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Devil May Cry 4 – Review
July 5, 2011 John 1 Comment
Nero should probably get that arm looked at.
Devil May Cry 4 is a crazy action game. Developed and published by Capcom in 2008, DMC4 saw a change in the series, namely the protagonist. Everything else has apparently stayed the same however. The plot is utterly ridiculous and much of the plot is outlandish. There are two hours of cutscenes in the game that progress this crazy plot. But the gameplay itself is fun. It was a little much to handle early on, but after some time with the combat system, I've learned how to battle effectively, and more importantly, look good doing so.
The plot in Devil May Cry 4 is relatively easy to follow and not too complex, although at some point I began to lose interest and cared more about just getting to the action. I played as Nero, a young man who, at first, begins fighting for the Order of the Sword, a cult like religion, but later on develops new motives. Demons are the scourge in Devil May Cry 4and boy, there are plenty of them. As a character, Nero came off as whiney, or maybe more naïve than anything.
There were a few different weapons to choose from later on in DMC4, and a lot of combos to unlock.
Strangely enough, you also get to play as Dante, the previous protagonist from the Devil May Cry games. With this being my first DMC game, I had no previous relationship with Dante as a character so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. Dante turned out to be, like Nero, very cocky, but much surer of what he was doing, he sounded like he had a plan from the start. Both were very full of themselves, but when it came time to fight, they're both supremely able to deal with the situation at hand.
I thought the combat was fun, and as it progressively got more complex, I progressively got better. Even as I replay the game now I am still noticing an improvement. The action centers around looking good as you defeat enemies. As I battled it out with the various demons and bosses, I built up my combo meter. By mixing up combos and weapons I was able to increase the combo meter and use these points to unlock new skills and abilities.
Both Dante and Nero have swords and guns at their disposal, but unique to Nero is the Devil Bringer. Nero's right arm can extend to grab enemies, which creates quicker, more frantic combat; this ability also comes into play for platforming and puzzles.
Most of the bosses were much, much larger than either Nero or Dante. This one specifically was absolutely incredible.
For an action title, there is quite a lot of platforming and puzzles. My initial response to these breaks in the action was to keep them out and let the game be solely action, but thinking about it more, the puzzles added a nice break, something different, and the right amount of different. It's not like there are tons of puzzles, just a few, and the platforming goes along with the level progression. This diversity makes Devil May Cry 4 a more rounded experience; there is however, sometimes too little action, namely in levels which you play as Dante.
You begin playing as Dante because something happens to Nero, and Dante backtracks through the levels that Nero went through. As a result there isn't much to do, you're just passing by. There could've been way more enemy encounters in these levels, as they stand, they're filler. Also somewhat annoying, you fight the main bosses three times. I remember when Devil May Cry 4originally came out and everybody cried about that, and while by the third time I was burned out, I didn't think it was too bad. I felt I did better against them with each encounter, much like I did with the rest of the game when replaying it.
DMC4 is no technical slouch. This game looks phenomenal, be it cutscenes or actual gameplay.
Having this character change is jarring though. Here I have spent a few hours learning Nero, figuring out techniques and combos that I like, and all of sudden I begin controlling a character who plays quite differently. The beginning levels and most of them for that matter, with Dante are a breeze and this gave me ample time to figure Dante out, having played previous Devil May Cry games probably would've assisted as well. But, the game throws you back into the shoes of Nero towards the end, and while this is again jarring, it doesn't take long to get back into Nero.
Since Devil May Cry 4 isn't too long, replaying it is a fair proposal. All the points, orbs and items that were earned previously stayed with me, giving me a large advantage starting over on a harder difficulty. The combat system progressively gets more complex and my skills and techniques have consistently gotten better.
While it may have been complicated at first, now that I know the combat system, it's really fun. I look forward to enemy encounters and after each, I feel like I did a good job at managing attacks and crowds. I've also noticed that I've improved from earlier attempts; at the end of each level you are graded and with each new attempt, I usually fare better than before, of course I do have more tricks up my sleeve, but it's still one of the best times I've had replaying a game.
While it's not necessary, it's usually good to think why we play video games and why we play the ones we do. In the case of Devil May Cry 4, it frees me from this, sometimes dull, reality and allows me to experience something I'll never experience in this life. DMC4 has an unrealistic story and over-the-top action, but it's an experience that I thoroughly enjoyed, and will continue to do so on multiple playthroughs.
DMC4 has a story that I started to care less about it, but it was exciting and fun to watch the cutscenes. The action in DMC4 was over-the-top, complex, and ultimately, fun; I feel like I'm consistently getting better at the game, and it continues getting fun. While I don't know what I'm missing having never played another Devil May Cry game, I found Devil May Cry 4 to be an over-the-top and outlandish action game.
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Abdalsalam Sadoun, from Shahat, works as a mosaic restorer for the Department of Antiquities, Superintendency of Cyrene. In 2012-2013 he attended a one-year mosaic conservation course in Tunis organized by the Getty Foundation.
Ashraf S. Bulkasim Mohammed, from Tolmeita, works as a mosaic restorer at the Department of Antiquities, Superintendency of Benghazi. He is currently studying History at the University of El Marj.
Bader Moamer Al – Beraiki, from Benghazi, graduated in History from the University of Benghazi in 2008. He is now working as a mosaic restorer at the Department of Antiquities, Superintendency of Benghazi.
Essam Mustafa Ali Baridan, from Khoms, graduated in Archaeology from the University of Al-Margeb in 2004. He is now working as a mosaic restorer at the Department of Archaeology, Superintendency of Leptis Magna Antiquities.
Mahmoud Milad R. Abuhlega, from Tripoli, graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor in Archaeology and Tourism from the University of Al-Margeb. He is now working as a restorer at the Department of Archaeology, Superintendency of Tripoli Antiquities.
Mohamad Moutaz Alshaieb, from Damascus, graduated in Archaeology in 2013 and works for the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums. He participated in the restoration of the Ain Al Helwa and the Shahba-Jado mosaic in the Mosaic Conservation Laboratory in Damascus.


Last night I was sorting through the laundry. My stuff, the Imaginative One's, the Wee One's, and dish towels were placed in different piles.
As I was sorting and calling the boys to come get their laundry, I found this mysterious baby sock.
I don't know where it came from. I mentioned it to one of the boys this morning but he didn't know where it came from.
I recognized it from 13 years ago. Where had it been for the last 13 years? Why was it in our laundry?
I know it hadn't been in the dryer for the last 13 years because we had gotten a new dryer since the boys were little babies.
It might fit on the big toe of the Imaginative One.
The Wee One might make it a challenge to put it on his foot.
Until then we don't know where this mysterious sock came from.
Have you ever found something that you don't know where it's come from?


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Gabriele de' Gabrielli, dit le cardinal d'Urbino (né en 1445 à Fano, dans les Marches, alors dans les États pontificaux, et mort à Rome le ) est un cardinal italien du .

Biographie

Gabriele de' Gabrielli est protonotaire apostolique et agent du cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, le futur pape Jules II, en France. En 1504 il est nommé évêque d'Urbino.

Le pape Jules II le crée cardinal lors du consistoire du . Le cardinal Gabrielli est notamment légat à Pérouse.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des cardinaux créés par Jules II

Sources
 Fiche du cardinal sur le site de la Florida International University

Évêque d'Urbino
Cardinal italien du XVIe siècle
Cardinal créé par Jules II
Protonotaire apostolique
Naissance à Fano (Italie)
Naissance dans les États pontificaux
Naissance en 1445
Décès en novembre 1511
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The 2nd album of Corduroy, a British acid jazz band who appeared on PARCO's TV/CM with Cornelius, Kahimi Karie and others. Includes 13 songs including "London England", "Something In My Eye" and "The Frighteners". It is also recommended for fans of Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquai. A valuable UK original edition that was released only at the time of CD heyday.
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As an agent, generating leads and connecting with new clients is a never ending challenge that every agent will face. As such, understanding how to effectively generate more leads in today's market is a skill crucial to your success! First and foremost, the internet is an incredibly powerful tool for marketing and you should ensure that you're writing strong web content! Secondly, you should continue to build your online profile—particularly your presence on social media. Lastly, take every opportunity to work open houses, as meeting people in a professional setting face to face is an excellent way to find new clients! Of course there are a plethora of ways to generate new leads, but these three tips are a great place to start!
As an agent in this day and age, you should already have a strong online presence, and a great way to improve this presence as well as keep it up is to generate excellent web content! This doesn't necessarily have the be pieces of information that you've produced yourself—you can share useful articles on any subject within real estate from reputable sources! Due to the growing number of real estate clients that seek out agents via the web, sharing excellent content is a sure-fire way to grab the eye of potential clients! It's also important to note that any content that you share should be relevant to your clients! For example, if you live in a landlocked state, sharing content on how to improve one's beachfront real estate is probably not going to be as useful to your clients! Such a thing may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how often irrelevant content is shared!
In addition to sharing good, relevant content, it's equally important to build your online profile! In particular, you should become more active on social media, as this has quickly become one of the most effective ways to reach potential clients! Millennials are now the largest population of home buyers, which means that there will more potential home buyers than ever before that are connected and active on social media! As such, making yourself available on social media in addition to sharing good content is a great way to reach potential clients! When you're active online and connecting with clients, word will spread and you'll find that your clientele base will continue to grow!
Working an open house is a great way to meet and connect with potential clients! While not everyone you meet at an open house may be looking to buy in that moment, they may know others who are! As such, making yourself available and meeting people in a professional, face to face setting is a great way to make an impression! Sometimes the best way to reach clients are via way of mouth from friends or neighbors that have interacted with you at an open house!
By following these pieces of advice, you'll find that connecting with new clients and generating new leads will become easier and more consistent! As a result, success as an agent will soon follow!


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Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada - Planet Fitness Unveils Mini Judgement-Free Zone at the Andre Agassi Club
Planet Fitness Unveils Mini Judgement-Free Zone at the Andre Agassi Club
On Wednesday, June 12, Planet Fitness, known for its Judgement Free Zone® and non-intimidating environment, extended its judgment-free philosophy with an unveiling of the first mini Planet Fitness gym housed within one of the 13 Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada (BGCSNV).
The new facility at the Andre Agassi Clubhouse will not only provide a place for kids and teens to work out, it will also be incorporated into the BGCSNV high-quality programming promoting healthy lifestyles, and most importantly, doing so without being judged or bullied.
During the event, Adam Davidson, chief operations officer for Planet Fitness Southern Nevada, surprised BGCSNV member and recent high school graduate, Sayuri Hernandez with a $5,000 college scholarship. Only 30 scholarships were awarded nationwide to deserving teens who model the judgment-free, pro-kindness and anti-bullying values for which Planet Fitness and Boys & Girls Clubs collectively stand.
This unveiling is part of the Planet Fitness national philanthropic initiative, The Judgement Free Generation™, which launched three years ago with a $1.3M commitment to Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Stomp Out Bullying to fund pro-kindness and anti-bullying programs nationwide. The movement is designed to combat the judgement and bullying faced by teens and empower a generation of teens to choose kindness and accept and respect one another.


This Personal Floatation Device concept is a solution seeking to use forces already at work upon the jacket to inflate itself. This was a submission to the Innovations in Life Jacket Design competition sponsored by BoatUS.
Bent plywood design to explore the technique during study at University of Kansas.
Leo Kempf designed this shelf while studying at the University of Kansas.


Tissue loss is one of the most common problems in human healthcare. Tissue Engineering has been defined as "The use of naturally occurring and/or synthetic materials in conjunction with cells to create biologic substitutes to serve as functional tissue replacements."
In the late 1980's researchers developed porous PGA polymer scaffolds that enabled scientists to grow thick (1 mm and greater) layers of tissue. Since then, a number of functional tissue equivalents have been grown in the laboratory including skin, cartilage, tendon, bone, blood vessels, bowel, bladder and liver. Scaffolds fabricated from PGA have proven useful for growing three-dimensional tissue equivalents in vitro. Small-diameter fibers of PGA or PLA are randomly entangled to form a strong, flexible and porous three-dimensional matrix.
The scaffold allows cells to attach and grow in a three dimensional space while nutrient flow is maintained throughout the matrix.
Non-aligned scaffolds are fabricated from spun fibers using a non-woven textile process and resemble felt. Further modifications of the basic scaffold material can be conducted in the laboratory to enhance cell attachment and growth or to modify the physical properties and resorption rate of the non-aligned scaffold. The scaffolds are supplied non-sterile. Custom scaffolds made from polylactide (PLLA), PGA/PLLA copolymers and other synthetic resorbable polymers are available upon request.


The collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama is sure to be a love it or hate it thing, so if you are not a lover of polka dots and bright colours, look away now.
The collection will include a range of clothes and accessories including pyjamas, trenchcoats and jewellery and will hit Vuitton stores on July 10. A range of monogrammed leather products will follow in October.
The pieces will be available in limited quantities and are intended to become collector's items. But if you can't afford one of the actual pieces, Vuitton is also launching an iPad app that allows you to take photos and then customize them with Kusama patterns. There will also be pop-up shops in department stores and "shocking" window displays.
I figure it's a bit like buying actual art – and thats an investment isn't it!!
There will also be a restrospective on Kusama at the Whtiney, starting on July 12th.


Of course we are very familiar with the name of the text. The text itself consists of words and sentences which are arranged together in a paragraph. The text may be stories, news, experiences, or others according to the background of the paper itself. In English, there are several types of text commonly used. Each text has its own characteristics and structures. First, factual text is a text which informs, instructs or persuades by giving facts and information. Second, literary text entertains or elicits an emotional response by using language to create mental images.
Below are lists of different text types that are included in the English.
This text retells events which have already happened in time order. It begins with a background information who, when, and where. It describes the series of events in time order and may end with a personal comment. Example: Historical Report.
Information Report The purpose of this text is to classify, describe and give factual information about people, animals, things or phenomena. The information report tells a general classification or definition, lists a sequence of related information about the topic, and ends with a concluding comment. Example: Facts about Ki Hajar Dewantara.
Procedure Procedure gives the instructions on how to make or do something. It usually begins with a statement of goal (could be the title), lists materials needed in order of use, gives a series of steps (instructions) in order, and each instruction begins with a verb in the present tense. Example: How to make Lontong Sayur.
Procedural Recount This type is similar with the above text. Procedural recount tells how something was made or done in time order and with accuracy. It begins with a statement of what was made or done, tells what was made in order, and written in the past tense. Example: Documentaries, Retelling a Science Experiment and Its Results.
Example: The Life Cycle of a Frog, Labelled Diagrams, and Flowcharts.
Discussion This text gives different points of view in order to make an informed decision. It begins with some background information leading to the issue. Moreover, it lists arguments for and against, giving evidence for different points of view. The conclusion might sum up both sides or recommend one point of view. Example: Should the Instagram be banned?
Literary Description Literary description describes people, characters, places, events and things in an imaginative way. It describes characteristic features of the subject, such as physical appearance, behaviour. Example: Description of a character or setting within a story.
Personal Response This text gives a personal opinion on a novel, play or film, referring to parts within the passage. The text describes how you feel about a novel, film, book or play. It lists what did and did not appeal to you. And it may comment on some of the features of the writing. Example: What did you like about that artwork and why? Describe why you do or do not like this story/poem.
Review This text is like summarises, analyses and assesses the appeal of a novel, play or film, to a broader audience. It describes how features (such as characters, plot, language features, humour, and so on) may or may not appeal. Example: commentary on a film, play, book, etc.
Narrative Narrative text tells a story using a series of events. The scene is set in a time and place and characters are introduced. It usually has a problem that is addressed and may contain a message for the reader. Example: picture books, cartoons, mystery, fantasy, adventure, science fiction, historical fiction, fairy tales, myths, legends, fables, plays.
Let we start our writing skill in a simple one. We may choose the type of text we want. Happy writing, guys!!!


The new Hyundai i40 proves that strength can be shown in a variety of ways. A combination of the manufacturer's 'fluidic sculpture' design language and some new touches ensure that the i40 looks subtly different to the rest.
It sits low and has a gently curving roof, matched by minimal lines along the side panels. The headlights sweep back into a defined point that follows the door lines, set into the face either side of the hexagonal grille. To complete its sophisticated look, the i40 features stylish new alloy wheels, daytime running lights and front fog lights.
Elegant and luxurious with everything at your fingertips. Inside, premium high-quality materials have been used to finish the cabin with layered attention to detail. Front and rear centre armrests enhance the comfort of each plush seat, with the driver's position also containing electric lumbar support. The 'Supervision' instrument cluster at the front is logically arranged, packed with information and easy to read, and the steering wheel and gearstick are finished in tactile leather.
With a generous amount of space on the inside, you'll travel in comfort on every journey. There's plenty of head, shoulder and leg room for five adults and with 525 litres of boot space, that's the family trips taken care of.
Constructed from advanced high-strength steel, and with high performance steel alloy applied to critical areas, the i40 goes above and beyond to ensure a safe drive whatever the conditions.
The numerous safety features on the standard equipment list show exactly how the i40 saloon has earned its five-star Euro NCAP rating. Seven airbags are strategically placed around the cabin, at the front and sides and to support the driver's knee. All passengers benefit from the active head restraints, and the driver is further aided by ESP, braking controls, Vehicle Stability Management and an electric parking brake with automatic hold.
Just one engine is needed to give the i40 confident power in motion: a 1.7-litre diesel at 114bhp or 134bhp. You still enjoy plenty of choice, as the option of Blue Drive technology and an automatic or manual six-speed gearbox creates four combinations. No version of the i40 will reach 60mph in less than 13 seconds, and all the while the car delivers fuel economy of up to 65.7mpg combined.


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Rallying-Ogier holds off Neuville to claim Monte Carlo win
Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sebastien Ogier kicked off the defence of his world title with victory in the opening Rallye Monte Carlo as the Frenchman held off Belgian rival Thierry Neuville on Sunday.
The Citroen driver started the final stage with a 0.4-second advantage over Neuville after the Belgian had won the penultimate stage to increase the pressure on the six-time world champion.
But Ogier kept his cool to finish second in the final power stage behind Britain's Kris Meeke, who took top spot with a time of 9 minutes and 37.3 seconds, with Neuville coming third 1.8 seconds behind the Frenchman.
Overall, Ogier won his seventh Rallye Monte Carlo by 2.2 seconds and Estonian Ott Tanak took third place two minutes and 15.2 seconds off the pace in a Toyota.
Shortly after returning from the Dakar Rally, nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb took fourth place for Hyundai.
"At the end of the day it's not that bad, we scored points for the team," the Frenchman said.
The second leg of the world championship will be held in Sweden from Feb. 14-17. (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Christian Radnedge)


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Bolici, F., Howison, J., & Crowston, K.. (2010). The under-appreciated role of stigmergic coordination in software development.
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BASEBALL Hayes trade gets meetings hopping
— Dec 9th, 1991
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Whitey Herzog got things going at the winter meetings and promised it was just the beginning.
In Herzog's first big trade as general manager of the California Angels, he acquired Von Hayes from the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday for outfielder Ruben Amaro Jr. and left-hander Kyle Abbott.
Shortly before midnight, San Diego and Cincinnati finally completed a deal that sent reliever Randy Myers to the Padres for infielder-outfielder Bip Roberts.
The Reds see Roberts as a leadoff hitter and part of the puzzle to rebuild the offense now that Eric Davis is gone. Roberts, who will play second and left, hit .281 last season with three homers and 32 RBIs.
Both the Angels and Padres expect to make a few more deals before the meetings end on Thursday.
Hayes' power numbers have dropped off the last two seasons, but the Angels have him penciled in to play either first base or right field.
California is facing the possibility of losing free agent first baseman Wally Joyner, who has rejected a four-year offer for $16 million from the Angels. If Joyner re-signs, Hayes will take over in right field for Dave Winfield, now a free agent.
Joyner, however, may be close to signing with Kansas City.
Hayes' name has come up in all sorts of trade rumors the last three winter meetings, so it came as no great surprise when he was finally dealt.
Hayes, a lifetime .270 hitter in 10 seasons, made $2.2 million last season. He was sidelined much of 1991 with a broken bone in his right arm and hit only .225 with no homers and 21 RBIs in 77 games.
The 34-year-old Hayes will be eligible for free agency after the 1992 season. His best season for the Phillies came in 1986 when he hit .305 with 46 doubles, 19 homers and 98 RBIs. He hit 26 homers in 1989, then dropped to 17 the next season.
Amaro Jr., 26, is the son of former Phillies shortstop Ruben Amaro Sr. He is a switch-hitter and led all minor leaguers with 95 runs scored in 1991.
Abbott, 23, was the Angels' firstround pick in the June 1989 draft. He pitched in five games for the Angels last season and was 1-2 with a 4.58 ERA.
Herzog's day started when he got into a shouting match with agent Dennis Gilbert over Bobby Bonilla's negotiations. Bonilla ended up signing a record $29 million contract with the New York Mets last Monday, and Herzog feels he was used to drive the price up.
Gilbert also represents Danny Tartabull, the best remaining free agent. Tartabull, who is seeking about $5 million a year, hit .316 last season with 31 homers and 100 RBIs.
"If he changed agents, I might be interested," Herzog said. "I'm never going to make an offer to any of Dennis Gilbert's players. I didn't like what happened in the Bonilla situation."
Gilbert said at least four teams were interested in Tartabull, although no formal proposals had been made.
Other free agents that figure to get some offers at the meetings include Frank Viola, Jack Morris, Bob Walk, Oil Can Boyd and Steve Buechele.
The Giants would like to trade center fielder Willie McGee for a pitcher. Kevin Mitchell is on the block, too.
The big sweepstakes of the meetings, however, could be Barry Bonds. The Pittsburgh Pirates probably will not be able to pay Bonds the $6 million a year he wants starting in 1993, so a trade before the season is likely.
The New York Yankees have expressed some interest. But they're not sure what they have that the Pirates want and GM Gene Michael is also unsure if the club wants to pay so much.
The Mets, who have signed Bonilla and Eddie Murray, are shopping Kevin McReynolds, Dave Magadan and possibly Gregg Jefferies. One trade rumor has the Mets sending Magadan, Jefferies and some minor leaguers to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Julio Franco.
The Mets are also interested in pitchers Kevin Appier and Tom Gordon of the Kansas City Royals. They say they have not talked about Appier, though.
The Los Angeles Dodgers remain in the market for some pitching help and they're willing to deal Kal Daniels.
Other veteran free agents trying to catch on at the meetings are Winfield, Ron Darling, Rick Sutcliffe, Willie Randolph, Alvin Davis, Mookie Wilson, Dickie Thon and Dave Parker. They may have to wait until some trades break, though.
Re-signing on Saturday were Carlton Fisk, Chicago White Sox; Dwight Evans, Baltimore; Dave Bergman, Detroit; Brian Downing, Texas; and Geno Petralli, Texas. Mitch Webster signed a minor-league contract with Los Angeles.
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Bobby Bonilla, who set the NL record for career home runs by a switch-hitter and helped the Florida Marlins win the 1997 World Series, officially retired Monday. A six-time All-Star during his 16 seasons, Bonilla turned 39 Saturday. Slowed by bad knees and other injuries, the ... [Read More...]
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Jacob H. Quiring, minister and teacher, was born on June 10, 1913, in Hepburn, Saskatchewan, to Henry C. Quiring (15 March 1878-14 December 1966) and Maria Nikkel (23 May 1883-28 June 1964).
Jacob grew up on a farm near Dalmeny, Saskatchewan, and was baptized upon confession of faith in Jesus in 1929, joining the Dalmeny Mennonite Brethren Church. While he enjoyed farming life, his passion for Christ and the church was strong. At 15, he preached his first sermon.
He attended Tabor Bible School in Dalmeny (2 years) and Winkler (Manitoba) Bible Institute (5 years). With the recommendation of Dr. A.H. Unruh, he was invited to teach at the Coaldale (Alberta) Bible Institute (1936-1939).
After his first year of teaching, he married Anna Enns (b. 18 January 1914) on June 27, 1937. They adopted two children (Lois and Robert) and then two children (Linda and David) were born to them. Linda died at the age of 29 due to cancer.
After eight years of Bible school teaching, first in Coaldale and then in Dalmeny (1941-1944), Jacob was ordained by the Dalemey MB Church to serve as minister of the gospel. Sensing the need for more formal education, the Quiring family moved to Hillsboro, Kansas, where Jacob completed a BA from Tabor College in 1945.
Jacob joined the faculty at the newly formed Mennonite Brethren Bible College in Winnipeg and served for ten years as instructor, earning a Bachelor of Divinity (now equivalent to MDiv) degree during the summers. He was a "highly-respected college teacher" and was "frequently invited to speak in churches across Canada," according to David Ewert ("A Tribute to Jacob H. Quiring [1913-2004]" MB Herald [Sept 3, 2004] p. 26).
Following his stint as college instructor, Jacob accepted the pastorate of the Winkler (Manitoba) MB Church, serving for 7 years. Returning to MBBC in 1962 as President, he led the college administration through to the summer of 1966. Then the Bakerview (Abbotsford) MB Church called him to the pastorate, where he served for nine years.
On May 25, 1970, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Wilfred Laurier University.
His wider denominational responsibilities included serving as moderator of the Canadian MB Conference and the British Columbia MB Conference. "At times he was critical of some of the trends and developments in the denomination, but his love for the church never wavered," says David Ewert ("Quiring, Jacob H. (1913-2004)," Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online [June 2005]).
In retirement, Jake and Annie traveled to Austria, where Jake taught for three terms. He also served in several congregations as an interim minister and into his 80s accepted invitations to preach. They settled in Abbotsford in 1982, after 46 years of public ministry.
Jacob H. Quiring died on July 24, 2004, at the age of ninety-one. Annie died on July 11, 2014, at the age of 100.
According to David Ewert, "Jake was a man of great integrity and honesty. He reflected deeply on the great verities of the Christian faith, and often wrestled with theological questions and even spiritual doubts" ("A Tribute," p. 27).
In addition to David Ewert's tribute (MB Herald) and biography (GAMEO), more details of Jacob H. Quiring's life can be found in his autobiographical writings: Two are better than One (1995) and Nostalgia (1994), both of which are included in the fonds. See below.
In 2012 (no accession number recorded), Bert Friesen donated four duo-tang bond folders of writings by Jacob H. Quiring to the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg.
The Jacob H. Quiring fonds consists of four unpublished works, two are autobiographical (Two are better than One  and Nostalgia , one is a collection of thirty devotionals that aired on radio station CFAM during the 1950s, while Jacob ministered at the Winkler MB Church, and one is a short collection of funeral sermons, Faith Looks Beyond the Grave (1994). The fonds documents well the scope of Jacob's ministry, his life and pulpit ministry.
Accession numbers: no number recorded.
Description created by Jon Isaak, September 2013.
1. Radio Devotionals. -- thirty messages read on Radio station CFAM. -- [195-].
2. Funeral Sermons. -- Faith Looks Beyond the Grave. -- 1994.
3. Autobiography. Nostalgia. -- 1994.
4. Autobiography. Two are better than One. -- 1995.
5. Tribute and obituary. -- 2004.


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With Mongrels, This Is Stephen Graham Jones's Time to Howl
Jason Heller May 3, 2016 9:52AM
Stephen Graham Jones is hungry.
It's early afternoon on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder. Jones, in black boots and a black ponytail, sits in his cramped but cozy office, digging into a bag of fast-food burgers. The office has the rich, dusty smell of a used bookstore, which is understandable: It's stacked from floor to ceiling, from wall to wall, with hundreds of books, most of them science-fiction, horror or graphic novels. As Jones tears into his lunch, a posse of action figures peers over his shoulder from the shelf behind him: Captain Picard from Star Trek, Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beta Ray Bill from Thor. The place of honor, though, belongs to a tiny plastic werewolf dressed in a button-down shirt and tie; Jones himself wears a faded black T-shirt that depicts a howling werewolf shredding an electric guitar under a full moon.
"If werewolves were real," he says in a warm Texas drawl between bites of burger, "they'd have the kinds of issues my werewolves do in Mongrels. They'd have problems keeping jeans. They'd have problems passing a credit check. A werewolf's nature is to wolf out every once in a while and cause havoc. That doesn't promote job stability. It's hard to pay your rent on time."
Jones pays his rent as a tenured professor at CU, but he moonlights, so to speak, as a werewolf writer. Mongrels, his new novel, is due out this month from the prestigious HarperCollins imprint William Morrow and Company, which has published literary heavyweights from Ray Bradbury to Michael Chabon. Mongrels is Jones's first novel with William Morrow. However, it's far from his first novel overall. Since his debut in 2000 with The Fast Red Road, which won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, by his estimate he's had "21 or 22" books published. Even he can't keep up. They span everything from the feverish misadventure of The Fast Red Road to the poignant Ledfeather — the latter set on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, where Jones's father, a member of the tribe, began taking him as a boy.
"I finally had enough nerve to tackle what I saw as my big werewolf novel, the one was meant to write."
Mongrels is different. It's about werewolves. Taking place across the southern United States, from New Mexico to North Carolina, the story revolves around an unnamed boy whose poverty-stricken family lives a nomadic existence, moving from town to town but always dwelling on the fringes. The reason for their constant movement quickly becomes clear: They're werewolves, and putting down roots means risking discovery and death. In the book, Jones not only lingers on the boy's troubled, tragicomic home life, but he greatly expands the mythos of the werewolf, giving the creatures a hidden history that stretches back centuries. Along the way, Mongrels puts one of the most realistic spins on werewolves to date, from how their biology works to the way they've taken up a unique and entirely unglamorous niche in the underbelly of society.
Although Jones has trucked in horror before — most notably in the postmodern shocker Demon Theory, the madcap Zombie Bake-Off and the exquisitely terrifying story collection After the People Lights Have Gone Off — he'd never written a novel about werewolves before Mongrels. That is, unless you count the three failed tries at a werewolf novel that he wound up consigning to his trunk over the years. The first one, set in Jones's homeland of West Texas, was written between 1999 and 2000 and titled Anubis, My Father. "I couldn't find a way to make ancient Egyptian stuff work in Alpine, Texas," he explains, "so I changed it to Bloodlines." When Bloodlines didn't come out as well as he'd hoped, he abandoned it. Then in 2013, emboldened by a class on werewolves he was about to start teaching at CU, he tried for a third time. The Lord's Highway was the result — a manuscript that eventually morphed into Mongrels.
"I was too invested in the monster," Jones says of The Lord's Highway. "It was slowing down the story. It was like I was doing a Dungeons and Dragons character sheet for a werewolf, only for 110 pages. It was fun for me, but I couldn't see anyone else getting into it." But after spending ten hours a day during the entire month of December 2013 doing nothing but absorbing werewolf novels, short stories and movies in preparation for his werewolf class, "I had so much werewolf stuff in my head. I had to unpack it. I finally had enough nerve to tackle what I saw as my big werewolf novel, the one I was meant to write."
Werewolves might seem like a strange topic for a college-level literature class, but that's only the start of Jones's specialties. To date, he has taught classes at CU focusing on the horror subgenres of werewolves, zombies, slashers and haunted houses, along with his more orthodox fiction-writing and screenwriting sections. He also regularly teaches classes on comic books and graphic novels. Genre fiction is considered by many, especially in academia, to be the fast food of literature: empty-calorie junk cranked out for mass consumption. But to Jones, it's a feast.
"In the undergrad fiction-writing workshop that I teach," he says, "I used to require students to write a genre story. I'd put that on the syllabus, and on the first day of class, a few hands would go up. They'd say, 'Really? We have to write a pirate story, or we have to put a dinosaur in our story?' And I'd say, 'Yes. I want you to know how to make money writing fiction.'
"I would have students walk out that first day," he goes on. "But these past years, I don't even have to put it on the syllabus. If I give students their choice, they write a genre piece. Academia doesn't know how to deal very well with someone who has commercial interests, but it seems irresponsible to me to produce a writer who can't make a living. There's nothing wrong with what we call literary fiction, but it's harder to make money doing it."
Still, he admits, "At heart, I probably am a literary writer." Indeed: Not only is he the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, but he's also the subject of an upcoming book titled The Fiction of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion, due this fall from the University of New Mexico Press. He's been invited by the Library of Congress to launch Mongrels later this month as part of a panel titled "Spotlight on Native Writers." By contrast, he's also appearing soon at the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, owned by Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin. Jones prefers to focus on the overlap between the literary and genre worlds, not the differences: "You can have literary science fiction, literary horror, literary erotica, literary everything."
That includes literary werewolves. Mongrels is a complex, subtle, multi-layered novel — about people who turn into dogs — poised to appeal to the highbrow literati, the hordes of geekdom and everyone in between. Jones hopes his book will be recognized and embraced by his peers, but he has no illusions. "A few years ago, after Demon Theory came out, I was still teaching in Texas, and I ran into another professor that I liked and respected," he recalls. "He started talking about The Fast Red Road and saying how good it was. Then he said, 'When are you going to get back to writing serious stuff like that?' To me, everything I write is deadly serious. Yeah, there are giant, time-traveling caterpillars and blind ninjas in one of my novels, but that doesn't mean it's not serious. These are things that matter to me."
Jones's fascination with the fantastic and unreal grew from the opposite place: a childhood of hard reality. Born in Midland, Texas, the former home of George H. W. and George W. Bush, Jones couldn't have been further from the upper crust. His parents were high-school kids when he was born. Before he turned one, his father left the fledgling family and enlisted in the Air Force; he'd occasionally return to visit Jones as he was growing up. His mother remarried numerous times. When asked how many stepfathers he had, Jones says "five or six"; as with the number of books he's written, he can't remember offhand. They moved around a lot, wandering from small town to small town in West Texas: Big Spring, Stanton, Wimberley. But they always circled back to his grandmother's farm, in a place called Greenwood.
"It's not on a map," he says. "We never had a post office, which I think is important for getting on the map. But I don't claim to know map rules. Growing up, it was just all cotton fields and pastures and pump jacks.
"We farmed, but we didn't make our living off of farming," he explains. "My mom ran daycare, or she would work at a tanning salon. Just all kinds of jobs. My different stepdads would work construction or in the oil fields. We always would come back to the same farming community in Greenwood, but that was just the place we'd bounce off of before going somewhere else. We always had a horse trailer that we'd pack bags and boxes in and go."
Jones learned to cope with the chaos. "It was normal," he says. "It was just what you did." When he got old enough, he'd work "on a horse or on a tractor, either one," and made pocket money pulling weeds for his uncle on the family farm. "I remember going over to my uncle's place, and he had two console TVs, one stacked on top of the other. I thought it was weird, then I realized what he was doing. On one of the TVs, the picture didn't work but the sound was on. On the other TV, the sound didn't work but the picture was on. The sound was on the bottom, and the picture was on the top.
"It makes sense," he adds, laughing. "It kind of sums up the South for me. Just making do with what you've got, just making it work."
Once he started bouncing around from school to school as a result of his family's constant migration, Jones took up a strange hobby: collecting names. "Back then, when you moved, your school records wouldn't be automatically transmitted," he remembers. "So my mom let me edit them. I'd try on different names for different schools. I was born Stephen Graham Jones, but I was Stephen Sapp for a while. Stephen Presley, too. Stephen Graham a lot. Stephen Thomas, also. I tried being Stef, but that didn't work too well. I also tried to be an Alan, but I couldn't remember to respond to it. My great granddad Pop — Mongrels is dedicated to him — called me Stargazer before I got too old for it. He said I was always looking up, somewhere else."
Wherever Jones was looking, it wasn't in his schoolbooks. Although a voracious reader, there was little to indicate a future in academia. In sixth grade, he was sent to the office because a teacher didn't like his attitude. "She did it because I kept smiling in class," he says. "She did not like the way I smiled. It was kind of smart-alecky, definitely. And I remember in science class, the teacher would give us a quiz every day. It was always multiple choice so that she could grade them easier. She would ask us, 'What's the covalent bond?' or whatever, 'A, B, C or D?' And after she said the correct letter, she would always shape her mouth differently, like she was trying not to tell us the answer. I would watch her lips and do my quiz. I didn't have to do any science in that class because I aced all the quizzes. Even when I was truant all the time, I'd show up on test days and ace all the tests. The teachers hated that."
His indifference toward school took a turn toward delinquency. He began getting into more and more trouble the older he got, and he was kicked out of more than one high school. He ended up in an alternative high school — or, as he calls it, "drug-dealer school." He also moved out of his mom's house when he was sixteen — "That's just the way it is in my family," he says — and took up residence with three friends in, of all places, a junkyard.
"One of my friends, his dad was a trucker who lived way out in the country, and we all moved there for a while," he recalls. "But eventually we moved to this junkyard that another friend's grandma owned. There was a double-wide in the back of it, and we lived there for a while. We didn't have any money at all. We'd save up, and every Sunday we'd eat at Furr's Cafeteria, the all-you-can-eat buffet. We'd try to eat enough on Sunday night to last the whole week, which is impossible. We'd get to the point where we could not physically fit any more food in our stomachs, but we were still hungry in our minds. So we'd put a plate in the middle of the table and call it the spit-out plate. After we got full, we'd chew more food up and suck all the taste out, then spit it out. We'd just do that, plate after plate."
But Jones and crew found a more natural source of sustenance. "We were so hungry," he says, "we'd go out with our shotguns and shoot dove in the fields. We'd eat a lot of dove. If you cook it right, dove is amazing." He pauses before adding, "We didn't cook it right."
Hunger wasn't the only issue Jones faced. "I remember in high school, the first day of class, the teacher walks in and kind of surveys us all," he recalls. "Then she looks at me in the back of the room and says, 'You. Don't let your greasy head touch my chalkboard.' The funny thing was, she probably wasn't being racist about Indians. Since this was West Texas, she probably assumed I was Mexican. I picked up Spanish because if you're dark-skinned in West Texas, people talk to you in Spanish by default. Most of my friends at the time were Mexican, so I fit right in."
He recollects going into town on Friday nights to meet girls, a ritual that only served as a reminder of what side of the tracks he hailed from. "We'd park our trucks on the corner near the drag," he says, "and we'd all stand there, waiting to get approached, which is a wonderful tactic. But when any of the girls from town did talk to us, we'd cover our mouths and hardly talk at all. We knew we talked country. We knew that would give away who we were. And also, growing up out in the country, our teeth were always brown. So we all knew that we were different, that we didn't fit in."
Jones squeaked by with his diploma and figured he'd take up one of the many jobs he'd had throughout high school: washing dishes, painting curbs, laying irrigation line, scraping gaskets in a transmission shop, or the old family standby, farming. College couldn't have been further from his mind. But his mother had other ideas.
"After I got my diploma, my mom took me out for graduation dinner at a Mexican restaurant there in Midland," he says. "She gave me two things. She gave me a suitcase, 'cause she said I had to get out of town. She knew what I was up to with all my friends, and that it wasn't going to lead to anywhere good. And she also gave me a little-bitty brass apple. I thought, 'What am I supposed to do with a brass apple?' But then I got to looking at it afterwards, and there was a little leaf on the stem of that brass apple. It said, 'Teacher.' I just threw it in a box. I found it recently, and I was like, 'She knew all along. She knew what I had in me.'"
His mom also ponied up a hard-earned semester's worth of college tuition. "I could do that. I could go up there and party for four months," Jones remembers thinking. So in 1990, fresh out of high school, he enrolled at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. What he wasn't prepared for, though, was loving it: "I took a philosophy class, and I was hooked. I was like, 'People talk about this stuff? You can actually get good marks for thinking?'" He double-majored in philosophy and English, graduating in 1994. By then he had also met and married his wife, a fellow undergrad at Texas Tech. He had no desire to go to grad school, but, prompted by a professor, he applied and was accepted into the master's program at the University of North Texas in Denton. He was still doing manual work, including a stint in a Sears warehouse, when he began Ph.D. studies at Florida State University in 1996. He completed his Ph.D. in an incredible two years. "I liked FSU, but I did not like Florida at all," he says. "That's why I got my Ph.D. so fast. I had to get out of there." He and his wife moved back to Texas, where he got a job in the library of his alma mater, Texas Tech.
At 24, Jones had already risen higher, at least by society's standards, than anyone in his family. But he was still just shelving books. What he had yet to do was write one.
"In fourth grade, I read Where the Red Fern Grows," Jones says, speaking of Wilson Rawls's classic children's book. "I remember getting to the last page, and on that last page, there's an old ax head stuck in a tree with the handle rotted off, and there's a rusted lantern hanging from it. I distinctly remember thinking, 'I can do that. I can stick an ax in a tree and hang a lantern from it. I understand how to do that.' So I closed the book and thought, 'Well, I can write.'"
Jones's decision to become a writer came as easily and profoundly as that. "As a kid, I always thought I would farm in the day and write at night," he says. Still, his writing ambitions through high school didn't amount to more than love letters to girls who'd broken up with him. "Those letters usually worked, too," he remembers. "I had to be all flowery and metaphoric, but not too metaphoric. But it did teach me about the rewards of writing fiction. Rhetoric has its purpose."
The pivotal moment in Jones's latent writing career didn't come until he was nineteen. While he was in class at Texas Tech, police officers entered the classroom. Instinctively, Jones knew they were there for him. The night before, he'd been part of a "rowdy midnight sing-along" at a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at a local theater, one that had turned riotous after cops showed up and began dragging people out. His instincts were right — but the cops were there for an entirely different reason.
"My uncle had been terribly, terribly burned over most of his body," he says. "He used to have seizures, not epilepsy, but some other kind of brain stuff. He was about to take a shower, so he reached down and turned the hot water on. He got hit by a seizure and passed out in the shower. The water just boiled him, for a long, long time. It was rough stuff. I was the only family of his they could find, so the cops drove me to the hospital. I sat there for three days in the burn-unit ICU, waiting for him to live or die.
"All I had with me," he continues, "was a pen and a spiral notebook from class. The three days I was sitting in the ICU, I got to listening to some of the stories that other families were going through. That's when I wrote my first story. It was titled 'The Gift,' and it's about a guy trudging through blinding whiteness, a snowscape. He's going to the hospital where his girlfriend is. They just had a car wreck, and he's kind of in the afterlife, trying to make it back to her. It was kind of sappy like that."
Jones's uncle survived, and Jones returned to school. Since he hadn't been able to finish a composition assignment due that week, he threw a Hail Mary and handed in his story instead, "all handwritten and ugly, just to prove I'd been writing something." It worked. "My instructor liked it. She accepted it, and she submitted it for a department award, which it won."
From there, things snowballed. He began writing and publishing more stories. When he received a check for $150 for a story he'd written, he couldn't believe it. "After all the manual labor I'd done," he says, "it felt like I was getting away with something." Throughout the rest of his college career, he doubled down on writing fiction. And when it came to getting published, he didn't wait for an engraved invitation. "In all my writing classes, we'd ask, 'When can we start mailing stories out?,' and they'd always tell us, 'Not until you're good enough. You can't start sending stuff out too early.' I never believed that. The first story I wrote in grad school I mailed out, and it got published." He wrote his first novel, The Fast Red Road, for his Ph.D. dissertation at Florida State — but, again, he wasn't going to rely on the traditional publishing route. The West Texas rule-breaker in him had other plans.
"People kept insisting that my books were Indian. That's when I started writing about zombies and werewolves."
"Right after I finished The Fast Red Road," he recalls, "a friend of mine I knew from Texas, who also wanted to be a writer, sold his truck and went to New York. He took writing workshops and got a job as a custodian in Manhattan. What that gave him was a ring of keys, and what he did with that ring of keys was go into all these offices of literary agencies and use their letterhead. Then he'd print up my novel, put the agency's letterhead on top of it, go into all the editorial offices and leave it on the top editors' desks." He laughs. "I got a lot of rejections, but I don't think anyone ever figured out we were faking it."
The gambit might not have worked, but The Fast Red Road soon landed at Fiction Collective Two, a prestigious small press, which published it in 2000, the same year Jones began teaching at Texas Tech. Reminiscent of Thomas Pynchon — if the author had grown up in rough-and-tumble West Texas — the book featured, in Jones's words, "giant pot plants and weird ghost coyotes and a submarine in the desert, all that kind of fun genre stuff that I like. But it was probably too Pynchon-esque." It was also deeply immersed in Native American culture.
"I realized that The Fast Red Road could easily classify me as an Indian writer, but I never wanted to be that," says Jones, who at age twelve began taking trips to the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, something he still does regularly. "Anytime the market puts an adjective in front of your name, that's the first step toward dismissing you. I didn't want that to happen. One of my publishers early on wanted me to go by my family's Indian name, Calf Looking. I guess they thought it was kind of exotic, and exotic sells books. I considered it, because I want to sell books, but then I decided it's a much bigger coup if I make it on a name like Jones. If I make it as a Calf Looking, I'm always going to wonder, 'Is it because of my Indian name?' I'd rather not make it at all than make it by selling out in a way like that."
Jones did go on to write more novels with Native American themes, including the acclaimed Ledfeather in 2008. That same year, he, his wife and their two children moved from Lubbock to Boulder at the behest of CU, which offered him a position as a full professor. He'd lived briefly in Colorado Springs as a teen, but he had another reason for readily accepting CU's offer: "You know that West Texas is going to run out of water soon. It's dire. It'll be like Mad Max. I'd rather be up here when that happens, you know?"
With his second novel, Demon Theory, he hoped he could establish his originality by writing something radically different from The Fast Red Road. That didn't quite work — at least, not at first. "I thought Demon Theory would be a revolutionary horror work that was going to change the world, with all these footnotes and all this metatextual stuff," he says with a laugh. "Then, right at the end of December 1999, while I was finishing the book, a friend sends me a seventy-page sample of a book that was coming out in 2000." That book was Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, which traffics in the same kind of approach as Demon Theory, right down to the footnotes and "metatextual stuff.
"That broke my heart," Jones says. "I didn't write that novel fast enough. Danielewski beat me to the punch. I'm sure he did it better, too." Demon Theory was rejected by publishers for years — "They kept saying, 'This is derivative. It's just like House of Leaves'" — before finally seeing print in 2006. Since then, it's become a cult classic. In the meantime, Jones kept producing novels and short stories at a dizzying rate, and after the kudos that Demon Theory received, he struck deeper into his native territory: genre fiction. Regardless, he was still getting pigeonholed as a Native American writer.
"I think my trajectory as an author is a marker of me getting tired of people who only read the Indian in my work," he explains. "That is to say, they're not engaging it as either good or bad. With American Indian lit, so many people don't come at it thinking, 'Is this good or is this bad?' They come at it thinking, 'Ooh, this is Indian. Let me use it as a lens into the culture.' I did three novels that are considered overtly Indian: The Fast Red Road, The Bird Is Gone and Ledfeather. But at the time, I was also doing other stuff. I was trying to tell the audience that I'm just a writer who happens to be Indian. Some of the books I do will be overtly Indian, and some of them won't be.
"But people kept insisting that my books were Indian," he goes on. "That's when I started writing about zombies and werewolves."
There are no wolves in West Texas," Jones says, thinking back on his fascination with werewolves. "If there are, nobody knows about them. But down there, people in town will buy Labradors, Dobermans, Rottweilers, all these big, fancy dogs. They have them for three months, and then they say, 'This sucks,' and they take them twenty miles outside of town and kick them out of the car. Twenty miles outside of town was our front lawn.
"What happens is, all these big, mean, overbred dogs pack up and go feral. I got chased by them pretty bad once. It was one of the most scary times of my life. I was sixteen, and I ran out of gas at two in the morning. I had a mile and a half to walk to my house. This is out in nowhereville, no lights or anything. I heard the dogs making their noise, then I saw them breaking toward me, so I took off running. I just ran, hell-for-leather, faster than I could run. Luckily, there was an old broke-down house out there. I scrambled up on the roof and spent the night there. I didn't go to sleep. They raised a racket all night, but then they eventually wandered off."
Jones's fascination with monstrous canines, however, took root long before he was nearly devoured by a pack of them — specifically, the year he turned nine. "Nineteen eighty-one was the golden year for the werewolf," he says, citing the trifecta of legendary werewolf films that came out that year: The Howling, An American Werewolf in London and Wolfen. "I prefer The Howling. When it came out on VHS, I watched it over and over. The werewolves looked real. I believed in them. When Eddie Quist transforms right in the front of the camera and he's all bubbly and everything, it convinced me. I wanted to believe, so I did believe. I didn't believe there was an actual werewolf in The Howling — I knew it was just a movie — but you could squint and pretend it was real. And that's what I did. I knew werewolves had to be out there. They're such perfect creatures — how could they not exist?"
Something else had a strong impact on his budding romance with werewolves: In 1983, Ozzy Osbourne released Bark at the Moon. The video for the album's title track depicts the infamous heavy-metal icon made up as a hideous, werewolf-like creature. "That video legitimately scared me," Jones remembers. "It was thrilling. It was right around the time I was getting hooked on horror." In Mongrels, a chapter is titled "Bark at the Moon" in homage. It's not the novel's only music reference: At one point the narrator utters the line, "His hair was perfect," in a nod to a lyric from Warren Zevon's 1978 hit "Werewolves of London."
As a kid, Jones took his werewolf worship even further: He desperately wanted to become one. Since he was around twelve at the time, it made a certain kind of sense. "When you're that age, you know you're changing," he says. "You just don't know into what. If I can pick out a werewolf and say, 'That's going to be my eventual shape,' then I've got a path. Werewolves were always the fantasy creature I wanted to climb inside of. I wanted to look out these eyeholes."
"Werewolves can run down anything," he continues. "No one messes with a werewolf unless you've got silver. They're the toughest of the tough. I never much cared for vampires. It may be because I grew up in West Texas. It's so flat out there. Being a vampire in West Texas would suck, because you'd just be standing there in the pasture. But being a werewolf, you could run across forty acres in no time."
Jones readily admits that, like many of his novels, Mongrels draws from his real life. The route across the South taken by the family in the book parallels his own crisscrossing of the region when he was younger. The narrator is close with his uncle. And like his own family, the clan in Mongrels is made up of outsiders without advantage or privilege, doing whatever they can to survive in a world that's often hostile to those without status or means.
"Friends who read Mongrels early on would write me back and say, 'Blue-collar werewolves! Cool!" Jones says. "That was always weird to me. I didn't think of them like that. I just thought of them as my family, like, 'What if my family were werewolves?'"
"We tell stories about things that want to take bites out of us because it just feels right and natural."
With the high profile he has within the Native American literary community, he's also aware that some readers might interpret his werewolves as surrogates. "My werewolves do have dark hair," he says. "They make fun of the idea of a blond werewolf. And the fact that my werewolves never write anything down about their past, it's like how when Indians were moved and their cultural ties were severed, they were left without their stories. There's definitely some of that in Mongrels. I wouldn't say it's as easy as one-to-one, that the werewolves in Mongrels are supposed to be like Indians. But I will say that Indian stuff is, of course, always in my head. I think anything I write is going to be filtered through that. I do think a lot of the issues my werewolves face are Indian issues."
With Mongrels, Jones is finally making the leap from small, independent presses to the big leagues of William Morrow. He hopes to bring the werewolf along with him. "I went with a big publisher for selfish reasons — who doesn't want to be Stephen King? — but also because I want the werewolf to go wide," he says. "Whether my name is associated with the werewolf going wide doesn't make or break my heart. What matters to me is that I get to live in a world where the werewolf is big. I really do care for that animal — or monster, or person — a lot."
His timing might just be perfect. Jones sees the trends in monsters as cyclical things. A few years ago, it was vampires. Zombies are all the rage now. Werewolves, he hopes, will be next. "We're always going to have a monster in the limelight of pop culture," he observes. "We need creatures of the night that are going to eat us. We're hardwired for that. We evolved on the savannah with everything wanting to take a bite out of us. We tell stories about things that want to take bites out of us because it just feels right and natural. A werewolf story just needs to come along that hits the reset button. That's what Max Brooks gave us with World War Z. That book tore all the fat off the zombie genre and gave it rules so that it could shuffle forward. Mongrels is my effort to birth a real werewolf into the world instead of a fantasy werewolf. Werewolves who make sense, who have to deal with reality, who have to deal with being ravenously hungry because they're at a calorie deficit after they transform.
"Really," he continues, "fiction is the only tool I have to make the world make sense. I live in a world that doesn't make sense. I'll go to Taco Bell and say, 'Give me a chicken soft taco, please.' And they'll give me a steak soft taco instead. So I'll bring it back to the counter and say, 'Excuse me, I ordered a chicken soft taco.' And since this is Boulder, they'll say, 'Hey, man, it's all good.' And I'll walk away thinking, 'It's not actually all good.'
"My world doesn't make sense, but on the page, in a short story, I can make the world make sense," he adds with a laugh. "I can give that person behind the counter at Taco Bell a valid reason for giving me a steak soft taco."
With that, Jones balls up his fast-food wrappers and places them back in the bag, his lunch done and his hunger appeased. "I don't operate in the nonsensical world that well," he says, getting to his feet and gathering materials for his next class. "But I can operate in a world where things matter."
Stephen Graham Jones will appear with New York Times best-selling author Richard Kadrey at the Tattered Cover Colfax at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, for a release party for Mongrels.
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Entrepreneurs' Relief (ER) is a tax relief, first introduced in 2008. This relief was designed to compensate business owners who would have paid a lower rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) under the previous taper relief rules. These were abolished in the 2008 Budget which brought in a new flat rate of CGT at 18% on business disposals. The introduction of ER meant that business owners would, therefore, only have to pay an effective 10% CGT rate on qualifying business disposals, with a lifetime 'allowance' of £1m.
ER is available to sole traders or partners who wish to dispose of (sell) shares in all or part of their business. The relief is also available to company directors and employees that have a 5% or more shareholding. It results in a 10% tax rate on all gains made on qualifying assets, up to a current lifetime limit of £10 million. There's no limit to how many times you can claim this relief either and the same rules apply regardless of the rate of income tax you pay.
The company must have been trading for at least 24 months prior to the date of disposal.
The individual disposing of the shares must own at least 5% of the ordinary share capital of the company. It must also entitle them to at least 5% of the votes, 5% of the distributable profits and 5% of the net assets on winding up.
You must also be an officer or employee of the company, and you must have met all employment conditions for at least the 24 months leading up to the disposal.
If you intend to wind up the company and cease trading, the relief can still be claimed provided any asset distribution in the company is taxed as capital distribution and not income. The distribution must be carried out within three years of the company's cessation date. All qualifying conditions above must have been met for the 24 months prior to the company ceasing to trade.
The 2018 Autumn Budget brought with it changes to Capital Gains Tax, including amendments to eligibility for Entrepreneurs' Relief. You are now subject to the new rules on qualifying assets and companies. You'll need to pass stricter tests now to define a company as a 'personal company'.
There were two important changes introduced to ER in the 2018 Budget.
Firstly, the holding period for shares held by individual shareholders has increased to 24 months rather than the current 12 months before any ER can be claimed on the disposal of shares. As of 6th April 2019, individuals who have held shares for more than 12 months but less than 24 months at the date of disposal would pay a higher rate of CGT.
You will have to now pass two of these tests, rather than one. Most people will be expected to pass Test 1 and Test 2, or Test 1 and Test 3. Any individual who sells shares without meeting the primary 5% tests will not be eligible for ER.
The company must have also traded for the full two years leading up to any disposal. You will, therefore, need to have considered your position as far as two years in advance to be eligible for Entrepreneurs' Relief on any gains. This shows to HMRC that you have an actual involvement in the growth in value of that business, not just an investor in it.
Failing to meet the requirements as laid out above means that may have to pay more in Capital Gains Tax. You can find more about these changes via HMRC.
For those individuals owning options over shares which were granted under an Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) Scheme, you may still qualify for ER. The holding period for EMI shares will also change to 24 months, instead of the present 12 months. However, the changes to the 5% rule that was mentioned above is not likely to impact EMI option holders. Therefore, you do not need to hold 5% of the shares on the same economic value precedent set out above.
Therefore, it is still possible to grant EMI options for non-voting shares without limiting your chances of qualifying for Entrepreneurs' Relief.
Should you use Entrepreneurs' Relief for Winding Up a Company?
Have you decided to retire or to simply bring an end to your company without selling it on as a going concern? If so, you could avail of Entrepreneurs' Relief here. Many company owners choose to do this as it provides them with a tax efficient way of distributing capital on cancellation of the shares. You might be subject to a significant charge in Capital Gains Tax when you look to dispose of qualifying assets, such as business premises, as you cease to trade. As long as you meet the relevant requirements that were set about above, you could use Entrepreneurs' Relief to change your tax burden to the flat 10% tax rate on the gain in assets you sell from the business.
If you do not exceed your lifetime gains and you meet the new 2018 Autumn Budget eligibility requirements, this should be considered.
You can claim Entrepreneurs' Relief in your annual Self-Assessment return in the supplementary 'Capital Gains Summary' section for the tax year that the date of any sale or disposal of assets occurs in.
Selling your shares in a business or disposing of business assets can be a decision that might need a lot of time and patience to work through. If you are unsure about what is right for you, we recommend that you consider seeking professional business advice. Our team at Devonshire Green can guide you to work out if you meet the conditions for Entrepreneurs' Relief, or how you could best use this relief to your advantage in the future. Contact us today and we can help you to make a difficult decision a little bit easier.


After the short but amazing 'mermaid' fantasy moments in the volcano's crater lake we started trekking back for another 3 hours of 7kms to where our 4×4's were waiting. Sure, it wasn't as astounding going back which lessens the adventure although it's dusty on the way back which makes the adventure spikes again.
I'm starting to feel a little sleepy when I saw 2 choppers and took a photo, I didn't know what's ahead of us. Until, we saw a lot of the 4×4's all parked in the middle of the desert with US military 4×4 in front with few American soldiers. I asked the driver why we stopped? He said, US military is undergoing 'Balikatan' Exercises with the Philippine Military at that moment and we're stuck for an hour there. So, I went to the front and took photos of the chopper exercises and a shot of the good looking military guys. Oh, I took 2 photos again while I'm on the jeep as we passed in front of them and they are cool waving to everyone as we left the premise. Not so far from there, we saw their camp.
The experience of this trip is absolutely amazing! I am not taking back what I said, that this was the way better than Krabi as far as the beauty is concern. Only, the trek is longer than the time we spent at the crater (which camping is the best way to get the best out of it. Camping is only open from January onwards due to weather conditions). Still, it's my best so far(even if Doug will hate me for saying that)!


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Here's what will happen to America's dying Sears, Macy's, and JCPenney stores
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Iconic mall-based department chains, like Sears and JC Penney, are announcing hundreds of store closures in 2017
More chains are expected to announce shutdowns over the next decade
Experts say the shuttered locations could turn into other businesses that benefit from the large square footage, like fitness centers, churches, offices, public libraries, movie theaters, and medical clinics
When Edina, Minnesota's Southdale Center — considered the first modern American mall — opened in 1956, two department stores, Dayton's and Donaldson's, anchored it. Two decades later, Southdale expanded to allow for a JCPenney to move in, and the mall's sales boomed.
Since then, the department store has served as the mainstay of the indoor suburban mall in the US. But a growing number of locations will close their doors this year.
In early June, for example, Sears announced that it will shut down 72 more stores including Kmarts and auto centers, meaning over 170 locations will close in 2017. When they shutter, Sears will have nearly half the number of stores it had five years ago. Another popular chain, JC Penney, also recently said it will close 138 stores due to waning traffic and sales. Most of these locations started liquidation in April, and will shut down by the end of June.
And when department stores die, the mall itself sometimes follows, since the former pays a large percentage of the building's rent. In a new report, Credit Suisse analysts expect that 20% to 25% of malls — about 220 to 275 shopping centers — will shutter over the next five years, largely due to department store closures. Retail experts attribute the traditional mall's decline to changing habits of American consumers, who increasingly prefer to spend money online or on experiences rather than objects.
Department stores at malls of the future have an opportunity to fulfill other community needs besides commerce, June Williamson , an architecture professor at the City College of New York and an author of "Retrofitting Suburbia," tells Business…
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According to case details, working as a tile installer/setter on a villa complex construction site, the accused took undue advantage of the opportunity by cutting electrical cables to steal them. But he was caught by a guard as he tried to leave the site.
According to investigation, the the security guard said that he saw the accused carrying a bag, and when he called him, he ignored him and continued his way. The accused then tried to run away as the guard approached him, but the latter caught up to him and handed him over to the police.
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EU takes step closer to 'posted workers' deal
The revision of the directive is a "balanced package of interest to all European citizens," said the Bulgarian presidency of the EU (Photo: EUobserver)
By Eric Maurice
Brussels, 1. Mar 2018, 16:08
The EU took a step further towards granting equal pay for equal work when people take a temporary job in another member state - but a final deal is still not guaranteed.
Negotiators from the EU Council - representing member states - the European Parliament and the European Commission last night confirmed most of a previous agreement between EU ministers last October, but more discussions are needed.
In statement on Thursday morning, they said only that they have reached "a common understanding on the contours of a possible agreement" to revise the so-called posted workers directive.
The current directive dates from 1996, when the EU counted 15 members and did not face massive movements of low paid workers from eastern countries to western states.
In 2016, according to the commission, 2.3 million posting operations took place in the EU. Almost 70 percent were in the industry sector, mainly construction.
"Let's not claim victory yet," the parliament's main negotiator, centre-right MEP Elisabeth Morin-Chartier said at the press conference.
The 'common understanding' will have to be endorsed by EU ambassadors next week, before another round of negotiations between the three institutions - the so-called trilogue - with the aim of a definitive vote at the parliament in June.
Last night's discussion lasted until 1.30AM, in order not to lose the momentum and put quickly a text on the member states' table.
"Everyone want to go fast and avoid having to finish discussion under the Austrian presidency," a source told EUobserver.
The Austrian government, a coalition between the centre-right and the far-right, will take over the rotating council presidency on 1 July, after the current Bulgarian presidency.
Last night's agreement maintains a maximum posting period of 12 months that can be extended for six months "via a motivated notification".
Until now, the parliament wanted to keep the current 24-month maximum posting period, while ministers had agreed to the 12+6 solution as a compromise to please France, which wanted a 12-month limit.
Two years to apply
As a quid pro quo, the Bulgarian EU council presidency agreed to reduce the period to put the new rules in national laws from four years to two. The new directive will also start to be applied at the end of the two-year period even if some member states have failed to transpose them in time.
Under the proposed revision of the directive, the rules will apply to all workers in a sector where there is an agreement between social partners. Currently only construction workers benefit from that principle.
The revised directive would also apply to temporary agency workers and workers in chain posting. So-called non-genuine posted workers - workers employed by empty shells companies, for instance - would also have their rights guaranteed.
A paragraph on subcontractors, which would have obliged contractors to ensure that subcontractors respect the same rules, was however taken out of the revision proposal, because some member states would not accept introducing the rule in their national law.
Another important exception to the new posted workers rules will be the transport sector.
The three institutions agreed to stick to the ministers' agreement and leave a 'lex specialis' on the mobility sector to deal with workers in the sector.
The issue is sensitive for countries like Spain or Poland, which have many lorry drivers working across the EU.
The commission's 'Road Transport Strategy for Europe', which was presented last May, proposed that drivers who work more than three days a month in a member state with higher pay will get a higher pay. It also proposed that all member states apply the posting rules for drivers.
'No red lines'
Bulgarian deputy labour minister Zornitsa Roussinova said that the proposed revision of the directive was a "balanced package of interest to all European citizens".
The EU social affairs commissioner Marianne Thyssen admitted that the revision, which has already failed twice in recent years, was "a difficult file with many sensitivities [and] different emotions".
Thyssen and the other negotiators now expect member states to endorse their compromise.
When ministers agreed on their position in October, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland voted against the compromise, while the UK, Ireland and Croatia abstained.
A source close to the talks noted that with the posting period and the exclusion of drivers, the parliament has made a moved towards member states, and that the former should not block an agreement.
"It's difficult to keep red lines on an issue like this one," the source said.
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Negotiations among the EU institutions will start soon, but could be difficult on several issues - like the inclusion of the transport sector or the duration of a posting.
After a 12-hour discussion, EU employment ministers struck a compromise to reform the rules on workers posted in another country. The principle of equal pay for equal work has been adopted but the transport sector will get special treatment.
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