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Do you know who Colonel Harland David Sanders was?
I'll give you a few hints…white suit, string tie, white goatee, southern charm, and the originator of a secret blend of eleven herbs and spices. Ah, you've got it now—the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, now known as KFC. But did you know that he was more than just a KFC marketing icon?
While you may recognize the Colonel as a real person, more than half of a surveyed group of 18 to 25 year olds believe Colonel Sanders was a figure created by Madison Avenue marketers to represent KFC. They did not know he actually founded the company, and the white suit was not a costume, but his daily garb until he died in 1980.
Does this really matter? Perhaps not much. However, what does matter is that this is another example of the blurring between fact and fiction.
It happens time and again. What some know to be fiction, others believe to be fact. What some know to be fact, others believe to be fiction. Three literary examples spring to mind.
The first is The Da Vinci Code, a novel written by Dan Brown. The bestseller has sold more than 80 million copies and has been translated into 44 languages. It also helped to revive debate over the possibility of an intimate relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene – a relationship that has no basis in historical fact. Yet many people read this novel – a work of fiction – as true.
The second example is another popular novel, this one written by William P. Young, entitled The Shack. In it, the main character encounters the triune God in the form of an African-American woman, a male carpenter, and an Asian woman. Some Christian readers castigate it for being irreverent in its manifestation of the nature of God. Others praise it for blessing their relationship with the Lord. Trouble can occur, however, when readers mistake fiction for truth as they determine their beliefs about who God is.
The third example is the Bible. For many, the Bible presents the opposite problem. People read the truth of the Bible, and dismiss it as fiction – ancient fairy tales created for simple minds in a simpler time. But the Bible is non-fiction. Its words are true and relevant to us today.
What about those who don't believe the Bible is God's Word? How do we address those who say that, at best, the Bible is filled with historical and scientific inaccuracies? That's easy.
Archeological discoveries have repeatedly verified the historical accuracy of the Bible. Such finds have included the advanced civilization of Ur in Abraham's day (Genesis 12), the collapse of Jericho's walls (Joshua 6), and the power and influence of the Hittite nation mentioned throughout the Old Testament, but unknown in modern history until 19th century discoveries.
When it comes to science, no teaching in the Bible violates scientific laws. In fact, 2000 years before Christ, Job noted that the earth hung suspended in space (Job 26:7), while his contemporaries in other cultures claimed the earth rested on pillars or on Atlas, who carried the earth on his back. In the area of biology, scientists now know that four distinguishable cell structures support four kinds of flesh, while Paul clearly stated this fact in his letter to the early Corinthian church (I Corinthians 15:39). Any supposed discrepancies between science and the Bible occur when unproven scientific theory is claimed to be fact.
Finally, the Bible has been proven trustworthy in its prophecies. From Ezekiel's description of Tyre's destruction to Daniel's visions of succeeding empires to the prophecies of Christ's life and death, the Bible has shown itself to be reliable – without exception.
People may be confused about other books, but there is no reason to be confused about the Bible. It is non-fiction: true, reliable, trustworthy, and relevant. As writers and teachers, we need to be sure of this for ourselves before we try to influence others.
What book(s) have you read that seem to blur the line between fact and fiction?
How do you determine the truth about what you read?
All my life I've heard people say money cannot buy happiness.
Two professors at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs set out to determine whether the saying is true. They analyzed 450,000 survey responses to learn if money can, indeed, buy happiness.
The research report defined "emotional well-being" as the emotional qualities of everyday experience, and "life evaluation" as the thoughts people have about their life. The study indicated that income and education are closely related to life evaluation, but factors such as health and loneliness are more strongly related to daily emotions.
The researchers determined that emotional well-being was related to income, but the level of happiness did not increase beyond an annual income of $75,000. They concluded that "high income buys life satisfaction but not happiness, and that low income is associated both with low life evaluation and low emotional well-being." It seems that money can buy a type of happiness that involves satisfaction, but not necessarily pleasant emotions.
Even if money could buy happiness, is happiness what we really want?
The answer to this question seems like an obvious yes. Who doesn't want to be happy? Certainly not me. And yet…if my happiness is dependent on my circumstances, what does that say about me? That my well-being hangs on temporary and shifting circumstances? That my happiness is controlled by the consequences of events and the influences of people who may not care about me or even know me? It's a rollercoaster way of life. I know, I've tried living that way, and it's no party!
If my emotional well-being is going to depend on anything, I want it to depend on something that won't capriciously shift or on someone who is always faithful, dependable, and trustworthy.
Joy is what I'm after. The joy of knowing to whom I belong. The God of the universe calls me His child, and welcomes me to call Him Father. The joy of knowing He is sovereign. As Kay Arthur is fond of saying, nothing touches my life that hasn't first been filtered through His fingers of love. This doesn't mean I won't have problems. Trust me, I've had my share, and then some! But it does mean I can rest in the knowledge that what God allows in my life is for His glory and my ultimate and eternal good.
Money may or may not buy happiness, but Jesus Christ has purchased my joy. It's this joy that motivates me to teach and to write so others might have it as well.
What or who is your source of happiness?
What or who is your source of joy?
Remembering has been getting more difficult these days. Last week I spent twenty minutes looking for my car keys, only to find them on the drivers' seat of my car. I'm constantly on the hunt for my eyeglasses, only to locate them…yup, on top of my head. Embarrassing admissions that I chalk up to "senior moments" – except I'm not a "senior"…yet.
Remembering is important. The people and experiences we remember contribute to who we are…and who we are becoming. Remembering enables us to learn from our mistakes. Philosopher George Santayana noted, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Remembering also motivates us to do better. "Remember the Alamo" was the rallying cry for the Texan freedom forces following Mexico's defeat of Colonel Travis' army.
This week Americans are remembering something else. Saturday is September 11th—9/11—the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks responsible for the deaths of nearly 2800 people in New York City.
But what should this remembering lead to? Do we remember so that we can "give back as good as we get"? Do we remember in order to stoke hatred for others? Is remembering about keeping score, burning copies of the Qur'an (as is being planned by a pastor in Florida), or deciding whether Muslims can build a mosque (the controversy raging in New York)?
Before I continue, it may help to point out that the Bible clearly defines different roles for individuals and for governments. It is the government's responsibility to keep its citizens safe (Romans 13:1-4). However, as individuals we are called to walk in humility and forgiveness and to love our enemy (Luke 6:27-28). Granted, when we read verses such as these, it's much easier to support them in theory than it is to apply them to those who have hurt or betrayed us, or who openly espouse our destruction.
Like us, the prop het Jonah struggled with the delicate balance between national defense and individual forgiveness. The ancient kingdom of Israel had to be on her guard against Assyria, a cruel enemy. Yet it was to this same enemy that God called Jonah to preach a message of repentance. Of course, Jonah did not want to go. He responded as many of us do when God calls us to do the hard thing—he ran in the opposite direction. The Assyrians deserved judgment, not forgiveness! When they repented in response to Jonah's message, God chose not to bring judgment. Rather than being happy with the success of his mission, Jonah became angry with God (Jonah 4:1-2).
God is certainly not calling us to be foolish or naïve. Precautions must be taken for our safety and defense, and we rely on our government to do so. Of course, we should communicate our dissatisfaction when injustice occurs. And certainly, we can strongly protest the insensitivity and lack of wisdom in building a mosque so close to an area that still scrapes our collective and individual emotions raw with grief.
Still, personal hostility undermines and contradicts our Christian witness. Burning copies of the Qur'an may send a "message," but what message does it send? That we are willing to stoop to the lowest levels of our enemies? That we are more interested in showing superiority than we are in sharing salvation?
Those of us who write, teach, or lead have been given the gift of communication—an ability to use words creatively or persuasively. We can honor God with this gift, or we can corrupt it to stoke the spread of hatred, making us no better than our enemies.
As we remember this terrible anniversary, let's do it in such a way that honors those who died or were injured, while not dishonoring Christ, since we bear His name. It can be done, but only as we depend on the Holy Spirit for His enabling.
How will your remembrance of 9/11 reflect who you are as an American…and as a Christian?
Are you stressed? Feeling like the proverbial hamster on a wheel, running fast but going nowhere? Too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Too much month at the end of the money. Too many commitments and not enough energy.
Many of us make repeated visits to Stressville. Some of us live there right now. And most everyone is searching for solutions to handle stress. I googled the phrase "how to de-stress," and 17,000,000 results popped up. Seventeen million! Solutions include recommendations to change eating habits, get more sleep, increase exercise, change jobs, set healthy boundaries, and yes, even eat chocolate!
Yoga means union in Sanskrit. Many westerners practice yoga as a physical exercise, applying it to the union of mind, body, and spirit. However, yoga is a Hindu spiritual practice that is intended to unite the practitioner with Brahman—a universal cosmic consciousness or transcendent reality.
Brahman is a three-in-one god: Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiva (the destroyer). Hindu beliefs also include other gods and goddesses, as well as the concepts of karma and reincarnation. At least one yoga position was developed for the express purpose of uniting two Hindu gods within the human body.
Can committed Christians practice yoga and still be true to their Christian beliefs? Many Christians believe the answer is yes. In fact, they may even participate in Christian Yoga—yoga programs that incorporate Christian Scripture and music, and which focus primarily on the physical exercise.
Christians who practice yoga believe they can separate the physical exercises from their religious and philosophical origins. Hindu practitioners are the first to say this is impossible.
Even if Christians suppose yoga can be practiced as merely physical exercise without Hindu's religious influence, why would we participate in a form of exercise rooted in a religion and philosophy opposed to Christianity? Adding Bible verses, hymns, or Christian words as mantras does not change the essence of yoga.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives" (John 14:27).
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved" (I Corinthians 10:31-33).
Exercise, meditation, and relaxation are healthy pursuits. However, surely there are enough exercise, meditation, and relaxation programs in harmony with the Bible without opening ourselves up to influences that exist in opposition to Christianity.
Those of us who are teachers and writers have an even wider sphere of influence by which others may be helped or hindered in their Christian walk. What choices will we make?
I chuckled at her simile (after I looked up simile and metaphor to figure out which one it was) and moved on. A few days later, I accidentally cut the cuticle on the middle finger of my right hand. No problem. Compared to other injuries I've suffered over the years, on a scale of one to ten, this didn't even merit a one. I covered it with some first-aid cream and a BAND-AID® and went on with my day.
By Day 3, the cut still bled when touched and the area around it was inflamed and painful. I saturated it with hydrogen peroxide (ouch), then continued to cover it with first-aid cream and a bandage. Typing became more difficult, and I was reminded of Lisa's quote.
This continued for another week without improvement. Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I am living proof that he was correct.
By Day 10, the skin around the finger tip had turned white from infection. A friend with a medical background called the area "angry. " Trust me, you don't want any part of your body angry with you. She strongly recommended that I have a doctor take care of it. I finally did…two days later. Result: painful injections, cutting, and a prescription for antibiotics. Typing is still painful, and Lisa's quote is a little less amusing.
As I ponder my painful finger, I wonder how many times I've behaved in a similar way with people. When others who are hurting share their pain, do I cover the problem with a few Bible verses, slap on a prayer "BAND-AID®" and move on, leaving a festering, infected wound under a clean bandage?
When writer friends share their frustrations over their latest writing obstacle or a recent rejection, do I slap on some "first aid" sympathy and move on to share my own writing difficulties? Or do I show sincere compassion for their frustrations?
When a class member misses several classes due to family issues, am I oblivious to the needs of my students? Or am I quick to notice and provide encouragement?
There's nothing wrong with sharing Scripture and prayer with hurting people. However let's not do it in such a way that we become "hit and run" Christians. We can take the time to really listen and be there for others, or we can treat them like today's "project," only to shuffle them off tomorrow.
How will you respond the next time someone shares a hurt with you?
Everyone thought they knew Carly. Her family, her doctors, her therapists, even her twin sister.
Carly is a teenage girl with autism. For eleven years, her family loved and cared for her. They provided her with all the therapy she needed, but she experienced little, if any, progress in her rate of development. Despite 40+ hours of therapy per week, her family knew her as a mute girl whose physical habits of arm-flailing, head-banging, rocking, and tantrums indicated a severely developmentally disabled child—one whose intelligence level was significantly stunted.
Until Carly "spoke" her first message using a computer keyboard.
You don't know what it feels like to be me, when you can't sit still because your legs feel like they are on fire, or it feels like a hundred ants are crawling up your arms.
People look at me and assume I am dumb because I can't talk.
I am autistic, but that is not who I am. Take time to know me before you judge me.
This problem of judging others based on their ability to converse does not only target the physically disabled. It's easy to have negative opinions or low expectations of anyone who doesn't communicate the way we do. We see it in the man with a Ph.D. who is clerking at the corner grocery store – no one will hire him in his field because he speaks with a strong accent. Or the painfully shy student in class who is judged "stupid" by her peers because she stutters when she speaks.
Whether we're homeschooling children, teaching a Bible study class, or writing a book, how do we respond to our audience?
Writers are often counseled to "resist the urge to explain" – to communicate clearly and trust their audience to understand the subtleties of what they're writing. Teachers are trained to use multiple teaching methods to reach all their students, whether those students have visual, auditory, or tactile learning styles.
Of course, not every person will be able to overcome their communication challenges the way Carly did. But whether we are writing, teaching, or simply living alongside people from all ages and all walks of life, let's make an effort to look past the stereotypes – past the accents, clothing styles, and even past physical quirks or disabilities. It's a matter of respect for each individual. In doing so, we may discover we rarely know others as well as we think we do.
And we may be surprised to learn they know more than we thought.


Brannon v. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Inc.
Defendant: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Inc.
Benton v. Homebridge Financial Services, Inc.
Defendant: Homebridge Financial Services, Inc.
Ray v. Lockhart, Morris & Montgomery, Inc.
Defendant: Lockhart, Morris & Montgomery, Inc.
Patel v. Chase Bankcard Services, Inc.
Roach v. Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.
Defendant: Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.
Plaintiff: Hugh F. Little, Jr.


What be the hit rate for rounds 1-3?
The Gray Catbird or Dumetella carolinensis. Or you can just call it a bird.
=================== Nothing in my PM's, if he reaches out I will let you all know.
Offer a conditional 5th round pick, if the Jets can get him up to speed then trade him for a 2nd.
Someone posted that he is a beast on special teams, so he could have a big impact.
Jets have 4 QB's, why do only three need to be ready to play and which one is sitting out?
Jets interested in Fowler Jr.
Will these 6 bubble players make the Opening Day Jets Roster?
If you were to fill a cooler with the most popular beer in America, guess what beer it would be?
How much of your life is a Jets SB worth to you?
I'm a fanatic so I would sacrifice a Pats fan and a few Dolphin fans that I know.
========================================= Well that was nice.


City Council Speaker Christine Quinn got three key newspaper endorsements – The New York Times, the Daily News and the New York Post – but her mayoral bid found little support in New York's ethnic and community media. Frontrunner Bill de Blasio didn't fare any better.
A Voices of NY survey of 30 key community and ethnic papers on the eve of Tuesday's primary elections found that City Comptroller John Liu and former Comptroller Bill Thompson won the endorsements race in this diverse and influential media.
The Taiwan-born Liu, who has campaigned tirelessly in ethnic enclaves, scored six endorsements, five of them from South Asian publications like Urdu Times and Pakistan Post and one from Our Time Press, a Brooklyn-based weekly geared towards African-Americans. Thompson, who is the only African-American on the race, was endorsed by five publications serving a variety of communities.
De Blasio scored two including the Haitian Times and so did Quinn, who is vying to become the first woman and first openly lesbian mayor, among them the weekly The Villager.
The remainder 15 publications said they wanted to stay neutral for a variety of reason.
The outlets Voices of NY surveyed represent more than 270 ethnic and community publications serving Latinos, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Caribbean, Irish, Indian, Haitians, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Jewish, black, gay and lesbian, and Middle Eastern communities.
Interestingly, a candidate's ethnic background or affinity to a particular community did not always rank very high in the endorsement consideration. For example, the Irish Echo did not endorse, not even Quinn, who is of Irish ancestry. Peter McDermott, the executive editor of the 85-year-old weekly said the paper might endorse if there's a runoff on October 1.
Similarly, none of the four major Chinese dailies officially endorsed Liu, who would make history by becoming the first Asian-American mayor. And none of the leading Jewish newspaper like the The Jewish Daily Forward or Jewish Week endorsed Anthony Weiner, who is Jewish.
Thompson's case was different as he got the endorsement of the New York Amsterdam News, The New York Carib News and the Caribbean American Weekly, all serving the city's black community. Similarly, Quinn bagged the endorsement of Gay City News.
He calls for abolishing stop and frisk. We worry this would lead to a deterioration of public safety and make more Chinese become victim of crimes. He thinks minimum wage should be raised from the current $7.25 to $11.50. We worry this would bankrupt small businesses or force them to layoff employees and hurt the economy. He advocates for less tests in public schools and more African American and Hispanic students in the specialized high schools so the student body could be more diverse. We worry this may have some hard working Chinese students lose the opportunity they deserve to get into the top schools. He is very close to the unions. We worry he would sacrifice the interest of the general public for the interest of the unions.
In this year's Democratic primary, voter turnout is crucial. In the Latino community, it is imperative. As we continue the battle for immigration reform, we are more aware of the millions of Latinos who cannot vote. Yet an embarrassingly low percentage of those who have that right are expected to turn out in local elections.
Bill Thompson is the most thoughtful of the candidates. In a race that has been anything but boring, he has been a constant source of common sense and seriousness.
With solid experience in both elected and appointed city offices, he brings a deep understanding of long-standing challenges and offers a host of proposals to address them.
In its endorsement, the Bengali language weekly Thikana made it clear that it will side with only those candidates who are sensitive to the concerns of the Bangladeshi community.
Liu deserves our support for his relentless and outstanding services to the rights of immigrant communities, for his support of two public school holidays for the Muslim Eid festivals and of offering halal food to public school students. And also to ensure the welfare of marginalized communities and small businesses, and to end racial profiling by the police.
In a lengthy endorsement, Gay City News revisits the achievements of Quinn in comparison to the other main candidates. It makes it clear that Quinn's sexual orientation has less to do with its decision.
Many, no doubt, will characterize our endorsement as a straight-up matter of identity politics. Baloney.
But it doesn't hide the pride that the paper takes in endorsing a candidate who, if elected, would be the first LGBT mayor.
That's not to say we don't feel a good measure of pride in endorsing a candidate who would become New York's first woman and first openly LGBT mayor. It was Harvey Milk who led the fight 35 years ago to beat back a draconian proposal to fire all gay schoolteachers in California. It's no accident that marriage equality won its first victory in the New York State Legislature under out gay Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell's leadership. And, in Texas, it is a woman, Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis, who has indelibly articulated what is at risk from that state's assault on the right to choose and to healthcare access.
We gave great expectations that Quinn can bring unique and disciplined skills to the job of mayor, and we also hope all New Yorkers are prepared to hold her to that promise.
In its endorsement of Thompson, New York Carib News calls him an "agent of change," who has an exceptional record of public service. The editorial also praised Liu and de Blasio.
But the candidate who is head and heels above his opponents is Thompson, the grandson of Caribbean immigrants from the tiny islands of St. Kitts-Nevis. Some of his detractors want us to believe that his close relationship with the UFT is a reason to be worried about him. Yet those same critics wanted their favorites to get the union endorsement in the mayoral race. His ideas to reform the schools are sensible, his campaign promise to hold the NYPD responsible to the public when abusive police officers infringe people's rights and his championing the needs of residents of public housing who have felt the burden of NYCHA's ineptitude in the management of public housing as well as his support for the rights of workers to receive a fair and living wage make him our choice for the Democratic nomination.
This year, Bill de Blasio has published more than 10 columns in Queens Latino on topics as varied as immigration, education, housing, and employment. We have interviewed him on various occasions and we are delighted that he is leading in the race among the Democratic candidates for mayor of New York. It is possible that he will win the Democratic primary without needing a runoff. That is to say, with more than 40 percent of the vote.
Bill de Blasio is winning because his platform is different from Quinn's, which is a continuation of Mayor Bloomberg. It is a terrible time for immigrants in a city of immigrants. Bill de Blasio also has experience in politics and is currently the public advocate of New York City. Since he started his campaign he understood that New York needs a radical change to protect workers, hospitals, small businesses, and public school students. Bill de Blasio wants to raise taxes for the richest residents to pay for children's education.
The city's community and ethnic media covers roughly 40 percent of New York City's population. According to New York Press Association's figures cited by CUNY's Center for Community and Ethnic Media in its recent report on City's advertising practices, the combined circulation of 95 ethnic newspapers in New York City is 2.94 million or 28% of the city's population, and the combined circulation of 80 weekly community newspapers is 1.6 million.


Back in 2003, Jeff Gelder developed a CD of 'holiday magic' – inspiring and entertaining music and stories – for sick kids as his project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program. Ten years later, Children's Holiday Magic Project (a registered non-profit) is still going strong, with over 7,000 CDs going out to children in hospitals across the world this holiday season.
According to an article in LGBT Weekly, this year's festivities also include a launch event and fundraiser dinner, and a CD distribution event in San Diego's Rady Children's Hospital, where volunteers will get to play Santa, sing to the children and distribute CDs.
This year's compilation recording includes a colorful tale of Santa and his reindeer, and includes top leading music and voiceover talents. Watch the video below, and find out more at http://holidaymagiccd.com/.


text:
About Diddley
About GAD
A Trip to Brooklands.
Posted on 29/10/2017 By Bertie
Brooklands.
On the top deck of a No 410 London Country bus, Bobby was presented with a dilemma. Sitting there with one eye to his telescope, he was surveying the parked aircraft at Biggin Hill Aerodrome. 1961. Reading the registrations out for his girlfriend to write in his notebook. Suddenly, she declared: "I'm not doing this any more. It's me or plane-spotting". Poor young Bobby made the wrong choice that day and continued making it for years to come. But, like so many of his generation, he never lost his love for all things mechanical. Planes, trains, trams, buses, boats. All were fair game in a world where you made your own entertainment. And still do, as evidenced by the dominance of that age group at all things old and mechanical today.
He pursued his love with regular visits to his favourite shop. Lens of Sutton. Just up the hill from school, selling new and second hand transport magazines. The shop in a precarious position; perched above a quarry now occupied by a giant, hideous B&Q. Lens of Sutton is legendary and many transport books on sale today will have credits for pictures to "Lens of Sutton". Bobby still has a whole shelf of Ian Allan Booklets bought in that shop in the 60s.
Lens of Sutton just before demolition.
The former Lens – to the left. The storeroom was through a trapdoor.
It was inevitable that he should want to build things. VC10s. Routemaster buses, rockets to the moon. His dad, Sid, had been an engineer all his life and, despite it being a "bleeding awful way to earn a living" (Sid's words for later stories), Bobby just had to give it a go. Never mind "wasting" his grammar school education, his "brilliant mind" (errrrr). Never mind the two hour bus ride each day. He was going to build VC10s at Vickers Armstrong's factory at Brooklands at Weybridge. Sid didn't try to stop him. He had worked and grumbled for over forty years at KLG Sparking Plugs.
A TD bus just like the one that took him over two hours to the factory. Driver and conductor. Seen here in the Brooklands bus museum.
Dorothy, his mum, couldn't even find his bike clips – let alone influence his future career. "I'm having a heart attack" her favourite ploy to avoid taking responsibility, as she slid to the floor with melodramatic grace.
Joining 28,000 fellow workers on his first day, he experienced piece work (how to fiddle it), blacked by the Union for not joining instantly. Collecting a full set of tools and signing for them. A tour of the factory, to see the first VC10s before their first flight. Trans Canada Vanguards in the paint-shop. Segregated dining. The worst, filthiest jobs given to ethnic minorities bused in by the thousand.
Trans Canada Vanguard. Just 44 Vanguards built split between Trans Canada and BEA (British European Airways). Only one airframe left intact. At Brooklands of course.
The very last Vanguard left intact.
On the second day the noise, the dirt and the bus ride made him realise that this was a big mistake.
On the third day he walked out at lunchtime. Handed his tools back. Hourly paid. Tuppence halfpenny less tax. Tears on the way home. The labour exchange followed….. "Have you considered the Legal and General?" Needs four O levels. He bought a bottle green suit. Made to measure..Foster Bros. and got the job. Dorothy was so pleased. After years of telling everyone all three of her children had gone to GRAMMAR SCHOOL. She could now add respectability as Bobby went off on a no 80 bus in his bottle green suit. The first and last suit he ever wore there during the next thirty years. He would still be there if chucking him out in 1992 hadn't succeeded in pushing him into making a right choice to balance that wrong choice made in 1961.
But he can say. Honestly. That he worked for Vickers Armstrong at Brooklands. And built VC10s.
BOAC VC10. Later to become British Airways when joined with BEA. Beautiful.
As a civilian airliner the VC10 had a relatively short life, but the RAF (seen here) flew them in a variety of roles for fifty years. Right up to 2012.
An RAF VC10 tanker. Set up for in flight refuelling from the wing tanks.
The story of Brooklands is legendary as the birthplace of motor racing. World land speed records. That incredible banked racecourse. Sections of which are still there.The aircraft factory came later and achieved its own legendary status. And now many years later it is a world class museum. There is so much to see and do there that you really need to see for yourself. Including the history and front factory gates of KLG Sparking plugs. Our family are heavily involved there and the rest of this blog is a random photographic record of a couple of days there with the family and grandchildren. Two special events. The MG rally. And the bus rally. But never forgetting those two and a half days in 1962 that started a love affair with that most majestic of all British aeroplanes. The VC10.
I recommend this YouTube. It's a laugh. It shows you the Museum. And I don't mind another bear called Bertie. There is only one Mindfully Bertie and he is Brooklands Bertie. So that's OK. And he's here with me, complete with racing overalls, goggles and helmet:
The entrance. The scale Concorde that used to be at the entrance to the tunnels at Heathrow.
McLaren F1.
Bear special.
Racing!
Kenelm Lee Guinness. The racing driver who founded KLG Sparking Plugs, where Bobby's dad Sid worked for forty years. And also, for a while, his sister, Wendy.
Bobby's niece, Elizabeth, at the MG rally. Married to MG fanatic, Tim.
MG Fanatic Tim. President of the F register part of the MGCC.
MG Fanatic Robin (Bobby's nephew).
Elizabeth and Tim's granddaughter Ella at the MG Rally.
Together with Sapphire.
Vintage MGAs with Concorde at the MG Rally (VC10 in the background). Spot the other Concorde!
Flying the VC10.
One and a bit VC10s.
London Trolleybus in the Brooklands bus museum.
Inside a trolley bus.
The Viscount.
The Viscount. Most successful British airliner.
The world famous banking, where world record speeds were broken. Enormous Bentleys thundered round the top and some disappeared forever over the top. Mad days between the wars.
Ancient motor bikes as well.
Bertie and … Bertie (reprise)!
Sonny in an F1 McLaren.
Kyla flying a VC10.
The prototype Routemaster.
A 93 RT … to Putney Bridge and Fulham Football Club!
Those beautiful MGAs.
Tim's shiny MGF.
The Loch Ness Wellington bomber (Called Robert). Recovered from a watery grave. The bomber Robert, that is…
I Don't Believe It!
Bobby's two and a half days were memorable for bearing witness to the construction of the first VC10. What a privilege. But he learned a very odd fact. Unlike Boeing in America, Vickers construction plant was not quite big enough for the VC10. In height that is. So the plan Bobby was privy to was to build the aeroplane. Take its tailplane off to get it out into the open and put it back on again. It was then towed across to Rolls Royce, and Vickers were not allowed to touch it until they had installed four Conway engines. Eventually it would only take off just once from Brooklands to land a few miles away at Wisley where flight testing took place.
A February 1962 shot of the first prototype VC10 Srs1 100 G-ARTA under construction.
And now there are two Berties at Laurel Cottage.
Bertie and … Bertie!
For further reading: www.brooklandsmuseum.com
Lighting a candle to Diddley and to Amber.
Two Candles. At Diddley's Bench.
A separate blog follows celebrating the life of Amber. Diddley's daughter.
A Lifetime in Ties.
Routemaster.
Mindfully Bertie - The Teddy Bears' Picnic.
A Day out with Sutton United.
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By Marie Wilson
Leading Like a Girl: For Men Only?
Recently, the financial gurus at Motley Fool ran a provocative piece on financial prowess. Their prime assertion: Warren Buffet invests like a girl. Indeed, author LouAnn DiCosmo attributes Buffet's monumental success to his gender-bending ability, doing what women investors have long been shown to do: trade less often, conduct more research, and not limit their investment decisions to numbers alone.
If Buffet's feminine investment strategies have been key to his financial achievements, they mirror what happens when women take the lead in the corporate sector: Catalyst has found that companies with greater numbers of women directors outperformed their peers by 53 percent in return on equity, by 42 percent in return on sales, and by 66 percent in return on invested capital. Astounding what women bring to the table, isn't it?
Leading like a girl isn't only good for business; as the democratic race for the presidential nomination has shown, it's good for practicing politicos as well -- at least if you're a man. The 2008 campaign has been an interesting experiment in gender roles, as Barack Obama's leadership style, oft-touted as feminine, has been largely instrumental in shaping his popularity.
Yet while men seem to be incorporating the best of what women already know and do, women themselves are still feeling the pressure to deny traits associated with their gender to get ahead. From the New York Times to Salon, it has been widely noted that Obama has embraced his feminine side to great effect. Clinton, meanwhile, has often been forced to eschew the same in order to prove that she really is "man enough" for the job -- a stylistic approach, some would argue, that has worked to her detriment.
The lesson? Boys can be boys -- and now they can be girls, too. But attach those en vogue traits to the body of an actual woman and suddenly the dynamic changes. Clinton's dilemma is particularly important to consider because, to some extent, it is the dilemma of all women in leadership. Men can now add the feminine virtues of inclusivity, sensitivity, and an eye towards thinking outside the box, and be lionized for it. Women, however, rarely are given such latitude. They must first prove they are lions -- or risk being tossed aside, and into the den.
Of course, it is a real testament to the women's movement that the embrace of feminine traits is now being espoused by enlightened men -- and that they are being celebrated for it. But what about the women? Under what circumstances can women finally claim these attributes for themselves and not be punished for them?
I am on a crusade to have women risk revealing their authentic selves. As a group who bring important attributes to leadership, who can also be tough and in control, women's leadership, having been honed at the foot on the table, has lessons and positive possibilities for us all. We have made it safe for men to play like the girls. Now is the time to claim our own ability to do the same.
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Destination Moon (1950); and Heinlein novella
Dec. 9th, 2018 at 4:19 PM
I'm tracking Retro-Hugo winners (and in due course Hugo winners) of Best Dramatic Presentation along with the Oscars for best Picture, and having done Dorian Gray a few weeks ago that naturally takes me to Destination Moon, which in 2001 beat off Harvey, Cinderella, Rabbit of Seville and Rocketship X-M for the 1951 Retro Hugo. (Of the others, I have only seen Cinderella.) The entire film is currently available on YouTube here, but if you don't have the energy here's a trailer:
As you would expect from the title, it's about the first trip to the moon, based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein, in which our four gallant heroes outwit government interference to make their voyage (which also from context appears to be the first manned spaceflight). To get my inevitable complaint out of the way first, absolutely everyone in the film is white, and there are only three women with speaking parts, two of whom (the secretary in the first picture below, who I have not been able to identify, and Grace Stafford performing Woody Woodpecker for the first time in her long career) don't even get credited. We met Erin O'Brien-Moore (here playing a gallant astronaut wife) previously as Nana in The Life of Emile Zola, thirteen years ago.
It's impossible to watch this film without comparing it with the other famous treatments of the same subject. Tintin's visit to the Moon was first published in periodical form in the same year, 1950, and has a lot of similarities in plot and technology, though the timing makes it unlikely that the two copied from each other. The first volume of the two Tintin albums was given the title Destination Moon when translated into English in 1959, and that probably was a conscious homage. (The original French title was Objectif Lune, whereas this film was translated into French as Destination... Lune !)
The most famous portrayal of the first landing on the Moon is of course the real thing in 1969. As is well-known, it was a government-funded effort rather than privately financed; the mission was planned as a lunar orbit rendezvous rather than a direct flight; the space capsules were pretty cramped affairs rather than the spacious workshop of the film; and there were three astronauts rather than four, of whom only two landed. (Also the moon's surface is in fact a rocky, dusty desert rather than looking like a dried lake bed.) However, some things just cannot be left out; you have the excitement of the first footfall itself, the thrill of looking back at Earth from space, and the difficulties of free fall and low gravity. Most of this goes back at least to Jules Verne.
The most entertaining bit is when, as noted above, Woody Woodpecker makes an appearance explaining the lunar mission to investors. To keep the drama going after take-off, two technical crises are manufactured for our heroes to solve. Both of these seem rather silly by the standards of today's carefully planned missions. First, the radio antenna gets stuck because its lubrication froze in vacuum, and in the course of a spacewalk (in which everyone perilously participates) one of the crew starts drifting away (but is saved). Second, once they are on the Moon it turns out that the ship is too heavy to lift off again, and it looks as if one of the crew may have to stay on the Moon forever (but a solution is found). Extra laughs are provided by the fact that the radio operator is a blue-collar chap from Brooklyn, contrasting with the other posher astronauts.
I can see why Hugo voters chose this in 2001; it is somehow closer to the spirit if subsequent sf than any of the other finalists (except for Rocketship X-M which is a knock-off of Destination Moon). I strongly suspect that Harvey and Cinderella are better films, though. You can watch it on YouTube here (at least for now) or buy it here.
Next up in this sequence is The War of the Worlds (1953).
Robert A. Heinlein published a novella-length adaptation of his own screenplay in 1950; the second paragraph of the third chapter is:
But the power pile was unsealed and the ship was ready to go. Thirteen-fifteenths of its mass was water, ready to be flashed into incandescent steam by the atomic pile, to be thrown away at thirty thousand feet per second.
You can get it here along with some notes from Heinlein on how the film was shot. There are a couple of striking differences: the stuck antenna and spacewalk scene are not in the book; the radio operator, Emmanuel Traub, is coded as Jewish and regarded with (unjustified) suspicion as a potential foreign saboteur (in the film he is the salt-of-the-earth Joe Sweeney); the crew land in a place on the Moon where they cannot communicate properly with Earth because it is below the mountains on the horizon; and most remarkably we are left not knowing if the crew make it home safely. Similarities include the good old private sector overcoming government inertia and interference, and the subplot about the excess weight being equivalent to an astronaut (as seen also in "The Cold Equations" and the Blake's 7 story Orbit). There is a startling moment of misogyny:
His [Corley's] secretary's voice sounded in the room. "Your wife wants to call long distance, Doctor. I'm stalling her. Are you in?"
"Put her on," he said wearily. Mrs. Corley's words could not be heard, but her angry tones came through. Corley answered, "No, dear . . . That's right, dear. I'm sorry but that's how it is . . . no, I don't know when the lines will be free; we're holding them for calls placed to the east coast . . . no, you can't have the car; I'm using it. I—" He looked surprised and replaced the instrument. "She hung up on me."
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It's typical enough Heinlein, not especially original or vivid but clearly substantial enough for a memorable film to be based on it.
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"In the end, it's tough when the teams have got wickets in hand", KKR bowling coach Heath Streak told reporters on Thursday.
Aussie tailender Billy Stanlake has proved he is capable of keeping his cool with the bat as well as sending down some thunderbolts with the ball after he calmly iced a one-wicket thriller for Sunrisers Hyderabad over Mumbai. With equation finally coming down to 1 off 1, Stanlake, out of everyone, blasted a 4 off Cutting to win it for SRH. He may not set the speed guns crackling, but is capable of hurrying the batsmen with his skid. After his departure, Mumbai's innings fell apart as they managed only 36 runs in the final five overs.
Evin Lewis, who has two T20 hundreds against India, skipper himself and the explosive Kieron Pollard would like to show their big-hitting prowess. Suryakumar Yadav scored 28, so did Pollard. They had no reason to attack young legspinner Mayank Markande. Rashid bowled flat and fast with a mix of googlies and flippers. Hyderabad opener Saha and Dhawan gave their team a good start and built a partnership of 62 runs for the first wicket.
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The stand out performer for SRH was Deepak Hooda (32, 25b) who is touted as the next big finisher in the Indian circuit. Sandeep then dismissed Suryakumar and Pradeep Sangwan off successive balls to ensure that Mumbai doesn't cross the 150-run mark. Cutting came running in to catch the ball, but it slips from his fingers.
He went on: "Afghanistan players are playing here and they are supporting us in every league. The last ball can go either way so it was nice to win", Williamson said. Like in the case of Saha, the on field umpire ruled him not out, but MI went for a review again and the decision came back in their favour. But they ran into a blind alley to lose their way. He has vast knowledge about the game and I have managed to pick a few things from him. After this, Mayank made Manish Pandey his third hunt on 11th over of the innings. After riding high at 61 for no loss, SRH were reduced to 89/4. Added to that is the mix of Siddharth Kaul, Shakib AL Hasan and Billy Stanlake. "It was supportive to both batsmen and bowlers", he said. Pathan and Rashid Khan (0) were sent back to the pavilion in the same over. SRH needed 11 runs in six balls. He could not hold his nerve. Mustafizur finished with three for 24 in his four overs. In the very first ball, Hooda hit a six. The Afghan responded with a miserly over in which he conceded only five runs.
After that he has only played 90 minutes eight times this term, after being a starting player for Leicester the past six seasons. For years, John Terry was the on-field general before becoming Conte's dressing room lieutenant. "But our staff is staying".
"I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve on the board", he said. "We are dealing with trying to correct the deficit". A handful of parents and teachers encouraged the board to support the full budget during a public comment period.
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Brooks scored a career-high 49.9 FanDuel points on Wednesday and finishes the regular season with 19.0 FanDuel points per game. James Harden at 6-foot-5 was able to get 22 triple-doubles past year when he played point guard.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the European Union and others have called for an independent investigation into the deaths. The Abu Daqqa video, though it dates from several months earlier, led to fresh questions about Israel's rules of engagement.
Nashville , Tampa Bay, and Boston, who finished the year first, third, and fourth in points, are the top three favorites. One of the things Nashville has been is a penalty-taking machine... and Colorado has an outstanding power play.
That retaliatory attack was ineffective and Syrian war planes were taking off from the base within hours of the strike. A strike against Syria will likely come in the form of missiles, as was the case previous year .
And, still further, the logic of US imperialism's drive for global dominance leads to a confrontation with Russia and China. Macron said in February this year that " France will strike " if chemical weapons are used against civilians.
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He belongs to a club so exclusive that it is still waiting for a second member: No Indian has won two individual Olympic medals. Nettey earned a podium spot by 0.15 metres over Lorraine Ugen of England, who was in fourth place with a jump of 6.69 metres.
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A Marvel Film Has Been Added To The National Registry For Being 'Culturally, Historically Or Aesthetically Significant'
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by Eric Italiano December 14, 2022 3:28 pm
Iron Man, the first ever film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress this year, making it the first ever MCU to receive the distinction.
Every year, the United States National Film Preservation Board adds up to 25 films to the Registry that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films." Other notable films that have been added this year are The Little Mermaid, Carrie, When Harry Met Sally, Hairspray, and House Party.
In a statement, longtime Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige touted that the film was "make or break" for the studio as it was the first time they had "creative control" on a feature film.
"Iron Man was the very first film Marvel Studios independently produced. It was the first film that we had all of the creative control and oversight on and it was really make or break for the studio," Feige said.
"All of our favorite movies are the ones that we watch over and over again and that we grow up with. The notion that here we are, almost 15 years after the release of Iron Man, and to have it join the Film Registry tells us it has stood the test of time and that it is still meaningful to audiences around the world." [via Marvel]
Despite the fact that Marvel Studios has now produced 29 films since Iron Man — February's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be the MCU's 31st film — the Jon Favreau-directed project is still largely considered to be one of the franchise's best films.
Iron Man, of course, also marked the debut of Robert Downey Jr's version of Tony Stark, which is a role he'd go on to play for 11 years until stepping away after Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
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First Results of the 2021 Drill Program at the Arctic Project Received; Mineralization Extends Beyond Proposed Arctic Pit
Trilogy Metals Inc.
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the first drilling results from the 2021 summer field season at the Arctic Project, part of the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") located in Northwestern Alaska managed by Ambler Metals LLC ("Ambler Metals"), the joint venture operating company equally owned by Trilogy and South32 Limited (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32; ADR: SOUHY) ("South32").
Figure 1. Location of Drill Holes from the Arctic Drilling Program (CNW Group/Trilogy Metals Inc.)
Figure 2. Cross Section Showing Hole AR21-0173 (CNW Group/Trilogy Metals Inc.)
The 2021 Arctic field program included 4,131 meters of diamond drilling, comprising 18 holes, that were designed to convert a portion of the resources from the Indicated category to the Measured category, and provide material for metallurgical testing and geotechnical information. The results contained in this news release are from the first two geotechnical holes of the program that were drilled at the start of the field season. The results of the remaining 16 holes are expected to come in over the next couple of months.
Highlights from the first two holes of the 2021 drill program
Drill holes AR21-0173 and AR21-0175 were drilled as part of the 2021 geotechnical program that is designed to test the northeast pit's wall stability. Both holes show that high grade mineralization extends beyond the currently defined pit at Arctic.
Based on a cut-off grade of 0.5% copper equivalent, significant zones of high-grade copper, zinc, lead, gold, and silver mineralization were intersected, including:
AR21-0175 intersected three mineralized intervals, including 24.94 meters of 1.85% copper, 2.96% zinc, 0.57% lead, 0.28 g/t gold and 27.09 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 3.55%. Within this interval is a subinterval of 5.62 meters grading 4.94% copper, 10.57% zinc, 1.71% lead, 0.40 g/t gold and 58.90 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 10.17%.
AR21-0173 intersected one mineralized interval of 3.77 meters of 2.15% copper, 0.87% zinc, 0.34% lead, 0.83 g/t gold and 82.89 g/t silver for a copper equivalent grade of 3.85%.
The composites are based on a copper-equivalent grade of 0.5% using metal prices from Trilogy's 2020 Arctic feasibility study ($3.00/lb copper, $1.10/lb zinc, $1.00/lb lead, $1,300/oz gold, and $18.00/oz silver) and a maximum of 3-meter internal dilution. All drill hole intercepts are close to true width.
Tony Giardini, President and CEO of Trilogy, commented, "The initial drilling results from Arctic continue to confirm our belief that the Arctic deposit is one of the highest grade polymetallic mineral projects in the world. Not only is Arctic high grade, but it also has wide zones of mineralization that are relatively close to surface. Of note is drill hole AR21-0175 which appears to extend high-grade mineralization beyond the current pit at Arctic. The latest drilling program at Arctic will assist Ambler Metals in the continued de-risking of the project and in the detailed engineering of the asset."
Richard Gosse, Vice President, Exploration at Trilogy stated, "It is good to see the results of our 2021 drill program are beginning to come in from ALS Laboratories. Also, good to see these high-grade extensions, just outside the proposed pit and relatively close to surface, in holes that were primarily designed to collect geotechnical information. We are looking forward to seeing the results of the remaining 16 drill holes at Arctic as well as from the regional drill program."
Significant mineralized intervals of high-grade mineralization at a cutoff of 0.5% copper equivalent are reported in Table 1. The locations of the holes are shown in Figure 1 and Table 2.
Table 1. Drill Intercepts from the 2021 Arctic Infill Drilling Program
From (m)
To (m)
CuEq (%)
AR21-0173
Copper equivalent (CuEq) calculations use metal prices assumptions of $3.00/lb for copper, $1.00/lb for zinc, $0.90/lb for lead, $1,300/oz for gold, and $18.00/oz for silver.
Results are core intervals and not true thickness; true widths have not been determined for the above intercepts but are believed to be representative of actual drill thicknesses.
Significant interval defined as a minimum of 1.0 meter copper interval with average grade >0.5% CuEq.
Cut-off grade of 0.5% CuEq.
Internal dilution up to three meters of <0.5% CuEq.
Intervals of <1.0 meter not reported.
Core recovery averaged 96%.
Minimum sample length was 0.17m, average sample length was 2.4m overall and 1.7m within mineralized zones.
Some rounding errors may occur.
Table 2. Drill Hole Locations at the Arctic Project
East (m)
North (m)
Elevation (m)
Coordinates are in UTM Zone 4N (meters) coordinate system, NAD83 Datum.
Drill hole AR21-0173, which is sized HQ3 (63.5 mm diameter), was drilled as part of the 2021 geotechnical program. The hole, as seen in Figure 2, was designed to test the northeast pit's wall stability. The intercept from 110.54 meters to 114.31 meters is interpreted to be the continuation of Zone 5. This intercept is heavily oxidized with pyrite being the only sulphide present. This intercept currently sits outside of the Arctic feasibility study pit and is located approximately 30 meters current resource area and is open to the northwest. This drill hole is located close to drill hole AR-47 which was drilled by Kennecott in 1975. An oxide rich interval is present in AR-47 which lines up with the projection of Zone 5.
Drill hole AR21-0175, which is sized HQ3 (63.5 mm diameter), was drilled as part of the 2021 geotechnical program. This hole, as seen in Figure 3, was designed to test the northeast pit's wall stability. The intercept from 71.93 meters to 96.87 meters is interpreted to be the continuation of Zone 4 and 3. This intercept currently sits outside of the Arctic feasibility study pit and is also outside of the current mineral resource boundary. The mineralization at AR21-0175 is projected to continue for another 60 meters laterally to the surface.
Within the Arctic deposit, mineralization occurs as stratiform semi-massive sulphide to massive sulphide beds within primarily graphitic chlorite schists and fine-grained quartz schists. The sulphide beds average 4 meters in thickness but vary from less than 1 meter up to as much as 18 meters in thickness.
QA/QC Program
The drilling program, sampling and assaying protocol, and data verification were managed by qualified persons (QPs) employed by Ambler Metals. The diamond drill holes were completed using PQ3 or HQ3 diameter core, and recoveries averaged 95%. Drill core was cut lengthwise into halves using a diamond saw, and one-half was cut lengthwise to provide quarter core for sampling. The remainder of the core was retained in core trays and archived at site.
Samples were collected through mineralized zones using a 0.45 m minimum length and 3.07 m maximum length; average sample length is 1.47 m. Weights of the drill core samples range from 0.57 to 17.86 kg, depending on the size of core, rock type, and recovery.
Each core sample was placed into a bag with a numbered tag and quality control samples were inserted between core samples using the same numbering sequence. Then, samples were grouped into batches for shipping and laboratory submissions. Each batch of 20 samples contains three quality control (QC) samples that comprise one certified reference material (CRM), one core blank (BLK), and one core or crushed duplicate (DUP). Chain of custody records are maintained for sample shipments and the custody is transferred from Ambler Metals expeditor to the laboratory upon delivery.
Samples were shipped to ALS Minerals laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, for sample preparation. ALS Minerals Fairbanks is a satellite sample preparation facility accredited under ALS Minerals. After preparation at ALS Minerals Fairbanks, split pulp samples were shipped to ALS Minerals in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for assaying. ALS Minerals North Vancouver is an independent laboratory certified under ISO 9001:2008 and accredited under ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the Standards Council of Canada. ALS Minerals includes its own internal quality control samples comprising certified reference materials, blanks, and pulp duplicates.
Drill core samples were weighed (WEI-21), dried if excessively wet (DRY-21), coarse jaw crushed to 70% passing 6 mm (CRU-21), fine jaw crushed to 70% passing 2 mm (CRU-31), riffle split to 250 g subsamples (SPL-21) and pulverized to 85% passing 75 μm (PUL-31). Crushed duplicates were created by riffle splitting crushed samples into two parts.
Gold analyses were completed using a 30 g lead fire assay and AAS finish (Au-AA23). Multi-element analyses for 48 elements were completed using a geochemical four acid digestion and ICP-ES/MS finish (ME-MS61). Over-range assays for Ag, Cu, Zn, and S were completed using an ore grade four-acid digestion and ICP-ES finish (ME-OG62). Additional analyses were completed for Ba and Hg.
Au, Ag, Cu, Pb, and Zn assays for QC samples were reviewed to ensure that CRMs are within tolerance limits specified on supplier certificates, BLKs are below acceptable thresholds, and DUPs display statistical patterns normally expected for sample types, methods, and elements. CRMs that returned assays outside of tolerance limits and BLKs with assays above thresholds were deemed to have failed. Sample batches containing failed QC samples were re-assayed to ensure that the QC samples returned acceptable results before release. All QC monitoring data are reviewed and signed off by an independent QAQC geologist.
There is no known relationship between core sample recoveries and assay grades. Ambler Metals will submit 5% of the assay intervals from prospective lithologies to a laboratory independent of ALS Minerals for check assaying.
Qualified Persons
Richard Gosse, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration for Trilogy, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Gosse has reviewed the scientific and technical information in this news release and approves the disclosure contained herein.
About Trilogy Metals
Trilogy Metals Inc. is a metal exploration and development company which holds a 50 percent interest in Ambler Metals LLC which has a 100 percent interest in the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") in Northwestern Alaska. On December 19, 2019, South32, a globally diversified mining and metals company, exercised its option to form a 50/50 joint venture with Trilogy. The UKMP is located within the Ambler Mining District which is one of the richest and most-prospective known copper-dominant districts located in one of the safest geopolitical jurisdictions in the world. It hosts world-class polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") deposits that contain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, and carbonate replacement deposits which have been found to host high-grade copper and cobalt mineralization. Exploration efforts have been focused on two deposits in the Ambler Mining District – the Arctic VMS deposit and the Bornite carbonate replacement deposit. Both deposits are located within a land package that spans approximately 172,636 hectares. Ambler Metals has an agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation that provides a framework for the exploration and potential development of the Ambler Mining District in cooperation with local communities. Trilogy's vision is to develop the Ambler Mining District into a premier North American copper producer.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introduction the game has been acclaimed by reviewers, and has been described as one of the best board games ever made.

Gameplay
Gloomhaven is a fantasy-themed, campaign-based tactical skirmish game, in which players try to triumph in combat-based scenarios which scale in difficulty depending on the number of players. The game is cooperative and campaign driven, with one to four players working their way through a branching story consisting of 95 scenarios. The campaign develops in a legacy format, with stickers that are placed on the board and cards and sealed envelopes that are opened when certain criteria are met.

While it has drawn comparisons to role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and other dungeon crawl board games, Gloomhaven uses game mechanics similar to modern eurogames.

Characters and monsters move about on hex tiles representing dungeons and cellars. Players simultaneously choose two cards to play each turn, each of which has a top and a bottom half, and choose the top half of one card and the bottom of the other to allow their characters to take actions such as moving, healing and attacking monsters. Randomization is not provided by dice, as is usually the case with such games, but is handled by a deck of cards.

Release and reception
The game was originally sold via a 2015 Kickstarter campaign which raised $386,104 from 4,904 backers. After strong early reviews, a second Kickstarter campaign was launched on April 4, 2017, and delivered in November 2017 which raised about $4 million from over 40,000 backers. The game was released shortly thereafter to retail for a suggested price of $140.

Gloomhaven has received critical acclaim, culminating in the game reaching the  spot as the top rated board game on leading website BoardGameGeek in 2017,  where it stayed until February 2023. It also won six Golden Geek awards from the site, including for the best overall game of 2017, best strategy game, best cooperative game, most innovative game, best solo game, and best thematic game. Gaming website Geek & Sundry described Gloomhaven as "a masterful design" and suggested "it belongs in a museum". Matt Thrower called it one of the best fantasy board games available, while noting that "Gloomhaven was the critical hit of the year." Ars Technica similarly praised the game's strategy, action system, gameplay and solitare mode. Games Radar awarded the game five stars and dubbed it as "the ultimate tabletop dungeon crawler", and Board Games Land has described the game as "truly a masterpiece". The game was also commercially successful, and sold approximately 120,000 copies as of August 2018.

Awards

Expansions and spin-offs

Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles, the game's first expansion,  was released in Q2 2019. It includes a new character class, the Aesther Diviner, 20 new scenarios that are primarily focused on that class, and new items and monsters. Its story is set after Gloomhaven's campaign.

Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, a smaller, standalone version of the game, which was released in July 2020, initially as a Target exclusive. Designed to appeal to more casual gaming fans, the story in this version is set before the events of the original Gloomhaven, and has players investigate a series of disappearances in the city. The game features 25 new scenarios, five of which comprise a tutorial designed to ease new players into the game. Some, but not all, of the game components are compatible with the basic Gloomhaven game.

Sequel

In 2020, Frosthaven was launched as a standalone sequel sold initially via a Kickstarter campaign. The campaign raised almost $13 million, making it the highest ever funded campaign for a game on the platform, from over 83,000 backers. The game is set in a small northern outpost that mercenaries are struggling to protect. Childres changed several aspects of the game's story and setting to address cultural bias.

Frosthaven was scheduled to ship for Kickstarter backers in September 2022.

Digital edition

Asmodee and Flaming Fowl Studios released a digital edition of Gloomhaven for Microsoft Windows, initially on July 17, 2019. The game was released for macOS on November 25, 2021. It was offered as an early access model, featuring a subset of the characters, and a single-player Adventure mode that uses procedural generation like a roguelike to create encounters. As of 2021, Asmodee and Flaming Fowl have added support for all 17 characters and the full set of 95 missions from the core board game, along with support for multiplayer.

References

Board games introduced in 2017
Cooperative board games
Kickstarter-funded tabletop games
Legacy games
Origins Award winners
Dungeon crawler board games
Fantasy board games
Board games with a modular board

External links
 Gloomhaven - Campaign Overview and Gloomhaven - Gaming Rules! - How to Play on YouTube
 Gloomhaven RuleBook

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Motley, Marion
(b. 5 June 1920 in Leesburg, Georgia; d. 27 June 1999 in Cleveland, Ohio), professional football player considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time.
Motley was one of three children born to Shakeful Motley, a mill worker, and Blanche Jones Motley, a homemaker. Born in rural Georgia, he moved with his family as a young boy to Canton, Ohio, where his father worked in a foundry. He was a three-sport standout at the perennial football powerhouse Canton McKinley High School, from which he graduated in 1939. He attended South Carolina State College in Orangeburg for one year and then in 1940 transferred to the University of Nevada (later the University of Nevada, Reno), where his former high-school coach Jim Aiken was the head coach.
Motley was a star football performer at Nevada for three seasons (1940–1942). A punishing linebacker on defense, he also excelled as a running back. His 105-yard return of a kickoff against San José State College (later San JoséState University) set a Wolf Pack record, and he received regional All-Star recognition. His career was imperiled during the 1940 season when, while driving back from a football game in San Francisco, he struck and killed a person in Fairfield, California. He spent several days in jail and was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He was supported by Nevada students and Reno boosters, who provided legal assistance and raised the funds to pay a $1,000 fine. Impressed with Motley's character and the strong community support evidenced on his behalf, the judge granted him probation. Two days after being released from jail, Motley repaid his supporters by scoring two first-quarter touchdowns in a 78–0 romp over Arkansas A&M College.
With one year of eligibility remaining, Motley left Nevada without earning a degree for the U.S. Navy in 1943; he spent much of his wartime service at the Great Lakes Naval Station playing for the powerful teams coached by Paul Brown. Motley's high-school team had lost only three games, all to the Massillon High School Tigers coached by Brown. In 1945 Brown was selected by Mickey McBride, a Cleveland taxicab magnate who also operated the largest nationwide wire service for horse-race betting parlors, to coach his new professional team in the upstart All-America Football Conference (A-AFC). In assembling one of the greatest professional teams of all time, Brown defied the unwritten all-white rule then current in professional football by signing African-American players. In addition to Motley, Brown invited the star defensive lineman Bill Willis, a former Massillon player. Thus in 1946 Motley and Willis, along with Woody Strode and Kenny Washington of the Los Angeles Rams, reintegrated professional football for the first time since the 1930s.
At six feet, one inch, and 235 pounds, Motley was a bruising inside runner. His initial burst of speed often got him through the line, where he then ran over smaller defensive backs. "Don't get fancy when you pass the line of scrimmage," Brown instructed his talented fullback. "Just run right at them and over them." The innovative Brown created a special play ("Trap 34") to take advantage of Motley's explosive running, which was made effective by the deft ball handling of the quarterback Otto Graham and the crisp blocking by such lineman as Lou Groza and Chuck Noll. The Browns dominated the All-America Football Conference, winning its championship all four years of its existence with a 47–4–3 overall record. During those four seasons Motley gained 3,024 yards on 489 carries. He also caught forty-five passes for 644 yards, many coming on screen pass plays. He also played middle linebacker; his games were so memorable that in 1991 Brown said that he never had coached a more determined or effective line-backer than Motley.
In 1950 the Browns joined the National Football League (NFL) after the A-AFC folded. Most experts predicted that the Browns would get their comeuppance after playing in what they considered a lesser league. Instead, the Browns devastated the heavily favored Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Eagles 35–10 in their inaugural league game and stormed on to win the conference title. Motley led the NFL with 810 rushing yards on 140 carries and was named to the All-League first team. In one memorable performance on 29 October 1950, he gained 188 yards on just eleven attempts against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Between 1950 and 1953 the Browns won forty games and lost eight; a late-season injury forced Motley to sit out the 1954 season, and in 1955 he ended his career as a substitute linebacker for the Steelers. He ended his entire career with 4,720 rushing yards and thirty-one touchdowns. He averaged an extraordinary 5.7 yards per carry. He always felt that he could have gained many more yards had Brown accepted his suggestion of running outside the ends on option plays.
After retirement Motley faced many frustrations. His highest salary as a Brown was just $15,000, and the league at the time lacked a retirement program. His efforts to obtain an assistant coaching position in the NFL proved fruitless; he blamed racism for his rejections. When he once asked a Browns official about possible employment, he was met with a caustic, "Have you tried the mills?" After leaving football Motley initially found work as a parking lot attendant and later worked for the U.S. Postal Service in Cleveland. During the 1980s he served as a spokesperson for the Ohio Lottery. He and his wife, Eula Coleman, who were married in 1943, had three children. He died in 1999 after a year-long battle with prostate cancer.
In 1968 Motley became the second African American to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is located just a mile from his former home in Canton. Despite losing three prime playing years during World War II, Motley made a lasting impression after joining the Browns as a twenty-seven year old. Blanton Collier, an assistant coach with the Browns during Motley's tenure and later the team's head coach, once commented that Motley was "the greatest all-around football player I ever saw. He had no equal as a blocker. He could run with anybody for thirty yards. And this man was a great, great linebacker." Paul Brown, Jr., commented upon Motley's death, "My dad always felt Marion was the greatest back he ever had."
There is an interpretative segment on Motley's role as a racial pioneer in professional football in Richard O. Davies, America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945 (1994). See also George Sullivan, Pro Football's All-Time Greats: The Immortals in Professional Football's Hall of Fame (1968), and Jack Clary, The Cleveland Browns: Great Teams' Great Years (1973). An obituary is in the New York Times (28 June 1999).
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New Orleans powerhouse The Revivalists kicked off their Take Good Care Tour tour this past Friday at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. This was the first time the band played this relatively new venue in the District. The eight-piece band consists of David Shaw (lead vocals), Zack Feinberg (guitar), Ed Williams (pedal steel guitar, guitar), Rob Ingraham (saxophone), George Gekas (bass guitar), Andrew Campanelli (drums, percussion), and Michael Girardot (keyboards, trumpet) and together they brought their signature New Orleans flare to the District.
The band kicked off this tour in support of their most recent studio album Take Good Care, which was released in November of last year. Take Good Care is the long awaited follow up to their juggernaut 2015 release Men Amongst Mountains. The new set of tunes is a beautiful, well-crafted representation of the band's sound and another chapter in an evolving career.
The Revivalists took the stage just after 9 p.m. on Friday and graced a sold out crowd of around 6,000 people at The Anthem. Over the course of the evening, The Revivalists weaved together a career spanning setlist and made it a point to incorporate the new material while still culling from their early catalog. The band leaned heavy on the new material out of the gates which was well-received from the sea of fans. The opening notes of "Oh No" whiplashed the crowd into a dancing frenzy. That same energy stayed consistent throughout the entire set.
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Climate change protesters pour fake blood on Wall Street Charging Bull, almost 100 arrested blocking traffic
By Trevor Boyer and Graham Rayman
Protesters poured red paint on the iconic Wall Street Charging Bull statue Monday, and blocked traffic near the Fearless Girl statue in Lower Manhattan to protest climate change, police said. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
Fed-up climate change protesters poured fake blood on the iconic Wall Street Charging Bull statue Monday and blocked traffic nearby, leading to almost 100 arrests.
Cops say three demonstrators were responsible for defacing the famed statue with red paint around 10:30 a.m. One of them, Columbia student Arthur Boyle, 24, was arrested. The other two fled and have not been caught.
Protester Kyle Pritz, 30, said more dramatic action has become a necessity.
"The democratic means no longer work," he said. "We have called our congresspeople, we have voted, we have marched in the streets. Nothing is working."
Protestors covered in fake blood gather around the Wall Street Bull during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in New York on Monday. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Alexia Oldini, 31, was arrested after cops say she climbed on top of the bull and waved a green flag.
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The protest was organized by Extinction Rebellion, formed in the U.K. last year after 100 academics signed a call to action on the environment. Other actions were held Tuesday in cities across the globe.
A protester is arrested Monday morning after taking part in a large protest and blocking traffic on Broadway and Pine Street in downtown Manhattan. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
"Today's a symbolic march to capture the fact that the planet is being murdered by greed and by big oil and big (agriculture)," said protester Todd Fernandez.
Ninety-six protesters were arrested in total during the New York action, cops said, most for blocking traffic on Broadway near the Charging Bull, which was made by Italian artist Arturo Di Modica and installed in 1989.
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The crowd chanted "We are unstoppable, a better world is possible!" and "What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!"
Protesters stage a "die-in" in downtown Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
The protesters also targeted the New York Stock Exchange, where about protesters lay "dead" and doused in fake blood around the popular Fearless Girl statue.
Cindi Clark said she was protesting to try to ensure a safe future for her 20-year-old daughter."I know that someday she wants to have children," Clark said. "That's why we're here, to try to stop the worst from happening."
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Many protesters carried macabre props, such as a horse skull labeled "You're next" and a black-shrouded coffin scrawled with the words "Our Future." A tombstone read "Swept away by the next Sandy (your name here)."
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By 1 p.m. most arrestees were loaded onto a bus, and protesters started walking to Washington Square Park, where workshops, direct action training, art-making, and yoga were planned.
"I think it's a total waste of time, and it's more of an irritant to the people of the city, " said Keith Unger, 31, of Hunterdon County, N.J., a construction worker observing the protest on his lunch break.
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