After spending a few days exploring the Faroe Islands with Regent Holidays, Sam Curry shares ten of his top photos and memories of his trip.
Whilst we were planning our trip to Iceland and scrolling through Google Maps, my wife and I noticed a group of small green dots about halfway across the ocean between Scotland and Iceland, we zoomed in to find the Faroe Islands! The Faroe Islands make up a small archipelago that forms part of Denmark, most of the Islands are connected by roads or ferries and driving through the country you get a real feeling of isolation, almost as if you are on the edge of the world.
From Torshavn, head north across the mountain along route 50 and then route 10 for a few miles and you will find the road to Norðradalur, this picture is taken from the top of the road to the village and on a nice day is a must visit. Norðradalur is so small that in 2002 the village had a population of just 18 people!
Saksun is a famous little village, located at the end of an extremely narrow road that seems to go on forever, this small homestead has an inlet from the Atlantic that comes right up to the village and streaming waterfalls cascading down the mountains that surround each side of it. Nearly all of the buildings are built from stone or timber and have a traditional Faroese grass roof. We also experienced some traditional Faroese weather here with absolutely driving rain and wind so strong it was whipping up water from the Ocean inlet and dropping the whole lot on us!
Fossa is the largest waterfall in the Faroes, and lies on route 594 on the eastern cost of Streymoy, this is just the lower cascade which is approximately 30 metres and the larger top cascade is around 120 metres high. We ended up getting here on what was a terrible day for the weather, for the time we were at the falls though the skies cleared and the sun brightened everything up for a few minutes.
On the same windy day we visited Saksun we also made the drive from Eiði to Gjogv, we also found out that if you see a sign that you think says road closed then it probably does, the weather during this drive was nothing short of horrific, we got out of the car to grab this shot and very nearly got blown over by the wind. In the background you can see Risin and Kellingin the two rocky stacks rising up out of the sea, Faroese legend has it that the Icelandic Giants envied the Faroe Islands beauty and decided they would tie a heavy rope around the Islands and take them back to Iceland with them, when they tried to move the islands a part of the Eiðiskollur mountain broke off but the base would not move; they continued to try but failed and lost track of time, once the sun rose and the light hit them they immediately turned to stone and stand in the same place to this day.
This Beautiful little spot is ideal for a quick picnic, we stopped here after the hair-raising drive from Eiði to Gjogv and just watched the world go by, a few cars will flash by you here but if you turn 180⁰ from this view there is also a small waterfall which makes this an even more special place.
The transport links around the Islands are fantastic, including the ferries which run regularly and are very reasonably priced. We used the ferry to get from Klaskvik to Kalsoy, this is the view from the boat back towards Klaksvik which sits on the other side of the closest mountain.
Once on Kalsoy, we made our way to Mikladalur famed for the legend of Kópakonan (the Seal Woman) in which it is believed that seals were people who sought to die in the Ocean but would be allowed once a year on the thirteenth night to come on land and strip off their seal skin and behave as human beings do by dancing and having fun. One 'thirteenth' night a young farmer stole the skin of a young female whilst she was enjoying herself and made the girl stay with him for many years keeping her seal skin locked away. The girl one day escaped with her skin and fled back to the Ocean where her true love was waiting.
Years later a group of men from the town were going into the local caverns hunting seals and the Seal Woman appeared to the man who had held her captive in a dream warning him not to harm her seal family. The man ignored the dream and the group of hunters killed all the seals they could; that evening, once the seal meat had been cooked, a loud noise filled the smoke room where the hunters sat and the Seal Woman appeared in the form of a troll, she cursed the men and the island until the day enough men had died that they could all link hands and surround the shore of Kalsoy.
After a few hours exploring Kalsoy we had to make our way back to the Ferry landing stage, The islands are famous for their wool products and there are sheep nearly everywhere you look; whilst we were driving back we emerged from one of the many tunnels and slowed down to take in the view. As we came to a stop, dozens of sheep ran towards our hire car, more and more crowding around us every second, by the end we had about 100 sheep surrounding us. My wife and I looked at each other half laughing, half thinking we might be about to die a sheepy death. I honked the horn of the car and the sheep ran away – then as if they were on elastic they ran straight back towards us again, all the horn had done was attract more sheep thinking they were about to be fed. In the end, we had to keep the horn on and slowly move forward until no sheep were in front of us at which point I drove off as quickly as I could – sheep still chasing behind me!
Norddepil is a small village in the North-East of Borðoy; whilst driving through the village we noticed the quay and beach and thought we would explore a little we found these colourful boat sheds on the front and loved that even in the far reaches of the Islands some of the colourful and vibrant Faroese personality still comes through.
Whilst in the Faroes we tried to get around the Islands as much as we can, on the final day we managed to get all the way to Viðoy, as far as you can get in a car, this picture is taken back down towards the towns of Hvannasund on the Viðoy(near) and Norddepil on the Borðoy (far) side with the sun shining down on both communities.
Sam is 29 and lives in Suffolk with his wife and 3 dogs. During the week, Sam operates oil tankers for a living and travels with his wife, Laura, whenever he can, heading wherever they can with whatever they've managed to save up since the last one, whether that be a weekend in Austria or a 10-night Scandinavian break. Sam shoots with a Nikon D3300 DSLR.


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Mike Beisty runs fast 5k
By Robbie Wood on October 30, 2018 in News
Mike Beisty continues to turn out excellent age graded performances down under in Australia, Mike who is only two months off his 60th birthday ran 18.23 in the Newcastle parkrun on 27th October. Mike finished 4th in the race an outstanding performance for an almost V/60. Mike's dad Ken who was a long time member […]
Charlie Doyle
It is with sadness we record the passing of an old Sefton Harrier Charlie Doyle. Charlie was a lecturer at Millbank College and took up running in his mid 40s joining Sefton through colleagues at the collage who also ran for Sefton. He was a regular for many years at the club's training nights from […]
Sefton Park Cross Challenge Entry Proceedure
Athletes wishing to run in the UKA Cross Challenge to be held at Sefton Park on the 24th November are requested to let their coach know by the 7th November at the latest. Coaches are requested to submit a list of athletes to; John McCarten will handle all age groups up to Under 20s. Robbie […]
Kirsty sets new club record for Half Marathon
Kirsty Longley who has been racing consistently well all year took part in the Manchester Half Marathon on Sunday. In a high quality field Kirsty finished in 88th position overall (5th women) in a time of 78.26 which was a new pb for her and also a new club record. She also collected the first […]
Chris and Tiff star at Arrowe Park
By Charles Gains on October 15, 2018 in News
The cross country season got off for Liverpool Pembroke and Sefton harriers to an extremely wet and wind swept start. The senior men and women were partaking in the Liverpool and District League at Arrowe Park while the rest of the club made the long trip to Ulverston for a Mid Lancs League fixture. At […]
Mike Beisty flies the LPS flag down under
Mike Beisty is the son of Ken Beisty, sadly deceased but whose story figures in the Pembroke history. Mike is enormously proud of the club connection in spite of permanent exile in Australia. Running in his club vest in the Lake Macquarie 10.5k Road Race in August, he finished outright in 11th place in 39.46 […]
Publicity Officer Wanted
Do you have a journalistic bent ? Do you love to write ? The club has a volunteer opportunity for a Publicity Officer. The role involves preparing competition reports and publishing them on the club website and in the local press. Both the website and the press reports help promote the club and draw in […]

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Although a young group the ECR is already an influential force in the European Parliament arguing for a flexible, open and non-federalist agenda. The ECR in now represented on all the major committees of the European Parliament, including the Conference of Presidents, as well as holding the chairmanship of the Parliament's Internal Market committee. The ECR's membership also includes two former national finance ministers, while outside the European Parliament the eight ECR constituent parties are parties of Government in two EU Member States: the UK and the Czech Republic. The ECR has already proved pivotal in the re-election of the President of the European Commission Jose Barroso.
All of the establishing parties and MEPs believe that the establishment of a non-federalist centre/centre-right group in the European parliament is good for European democracy. We are delighted with the progress we have already made but there is far more that can be achieved together in reforming the EU in line with the peoples' priorities.
Because of the shared belief of Conservative Party and ODS in a non federal Europe both parties in 2004 when the Czech Republic joined the European Union became members of the European Democrats' (ED) wing of the European People's Party – European Democrats (EPP-ED) delegation in the European Parliament. As members of the ED wing of the EPP-ED Conservative Party and ODS were [under Article 5b of the EPP-ED's statute] allowed a measure of freedom to promote its own views on European institutional and constitutional questions. However, both delegations in the European Parliament soon found that their freedom to argue for an open, flexible and non federal Europe was constrained by the realities of being tied to the larger EPP.
Having decided that attempting to gain more political and financial autonomy for the ED, would be difficult to arrange and would not create the powerful centre right non federalist voice the European Parliament and European democracy requires.
In 2006 in order to better campaign for their shared vision of an open non federalist European Union David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party and Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and then Prime Minister, announced their intention to form a new group in the European Parliament after the 2009 elections. Both parties also entered discussions with like-minded parties in Europe with the perspective of creating the independent group capable of advocating a European reformist non federalist agenda. The Conservative Party and ODS were soon joined in their debates and efforts by the Polish Law and Justice Party that also voiced its interest in the forming of the new non federalist and reform group.
A majority of Member States use a voting method called the d'Hondt system to elect their MEPs.
In the ECR Group, the UK, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium, Hungary and the Netherlands all use this method for allocation.
The allocation of seats continues in this way until all the seats have been allocated to a political party.
The system is also used in practice for the allocation between political groups of a large number of posts (Vice Presidents, committee chairmen and vice-chairmen, delegation chairmen and vice-chairmen) in the European Parliament.
Our positions in the European Parliament help us to punch above our weight and put into real practice our Prague declaration principles.
It is no secret that the ECR Group wishes to reform and change how the European Union works. We hope to attract more and more MEPs to our cause and become an even more significant player in the European Parliament in particular and the EU institutions as a whole. When we achieve this we can, under d'Hondt, secure more key positions and forward our reformist agenda.


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A case may occur when a customer wants to apply credit balance to an affiliated company's open invoice.
Customer (Mark) has a $500 credit balance. Customer (Martha) has a $500 Open Invoice. They like to clear the accounts by applying $500 credit from Mark's account to $500 Open Invoice of Martha's account.
One easy way to handle transfer credit from one customer to another customer is to write a Journal Entry in QBO.
Click Journal Entry tab under Other heading.
On the first line, from the Account drop down list, select Accounts Receivable (A/R).
In the Debit field, enter the unapplied amount being transferred. Example:$500.
In the Memo field, note the reason for the Journal Entry. Example: credit transfer to Martha's account.
On the second line, from the Account drop down list, select Accounts Receivable (A/R) again.
In the Memo field, note the reason for the Journal Entry. Example: credit transfer from Mark's account.
Go to the Customers tab and click Receive Payment.
Select the customer (example: Mark).
Make sure "Amount received" show zero amount.
Follow the same "Receive Payment" steps as above for the customer (Martha).
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Q: How can I improve the odds of upgrading rares via Kanai's Cube or gambing at Kadala for a particular legendary? I know that due to the way Kadala works you are much more likely to see set items that are for your class, as opposed to other classes, when gambling.
How does smart loot play into cubing or Kadalaing?
How does this work for normal legendaries?
For example is it better to attempt to roll a Magefist from a mage compared with a monk?  Would I have an easier chance using the cube and farmed death's breaths and upgrading rares?

A: Yes, this has to do with the smart loot system Diablo uses. If you want to get an idea of how many shards you'd have to gamble in order to get an item, you can try your hand at this Kadala simulator.
Another thing is now that you have access to Kanai's Cube, you can take all your yellows, and try to gamble them to upgrade them to a specific legendary. This approach is best when there is only a few potential outcomes, such as a polearm or a wand.
However, based on your question, it's important to note that if you roll an item on one class, it will have stats FOR THAT CLASS instead of the one you're attempting to loot share on. In which case, you can reroll the stats on that item utilizing the cube on the appropriate character.

A: Theory
Diablo 3's Smart Loot system only drops items usable by your current class, and only Legendaries allowed for your class. While 15% of world drops are non-Smart (so you have a chance of finding another class' Set item, for example), gambling with Kadala and crafting with Kanai's Cube always provide Smart Loot.
Speaking of Legendaries (and Sets, which are just another type of Legendaries, with no special handling), specific drop chances are determined by weights. After the game decides to drop a Legendary, say, Dagger, it adds up weights for all possible daggers allowed for current class, and picks a random number within that sum. Hence, items with higher weight are more likely to drop, but total number is also important.
Dagger Example:
  Daggers      Weight         Classes
Eun-jang-do      50       Mo Ba Cr Wz WD
Kill            100       Mo Ba Cr Wz WD
Pig Sticker     100       Mo Ba Cr Wz WD
The Barber      100       Mo Ba Cr Wz WD
Wizardspike      50                Wz

Demon Hunters don't normally get daggers. Monks/Barbs/Crusaders/Doctors have a 50/350 = 14,28% chance to get an Eun-Jang-Do and 100/350 = 28,57% to get other daggers. Wizard's chance at those daggers, though, is less due to Wizardspike "stealing" some of the rolls, so chance for "common" daggers becomes 100/400 = 25%.
Practice
When gambling with Kadala or creating Legendaries with Kanai's Cube, you can only get legendaries allowed for your class. Obviously, if you cube an item that is not normally allowed for your class, the game will use other class's loot table, but never would a Barbarian get a Wizardspike this way. (I don't know if a Demon Hunter will have a chance at Wizardspike. Maybe, if proxy class is picked at random.)
Class-restricted legendaries are not limited to class sets. Each item type has one or more Legendaries that are only available for chosen classes. Consequently, drop chances for all items are slightly different for different classes, because of the weight principle described above. So, yes, class does affect drop rates of non-Set Legendaries.
Your specific example, the Magefist, is not class-restricted, but is rare - it has weight 50, half the "normal". Two classes with minimum Gloves weight sum - 700 - are Wizard and Demon Hunter, which gives them 1/14 or 7,14% chance to gamble for Magefist.
Reference
There are spreadhseets online with all the weights and drop chances. For version 2.3 the best is this list. It has upgrade costs and is easily searchable.
There is also another, probably older version that has largely the same data minus cube costs, but is not protected, so you can check all the formulas for yourself.

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Ganzo G704 knife attracts attention mainly with its stylish form. Its main advantages are high durability, functionality and compact sizes (the length of the folded knife is 11.5 cm).
Unfolded length of Ganzo G704 is about 20 cm. the blade is 8.6 cm.
This Ganzo was perfect out the box, easy to flip blade open and smooth unlocking with one hand operation. Smoother than my other Ganzo's. The guy at the factory who fitted and finished this one needs a raise. Handles were matched perfectly to the frame and no mismatch to the alignment could be found. Wish they were all this nice.
Hello Gerld! G704 has its popularity because of fantastic high quality of build! Perfect knife for many tasks and problems. Thanks a lot for your feedback!


May 10, 2010 was a very hard day for me. A day that I wasn't expecting to be hard. I cried most of the day. This day 3 years ago my baby was born. She was my joy for so long. She was what I lived for, what I improved my life for. I woke up the morning and was sad. Throughout the day I got more and more sad. It didn't make sense to my husband why I was so sad. But there were things going on in my life that I didn't expect, things that I didn't want to happen.
After a miscarriage in December of 2009 I went to see my doctor to make sure everything was ok. They did an ultra sound and found out a couple things. Things that honestly didn't make sense. After a huge description that I didn't exactly understand he told me some DREADFUL news. He said, "Katelyn I have to tell you that your percentage of carrying another pregnancy full term is about 5%. You'll be able to get pregnant but I don't know how long you'll be able to carry the baby."
After leaving the doctor it hit me.... I may not ever have another chance to have a baby. I could possibly have given away my one chance at having a baby! Why would this happen to me? Why would god have me go through with the adoption only to later find out that I wouldn't be able to have my own children. Only later to find out that I would be in the same situation as many adoptive couples. Wanting desperately to have a baby but knowing that it wasn't possible! It wasn't fair!
Ally's third birthday was the first day in YEARS that I truly and honestly felt regret over the decision that I made. I didn't want to feel that way, I didn't know why I was feeling that way. I prayed and prayed and finally realized that I needed to talk to Lori and Barton about things. I had emailed Lori previously and told her that I was struggling with things. She sent me pictures and let me know that they were always there to talk if I wanted to.
That night I called their home in hopes that I could talk with Ally. After talking with Barton about what they had done that day he asked... "Would you like to talk to Ally?" I'm so glad they know what to say when I need it most. The talk with Ally was perfect, just what I needed.
And then... when I later got this picture sent to me. I knew... My daughter was where she was suppose to be. I knew that if I wasn't able to ever carry another child that I had done what was best for the one that I had. I knew that I would be a mother and that everything would work out.


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Perhaps a Poet (Swedish: Kanske en diktare) is a 1933 Swedish drama film directed by Lorens Marmstedt and starring Gösta Ekman, Gunnar Olsson and Karin Kavli.

Cast
 Gösta Ekman as Filip, rockvaktmästare
 Gunnar Olsson as Viding
 Karin Kavli as 	Jane
 Hjalmar Peters as 	Kurtz
 Hugo Björne as 	Domaren
 Hjördis Petterson as 	Cigarrfröken
 Hugo Tranberg as Källarmästaren
 Olof Widgren as Notarien
 Eric Abrahamsson as 	Irate Guest at the Restaurant
 Alice Carlsson as 	Restaurant Guest Putting on Lipstick
 Calle Flygare as Waiter
 Bengt Janzon as 	Bisittare i rätten
 Helge Kihlberg as Older Waiter
 Ernst Marcusson as Court Secretary
 Holger Sjöberg as 	Fat Guest at the Restaurant

References

Bibliography
 Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

1933 films
Swedish drama films
1933 drama films
1930s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Lorens Marmstedt
Swedish black-and-white films
1930s Swedish films

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George and his wife, Connie, went on a family vacation to Daytona Beach, Florida and visited LegoLand and the Magic Kingdom. This is their story.
The happy couple mentioned people, places, and things from past episodes while telling their tale. Check out our archives on iTunes and www.georgeandtony.com to catch up on all that has transpired on The George and Tony Entertainment Show. Tell your friends!
TONY. IS. BACK! 'Nuff said!
OK, we'll say a bit more...there was a party in the boiler room studio to celebrate with a few surprises.
George plays The Curmudgeon and guest co-host Eric from Longbox Review (check out his latest episode, #123, with his guest Peter Rios at www.longboxreview.com) plays The Optimist as our heroes talk about Project Superpowers: Hero Killers and Swordquest from Dynamite Entertainment, The Unstoppable Wasp from Marvel Comics, Clue from IDW, Sisters of Sorrow from Boom! Studios, and three recent issues of Batman from DC.
Have we piqued your curiosity? If you are lucky enough to have a comic book store near you, head over there right now and pick up some (if not all) of these books. Not so lucky? Then use the Amazon link at www.georgeandtony.com when these stories are inevitably collected in trade paperbacks.
George is joined by guest co-host Tom McKeon, otherwise known as the Heart of NOVACON. NOVACON (www.thenovacon.com) was the comic, gaming, cosplaying, pop culture event held at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, VA July 28-30 this year. Last week you heard George speak with Ming Chen from AMC's Comic Book Men at the convention (check out episode 183 in our archives at www.georgeandtony.com) and you heard George and his nephew Frank discuss their volunteering experiences. This week, Tom tells George about his own adventures volunteering in almost all aspects of the show.
We had originally planned a round table discussion about NOVACON but scheduling conflicts prevented that. Not only did Tom provide more than enough behind-and-in-front-of-the-scenes stories, George also had a chance to record a conversation with Kevin Bednarz, one of the key players behind NOVACON. This episode provides a nice epilogue to NOVACON 2017.
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to this list here for cross referencing!
this thread please feel free to do so!
Let's make this resource great!
Great idea for a thread. I'll post mine here in a few weeks. Just cleaning it up. We should make this a sticky thread.
..old but gold .. (err as they say) hope ya like it!
this isn't mine but it is a link a friend sent me the other day.
own" reel and "your own"
oh sorry Tessalator, my mistake.
been too busy to make a new reel...but i'll put some of my old stuff together in week or so..i'm also involved in a trailer for a all cgi film currently as well as teaching and working on 3d illustrtions....busy, busy,busy!
maybe others have their hands full!
Mine's at http://www.dwburman.com along with some more recent completed projects and some older reels buried in the "professional" section.
I do not have a demo really together but here is a link to my image gallery on my MSN space under the Finished Work heading below. It has all my finished work posted there and I keep it up to date as I finish off the projects I do for clients.
My reel is over a year old but shows some of my New Captain Scarlet stuff.
Oooh! OOH! Self-aggrandizement! Brag me up, baby!
Praise me! PRAISE ME!!! PRAISE MEEEEEEE!!!!!
Edit: Apologies for it being crap. Every gig I've had in the last 3 years has been solo and about a week long, two weeks max. Shows, doesn't it? Oh yeah.


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Jan Sienkiewicz (lit. Jan Senkevič; * 10. Januar 1956 in Virbiniškiai, Rajongemeinde Vilnius) ist ein litauischer Politiker polnischer Herkunft.

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Nach dem Abitur absolvierte Sienkiewicz 1978 das Diplomstudium der Anglistik und Germanistik am Institut der Fremdsprachen in Minsk (Weißrussische Sozialistische Sowjetrepublik). Von 1978 bis 1979 arbeitete er als Lehrer im Rajon Aschmjany. Von 1979 bis 1989 war Sienkiewicz in der Tageszeitung "Czerwony Sztandar" ("Kurier Wileński"), als Korrespondent und Abteilungsleiter, von 1989 bis 1997 im polnischen "Magazyn Wileński" als Verleger tätig.

Von 1995 bis 1997, von 2000 bis 2003 war Sienkiewicz Mitglied im Rat der Stadtgemeinde Vilnius und 1997 im Rat der Rajongemeinde Šalčininkai, von 1996 bis 2000 Mitglied im Seimas.

Ab 1988 war Sienkiewicz Mitglied der Lietuvos lenkų sąjunga, ab 1994 der Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija.

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Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont and Fire. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other places around the globe. He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. Junger became a fixture in the national media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New York Times best-seller list for more than three years with The Perfect Storm, which later set sales records and became a major motion picture from Warner Bros. For over a year, Junger and photojournalist Tim Hetherington embedded with battle company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, in the remote and heavily contested Korengal valley of eastern Afghanistan. Reporting on the war from the soldiers' perspective, Junger spent weeks at a time at a remote outpost that saw more combat than almost anywhere else in the entire country. The professional result is twofold: an upcoming book titled WAR (Twelve, May 2010), and a 96-minute documentary Restrepo that won the 2010 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and will air on the National Geographic Channel and in theatrical release. His reporting on Afghanistan in 2000, profiling Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, became the subject of the National Geographic documentary Into the Forbidden Zone. In 2001, his expertise and experience reporting in Afghanistan led him to cover the war as a special correspondent for ABC News and Vanity Fair. His work has also been published in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men's Journal. He has reported on the LURD besiegement of Monrovia in Liberia, human rights abuses in Sierra Leone, war crimes in Kosovo, the peacekeeping mission in Cyprus, wildfire in the American West, guerilla war in Afghanistan, and hostage-taking in Kashmir. He has worked as a freelance radio correspondent during the war in Bosnia. Junger is a native New Englander and a graduate of Wesleyan University. Junger lives in New York City and on Cape Cod.
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Me Here.....He would be a DISASTER for my dear state of Michigan. CAIR is a proterrorist hate group dedicated to the murder of all that appose their most radical views. Anyone that CAIR backs is most unfit for any office!
This gives all a clear view of how radical and out of the mainstream the Democrat party has degenerated to. They are out to destroy America. Michigan is a stepping stone on the path to our destruction.
We will see how dumb my fellow Michiganders are. If this disaster gets the democrat party nomination, the democrat party is beyond salvage.


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Arrange skewers on grill. Cook, turning once, for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve with VH® Sweet Thai Chili Dipping Sauce.
Stir 2 tbsp (30 mL) peanut butter into VH® Sweet Thai Chili Dipping Sauce.
Dip roasted veggies in it.


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Q: Re: Collective noun and personal pronoun agreement (e.g., "The staff is deciding how they want to vote.") This NOTE (found under Rule 9) states the following:

Anyone who uses a plural verb with a collective noun must take care to
be accurate—and also consistent. It must not be done carelessly. The
following is the sort of flawed sentence one sees and hears a lot
these days:
The staff is deciding how they want to vote.
Careful speakers and writers would avoid assigning the singular is and
the plural they to staff in the same sentence.
Consistent: The staff are deciding how they want to vote.
Rewriting such sentences is recommended whenever possible. The
preceding sentence would read even better as:
The staff members are deciding how they want to vote.

The three given options:

*

*Flawed: The staff is deciding how they want to vote.

*Consistent: The staff are deciding how they want to vote.

*Even better: The staff members are deciding how they want to vote.
Question (1 of 2):
Would you agree with those general assessments? As I understand them...
The 1st is flawed because it's inconsistent (re: they/is).
The 2nd is consistent, but such sentences should be rewritten whenever possible.
The 3rd is even better, specifically meaning it reads better than #2.
Question (2 of 2):
If #2 isn't flawed in some way, why should it be rewritten? Either it's idiomatic (somewhere, I suppose) or it's not.
I'm not sure if that's about grammar or a writing tip.

Update: I've seen the workaround option (#3) being suggested as though it were preferred, presumably, by most AmE speakers (but not BrE; this is a case where they differ, according to the BBC grammar site).
Note: I no longer use this source (GrammarBook.com), but I see no way to work it out of this particular question.

A: I would call this grammatically wrong (and it sounds awful to me as a native speaker). Staff can be singular or plural, but in this sentence the verb is singular, but the pronoun is plural. Either of these is correct, and the first is the more common usage:
The staff are deciding how they want to vote.
The staff is deciding how it wants to vote.

A: So I'm gonna take a detour from English for a little to attempt to explain this in my best understanding.
In Spanish (and other languages, but let's just say Spanish for now), they do not have this rule.
"If the people is good, so is the staff."
See how the last part sounded better than the first? Props to spanish speakers, because they see no difference whatsoever.
Ok back to English.
There is somewhat of a blurred line in today's understanding of these kinds of nouns in particular. The reason behind this is because there are 2 ways to look at words like "family" and "staff".
The first way to look at it is as an ORGANIZATION, and not the people within that organization. E.g. "the staff is welcoming". This could be interpreted as the cumulative attitude of the staff as a whole "is welcoming". On the other hand you could interpret as the individuals in the staff "are welcoming".
The example they use there isn't a good one because it somewhat has a split meaning. The Spanish got it easy. None of this interpretational nonsense.
Anyway, hope this helps.


A slight tax increase is in store for residents in Amherstburg as town council approved its 2019 budget Wednesday.
Mayor Aldo DiCarlo says residents will see a property tax increase of 1.82 per cent.
The town has budgeted $14.5 million on infrastructure spending this year, including work on roads, sewers, culverts and bridges.
Four years ago, the town was in the throes of a ministry of Municipal Affairs forensic audit into alleged discrepancies with the town's finances.
At that time, the town only had $200,000 in cash reserves available and was $44 million in debt.
In the years since then, Mayor DiCarlo says the town has built up $15-million in reserves and is paying down its debt at a steady rate.
Dicarlo says two new full-time positions were created, but council turned down a proposal to hire a communications officer for the town.


All had photos but myself and Natalie Devine Riskas.
Was it that hard to find a photo of me?
I googled my image and there were many available.
What about Natalie? Lots of her too.
So who posts these things?
I could only get to this page on Firefox.
Surprised to see it posted and that no photos were there of two of us.
Is there Selective code enforcement in Ivins, Utah?
I've composed a few questions for the town administration and council.
In 2017, a manure spreader on a trailer left my farm.
It is now decorating the front yard of someone north of my farm on Center street.
why is old machery decorating people's front yard all through out Ivins (even in Kayenta)?
If I can't park my trailer, motor home, etc. at my house, why can many others have them at their houses?
Many of which are not currently registered with the DMV?
Why must a 3.63 acre piece of farm property supposed to comply with residential requirements?
Why can K & A and D & W farms have so much equipment, running and not visible from public road ways and no one else can? Isn't if supposed to be screened?
Why do developers, who never intend to live in Ivins, have more rights than residents of many years?
since 1978, must now change use because a developer wants to build next door?
Why is it that the Zoning department can use areal drone taken photos in a complaint that were illegally obtained?
on town owned sidewalks and right of ways?
Why does the town keep the road side landscaping up for developments but won't along regular streets?
be farming in the original master plan?
Why is it that Ron Blake farm corrals are "grandfathered use" but my farm just to the south isn't?
Why can some have many unused cars in yard while others can't?
Why is it that people on the council and their close relatives can have and do what others can't?
If enforcement is so important, why are all violations town wide not addressed at the same time?


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The legislature is considering a bill that would allow not to specify when obtaining the right immigration status, which will allow even unregistered immigrants to obtain licenses for driving.
A member of the Senate Alessandra Biagi believes that this law will make the roads in new York safer, citing the experience of other States.
In new Mexico, after the adoption of the law in 2003, the number of uninsured vehicles has decreased almost 24%, and the number of deaths in road accidents dropped by 23%.
In Utah the number of uninsured vehicles decreased from 28% to 8%.
Alessandra notes that for new York this question is particularly acute, because people living in rural and suburban areas of the state, due to the lack of public transport a car is not a luxury but a necessity. Because they can't go to school, to work or to the doctor without a car. People without the ability to obtain a driver's license, and therefore buying cars, the situation with transport baffles, greatly limiting their.
Besides, to obtain a license to drive immigrants have to pass tests and driver license exam. So, the number of accidents can be greatly reduced.
According to the Institute of tax policy, this bill would replenish the state budget by about $57 million in annual revenue, allowing 265 thousand illegal immigrants to pass the exams and get right.
According to the same study, it is expected that within three years will be bought and registered 97 thousand new cars that will improve the automotive industry in the state by 2.7%.
Michael Balboni, a Republican who worked in long island in the state Senate and a former employee of the national security Service, said that the law license will give law enforcement agencies more data about people actually living in new York, thanks to which will reveal more crimes.
A new license will be invalid for use in voter registration. They will be marked to indicate that they cannot be used for any purpose at the state level, including domestic flights.
Biaggi notes that undocumented new Yorkers already pay more than $1.1 billion in taxes every year.
According to Alessandra, the law will show that new York recognizes the enormous contribution that immigrants have made and continue to make, and create the conditions for more equal and accessible economy.


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The media and public have screwed-up priorities
By Jack Lessenberry • Apr 26, 2016
There are a couple of stories today you may have missed that I think are profoundly significant, but which won't get a fraction of the attention they should.
Jack Lessenberry for Tuesday April 26, 2016
The first is that one out of every ten children in Michigan has a parent who is or has been in prison. The Michigan League for Public Policy notes that studies show having an incarcerated parent is, quote,
"a traumatic experience that can lead to increased poverty, stress and unstable environments, affecting kids' health and academic performance."
We are talking about nearly a quarter of a million children. The league also notes that our state and society does virtually nothing to support such children, or other family members of people, usually men, who are in prison. In many cases, that helps doom these children to continue the vicious circle and lead lives of violence, poverty and crime. This is nothing less than a ticking time bomb aimed squarely at our state and our society's future.
If this were anything like a rational society, this would be the lead story today, and our leaders would be convening a summit conference to tackle this problem, which is clearly related to our decision decades ago to dramatically increase how many people we keep behind bars.
This, by the way, is a nationwide problem; while Michigan has a higher percentage of such kids than most places, Indiana and Kentucky are worse.
When this was reported Monday, Mary King, who runs something called the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency, urged lawmakers to "address this issue from both sides," by which she meant passing reforms to reduce the number of people in jail, and finding "the necessary supports to help these kids through difficult times and connect their parents with the proper job and education training assistance," when they get out of jail.
Of course, that's exactly what we should do.
That's also exactly what our ideologically bound legislature won't even consider doing. They will instead continue to worry about trying to stop certain bullied kids from using whatever bathroom makes them feel most comfortable.
Meanwhile, there's another new report that is also disturbing. The Michigan Association of School Boards says that fewer and fewer people are interested in running for board of education seats in this state. They are trying to recruit some civic-minded people to do so.
Well, this is also disheartening, but doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Politicians have been waging war on teachers and public schools for years now. Serving on a school board is hard, time-consuming and unpaid work, and those who do it deserve honor and respect.
Yet we have crippled our public schools, destroying many of them by allowing so-called charter schools to drain resources away, trivializing education, tying districts into a funding straitjacket created by Proposal A, and holding the threat of emergency management over them.
Fixing public education would not be easy, but is essential, if Detroit and other large cities ever hope to be vibrant again. I've just told you about two vitally important stories that are significantly impacting our future.
Neither of which, by the way, will get a tenth of the coverage the media will devote to the fifth day of reaction to the death of the pop star named Prince.
Jack Lessenberry is Michigan Radio's political analyst. Views expressed in his essays are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Michigan Radio, its management or the station licensee, The University of Michigan.
Jack Lessenberry
Michigan prisons
The truth about the LGBT guidelines from the state school board
Last month, the State Board of Education did something that was right and courageous -- and which I felt certain at the time was bound to be misconstrued.
Jack Lessenberry for Monday April 25, 2016
Board President John Austin announced they were considering a new set of voluntary polices to help make gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students feel safe in school.
Detroit vulnerable but on the mend
On Earth Day eight years ago, General Motors and Detroit were in bad shape and getting worse. Detroit was still suffering under Kwame Kilpatrick, the most corrupt mayor in its history, even as events were beginning to unfold that would send him to prison.
Jack Lessenberry Friday April 22, 2016
Soon, the city would add a council president who would later vanish into thin air after he was accused of trying to seduce a high school boy.


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ASA bans 'misleading' Universal Credit adverts
A series of government advertisements extolling the virtues of Universal Credit have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).
The watchdog received 44 complaints about six newspaper adverts and a web page which purported to bust negative myths and explain the facts about Universal Credit.
The ads claimed that people moved into work faster on Universal Credit than under the old system; that jobcentres will pay an advance to people who need it; and that rent can be paid directly to landlords.
But, in an embarrassment for the government, the ASA found the claims to be unsubstantiated and branded them "misleading".
One of the ads stated: "Myth: Universal Credit makes it harder to pay your rent on time. Fact: your job centre can give you an advance payment and pay rent directly to landlords."
But the ASA said this was misleading as it omitted significant restrictions placed on the right to alternative payment arrangements, which are actually only available to about one in 10 claimants.
Another ad claimed: "Myth: you have to wait five weeks to get any money on Universal Credit. Fact: if you need money, your job centre will urgently pay you an advance."
The ASA said this was misleading as it wasn't made clear enough in the adverts that the advance was a loan to be repaid within 12 months, or that advance payments were not necessarily available immediately.
A third advert stated: "Myth: Universal Credit doesn't work. Fact: it does. People move into work faster on Universal Credit than they did on the old system."
The ASA said it considered that readers would interpret the wording "… move into work faster …" to refer to secure, ongoing employment, and in the absence of additional clarification it considered readers would expect that the claim was based on recent evidence relating to those who were currently eligible for Universal Credit.
However, the claim related to a 2017 DWP study and included "people who had worked for only a few hours on one occasion during the relevant period".
The adverts were part of a £225,000 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) campaign to explain Universal Credit. They appeared in print in the Metro newspaper and on its website, as well as on the MailOnline, in May and June.
But the ads attracted 44 complaints, including those from the Motor Neurone Disease Association, the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) and the anti-poverty charity Zacchaeus 2000 Trust (Z2K).
The ASA told the DWP to ensure that it held adequate evidence to substantiate the claims in its advertising, to include significant conditions, and to present significant conditions clearly.
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Behold! November's Quietus Comics Round Up Column
Pete Redrup , November 13th, 2016 21:55
In an attempt to prove that not everything about 2016 is terrible, it's November's round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co
Right now we all need cheering up, and what better way to do it than with comics. We've reviewed a huge stack for you this month, so let's jump in.
Peter Bagge - Neat Stuff
(Fantagraphics)
Fantagraphics certainly know how to put a decent reissue together. Following last year's The Complete Eightball, this is an even larger boxed edition, containing two hardback volumes. It's heavy, cast iron skillet heavy, and the comics look fantastic this size. As they were originally black and white with colour covers, here they are presented with all the covers at the front then the comics flow straight from one to another. In this sense it's different from the Clowes box, with no attempt to exactly reproduce the individual issues.
Neat Stuff ran for 15 issues until Bagge replaced it with his long running Hate series. It features a varied cast of characters, some more successful than others. The Bradley family is the best known, and Bagge went on to make his alter-ego Buddy Bradley the subject of Hate. Studs Kirby is another example of the sort of thing Bagge excels at writing, a satirical and very funny right wing talk radio shock jock. The misanthropic couple Chet & Bunny Leeway are also pretty good. Girly Girl and Chuckie Boy are a bit one-note in contrast, but they aren't given any of the longer stories so they don't really outstay their welcome. As he makes clear in the end of issue #15, Bagge was bored of most of these creations, and felt they had run out of steam narratively.
It's interesting to look at how the comic progressed. With issue #1, the art is instantly recognisable, with Bagge's signature style already formed. The storytelling is less developed, though, with it taking second place to the pictures. The exception is the first Bradleys piece, and it's easy to see why these characters stuck, even at this stage. By the second issue, the narratives are much improved, with a great Studs Kirby. It might be too convenient an interpretation to imagine that Bagge had the characters by #1 but that the stories didn't arrive til #2, but the work supports this reading. From #2 onwards, the writing is mostly superb, matching the art. As the series goes on, some issues are entirely devoted to single characters - the second book of the box has several of these. Standouts include Hippy House with Buddy Bradley and The Rival with Studs Kirby, two of the best pieces here.
Bagge's work has so much exaggerated, manic visual energy. The characters undergo full physical transformations depending on their mood, for example developing huge sharp teeth when angry, a frequent occurrence in his strips. Famously based on his own family, the Bradleys strips in particular convey the tense family dynamics that adolescence can bring through both the art and the writing. This is a great reissue in every respect. Peter Bagge is one of the most consistently entertaining American cartoonists, and this luxurious edition is an ideal way of catching up with what you've missed out on if you've not read Neat Stuff before. Pete Redrup
Seth & Luc Chamberland - Seth's Dominion
(Drawn & Quarterly)
It's hard to get excited about DVDs these days, but things might be different if more of them came packaged like this. Any Seth book is a sight to behold and an object to hold, and it could be argued that here we have two. Open it one way and we get a collection of photos from his childhood to the present day, showing family and friends, including some of the world's most notable cartoonists. Open it the other, and there is a selection of his work, much of which would be extremely hard to come by without considerable quantities of both luck and money. Whichever way you start, get to the middle and you'll find the DVD of Luc Chamberland's documentary about Seth and his work. This has been extremely hard to track down outside of Canada - believe me I've tried - so it is indeed a treat to finally be able to buy it here, and as a bonus, so sumptuously packaged.
The film, at around 40 minutes, is an ideal length. It includes interviews in his studio, showing some of his personal diaries and how he creates them. It's mesmerising to watch him inking and painting his work, to the point where I stopped listening and had to rewind. He expounds his philosophy of art, showing us his puppet theatre, the models of his fictional city of Dominion, and more. There are excerpts of short animations of his work, some voiced by actors but mostly narrated by Seth himself. Included are interviews with some of the peers we might expect, such as Chester Brown and Joe Matt. We learn about his childhood, his marriage, his day to day routine and his strong work ethic. This is absolutely fascinating for long term fans. Particularly striking is the breadth of his creations - as well as the comics, models and puppets there's footage of his wife's barbershop which he designed, and the book has photos of carnival floats with his characters. Whatever you think of Seth, he's genuinely committed to his art.
There's also a handful of extra features on the DVD - a couple of animated shorts directed by Chamberland and a talk at the D&Q bookstore, which are excerpted in the main feature, and a very short making of. The talk, like the documentary, reveals Seth's dry, self-deprecating wit and comic timing. This is a beautiful object, a fascinating film supported by a wide range of interesting material. It gives us genuine insight into one of the finest cartoonists working today, but perhaps more importantly, it's an absolute pleasure to spend some time in Seth's world. Pete Redrup
Michael DeForge - On Topics 2
(Breakdown Press)
On Topics 2, a recent release from Breakdown Press, collects two pieces from DeForge. The Prime Minister Of Canada is first, a short story about, well, the Prime Minister of Canada. This particular leader is first depicted naked with three other people before being interrupted by an aide. We mostly get his internal monologue - "fuck", "I can't wait to fire your dumb ass", "chump motherfucker" and so on - and it's pretty funny. However, DeForge has always got more than one note to play, and it's soon apparent that the PM is not entirely happy in his role. Soon enough he's giving a speech, but after his "good morning", thought bubbles begin to eclipse what he's actually saying with his fervent belief that the whole political system is corrupt and in need of replacement. And so the simple gag - Prime Minister actually swears a lot - is replaced with something much more poignant, where he's portrayed as a lonely individual, as confused and angry about politics as the rest of us. Near the end of the last page, his tie is printed in red for one frame, and it looks like a bullet hole to the chest dripping blood, before ending with the words "You'd have to be a fucking psychopath to want this job!". How timely.
Talking Sweat, the second piece, briefly reminded me of Chungking Express when Cop 223 runs so he can sweat instead of crying when he is sad. Here, crying is a particular form of sweating, the most emotional kind. In bright yellow we learn that humans have eight sweat bladders and that we die when they are depleted. The sweat bladder status of various other creatures is enumerated (oh to be a humpback whale, but pity the poor cat) as we learn a lot about the titular substance and even more about the proclivities of the narrator.
This is typically strong work from both DeForge and Breakdown, risograph printed in glorious colours on thick paper. What more do you need to know? Pete Redrup
Deborah Levy & Andrej Klimowski - Stardust Nation
(SelfMadeHero)
Sometimes it's hard to argue with the pedigree of a book. Deborah Levy, Booker Prize-shortlisted author has adapted her short story Stardust Nation as a graphic novel, illustrated by Andrej Klimowski, Emeritus Professor at the Royal College of Art. Top that, everybody else.
Tom Banbury's success in advertising comes from his ability to infiltrate the unconscious minds of consumers and convince them to buy what he is advertising. We only glimpse his work incidentally, however, as the book is more about his relationship with his colleague Nick, who is remembering Tom's unhappy memories as his own. When Nick becomes unwell as a result, we meet his sister who informs Tom that her brother responds to the illness of family members. When they get ill, he gets ill she says, 'so it's lucky that none of us are mad, isn't it?'
Of course, Tom does appear to be mad. We glimpse this through signifiers such as the strange transformations of appearance - when presenting a new marketing campaign he is feathered, with his arm sleeved in nails - no doubt linked to his deeply traumatic past. Tom and Nick are drawn to appear very similar, but Tom looks more predatory, with animal eyes. One of the central questions of this book is whose actions cause this bleeding from mind to mind? Is Nick invading Tom, or is Tom outsourcing his symptoms to Nick so he need not feel them?
This is a highly original graphic novel, spare and elegant in the writing, striking and sophisticated in the art. It's a book that certainly lives up to its pedigree, and is another excellent SelfMadeHero release. Pete Redrup
John Riordan - Sound and Vision
(Dog 'n' Bone)
The latest book from John Riordan (whose excellent Hitsville UK series was reviewed here) is something of a departure in form and content, if not subject matter. This is a passionate and personal guide to 100 of his favourite musicians with illustrations and recommendations. As the introduction makes clear, he's a big music fan, and his selections span five decades and a wide range of genres.
Obviously, having impeccable* taste myself, I was expecting that I would already know all the good stuff here, but as the book moves closer to the present day, I found myself motivated to address some gaps in my musical education.
Readers familiar with Hitsville UK or anyone who has seen the superb Twin Peaks prints he sells at festivals will already know his art is superb, bursting with energy and character. However, he's also a talented writer, and his personal, conversational and often very funny prose is a good match for the subject matter. The world contains a seemingly infinite amount of music, and sincere and heartfelt guides to it are always welcome (that is one of the reasons why you're reading tQ, no?), but they have to come across as genuine. Riordan has obvious passion for his selections, but is not afraid to be critical - he's not very complimentary about Oasis, for example, which is almost as good as not including them at all.
This is a bright, entertaining book with excellent art - frankly, it's worth the price of admission for the Bobby Gillespie drawing alone. It's a great book to dip into, to be followed by some musical hunting, and dare I say it, could make an excellent gift for those seeking to subvert the anti-commercialism of Festivus at this time of year. Pete Redrup
*no, really, it is impeccable - read my reviews of numerous Julian Cope and Frank Zappa albums on this very site for confirmation.
Richie Pope - Fatherson (Frontier 13)
(Youth in Decline)
Youth in Decline's third issue of Frontier this year is Fatherson by Richie Pope. In terms of layout, this is reminiscent of Michael DeForge's Sensitive Property from 2015 - each page is a single, bordered panel with typed narration and no dialogue. Unlike that issue, however, this is not so much a story as a meditation.
The setup shows a medicine-like packet containing a small blue figure, not unlike a moustachioed jelly baby with longer arms. To activate the fatherson, it must be placed in a warm bath for an hour, but not disturbed during this soak, as turbulence "could result in unintended deformities or psychological flaws". Once it awakens, you get to find out what sort of personality yours has. The rest of the comic contains descriptions of different archetypes of black fatherhood, sometimes with the following page describing the likely consequences of their actions. Behaviour is just described - the closest thing to an explanation we are given is "for no other reason than to pass the time".
All the fathersons look the same, except for their shade, highlighting similarities and differences. Pope makes striking use of colours, using just four - blue, pink, purple and a Jake the Dog golden yellow. The repetition of shape, colour, panel size and deadpan narration combine to produce a unique, powerful work with a wry ending. Once again Youth in Decline demonstrate their cutting edge credentials in picking and presenting art in comics form. Pete Redrup
Mezzo & J.M. Dupont - Love In Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911-1938
(Faber & Faber)
New out from Faber is Love In Vain: Robert Johnson, 1911-1938, a biography of the much mythologised blues musician. Drawn by Mezzo and written by J.M. Dupont, it provides an account of his life and ends with a collection of illustrated lyrics. It benefits from beautiful presentation - it's a wide book with a cloth bound spine and thick, matt black paper covers. This is maintained throughout, as Mezzo's artwork is fantastic, black and white with some stylistic similarities to Charles Burns. Characters, interiors, exteriors, rural and urban - all are strikingly drawn, often making particularly good use of the width of the book.
Much has already been written of his short life, one touched by tragedy. He appears to have caused at least as much unhappiness as the universe dealt him, especially if his misogynistic lyrics are indicative of his actions. The book does not judge him harshly for this, in part the result of a narrative device whereby the reader is left wondering from whose perspective the book is written, a revelation kept to the end which I shall not spoil.
Sadly, the writing does not match the standard of the art. There are frequent clumsy, distracting rhymes in the text, and sometimes the pacing between panels feels a little rushed. If you are a fan of Johnson and familiar with his story, the images alone will be more than enough. For the casual reader this is a little unbalanced, however, better to look at than to read. Pete Redrup
Grace Wilson - Saving Grace
(Jonathan Cape)
I was seduced by Grace Wilson's visuals from the first juicy page; highly saturated watercolour textures playfully dancing within the tight yet fluid linework. Saving Grace is a beautiful book. It took me a bit longer to buy into the story. The characters are familiar and believable as is Grace's situation, a little too familiar perhaps to another art school graduate living in London in the current climate.
The eponymous heroine's struggle to find the motivation to create is never a point of narrative tension because the evidence that she eventually does find that motivation is sitting beautifully hard backed in the reader's hands. The plot centres on how Grace can't seem to catch a break for the majority of the book, but her situation never feels particularly dire. This of course is the danger of autobiographical work by people that weren't lucky enough to live through a major conflict or develop a fascinating disease (I hope you can tell that is sarcasm). But during the course of the narrative a depth emerges that casts a wry critical eye on not only the sorry state of affairs that is the cost of living in London and the effect on its creative population, but also on the millennial attitude to this precarious situation – often one which consists mostly of drinking to forget it.
Although the blurb on the back of the book says that Grace must watch her friends make seemingly effortless progress, I found myself just as worried for all of the characters, none of whom seem safe from the trials of modern life. It feels like Wilson's generation (read my generation, and probably your generation too) is stuck feeling unsure and sorry for themselves while the older people around her are full of certainty and thrilling stories, even the villainous ones. When Grace goes for a (comically disastrous) job interview at a school and begins to encounter the younger demographic, they too seem to have it way more together than she does. Her junior chaperone Hasan is definitely my favourite character. I don't think the story here is what it's sold as. But as I read on I found it increasingly funny and addictive. It's nice to read a comic that feels so utterly current and I ended up rooting for Grace and her friends so the (not a surprise) happy ending was satisfying. And hey, if you're struggling to find meaning or creative motivation in these semi troubled times, here's an inspirational example from someone who managed to get it together. Jenny Robins
Wallis Eates - Fear of Mum-Death and the Shadow Men
(Self published)
Somehow, Wallis Eates has a super human memory. She's been obsessing over her childhood since she "became overwhelmed with memories" some time ago and has been writing and drawing comics about it ever since. The ongoing project Mumoirs is a collection of recollections of her life "growing up as an only child to a single mum in the 1980s as a working class family." Of which this is a collection of some loosely thematically linked tales. I can only marvel at her ability to reproduce if not the exact moments and words of her childhood, at least a very believable approximation and definitely the emotion and that feeling of terrible helplessness most of us prefer not to recall.
The techniques used to both draw and structure these memories are as varied as their number, sometimes complex and intricate, sometimes very simple and at times they are reminiscent (I'm sure intentionally) of childrens' own methods of writing, drawing and presenting. There is a sense that this is still a visual style in evolution, and we are seeing a work in progress section of what the final Mumoirs will be. If Eates is handing in her what I did at the weekend homework though, it is to herself as amendments were made as she put together the collection to publish with lined paper and red pen like a teacher marking work. If you like your autobiographical comics with a large helping of deadpan darkness and bittersweet grit, like Art Spiegelman or Alison Bechdel, you'll love Wallis' unabashedly British brutal honesty. The structure is not chronological but more like a rambling chain of thought that comes full circle as two particularly haunting images of a figure emerging from a densely hand shaded background bookend the collection. I once had an English teacher who told me that men write classical narrative which is straight and pointy like a penis, whereas women prefer circular narratives which resemble a breast. I think she (like Bechdel) had been reading a bit too much Freud, but in this case it works, and feels like a spiralling glimpse at the ascent through hell that builds a person. Jenny Robins
Fabien Grolleau & Jérémie Royer - Audubon: On the Wings of the World
(Nobrow)
John James Audubon was an adventurer, naturalist and painter who lived from 1785-1851. His life's work was the book Birds of America, which consisted of 435 aquatint plates of ornithological art. The comic book adaptation of his life by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer self-admittedly does not set out to convey Audubon in perfect historical detail, but like Audubon's own writings, which the book is heavily based from, decides to embellish and romanticize his experiences in order to more accurately capture his personality, and the tall-tale-telling spirit of the times.
The book jumps back and forth between notable episodes in Audubon's life, the first one being his discovery of an old sycamore in Kentucky with thousands of swallows nesting inside the hollow trunk. Audubon plucks over a hundred specimens from their nests to examine them further, which becomes the first act of Audubon's complimentary attitude towards his love of birds, and his uncompassionate killing of them. In one of the most gruesome moments, Audubon horrifyingly skewers a recently shot blue jay with wires, and unemotionally twists the body into shape legitimizing his killing since blue jays are dirty thieves that gulp down the eggs of other birds. In an earlier episode, Audubon proudly brings a dead pair of nesting woodpeckers to his wife, which he exclaims to be extremely rare. Wouldn't a naturalist want to keep rare birds alive so that they can reproduce and become less rare? Is Audubon so focused on birds that he has no idea about the bees?
Audubon's barbaric behavior is at its worse when he takes part in a bison hunt, abandoning thousands of corpses across the prairie – unskinned and unclaimed for food. Audubon admits that the hunt might have been overzealous, but he does not condemn the slaughter, and moments later when he witnesses American Indians feeding on already deceased bison, he compares them to filthy beggars with no regard for the freshness of meat. I have chosen to perhaps unfairly focus on the negative qualities of Audubon's character, but what makes this book such a fascinating read is instead of glorifying a person that was unarguably a passionate and expressive artist, it unflinchingly describes a man that was clearly a product of his time. Despite Audubon's inability to reflect on his actions, he was able to inspire one of the largest conservationist societies, a legacy that I hope makes his less admirable deeds worth it. Matthew Laiosa
Moto Hagio - Otherworld Barbara
Seldom do comic books win top literary awards, although on occasion there are big winners including: the Pulitzer prize winning Maus, the Hugo awarded Watchmen, and perhaps this year's National Book Award finalist, March: Book Three. Therefore when I saw that Otherworld Barbara by Moto Hagio won Japan's equivalent of the Nebula award, I knew this would be a book to pick up.
Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, horror, romance, and drama seamlessly combine into a story that obviously has it all. The link between these many genres is the world of dreams, but what we come to discover is that dreams may not be as separate from our world as we believe. The main character is Tokio, a dream pilot. His job is to investigate the sleeping Aoba, a woman that has been living in a dream reality of her own creation for over a decade after possibly eating the hearts of her parents when she was nine years old. In this world children can fly like kites, pancakes are always on the menu, no one ever dies, and everyone lives on a mysterious hand-shaped island called Barbara. If this isn't mystery enough, Tokio's estranged son, Kiriya, also imagines the island of Barbara, and at times it appears momentarily in the real world.
How can two seemingly unlinked characters be dreaming the same world? This question and more unfortunately are unanswered since a second volume with the conclusion of the story won't be released until 2017. However, there is plenty in this volume alone to whet your appetite including subplots involving a missing geneticist, a possible war with Mars, and a youth granting bodysuit. Despite the many plotlines, characters, and genres of Otherworld Barbara the story is simply told, and follows a clear linear narrative, so that even though every plot point ends in a cliffhanger, I am convinced that the narrative is heading towards a definitive end.
Otherworld Barbara is clearly a unique work that avoids simple comparison, but if Christopher Nolan were ever to direct a Haruki Murakami novel the result might be something in the realm of this extraordinary comic. Since Nolan has never made the attempt to adapt Japan's master of surreal fiction we will have to satisfy ourselves with Moto Hagio, a master in her own realm of manga storytelling. Matthew Laiosa
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Pamela's Diner has the best pancakes I've ever had in my life. Obama actually liked them so much that he flew one of the chefs to the White House to personally make these for him. No college campus is complete without a star books, and we actually have another Starbucks on a street parallel to this because, you know, one Starbucks isn't enough, and over here is lotsa. You can custom make your own pizza, and then it's ready and like one hundred and fifty seconds in the oven. There's Chavo play another college campus essential. And over there's P otta. It's an Italian street food place and you concussed to make your own salads, pastas? Piat is there. So we have a lot of custom Hey, guys, I just came back from volunteering at the hospital. And if your student who's looking into any type of pre health program, whether it's premed, pre gentle, free farm or nursing or physical therapy, occupational therapy, this school is the school for you. Because not only are programs for the Creole science is top notch, but we have a ton of hospitals here under UPMC, which is which stands for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and just on Oakland campus, which is pits campus. There are four hospitals, one right behind me right there. And here's another UPMC. I want to say that in Pittsburgh there's a total of around twenty UPMC hospitals, so it's great for union clinical exposure, shadowing doctors or volunteering at a hospital because they're still me different hospitals here for you to get that opportunity. So right now I'm walking backwards across the bridge to a park on campus called Chen Lee Park, and this park has a lot of things. It has a golf course and ice skating rink, playgrounds and a bunch of running trails, which I personally am a huge fan of. And over here behind me is, um, like love locks. We're like couples like lock their love onto this bridge. Over here is Fitz Conservatory Botanical Garden. So, yes, we have a botanical garden on campus. It's free for incidents, which is super nice, and they have like flowers and plants from all over the world. It's really pretty outside. This is okay. There's Cathy, and that area over there is called plaque stuff, Phil. In the summer, they like this huge screen on movies for free. So it's really nice to come with like family and friends. It's a lot of fun All right, let's talk weather. I think whether is one of those things on college campus tours that just gets glossed over. But the weather where you'll be living for the next four years is so important, the whether here in Pittsburgh, it's ah, yeah, we have all four seasons, so we're lucky for that. The springs and falls here are really nice, but we're not so lucky to have is a lot of rain, sometimes unpredictable and not gonna lie to you. Our winters can get pretty cold sometimes in the negatives, but our weather is also really bipolar. Like last week it was snowing almost every day and now it's forty seven degrees. Basically, if you like to have all four seasons and you don't mind the cold that much, then you'll be fine here. Hi. This is my friend Neil. You Hello? Okay. Naomi, what are you studying? So I have two majors. One of my majors is biology, and the other one is the history and philosophy of science. It's abbreviated h ps, and then I'm also premed. I'll be attending medical school in July. I'm going to a higher university's College of Osteopathic Medicine. So it's what I say. Awesome. Um, okay. Tell us, what are your favorite and least favorite things about pit? Okay, so my favorite thing about pits, probably Futral learning. It's just such a beautiful building, and it just frightens your date. Every time that you walk outside and you see such a beautiful building, it just makes everything so much better. And, uh, my least we've been thinking about pit. I would say the hills, especially in the winter. Just walking up the house is kind of difficult. But there is a shuttle that will take you to upper campus if that's where you want to go. So that's something that can kind of be solved easily. Okay. Last question. What's one word of advice for prospective students? So I would say, um, just make sure that You're super organized before coming to pit. If you have any questions, uh, there are people here who would love to answer them for you. So be feel free to ask away. And that way, when you come to hate, you'll know exactly what you're doing. Have a fun time. Thank you so much. Welcome. Bye. So Kyle lives and one of the freshmen dorms called Southern Hall. And it's Ah, it's the honors College freshmen storm. It's on upper campus, so it's a little bit more removed from the rest of campus. But there's a bus that comes up here, so it's not a problem. Toe lock up here or us up here. Um, I actually used to live here three years ago, so it was really nice to come back and look at everything and see how much has changed in the past three years. And it was definitely walking down memory lane. It was really nice to see everything again. Speaking of the changes, this lobby underwent a whole makeover. This is a many food store. Teo, get snacks on DH. They just installed a bakery, and here I was not here when I was tonight here you can buy freshly prepared. And Wow. Check this out. You can order your food from this kiosk. Comes this work sandwiches, You customize it. Wow, you can customize it. That's amazing. Like my in sheets were wall wall right now church. It's one of the two puff a style dining halls on campus. And I remember when I still appear some days I want to leave this building because you could Hey, So these are my friends in biochem when you suffer through biochem together. But this is t Ana, and that's just mean. So what do you guys study? Well, I got a pet. I'm a junior. I'm a bias major, a presentable and I minor in French. And everything about right now is that I don't swim. And I really like the fact that I could stay active while being on campus. Starbucks. Okay, so I'm currently in junior. I'm a pre pharmacy major, so I'm in the middle of applying a pharmacy school right now. And my least favorite thing about it is Hegel, Langley class. It is. So I just finished my biochem lecture, and I want to show you guys what the picture looks like. It fits. I think three hundred people, and usually the science classes in here are between one hundred and three hundred. People on these air were all of the major. Four classes were hold. And because the process is, they're so big. We have what you call recitations, which you meet once a week with, like, a smaller group of states to Hey, this is my friend Kyle. He's a freshman here. Pitt. All right, Kyle, I'm setting bioscience music and chemistry, and this is my room. So And this is my roommates presidency. He is a big fan of the black box. He's from Chicago, But, yeah, there's plenty of space for your put up stuff. He's got this whole half display going on next year. Also have electrical muscle layers. So you can But things that you want to use or decorations, as you can see is good. You know, a little reminder of home over here. Textbook space and all that went over years. Nice to get some good. You know, we do it. We give you You can't see anything right now, though. Yeah, but if you were just a little bit of it, you would have seen the three Nice sunset. And when it snows and stuff, you can see the lots, like, completely white. And it looks really nice on, you know, snow. Let's head for it. And so you're really nice And everything here. Nice. Yeah. This is my house. You got a lot of trash over here, but it's when you run on the desk for me to keep it there. Yeah. Test records and whatnot. This is a nice work space here. Your land built into the desk. You know, they're worried about bringing your own once again once a wall space for me to put up things. That calendar was course from friends, major requirements and whatnot. Over here, we've got our entertainment and foodstuffs. No, this doesn't come with the room. Obviously, the bridge to the fridge, we generous space. Where has been really nice for us? Because we need a lot of, like, snacks and stuff. Especially when you're on the go energy bars, quick bars. They really convenient way. Keep those in here TV like a service brought in. So if you have another room that has this convenient set up here, this is really nice. We have your Xbox and start from there. So became thing out. Only are working there's a closet. Usually they come with two, usually, but by Herman. And I don't have too many clothes. So we just move on and you share this one crazy and enough for us, but not for me. So Kyle lives in a suite, and this is one out of four bedrooms in the suite. So, yeah, we're now in the common hallway. There's another room which has a slightly different layout from Mars. I think all the rooms have their own. Yeah, a little bit. For instance, that room over there on the corner has a a nice walk in closet space, so we don't have. But we have that TV, So in the sweet hell. So these communal closet is, you can see we are really using, but there's also another one down there which we keep most of this stuff. Okay. You sure? Back you. The floor isn't acting very much. That's not a room. It's another room. This is the is about. It's very nice. It's not like, you know, public bathroom thinking. You've got doors. Good privacy in the bathroom yourself plates and whatnot, Charlie, the corners Can we continue? And there's a stranger at the bottom of the floor, too. So he gets where they can see about their lots of closet space and counter space from stuff. Yeah, nice was pretty convenient. You're super nice not having a communal. I can't imagine embryos that would be. And here's the second closet space twelve paper cleaning supplies about you so that sort of stuff here soon. Right now, I'm in another part of our campus called Chen Lee Plaza. And this area is just a nice area, too. Um, hang out with friends, study or eat some food. There are a bunch of food places behind me. There's, like a Chinese takeout place, uh, Mexican place and a restaurant. You can eat indoors or outdoors. And there's also, um, a Belgian waffle place right there. It's really good. You have to check it out. And this area is, well, there's not snow. It's only like this nice grassy area. And people just like to lay down their taken ab study like eat food with friends. It's really nice because when you're laying down there, you get a really good view. Look, Pedro flirting right there. Yeah, we also have to museums on campus. Um, they're right behind me. One of them is the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the other one's the Carnegie Museum of Art. And they're both three for students, which is really nice actually, like all the museums in Pittsburgh are free if you are suited and chosen your pit. So that is a really nice perk of being
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Juror in Manafort trial speaks publicly, shares details of deliberations
Posted: 4:55 AM, Aug 23, 2018
<p>Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse after a hearing on May 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. </p>
One of the jurors from Paul Manafort's trial said on Wednesday that although she "did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty," the evidence was "overwhelming."
"I thought that the public, America, needed to know how close this was, and that the evidence was overwhelming," Paula Duncan said in an interview on Fox News. "I did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, but he was, and no one's above the law. So it was our obligation to look through all the evidence."
Duncan, who is the first juror to speak publicly, offered a look behind the scenes of the deliberations, noting that "crazily enough, there were even tears," and detailed some of the jury's conversations with the lone juror who she said was the reason Manafort was not found guilty on all counts.
"We all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail. We laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt. And that's the way the jury worked. We didn't want it to be hung, so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her, but in the end she held out and that's why we have 10 counts that did not get a verdict," Duncan said on "Fox News at Night."
Manafort, who served as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, was found guilty on eight of 18 counts on Tuesday, and is facing up to 80 years in prison. He was found guilty of five tax fraud charges, one charge of hiding foreign bank accounts and two counts of bank fraud.
One of the witnesses who testified against Manafort was his longtime deputy, Rick Gates. Duncan described Gates as "nervous," and said the jury ultimately threw away his testimony during deliberation.
"Some of us had a problem accepting his testimony because he took the plea. So we agreed to throw out his testimony and look at the paperwork, which his name was all over," Duncan said.
"I think he would have done anything to preserve himself -- that's just obvious in the fact that he flipped on Manafort," she later added.
Duncan, who said she is a Trump supporter herself, said the President's name did come up during deliberations because "in the evidence there were references to Trump and his son-in-law and to the Trump campaign," but later added that she didn't think politics played a part in the jury's decision.
"I think we all went in there like we were supposed to and assumed that Mr. Manafort was innocent. We did due diligence, we applied the evidence, our notes, the witnesses and we came up with the guilty verdicts on the eight counts," she said.
Manafort will be on trial again next month on a second set of charges, this time in a Washington federal court. These charges include a failure to register foreign lobbying and a money laundering conspiracy related to Ukrainian political work.