) being Chairperson of Haryana State Law Commission is also appointed as Commissioner, Gurdwara Elections by the State Government more particularly as there is no conflict of interest between these two posts, the one being statutory and the other being non-statutory. However, the convention/practice prevalent is that usually any person especially a retired HC or SC Judge is not appointed simultaneously on two different posts neither by the Central or any State Government.
Interestingly, there is no mention in the Dec 26, 2022 Notification issued by Home Department of Haryana Government regarding Justice HS Bhalla (Retd) being Chairperson of Second Haryana State Law Commission as on date.
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New Trivia Questions from “Page-A-Day” 10/6
October 6, 2015 americajr Archived Trivia Questions, New Trivia Questions, TRIVIA 0
This week’s questions:
1) It takes from three to six months for a fingernail to grow back completely. How about a toenail?
2) How many championship rings does the National Football League give the winning Super Bowl team to distribute to its players and other organization members?
3) Which state was the first to have a casino open on an Indian reservation?
4) Who coined the phrase skim milk?
5) With no eyeholes in Sesame Street‘s Big Bird costume, how does the performer inside see where he’s going?
This week’s answers:
1) From 12 to 18 months. The growth rate of both depends on a number of factors including age, sex, heredity, time of the year, diet, and exercise.
2) 150. If a team wants more, they have to pay for them.
3) Florida, in 1979, when the Seminole tribe opened a high-stakes bingo parlor on its land in Hollywood.
4) William Shakespeare, in Henry IV. The phrase is used in Part I, Act II, Scene iii, when Hotspur describes a nobleman’s character as nothing more than “a dish of skim milk.”
5) There’s a miniature TV monitor inside the costume that gives the puppeteer a third person’s view of Big Bird and his surroundings.
Source: Workman Publishing/”Page-A-Day”
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Jae Yong Rhee
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Jae Yong Rhee | South Korea
Born in Yeosu, Korea in 1969, Jae Yong Rhee majored in Visual Communication Design at Hongik University, where he also completed his MA in Product Design. After working in the field of commercial photography, he returned to the fine art scene in 2010.
He is known for his painterly photographs, often experimenting with the basic concept of photography in his "Memories of the Gaze" series, restoring in a single photograph all of the bygone moments lost in time by taking pictures of a single object in the same location over a prolonged period of time and layering them into one final image. The converged landscape captures elaborate and ongoing changes in his subjects' surroundings, which include landscapes, city construction sites, flowers and rice mills.
Rice mills are Rhee’s most recent subjects in his Memories of the Gaze series, following redevelopment sites in Seoul in his earlier works. The old fashioned rice mills are symbolic of the disappearing rural culture in modern Korea, which is among many Korean traditions fading away in rapid development and excessive urbanization. As he layers the numerous images of his subjects photographed over time, an absolute time zone is created, where the present is brought together with its past and future traces; Rhee invites his viewers to a dream-like space where their dormant memories are revived into reality.
His first solo show was held at Olive Gallery (Seoul) in 1998, De Chocolate Gallery (Seoul) in 2010, Gallery EM (Seoul) in 2012, Art Basel HK in 2012, and Art Fair Tokyo in 2014. His works have shown in group shows at a number of museums and galleries, including Hong-Ik University Museum (Seoul) in 1997, Sai Gallery (Seoul) in 1999, Hallim Museum (Daejeon) in 2000, Gallery EM (Seoul) in 2010, Insa Art Center (Seoul) in 2011, Culture Station Seoul 284 (Seoul) in 2012, Espace Louis Vuitton (Singapore) in 2013 as a finalist in 2012-13 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, and Delfina Foundation (London) in 2014. Rhee has also participated in art festivals, such as the 1999 Arles Photo Festival in France. His works are included in the collections of SK Networks and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Korea.
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Tag: faust
#27 Lilith and the Breeding of Demons
By boneandsickle | May 30, 2019
http://media.blubrry.com/boneandsickle/content.blubrry.com/boneandsickle/Lilith-and-the-Breeding-of-Demons.mp3
Our episode continues from our last with more terrors of the night, the incubi, sucubi, and the most notorious succubus, Lilith — and the breeding of demons
“Burney Relief” formerly thought to represent Lilith.
We begin with a quick nod to the shoddy treatment the topic of the incubus has received in films, as represented by the 1981 misfire, Incubus. From there, we jump to the Middle Ages, clarifying with a quick quote from Claxton’s Chronicle, the role of the succubus as seducer of men, and the incubus as threat to females. A few words from St. Augustine make clear a connection with other pagan figures with lecherous reputations, and a quote from King Jame’s Daemonologie offers a more innovative notion that the incubus and succubus are two faces of the same demon. Each fulfills what Augustine sees as the purpose of the paired demons — the succubus to collect the male’s semen and the incubus to convey this to the human female.
The offspring of these demonic/human pairings (with infants nursed by the succubi) are called “cambions” by the demonic-obsessed imagination clerics, but in secular folklore are virtually “changelings.” We hear of some legendary cambions, including Merlin, the hero Hagen of the Völsung saga, and Alexander the Great (the last in a tale related by Wilkinson).
Amulet protecting infants from Lilith.
There follows another nod to the cinema’s sleazy representation of the succubi and Lilith (films linked below). From there, we make a brief survey of Lilith in high culture, in Michelangelo’s “Temptation” mural depicting her in the Garden of Eden on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, her brief appearance at the Walpurgisnacht scene in Goethe’s Faust, and the outrageous portrayal of Lilith and Satan in the “un-performable” Decadent play of 1891, Lilith, by Remy de Gourmont.
Michelangelo’s “Temptation” with Lilith as Serpent
Our look at the more ancient history of the figure begins with an Old Testament reference to Lilith as a denizen of an enemy kingdom reduced to a haunted desert wasteland by Yahweh in the book of Isaiah. The Hebrews, we learn, borrowed the figure of the child-snatching, murderous, Lilith from the Babylonians/Akkadian storm and wind spirits known as the lilitu. An individualized and somewhat elevated specimen of this class seems to be the demi-goddess Lamashtu, whom we hear fearfully described in Wilkinson’s reading of an ancient hymn to this destroyer who shares many traits with the Hebrew Lilith. We also learn of a Lamashtu’s second-hand connection to the 1973 film The Exorcist.
After a quick look at Lilith’s later appearance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, we medieval Jewish legends. including The Alphabet of Ben Sirach, which first cast Lilith as Adam’s first wife, the Midrash Abkir, which described Lilith’s rape of Adam and their breeding of demons, and finally references to Lilith’s marriage to the demonic archangel Samael, in The Zohar and Treatise on the Left Emanation, a powerful pairing sometimes referred to darkly as “the other god.” We also find out about other legends with placed Lilith in a harem of wives belonging to Samael, including the demonesses Agrat bat Mahlat and Isheth Zenunim. Wilkinson provides us with a final, dramatic narrative from The Zohar describing the seduction and damnation of a foolish man at the hands of Lilith.
The show closes with an examination of the 1966 film, Incubus, starring William Shatner (before he was Captain Kirk). We learn about the curious decision to shoot the film in the artificial language of Esperanto and the alleged “curse” that haunted the production.
Clips from films used in the episode but not mentioned above include: Serpent’s Lair, Succubus: Hell Bent, But Deliver Us from Evil, Lilith, Lilith’s Awakening, Evil Angel, and The Chosen.
Episode 2: Walpurgisnacht, Pt 2
By boneandsickle | April 25, 2018
http://media.blubrry.com/boneandsickle/content.blubrry.com/boneandsickle/EPISODE2.mp3
In our second episode on the grim folklore of Walpurgisnacht — that is May Eve or April 30, St. Walburga’s day — we meet Walburga, the saint whose name was attached to what was likely a pre-existing pagan holiday.
St. Walpurga with a vial of her holy bone-drippings.
While the saint’s bones for centuries have been said to be the source of a miraculously curative oil, namesake children dedicated to her have a significantly less holy reputation, with Walburga Oesterreich being a particularly notorious example known for her involvement in a bizarre murder we’ll briefly discuss.
More practices associated with Walpurgisnacht are provided by the highly influential, if a bit outdated, armchair anthropologist Sir James Frazer, of Golden Bough. The association between this day dedicated to the obscure German saint and witchcraft becomes clear as we examine the many prophylactics against evil spirits afoot on the occasion. Listen close so you know what to do with the black and red spotted hemlock! Keep that bonfire stoked…
“So far as the light of the bonfire reaches, so far will a blessing rest on the fields.”
Frazer’s The Golden Bough, 1936.
Then we jump into real nexus of that association between witchcraft and Walpurgisnacht, that is, the play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which not only established the night as a notorious witches’ sabbath, but also did much to localize to Germany’s Blocksberg (or Brocken) mountain. A Cliff Notes encapsulation of the witches sabbath scene is rather flippantly re-enacted for your audio enjoyment, wherein you will hear this oft quoted passage from Goethe:
Now, to the Brocken, the witches ride;
The stubble is gold, the corn is green;
There is the carnival crew to be seen,
And Master Urian will come to preside.
So over the valleys, our company floats,
With witches a-farting on stinking old goats.
Theatrical poster for Faust. Lithograph by Dickman, Jones & Hettrich
At the witches’ sabbath. Eugène DELACROIX -plate 15 from Faust, 1828
We discuss the mythology of witches and mountains a bit more generally, surveying a few other German mountains upon which or within which lost souls and dabblers in witchcraft are said to play or reside. Then we get into some details on the Blocksberg relationship to witches, and the 1688 book which spread the reputation of the Blocksberg and inspired Goethe. Herein we are provided with many useful specifics such as the manner of transport the witches use to reach the mountain. Among the methods catalogued: flying with the assistance magic salves or on brooms, shovels, or pitchforks. Or on flying animals: goats, calves, wolves, Cats and dogs are listed. I don’t think it says how the animals can fly.
Along the way, we learn how specific features of the landscape on and around the Brocken have developed their own mythologies and associations. Such tales have always drawn the curious, and Walpurgisnacht tourism associated with this mountain, and indeed the whole legend-rich Harz mountain region wherein the Brocken lies, has grown over the centuries, as attested to by artifacts like the postcards collected below.
Postcard commemorating Walpurgisnacht on the Brocken mountain.
While the ominous reputation of the mountain may have lost something in our present day, modern celebrations of Walpurgisnacht are nothing if not enthusiastic… (Below, the “gone viral” video mentioned in the episode.)
Then there’s the Brocken Specter, a weird optical phenomenon that takes its name from the mountain. It appears in low-hanging clouds or mist as a huge, looming, elongated shadowy encircled by a rainbow halo and is caused by the sun behind human figure projecting a shadow on the clouds when atmospheric conditions. More than all my babbling in the podcast, videos like the one below may convey some of its eerie effect…
Last but not least we have a look at paranormal researcher and prankster/publicity hound Harry Price and his shenanigans atop the Blocksberg in 1932. A photo from his highly theatrical reenactment of “The Blocksberg Tryst,” a 15th-century Walpurgisnacht ritual supposedly once conducted on the mountain with miraculous results below…
Harry Price’s Brocken experiment
NOTE: My apologies to all listeners for an uncorrected mispronunciation in Episode 2, namely the hard “G” in the name of the talking Mongoose “Gef” investigated by paranormalist Harry Price. Apparently, the animal informed witnesses that his name was “Jeff,” but was not very good at spelling when called upon to spell it out. You can find more on Gef from our friends at The Folklore Podcast.
Contemporary press coverage of the “talking” mongoose.
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Check about the Corbett National Park
Corbett Park is paradise for Wildlife fans in India as it is located in the foothills of Himalayas in Uttarakhand. This park was first established in 1936 as the Hailey National Park and after independence it had been transformed into Ramganaga National park and it had been named after Jim Corbett National Park in honor to the mythical hunter that afterwards turned into conservationist. It is the earliest and also the very first wildlife reserve in India expanded over 1318 sq kms such as buffer and core region. This playground includes most endangered species across 160 creatures making the park’s pride and about 600 species of trees, birds, herbs, bamboos. It features leopards, elephants, spotted deer, hog deer, barking deer, sloth bear, wild boar, chital, sambar, nilgai, and flying fox. The most important plant discovered in this woods are khair, sal, ber, semal, kharpat, rohini and the list continues. The rivers in the region are Ramganga, Sonanadi, Mandal, Palain and Kosi are extremely significant part of the survival of fauna and flora species.
Back in and around Corbett Park that there are many interesting Destinations such as Dhikala with a rest home that has been construct hundred years ago located at Patli Dun Valley. An individual can appreciate the stunning beauty of a valley. The lake bank of Kosi a lovely Garjia Devi temple is situated. An individual ought to see Ranikhet a superb hill station situated in Almora district. From here you can view that the Himalayas and from December to February there is snow fall within this field. To enjoy the air of this park an individual can select elephant safari or a jeep safari. Additionally, there are a place named Kalagarh Dam best location for bird watching. For the adventuresome vacationers this is the ideal location since there are facilities for rock climbing, rappelling, slithering, hot air balloon, river rafting and crossing.
The Tourism Management has split Corbett National Park to Five zones for the ease of the tourists every zone has its own entry facilitated with lodging facilities they have woods Guest houses and other resorts with assorted bundles and have a look at jim corbett national park. There are lots of college camps organised over 600 pupils see this park each year. Individuals who love nature and would like to experience an entirely calm and serene atmosphere for these Corbett National Park is the ideal spot to feel and feel that the God’s present Nature quite closely. Seeing these areas together with your nearest and dearest relatives members and friends will be of excellent fun.
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Golgi apparatus (KRT20) cytoplasm (KRT20)
muscle 1
bone marrow 1
corneal endothelial cells 1
plasmablasts 1
KRT20 (Homo sapiens)
Kinase C 7 100.00
metalloproteinase 1 97.68
rheumatoid arthritis 319 97.48
abdominal pain 3 92.52
Inflammation 42 88.08
Arthritis 64 81.64
methotrexate 34 78.08
corticosteroid 16 76.72
Disease 363 99.88
Apoptosis 33 98.48
Bacterial Infection 34 98.36
Lymphatic System Cancer 95 97.82
Infection 136 96.96
Repression 11 94.92
Thyroid Nodule 2 94.72
It is generally accepted that the CD20 protein functions as a channel regulator of ion influx (Ernst et al 2005) and that this membrane-bound protein is specifically found on the membrane of B-cells but is not expressed on stem cells nor on terminally-differentiated plasma cells.
Localization (found) of CD20 in stem cells
Biologics : Targets & Therapy
Still, not all CD19+ B-cells were eliminated in bone marrow as pre-B-cells and CD20?
Localization (eliminated) of CD20 in bone marrow
Furthermore, residual RTX remains in patients serum for three to six months after treatment and could potentially block CD20 binding sites.46 Preclinical studies using human lymphoma cell lines, patient-derived specimens, and mouse xenograft models have shown that prior RTX therapy reduces CD20 binding, tumor-specific localization, and tumor control for 131I-TST.46 Despite this preclinical data, 131I-TST has been shown to be clinically effective in RTX-refractory relapsed low grade B-cell NHL as discussed previously.31 Future clinical studies should help determine whether inclusion of RTX in induction chemotherapy regimens abrogates the incremental therapeutic gain of consolidation 131I-TST found in the studies listed in Table 4.
Localization (localization) of CD20 in B-cell associated with lymphatic system cancer and cancer
OncoTargets and therapy
In the group of patients suspected of CTD, the frequency of CD27++/CD20?
Localization (frequency) of CD20 associated with disease
J Clin Immunol
In the healthy control group, the mean frequency of CD27++/CD20?
Localization (frequency) of CD20
Whether complete depletion of peripheral B-cells and remaining CD20- plasmablasts may be used as a biomarker of clinical response needs further careful analysis in RA.
Localization (depletion) of CD20 in plasmablasts associated with rheumatoid arthritis
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
PBMCs and BAL cells were stained with antibodies directed against CD20, IgD and CD27 to distinguish between three subsets: CD27-IgD+ (most likely naïve), CD27+IgD+, and CD27+IgD?
Localization (directed) of CD20
The syndecan-1 positive cells did not co-localise with CD20 indicating that they were not immature or mature B cells (fig 2C,D).
Localization (localise) of CD20 in mature B cells
For co-localisation of syndecan-1 and CD20, sections were treated with anti-syndecan-1 (5 ?
Localization (localisation) of CD20
No co-localisation was observed between CCR9 and CD20 (B lymphocytes) or CD3 (T lymphocytes) respectively in either RA or non-RA synovia (data not shown).
Localization (localisation) of CD20 in T lymphocytes associated with rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis Res Ther
The antibodies used for lineage-specific markers included CD3 (clone SP34-2), CD4 (clone L200), CD8 (clone RPA-T8), CD14 (clone M5E2), CD13 (clone L138), CD20 (clone L27), and CD34 (clone 563).
Localization (clone) of CD20
These studies are often focused on specific protein families, such as G-protein coupled receptors (8), nuclear receptors (9) and kinases (10), but global pharmacology profiles of chemicals are considered as well (1,2).
Localization (receptors) of protein
Nucleic Acids Research
Two-dimensional gel protein separation of extracts from cultured human corneal endothelial cells
Localization (separation) of protein in corneal endothelial cells
Molecular Vision
Localization (preparation) of Protein
Different lymphocyte subsets were quantified on the basis of surface antigen expression (CD3, CD4, CD8, CD20), secreted cytokines (IL-4, IL-6, IFNgamma) and Fas and FasL proteins in the gastric mucosa.
Localization (secreted) of CD20 in lymphocyte associated with cytokine
Acta Biochim. Pol.
-Synuclein is a relatively small (112140 amino acids in length) presynaptic nonsecreting protein and makes up around 1% of the total protein within the brain and less than 0.001% of the CSF proteome [37].
Localization (nonsecreting) of protein in brain
International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Recent studies indicate that pp71 stimulates the release of ATRX, a cell protein with chromatin remodelling activity, from ND10 in a very early event after infection, suggesting that ATRX is an important component of the cellular intrinsic defences to HCMV [21].
Localization (release) of protein associated with cytomegalovirus infection and infection
Virol J
This protein is found in the cytoplasm, where it regulates apoptosis [8,9], and also in nuclear structures known as nuclear domain 10 (ND10) [10-12].
Localization (found) of protein associated with apoptosis
The samples were positive for anti-BCL-2, CD10, CD20 and CD68 antibodies and negative for CD3 (in the follicles).
Neg (negative) Localization (negative) of CD20 in follicles
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GN and its members win three City of Medicine Hat ‘Community Spirit’ Awards
UncategorizedBy Grasslands Naturalists September 13, 2021
The City of Medicine Hat Community Spirit Awards are presented every two years to individuals and groups whom the community believes enhance the quality of life in Medicine Hat through their dedication, activities, and accomplishments in the areas of arts/culture, sports/recreation, environment, volunteerism, community inclusion, community service and civic pride. “The Community Spirit Awards are…
Gerry Ehlert and John Slater receive EDD Award for Invasive Species Reporting
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The Alberta Invasive Species Council 2020 EDD award goes to Gerry Ehlert and John Slater. This award recognizes the importance of EDD invasive species reporting, mapping and follow up. This GN duo had the most reports submitted: some 350 or so. It was for the person who filed the most invasive species reports. In this…
A Case for Protecting Native Grasslands
GN Reports, IssuesBy Grasslands Naturalists December 23, 2020 185 Comments
A Case for Protecting Native Grasslands Prepared by the Society of Grasslands Naturalists March 2020. Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide information to support the protection of native grasslands, which are also referred to as rangelands, prairie wool, and unbroken prairie. It is the hope that future generations can continue to reap…
Jan Scott and Sandi Robertson given the Wolley Dod Discovery Award from the Alberta Lepidopterist’ Guild
Elections and AwardsBy Grasslands Naturalists December 23, 2020
GN’s Jan Scott and Sandi Robertson (Alberta Fish and Wildlife) were recently given the Wolley Dod Discovery Award from the Alberta Lepidopterist’ Guild. The award is for their discovery of the moth, Holcocera gigantella, which is a new species in Alberta and Canada and also for their discovery of a new host plant, Yucca glauca,…
Dawn Dickinson Riparian Park
From her arrival in Medicine Hat in 1989 to her death in 2013 Dawn Dickinson made a lasting contribution to the preservation of natural spaces and the conservation of species in SE Alberta. Dawn was a stalwart member of the Grasslands Naturalists and an environmental crusader to bereckoned with. She was a refined English Lady…
Acceptance Speech from GN’s Newly Elected President, Phil Horch, at AGM
Elections and AwardsBy Grasslands Naturalists September 13, 2020 162 Comments
I want to begin by giving recognition to our out-going President, Hugh Armstrong, who has diligently served an unprecedented 4-1/2 year term in his role. I’m sure no other president of Grassland Naturalists has devoted so much time and effort to this position. Hugh leaves our society in a strong position. We are strong financially,…
Presentation of Life time Membership Award to Jan Scott at AGM
Elections and AwardsBy Grasslands Naturalists September 13, 2020
Left to Right: Jan Scott, Hugh Armstrong, Val Martins Today, we are pleased to honour one our most cherished naturalists with the GN Life-time Membership award. With the exception of times spent in Calgary, Fort Saint John and Okotoks, Jan spent most of her life in this area, either in Medicine Hat or Ralston.…
GN’s Current and Past Executive Members
GN HistoryBy Grasslands Naturalists May 6, 2020
GN’s Current and Past Executive Members According to our bylaws, GN’s executive includes the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. In addition to the executive, GN’s Board includes the Past President and up to three Directors at Large. Current and past Executive members are displayed in the table below.
New GN Club Website
GN WebsiteBy Grasslands Naturalists May 6, 2020
New GN Club Website As part of our 30th Anniversary, Grasslands Naturalists is pleased to release its Club’s new website. Some of the main new features include: A more modern look. A ‘Responsive’ capability that provides a better display for a variety of devices including desktops, tablets and cell phones. Access to GN’s Sagebrush Chronicles…
30 Years of Sagebrush Chronicles
GN Sagebrush ChronicleBy Grasslands Naturalists May 5, 2020
30 Years of Sagebrush Chronicles As part of our 30th Anniversary, Grasslands Naturalists (GN) is pleased to make available to the public our Chronicles since the Society was incorporated in 1990. Visit our Chronicle page to see the most recent issues or view all the Chronicles by typing ‘sagebrush_chronicle’ in the sidebar search box. Each…
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home & i
by Sam Carter 19/06/2020 Architecture
Architecture is compelling because it offers a lens through which lives and values can be understood.
Or, as McCarter and Pallasmaa put it:
“The real purpose of Architecture is not to create aestheticised objects as spaces, but to provide frames, horizons and settings for experiencing and understanding the world and, finally, ourselves.”1
For the past five years, the University of Western Australia has been revealing architecture and this purpose to me, and, to this end, my student portfolio now bulges with thoughtful acts of design, premised on a range of societal and cultural phenomena – a humanitarian crisis on Lampedusa; the study of Cypriot antiquities; the collection of Thai atmospheric dust; healthcare service accessibility for rural Tanzanians – and so on.
These intellectual encounters are well-intentioned and worthwhile, though, I admit to eventually becoming bothered by their heady eclecticism. You see, I thought that McCarter and Pallasmaa had placed ourselves critically, tantalisingly, in relation to architecture and the universe?
Yet, the work left no clue as to how I might emerge.
Naturally, I thought of myself initially as architect, as Rowan Moore had done –“the individual creator, whose unique life history and genius makes him or her the best possible person to realise [their] ideals”2. But the last thing my subjects needed was the additional, incongruous feature of my own life and experiences to become entangled with them, and the lives of the unknown others whose plight had been imagined.
Otherwise, I was architecture’s intended recipient – though this, too, led to uncertainty. The subject matter had me worrying that architecture’s prestige was best reserved for special occasions, and, by definition, I would be unlikely to find my own story finding place within it. This wasn’t so much a matter of personal pride, it just seemed that architecture – space and meaning – was simply for others.
Was the University confusing architecture with status, on my behalf? I couldn’t be sure.
Either way, myself and the revelations of architecture, seemed fated to remain apart.
“pride and reason; two irreconcilable terms.”3 (Gaston Bachelard)
More probably, I had become confused about my own status within architecture, and the surroundings which lead to understanding.
This realisation arrived at me in the unexpected form of a Frenchman called Xavier De Maistre, who, in 1790, had thought to take a journey around his bedroom, and write about it. This, he closely followed with an account of a second journey – around the same room – though this time at night, and in so doing became an early pioneer of a type of literature dealing with spatial self-exploration and meaning4. I found similar, contemporary accounts – David Malouf’s 12 Edmondstone Street, Bill Bryson’s Home, Daniel Miller’s The Comfort of Things, and Witold Rybczynski’s The Most Beautiful House In The World – all of which thought to frame their author’s contemplations within the same place: home.
Here were better clues for how authentic, personal meaning might arise within space.
Encouraged by these examples, I looked to my own home and suburban surroundings. What would they say about me?
It was difficult to say – the familiarity was stifling.
So instead, I flew 14,470km home, to England. My former homeland seemed a better place to search for myself, and could at least – because architecture had arrived to me during an Australian period of existence – be looked upon through uniquely fresh and re-trained eyes.
I make no apology, by the way, for using the fullest extent of the label home, to refer to a huge variety of places (nation, city, town, street, dwelling, etc.) and situations (origin, present, past, outlook, identity, ownership and psychology, etc.) and, confusingly, which may apply to several of these at once. Regardless, you’ll recognise the density and power home brings to the thing, and to our sense that we deserve to belong to it.
l: original marketing material, approx 1975; r: 1979
At this point of encountering though, home was its most conventional thing: a house – the one I grew up in – and which was, through mishap, unoccupied – my spontaneity having had no regard for my parent’s leisure schedule. This presented the house as a pure, unhindered artifact – like a museum object – for my inspection.
Home seemed somewhat indifferent to my 22 year absence. We had both changed in different ways. I had been to universities, married, travelled the world, changed citizenship, and raised children. It had acquired a pointy roof and an electronic garage door; lost a gate, a dense fern hedge, and most of its gaudy clothing – the orange Formica kitchen, psychedelic curtains, striped wallpaper and blue bedroom walls – all tranquillised to make way for a selection of bland biscuit tones, as aging things do. I noted how its’ floorplan, once modern, seemed now outmoded. It seemed not to care, and, I suppose, I had become a little outmoded too.
Of course, the risk of wandering, aimlessly, unhurried and alone around past places – and then trying to account for it – is the potential for appearing odd, incoherent or lacking in imagination.
For, whereas we might imagine this time was spent in poetic reverie over forgotten shafts of light, framed vistas of bucolic English countryside, and the stirring of the wind in the old oak tree, the actual acts of rediscovery consisted of my poking around in drawers and cupboards, marveling at forgotten things and enjoying the brief novelty of stairs, carpet underfoot, a serving hatch, unburnt grass, preposterously verdant plantings and, even, the nomenclature of the conveniences – airing cupboard, cloakroom, bidet, landing, bay window and potting shed – which had slipped from use.
I spent a happy time exploring the garage and its contents, always a source of curiosity. Stacked tobacco tins of panel pins, thumb-tacks and rubber grommets, with carefully embossed tape labels remembered early craft experiments and tinkering with bicycles and lawnmowers. The workbench and shelving were a pantry spilling with hardware relics. I welcomed a wooden box, splattered and splintered, like an old friend – the souvenir of drilling, sawing and painting, storing, sitting and doing. Time was in these objects and volumes. Comfort, too.
I performed some light housework, tidying my bedroom, sweeping the drive and putting out green waste. I made tea, put some records on, admired my father’s joinery and my mother’s needlework, and read the local paper in the lounge chair.
I was making myself at home, I suppose.
Without the animating presence of the family, the place felt better for being inhabited through use and movement, so likely my banal pottering speaks to the way in which active, not passive, experience most gives meaning to everyday domestic space, with the building itself analogous to basic hardware. And this hardware had, genuinely, germinated life, and been satisfying in its’ use – achievements that other, more meritorious buildings might envy.
Not that an appropriate level of connoisseurship isn’t worthwhile (or absent), just that I found, under scrutiny, the source of my contentments not in the virtuosity of the arrangements, but in my intimacy with their evincing. I thought this bestowed this particular house – for there are identical others on the street – with its own unique character, and also, my ease and meaning within it.
Beyond the house, home continued. I entered the fields beyond the subdivision, and attended to the sensations of my strolling. Crops and hedgerows undulated to a horizon of distant woods, accompanied as ever, by buzz and hiss – the jarring presence of powerline and motorway – reminders of the metropolis beyond. I had rolled giant bails of hay around these pleasant fields, emptying their contents into huge, grassy pools to be jumped into, raising the ire of the farmer who’d given chase in his Land Rover. His final, bittersweet revenge has been to sell the land, and 800 houses are now due. The thought was sickening.
all that we could lose: Forster Country – setting for “Howards End” (E.M. Forster, 1910)
I passed through the grounds of St Nicholas – a favourite, ancient and special place. And haunted, surely. The flint church and it’s community of collapsing gravestones sat still immortal within their setting of unrivaled, compressive, deadness – the dense periphery of tangled undergrowth having excluded all but its’ own noise and light.
St. Nicholas, c.12th century on
Via paths, bridleways and roads, and through successive stages and styles of development – medieval, arts and crafts, inter-war, post-war and modern – the centre of my hometown, the so-called New Town, was reached, though the meeting, I knew, would be grisly.
The town’s makers had once aimed for a modern, thriving (if hastily-erected) utopia, constructed with the best post-war materials and ideologies they could muster. It had worked and prospered for a while, but a more recent, disastrous demise had ensued. Knowledge, habits and economies had moved on, taking retail activity – and people – with it.
The flimsy, carnival Modernism stood no chance – the architecture had been more surface than substance. Now paint peeled, soffits collapsed, colours dimmed and boarding replaced windows. Concrete grew cancerous – and pavements grew grass – in the country’s first pedestrianised shopping mall. I was compelled to gawp and take photographs – and, as at a mugging, ashamed by my need to. Several people, shuffling their way between the few dismal remaining shops, threw me glances.
Stevenage New Town centre
Home extended further still, to the capital.
For days, I tugged at the thin strands of connection between self, architecture and world. Tracts of London, leveled by conflict, had given cause and opportunity for post-war rebuilding, with theory, ideology and people transferring from the capital to its’ satellites. I visited the Festival of Britain site at Southbank, whose bouncy Modernism recalled the now-forlorn and shabby New Town just 30 miles to the north. Both had shared visions and authors, though only one had been furthered after seeding.
l: 1951 Festival of Britain model (on public display, Royal Festival Hall, London); r: Stevenage in better days, British Pathe video still, via bbc.com
Across the capital, via maps and photographs, I traced displaced populations and erased, ruined and replaced buildings, to bombs, events, identities and ideologies. Each successive, connective strand between substance and meaning – and each further step away from home – the house-home – inveigled me in increasingly mythical indulgences. The more I was forced to imagine, the more I became interloper to the phantom lives, times and places of others, that it would never be possible to authentically know.
Architecture had seduced me.
It was time to go home.
images by author, except where stated
McCarter, R. & Pallasmaa J. (2012), Understanding Architecture, Phaidon
Moore, R. (2012), Why We Build, Picador
Bachelard, G. (1994), The Poetics of Space, Beacon
de Botton, A. (2002), The Art of Travel, Penguin
Sam Carter
Sam Carter hails from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. Someone had to. He gained a Masters in Innovation and Engineering Design from the University of Bath which set sail to his first career of consumer product design. After moving to Australia in 2006 and pursuing the mining boom, he decided that Engineering was no longer for him, and enrolled at the University of Western Australia to study Architecture. He currently lives in Perth with his wife, two children, Land Rover, dog and coffee machine.
Architect vs. Sustainability
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"dad bod" i.e. "dad body". That is, a slightly overweight body commonly associated with fathers in the United States.
Dude, put down the Cheetos. You're getting a dad bod.
I like my guys to have dad bods. I don't mind a few extra pounds.
Citation from article title, Chicago Tribune, Rex Huppke, 4 May 2015 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: abbreviations (list of).
See more words with the same meaning: father, dad, daddy, dada, dadda.
See more words with the same meaning: overweight, fat.
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Alternate spelling: Daddy-O
Last edited on Nov 19 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Nov 19 2016.
a cool male. From 1950s Beatnick culture. Used by the character Mia in the film Pulp Fiction.
What's happenin', daddio?
Don't be a square, daddio!
See more words with the same meaning: cool, important, popular person.
See more words with the same meaning: man, men, male.
Last edited on Oct 06 2015. Submitted by Esmeralda V. from Riverside, CA, USA on Aug 28 1998.
general exclamation.
Whoa, daddy!
Citation from "Pregnant", Louie (TV), Season 2 Episode 1 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
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a form of address for a male significant other.
See more words with the same meaning: boyfriend, girlfriend, boo, significant other.
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a form of address or reference for a person's father.
Citation from "Spring Breakout", Arrested Development (TV, 2005), Season 2 Episode 17 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Last edited on Feb 18 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 21 2010.
a father.
form of address for a male.
dadgum
negative adjective.
This dadgum car won't start.
The dadgum computer crashed.
Last edited on Apr 20 2013. Submitted by Shelly D. from Houston, TX, USA on Dec 25 1999.
god dam
Goddam
"very much so."
I have a "dadgum good" job.
Last edited on Jun 16 2005. Submitted by Jim on Jun 16 2005.
dad-gummit
Darn, con-sarnit, darnit, dangit, dag-nabbit, dang, dangit, derby, doam, etc. Used to express frustration in place of explicative language.
Billy parked his car in the dad-gummit.
Last edited on Oct 02 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 02 2014.
noun - plural
acronym for "day after drunk shits".
I've had some pretty nasty DADS today.
See more words with the same meaning: feces.
See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk.
Last edited on Mar 29 2014. Submitted by Eric J. from Santa Barbara, CA, USA on Jan 27 2000.
"does anyone else..." or "does anybody else..."
DAE always sit down to pee?
See more words with the same meaning: Internet, texting, SMS, email, chat acronyms (list of).
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silly.
unintelligent.
Citation from "The Christening", Man Down (TV), Season 4 Episode 5 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
See more words with the same meaning: unintelligent, dumb.
dafuq
"what the fuck".
Dafuq is going on here?
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By The Lake Festival – An oasis of music of all ethnicities (live report)
Feature August 19 2017
Reportage from By the Lake Festival, Berlin, August 13 2017 – Photo and text by Javier Orozco
For the third summer in a row the swimming lake known as Weißensee, located just at the outskirts of the Prenzlauer Berg district, shapeshifted into an international one-day festival curated by Efterklang and the Danish radio station The Lake. Sunday appeared a notch shy, as it denied a full display of its summer potential and rather clothed itself with a patchy blue sky. The weather factor is a volatile entity during the festival season, most would choose sunny over rainy, and an arrangement as By The Lake almost pleas for a sunny day. The festival’s name is self-explanatory, it takes place at a bathing facility by a lake. The ambience was propped to deliver a beach-like sensation: sand, lounge chairs, cold drinks, and a refreshing lake to take a dip between concerts.
The festival’s lineup “features an inspired program focused on exploratory, experimental and interesting music of all ethnicities” which includes cult musicians, newcomers and artists pushing the envelope within their scenes. There is a latent effort to create an “open-minded and both hip and family friendly setting”. As I walked into the festival grounds I noticed the embodiment of these sentences: a group of kids were running all over, while the adults sipped Spritz as they soaked their toes in the water. In the distance the sound of Berlin-based singer and producer Perera Elsewhere was setting the tone for the start of the musical program.
Her set recalled different genres which were woven around a trip-hop aesthetic. The baselines acted as an anchor to her voice and physical performance. It was laid back and it fitted the moment, it allowed the crow to both engage with the music yet also to continue their social mingling. It was a pleasant yet somehow flat performance, a moodsetter to kickstart the feeling that one was in a one day festival.
Between each act The Lake Radio interviewed musicians, played records, and hosted micro-performances which were simultaneously transmitted via their website. These pauses amplified the relaxed vibe of the festival, since one not needed to stay alert in order to catch the next act, however the attendants had the opportunity to come closer to the transmission station and engage with the conversations and intimate performances. During this break Anne Müller offered a short cello performance.
After a brief delay Rasmus Stolberg (who operated as the evening’s host) announced the following act. Usually there is curiosity, or even skepticism, when an artist’s catalogue is about to be tinkered, specially one that is revered and held dear by many. Arthur Russell was an American musician whose work drifted through a wide range of styles. During the 70’s and 80’s he was a relevant name within New York’s avant-garde and disco scenes, and he collaborated with names as Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg and David Byrne. Only World of Echo from 1986 saw release during his lifetime, however from the 2000s several of his works have been meticulously collected and released, garnering him a committed following.
The central concern was to discover if this constellation was to feel more like an Arthur Russell Cover Band or if it actually justified its working title: Peter Broderick sings Arthur Russell. During the first part of the show Broderick performed solo, he offered a violin rendition of the cut Eli from “Love is Overtaking Me” and his own take on Losing My Taste for the Night Life, amongst other songs. Even before he summoned the band it was clear that Russell’s output is diverse, gracefully swirling through singer-songwriting structures, experimentalism and avant-garde. The well-orchestrated band, comprised of a cast of Danish musicians (Oliver Hoiness, Anna Brønsted, Ida Urd Damm Bramming and Mads Forsby), opened with a solid version of I couldn’t say it to your face. From that moment on the show picked up steam and ventured into upbeat territories. Before playing the last song of the set, Broderick stated that it would not be an Arthur Russell showcase if they not tried to perform one of his disco songs. The sun shone as the sand turned into a dancefloor, delivering one of the first festive moments of the evening. The only attribute that the show failed to present in order to feel as a thoroughly faithful celebration of Russell’s compositions was a cello; yet it was clear that the project’s working title was apt.
Minutes after the clouds tucked the sun rays away, however the attendants did not refrain from taking swim or a small boat trip (if they were lucky to snatch one of the paddle boats that were in constant demand). The rest could enjoy the short performance by Stella Chiweshe which took place by The Lake’s station.
At around 19h the purported king of bubu Janka Nabay and his Bubu Gang took the stage. This music is endemic to the Temne People of Sierra Leone and was played during their ceremonies, Janka Nabay was the first musician to record it and “modernized” it by adding electric instrumentation. His last two albums have been released through David Byrne’s multicultural label Luaka Bop. The non-western rhythms sustained by catchy baselines, fast paced percussions and Janka’s peculiar vocal delivery were not ignored by the crowd. The charismatic performer set the tone for a dance party that attracted both kids and grown ups. The band appeared comfortable and well assured, operating as an outlet to sounds and tempos that our bodies were not naturally adjusted to, which led to frenetic hip rotations and feet stomping. Their set worked: they managed to present music with a strong ethnic profile and stir the audience into a Bubu party. Janka’s smile was omnipresent during their set.
Miss Kenichi was interviewed by Efterklang’s Casper Clause during the break. They discussed and presented material from her upcoming record and confessed their mutual love for Talk Talk, until the conversation was cut short as the stage was ready for the day’s final performance.
Michael Rother is a founding member of Neu! and Harmonia, two seminal German bands formed in the 70s that quietly became part of the experimental rock cannon. To this day they embody one of the sonic facets that are associated to the krautrock moniker. Michael Rother was joined onstage by Hans Lampe on drums and Franz Bargmann on guitar, this has been his touring ensemble since 2014 and their mastered teamwork was brought forth during a set that visited pieces from his influential bands.
It is outstanding how vital this material sounds after decades of its release. The pulsing and motoric beats were delivered with unusual precision, Bargmann droned over the same chord, while Rother unfolded melodic aural landscapes. Between songs he appeared happy and gentle, he addressed the audience with familiarity in his native tongue. During their set one could trace a layout of signifiers that have become part of the lexicon of different musical currents over the ages: avant-pop as sung by Berlin-era Bowie, the colorful bricolages of 90s experimental pop a lá Stereolab, and a slew of krautrock indebted bands that surged throughout the turn of the millennium (bring to mind Animal Collective, early Deerhunter, and Föllakzoid).
At the front row stood three men that belonged to Rother’s age bracket, one of them had his eyelids shut and moved hypnotically to the repeating patterns, around him a youthful crowd listened attentively, clearly these audile identities have endured a drift throughout the decades. The musicians returned for a short and celebrated encore.
At 22h the host bade us farewell. As I left the venue I had a feeling that By the Lake fulfilled its statement of purpose: to present an array of music rooted in different ethnic contexts, within a cozy setting to an audience of diverse ages. I even forgot that a massive city was sprawling just outside of the oasis.
Tags: Anna Brønsted, arthur russell, Bubu, Harmonia, Ida Urd Damm Bramming, Janka Nabay, Javier, Luaka Bop, Mads Forsby, michael rother, Neu, Oliver Hoiness, Perera Elsewhere, The Lake Radio
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Reviewer (USA)
Bold Ruler (USA) x Broadway (USA), by Hasty Road (USA)
Family 5-c
Reviewer had brilliant talent but was as fragile as he was gifted. All three of his racing seasons were ended by injury, as were his successful stud career and his life. He was one of Bold Ruler's best sons at stud but unfortunately failed to leave a son capable of succeeding him.
Race record
13 starts, 9 wins, 3 seconds, 1 third, US$247,223
Won Sapling Stakes (USA, 6FD, Monmouth)
Won Saratoga Special Stakes (USA, 6FD, Saratoga)
2nd Hopeful Stakes (USA, 6.5FD, Saratoga)
Won Bay Shore Stakes (USA, 7FD, Aqueduct)
Won Swift Stakes (USA, 6FD, Aqueduct)
2nd Gotham Stakes (USA, 8FD, Aqueduct)
3rd Wood Memorial Stakes (USA, 9FD, Aqueduct)
Won Nassau County Handicap (USA, 9FD, Belmont; new track record 1:46-4/5)
Won Roseben Handicap (USA, 7FD, Aqueduct)
2nd Metropolitan Handicap (USA, 8FD, Belmont)
Rated at 124 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for American juveniles of 1968, 2 pounds below champion Top Knight.
Rated at 123 pounds on the Daily Racing Form's Free Handicap for American sprinters of 1970, 11 pounds below champion Ta Wee.
As an individual
A dark bay horse standing 16.2 hands at maturity, Reviewer had the lovely shoulder, prominent withers and strong hind leg of his paternal grandsire Nasrullah, though he lacked the sloping croup of his sire and grandsire. His head was plain and he was rather light on bone, a fault he often passed on. He was also rather heavy-topped.
As a stallion
According to records kept by The Jockey Club, Reviewer sired 114 winners (62.6%) and 19 stakes winners (10.4%) from 182 named foals. Reviewer is a Brilliant/Classic chef-de-race in the Roman dosage system.
Notable progeny
Isopach (USA), Long Legend (USA), Resolver (USA), Revidere (USA), Ruffian (USA)
Foaled in Kentucky, Reviewer was bred and owned by Ogden Phipps. He was trained by Edward “Eddie” Neloy. He entered stud in Kentucky in 1971 at Claiborne Farm. He was humanely destroyed at age 11 after breaking a hind leg in a paddock accident; while there was some hope of saving his life via surgery, he reinjured himself while coming out of anesthesia, forcing euthanasia.
Pedigree notes
Reviewer is inbred 3x4 to the great handicapper Discovery. He is a full brother to 1967 American champion 2-year-old filly Queen of the Stage, second dam of Grade 2 winner Fabulous Time and third dam of Grade 3 winners Lyphard's Ridge and Hattiesburg, and to stakes winner Will Hays. He is also a half brother to juvenile stakes winner Great White Way (by Court Martial) and to Con Game (by Buckpasser), dam of multiple Grade 1 winner and important sire Seeking the Gold (by Mr. Prospector), 1988 Remsen Stakes (USA-G1) winner Fast Play (by Seattle Slew), and Grade 3 winner Stacked Pack (by Majestic Light). Con Game is also the second dam of multiple Grade 2 winner King Cugat and Grade 3 winner Survivalist and the third dam of Grade 2 winner Nefertini and Grade/Group 3 winners Awesome Chic, Gamble Me, Rey de Cafe, and El Crespo.
Reviewer's dam, Broadway, also produced The Cast (by Secretariat), third dam of Peruvian Group 3 winner La Conquista. A juvenile stakes winner in her own right, Broadway is a half sister to 1952 Spinaway Stakes winner Flirtatious (by Menow), dam of the good steeplechaser The Sport (by Ambiorix) and second dam of Grade 2 winner Hang Ten, and to 1961 Mother Goose Stakes winner Funloving (by Tom Fool), second dam of Grade 3 winner Some Swinger. Produced from the stakes-placed Challedon mare Flitabout, Broadway is also a half sister to Erratic (by Better Self), dam of stakes winner Fool's Error (by Dunce), and to stakes-placed Medici (by Bold Ruler), dam of Grade 3 winner Unknown Heiress (by Bagdad) and stakes winner Out of the Park (by Hitting Away).
In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Reviewer's best runner, Ruffian; his most famous mate, Shenanigans; and Reviewer himself all had to be humanely destroyed due to broken legs.
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685 – Doom Comes to Abbadon
by Brock Heasley on September 21st, 2015
UPDATE! Is the comic dead? No! Full details right here.
Annnnnnd that’s it! Chapter over. Want to read it from the beginning? Start right here!
So, Thrice Evil and the Lodge of Doom are in Abbadon and all hell is about to break loose. If you’re thinking the next chapter has lots of fighting in it… you’re right! We haven’t started work on it yet, but my intent is to let Marc do what he does best–draw the snot out of people knocking each other around.
It will be epic. It will be action-packed. It’ll be verrrrry different from the usual “inaction hero” flavor we usually give you around here.
And there will be death. Major death. Not everyone is making it out of this next one.
LOOKING BACK ON CHAPTER 20, “CROSSING WORLDS”
What was Chapter 20 all about? In the most basic terms it was right there in the title: it was all about Avalon crossing over to Abbadon. But, of course, that didn’t work out too well. But there was a lot more to this chapter than that.
The biggest thing for me was getting the gang back together as much as possible. The “team” was spread to the four winds at the start of Chapter 20 and bringing them back together, was, I knew, important not only to move the story forward but for your satisfaction as a reader. Does Spy Gal really love Jerry? What does Cap think of Jerry? How does Spy Gal relate to Dark Maiden? These were questions I wanted answered.
But, the thing I wanted most was to see Jerry meet his “maker.” Avalon Thrice Evil. In the original script for this chapter the meeting was much more brief. Basically, Jerry came out swinging. But, at some point I realized that was neither very satisfying nor true to Jerry’s character. Jerry is a guy who obsesses over his place in the world and what other people think of him. He would need the satisfaction of saying a few words to Thrice. Saying what’s on his heart and mind. So, I gave him that time.
And, sure enough, that eleventh hour addition is my favorite part of this chapter.
I also wanted to deal with this idea of peace vs. freedom, but in a comical way because that’s the not the main thrust of this story. (Last week, several of you got into a debate about some of the ideas I was putting forth. Some of you even called me to task for them. As of this writing, I haven’t responded to those comments. I plan to though, and by the time you read this they’re probably there.)
Zurida has set up a police state, as we’ve seen, but within that people have been able to live their lives to one degree or another. It made sense to me that some in New California would look at that and think, crud, that’s no so bad. I want to get over there. But should they want that? Is comfort–or peace–worth the sacrifice of freedom? Obviously, we all give up some freedoms to not live in an anarchic state, but what’s the line there? For Spy Gal, she knows where the line is. It’s on the other side of the lady who smashed the White House. But it’s been a year since that happened. People forget the bad and they remember the good they used to have. The question is… are they really gonna find it in the USZ? Will they even get the chance?
Next chapter.
I also wanted to explore Earth-Avalon more. There’s a suggestion now, from Swifty, that maybe Earth-Avalon isn’t any better at all. They certainly have death there. They have destruction. But, as someone pointed out in the comments on one of the strips (can’t remember who or which one), Earth-Avalon isn’t a place where tragedy CAN’T happen, it’s just a place where people deal with it better and so things are allowed to trend upwards instead of downwards like they do on Earth-Abbadon. I’m a big believer in the power of… I don’t want to say “positive thinking”, but it’s something like that. I’m a big believer in making the most out of what you have. In not being cynical. I think cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Earth-Avalon is not a cynical place.
For me, really, if you want to break it down, Earth-Avalon is the comics I grew up with–the superhero stories I grew up with. Earth-Abbadon is the comics they make now.
Minus the superheroes, as I’ve said many times before, I do believe we actually live in one of those worlds.
What did you guys think of Chapter 20?
BUT WAIT… WE’RE NOT DONE QUITE YET!
Still coming is a promo image to give you a look at the chapter ahead. Marc is working on it now and we hope to post it in the next week or so. There’s another, exclusive surprise coming for our Patrons. More on that when it’s ready. (This is a good one.)
SPEAKING OF OUR PATRONS…
THANK YOU, PATRONS! You made this chapter possible and every single SuperFogeys reader has you to thank for keeping this story going so it can reach its natural conclusion. I’m not kidding. We just can’t do this for free anymore, neither me nor Marc. So we thank you for your sacrifice. You are very important to us.
I had grand plans to keep updating the behind-the-scenes blog on Patreon while the chapter was running, but as you may have guessed that proved quite difficult. There was a lot to do just to keep up with the regular strip.
Well, now that the chapter is done we’re going back to behind-the-scenes mode. I’ll be posting as much as I can of our progress on Chapter 21 as Marc and I work our way through it. This is going to be an exciting, exciting chapter so you’re in for good stuff.
ALSO, we know there are some rewards we still need to get out there–particularly the Milestone awards. Expects news on those soon. We haven’t forgotten, we’ve just been putting our energies into the strip. Thanks for understanding and not making a big deal about it.
So, lots of content ahead for our patrons! If you’d like to stay up on everything, become one of the SuperFogeys Patrons by signing up here!
GIVE IT UP FOR MARC
I would be a complete loser if I didn’t call special attention to the phenomenal work Marc Lapierre did on this challenging chapter (so… many… characters… so… many… different… fingered… hands…). He kept SF true to its roots while exploring dynamic lighting (I mean, just look at this strip) and capturing those subtleties of character that are this story’s bread and butter. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your tireless efforts, Marc!
Next week: The Chapter 21 Promo image!
└ Tags: alt cape of wrath, alt jimmy go dead, alt master masticate, alt suckface, alt thrice evil, atomic fly, captain spectacular, percy, tangerine
Apr 20, 12 Pg. 9 “The Unicef Upstarts”
Nov 29, 17 751 – Who Do You Think Paid for All This?
Dec 18, 13 558 – Sokol Steps Up
Dec 10, 12 465 – Lip Lick
Something tells me that next chapter maybe a bit difficult given the doppelgängers of the characters from another Earth.
Also, will Earth Aabandon Thrice Evil play a role in this ?
Plus it seems that even though Tangerine knows the word of God, doesn’t mean that he has fully abandoned his former ways since it is kind of needed now in the heat of battle, rights?
Keep up the good work the both of you.
Hans Rancke
September 22, 2015 at 1:05 pm | # | Reply
What did I think about chapter 20? I like it for the most part, but did I miss the bit where it was explained how Thrice Evil knew about the attempt to open a portal to Earth-Abbadon and, most especially, how he knew the exact moment to strike? Because to be honest, to me it seemed to be a bit Devil ex Machina.
xodipox
Okay, call me crazy, but am I the only one who now wants to see a character named ‘Major Death’ debut in this next chapter? That would just be too awesome.
Also, Whoah — the Atomic Fly has legs!
WGChere
But only two :-\
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After Rowena's death, a family of witches seeks to find Rowena's magical stash for themselves, but [[Jacinda]] is killed by a powerful [[curse]] Rowena put on her apartment to protect it.
Following the return of [[Eileen Leahy]] as a [[ghost]], Dean suggests creating another Soul Catcher and sends Sam to Rowena's Apartment to find her stash, suggesting that Sam can make one as he was Rowena's protégé. With the help of Eileen, Sam finds Rowena's magical stash, including journals of her spellwork throughout her life, and he becomes emotional at the reminder of his dead friend. Among Rowena's journals, Sam finds a [[resurrection]] spell Rowena had been creating to bring [[Mary Winchester]] back, one that Sam realizes can be used to bring back Eileen. Sam is subsequently captured by the remaining two witches, who suggest that Rowena specifically excluded Sam from being harmed by the curse because she wanted him to inherit her magical stash once she was gone. Sam is later able to kill the [[Witch Mother]] with a spell Rowena taught him and use Rowena's resurrection spell to bring back Eileen.
Following the return of [[Eileen Leahy]] as a [[ghost]], Dean suggests creating another Soul Catcher and sends Sam to [[Rowena's Apartment]] to find her stash, suggesting that Sam can make one as he was Rowena's protégé. With the help of Eileen, Sam finds Rowena's magical stash, including journals of her spellwork throughout her life, and he becomes emotional at the reminder of his dead friend. Among Rowena's journals, Sam finds a [[resurrection]] spell Rowena had been creating to bring [[Mary Winchester]] back, one that Sam realizes can be used to bring back Eileen. Sam is subsequently captured by the remaining two witches, who suggest that Rowena specifically excluded Sam from being harmed by the curse because she wanted him to inherit her magical stash once she was gone. Sam is later able to kill the [[Witch Mother]] with a spell Rowena taught him and use Rowena's resurrection spell to bring back Eileen.
[[File:Hell'sThrone2.png|thumb|right|350px|Rowena sits on [[Hell]]'s throne.]]
Name Rowena MacLeod
Actor Ruth Connell
Dates c. 1600s – 2019 (killed by Sam Winchester)
Location Hell
Occupation Witch
Queen of Hell
Episode(s) 10.03 Soul Survivor
10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls
10.09 The Things We Left Behind
10.10 The Hunter Games
10.14 The Executioner's Song
10.16 Paint It Black
10.17 Inside Man
10.18 Book of the Damned
10.19 The Werther Project
10.21 Dark Dynasty
10.22 The Prisoner
10.23 Brother's Keeper
11.03 The Bad Seed
11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?
11.10 The Devil in the Details
11.18 Hell's Angel
11.22 We Happy Few
11.23 Alpha and Omega
12.02 Mamma Mia
12.03 The Foundry
12.08 LOTUS
12.11 Regarding Dean
12.13 Family Feud
12.23 All Along the Watchtower
13.12 Various & Sundry Villains
13.19 Funeralia
13.21 Beat the Devil
13.22 Exodus
14.07 Unhuman Nature
14.14 Ouroboros
14.18 Absence
15.02 Raising Hell
15.03 The Rupture
15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
I don't have many regrets, but the few I do still haunt me. Making Napoleon so short was just bitchy. Telling Mick Jagger he had no future when I dumped him. And, well, everything with dear Fergus. Then one day, you die and go to Hell, they make you Queen and you can't make it right. So, fix it.
– Rowena, 15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
1.1 Magic
1.2 Deaths
1.3 Legacy
2.1 8.22 Clip Show
2.2 9.21 King of the Damned
2.3 10.03 Soul Survivor
2.4 10.07 Girls, Girls, Girls
2.5 10.09 The Things We Left Behind
2.6 10.10 The Hunter Games
2.7 10.14 The Executioner's Song
2.8 10.16 Paint It Black
2.9 10.17 Inside Man
2.10 10.18 Book of the Damned
2.11 10.19 The Werther Project
2.12 10.21 Dark Dynasty
2.13 10.22 The Prisoner
2.14 10.23 Brother's Keeper
2.15 11.03 The Bad Seed
2.16 11.09 O Brother Where Art Thou?
2.17 11.10 The Devil in the Details
2.18 11.18 Hell's Angel
2.19 11.22 We Happy Few
2.20 11.23 Alpha and Omega
2.21 12.02 Mamma Mia
2.22 12.03 The Foundry
2.23 12.08 LOTUS
2.24 12.11 Regarding Dean
2.25 12.13 Family Feud
2.26 12.23 All Along the Watchtower
2.27 13.07 War of the Worlds
2.28 13.12 Various & Sundry Villains
2.29 13.19 Funeralia
2.30 13.20 Unfinished Business
2.31 13.21 Beat the Devil
2.32 13.22 Exodus
2.33 13.23 Let the Good Times Roll
2.34 14.03 The Scar
2.35 14.07 Unhuman Nature
2.36 14.14 Ouroboros
2.37 14.18 Absence
2.38 15.02 Raising Hell
2.39 15.03 The Rupture
2.40 15.06 Golden Time
2.41 15.08 Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven
2.42 15.13 Destiny's Child
Rowena is an extremely powerful natural-born witch, originally from Scotland in the 17th century (or possibly earlier). Before Rowena became a witch she was a peasant and the daughter of a tanner in Canisbay, who had an affair with a man above her social class. Once her son Fergus was born in 1661, the man abandoned the two and went back to his rich wife and her grand house. Her son Fergus Roderick MacLeod, would father Gavin MacLeod and go on to become known as the demon Crowley.
Rowena would flee her village and abandon an eight year old Fergus after she was charged with practicing witchcraft. Rowena then studied under the great Milanese witch Leticia D’Albioni and joined the Grand Coven. The Grand Coven were critical of Rowena having a child with a "non-magic", but they were willing to overlook this because of the great talent she possessed.
Rowena was expelled from the Grand Coven because her magic was considered too extreme; one spell she created was the Defigere Et Depurgare, which was used to vanquish demons. Rowena's "unpleasantness" with the Grand Coven would ultimately lead to her being hexed by the coven with a binding spell that restrained her magic, as well as being banned from performing magic, taking on students, or forming her own coven.
In 2014, 300 years later, Rowena resurfaced to reclaim her lost power base. After being captured by Crowley, she made several attempts to use him for her own ends. Crowley was aware of Rowena's manipulations, yet captured the head of the Grand Coven, Olivette, for her. Under torture by Rowena, Olivette revealed the Grand Coven was much-diminished in its power because of a concerted campaign against witches by the Men of Letters.
Rowena was initially antagonistic towards the Winchesters as she saw Crowley's relationship with them as diminishing his power. The Winchesters often called on her help with magic, and Rowena assisted when she saw a benefit for herself. Over time, she became an ally in their battles, albeit motivated by the benefit she saw for herself in helping them. Rowena had a particular bond with Sam -- they were both tortured by Lucifer, they saw his true face, and share the struggle of living with that experience.
In 2018, Rowena began killing people and their reapers to get Death's attention, as she blamed herself for Crowley's death and the path that her abandonment led him down in life. During this, the reaper Jessica reveals that in the book Death keeps on her, it is written that she will die by the hands of Sam Winchester. While Billie refused to bring Crowley back, the experience ended with Rowena deciding that working for the greater good will serve as her redemption for her past actions. She subsequently aided the Winchesters in their efforts to return to Apocalypse World and on occasions when they needed her expertise on a situation or case.
In 2019, after the release of the Hell Ghosts upon the world, Rowena chose to sacrifice herself to save the world by using her own body to imprison all of the souls and demons and cast them back into Hell. At Rowena's request, and with great reluctance, Sam was indeed the one who fatally stabbed Rowena. Everyone around her watched as she imprisoned the damned souls into her body and fell through the fissure into Hell as it closed.
When the Winchesters and Castiel return to Hell in search of Michael, they discover that Rowena's soul took up the empty position of Queen of Hell. Retaining her old personality, Rowena aids the Winchesters once again and even urges Dean and Castiel to mend their broken relationship.
Rowena was a very powerful witch, maybe the most powerful of all time.[1] The Grand Coven used a binding spell to limit her magic until she found a spell in the Black Grimoire that could break the binding.[2]
Spells created by Rowena included:
Resurrection Charm – A subdermal sachet of powerful magic that is sewn into a person's body. Once the spell senses the life-force of the individual ebbing, the magic kicks in as a purple glow and works its way through the body, repairing the damage and resurrecting the individual. Rowena uses it twice herself, and has to remove one from her shoulder so that Sam can kill her and commence the spell to imprison the demons and hell ghosts. When she was captured by the British Men of Letters at some point, she also gave one to Ketch in exchange for her escape, who used it after Mary shot his head.
Defigere Et Depurgare – Known in its English translation as "To bind and purge," this is a spell created by Rowena in the 18th century that causes demons to liquefy and get coughed up out of their meatsuit. It appears that the spell binds the demon to its meatsuit to keep it from escaping as it begins to liquefy the smoke into a sludge-like substance and be purged from the host body. The spell was only practiced by Rowena, and before she used it to kill Raul, it hadn't been seen since the 18th century. Sam attempted to use a strengthened version of the spell to kill Crowley and satisfy his deal with Rowena, but while the spell manages to temporarily incapacitate him, Crowley eventually overcomes the spell's effects and sets the hex bag on fire.
Impetus Bestiarum – A spell Rowena referred to as an "attack dog spell," wherein the witch places a hex bag in the hands of someone and recites "impetus bestiarum," turning the object of the spell into an animalistic killer who can be directed to kill a particular individual. The spell will eventually kill the person it is cast on unless the spell is reversed by the witch who inflicted it by reciting "desiste ad levo onus tuum."
Sanetur Acre Vulnus – A potent healing spell Rowena devised, which she used to seal the rupture that Chuck opened when he instigated the Ghostpocalypse. The ingredients include myrrh, lavender, and the skull of an owl. Casting it requires two witches and someone to carry the spell once it's prepared. Sam helps Rowena cast the spell while Dean tosses the hex bag into the rupture, eventually sealing it.
Resurrection Spell – A spell devised by Rowena and completed by Sam Winchester which causes a spirit to become human. Unfortunately, the spell could only be used once as Billie closes any loophole that cheats death.
Rowena is killed twice by Lucifer -- first in 11.10 The Devil in the Details and later in 12.23 All Along the Watchtower -- but each time resurrected herself by use of a resurrection charm.
In 2019, Rowena sacrificed herself to banish the Hell ghosts back where they came from, having Sam fulfill Death's prophecy that he will kill her in order to save the world. She subsequently became the Queen of Hell.
Following Rowena's death, Sam inherited her magical stash, which she intended since Sam was described by Dean as "Rowena's protégé." She even said that Sam was as close to a seasoned witch as anyone else in the team. Team Free Will uses her collection of spells and magical items in the fight against God.
8.22 Clip Show
Rowena is first mentioned by Crowley as he targets the people Sam and Dean saved. While killing Sarah Blake, he tells Dean that his mom was a witch who taught him a few tricks, including using spells to kill people as opposed to sending his demons.
9.21 King of the Damned
Rowena is mentioned again when Gavin and Crowley reminisce about why Gavin hates him so much. Crowley tells him that he didn't have any role models growing up, even stating how his mother was a witch to emphasize.
Rowena enjoying a book after killing the room service.
10.03 Soul Survivor
In a hotel suite in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Rowena is reading a book in front of a fireplace when suddenly a drop of blood falls on her arm from the ceiling. She looks up, revealing two hotel staff members nailed to the ceiling, smiles and continues reading her book.
"Well...I'm about as far from Grand Coven approved as it's possible to be. They threw me out many years ago. Disapproved of my methods. Said my magic was too extreme. I was forbidden from using magic, from taking students, from forming a coven. I've been on the run from those utter fannies ever since."
Two demons named Raul and Gerald are running a brothel, using women to make deals, selling sex for souls. Rowena visits the brothel and throws a hex bag to Raul, who immediately begins vomiting black goo -- liquified demon smoke -- and collapses, dead. She leaves with two prostitutes, Elle and Catlin, and takes them to eat at an upscale restaurant. The waiter tells them that Elle and Catlin do not meet the dress code, so Rowena bewitches him with a servitude spell. They are served the finest food and wine. Rowena explains that there are three types of witch: Borrowers, which harness the power of a demon, the Naturals, those who are born with the gift of magic, and the Students, who learn from a Grand Coven-approved mentor. Rowena tells them that she was thrown out of the Grand Coven a long time ago for her extreme methods, and was thus forbidden from forming a coven or even using magic. She has been on the run ever since, but offers to take Elle and Catlin under her wing anyway. Just then, the waiter's face turns red and he collapses, dead, forcing a quick exit from Rowena and the girls.
Sam and Dean are on Rowena's trail and they find out that she has been responsible for a number of murders at high-end hotels, with the bodies impaled on the ceiling and brains boiled. Later, the women are staying at a hotel when there is a knock on the door. Rowena tells Elle and Catlin that it is probably the hotel manager coming to find out why she hasn't paid the bill, and that he would be practice for them. When she opens the door, it is revealed to be a bellboy whose throat has been slit by demons, who proceed to capture the women. Sam and Dean arrive and kill the demons, and say they are only there for Rowena. She puts an attack dog spell on Elle, and uses this distraction to escape with Catlin. Elle fights Sam, but when the spell runs its course she dies like the waiter. Outside, Rowena tells Catlin that most people cannot withstand the power of the spells, but that Catlin is strong. Catlin punches Rowena and runs away. Rowena begins to recite a spell but is stopped when Dean puts a gun to her head. Before he can act, Cole puts a gun to Dean and Dean is forced to let Rowena go.
At Crowley's lair, Gerald tells Crowley that although the Winchesters took down the alpha team, the beta team had a perimeter around the hotel and captured Rowena. She is bloodied and bruised and strung up in chains in a cell. Crowley enters. As Rowena mocks him, in utter surprise, all Crowley can say is "...Mother?"
"Of course you had a father! You were just conceived during a winter solstice orgy, and it’s not like I was taking names. What do you want me to say? I … I had a disagreement with the locals and when they set their hounds on me, I had to leave!"
Gerald places a demon, Trish, in Crowley's dungeon next to Rowena. As Trish attempts to break free from her bindings, Rowena initiates small talk with her, wanting to find out what brought her there. Trish tells her she was smuggled topside as Crowley only allows certain demons out of Hell. When Trish asks why she is a prisoner, Rowena replies that she was a "horrible mother." Meanwhile, Crowley and Gerald discuss their histories with their respective mothers. Crowley states that he hates the name she gave him and reminisces about the time she almost sold him for three pigs, bragging how he was potentially worth five pigs at least.
When Crowley finally decides to see Rowena, he berates her for being a horrible mother to him, but Rowena deflects that by saying she was motivating him for bigger things. When he brings up that she abandoned him when he was eight, she tells Crowley it was because she ran afoul of the locals and had to flee. Rowena tells Crowley she wishes to be a family again, and that he can trust her, unlike the demons who will turn on him at the first chance.
After their chat, Crowley and Gerald escort Rowena to the dungeon. It's there that Rowena accuses Gerald of smuggling demons out of Hell, which Trish confirms. Gerald denies the accusation and begins to strangle Rowena. When he doesn't listen to Crowley's repeated orders to stop, Crowley stabs Gerald through the neck with an angel blade, killing him. As Crowley leaves the cell, he asks Rowena if she is coming. She smiles and follows him out the door. When Trish reminds Rowena that she said she would get her out if she lied about Gerald, Rowena responds that she'll be back for her "in a flash" and locks the cell.
"I will not apologize for being a career woman! Besides, what’s three hundred years, more or less, to folks like us? Nothing. I’m back now."
Crowley has a vision that he is being assassinated by his own demon minions in a hallway. Rowena brings him back to reality where he sits at his throne, staring blankly into space. She shows concern and offers to help him in any way, however Crowley insists that nothing is wrong and tells her she can't do anything to help him. Immediately after he exits the room, she pulls out a hex bag from under his throne.
Rowena sits in Crowley's throne as she is confronted by Guthrie.
Later one of Crowley's minions, Guthrie, finds Rowena searching through Crowley's cupboards. When Crowley enters, Rowena tells him Guthrie is plotting against him. Crowley is suspicious of her, but Rowena promises she only wants them to be a family again. When Crowley goes to meet with the Winchesters, Rowena astral projects herself to spy on them. She hears that Crowley is planning on giving them the First Blade, and where it is hidden. She sends Guthrie to retrieve it, pretending it is at Crowley's behest.
When Guthrie returns with the First Blade, he refuses to give it to Rowena, so she kills him. When Crowley returns, she claims Guthrie was planning a rebellion against him. Crowley remembers his nightmare, which Rowena pretends must've been a prophetic vision. Rowena also warns him about the Winchesters.
"Well, duh! Of course I was manipulating you! I am your mother, after all. Manipulation's who we are."
While Crowley is holding court with his inner circle of demons, Rowena begins to admonish him for giving in to a crossroads demon's complaints of not being recognized for his work. She suggests a particularly gruesome punishment instead, which Crowley obliges. Later Rowena approaches her son about dealing with the high-ranking Grand Coven witch, Olivette, who was responsible for her being put on the run. It's then that Crowley reveals he has been on to Rowena's manipulations from the beginning, but ultimately agrees to help her.
While Rowena begins formulating her plan of attack with Crowley, he is called away by Dean Winchester seeking the First Blade to kill Cain. This forces Crowley to postpone the attack, which Rowena does not take kindly. She argues with him about his trust of the Winchesters, and says they don't care about him.
After Crowley returns, Rowena tells him of her intention to leave, claiming to be heartbroken over the way in which Crowley rules Hell, telling him he is nothing but the Winchester's "bitch."
"Poetic justice, if you ask me. For hundreds of years, those hags made me grovel, every attempt to please them futile. High time someone else ran in circles, eh?"
Rowena remains vexed with Crowley and vents her frustration by ruining the court and casting shocking spells to all those who interfere with her, going so far as to hex one of the demons to spawn a second face on the back of his head. She also rebukes Crowley for refusing to help her and for choosing the Winchesters over his own blood. She taunts Crowley that his existence is only because of her and again destroys his palace by casting a spell. Crowley later captures Olivette and brings her before Rowena as a gift, much to her joy. Rowena takes the shackled Olivette and beats her. Olivette reveals she excommunicated Rowena for being too dangerous with magic and that the Grand Coven has already been devastated and weakened due to the Men of Letters, who confiscated all their accumulated spells and potions and placed them in warded bunkers around the world. She reveals that the Winchesters are the only known Men of Letters in the United States. With the assumption that the Grand Coven from which she has been hiding for centuries and from which she has been fearfully groveling is no longer powerful and authorized, Rowena begins to kill Olivette with a spell, but quickly stops when she realizes death would be a release for Olivette. Rowena instead chooses to transform her into a hamster.
Rowena attempts to kill Dean Winchester with a spell.
"You say that like it's an insult. But nice girls, they're pathetic. Here's to evil skanks."
Rowena begins her plan to kill the Winchesters. To prepare, she draws sigils and symbols in blood on her body, and seeks the aid of a demon subordinate to triangulate the location of the Men of Letters Bunker. The demon is only able to give her a 10-mile radius to work with. After Dean has hustled money playing pool and heads to the bathroom, Rowena enters the bar and casts the attack dog spell on the trio of men that Dean just hustled and unleashes them to attack Dean. When Dean successfully beats the men without killing them, Rowena uses a Gaelic spell on Dean which is supposed to rip him apart, to no avail since Dean bears the very powerful and ancient Mark of Cain. Dean spares her life for the sake of the hexed trio as he knows that Rowena is the only one that can reverse the spell cast on them. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that even her mightiest spell cannot affect Dean, she lacerates and beats herself and tells Crowley that Dean did it to her in hope of Crowley retaliating. To her surprise, Crowley ignores her and tells her she deserved what she got for going up against Dean.
After Rowena eggs him to punish Dean, Crowley teleports to the bar to talk with Dean about what happened. Dean explains that he wanted to kill Rowena, but he barely even touched her, sparing her to save the people she hexed. Crowley is able to look past Rowena's deceit, but defends his actions for letting her manipulate him because he's been going soft. Dean explains that Rowena is not his family as she only cares about what he can do for her whereas a real family cares about you unconditionally, as Bobby taught him.
Crowley later confronts Rowena about her manipulations. He realizes that she was never his mother, stating that the only reason she is clinging to him is because he is useful to her. He also admits that he did lose his edge, but decides to change it by evicting her from his hideout, stating his intention to kill her if he ever sees her again. Rowena packs and leaves her son's palace.
"Shall we discuss terms?"
Sam secretly meets with Rowena to seek her help in deciphering the Book of the Damned and removing the Mark of Cain from Dean. After Sam pleads his case, Rowena simply smiles and asks to go over the terms of their accord.
Rowena becomes a prisoner... again.
"I'm over 300 years old. Beauty sleep isn't optional."
Sam meets with Rowena and asks for her help in decoding the Book of the Damned in the hope it will reveal how to remove the Mark of Cain from Dean. Rowena agrees to help, on the condition that Sam kill Crowley for her. She says she needs a special codex that was created by Nadya, a witch of the Grand Coven. Rowena knows that the Men of Letters confiscated and concealed it when they killed Nadya.
Sam calls Rowena when he finds the location of the Codex and she provides him information on an easy-to-obtain enchantment that can counter the effects of the Werther Box it is in, but she warns Sam that the Cabirian Invocation has a way of fizzling out in inexperienced hands and offers to come help. Sam declines and hangs up.
When Sam gets bespelled by the Werther Box, Rowena appears and instructs him to bleed himself in order to open the box. When he has lost a dangerous amount of blood, Dean appears and hits him, breaking the spell. The apparition of Rowena disappears.
After obtaining the codex from the box, Sam secretly takes the codex to Rowena, but he tricks her and manages to shackle her so she cannot escape while she decodes the Book of the Damned.
"I read you the minute I saw you. And I'm sure you're learning that the line between good and evil is quite flexible. But we part company when it comes to blind devotion. Case in point... the Winchesters. You've made them the family you don't have. Foolish."
Since Rowena has not found a cure for the Mark, Sam accuses her of procrastinating in deciphering the Book of the Damned even though she has Nadya's Codex. Rowena replies that she is an artist and needs time for interpreting the cure for Dean. She also states that her deciphering of the codex would be expedited if she could use magic, which her iron shackles prevent. Sam is desperate and demands to know why she is stalling but Rowena denies this, saying that removing the Mark of Cain would ensure her life. She also reminds Sam of her eagerness to have Crowley killed. Rowena explains that Nadia also encrypted her own codex so that no one could ever decode it, to Sam's chagrin. When Sam goes to leave, Rowena asks him to go grocery shopping.
He returns with Charlie, who is also there to help find a cure for the Mark, but Rowena is antagonistic toward Charlie, and tells Sam that she does not need an ancillary decoder. Sam retorts by revealing that Charlie wouldn't be her helper, rather she would be subordinate to Charlie. Rowena is not impressed by Charlie's confidence in tech, as she has never heard of the school where Charlie learned this magic. Sam tells her that she will find the ancient spells and curses, while Charlie's tech will put it into context. When Castiel is counted in, Rowena is intrigued by him, and taunts that all their discreet and unwilling collaboration must be unbeknownst to Dean, who doesn't even know that Sam didn't destroy the book. Sam, Charlie, and Castiel make a mutual agreement on cooperating for Dean's sake.
Rowena mocks Charlie and her laptop, and Castiel enters with his favorite snack as a human, pork rinds. Charlie asks Rowena about the nun who wrote the Book of the Damned, and Rowena replies that she was a hermit nun, Agnes, and that she was incinerated at the stake by the men of the church. Rowena mentions that her and Charlie are similar, however Rowena believes Charlie has too much trust in the Winchesters. Charlie confesses that the Winchesters are like her brothers, but Rowena tells her that her loyalty would be her undoing. Because Rowena won't leave her alone, and even tries to talk her into witchcraft, Charlie tells Castiel that she has to leave for two hours, or even one, just to get away from Rowena.
When Charlie and Rowena start arguing, Castiel calls Sam to let him know that Charlie wants to leave. Sam says it is too dangerous, however, so Castiel moves Rowena to another room, and chains her there. Rowena feels that Charlie is being the dramatic one, and believes that determining a cure would go faster if Charlie accepted her help. She also mentions that Crowley is her son, which surprises Castiel. Castiel leaves her, and finds out that Charlie has left for a motel, where she is later killed by Eldon Styne.
"Right, you don’t! Your brother’s a walkin’ freakin’ time bomb, and the clock, she’s a ticking. So you will kill my son, and you will do it my way, now!"
Sam decides to end the work to remove the Mark and kill Rowena, but changes his mind once he receives an email from Charlie with her code breaker for the Book of the Damned and Nadya's Codex. Rowena confirms she can now remove the Mark, but demands that Sam kill Crowley first as she doesn't trust him to keep up his end of the deal otherwise. After Sam fails, he calls Rowena to tell her and give her Crowley's warning. While Rowena is left worried, she insists Sam keep trying.
Rowena makes her escape with the Book of the Damned, Charlie's Code Breaker, and Nadya's Codex.
"Impetus bestiarum. I'm afraid, Fergus, that in all your long life, you've never seen what a real witch can do with real magic. I'm terrifically pleased it's the last thing you'll ever see. Dele malum hoc."
Following his failure to kill Crowley, Sam tries to threaten Rowena into helping with bullets filled with witch-killing brew. Rowena is not intimidated as Sam needs her to crack the Book of the Damned and to cast the spell. She offers a new deal: her freedom and the codex in exchange for removing the Mark. Sam agrees and Rowena determines the ingredients needed for the spell which includes her sacrificing the person she loves most. Castiel is able to determine this is a young man named Oskar whose family had helped her hundreds of years before and whom she had grown so fond of that she cured him of a terminal disease and made him immortal. Castiel summons Crowley, who brings them the ingredients and Oskar. Rowena is happy to see Oskar despite her protests of loving no one and is horrified that she will have to kill him. However, she is forced to go through with it and casts the spell to remove the Mark. She succeeds in removing the Mark but unwittingly releases the Darkness at the same time. After using the book's power to remove the Mark of Cain, her powers are super charged by the book's influence. Rowena takes the opportunity to escape with the Book of the Damned, Nadya's Codex, and Charlie's Code Breaker. She casts an attack dog spell on Castiel so he will kill Crowley while he is immobilized.
"...and they shall know us far and wide and fear us. And we shall be known as the... Mega Coven! Mega Coven. See, because it's greater than Grand Coven. So it's not grand, it's mega! It's the Mega Coven. I don't think you're followin'."
Rowena stands before a trio of witches in an abandoned warehouse; at her altar she declares that they shall be known as the "Mega Coven," to the confusion of the trio. When one witch questions why they would join her, Rowena tells them that the Grand Coven is obsolete and and falling apart. She tells them how she compelled an angel to kill her son, the King of Hell. But one witch tells her she made a deal with Crowley only the day before and declares Rowena "delusional as ever." As the trio begins to leave, Rowena pulls out the Book of the Damned and performs an incineration spell, killing the trio of witches where they stand.
At a restaurant, Rowena sits with two witches, pitching them to join her new Mega Coven and offering them power they could never get while in the Grand Coven. The witches appear to agree to join, when suddenly a demon-possessed waiter attacks. One witch attempts to fend him off with a spell but is too slow and has her throat slit. Rowena makes her hasty retreat, using a spell to block her exit with furniture.
Sometime later, Rowena comes out of a brick building, disguised in a blonde wig and speaking in an American accent, carrying her suitcases towards a yellow Taxi. She quickly realizes that the driver is actually Dean Winchester and sends him flying across the alley, pinning him to a wall. Before she can kill Dean, Sam appears from nowhere and places her in iron shackles. Back at the Bunker's dungeon, Dean is chaining Rowena to the chair while Sam is searching her luggage for the Book of the Damned, but he is only able to find Nadya's Codex and Charlie's code breaker. When Sam goes to retrieve Castiel, Dean threatens to call Crowley unless she helps them. Rowena eggs him on, telling him if she is dead, there will be no one to remove the curse from Castiel. A panicked Sam returns to the dungeon, telling Dean that Castiel has gone missing. The trio pile into the Impala and track Castiel down using his phone's GPS. Dean parks the Impala in the general vicinity of where Castiel's GPS brought them, and tells Sam to take Rowena one way, while he looks another. When Dean tracks Castiel down, Rowena and Sam show up not long after as Castiel starts attacking Dean. Holding a gun full of witch-killing bullets to her head, Sam orders Rowena to remove the curse. Once done, Sam briefly takes his attention away from Rowena to place her back in shackles, but Rowena is able to use the momentary lapse to her advantage and uses a spell to send Sam's gun flying across the room, along with Sam. Before either Winchester can do anything, Rowena traps them behind a cage and makes her escape.
Rowena summons Lucifer.
"It’s not easy being a parent; knowing when to hug your child, when to kill him."
A hooded and shackled Rowena is brought before Crowley and the Winchesters. She surmises they want her help to deal with the force that was released when the Mark of Cain was removed. Dean tells her everyone in the room holds a piece of the puzzle to stop the Darkness. Rowena is then filled in on Amara being God's sister, and is shocked at learning the truth, as back her day people would be burned at the stake for merely suggesting God had a sister. Knowing that her decoding the Book of the Damned is pivotal to their plan, she wants to know would be in it for her; which Crowley agrees to call off his assassins, until the next time she crosses him. She asks what is in the Cage that is so important; when they tell her Lucifer, Rowena is elated at the prospect of meeting the "Original Dark Prince." With everyone in agreement, Rowena is taken to the Bunker, where she is given Nadya's Codex and Charlie's code breaker. After some studying, Rowena finds the spell necessary to communicate with Lucifer without opening the Cage, and along with Sam and Crowley journeys to Hell to perform the spell.
Crowley leads the trio to "Limbo," a desolate area in the furthest reaches of Hell. There Rowena paints warding sigils around a cage, and performs the first part of the spell, which activates the warding sigils as a ring of holy fire surrounds the cage. The second part of the spell causes the flames to rise high above; once they die down a figure appears in the shadows with glowing red eyes -- Lucifer. As Rowena and Crowley watch Sam's conversation with Lucifer from a distance, Rowena becomes enamored by the fallen angel. Eventually, the illuminated spell-work on the cage begins to fade and the fire around the cage begins dying. Crowley looks startled, but Rowena looks intrigued. As Crowley questions why the warding failed, Rowena simply tells him to follow her, and leads him away.
"I hate you, because when I look into your eyes I see the woman I used to be, before magic, before the coven. When I was nothing but Rowena, the tanner's daughter. A pale, scared little girl, who smelled of filth and death. I hate you, because when you were born, your father said he loved me, then he went back to his grand wife and his grand house, whilst I lay pathetic and half dead on a straw mat -- my thighs slick with blood. I hate you, because if I didn't, I'd love you. But love, love is weakness. And I'll never be weak again."
During a recurring nightmare in which she experiences Christmas morning with a child-like Crowley, the dream is suddenly interrupted by Santa Claus kicking the door down and impaling Crowley with a candy cane, when Rowena asks who he is because he is a new element in the dream, Santa pulls down his beard and reveals himself as Lucifer, causing joy to fall on Rowena.
After Sam is transported into the Cage, Rowena and Crowley abscond to another room. While Rowena sits at a table, Crowley begins to choke her, telling her she betrayed him in his kingdom. She tells it's not his kingdom, it's Lucifer's and she is also his. Crowley questions how long she has been working for Lucifer, she tells him not long and that Lucifer came to her in a dream. Her allowing Crowley to capture her was all apart of Lucifer's plan. She tells Crowley that once Lucifer defeats the Darkness, he will ascend to Heaven and take the throne, with her by his side as his queen.
Rowena has her neck snapped by Lucifer.
While Crowley and Rowena are about to have tea, Crowley excuses himself, but unbeknownst to him Rowena slips a hex bag in his pocket, allowing her to eavesdrop on his conversation with Dean Winchester. She reveals this fact to Crowley when he returns to her. Crowley replies that he drugged her tea, causing Rowena to double over in a coughing fit, allowing Dean to place a witchcatcher around her neck. Furious, Rowena demands Crowley remove the collar from her neck. He tells her would, if not for the fact that the collar allows him to control her, and proves this point by forcing Rowena to hop on one leg, much to her chagrin. With Rowena in their control, Dean and Crowley force her to perform a spell to send Lucifer back to the Cage, a spell that will only work as long as Lucifer doesn't take a vessel to anchor himself. Rowena performs the spell and is seemingly successful when Lucifer disappears in blinding white light. With everyone regrouped, Crowley declares the team-up a "trainwreck" and over. When Sam questions what to do with Rowena, Crowley tells him she is staying with him in Hell.
With everyone taking their leave from Hell, Crowley sits in front of a fireplace and has Rowena massage his temples. During this time, he asks his mother why she hates him. Rowena goes on to tell him about her life before magic and how Crowley's father abandoned them after his birth. With tears in her eyes, she tells him that if she didn't hate him, she would love him, and love is a weakness. Unexpectedly, Castiel appears in the doorway. However, Castiel soon reveals himself to actually be Lucifer, who had gained consent from Castiel before Rowena finished the spell. As Crowley tries to flee, Lucifer flings him to the wall and approaches Rowena. He removes the witchcatcher from her neck and tells her she deserves a reward for her help in freeing him. As he closes in seemingly to kiss Rowena, Lucifer asks her if anyone else is capable of opening the Cage. When Rowena tells her only she is capable, he snaps her neck.
Rowena is resurrected.
"Oh, I can be useful. Provide you with information on the troublesome brothers and Lucifer... their plans. And even if it is born out of my own self-interest, I-I care about you. I'm someone you can talk with. Confide in. Have you... have you ever had that?"
Rowena is shown to be alive, having survived her encounter with Lucifer through the use of a spell. Finding herself in the company of a weakened Amara, Rowena proceeds to use her abilities with magic to heal Amara. When Amara realizes Rowena is Crowley's mother, she asks if she is trying to bring her back to Crowley. Rowena assures her that is not the case and tells her how much she and Crowley loathe each other. She tells Amara how she died and of her resurrection and that she has a score to settle with Lucifer, and promises to fix Amara so she can destroy her enemies. As the healing sessions continue, Amara asks Rowena why she is helping her, as she doesn't detect the capacity for concern or kindness within Rowena. Rowena explains that she wants revenge on Lucifer, but also that she wishes to be by Amara's side when she remakes the universe in her image, and in the meantime she can spy on the Winchesters and Lucifer for her. As Amara tests out her strength, the show of power appears to frighten Rowena. When Rowena spies on the Winchesters and Crowley and overhears their plan, she lies to Amara and tells her they are paralyzed with fear and have no clue what to do. As Crowley and the Winchester argue about their plan, a message appears stating "Back from the dead, Fergus!" on a metal wall.
Rowena, now having abandoned Amara, joins the Winchesters in an abandoned church where they plan on summoning Lucifer to eject him from Castiel's vessel and send him back to the Cage. When Crowley asks Rowena where she's been this whole time, she tells Crowley that, like him, she has been in hiding from Lucifer. Crowley demands that she not muck about like the last time and do her job as the holy fire and warding will only hold for so long against an archangel. Once Lucifer is summoned, Rowena quickly hides behind a corner, panicked, and remains there even after Lucifer gets free. When Amara arrives and tells everyone she had been tracking Rowena since she left her side, Rowena takes the opportunity to flee as Lucifer and Amara face each other.
"Aye. I came face-to-face with the Darkness. The apocalypse bell’s been rung a few times in our day, but when I looked inside her, I saw it. Not just the end of the world, Heaven and Hell. The end of magic."
Believing the end is near, Rowena pays a visit to the witch Clea. Not trusting Rowena, Clea instantly pulls a gun on her and asks what she wants. Rowena says she needs a second witch for a spell. Clea is not inclined to help her, knowing of her "impetuous little fits." When Rowena tells Clea that the world is ending, Clea shows Rowena her tarot cards, revealing she is aware that the end is near. Rowena explains that the spell she is working on is from the Book of the Damned and can buy them centuries more of life by going back in time. Still sensing Clea isn't on board, Rowena tells her of her encounter with the Darkness, and that it will be the end of everything, including magic. Clea agrees to help, under the condition they go to the time period of Greek antiquity.
Rowena attacks Amara.
As Rowena and Clea are preparing the spell, Sam appears out of nowhere and tells Rowena they need to talk. When Rowena threatens Sam, Clea senses Sam's aura is under potent protection and says she should hear him out. When Sam tells them God is back and they want Rowena's help, Rowena refuses, claiming to only serve magic, not God. However, Clea tells Sam she is interested. When Rowena shows surprise at Clea, Clea points to the cross around her neck, telling her she serves both. As Rowena continues to refuse, Clea points out that they have a chance to fight and win, rather than escape, telling Rowena and Sam she can enlist other witches to help in the fight. Rowena continues to protest, prompting Clea to pick up her tarot deck, which shows the sun card, telling Rowena there is a chance.
Rowena, having been convinced to join the fight, arrives at the abandoned power plant. Upon the arrival of Chuck, Rowena immediately begins to ingratiate herself to the Lord, apologizes for her past deeds. Rowena, Crowley, and Lucifer begin fighting over the order of the attack wave; once a decision is made, Rowena communicates with Amara through astral projection, telling Amara that she is with God as they speak. As Rowena steps outside of the abandoned power plant, Amara appears out of nowhere. Amara reveals that she knew Rowena's betrayal of God was a trap the moment she made contact with her, but doesn't care as all she has wanted was a chance to be face to face with her brother. Amara makes a veiled threat about how she can repay Rowena, which prompts her to attack Amara with a spell. The spell has no effect on Amara, who tells Rowena that it tickled and mocks Rowena for thinking the power of one witch could hurt her. Rowena retorts that she isn't one witch and attacks again, this time with the pooled power of Clea and three other witches, which sends Amara to the ground. Amara stands up and deflects the magic back at Rowena, knocking her down and sending blowback to Clea and the other witches, killing them. As Amara approaches the prone Rowena, the second attack wave begins as the angels in Heaven fire a blast of energy, sending Amara to her knees.
With the assault on Amara having failed, a disoriented Rowena picks herself up, and looks around, spotting something in the distance.
"Now, Fergus was bright. Walked before his first birthday, but he hated pants. Hated them. He'd run 'round the village, his wee banger just flapping in the breeze."
After Amara has severely wounded Chuck and taken her leave, Rowena enters the building to tell the group they need to take a look outside. As Rowena, Dean, Sam, Chuck, Cas, and Crowley walk outside, they begin to look around as Rowena taps Dean on the shoulder, turning him around and pointing to the sky. They all look up and see the sun -- the sky around it is bright red/orange. At the Bunker, the group soon realizes that the sun is dying. Meanwhile Rowena tends to Chuck, telling him she'll go and make some tea. In the library Chuck and Rowena are drinking tea, sharing stories about Crowley and Adam and Eve, while Crowley is off to the side drinking a glass of whiskey.
Later, Sam suggests the only way to keep the universe from being destroyed is to even the scales by killing Amara. In Chuck's weakened state he is in no position to help. Castiel suggests using souls, which Rowena agrees is a good source of power. She tells Sam and Dean that if they collect enough souls, she can build a bomb to take out Amara. With the vengeful spirits Sam and Dean collected from Waverly Hills, on top of Billie's raid of the Veil, Rowena creates a soul bomb. Dean being the only one who would be able to get close to Amara, will be the one to carry it. Then Rowena tells him he wouldn't be smuggling the bomb, but actually be the bomb. She places her hand on Dean’s chest and tells him that to activate the bomb, all he will have to do is press his index finger and thumb together. Rowena begins an incantation over the crystal in her outstretched hand. As she finishes she pushes her other hand towards the crystal and Dean. A stream of bright white light hits Dean in the chest for several seconds. Dean groans and hunches over in pain. She tells Dean he has an hour before he becomes a literal ticking time bomb.
After taking Sam and Dean to Mary's grave site, Sam, Cas, Crowley, Chuck, and Rowena pull up in the Impala to the Lazy Shag bar, which has closed for the day. This does not stop the group from entering to drink and wait for Dean to detonate the bomb. At the Lazy Shag, Sam, Crowley, Rowena, and Castiel run outside as the sun streams in through the windows. Outside, they all look towards the sun which begins shining bright once again, as Rowena and Crowley exclaim that Dean "did it."
"I can't believe I'm once again down some dank hole seeking the Devil. When does it end? It's exactly why I'm retiring to Boca Raton. With Ben."
Rowena seeks to start her life over again as she no longer wants to have anything to do with the supernatural. However, both Crowley and Lucifer intend to use her because of her vast knowledge and her ability to decipher the Book of the Damned. Crowley is the first to reach her, by interrupting her date with a man named Ben. Despite her insistence that she wants to retire, Crowley orders her to help him send Lucifer back to his Cage; if not, then he will expose her true nature to Ben. Rowena reluctantly agrees, and the two set up a trap for the archangel.
When Lucifer confronts Crowley in his throne room, Rowena appears and uses a spell to paralyze Lucifer and enable Crowley to throw acid on him, weakening his vessel. However, Lucifer is able to resist Rowena's magic and heal the injuries caused by Crowley. Seeing no other option, Crowley flees the scene, leaving Rowena behind. Rowena tries to inform Lucifer of her desire to be elsewhere and start a vacation, but Lucifer refuses to let her go since he wants to keep his enemies "close." Rowena is taken prisoner, and she screams in horror.
"Until you forced me to get back in the game, I'd tried to forget about Lucifer. I loathe him, and I loathe that I had any part in letting him out of the pit he belongs in."
Lucifer takes Rowena on a short trip to Wendy Vincente's house, whom he'd promised his vessel to heal. He then ties up Rowena inside a cabin in the woods. Realizing his vessel is already decaying, Lucifer requests Rowena's help in strengthening it. she makes up an excuse of not knowing where the Book of the Damned is, but Lucifer is not fooled. Instead, he threatens to snap Rowena's neck clean off if she doesn't obey his orders. Rowena agrees and begins applying a spell on Lucifer's vessel, but soon reveals that she was using a spell that would not improve the vessel's condition, but rather speed up its decaying process.
Furious, Lucifer tries to threaten her, knowing she cannot destroy him, but she banishes Lucifer along with his rotting vessel to the bottom of the ocean. Just then, Castiel and Crowley arrive, having been searching for her. They find her enjoying a cup of tea. As the three leave the cabin, Rowena expresses her regret in having any part in freeing Lucifer, which is why she is willing to help them send Lucifer back to his Cage once they have the archangel cornered. She tells Castiel to call her when the time comes.
Rowena wearing her latest beau, courtesy of Crowley.
"Well, dear. I'm a witch, he's an angel."
In Boca Raton, Rowena is enraged when she discovers that her latest fiancé has run a background check on her and has been lying and using her. While Rowena argues with the man, Crowley comes to get her help in imprisoning Lucifer. Crowley eventually blows the man's head off, which Rowena calls the nicest thing Crowley has ever done for her.
Rowena participates in the planning for defeating Lucifer but is skeptical about the idea of using the British Men of Letters' Hyperbolic Pulse Generator to eject Lucifer out of President Jefferson Rooney. The group is able to use Kelly Kline and Lucifer's unborn child to lure him to their motel where Sam use the generator to remove him from his vessel. As the generator does its work, Dean signals Rowena who begins reciting the spell to send Lucifer back to his Cage. Lucifer vacates from Rooney. Believing they have finally locked Lucifer back up, both Rowena and Crowley disappear before the secret service arrives.
"You help those other than yourself. But me? I've done terrible things and I told myself it was fine. It was the price of power. And power's what matters, right? Then I met God and His sister. The two most powerful beings in the universe, wasting it on squabbling with each other. I thought if -- if they can't be happy, or at least satisfied. How can there be any hope for me?"
After Dean is hexed, Sam calls Rowena for help. Rowena, who is using her powers to cheat at poker, suggests that Sam find the witch who cast the curse and kill him. After finding the glyph used in the curse, Sam sends it to Rowena and notifies her that they have found the witch who cast the spell, but he is dead and Dean isn't getting better. Rowena joins the Winchesters and is intrigued by Dean's memory loss. Rowena then tells Sam that the spell is Druidic magic belonging to the Loughlin family. She recognizes the dead witch as Gideon Loughlin and tells Sam that the only way to break the curse before Dean dies is to get her the Black Grimoire. Instead of taking Rowena with him, Sam leaves her to watch over Dean until he can get the Loughlins to give him the reversal spell. While waiting, Rowena explains her current motives to Dean, knowing he won't remember it. The two then listen over the phone as Catriona and Boyd Loughlin capture Sam.
Following Sam's capture, Rowena locates the Impala and uses it to reach the Loughlin house. Rowena leaves an unconscious Dean in the car with a note explaining the current situation, another note to stay, and notes in the weapons locker directing him to his gun and the witch-killing bullets. In the house, Rowena confronts Catriona, who recognizes Rowena and taunts her about their past. Rowena and Catriona engage in battle, but Rowena is no match for the other witch who prepares to kill Rowena with a shard of glass. Before she can, Dean interrupts and kills Catriona and Boyd with witch-killing bullets. Rowena is then able to use the Black Grimoire to break the curse and save Dean's life.
The next day, Rowena departs in a cab, but not before Sam makes her give him the Black Grimoire. Sam promises that the Winchesters owe Rowena "a small one" for her help.
"I'm your Mother dear. Who better to crush your shriveled heart."
Rowena is summoned by Sam and Dean to help them once again. Rowena does not wish to participate in anything the brothers have in mind for her, but they insist and offer her something she really wants in exchange. The brothers ask her to locate someone important, and when Rowena inquires as to the identity of said person, they reveal to her that it's her grandson, Gavin.
The trio go to meet Gavin at a bus stop. Gavin initially believes his father is sick, but the brothers tell him they lied and proceed to introduce him to Rowena. Gavin is needed in order to investigate the wreckage of The Star, a trading ship he was supposed to have been on but due to Abaddon's intervention, he ended up in the present timeline instead. When Gavin discovers that his fiancé had boarded the ship and suffered brutal assault from the crewmen, he decides to travel back in time to protect her and ensure she does not become a vengeful spirit.
Rowena's charred corpse, left by Lucifer.
Rowena agrees with Gavin's decision, and stops Crowley from interfering when he tries to prevent Gavin from going back in time and to his death. She also modifies the blood sigil spell slightly so that it can be used to return Gavin to his own time without the need to connect him to a blood relative. In the aftermath, Rowena admits that she saw Gavin as "a lovely boy," but she accepted his death because it would teach Crowley the pain and agony she suffered when she was forced to kill Oskar, a child she loved more than her own son, to remove the Mark of Cain. After explaining her motive to avenge Oskar's death by sending Gavin back to 1723, she leaves when her bus arrives, leaving a heartbroken Crowley to contemplate what happened.
When Sam tries to get ahold of Rowena to help in sending Lucifer back to the Cage, he is shocked to hear Lucifer's voice on the other end. As Lucifer plays with a lock of Rowena's hair, he tells Sam of how he stomped her head in and set her on fire just to be sure she was actually dead, as Rowena's charred corpse lies on the floor at Lucifer's feet.
13.07 War of the Worlds
Arthur Ketch is revealed to be alive, searching for Rowena and torturing witches to do so. After being captured by Sam and Dean, he reveals to them that Rowena was captured by the British Men of Letters several years ago, at which time he discovered that she uses a powerful charm that can revive her if she is ever killed. He'd agreed to help her escape in exchange for having the same charm implanted in himself. He explains that the charm can only be used once before it needs to be recharged, hence his crusade for Rowena. Before escaping with a broken shoulder, he implies that Rowena is still alive.
"You know what I've seen, what it's like. Lucifer may be locked away, but he'll be back. He always comes back. And when he does I can't be helpless again. I need the spell."
As Dean is about to choke Sam out for coming between him and Jamie Plum, they are struck by a blast of purple lightning before Rowena makes her presence known, burning the hex bag that was controlling Dean.
The trio return to the Men of Letters Bunker, where Rowena explains that Lucifer did kill her, but she was saved once again by her resurrection charm. She reveals that after Lucifer killed her, it took her a long time to heal, and since she doesn't wish to go through that again she wants the Black Grimoire. Dean finds it coincidental that Rowena would show up just as he gave the book to the Plum sisters; Rowena tells him it's no coincidence as she had placed a tracking spell on the book before she handed it over to Sam and Dean, and once it began moving, she was able to sense its location. Sam asks her what she wants with the book now after all this time. Rowena explains that the Grand Coven cast a binding spell on her which limited aspects of her magic, and she believes that there is a spell in the grimoire that may help lift it. Dean scoffs at the idea of letting Rowena get stronger, but Rowena tells him she just wants to protect herself. Rowena goes on to propose they help each other out -- she can track the book and help them find the Plum sisters. As Rowena fixes herself another drink after toasting their new partnership, she asks the Winchesters where Crowley is. Sam and Dean tell her that Crowley has died, and that he sacrificed himself for them and to lock Lucifer in an alternate universe. They tell Rowena she would be proud. Rowena, however, is angry, telling the brothers that Fergus was her only child and would much rather have him alive than dead, even though they hated each other.
Rowena regains her full power.
Rowena soon tracks the grimoire to Stillwater, Oklahoma, but due to it no longer being in movement she can only surmise the general vicinity of the book within the town. As Dean goes into a local store to question the cashier, Sam and Rowena have a conversation about Lucifer, where Rowena reveals that before Lucifer crushed her skull, he showed her his true face, and admits to Sam that she is scared all the time. Sam tells her that he has also seen Lucifer's true face, and it still keeps him up at night. He tells Rowena no matter what she does, she is always going to feel helpless and those feelings are never going away. Rowena exits the Impala and tries to regain her composure as Dean returns with the Plum sisters' address. When Dean refuses to take Rowena along to retrieve the book, she casts her immobilization spell that freezes Sam and Dean where they stand. Dropping a hex bag just out of their reach, she leaves to see the Plum sisters.
Rowena arrives at the Plum household and begins berating the sisters for going off their plan and forcing her to use the Winchesters to find them. She tells them, however, that their deal is still good -- she will help them cast the spell to resurrect their dead mother in exchange for the book, because witches of their level have no use for it. Not liking Rowena insulting the skills their mother taught them, the sisters reveal that they already performed the first part of the spell, as their zombie mother walks into the room. As Rowena tries to use magic on her, she finds that the spell has made the zombie impervious to magic.
She locks herself in the kitchen, but the Plum Sisters' mother is eventually able to break through just as Sam and Dean arrive and begin fighting with the sisters. As Rowena screams for help, Dean suggests she shoot the zombie in the head. She is able to get a hold of Dean's gun after it's been knocked to the ground and she drops the zombie Plum with a head shot. Picking herself up, she places the Impetus bestiarum spell on the sisters and forces them to kill each other. With the Grimoire in hand, Rowena pleads to Sam for the page, telling him that while Lucifer may be locked away, he will be back, and she can't be helpless against him again. Sam relents and gives Rowena the spell, a fact that Dean discovers only later when he realizes a page has been torn from the book.
In a hotel room, Rowena sits in the middle of a pentagram, the grimoire page in hand, chanting in Latin. As the page begins to glow, Rowena takes a dagger and makes a cut down her throat, which begins to release purple energy that reveals itself as binding magic adorned all over her body. The binding links begin to break one by one until there are none left, the candles blow out, and her wounds heal as Rowena's eyes begin to glow a dark violet.
"It's given me clarity. It's shown me that everything I did before. For wealth. For Magic. For myself... meant nothing. And it took everything from me. Everyone I loved. My family. Oskar... My son... I'm a flawed, petty, evil creature, Samuel. I don't know if I can be redeemed. But I have to try. And I do wish there was another way. "
Rowena is contacted by the Winchesters for help but she ignores their pleas and goes about killing people who had heinous pasts, while also killing the Reapers assigned to them. This gets the Winchesters' attention as well as Billie's; she sends Jessica to aid them in getting Rowena to stop. Rowena calls the brothers for a meeting, where she reveals that she was trying to get Death's attention so she would resurrect Crowley for her. She states that she believes it was her fault that he turned out the way he did. The brothers tell her that Crowley's return won't be possible and threaten her by sharing the revelation that Sam will be the one to permanently kill her. She is mildly surprised to hear this, then runs away with her associate Bernard. Sam chases her and tries to get through to her but she refuses to be deterred and dares him to kill her to stop; he reluctantly shoots but she stops the bullet and knocks him out for his actions.
Rowena attacks Death in a futile gesture.
Rowena takes Sam to her hideout where she tortures him before Billie shows up. Billie tells her to stop but Rowena threatens to kill Sam. She then levels a powerful attack at Billie, who is completely unfazed. Rowena breaks down, saying all she wanted was her son back, but Billie tells her that there is a natural order to things and though it may hurt they all have to accept it. She continues to cry as Dean and Jessica enter, then Billie and Jessica disappear.
Afterwards, Rowena sits with the brothers, telling them she feels weaker after facing off with Death. She is then comforted by Sam before she is told Lucifer is back and they may need her help in stopping him. She agrees to help, pointing out that she now knows Lucifer won't be the one to ultimately kill her. Both brothers express hope that Rowena can be redeemed and that they can help her change her fate.
13.20 Unfinished Business
Rowena helps the Winchesters and Castiel search for Gabriel by using a tracking spell to narrow down his location. Later, as they wait for Gabriel's grace to recharge, Sam mentions that Rowena is "boning up" on the Demon Tablet, presumably familiarizing herself with its spells for their upcoming mission to Apocalypse World.
"I know a thing or two about wounded masculine pride."
Rowena performs the ritual to open the rift to Apocalypse World using only a small portion of grace donated by Gabriel. However, the rift quickly fizzles out due to the inadequacy of the supplied grace. As the Winchesters and Castiel debate what to do, Rowena and Gabriel debate why the ritual didn't work, flirt, and end up having sex before they are interrupted when Sam comes up with a plan.
Rowena teams up with Gabriel to capture Lucifer and use him as a continuous power source for the ritual. Together, the two are able to bind Lucifer and knock him unconscious, shocking Lucifer as he had believed both to be dead at his hands. With Lucifer's grace, Rowena is able to open the rift properly and she stays behind to guard Lucifer in case something goes wrong. She does her best to ignore Lucifer's antics, but when Lucifer taunts Rowena about her death, she snaps and yells at Lucifer, revealing that his son is in Apocalypse World. Lucifer breaks free of his bonds and strangles Rowena up against a wall, stating that she has revitalized his purpose with her revelation about Jack. As Lucifer tries to kill her again, Rowena magically repels him in a moment of desperation, but inadvertently blasts Lucifer through the rift.
With Lucifer gone, Rowena begins packing her things to flee even though she knows she is the Winchesters' only hope of keeping the rift open for their return. Ultimately, Rowena's conscience gets the better of her and she begins searching the Black Grimoire for a solution to keeping the rift open without Lucifer there to power it.
"Don't think I won't collect."
Rowena worriedly watches the closing rift as she struggles to find a solution in the Black Grimoire. As time runs out thirty-one hours later, an exhausted Rowena performs a spell from the Black Grimoire to augment the power of the rift and keep it open a few minutes longer. Rowena is able to keep the rift open long enough for the Winchesters to return with people from Apocalypse World. When Arthur Ketch steps through, both are surprised to see each other and give a brief acknowledgment.
As everyone is celebrating, Rowena tells Sam that she couldn't have kept the rift open any longer. Sam congratulates Rowena for holding the rift open long enough to get everyone back. Sam admits that they owe her one and Rowena tells him that she plans to collect on it eventually, but smiles at Sam as she says it. The two clink glasses before Sam moves away.
13.23 Let the Good Times Roll
Bobby reveals to Mary that Rowena and Charlie are roadtripping through the Southwest.
14.03 The Scar
While Castiel and Jules are searching for a way to save Lora from an aging hex, Cas contacts Rowena, who suggests a reversal spell.
"It's as I suspected. A Nephilim, for all its power, is an unnatural presence. Part human, part angel… It -- It doesn't quite fit. It's delicate. Its grace is what holds it in balance, and when Jack's grace was taken from him, his being fell into chaos. The -- The cells are gobbling each other up."
Sam calls Rowena to the Bunker under the guise of helping a sick Dean with the Book of the Damned. Upon learning they want her to help Lucifer's son Jack instead, she immediately attempts to leave, but is stayed by Sam's words and meeting Jack face to face, as he compliments her and thanks her before having another fainting spell. A somewhat annoyed Rowena realizes she is going to have to help, and in Jack's room performs some magic to get a reading on Jack's condition. Stepping into the hall, she tells Sam, Dean, and Castiel that Jack's nature as a Nephilim is what is killing him -- without his grace holding his human and angel halves in balance, his body is eating away at itself. As Jack enters a critical phase, Rowena places calls to various witches in hopes of finding a solution, but comes up with nothing.
When Castiel returns from the shaman Sergei with archangel grace and a spell to stop Jack's deterioration, Rowena recites the ritual as Jack consumes the grace. Although at first it appears that Jack has been saved, he quickly begins deteriorating once more, collapsing to the floor. As Rowena performs another reading on Jack, she reveals to the others that the only thing left to do is to stay by his side as he dies.
"Fine. Don't tell me. But using dangerous, mysterious magic, regardless of the cost. That's a very on-brand 'me' thing to do."
While relaxing at an exclusive desert spa, Rowena is called on by Sam and Dean to help on their current case. She devises a tracking spell to locate the monster they have been tracking, only for it to keep eluding them. Arriving at the home of Dennis Barron, Rowena finds the black around his lips curious, telling Jack "everything means something."
While doing research with Sam at the motel, Rowena begins questioning him about Jack's sudden good health, claiming simple curiosity. She also asks about how Dean is doing with an archangel in his head, only for Sam to tell her to not worry about either thing. The two eventually discover they are hunting a gorgon; she tells Dean, Cas, and Jack that gorgons can glimpse the future when they eat the eyes of a victim, making her tracking spell useless against it.
Michael is forced from Rowena by Jack.
Dean and Castiel discover that the gorgon Noah cannot see angels in his visions. With a new plan of action, Rowena suggests she make an antidote to the gorgon's poison, and comes up with an idea to get their hands on anti-venom. Temporarily turning Jack into a dog, Rowena and Sam pretend to be a couple and take him to an animal clinic, where he is able to steal a vial of anti-venom. Afterwards, Rowena questions Sam about the spell that is keeping Jack alive, calling it volatile and parasitic magic. She tells him she is worried, but is only told they are being careful. Rowena uses her tracking spell again to locate Noah, taking his inability to see angels and nephilim as an advantage.
After Dean is knocked unconscious and Noah is killed by Jack, Rowena returns with everyone to the Bunker, where she learns that Jack is using his soul to keep himself alive. While in the library researching, Rowena is visited by Michael, who has a proposition for her: She becomes his vessel, and he will keep her alive. Rowena refuses, citing her fate is in Sam's hands. When Michael counters with an offer to find another vessel, keep her alive, and kill everyone she cares about, Rowena finally agrees to possession. Michael immediately reneges on their deal and kills all the refugees in the Bunker. He says that Rowena's body is strong enough to hold him due to her centuries of practicing magic. While he tortures Sam, Dean, and Castiel, Jack intervenes by using his soul to access his powers. After a brief fight with Jack, Michael is forced out of Rowena. She falls to the ground and watches as Jack burns Michael away and absorbs his grace, regaining his power once again. Rowena looks up in awe as Jack spreads his wings.
"Necromancy is a delicate art. It's unpredictable under ideal circumstances. In his state, oh, I fear your boy will bring back something terrible."
After Jack and Mary go missing, Sam contacts Rowena in the hopes that she can track them down. Using scrying magic, Rowena is unable to find Jack due to his energy being too unstable. She reveals to Sam that she knows with certainty that Mary Winchester is no longer on Earth.
While Rowena studies the Book of the Damned in her flat, she is surprised by a sudden visit from Jack. He admits that he accidentally killed Mary and needs Rowena's help to undo it. She tells Jack there is a spell, Magice Necromantiorum, that they may be able to use. But when Sam and Dean arrive to the flat, Jack realizes that Rowena had been stalling and teleports Rowena and himself to the Bunker to collect the ingredients.
After collecting the ingredients, Rowena tells Jack the final item they will need is the body. Jack takes Rowena to the spot of Mary's death, but when Rowena refuses to perform the spell, Jack teleports her back to her flat. Rowena calls Sam to tell him what Jack plans to do, and that in his desperate state he may bring back something terrible.
"A town full of ghosts! Messy even by Winchester standards."
Having been asked to come by Dean in 15.01 Back and to the Future, Rowena arrives and Sam asks if she can build a crystal to catch the ghosts, similar to the one used in the Soul Bomb. As she starts to construct the device, Ketch arrives. He apologizes to Rowena for when she was held prisoner by the British Men of Letters, where Ketch tortured her but also helped her to escape. Rowena say she has not forgotten.
With the device constructed, Rowena enters the neighborhood to meet with Sam and Dean. She encounters the ghost of Francis Tumblety, with whom she had a brief liaison centuries ago in England. He wants her to deliver a message to the Winchesters -- the ghosts have Kevin and want to talk to them. Ketch appears and shots him with his gun. Rowena runs away but Ketch is knocked out by Tumblety from behind. When Rowena arrives, she tells them about Ketch and that she's not sure if her crystal works.
Sam and Dean meet with the ghosts in a house. Tumblety wants them to take down the warding or he will devour Kevin. When they refuse his demand, Tumblety sticks his hand into Kevin and begins absorbing him. Rowena and Castiel soon enter from the other side and she catches a few spirits with her crystal while others escape.
Outside of the warding and at its weakest spot, Sam, Dean, Belphegor, Castiel, Rowena, and Kevin watch the ghosts attempting to escape. The demon says that there are about a hundred spirits already and that more are coming as Ketch joins them. Rowena proceeds with her crystal, catching a large number of souls, but she gets knocked out by Ketch, who is possessed by Tumblety. He wants to use the crystal with all the souls to destroy the warding, but is shot by Dean. Rowena takes the crystal again and catches the remaining ghosts, including Tumblety. However, more souls are escaping from Hell, and the containment spell won't hold for much longer.
"Goodbye, boys."
Rowena has the Winchesters, Castiel, and Belphegor take her back to the crypt so she can cast the Rafforza l'incantesimo spell from the Book of the Damned to strengthen the barrier. Though Rowena expresses confidence that the spell will work, it fails and she becomes convinced that they are all going to die, explaining that the barrier is now too weak and the ghosts too strong for it to work. Rowena warns that together the ghosts are too strong and the barrier will fall and there's no magic on Earth that can stop it. If they are lucky, they have only hours. Dean asks Rowena to create some more Soul Catchers, but she informs him that it wouldn't matter and insists that it's over. Rowena suggests that if she had gotten there sooner, she could've tried any number of spells to close the rupture before it got to this point, but it is now too late. As Dean prepares to fight to the end against the ghosts, Rowena looks through the Book of the Damned and Sam questions if there is anything useful in it, but she tells him there's "not a thing."
Rowena absorbs the Hell ghosts into her body.
When Belphegor suggests a plan to call all of Hell's souls back with Lilith's Crook, Rowena states that she can close the rupture using the Sanetur Acre Vulnus, a healing spell of her own creation. As the rupture is a wound rather than a gateway, she can use the spell to heal the wound, causing the hole to close itself up. Rowena warns that they must time it perfectly and wonders how they will know when to start if Belphegor is in Hell when everything goes down. Belphegor assures Rowena that she will know when the time comes and Rowena states that they will need a few ingredients, nothing too exotic: lavender, myrrh, the skull of an owl, quiet to perform the spell, and an assistant. She requests Sam's help, stating that he is the closest thing they have to a seasoned witch amongst the group, aside from herself. However, they also need someone close to the edge to serve as a carrier for the spell, someone who will carry it and toss it into the rupture when the time is right. However, whoever performs this duty will be unprotected from the ghosts and can't use salt circles. Dean volunteers for that job. Belphegor states that he needs protection for his trip to Hell and Dean volunteers Castiel.
Shortly afterwards, Stevie brings Rowena the ingredients for the spell and is annoyed by the witch's lack of a thank you. Stevie warns that most of the ghosts are at the edge of town trying to break down the barrier and asks if they are planning "another magical long shot Hail Mary" which Dean confirms, stating that it hopefully works this time with a pointed look at Rowena. As Sam is distracted wanting to help Dean, Rowena reminds him to keep focused on his role in the plan. After hearing the blowing of the horn and the shaking of the ground caused by the souls returning to Hell, Rowena and Sam perform the spell together. Though the rupture begins to close, Castiel is forced to kill Belphegor before all of the souls are sucked back into Hell, which Rowena immediately senses.
As Sam and Dean try to figure out what happened, Rowena grabs a knife and cuts her last resurrection sachet out of her left shoulder, to Sam's shock. Rowena explains that Lilith's Crook and Belphegor sucking the souls into Hell was the Winchesters' only shot, but it wasn't Rowena's only shot: magic can do anything and contain anything, including the vast multitudes of Hell. Rowena can soak the souls up for a time if she pays the price of Death is an Infinite Vessel: a spell from the Book of the Damned that's so simple that it draws its power from its caster and only requires two ingredients. Sam questions why she didn't tell them before and Rowena explains that the ingredients are her own still-coursing blood and her final breath. Rowena can absorb the ghosts and demons and return them to Hell, where her body will break down over time and release them back where they belong. Sam realizes that Rowena means she will have to sacrifice herself, which she confirms, along with the fact that Sam must be the one to kill her.
Rowena prepares to sacrifice her life.
Rowena reminds Sam that her real permanent demise is at his hands according to Death's books, but Sam continues to refuse. Rowena tells Sam that she can't do it herself and it has to be him. She says she wishes there was another way, that she doesn't care about anything enough to take her own life, not Sam, not Dean and not even the world. However, Rowena believes in prophecy and magic and they are both there with everything they need to end this. Rowena insists that she knows in her bones that it has to be this way and demands that Sam kill her.
Tearfully smiling at Sam, Rowena acknowledges that they have grown quite fond of each other and asks if Sam is willing to let his brother and the world die to save her. Crying, Sam pulls Rowena into a hug while stabbing her in the abdomen with the knife. Rowena tells Sam "that's my boy," before pulling out the knife and casting the spell. Walking towards the rupture, the mortally wounded Rowena draws all the souls and demons that escaped from Hell into herself. Stopping at the edge, Rowena looks back at Sam, Dean, and Castiel one last time and tells them "goodbye, boys" before throwing herself into the rupture. Rowena's devastated friends watch as she falls into Hell, the rupture sealing itself behind her.
15.06 Golden Time
After Rowena's death, a family of witches seeks to find Rowena's magical stash for themselves, but Jacinda is killed by a powerful curse Rowena put on her apartment to protect it.
Following the return of Eileen Leahy as a ghost, Dean suggests creating another Soul Catcher and sends Sam to Rowena's Apartment to find her stash, suggesting that Sam can make one as he was Rowena's protégé. With the help of Eileen, Sam finds Rowena's magical stash, including journals of her spellwork throughout her life, and he becomes emotional at the reminder of his dead friend. Among Rowena's journals, Sam finds a resurrection spell Rowena had been creating to bring Mary Winchester back, one that Sam realizes can be used to bring back Eileen. Sam is subsequently captured by the remaining two witches, who suggest that Rowena specifically excluded Sam from being harmed by the curse because she wanted him to inherit her magical stash once she was gone. Sam is later able to kill the Witch Mother with a spell Rowena taught him and use Rowena's resurrection spell to bring back Eileen.
Rowena sits on Hell's throne.
"Samuel, please. You killing me was one of the best things that ever happened. Yes, there are things I miss about being alive, flesh-on-flesh sex, Amazon doesn't deliver here 'yet', but lads, I'm Queen. My subjects revere me, well 'fear me' which is better. I should have died a long time ago."
The Winchesters and Castiel use a spell from one of Rowena's Spellbooks to enter Hell in search of Michael. As the three fight with demons, they are shocked when Rowena interrupts them. Rowena explains that following her death, she was able to seize control of Hell for herself and has now become the new Queen of Hell. Though she knows Michael may not be in Hell anymore, Rowena directs her demons to search for the archangel and talks to the trio in her throne room. She talks about how the demons fear her and despite the things she misses in being alive, she absolves Sam for killing her, assuring him that dying was one of the best things that happened to her. Noticing tension between Dean and Castiel, Rowena, noting her own long list of regrets from life, urges the two to make amends. Later, a demon brings word that Michael is no longer in Hell and the Winchesters take their leave.
15.13 Destiny's Child
Sam and Dean journey to Hell in search of the Occultum. Upon arriving they are met by a demon, and ask to see Rowena, whom the demon reveals is giving orientation to all the newly damned souls, a fact the demon does not seem so enthused about, before telling Sam and Dean he'll take them to her. However it turns out to be a ruse set up by Sister Jo in exchange for releasing them from Hell. As a result, Sam and Dean kill the demons and leave Hell.
After breaking the binding spell that was limiting her powers, Rowena's eyes glow purple. This has previously also been seen with Tasha Banes and her son Max. Many fans reported that Rowena's eyes appeared blue on their broadcast of the episode. Head of Supernatural VFX Mark Meloche confirmed that the effect had been created to be purple.
MacLeod (family)
Samwitch
Rowena in Fandom
Rowena's Coven, Ruth Connell Fan Site.
Fanfic about Rowena on Archive Of Our Own
Magnus, Rowena, and The Island of Doctor Moreau…on identity, isolation, and people who think they should be able to do whatever they want no matter who gets hurt by larinah (November 2014); archive link
Rowena’s Good Day 10x16 by drsilverfish (March 2015); archive link
Lucifer vs. Rowena: A Study in Character Development by waywardsam (May 2018); archive link
All in all, Funeralia is my favorite Rowena episode by royalrowena (September 2018); archive link
Rowena in Beat the Devil by mad-as-a-box-of-frogs (September 2019); archive link
The Witch and the Winchesters by mittensmorgul (December 2019); AO3 link
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Tyler Edwards’ Top 10 Comics of 2014
Best of 2014FeaturedTop Ten
Tyler Edwards
I think it is fair to say that 2014 was quite a good year for comic books. Not only was it a good year in general, it was especially good for female characters, writers, and artists. In fact I had not even realize that 7 and a half (Hawkeye is the half) of my best books of the year all had female leads until well after I had compiled it. Get ‘em ladies!
While all these books have their high and low points, these are what I considered to be the best in terms of consistency in writing, artwork, and just overall enjoyment while reading them. So without further ado!
10. Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Rift
All of the Avatar comics that have come post television show have perfectly captured the characters we know and love. The artwork is great, being identical to the show’s makes it really easy to put yourself right back into the Avatar world. This third chapter in the adventures of Aang and the gang is easily the best so far. With more mature characters and the feeling of higher stakes than the first two. Show creators Bryan DiMartino and Michael Konietzko definitely do not let their fans down with this fantastic series.
9. Loki: Agent of Asgard
I think a writer deserves major credit when they are forced to tie their series into an event (especially when it is not a good event) and the story does not skip a beat because of it. Al Ewing did just that, when a lot of series were suffering through AXIS tie ins, Loki continued to shine. This testament to Ewing’s writing is seen through every issue so far, taking the reigns of a character that Kieron Gillen has been writing masterfully for years. This book has so much going for it, fun art by Lee Garbett, Loki as a secret agent, snappy one liners, black nail polish, and mischievous antics galore.
8. Thor: God of Thunder/Thor
With Thor: God of Thunder Jason Aaron took a character that, on his own, I cared very little about, and made his solo run one of the best things I read this year. With the incredible God Butcher story arc, the combination of Thors from three different time periods, and beautiful art, this was more than I ever expected. Things only got better when Thor became unworthy of Mjnolir and, a still yet to be identified, woman takes up the mantle. While only 3 issues in so far, the new Thor series is definitely one I am most excited to keep reading into 2015.
7. Gotham Academy
I was not sure what to expect from Gotham Academy. I tend to gravitate to the more fringe DC titles than their main ones, so I gave it a shot, and was completely blown away. This strange combination of Gotham meets Harry Potter meets Buffy somehow manages to land every single beat. It has mystery, dynamic characters, and some of the most stunning art around – aside from the weird plaid on the uniform skirts. It is not easy for a writer to get you invested in and care about character you know nothing about right off the bat, but Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher knock this one out of the park.
6. Hawkeye
I love Hawkeye. I love every single issue of Hawkeye. But the problems come in when your series is never released on time and you only get 6 issues in an entire calendar year. That major break in continuity aside, the 6 issues we did got were pretty phenomenal. Kate’s continuing adventures in L.A., the Christmas dog special, the sign language issue, and more amazing art than you can shake a stick – or arrow – at.
5. Black Widow
The fact that I have four books ahead of Black Widow is a testament to what an amazing year this was for comics, because everything about this series makes me incredibly happy. Phil Noto’s art is truly something to behold, I firmly believe this is one of the best-drawn and colored books around. Nathan Edmonson’s internal dialogue is spot on, conveying so much about Natasha without her having to say much at all. Natasha’s team ups with Bucky, X-23, Hawkeye, ect are so fun. These and many others are just some of the things that make this series so spectacular.
4. The Wicked + The Divine
I admit it, I am a card carrying member of the Gillen / McKelvie fan club. I think together Gillen’s writing and McKelvie’s art do things that so few of other writer-artist combinations are capable of – I could look at the panels of Luci (aka Lucifer) for hours. Most of us can relate in some way to the protagonist Laura’s desire for something more, to be something more, which is one of the reasons this epic tale of reincarnated gods is so easy to get swept up in. Plus who doesn’t love a series with facinating mythologies, an array of interesting characters, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
3. Ms. Marvel
Pure, unadulterated joy. That is the best way I can describe Ms. Marvel. Joy in looking at the amazing art by Adrian Alphona. Joy in reading the brilliant characterization and humor by G. Willow Wilson. Joy in just knowing that this book is about a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl in New Jersey. There are just not enough good things to say about Ms. Marvel, but a particular highlight is her team-up with Wolverine. Where she tells him that her fanfic of him and Storm in space was the most up voted last month, and that she had totally put him first in her superhero team-up bracket. Good. Just so, so good.
2. Captain Marvel
I know I am in the minority, but I did not love the Captain Marvel series back in 2013. The art put me off and I didn’t really love the story. With that in mind, I was hesitant to pick this new run up. But boy am I glad I did. To me, everything about this is an improvement. David Lopez’s art is on point and fits perfectly in with this much more lighthearted story. This made me laugh – Rocket and his persistence that Carol’s cat is a killer alien called a Flerken. It had me in awe – the issue where everyone speaks in rhymes. And it even made me a bit emotional – the 100th Captain Marvel issue. I am just so into this series, and am really thankful that Marvel is giving these amazing female characters the attention they deserve.
1. Batgirl
In 2014 we got the end of Gail Simone’s illustrious and incredibly important run on probably my favorite DC character – Batgirl. While her run and end of the series would probably be enough to get it on this list, it’s what happened after that vaulted it to my favorite comic of the year. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good brooding comic (even if this list is not indicative of that), but after all the trauma and hardship that poor Barbara Gordon has gone through, it is so refreshing to get to see her be young and fun again. The art by Babs Tarr and Cameron Stewart perfectly illustrate this and Babs’ the new found youth and exuberance. From her brilliantly redesigned costume, to the Gothom/Burnside version of Tinder (Hooq!), to the small things like Babs using her eidetic memory to solve crimes, I just love everything about this, and I can’t wait to continue reading it into 2015.
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Ohio House passes internal rules, can now proceed with its work despite power struggle in GOP supermajority
The Ohio House passed internal rules and can now proceed with its work despite an ongoing fight over power within the fractured GOP supermajority, which spurred competing claims about who’s leading Republicans there, shouting by lawmakers during Tuesday’s session and even talk of a possible lawsuit.
The evident disunity in what would usually be an uneventful vote on rules amplifies questions about how lawmakers there will function in the two-year session that began this month, which will include shaping the next state budget.
Earlier Tuesday, a majority of the GOP members elected Rep. Derek Merrin, of Monclova, as the official leader of the House Republican Caucus and its campaign arm, which also puts him in control of its spending.
Usually the majority caucus chair would be the same person chosen to lead the 99-member House, but Rep. Jason Stephens, of Kitts Hill, previously beat Merrin in the race for the powerful role of speaker, winning the job with support from the 32 Democrats and a smaller segment of the Republicans.
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The division played out again Tuesday as Merrin’s supporters clashed with Stephens in an unsuccessful effort to propose different rules that would reduce some of the speaker’s power and make other changes, including allowing people to carry firearms on the House floor and only having Christian prayers to begin House sessions.
None of those changes were officially proposed before Stephens had lawmakers vote on the rules in a short and fast session. Merrin’s supporters accused Stephens of wrongly denying them a chance to offer their proposals. GOP Rep. Josh Williams, of Oregon, later suggested he might consider suing Stephens because he didn’t get to introduce amendments as he’d intended.
Stephens said that as speaker, he has the power under the Ohio Constitution to decide what comes before the House.
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“I’m the speaker of the House, the head of the Republican caucus, and I’m excited for us to get ready and move forward,” Stephens said. “We now have our House in order.”
Among House Republicans, though, “there’s a lot of people right now who don’t feel like they have a voice,” Merrin said. “Because the Democrats elected the speaker of the House.”
The speaker will continue to control which bills are put to a vote under the House rules passed by Democrats and a minority of the Republicans.
Democrats mostly stayed out of the fray.
“As Democrats, we are used to working across the aisle and working with people that we disagree with to get things done,” said the House minority leader, Rep. Allison Russo. “And we will just continue with business as usual and being effective in terms of working with people, because at the end of the day, the people sent us here to do their work, not to have these partisan fights.”
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from wiki. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_G._Turner"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_G._Turner[/url] Sergeant Turner's official Medal of Honor citation reads: He commanded a 9-man squad with the mission of holding a critical flank position. When overwhelming numbers of the enemy attacked under cover of withering artillery, mortar, and rocket fire, he withdrew his squad into a nearby house, determined to defend it to the last man. The enemy attacked again and again and were repulsed with heavy losses. Supported by direct tank fire, they finally gained entrance, but the intrepid sergeant refused to surrender although 5 of his men were wounded and 1 was killed. He boldly flung a can of flaming oil at the first wave of attackers, dispersing them, and fought doggedly from room to room, closing with the enemy in fierce hand-to-hand encounters. He hurled handgrenade for handgrenade, bayoneted 2 fanatical Germans who rushed a doorway he was defending and fought on with the enemy's weapons when his own ammunition was expended. The savage fight raged for 4 hours, and finally, when only 3 men of the defending squad were left unwounded, the enemy surrendered. Twenty-five prisoners were taken, 11 enemy dead and a great number of wounded were counted. Sgt. Turner's valiant stand will live on as a constant inspiration to his comrades. His heroic, inspiring leadership, his determination and courageous devotion to duty exemplify the highest tradition of the military service.
Owen, Aug 17, 2014
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial
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Angry Behind the Wheel? You're Not Alone
Nearly 80 percent of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression or road rage behind the wheel at least once in the past year, according to a new study released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The study points to some alarming statistics including the fact that approximately seven percent of U.S. drivers engaged in extreme examples of road rage within the year. These more extreme forms of road rage including purposefully ramming another vehicle or getting out of the car to confront another driver.
Drivers living in the Northeast were significantly more likely to yell, honk or gesture angrily than people living in other parts of the country. Drivers in the Northeast were 30 percent more likely to have made an angry gesture than drivers in other parts of the country.
“Inconsiderate driving, heavy traffic and the daily stresses of life can transform minor frustrations into dangerous road rage,” said Lloyd Albert, Senior Vice President of Public and Government Affairs at AAA Northeast. “Far too many drivers are losing themselves in the heat of the moment and lashing out in ways that could turn deadly.”
A significant percentage of U.S. drivers reported engaging in angry and aggressive behaviors over the past year, according to study estimates:
Purposefully tailgating: 51 percent
Yelling at another driver: 47 percent
Honking to show annoyance or anger: 45 percent
Making angry gestures: 33 percent
Trying to block another vehicle from changing lanes: 24 percent
Cutting off another vehicle on purpose: 12 percent
Getting out of the vehicle to confront another driver: 4 percent
Bumping or ramming another vehicle on purpose: 3 percent
Nearly 2 in 3 drivers believe that aggressive driving is a bigger problem today than three years ago, while nine out of ten believe aggressive drivers are a serious threat to their own personal safety.
Aggressive driving and road rage varied considerably among different driving demographics:
Male and younger drivers aged 19-39 were significantly more likely to engage in aggressive behaviors. For example, male drivers were more than three times as likely as female drivers to participate in extreme behaviors, like having gotten out of a vehicle to confront another driver or rammed another vehicle on purpose.
Drivers who reported other unsafe behaviors behind the wheel, such as speeding and running red lights, also were more likely to show aggression. For example, drivers who reported speeding on a freeway in the past month were four times more likely to have cut off another vehicle on purpose.
“It’s completely normal for drivers to experience anger behind the wheel, but we must not let our emotions lead to destructive choices,” continued Mr. Albert. “Don’t risk escalating a frustrating situation because you never know what the other driver might do. Maintain a cool head, and focus on reaching your destination safely.”
AAA offers these tips to help prevent road rage:
Don’t Offend: Never cause another driver to change their speed or direction. That means not forcing another driver to use their brakes, or turn the steering wheel in response to something you have done.
Be Tolerant and Forgiving: The other driver may just be having a really bad day. Assume that it’s not personal.
Do Not Respond: Avoid eye contact, don’t make gestures, maintain space around your vehicle and contact 9-1-1 if needed.
The research report is available on the AAA Foundation’s website and is part of the annual Traffic Safety Culture Index, which identifies attitudes and behaviors related to driver safety. The data was collected from a national survey of 2,705 licensed drivers ages 16 and older who reported driving in the past 30 days. The AAA Foundation issued its first Traffic Safety Culture Index in 2008.
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