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Soul of a Citizen: Vaclav Havel, Barack Obama, and Unforeseen Fruits
To keep the political hope to stay involved, it helps to remember that our actions can bear unforeseen fruits. Change comes, to be sure, when we shift governmental or corporate policies, elect better leaders, or create effective local alternatives that can serve as broader models. Despite the limits of the just-passed health care bill, and the need to improve it through further legislation, it's a major victory that over thirty million more Americans will now have health insurance, largely paid for through taxes on the wealthy. So concrete results matter, including the sometimes razor-thin elections that shifted the Senate and House from bodies dedicated to handing favors to a tiny elite, to ones at least beginning to pass legislation benefiting ordinary Americans.
But change also comes when we stir the hearts of previously disengaged citizens and help them take their own moral stands. We never know how the new-found involvement of those we engage will play out in the rest of their lives, but if we inspire enough people to take those first steps in speaking out for justice we can sometimes transform history.
I once went for a run in Fort Worth, Texas, in a grassy park along a riverbank. Coming upon a man shaking a tree, I hesitated, then stopped and asked, "What are you doing?"
"It's a pecan tree," he said. "If I shake it enough, the nuts will come down. I can't know exactly when they'll fall or how many. But the more I shake it, the more I'll get."
This seems an apt metaphor for social involvement. Often our efforts may yield few clear or immediate results. Our victories will almost always be partial, as the health care bill exemplifies. But we need to draw enough strength from our initial steps to help us persevere. "You have to begin with small groups," said Modjesca Simkins, a veteran South Carolina civil rights activist told me when she was eighty four. "But you reach the people who matter. They reach others. Like the Bible says, leaven in the lump, like yeast in the dough. It rises somewhere else. "
Under Czechoslovakia's Communist dictatorship, playwright (and, eventually, president) Vaclav Havel helped build the country's nascent democracy movement through such apparently futile actions as defending a Czech rock band, Plastic People of the Universe, when the authorities broke up their concerts with police raids and sentenced key members to prison. Unexpectedly, the defense committee Havel created to defend the band evolved into the country's key human rights and democracy group, Charter 77. Later Havel launched a petition, together with other writers and civic activists, to free a group of different political prisoners. Even though they were only asking the president to include the group in a Christmas amnesty, critics said that those who circulated the petition were being "exhibitionistic," dismissing their motives as nothing more than an attempt "to draw attention to themselves."
When Havel reflected on the incident seven years later, he acknowledged that they hadn't succeeded in freeing the prisoners at the time. But he still didn't think the critics were right. When the prisoners finally got out of jail, they said it had helped them to know that they weren't alone. This mattered because the movement needed their courageous voices. More importantly, for many of the people who signed the petition, it was their first step in standing up for their beliefs. And it wasn't their last. They went on to play dissident music, put on dissident plays, speak out in classrooms, preach from pulpits, and challenge the regime in a hundred different ways—until there were so many speaking out that the government couldn't put them all in jail. Eventually, they brought down the dictatorship without a shot being fired. Had Havel and the others not persevered with efforts that seemed initially fruitless, they'd never have built the movement that ultimately prevailed.
Havel's story reminds us that even in an apparently losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who may then go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Rosa Parks was part of a similar chain of inspiration. Her husband, a barber named Raymond Parks, co-founded the Montgomery NAACP. After Raymond and Rosa met and married, he convinced her to attend her first NAACP meeting, a key step on the path to her famed stand on the bus a dozen years later. But who first convinced Raymond Parks to speak out, at a time when progress was elusive? Although we'll probably never know, it almost certainly took a succession of people and conversations. The links in any chain of influence and inspiration are too numerous, too complex to trace them all. But they remind us that, by encouraging others to get involved, we can have a continuing impact through all of their future actions.
Barack Obama himself first became politically involved through exactly this process. It was during the campus anti-apartheid movement, when students at school after school pushed their administrations to divest from companies doing business in South Africa—an effort that Archbishop Desmond Tutu later credited as playing a critical role in securing his country's freedom. At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a former Green Beret and Vietnam Vet named Gary Chapman transferred in from a community college and created the Student Coalition Against Apartheid. The group held rallies and debates, showed documentaries, brought in speakers, circulated petitions, and marched on their local Bank of America branch. With the help of supportive professors, they even secured a unanimous faculty resolution to divest. But the college trustees—highly conservative Southern California business leaders—refused to go along.
Chapman had just graduated when Obama arrived at Occidental in the fall of 1979, and began working with the Student Coalition, which other students had kept going. Although Obama's role in the campaign was modest—he helped bring in touring speakers from the African National Congress, attended some organizing meetings, and spoke at a key rally—his involvement opened up a world in which he could connect his actions to his beliefs. Looking back, he credited this experience for laying the foundation for everything that followed, including his considering the vocation of community organizer. Had other students and faculty not taken the risk of standing up for what they believed—thus encouraging Obama's participation—he might never have started down the path that ultimately led to the presidency, and to all the possibilities that remain for it, and could still be realized if the rest of us become sufficiently involved.
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the popular imagination or enlist someone who goes on to do powerful work for justice. "Before water turns to ice," writes psychologist Joanna Macy, "it looks just the same as before. Then a few crystals form, and suddenly the whole system undergoes cataclysmic change." Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould developed a theory he calls "punctuated equilibrium." Rather than occurring at a steady pace, evolution proceeds in fits and starts, Gould argued. Long stretches of relative stasis are followed by brief periods of intense transformation, when many new species appear and others die out. Although attempts to improve social and economic conditions usually proceed incrementally, it is impossible to foretell precisely when any of our endeavors will reach critical mass, and bear unexpected fruits.
The chains of influence created by this stream of human courage almost always have humble beginnings. A few years ago I heard a talk by Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner. She described attending a small Catholic college in Atchison, Kansas, where she engaged in conversations about social justice that were critical to her transformation into a social activist. Both fellow students and faculty opened up new worlds to her. They got Maathai thinking about what needed to be done and what she could do.
After returning to Kenya to become the first East African woman to get her Ph.D. at the University of Nairobi, she founded the Green Belt Movement, which has planted 40 million trees in an effort to reduce soil erosion. She also challenged the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, demanding multi-party elections and an end to political corruption. The government imprisoned and violently attacked her, but a year after Maathai won the Peace Prize she was elected the first president of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council.
None of this would have happened, she said, were it not for the conversations with those who'd inspired her when she was in college. As I listened, I wondered what it would be like to have a young Wangari Maathai or Barack Obama sitting next to you, and discovering years later that you'd helped set them on their path.
Adapted from the wholly updated new edition of "Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times" by Paul Rogat Loeb (St Martin's Press, publication date April 5, 2010, $16.99 paperback). With over 100,000 copies in print, Soul has become a classic guide to involvement in social change. Howard Zinn calls it "wonderful…rich with specific experience." Alice Walker says, "The voices Loeb finds demonstrate that courage can be another name for love." Bill McKibben calls it "a powerful inspiration to citizens acting for environmental sanity."
Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times, whose wholly updated new edition will be released March 30, of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association, and of Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus. See www.soulofacitizen.org To receive his articles directly email sympa@lists.groundwire.org with the subject line: subscribe paulloeb-articles.
By Paul Rogat Loeb posted on March 27, 2010
About Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times, whose wholly updated new edition will be released March 30, of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association, and of Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus. See www.soulofacitizen.org To receive his articles directly email sympa@lists.groundwire.org with the subject line: subscribe paulloeb-articles.


Since Friday night, I've been doing nothing but painting and cleaning. I did manage to finally get my living room painted. Not a single orange wall remains. I need to take a big shopping trip tomorrow to accessorize the room, so I won't share what it looks like just yet.
I will tell you that we didn't take the paneling down. As the Mister was knocking on the paneling, we could hear the plaster behind it moving or falling or crumbling or who knows what! So, we decided to just leave well enough alone, knowing full well what we were going to find behind there. We ended up painting over it. Truthfully, I don't really mind, I think it looks 100% better painted.
The monster mirror over the fireplace is gone too. It was labeled 1948 on the back and let me tell you that sucker weighed a ton! Getting that thing down put me into a state of panic, I was in tears, literally. I think the Mister wanted to kill me. It was so massive and I kept thinking I would drop it, it would shatter, slice an artery, and one of us would bleed to death waiting for an ambulance to arrive. (I know, I sound like Dr. Doom, but that's just how my mind works.) The mirror measured 6 feet by 4 feet. With the mirror down, I feel as though my mantel is not quite as massive as it used to be. I'm hoping that's a good thing because it was always a challenge to decorate the massive mantel.
Oh my goodness, I can't wait to see the big reveal!! Your house looks spotless....wow, had to put on my sunglasses it was so bright!! Oh how I wish I could go shopping with you. Have fun.
Good shopping vibes are coming at ya! Looking good at your house...can't wait to see the accessorizes you pick up. Have a good week Girl!
Oh wow! Welcome to my world! I paint and clean year round! ( I have flea market booths with painted furniture! LOL! I am dying to see what you have done! Thank you so much for visiting my blog!
Ohhhhh I can't wait to see what you come up with!!~ Spring is so much fun!


Does anyone have any idea why the post crux bolt on Wavelength is missing its hanger??
It must have been removed on purpose.
OOH.... Now that is weird! is the nut still on it, or is just the stud sticking out? Were you able to put a wired nut on it?
No nut on it.I just bailed to lunch ledge.
I Talked to Sam about it.
I hope to put it back on this weekend.
I also can't see how it could have come unscrewed and fell off on it's own.
I got some extra hangers if you want to run up there with me sometime this week? Evening mission?
I bet it loosened during the winter. Once the nut is loose it all comes apart quickly.
Mother nature acts in mysterious ways.
Nice work Bob, thanks for the community service!
so I figured why not him give it a go and put that hanger on at the same time .


The old Soviet front World Federation of Democratic Youth has been organizing (usually) quadrennial international youth festivals since the 1940s.
The last three festivals were held in Venezuela (2005), Algeria (2001) and Cuba (1997).
The Seventeenth Festival is to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in December.
Here is Jesus Mora, Secretary-General of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, being interviewed for Telesur regarding the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students.
Unfortunately this is in Spanish, but the graphics are explicitly communist.
Thousands of youth and students from countries across the globe will convene in South Africa Dec. 13-21, to participate in the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students. The festival will take place in Johannesburg.
A U.S. preparatory committee and delegation is in formation.
Jordan Farrar, 27, is a leader with the Young Communist League USA from Baltimore and has been organizing youth in the U.S. to make the journey. The YCL is one of several groups expected to participate in the event. In the past, peace, civil rights, student and youth from the labor movement have participated.
He said he's super excited to attend the festival.
"The U.S. is perceived as carrying a lot of baggage, however this is our time as young people to show the world that we want change, peace and justice," he said.
"Despite the negative attention Obama might receive overseas these days we believe his administration is making small steps to really advance the lives of ordinary working people and youth. The new administration is laying stepping stones in the rights of working people here and abroad," said Farrar.
Farrar says there are currently about 30 young people signed up representing different states nationwide including several college campuses.
How much publicity will this delegation of potential future traitors, spies and Democratic Party congressmen receive from the MSM? Does the F.B.I. even know who these people are?
Maybe that won't be fast enough for these young radicals.


Sambalpur: Acting on a tip-off, the district police today arrested seven members of an inter-state dacoit gang while scheming to loot from a branch office of Manappuram Gold Loan located in Sambalpur town and seized five pistols from their possession.
Out of the seven arrested four were residents of Uttar Pradesh, two from Bihar and one of Punjab.
The Sambalpur SP added the police team reached near Kainsir canal following an information some people are roaming in the area. "When the suspected persons were frisked, weapons were found from their possession," Singh stated.
Notably, the member of the inter-state gang admitted to the Burla hospital was injured in a firing at Haladipali in Bargarh on January 18.


Schrade Needle Ultra Slim Discreet Boot Knife | BUDK.com - Knives & Swords At The Lowest Prices!
A boot knife is a necessity when it comes to discreet self defense, and when your safety - even your life - is on the the line, you need it to be top-of-the-line. That's where Schrade comes in with their Needle Boot Knife. This slender fixed blade boasts a 7 1/2" double edged, partially serrated black 7Cr17MoV high carbon stainless steel spear point blade with a blood groove. The black, textured TPE-wrapped handle includes a lanyard hole. A black leather sheath with a boot/belt clip is included.
I have been putting off buying the knife for a while. It's just what I wanted ??????
Okay , first off, love the real.leather sheath with a solid metal belt/boot clip and a pistol holster style ,thumb break snap as a retainer, length was impressive, you will need tall boots to hide this fella, great weight, balance, and feel ,altho I'm not a fan of the gritty texture of the blade coating. I take away a star because I've been collecting Shrades among others for many years and have never gotten a dull one till now, and I actually got two, the Shrade Walleye filet knife also arrived dull. After an hour or so rendering an edge, I now have the needle very sharp. Also, altho this is a dagger for close combat and not meant as a thrower, the balance is good and since I have several years experience, I am able to stick this knife in a 16" inch target at 20 paces , 8 out of 10 throws and for those non throwers out there, that's pretty damn good for any knife. Overall, disappointed at the edge it didn't have, but after sharpening, not at all regretting the addition. Good knife.
Schrades are always tough blades, no exception here. Handle IS a bit slim for larger-handed folk, but easily fixed in a myriad of ways, but you'll most likely learn to love it....afterall, it is meant to be discreet-and it is. Such a monster blade so easily concealed, and no hassle at all to carry because it weighs nothing. Be careful, mine came razor sharp, and the serrations are NASTY and unforgiving. EDC all day..no joke.
I received the knife today and am pleased with it, I own a second Schrade Dagger and was pleased with it so well I wanted this one to. The handle is lean I'm ok with it you like it more each time you handle it! A very military tactical tough looking dagger.
This was a good looking knife with great craftsmanship throughout knife and sheath which I expected form Schrade. It's thin enough to hide in jeans or boot and will definitely be my new everyday carry. Note, guys with big hands might not like the thin handle on this knife.


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1928 Peerless Boattail Coupe - Significant Cars, Inc.
Established in Cleveland in 1900 at 43 Lisbon Street, Peerless Motors began producing De Dion-Bouton "machines" under license from the French Company. Engineer Louis P. Mooers designed the first Peerless models, as well as several proprietary engines. The first Peerless-branded vehicles appeared in 1902, with a front-mounted engine driving the rear wheels through a shaft. In 1904, Mooers penned the Green Dragon racecar and enlisted Barney Oldfield to drive it. The Green Dragon brought notability and success to Peerless, as Oldfield used it to set a number of early world automobile speed records.
In 1905, the 35-horsepower Green Dragon, competed in the world's first 24-hour endurance race in Columbus, Ohio. Piloted by Earnest Bollinger, Aurther Feasel, and briefly by Barney Oldfield, the Peerless led the race for the first hour before crashing into a fence, later finishing in 3rd place. From 1905-1907, Peerless experienced a rapid expansion in size and production volume.] As the Peerless namesake grew in fame, the company began producing increasingly higher-priced models with a focus on luxury. Notable customers included Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller. In 1911, Peerless was one of the first car companies to introduce electric lighting on their vehicles, with electric starters added in 1913. In 1915, the firm introduced its first V8 engine, intending to compete with the Cadillac V8 introduced a year earlier. This model became Peerless' staple production vehicle until 1925, when engines produced by other manufacturers were first used in Peerless models.
One of the "Three Ps"-Packard, Peerless, and Pierce-Arrow-Peerless was known for building high-quality, luxury automobiles.Peerless popularized a number of vehicle innovations that later became standard equipment, including drum brakes and the first enclosed-body production cars.
This very rare Boattial Coupe can best be described as a stalled project. Extensive work has already been undertaken including complete chassis restoration and mechanical rebuild including a completely rebuilt drivetrain, painting of Chassis in a catalogue color using Enron paint, wheel restoration and new tires, complete body wood restoration, extensive sheet metal work- this car is ready to paint with minor work. The engine has been test run. The car is complete with everything needed to finish the car.
This is a very rare and possibly unqiue car that will be a standout at any show once completed. All the heavy lifitng has been done so to speak making this an easy project to complete.


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Apple Stock Is Rallying on a Report iPhone Demand Is Stronger Than Expected
Eric J. Savitz
Updated Dec. 15, 2020 5:39 pm ET / Original Dec. 15, 2020 11:18 am ET
Apple shares were higher on Tuesday following a report that the company is increasing production of its 5G iPhones amid surging demand.
Nikkei Asia reported that Apple (ticker: AAPL) plans to produce 95 million to 96 million iPhones in the first half of 2021f, a nearly 30% increase from a year earlier. The target includes the new iPhone 12 line as well as older iPhone 11 and iPhone SE models.
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Trevor Robbins
Trevor has been Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge from 1997. He was also Professor of Expt. Psychology and Head of the Dept. of Psychology from 2002-2017. He has been based in Cambridge for most of his scientific career, receiving his PhD there in 1975. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (1990), the British Pharmacological Society (2017) the Academy of Medical Sciences (2000), and the Royal Society (2005), the most prestigious science society in the U.K. He has published over 800 full papers, with an H index of about 179. He has co-edited eight books, most recently Translational Neuropsychopharmacology (Springer, 2016)). He edits Psychopharmacology (since 1980) and Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences and is an editorial advisor for Science.
Trevor directs the 'Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute' (BCNI) (founded in 2005 with funding from the MRC and Wellcome Trust) the mission of which is to enhance translation from basic to clinical neuroscience with particular reference to impulsive-compulsive disorders including drug addiction. His interest in translation began with his co-invention in 1987 of the CANTAB computerized neuropsychological battery, which is currently used in over 700 institutes and clinical centres world-wide.
Among several prizes, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for 2011 from the American Psychological Association. He was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours list of the U.K. in 2012 "for services to medical research". In 2014 he shared the 'Brain Prize' of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, the most valuable in neuroscience, for his work on human mental disorders. In 2015 he received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the British Association for Psychopharmacology'. In 2016, he received the Robert Sommer Award for research into schizophrenia. In 2017 received the Gold Medal of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (USA) for work on cortico-striatal systems and their modulation, and, most recently, the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Award for outstanding research in Cognitive Neuroscience.


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Q: template template function definition I have a template class called Array
template<typename T, int dimension>
class Array<typename T, int dimension>{

    //definition of the class

}

I want to write a non-member function cast such that I can cast Array into different type. For example
Array<int, 2> a;
Array<float, 2> b = cast<float>(a);

How should I write this function? I am more interested in how to declare it instead of how to implement the detailed casting. I have tried
template<template<typename T, int dimension> class Array, typename New_T, int dimension>
Array<typename New_T, int dimension> cast(Array<typename T, int dimension> a){

// detailed implementation of casting, which I do not care for this question.

}

but it cannot pass the compilation.

A: You don't need template template parameters at all here.  Simple typename and int parameters will do:
template <typename T, int dimension>
class Array
{
    // ...
};

template <typename NewT, typename T, int dimension>
Array<NewT, dimension> cast(const Array<T, dimension>& a)
{
    // ...
}

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You only need template template parameters when you want to accept different types of templates.  For instance, if you wanted cast to be able to accept an Array or a std::array, you could use a template template parameter:
template<typename NewT, typename T, auto dimension, template<typename, auto> typename ArrayT>
ArrayT<NewT, dimension> cast(const ArrayT<T, dimension>& a)
{
    // ...
}

Live Demo
Note in this case I also changed the type of dimension to auto since std::array uses a size_t for its dimension while your Array uses int.

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How should I write this function? I am more interested in how to define it instead of how to implement the detailed casting.

I suppose something like
template <typename ToT, typename FromT, int Dim>
Array<ToT, Dim> cast (Array<FromT, Dim> const & inA)
 {
   // ...
 }

It's useful place ToT (to-type) in first position so you can explicit it and let FromT and Dim deduced from the inA value.
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The OP asks

Any insight why I have to put it [ToT] in the first position?

You don't necessarily have to put ToT in first position. But this simplify your life.
The point is that FromT and Dim are deducible from the inA argument; ToT isn't deducible from arguments so you have to explicit it.
But if you want to explicit a template parameter, you necessarily have to explicit the preceding parameters. So if you put ToT in last position, you have to call cast() explicating all template parameters
cast<int, 2, float>(a);

If you place ToT in first position, you have to explicit only it and leave the compiler deduce FromT and Dim from the argument
cast<float>(a);

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Marino Stephano (* 1974 in Morlanwelz als Stéphane Marino; † 8. September 1999 in Antwerpen) war ein belgischer Trance-DJ und -Produzent.

Leben und Werk
Seine musikalische Tätigkeit begann 1995. Aufgrund seines individuellen Stils erlangte das belgische DJ-Talent schnell Bekanntheit. Sein bekanntester Track dürfte Dream Universe (Marino-S-Pace Mix) sein, unter dem Alias C.M (Crystal Manoeuvres), in Zusammenarbeit mit seinem Cousin Crisci Mauro.

Marino Stephano starb aufgrund eines Autounfalls, auf dem Weg zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit dem bekannten belgischen Musikproduzenten Mike Dierickx. Daraufhin widmete ihm Mike Dierickx (alias Push) den Track Till We Meet Again. Auch nach seinem Tod coverten viele Künstler seine Lieder.

Trivia
 Er gilt als Vorbild von DJ Toyax, der Stephano mit dem Track Never (Rest In Peace Stéphane Mix) würdigt.

Diskografie
 Vol. II, 1996
 DJ Kalpa & Marino Stephano – Don't Stop, 1996
 Downhill, 1996
 Eternal Rhapsody, 1997
 But You 1997
 Angel Of Love / Appocalyp's, 1997
 DJ George's & Marino Stephano – That's The Break, 1997
 Vision Control, 1998
 The Mackenzie Feat. Marino Stephano – Short Circuit / Up And Down, 1998
 DJ George's & Marino Stephano – Happy Love, 1998
 The Mackenzie Feat. Marino Stephano – The DJ, 1998
 Feel's, 1998
 Free Time, 1999
 No Respect, 1999

Weblinks

 Marino Stephano bei Fog Area

Einzelnachweise

DJ
Trance-Produzent
Musiker (Belgien)
Belgier
Geboren 1974
Gestorben 1999
Mann

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One thing I have to give the designers of this game, is that their concept art is always top notch.
Especially with say the High Elves or the Dark Elves, I'm not the biggest Elf fan on the planet, but they've really excelled with these two.
I think my favourite piece of concept art to date is the Mastiff though, I think it's just quite odd to be seeing images of Hellhounds, Dragons, Giant Spiders and whatnot... and theres this dog.
That encompasses what will be great about this game for me, is the humour.


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Moroney imports impress in Sandown wins
Trainer Mike Moroney admits Mr Marathon Man and Buffalo River are still works in progress but he has loftier ambitions for the pair after they raced to strong wins at Sandown.
Five-year-old Mr Marathon Man, a Listed winner in France, notched his first Australian victory at his third local appearance in Saturday's Ladbrokes Back Yourself Handicap (1600m).
Three-year-old Buffalo River then made it two wins from as many Australian starts in the Ladbrokes Multiverse Handicap (1600m).
Under the urgings of champion jockey Damien Oliver, Mr Marathon Man ($11) chased down favourite Waging War in the soft conditions to score by a nose and Moroney plans to race the import sparingly through winter in a bid to get him to the spring carnival.
"We think he is Group class," Moroney said.
"It's just a matter of where he does fit in.
"We knew he had ability but it's just been hard to get him to do things right.
"His real form is at 1800 to 2000 metres so we're hoping to get him there."
The Listed Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) at Flemington on July 6 looms as Mr Marathon Man's likely next start.
His victory on Saturday was the middle leg of a winning treble for champion jockey Damien Oliver who also won on Buffalo River and the Patrick Payne-trained Street Sheik.
Buffalo River, who won one of his four starts in England when trained by John Gosden, scored a frontrunning win in a benchmark 70 at Ballarat last month in his Australian debut.
The $1.95 favourite was able to take a trail behind Asgard Massif before taking over in the straight and drawing clear to beat him by 3-1/2 lengths, with Our Campana another three lengths away third.
"I thought it was a really good win today," Moroney said.
"I'll just have to have a think about where to go with him now because he impressed me today.
"Both our two winners were really good efforts."
John Allen, meanwhile, was suspended for 10 meetings for weighing in 1kg over on El Vincitore, who finished second to Tysonic in Saturday's sixth race.
Allen already has two careless riding suspensions to serve – incurred at Doomben and Pakenham – meaning he will be out of the saddle from after Sunday until July 19.


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Former Notre Dame Star Skylar Diggins Signs w/ Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports
Former Notre Dame star, the third pick in the WNBA draft, and Lil Wayne's favorite woman basketball player, Skylar Diggins has signed on with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports.
The 5'10 point guard made the news official by tweeting a photo posted to her Instagram account:
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Concerned about wind turbines on ridgelines or chloramine in your water supply?
If so, chances are you've heard of Annette Smith, the no-nonsense director of the grassroots organization Vermonters for a Clean Environment. Smith has made a name for herself advocating on behalf of local communities fighting unwanted development, and now her supporters hope that Smith's name recognition will come in handy in an upstart write-in campaign in the August 28 primaries. They're urging Vermonters to vote for Annette Smith of Danby as the Progressive Party's candidate for governor — not so much because they love Smith as because they hate the other guy.
Why the disdain for Gov. Peter Shumlin? Kaplan says she and her cohort are fed up with Shumlin's "cozy" relationship with big corporations in Vermont, singling out his support for wind developments, the F-35 beddown, smart meters and the Green Mountain Power/CVPS merger as particular points of concern.
Party chair Martha Abbott of Underhill has the Progs' formal endorsement, which she won at the quarterly state committee meeting last weekend. But Morgan Daybell, the executive director of the Progressive Party, isn't complaining about the write-in campaign — far from it.
"It's nice to have a contested primary because it gives people a reason to vote in our primary," says Daybell.
The plan arose first as a way to voice dissatisfaction with Shumlin — and Smith, Kaplan says, seemed like a natural person to nominate in the process. "She really would make a great governor," Kaplan says, though she admits the write-in campaign is more about jumpstarting a discussion than running in earnest.


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30-1 MLB countdown #15 Colorado Rockies
The 2011 Colorado Rockies looked like a team poised to contend. Injuries and disappointing play led the team to their 73-89 record. It also led to a huge turnover in players, as C Chris Iannetta, 2B Mark Ellis, OF Seth Smith, 3B Ian Stewart, INF Ty Wigginton, OF Ryan Spilborghs, RHP Jason Hammel, RHP Huston Street, RHP Aaron Cook and RHP Matt Lindstrom are all gone off of last season's roster. The newly shaped team looks like it can contend, as long as some of the young starting pitching can make an impact this season.
The trade last season of Ubalbo Jiminez could have signified the beginning of a rebuilding phase in Colorado. But, the team has seemed to retool itself well for this season. Offensively, they added Michael Cuddyer from the Twins, Casey Blake from the Dodgers, Marco Scutaro from the Red Sox and Ramon Hernandez from the Reds to give the lineup a different look. They are hoping new pitching acquisitions Jeremy Guthrie, Guillermo Moscoso, Tyler Chatwood, Josh Outman and even Jamie Moyer can blend in with their young starting pitchers. They may need one or two of them to pitch in relief, as the relief core is kind of thin.
CF Dexter Fowler needs to cut down on the strikeouts (130 in 2011) and get on base more, utilizing his speed. Scutaro (.299, 7, 54) should thrive in Coors Field and without the Boston media. Carlos Gonzalez (.295, 26, 92), Troy Tulowitzki (.302, 30, 105) and Cuddyer (.284, 20, 70) should give them a middle of the order to be wrecking with. Veteran Todd Helton (.302, 14, 69), Blake and Hernandez (.282, 12, 36) round out the batting order for the Rockies. Blake played in just 68 games for the Dodgers last season after hitting .248, 17, 64 for them in 2010. Tyler Colvin comes over from the Cubs in a trade for Ian Stewart. Both of whom had 2011 seasons to forget. Jason Giambi continues to be a threat off the bench. Charlie Blackmon, Eric Young, Jr and top catching prospect Wilin Rosario lead a strong bench.
The starting pitching staff is deep, if not strong. Jeremy Guthrie (9-17, 4.33) leads the staff followed by top pitching prospects Drew Pomeranz and Alex White. They made just 4 and 7 starts last season, respectively, but will have a huge impact on the rotation. Jhoulys Chacin (11-14, 3.62) has the number four spot. The last spot will go down to Guillermo Moscoso (8-10, 3.38), Josh Outman (3-5, 3.70), both of whom were acquired in the Seth Smith trade with Oakland, and Tyler Chatwood (6-11, 4.75) and 49 year old Jamie Moyer, who is coming back from Tommy John surgery. Both Outman and Chatwood could relieve, as bullpen is tight.
With Street and Lindstrom gone, Rafael Betancourt (2-0, 3.00 in 68 games) is the closer with Matt Belisle (10-4, 3.25 in 74 games) is the primary set-up man. Esmil Rogers, who was a starter last season, will have a role in the pen and LHP Matt Reynolds (1-2, 4.09 in 73 games) is their best option from the left side. In addition in using some starters as relievers, they may flip a starter or two to get some bullpen help.
I think the Rockies will surprise some people. I am not sold on Jim Tracy as the manager, but they should be able to score enough runs to compete in the NL West. Three NLW teams are better than them, at this point, but they should be in the race. Vegas gives them an 81 for the O/U. I say over, but slightly at 83-79, fourth place in the NL West. If Pomeranz and White have big rookie seasons, this team could be the Arizona Diamondbacks of last season and take the division. I just don't think the rotation is deep enough at this point.


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SMWOA Shining Mountain West Owner's Association
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Shining Mountains West
Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions
Lots 1 to 125 Inclusive
KNOWN ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That the Shining Mountains West, a limited partnership, herein after sometimes called the declarant, is the owner of that certain property described as the Shining Mountains West, Certificates of Survey as shown on the plat thereof recorded in the records of Madison County, Montana in Book 7 of Surveys page 291, Book 7 of Surveys page 292, Book 7 of Surveys page 293 and Book 7 of Surveys page 308.
It is the intention of the declarant to sell, dispose of and convey tracts as set forth and delineated in such plat and to subject all of said lands and the tracts comprising said lands to protective covenants, conditions, restrictions and reservations to run with the land and be binding upon the present and all successive owners of said real property.
Now, THEREFORE, declarant does hereby, for the mutual benefit of all tracts now comprising said lands, establish covenants upon said lands binding each of the owners thereof and their successors and assigns as follows:
1. The lands shall be used for residential purposes only. No building erected on said lands shall be erected nearer than 30 feet to any boundary along a roadway or nearer than 25 feet to any other boundary line of the tracts. For the purposes of this covenant, eaves, steps, open porches and car ports shall be considered as part of a building. There is reserved for any and all owners in the subdivision an easement 10 foot on either side of all boundary lines within the subdivision and along all boundary lines into which the tracts concerned may be re-subdivided. Said utility easement shall be for water, sewer, gas, electric and telephone lines and practical adjustment of roadways.
2. Declarant has caused or will cause a non-profit corporation to be formed as the Shining Mountains West Owner's Association for the purpose of administering the rights granted hereinafter follwoing assignment of said rights to it in accordance herewith. Said Owner's Association shall have a membership consisting of one (1) membership right per tract sold according to the plat above referred to and on file and shall acquire the powers of the declarant and the powers hereinafter listed at such time as fifty-one percent (51%) of the tracts in the subdivision have been sold or by January 1, 1987, whichever shall first occur. Said Association shall have the right to make assessments against the real property within the subdivision not to exceed $100.00 per year for each tract as may be determined by its Boad of Directors. In case of failure to pay assessments when duly notified, the Board of Directors shall have the power to file a lien in the form of a mechanics and materialmans lien in the records of Madison County, Montana for the amount of the delinquent assessment and to enforce the same upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights as are granted to a claimant under a mechanics or materialmans lien. Assessments shall be deemed to be for the purpose of improvement of the premises by the member delinquent in payment of the same. Said claim of lien may be filed within 90 days after the first day of January following delinquency in payment of assessment. Said assessement may be raised by agreement of sixty percent (60%) of the members of the Association where notice of said increase shall be duly given thirty (30) days prior to said meeting.
3. Said Owner's Association shall have the power and authority to construct, acquire and maintain roadways, lanes and other improvements for access to provide for security of the premises, to administer, use, employ, lease, maintain and operate the water rights appurtenant to said lands as a whole for beneficial uses for the entire subdivision. To build, maintain and construct livestock fencing around the perimeter of the property.
4. Plans of all structures and other types of housing that are to be built or placed on the parcels, including exterior lighting, must be approved by the General Partner of the declarant until such times as said power is assigned to the Owenr's Association established as herein above set forth. The exteriors of all structures erected shall be of wood or stone or any other material of a natural wood or stained or earth toned appearance. All structures erected shall have wood shingle or brown composition roofing. This covenant shall exclude building in existence at the time of execution of these covenants.
5. It shall be the responsibility of each owner of a tract to fence out livestock on neighboring tracts or roadways by a legal fence. Until such fence is completed by the owner, the declarant of the Owner's Association when it becomes vested with the powers provided for herein, shall have the right to lease now fenced areas for pasture or hay purposes without, however, farming the same.
6. No trailer, mobile home, camper or comparable recreation vehicle or other form of camping accomodation shall be placed up the premises in other than a temporary manner. Such facilities, when applicable, shall retain a status as vehicles and must be duly licensed as such and shall not be permitted to remain unoccupied on the premise in excess of thirty (30) days in any one year unless housed in an approved structure.
7. Once construction shall have been intiated on any structure, including walls, fences, residence, ancillary buildings or other structure, construction of that particular stucture, wall, fence, residence, ancillary building or other structure shall be completed within one (1) year of the time such construction was initiated. Such time periods may be extended under unusual circumstances at the discretion and with the written approval of Shining Mountains West Owner's Association or declarant.
8. Said lands shall not be occupied or used for any noxious or offensive activities and nothing shall be done or permitted to be done on said lands which is a nuisance or might become a nuisance to the owner or other owners of any of the surrounding lands, including the disposal of trash.
9. All zoning and other laws including sanitary water and sewage disposal restrictions, rules and regulations of any government under whose jurisdiction said land lies are considered to be a part and enforceable hereunder and all owners of said lands shall be bound by such laws, rules and regulations.
10. All owners are bound by each and all easements, including canal or ditch easements, if any, and rights of way of record or in existence.
11. Declarant reserves unto itself all metals, minerals and all pertoleum, natural gas and hydro-carbon in or under said land.
12. No property conveyed shall consist of less than five plus (5 plus) acres and no property so sold shall subsequently be subdivided into tracts of less than five plus (5 plus) acres.
13. Enforcement of these covenants may be brought about by any owner of lands subject to these covenants or the Owner's Association heretofore mentioned and may be by proceedings at law or in equity to recover damages or enjoin or restrain violations or both against any person violating any covenant herein set forth.
SHINING MOUNTAINS WEST, a limited partnership
By General Partner (signed by Nick Mallas)
Signature Notarized on August 31, 1979
Covenants Filed for Record on the 1st day of October A.D., 1979 at 3:30 p.m., and recorded in Book 265 of RECORDS on Page 416-419, Records of Madison Coutny, Montana.
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We have been very fortunate over the years in receiving bequests for the benefit of St. Winefride's church and parish.
Most people do not know that the official recipient of such bequests is the Diocese, which then makes these funds available for administration by the named parish or priest.
Below is a suggested form of wording for those willing any part of their estate to the Church.
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Robert De Niro's Best: From upcoming The Intern to Raging Bull
By Sara Nicole Whitman
Did you think internships were just for young adults? Robert De Niro is about to prove that anyone can successfully hold a gig that many college students seek before they graduate in The Intern.
De Niro plays a 70-year-older widower who wants to put himself out there and seizes the opportunity to be a senior intern at an online fashion website. He quickly wins the approval of his younger co-workers and forms a special bond with the website's founder (Anne Hathaway).
This is not the first time De Niro has graced the comedic stage, of course. Also, this is not the first time I have been excited about a Robert De Niro film. To celebrate his upcoming release, I have compiled a list of his best movies.
1. Raging Bull (1980)
In this film, De Niro plays true life middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta, who works his way to winning a title match while also dealing with his insecure and self destructive nature. His emotions of anger, hatred and sadness are intense as he controls his uncontrollable character beautifully.
2. Hide and Seek (2005)
I was speechless after I saw this movie—and quite disturbed. De Niro plays a psychologist who takes his daughter away from NYC to a house in the country for a fresh start after her mother and his wife committed suicide. The girl becomes entangled in an alarming game of hide and seek with her imaginary friend Charlie. However, De Niro proves that not all imaginary friends are imaginary.
3. Meet the Parents (2000)
De Niro basically plays the nightmare father-in-law in this film (so let's hope that real-life father-in-laws take some hints of what not to do). His self assurance and tough-guy personality give this movie a sense of humor and may even cause people to like his paranoid character.
4. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
De Niro uses his blazing passion to portray a person struggling with maniac depression as he also confronts the views that Baby Boomers hold on mental health. Hs performance is emotional and genuine.
5. The King of Comedy (1982)
I find the whole plot of this movie simply hilarious. De Niro plays a comedian desperate to have his own talk show and ends up kidnapping his idol. De Niro offers his release if he gets to have a guest spot on his popular talk show. Desperate times calls for desperate measures, right?
Just like the above movies, Robert De Niro will be sure to please in The Intern, which debuts on September 25, 2015.
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A Batalha de Brunanburh foi um confronto em 937 entre o exército do Reino de Wessex, liderado pelo rei Etelstano de Inglaterra e pelo seu irmão Edmundo, contra uma coligação formada por Olaf III Guthfrithson, monarca hiberno-nórdico (nórdico-gaélico) do Reino de Dublim dos viquingues, Constantino II da Escócia e Owen I de Strathclyde. O confronto culminou numa decisiva vitória anglo-saxónica.

Em algumas fontes menciona-se também a participação de mercenários irlandeses, galeses e córnicos. Porém, a presença de galeses na batalha é refutada pela maioria dos historiadores pois só se menciona na Saga de Egil Skallagrimson, pese a existência de uma aliança dos hiberno-nórdicos do Reino de Dublin e galeses, chamada «Kymry a gwyr Dulyn» (ou os galeses e os homens de Dublin).

A data precisa da batalha tem suscitado controvérsia. Sharon Turner considera que teve lugar em 934, embora mencione o facto de que um dos manuscritos da Crónica Anglo-saxónica dá como data 937. Por seu lado, Worsaae no seu Danes and Norwegians in England indica 937, tal como o Dr. Freeman no seu Old English History. Finalmente, a Crónica de Etelvardo de Wessex (meio-irmão do rei Etelstano) propõe 939.

Cinco reis e sete jarls viquingues caíram na sangrenta batalha. Alfrico e Atelvino, dois primos de Etelstano, e um destacado bispo saxão foram também mortos. Algumas fontes afirmam que os saxões lançaram uma carga de cavalaria, contradizendo a crença popular de que os antigos ingleses lutavam só com exércitos de infantaria. A cavalaria era relativamente insignificante dentro das forças saxónicas e possivelmente eram mercenários procedentes de outros reinos. Não obstante, a crónica anglo-saxónica não os menciona, embora o uso de cavalos nas guerras anglo-saxónicas esteja bem confirmado. Uma referência anterior da vida de São Wilfrido, escrita por volta de 720, menciona o 'exército montado' (equitatus excercitus) de Egfrido da Nortúmbria.

Esta batalha é uma das mais importantes na história britânica, já que a vitória de Etelstano sobre a coligação entre nórdicos e celtas, confirmou a unidade da Inglaterra como reino anglo-saxão. No entanto, Wessex ficou debilitado militarmente, o que permitiu a todos os reinos das ilhas consolidar-se nos territórios que ocupam até à atualidade.

Bibliografia

Fontes primárias

Fontes secundárias
 An Oxford History of England. Volume 2: Anglo Saxon England.
 Hardwick, Charles. Ancient Battle-fields in Lancashire. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Stationers' Hall Court, 1882.
 Marren, Peter. Battles of the Dark Ages. Bamsley: Pen and Sword, 2006.

Ligações externas
 Texto do poema "Battle of Brunanburh", incluindo versão anglo-saxónica, trad. inglês moderno e versião de Tennyson
 BBC "Cuerdale Hoard"
 British Museum Cuerdale collection
 The Cuerdale Hoard
 The Battle of Brunanburgh
 Documentário de C Bebenezer sobre tradições e a possível localização do campo de batalha

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Século X na Escócia
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Sir Graham Brady MP
Sir Graham Brady was elected MP for Altrincham and Sale West in 1997, becoming the youngest Conservative MP.
Sir Graham was born in Salford in 1967. He was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and Durham University where he studied law. Prior to his election in 1997 when he became the youngest Conservative MP at that time, he was Public Affairs Director of the Waterfront Partnership. He had previously worked at the Centre for Policy Studies and Shandwick Plc. Graham is married to Victoria whom he met at university and they have a daughter and a son.
Educated locally himself at Heyes lane and then Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Graham is a strong supporter of Altrincham and Sale's excellent schools to which he is a regular visitor.
Sir Graham is a Vice-President of Greater Altrincham Chamber of Commerce and a Vice Patron of Friends of Rosie, a charity raising funds for research into childhood cancers. He is an active supporter of several local charities.
Graham enjoys gardening but likes to spend as much spare time as possible with his children.
Sir Graham Brady's Experience
In November 2003, Graham was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition. From September 2004 to May 2007, he was Shadow Minister for Europe.
From 2001 to 2003, he was Shadow Minister for Schools. In the previous Parliament he was opposition spokesman on Employment, following periods as a Whip and as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Chairman of the Conservative Party, the Rt Hon Michael Ancram.
Prior to his promotion to the front bench, Graham was an active back bencher serving on the Education and Employment Select Committee as well as the Conservative Party's 1922 Executive Committee.
Sir Graham first became involved with the Conservative party when, aged 16, he joined the campaign to save the local grammar schools. He was Chairman of Durham University Conservative Association (1987-1988); Chairman of Northern Area Conservative Students (1987-1989); a member of the Conservative Party's National Union Executive Committee (1988-1989); Vice-Chairman of East Berkshire Conservative Association (1993-1995).
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