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What Are Microbrand Watches?
William McCleary Updated: Dec 01, 2020
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Small watch companies are increasingly popular and the unique microbrand watches they produce are creating some real competition for more established brands. So before you go out and pick up that well-known Rolex, Omega or TAG Heuer, it might be worth your while to check out some watchmakers you've probably never even heard of. Let's take a closer look at what microbrands watches are, and the best watches they are offering.
The somewhat nebulous term "microbrand" can be loosely used to apply to a lot of goods and services (such as a microbrewery for example). But in general, it means a company that only produces a small amount of inventory, usually in the range of 300 to 2,000 pieces a year. These items are most often sold directly to the consumer through the websites of the companies, causing a flurry of serious competition for the massive platforms like Amazon. You can also sometimes find microbrands in select retail spaces.
In general, microbrand products are more affordable than offerings from luxury brands. This is especially true with microbrand watches. Also when it comes to watches, the microbrands will many times only do a portion of the work in-house, such as cases, dials, and straps, and outsource the movements to big brands like Citizen, Swatch or Seiko.
Why Would You Want Microbrand Watches?
Exclusivity is one of the main driving factors in the purchase of a microbrand watch. If you're looking for an instantly recognizable status piece, you're probably going to want to get a brand that people know and hold in high regard. You drop a Rolex Datejust on your wrist and folks tend to notice quite quickly. They also have a pretty good idea of the amount of cash you plunked down for that fancy status symbol.
But chances are that very few people will recognize the name of microbrand watches. This sets you apart from the pack and garners admiration for originality, especially if it's an eye-catching watch that exudes the same aesthetics as established brands. Another reason is quality. Microbrands often have the same Swiss movements, sapphire crystals, and high-quality stainless steel cases found with well-known watches.
What Are the Best Microbrand Watches?
Whew, that's a big question. With so many new watch companies out there (and more popping up each day!), it's hard to proclaim the "best." But we can look to the microbrands that are popular and have earned serious praise from true watch aficionados. Below are our top 5 picks.
1: Halios
With a debut in 2009, Halios was at the forefront of the microbrand watch surge of late. Over the past decade, they have garnered respect for producing high-quality timepieces at affordable prices. They're best known for their dive watches that draw inspiration from the timepieces of the 1960s, specifically their Seaforth model. Halios is a small operation, helmed in Vancouver by Jason Lim, who keeps the prices of his creations under $1,000, no small feat considering they use high-quality movements sourced from Japan or Switzerland.
2: Farer
This is another of the more established microbrands on the scene. Under the banner "British Design x Swiss Made," vintage-inspired watches are manufactured in London with Roventa-Henex Swiss movements. Featuring sapphire crystals, high-grade metals and luxurious leather straps, GMTs, chronographs and minimalist three-hand models are sold in the $500 to $2,000 price range. One Farer's of their most popular watches, the Farer Barnato II, is a real retro and back-to-basics timepiece that's also one of their lowest-priced wares.
3: Christopher Ward
Another microbrand from England, Christopher Ward launched in 2004 in Maidenhead, England with three watch-loving friends who started assembling Swiss movements with locally sourced components. And they started selling their wares at a fraction of the price of established brands. Christopher Ward has since moved on to do most of their own manufacturing. That includes an in-house Calibre SH21, but still keeps their prices comparatively low. Their best-seller is the Grand Malvern Power Reserve dress watch. It's an upscale and elegant timepiece by any measure and comes in at a cost of under $2,000.
4) Raven
Moving across Atlantic we get to some serious watchmakers out of Kansas. Raven has been producing high-quality dive watches on the outskirts of Kansas City since 2008. While there has been some criticism that their watches too closely resemble Submariners (notably their Vintage 42) that's also one of their strengths. It's hard to beat a good looking dive watch with ETA 2824 or Miyota 9015 movement. Not to mention sapphire crystals, and high-grade stainless steel for under $1,000.
5: Oak & Oscar
A relative newcomer, Oak & Oscar made its debut in 2015. The Chicago-based watchmakers specialize in casual-leaning timepieces that embody the classic style of the American Midwest. Their first offering, the Burnham Date, takes its name and design inspiration from Daniel Burnham. Daniel was an architect behind many of Chicago's beloved structures including the Flat Iron Building. The Jackson is one of their most popular watches. It's a fly back chronograph with a 60-hour power reserve. The color is gorgeous with a grey-and-white dial with hints of orange.
Microband Watches Conclusion
So nobody is suggesting you stop your search for that perfect Omega Seamaster Diver. Established models like the Rolex GMT-Master II and IWC Big Pilot will never be truly replaced by upstarts. And who wants to live in a world without an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore? But beyond the big names, it's good to be aware that a lot of new microbrands are out there. And know that they're making some really fine watches that are worthy of consideration too.
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OPPOSITION infrastructure spokesman Anthony Albanese has used Parliament to condemn BHP for its decision to no longer use Australian-crewed ships in moving iron ore from Port Hedland to Port Kembla.
BHP has argued the decision was forced by changes to its business in recent years, but in the House of Representatives Mr Albanese disagreed.
"BHP has made a decision to abandon the Australian flag, to abandon Australian seafarers and Australian jobs and replace [them] with foreign-flagged vessels with foreign workers being paid foreign wages," he told the House.
Two of the redundant workers were in the parliamentary gallery to hear the speech.
Mr Albanese said it was in Australia's national interest "to have the Australian flag on the back of ships with Australian seafarers".
"It is in the interests of our national security because we've had nothing from [the government] to say about this," he said.
He took a swipe at the government for seeking to implement 'Work Choices on water', a reference to industrial relations laws introduced by the Howard government in its last term of office.
"We need an Australian shipping industry," Mr Albanese concluded.
Video of the speech can be viewed here.


The California DOI said that it found the insurer was taking advantage of seniors in the sale of inappropriate annuities using misleading tactics.
Midland National Life Insurance Company has agreed to pay a $1.3 million settlement and to reform its business practices after the California Department of Insurance ("DOI") said that it found that the insurer was taking advantage of seniors in the sale of inappropriate annuities by using deceptive and misleading tactics.
The DOI said that the settlement was reached in an enforcement action based on findings from a market conduct examination performed after the DOI had received consumer complaints. The DOI said that its investigation covered an 18-month period and revealed that Midland National agents were selling certificates to group annuities that were issued out of state and Midland National did not make its own agents or consumers aware that the annuity products had not been filed with the DOI and did not provide important consumer protections. Under the settlement, Midland National agreed to business practice reforms that eliminate this practice.
The DOI said that its investigators found numerous instances in which Midland National agents earned commissions by selling unnecessary replacement annuities to senior citizens. In one example, the DOI said, a 75-year-old consumer paid approximately $91,000 to Midland National for one of its annuity products. The annuity had a 14-year surrender period, which meant the consumer could not fully liquidate the annuity without paying a penalty until she was 89 years old. Two years after buying the annuity, the consumer had to surrender it because she needed money to pay her bills after her husband had a stroke and was placed in a board and care facility. As a result, she ended up paying a surrender penalty of approximately $27,500 to Midland National.
The DOI also said that unnecessary replacement of an existing annuity was another practice uncovered by investigators. In another example, an agent replaced an existing higher-interest annuity for an 85-year-old woman with one that left her locked into a lower-earning rate for eight years. Her existing annuity had no surrender charges and guaranteed a 5.5 percent interest. She was sold a Midland National annuity that guaranteed a 4.35 percent interest rate for eight years and three percent in interest thereafter – substantially less than her existing investment. Additionally, the Midland annuity had a surrender charge of 10 percent for five years, grading down to zero after eight years.


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using Moq;
using Xunit;
using dotnet_toolbox.api.NuspecCrawler;
using dotnet_toolbox.api.Query;
using dotnet_toolbox.api.BackgroundWorker;

namespace dotnet_toolbox.api.tests.NuspecCrawler
{
    public class CrawlerTest
    {
        Mock<INuspecDownloader> mockNuspecDownloader = new Mock<INuspecDownloader>();
        Mock<IGetSetQuerier<PackageDetails>> mockQuerier = new Mock<IGetSetQuerier<PackageDetails>>();
        Mock<IJobQueue> downloadStatsJobQueue = new Mock<IJobQueue>();
        Crawler crawler;

        public CrawlerTest()
        {
            var packageDetails = @"
            <metadata>
          <id>AutoMapper</id>
          <version>LatestAndGreatest</version>
          <description>turns objects into different objects</description>
          <owners>Jimmy Bogard I think?</owners>
          </metadata>";
            mockNuspecDownloader.Setup(m => m.Download("AutoMapper"))
                .Returns(packageDetails);
            crawler = new Crawler(mockQuerier.Object, mockNuspecDownloader.Object, downloadStatsJobQueue.Object);

        }

        [Fact]
        public void CrawlProject_GetsNuspecFromNugetAndStoresContents()
        {
            crawler.CrawlProject("AutoMapper");
            mockQuerier.Verify(m => m.Set("AutoMapper", nuspecPackageInfoLike()));
        }

        [Fact]
        public void CrawlProject_QueuesADownloadStatsCheck()
        {
            crawler.CrawlProject("AutoMapper");
            downloadStatsJobQueue.Verify(m => m.EnqueueJob("AutoMapper"));
        }

        private PackageDetails nuspecPackageInfoLike()
        {
            return It.Is<PackageDetails>(rv =>
                 rv.Id == "AutoMapper" &&
                 rv.Version == "LatestAndGreatest" &&
                 rv.Description == "turns objects into different objects" &&
                 rv.Owners == "Jimmy Bogard I think?"
            );
        }
    }
}

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Workforce, Education & STEM
Future Ready Iowa Summit supplies insight on tech workforce
Future Ready Iowa, NewBoCo, STEM education, Technology Association of Iowa
Some conversations at the 10th Future Ready Iowa Summit, held on Sept. 16, dialed in on the T in STEM. One breakout session had a panel discuss what employers need from K-12 schools to recruit and retain their technology workforces.
Tyler Wyngarden, vice president of development at the Technology Association of Iowa, sat on the panel and stated the challenge already known and faced by all industries at the moment: The number of jobs exceeds the number of workers.
"Perhaps one of the [solutions] here is we need to make more people," Wyngarden said. "But joking aside, the world has become flat, especially in the last 18 months."
Even before the pandemic, roles in and surrounding technology were increasingly available regardless of industry, but as several panelists said, that's not the common perception.
"There's a conception that computer programming or a career in technology is 'I'm going to be in a basement crunching out code.' Certainly there are those jobs and you can take that job … if that's what you want. But it is so much more than that, everywhere from the marketing side, the data and the analytics side, the creative business side," Wyngarden said.
Panelists all supported demystifying what a career in technology looks like and who works in those careers, something Samantha Dahlby strives to do as director of K-12 education at NewBoCo in Cedar Rapids.
Dahlby, who also spoke on a panel at last week's event, hit on another theme from the summit of introducing concepts to students as early as elementary school to help generate interest and show the different ways they can use technology.
NewBoCo's programming for elementary school students aims to "provide a safe space for them to explore and just have fun doing activities," Dahlby said.
Offering an early introduction to the field also gets a message to students earlier that they are capable of a career in technology.
"I think now is the time to start to really encourage these younger kids [and say], 'You can have a career in this, and I think you could be very successful,'" Wyngarden said in an interview with the Business Record. "It never hurts. Everybody likes to be told that they have value and skills."
Computer science is the focus of NewBoCo's education initiatives, but the organization also has partnerships through which students can see how technology is integrated into science and health care careers. Dahlby said that kind of exposure is valuable, as school subjects are traditionally siloed and appear disparate rather than interconnected.
"The English studies are over here, and the math is over here and science is also separate," she said. "All of those [subjects] are kind of pulled out; there are different teachers and different times dedicated to them, so that gives the perception that all of these things are separate and they don't necessarily go together."
By "cross-pollinating" concepts from different fields in computer science education programs, Dahlby said students can discover careers that fit their passions and skill sets better than the traditional conceptions of technology jobs.
For companies adapting to the current gaps in their workforces, Wyngarden said there is a similar concept emerging of companies cross-training existing employees to fill open technology roles. Oftentimes, in six months to a year, an employee who already knows the company's processes can be prepared to step into a new role.
On the other hand, Wyngarden said companies should also rethink recruitment strategies and ensure they're intentionally reaching out to potential candidates.
He said some companies in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas are going through NewBoCo to connect with students completing coding programs. Even when students are in middle or high school, companies can introduce themselves and make students aware of their business.
Additionally, the rise of hybrid and work-from-home models presents both an opportunity and a danger in terms of hiring, Wyngarden said, as Iowa tech workers could choose to work remotely for an out-of-state company, but local companies could also recruit from other states.
For these reasons, another resounding theme on the tech workforce panel was to bridge disconnects between education and businesses and build up partnerships.
"Industry doesn't know what to do with education, and education doesn't know what to ask the industry … so the first step is to reach out to someone, anyone," Dahlby said.
Wyngarden echoed support for reaching out on the panel, telling the education professionals in the audience that every company has its "technology person" who will be their starting point to build out a partnership.
With high school enrollment in technology courses down 21% between 2011-12 and 2019-20, according to the Iowa STEM Evaluation Report, simply more exposure to what a technology career can be through classroom or work site visits "makes a difference," Wyngarden said.
Students aren't the only ones who can benefit from industry partnerships. Teachers need their support as well to help students find their paths.
Dahlby said there is a growing challenge in education as more teachers retire, and that is one reason why NewBoCo provides professional development for local school districts. Through teacher externships, educators pair with industry employees and gain industry knowledge firsthand, which they can take and integrate into their teaching.
The next stride for STEM education in Iowa is the requirement for all schools to offer computer science curriculum by 2024. Dahlby said in the long term Iowa will be able to evaluate this action's impact on the workforce when those students start to graduate.
The needs of the technology workforce will keep evolving, just as technology itself does, Wyngarden said, and Iowa has done a good job of evolving with it, but it needs to continue.
He said Iowa can keep up by redefining what a technology job is and ensuring that students see themselves represented in the workforce.
"I think reframing that narrative [that] health care workers are technology professionals, agricultural and farmer workers are technology professionals, and certainly manufacturing workers are technology professionals, I think if we can tell that story a little bit more, that helps us because then instead of saying technology is just a specific industry, we're saying technology is a through line that goes through all the industries," he said.
$97.5M awarded to companies to expand broadband in Iowa
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Centers celebrate 25 years with announcement of new donation

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Naming and logo design ARCADIY.
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On July 22-24, 2013, the Bank Information Center hosted indigenous peoples (IP) advocate Vicky Tauli-Corpuz for high-level meetings with staff from the US House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, the US Department of Treasury, the World Bank safeguards consultation team, and several World Bank Executive Director's offices (namely the US, four EU offices, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the Philippines) in Washington...
During her meetings in DC, Vicky used the indigenous peoples rights perspective as the entry point for broader discussions on the planned structure and scope of the new safeguard policies, focusing primarily on the demand to (i) maintain a stand-alone policy on indigenous peoples within the safeguards or at the very least keep IPs separate from other vulnerable and marginalized groups; (ii) ensure that the rights of indigenous peoples such as Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) are not watered down in the new policies; (iii) broaden the scope of the safeguards review to cover Development Policy Loans (DPLs) and other lending instruments as they relate to indigenous peoples, especially in regards to natural resource management; and (iv) include indigenous peoples more actively in Bank processes, especially in accountability mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation activities.
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Q: is compilation and installation possible on two different machines ? I have developed an Django app that uses few python dependencies that uses a software called "openbabel-2.4.2", which can be compiled through "Cmake" when I am trying to install this "openbabel-2.4.2" on "pythonanywhere.com" free account, compilation terminated during "make". Because of pythonanywhere.com's policy, is that, you can't use 100%  CPU for a long time (more than 2-5 minutes).
Is there any way through which I could build and compile  "openbabel-2.4.2" somewhere on my personel computer and then could transfer the folder to remote server for "make install"
It may look stupidity at first glance but I think this could solve my problem.
thanks

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is the most deeply powerful, deeply affecting movie I have ever seen.
I am astounded that Crash received the award for Best Picture.
It makes the Academy Awards into a joke.
Spielberg is absolutely brilliant. The colors in which the movie is shot, the contrasts between the rich colors of the kitchen-store and gourmet meals as opposed to tense situations, the soundtrack, and the acting...astonishing.
Eric Bana...is astounding in this performance.
Avner is one of the most human characters ever relayed to the silver screen. His thoughts, his emotions, his reactions, and the subtlety of his characterization is remarkable. The scenes themselves are so subtle. This is not an over-the-top action movie; it is not high-minded and condescending or patronizing either. This movie asks questions.
I don't see how anyone could be upset that Spielberg compared the Palestinian terrorists to the Israelis. His comparison did not assign blame, unless it was assigned to everyone. It simply raised questions, difficult, disturbing questions. Everyone was human, no one was made into a caricature, an exaggeration, some black-and-white person. Everyone was three-dimensional. This movie is dark in tone, but it is definitely not anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, or pro-Intifada.
The scene that I found most chilling and most compelling was when Avner feels he's being hunted. He checks every room, looks under the bed for a bomb, disassembles his telephone, gouges open his television set, and slits his mattress. Then, still exhausted and soul-weary, he sleeps in the closet. There is a close-up of his face, and his expression is terrifying because he is so weary, his eyes red-rimmed and saddened, pain reflecting from his expression. When will this end?
I don't have the words to explain how much this movie moved me.
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When this blog starts doing more harm than good, then I'm done.
When this blog starts upsetting people for no good cause, then it's not fulfilling its purpose.
I've left up the posts that people may find important/ the ones people most commonly search for. I thank you for your kindness and your patience as readers.
I'm not sure what I'll do next. I might read but not comment. I might create a different blog. Who knows? One thing's for sure- this one is done.
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Oprah, Rwanda and Clemantine
If you watch Oprah, you may be interested in watching the show on May 24 or 25th.
That's when Oprah will speak to various essay winners.
Including Clemantine Wamariya, who goes to New Trier now but formerly attended my school.
Recently, I mentioned her story in a comment on DovBear's blog.
My transcript of her story (which may contain some inaccuracies) based on a speech she gave to my school last year, is available here. I don't know what she will be speaking about on Oprah's show, but no matter what it may be (I don't know how much time will be devoted to her), I believe it will be worthwhile. Her speech to me- to my school- was extremely powerful.
Below is her story (a reposting from my other blog.)
This is about the Rwanda genocide.
This is about the girl who goes to my school who survived.
Her name was Clementine. She was six years old at the time, and lived in Rwanda, where everything was beautiful, was wonderful. She was happy and her family was happy. There was no difference between the Tutsis and the Hutus, or at least, none that she could see. She went to kindergarten with all the other children, and together they played. Her mother always invited these children over to their house; it turned into a day-care center, really, after school. Her mother was the soul of kindness, always desiring to help other people- oh, they don't have salt, go give them salt, etc. Give them this and give them that.
Clementine describes her parents as being beautiful, wonderful parents. This is not a description teenagers often tender about those who care for them. She describes her mother, extremely spiritual, very Christian, a great believer in God.
And then, suddenly, overnight, everything changed.
This didn't happen long ago. This happened in 1994, when we were all alive.
Her mother came to her room, panicking, weeping. She clutched Clementine's hand, and her sister's hand, and said that they had to pray. "But why, mother, why?" Clementine kept on asking. What was going on? Her mother told her the president was being shot and tomorrow they were all going to die. But why?
Simply because they were Tutsis. They lived the Tutsi life, for though her father was of mixed blood, he was a rich man, and since he was rich, he was a Tutsi. Her mother was a Tutsi. And therefore they were Tutsis. They prayed, and that night everything changed. The three housekeepers, people she had trusted, left them that night. Left them because otherwise they would die.
Her father owned a taxicab company, and was very wealthy and well-known. Her mother was the soul of kindness. But everyone turned against them.
They hid for one, no, two, weeks. Hid in the house, eating off the food they had, starving. Then a friend of her father's came over and said he could only take the girls, it would be bad if he took the boys, because then they would kill him, but he could take the girls. Clementine's brother told her to think that everything was a movie; they were in a movie.
Clementine and her sister were sneaked into a car, hiding under piles of luggage. They drove swiftly, and all along was the stench and smell of the dead, even in the car, even though the windows were up, there was the smell of the corpses rotting away in the street. They were going to their grandparents, because they assumed that they wouldn't kill them. How could they kill them? They were too old. They got there, and found the rest of their aunts, uncles, cousins with them. They stayed there for a while.
They played different games, the children, to take their minds off what was happening.
Then one night her grandmother woke Clementine and her sister up. She screamed, "Get out, get out!" They jumped out the window, Clementine still remembers the little pants and sandals she was wearing. They ran, ran to the forest in the dark, and hiding in the dark forest they remained. Her grandparents and everyone else in that house- her aunts, her uncles- were all killed. Then she saw the house burning, and smelled the scorching bodies. She and her sister sat in the forest and watched them burn.
They walked. They walked for two days, these two children, one six and the other perhaps sixteen, at the oldest? There was no food, and no water, they were exhausted and hunted. They had to be quiet lest they attract attention. They finally came to a church and decided they would stop to rest in the church for a little while, because surely nobody would dare defile the church.
They opened the door and there were bodies; it was all piled high with bodies, and the confused six-year-old girl simply looked at the bodies. It was supposed to be a movie, her brother had said, but there were no cameras she could see; it was unreal, why was it happening. She wanted to die, she didn't want to live, she wanted to go back and burn with her grandparents in the house...
They hid in a corner of the church because they heard something; they heard footsteps. A man came into the church and asked whether everyone was dead, whether there was anyone left to finish off. He walked through the church; he looked straight at them. An overwhelming feeling came over Clementine, and she wanted to scream, I don't want to die, I don't want to die. Her sister told her to be quiet, otherwise he would see them. So she prayed...Did he seem them? Did he not? They do not know. He walked away, he walked out of the church, he did not kill them.
They stayed there maybe 20 minutes, how was it he did not kill them? They had to move, they had to leave before they were found, and so they left, and then her sister, after they crawled- walked some more, saw a sign, signifying the river that was the border between Rwanda and another place, where they could be safe. But the river was rushing, and fast, and there was no way they could swim it. Some men were in a boat, and they asked who these kids were, and the older sister had warned Clementine to be quiet and pretend she was deaf, so she answered they were walking to their aunt's house. The men allowed them to get in the boat.
Then...then...when they were in the middle of the river, one of the men lifted Clementine and pushed her into the lake. Pushed her in, a six-year-old, so that she would drown in the lake. She doesn't remember what happened; she only remembers awakening with her sister holding her hand, in the middle of the lake. Somehow, somehow, they were so cold, so cold, but they got to the other side, and walked some more, until they saw mango trees and they began to eat...starving, they fell upon them and tried to gorge themselves on mangoes.
They heard someone coming, and her brother had taught Clementine to climb, so she climbed the mango tree, and so did her sister. They remained there and looked down, where a family was walking. They didn't notice them, but then a little boy saw them and started screaming that there were people in the tree. They came down out of the tree and explained they were refugees to the family, who were living in the middle of nowhere in a little mud-grass-hut. They stayed with those people for a long time, there was no technology, they learned to care for themselves...Clementine remembers cooking over open fires, etc.
They then went to refugee camp, which was the worst experience in her life...being there with Hutus who had killed the Tutsis, being there amidst the death from all different causes, the death from disease or lack of shelter or hunger. Pure death. She shut her mouth and would not talk at all in the refugee camp, for two years she did not talk except to her sister, and then only with anger.
They went to many countries, to the Congo and many other places, and finally there was a kind of sponsorship through an immigration program that allowed her to get to the USA- a church or family needed to sponsor her here, and a church sponsored her, she lives with a member of the church. For a long time she believed she was all alone, had grown up alone, everything, everything had been taken from her.
But then, in the USA, one day they met a woman who knew her aunt, and had her aunt's phonenumber, and they found out her aunt was still alive. And a miracle- her parents, too, were alive, different, torn, having lost everything, leading a very different life, but alive. They had more children, too....they are still in Rwanda. Clementine has not returned to Rwanda, as of yet, she cannot in some ways.
But it was what she said later, when people asked her questions, that made the biggest impression on me. People asked her what made her survive, when she so wanted to die, when she truly hated her life. And she said, and this is her story and her life, not what you ought to do, but simply what she said- it was God. Her mother had taught her prayer and spirituality and God, and she believed in Him. She believes that He has a plan for her, the good and the bad, a master plan that is there for her. And someone asked her how she could believe in God after all she had been through, and she said that it had been very hard, and sometimes she asked herself how it was possible, but that she answered herself by showing her all the miracles- how was it she was alive? How was it the man in the church didn't see her? How did she survive the raging river, the currents that could have killed her in the lake? How did her parents survive? God is with her, He will always be with her...
And then she said that sometimes she hears us Americans says, " I have so much homework, I hate my life." And she said that although she understands what we mean, she wants us to remember that there are some who DO hate their lives, who suffer and feel pain and want to die. There is now a genocide going on in Sudan, and she feels that pain. And she wants, more than anything, simply to obliviate the difference betwen the Hutus and Tutsis and whoever else, because they are all people, and they all suffer, and nothing like this should ever happen...
And then...and then she stated something unbelievable. Not in a tone of confidence or pride, but someone asked her whether she had forgiven. She said it was a hard thing to forgive, you do not see someone kill your grandparents and forgive them. You do not remember corpses and forgive. But she said that she had forgiven, had fought so that she might forgive, and with that forgiveness had freed herself. Before she could not talk about it, but now she can. She can tell us of the spirituality of the good people who helped her, the Churches and her mother and prayer and God. She can tell us of the horror. She can tell us everything.
This is not my story to tell, but since I believe Clementine truly desires to end hatred, I think I can only help by typing this and allowing you, too, to see what she sees, and know what she knows. To see the strength that she had so that she might survive, that she might retain belief in God.
Today I saw a holy person. Perhaps I saw the holiest person I know.
And she is not a Jew.
And that is okay. Because she doesn't need to be a Jew to tell a story of such terrible grace and beauty, such magnified power, as to make me shudder, make me tremble.
Today I saw a holy person.
I pray that you might see her, too.
Posted by Chana at Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11 comments:
The Next World
Reunited by Keith Maniac
Not too long ago, DPChallenge hosted a challenge for digital photographers- the subject being the Afterlife. It was very interesting to see the different takes and views people had, and how they were able to express these beliefs through the medium of photograpy. The picture above won the blue ribbon for the challenge; it was the one that comforted or interested the most people. In some measure, this may just have been because of the technical skill or innovative setup, however, I think that the idea expressed- the reunion of the family unit- is what mainly drew viewers toward the picture.
I started thinking about the afterlife/ Olam HaBa/ the next world after this challenge. What is the Jewish view on the world to come? Do we even really know?
From here, it seems we do not:
R. Hiyya b. Abba said in R. Johanan's name: All the prophets prophesied [all the good things] only in respect of the Messianic era; but as for the world to come 'the eye hath not seen, O Lord, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.'18
On the other hand, there are certain themes, motifs and ideas that are repeated and represented in terms of the world to come. I don't profess to understand them, but I thought I would represent them here.
1. Judgement-
There will be three groups on the Day of Judgment: one of thoroughly righteous people, one of thoroughly wicked people and one of people in between. The first group will be immediately inscribed for everlasting life; the second group will be doomed in Gehinnom [Hell], as it says, "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence" [Daniel 12:2], the third will go down to Gehinnom and squeal and rise again, as it says, "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name and I will answer them" [Zechariah 13:9]... [Babylonian Talmud, tractate Rosh Hashanah 16b-17a]
The school of Hillel suggested a more merciful view, in which the middle group are sent directly to Gan Eden (Heaven) instead of Gehinnom after death. Rabbi Hanina added that all who go down to Gehinnom will go up again, except adulterers, those who put their fellows to shame in public, and those who call their fellows by an obnoxious name [Babylonian Talmud, tractate Baba Metzia 58b]. Source here
All the good deeds which Israel does in this world will bear testimony unto them in the world to come, as it is said, Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified; let them hear and say it is truth. Let them bring their witnesses that they may be justified — that is Israel; let them hear and say it is truth — these are the idolaters.
Avodah Zara 4a
R. Samuel b. Nahmani in the name of R. Jonathan also said: Every good deed that one does in this world precedes him and walks in front of him in the world to come, as it is said: And thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward.5 Likewise, every transgression that one commits clasps him and leads him on the day of judgment, as it is said, They clasp him in the course of their way.6 R. Eleazar said: It is tied on to him like a dog, as it is said, He hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, to be with her;7 [it is to say that] to lie by her in this world, [would mean for him] to be with her in the world to come.
2. Rewards-
A. The Shining Face
(and I'm certain that the Little Midrash Says brings up an idea, somewhere, stating that one's face shines in accordance to one's learning- the brightest have radiant faces like the sun, the next like the moon, then there are those who glow like the light of the menorah...and hence one can tell one's level of learning from one's face.) I'm not sure if this is the source for that, but...
R. Judah, son of R. Simeon, expounded: He who emaciates25 his face for the sake of the study of the Torah in this world,26 the Holy One, blessed be He, will make his lustre shine in the next, as it is written, His countenance shall be as the Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.27
Sanhedrin 100a
B. The Leviathan
Likewise, Leviathan the slant serpent and Leviathan the tortuous serpent he created male and female; and had they mated with one another they would have destroyed the whole world.19 What [then] did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He castrated the male and killed the female preserving it in salt for the righteous in the world to come; for it is written: And he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.20
Bava Basra 74b
and also stated here,
Rabbah said in the name of R. Johanan: The Holy One, blessed be He, will in time to come make a banquet for the righteous from the flesh of Leviathan; for it is said: Companions will make a banquet of it.11 Kerah12 must mean a banquet; for it is said: And he prepared for them a great banquet13 and they ate and drank.14 Companions must mean scholars,15 for it is said: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken for thy voice; cause me to hear it.16 The rest [of Leviathan] will be distributed and sold out in the markets of Jerusalem...
Bava Basra 75
C. The Crowns
A favourite saying of Rab was: [The future world is not like this world.]19 In the future world there is no eating nor drinking nor propagation nor business nor jealousy nor hatred nor competition, but the righteous sit with their crowns on their heads feasting on the brightness of the divine presence, as it says, And they beheld God, and did eat and drink.20
Berakhot 17
D. Golden Three-Legged Tables
Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa's wife said to him, "For how much longer are we to continue to suffer so much?" When he asked her what they should do, (she replied), "Pray to God for mercy that He provide us with something."
Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa davened for mercy and something like the palm of a hand miraculously appeared, and he was given one golden leg of a table. He (others have the version she) saw in a dream that in the future world, the righteous people are eating at golden tables that have three legs, whereas Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa was eating at a table with only two legs. He said, "Are you content that everyone else is eating at a complete (three-legged) table, while we eat at a defective (missing a leg) table?"
She said to him, "What shall we do?"
"Let us pray for mercy that they should take it back."
He prayed for mercy, and they took it back...
Ta'anit 25a
E. Justice
R. Abbahu also said: Solomon was asked: Who has a place in the future world? He answered: He to whom are applied the words, and before his elders shall be glory.7 A similar remark was made by Joseph the son of R. Joshua. He had been ill and fell in a trance. [After he recovered], his father said to him: 'What vision did you have?' He replied, 'I saw a world upside down, the upper below and the lower above.'8 He said to him: 'You saw a well regulated world.' [He asked further]: 'In what condition did you see us [students]?' He replied: 'As our esteem is here, so it is there. I also [he continued] heard them saying, Happy he who comes here in full possession of his learning. I also heard them saying, No creature can attain to the place [in heaven] assigned to the martyrs of the [Roman] Government.' Who are these? Shall I say R. Akiba and his comrades?9 Had they no other merit but this? Obviously even without this [they would have attained this rank]. What is meant therefore must be the martyrs of Lud.10
3. Punishments (while there's an entire discussion simply about Gehinnom and its purpose, and about those who have no portion in the world to come, here are some explicit punishments)
A. Titus
What I decreed for myself. Every day my ashes are collected and sentence is passed on me and I am burnt and my ashes are scattered over the seven seas.
B. Bilam
He replied: With boiling hot semen.2
C. Sinners of Israel
What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement.
All of these are from Gittin 57 (which has the very fascinating story of Onkeles communing with the dead)
4. The Dead and Our World
Are the dead cognizant of humans? There is a an extensive debate about this in Berakoth, beginning in Chapter 3, 18a. It starts with:
R. Hiyya and R. Jonathan were once walking about in a cemetery, and the blue fringe of R. Jonathan was trailing on the ground. Said R. Hiyya to him: Lift it up, so that they [the dead] should not say: Tomorrow they are coming to join us and now they are insulting us! He said to him: Do they know so much? Is it not written, But the dead know not anything?19
They continue through various dreams (money hidden in forgotten places, children 'forgetting their learning' and wondering how their parents would respond, the story of the two girls, one buried in a shroud of matted reeds, whose discussions help out a pious man until they learn their words are being 'heard" in the world below...) and each "proof" brought is subject to argument, so it cannot conclusively be said the dead are cognizant of the living.
Relating back to the topic that brought on my curiousity about this subject- namely, the DPChallenge pictures- there was another evocative photograph that I personally connected to Ecclesiastes/ Koheles, even though the quote was taken from the New Testament.
"For what is your life? It is even a vapour," by mpeters
The above picture and this picture were my favorites.
What about you? What do you think of the afterlife/ the next world? Which picture do you find compelling?
Posted by Chana at Sunday, May 07, 2006 8 comments:
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«Стать Севера» — четырнадцатый студийный альбом группы «Алиса», вышедший в 2007 году. Альбом состоит из девяти композиций и двух бонусов: «Ветер» и «Rock-n-Roll», в записи которого участвовало большое количество российских рок-музыкантов. Песня «На пороге неба» звучит в трейлере к фильму «Волкодав из рода Серых Псов». По словам К. Кинчева, главная тема альбома — «что мы, Россия, — это именно Север, а не Восток и не Запад, не Европа и не Азия».

Запись и презентация
Запись альбома проходила в Санкт-Петербурге на студии «Добролёт» летом 2006 года. Над этим работали Е. Левин и А. Мартисов. «Стать Севера», как и два предыдущих альбома группы, сводился саунд-продюсером Джемом на студии «Topaz» в Кёльне, так как отношения, сложившиеся с немецкими партнёрами, полностью устраивали музыкантов. Мастерингом занимался Кай Бланкенберг осенью 2006 года в Дюссельдорфе на студии «Skayline—Tonfabric».

Презентация альбома состоялась 14 апреля в Москве в Лужниках и 27 апреля в Санкт-Петербурге во дворце спорта «Юбилейный». Во время концерта в Лужниках была исполнена песня «Власть» с будущего альбома «Пульс хранителя дверей лабиринта», которая подверглась резкой критике на Украине. Перед началом её исполнения Константин Кинчев сделал предисловие:«Эту песню мы хотели приберечь для нашего нового альбома, но она почему-то наделала много шуму на Украине. Наверное, у кого что болит, тот о том и говорит. А мы всего лишь хотели выразить наше отношение к такому понятию, как власть».

Список композиций

 «Дым» была написана 7 января 2006 года на Покровке.
 «Иго любви» была написана 1 августа 2005 года в Сабе.
 «На пороге неба» была написана 15 августа 2005 года в Сабе. К Константину Кинчеву обратились с предложением об участии в рекламном ролике к фильму «Волкодав из рода Серых Псов», и он, прочитав сценарий, согласился. Ролик был снят на уже готовую песню «На пороге неба». В оригинале она длится около семи минут, и для участия в клипе было убрано два наиболее важных и личностных куплета. Режиссёром-постановщиком стал Карен Оганесян. Съемки проходили 12 октября 2006 года на помосте, установленном в сказочном деревянном городе Галирад, который был построен специально для фильма. Также в клип вошли эпизоды из самого фильма. Использовались пиротехнические эффекты и компьютерная графика. Ролик с одной стороны поддерживал рекламную кампанию Волкодава, а с другой — предварял выход альбома «Стать Севера». Первый показ клипа на телевидении состоялся 15 ноября.

 «Стать Севера» была написана 23 декабря 2005 года на Покровке.
 Печаль была написана Константином Кинчевым в 10 апреля 1997 году. Лидер чеченской группы «Бекхан», Бекхан Барахоев, обратился к Константину с просьбой разрешить ему исполнить эту песню, и лидер группы Алиса ответил согласием. В результате «Печаль» в исполнении группы «Бекхан» можно услышать на альбоме «На краю», вышедшем в 1998 году. В записи этого альбома, которая проходила на студии ДДТ-rec, участвовал гитарист группы «Алиса» Евгений Лёвин (звук).

 «Старые раны» была написана Майком Науменко. Когда Константина Кинчева спросили, почему он решил исполнить именно её, он ответил, что «почувствовал эту песню как свою, сроднился с ней».

 «Падал снег» была написана 3 января 2006 года на Покровке.
 «Жизнь струны» была написана 25 июля 2005 года в Сабе. Она посвящена Виктору Цою.
 «Северная быль» была написана 11 января 2006 года на Покровке.
 «Ветер» была написана 18 февраля 2000 года на Покровке.
 «Rock-n-roll» была написана 28 августа 2005 года в Сабе. Для записи были приглашены многие российские рок-музыканты: Армен Григорян, Сергей Галанин, Вячеслав Бутусов, Рикошет, Александр Ф.Скляр, Алексей Романов, Сергей «Чиж» Чиграков, Борис Гребенщиков, Михаил Борзыкин, Гарик Сукачёв, Владимир Шахрин, Вадим и Глеб Самойловы, Александр Васильев, Дмитрий Ревякин, Андрей Князев, Михаил Горшенёв, Антон «Пух» Павлов, Евгений «АйАйАй» Фёдоров, Андрей Макаревич. Юрий Шевчук тоже приехал на студию и спел свою строчку в песне, но после позвонил и попросил её стереть. В создании аранжировки вместе с музыкантами «Алисы» участвовал гитарист «Ва-Банка» Сергей Левитин. Планировалось также организовать большой концерт в Москве с участием этих музыкантов, но замысел претворить в жизнь не получилось.

Издания
Впервые «Стать Севера» был издан ООО «Первое Музыкальное Издательство» и ООО «Гранд Рекордс Паблишинг» в 2007 году.

В 2009 году Real Records переиздал 17 номерных альбомов «Алисы» в большом картонном боксе. Издания в формате Digipack были дополнены бонус-треками с концертных альбомов. На альбоме «Стать Севера» — это концертная версия «Rock-n-Roll».

В 2015 году альбом был переиздан на CD компанией «Мистерия звука» в подарочном варианте.

Оформление
В центре обложки, выполненной в чёрном цвете, изображён чертополох. Справа от его стебля расположено название альбома, слева — логотип группы. Рисунок выполнен в синем цвете. Такой же чертополох был на бляшке ремня, в котором выступал Константин Кинчев. Над оформлением альбома работал М. Ганнушкин, также использовались фотографии В. Потапова.

Константин Кинчев об альбоме

На вопрос о том, что он вкладывал в понятие «север» Константин Кинчев ответил так:«Сейчас много говорится о поисках выборного пути, по какой модели следует развиваться нашему государству — Восток или Запад, Европа или Азия. Для меня эти вопросы давно сняты… Согласитесь, находясь, к примеру, в Магадане или Петропавловске-Камчатском очень смешно наблюдать по телевизору рассуждения высоколобых политологов, сидящих в телестудии, о том, что мы Европа. Мы — Север, объединяющий Восток и Запад, и это звучит вразумительно и для тех, кто живёт на Псковщине, и для тех, кому суждено было родиться на Колыме. У нас свой, ни на кого не похожий путь».
В интервью «Газета.ru» Константин сказал, что вначале у него появилась эта мысль, а потом стали рождаться песни, которые получились «более личностные, более углублённые внутрь».
Сам альбом, по его словам, получился «достаточно меланхоличный, но с ощущением выхода и с чётким осознанием правильности выбранного пути»:
«Альбом получился несколько тягучий. На мой взгляд, приглушённый, камерный и несколько мрачный в плане музыки. Я бы это назвал готикой, но это моя, личная готика. Что касается групп, повлиявших на звук… Ну вы послушаете — найдете с кем сравнить. Но из готики в общепризнанном понимании я как слушал, так и слушаю Sisters of Mercy и Cure. Саунд альбома обусловлен и тем, что была задача дать больше возможностей клавишнику, и я это сделал. Дима много очень сделал для этого альбома. Больше электроники хотелось».

Список исполнителей
 Константин Кинчев — вокал;
 Петр Самойлов — бас, вокал;
 Евгений Лёвин — гитары, эдиты;
 Игорь Романов — гитары;
 Андрей Вдовиченко — барабаны;
 Дмитрий «Ослик» Парфёнов — клавишные, петли, эдиты, компьютер;
 Юрий Шлапаков — звук.
 Коха Pushking — вокал (6, 7, 9)
В записи песни «Rock'n'roll» принимали участие многие российские рок-музыканты, фамилии которых указаны выше.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Альбом на сайте «Время Z» — проект «Рок-песни: толкование» (история, интервью, комментарии)

 «Стать Севера» оказалась не совсем статна, зато Кинчев... NEWSmuz

Альбомы 2007 года
Альбомы группы «Алиса»
Альбомы Grand Records

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TripAdvisor and VisitScotland deal 'could bring £150m tourism boost
Travel website TripAdvisor has hit a partnership deal with Scotland's tourism agency which it is hoped could broaden the Scottish economy by £150m.
Nicola Sturgeon endorsed the VisitScotland deal, a first for TripAdvisor in Europe, in New York.
Speaking on the last day of her visit to the US, the first minister said it would promote Scottish tourism to 70 million potential new visitors.
The two companies will work on a joint marketing campaign in the UK.
The £150m will be provided over the next three years.
Ms. Sturgeon said: "Our tourism industry has always been mighty - spending by North American visitors leaped by almost 28% to £633m in the last year alone.
"However, it's crucial that we ensure Scotland's appeal achieves as wide an audience as possible.
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Scottish Conservative MSP Ross Thomson said: "Any announcement will help to promote our world-class tourism offer here in Scotland should be broadly welcomed.
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Jaume Ventura is the recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project, Globalization, Economic Policy and Political Structure. In this short video, Ventura talks about the project's objectives, challenges, and potential impact for the field and for society.
Globalization is expanding economic borders rapidly. Barriers to trade are now lower than ever and this has led to the creation of many truly global goods and asset markets. And yet globalization is changing political borders only slowly. The second wave of globalization that started after WWII found the world organized into a set of states or centralized jurisdictions that often go beyond cultural borders but that clearly fall short of economic borders. These centralized jurisdictions still hold most of the political and decision-making power.
This growing mismatch between markets and states lowers the quality of economic policymaking. Since constituencies are located inside the state, governments tend to disregard effects of economic policies that are felt beyond the political border. The result is a worsening in policymaking that could seriously mitigate the gains from globalization and even turn them into losses. The goal of this project is to improve our understanding of how this growing mismatch between economic and political borders affects economic policy and political structure. In particular, it focuses on the inefficiencies this mismatch creates and on how should we ("the citizens of the world") handle them.
The project is organized around two themes. The first one is the handling of enforcement externalities. One of the key roles of governments is to enforce contracts. When these contracts involve domestic and foreign residents, governments have the temptation to enforce selectively so as to shift income to domestic residents at the expense of foreigners. The second theme is the evolution of political structure. The world is currently organized into states or centralized jurisdictions. This project studies the hypothesis that globalization leads to an alternative political structure based on a set of overlapping jurisdictions.


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March 27, 2018 – Drew Fights Jason, Beverly Hills Goes to Berlin & Celebrity Spokesdiets
Posted on March 28, 2018 by theresakp
At the MetroCourt, Nina tells Valentin that she's not sure she's the one to sell Port Charles to the rest of the world. She has a skeleton in every closet at Windemere, and Windemere has a lot of closets. She tells Valentin to finish his drink while she goes to see Peter.
Peter writes about time taking revenge. He writes that his father was all but helpless, and that he had no pity, but had triumph and savage joy. Maxie startles him. She says she was knocking, and he didn't even look up. She asks what he's working on that's so riveting, and don't tell her it's budget projections. He says he gets into his work. He's glad she stopped by. He has something for her.
Franco paces the station. He wonders why they won't let him see his mom.
In the interrogation room, Betsy asks why she's there; she wants to talk to "Bobby." Dante says he's waiting for her, but he was hoping that she could help them locate Jim. He asks if Jim mentioned any plans or trips. She starts to freak out, asking, what if he comes back? She needs to see her son.
Franco thinks once Betsy sees him, she'll start talking. Jim isn't around to pressure her or make her afraid. Franco tells Elizabeth he wants to know what happened when they were kids.
Sam remembers telling Drew about loving both him and Jason, and Drew asking why they got married. She thinks about Jason telling her trust herself to do what's right, to take care of herself and the kids, and call if she needs him. There's a knock at the door. It's Curtis. He tells her that he was just with Drew. Sam asks if he's okay, and Curtis says, no, not at all.
Drew tells Jason that he can't get away from him. Jason says he's there because of a shipment for Sonny, but he'll have it moved. Drew tells him to go ahead and run; it's what he's good at. His game is to run and make Sam chase him. He guesses it worked. It looks like he's got her back.
Peter gives Maxie the envelope from the baby's college fund that she left in his office. She asks him for help with financial information. He tells her Nina has a fleet of advisors, but Maxie says it's complicated dealing with Nina. When she sees Nina, she sees Nathan, and thinks Nina feels the same way. Peter says he comes with complications too; everyone does. He also thinks Nina might believe he's overstepping, but Maxie says finance is his area of expertise; plus, he's someone who's detached from the situation.
Franco tells Elizabeth that Jim tried to kill him, then held him and Drew captive. Why shouldn't he help bring him in? Outside the interrogation room, Jordan tells Dante the more they push, the more Betsy shuts down. Dante says Franco might have a better shot. She's not under arrest; why not let her see her son? Jordan says she wants to try one more thing first.
Franco tells Elizabeth that he wants to get closure, so he can get back to the most important thing in his life – her. Right now, he has a hard time trusting anyone with the truth. He doesn't want to face the secrets, and the secrets become lies until he can't differentiate between memories and what's been put in his head. He can face the truth. At least he'll know there are no more secrets. It's time for him to face something that's been haunting him his whole life. He'll be free. Elizabeth wonders, what if leads to more questions?
Sam guesses Drew told Curtis what happened. Curtis says Drew told him that they're over, and she's in love with his brother. He knows how freaky and complicated love triangles can be. He doesn't mean to make her feel guilty. Sam says she does, but not for loving both of them; for the choices she made when Jason came back, and everyone thought he was an imposter. Curtis says he did, and so did she. Sam says, no. When he came to her hospital room, she knew, but she was so in love with Drew, she didn't want to lose everything they'd built together. She couldn't face it, and lied to protect their life. It was lie on top of lie, until she couldn't live like that. She was no example for her children, and had to be honest with herself, even if it meant she could lose both of them. Yeah, like she'd lose Jason, who I'm slowing starting to dislike.
Drew asks if it doesn't bother Jason to come to the place where Sam almost died. Sam carried the guilt, but he left her alone; Sonny came first, like he always did, and always will. Who knows that better than he does?
Nina tells Valentin that she wants to update Peter on the media push for Port Charles. It's bound to affect Aurora. She thinks her warning him away from Maxie registered loud and clear. Valentin says he's probably savvy enough to understand professional boundaries. Nina says she'll be right back, and jets.
Maxie tells Peter that Nathan was a great cop, but no finance wiz. She'd like him to take a look; he knows he'll keep the best interest of the baby in mind. Peter says he has people he can refer her to, but she says they won't know how important it is. It's more than money; it's honoring Nathan. She wouldn't put him on the spot if she didn't need his help. He tells her that he'll see what he can do. She says it's one less thing on her mind while Georgie is visiting. She's less than thrilled to be going back to the apartment, but doesn't think Georgie should stay at the hotel. He's glad she found a reason to go home. She thanks him, and when she leaves, he makes a call.
Elizabeth says Franco is looking for a miracle answer to explain everything. What if he doesn't find it? Is he back to keeping secrets? He doesn't want to keep anything from her. He just wanted to know the truth, and was protecting her. She says he wasn't protecting her; he was pushing her away. Doc comes into the station looking for Dante and Jordan. Franco tells him to take a number. He says he's there to consult on a case. Franco tells Doc that he's not doing so good, but Doc doesn't have time for that right now. Jordan tells Doc that they're ready for him. Franco starts to follow, but Doc tells him to wait outside. Franco says it's his mom, and Doc says he's been asked to assess her. Doc goes into the interrogation room. Franco knows it's in his best interest, but his life, both the past and future, depends on what happens in there.
Curtis tells Sam that Drew is going to stay at his crib, so he'll need some stuff. Sam says Drew is lucky to have a friend like him. There are so many things she and Drew still need to talk about. Curtis says they'll figure it out. She goes upstairs.
Drew knows all the times Jason chose Sonny over Sam. It haunts her. He tells Jason when Sam was sick, she tried to kill Sonny. She shot him, and left him to die, thinking it would break his hold over Drew, when they thought he was Jason. It worked. He walked away, choosing Sam and his family over Sonny. They were happy, then he came back, dragging her to back into everything she fears. Jason says he's not dragging her anywhere.
On the phone, Peter says he wants to make a large deposit. He wants the funds redirected, and unable to be traced back to him. He hears something, and says he'll call back. He asks if someone is there. Nina says she'll come back in the morning; sorry for interrupting. She says it sounded important, but he says not unless bean counting is important to her. She apologizes for going off on him about Maxie. She'd just come from a doctor's appointment, and was out of sorts. He hopes everything is fine, and she says it is. She wanted to talk to him about the Aurora advertising donations for the earthquake recovery. She tells him the mayor assembled a group to talk about rebuilding the city, and not just physically. He wants the media to promote a vibrant city where people want to live, and Aurora should be part of it.
Dante Introduces Doc to Betsy. She wonders why she has to see a doctor when she was just released from the hospital, but Jordan says he's a different kind. She wants to know when she can see her son. Doc asks for privacy, and she asks what kind of doctor he is. He tells her, the kind who listens. He says that while she was away, he listened to Franco a lot. She wonders if he's all right after all the years of lies and pain. She loves him very much and never intended to hurt him. She says it's her fault. She was so wrong, and now she wants to make amends. She has to tell him somehow. Doc says she can help Franco heal, but first she has to heal herself. She says she doesn't desire forgiveness, and Doc asks what she did.
Sam brings down a couple of bags for Drew, and gives it to Curtis. She says, aside from Scout, she doesn't think there's anything else he'd want to take with him. Curtis says it's too soon to make life decisions. It's only been all of two hours. Drew's pride is hurt. No guy likes to lose his lady, and it's worse losing to a brother, especially one he can't stand.
Jason tells Drew that if they're done, it's the best thing to happen to Sam. He treats her like she's something he owns, and makes her feel small and scared. Drew doesn't know what Jason is telling himself, but he remembers every single way Jason hurt Sam. Jason says he can deal with never seeing her again, as long as she's done with Drew. Drew takes a swing at him, and they fight.
Nina tells Peter the Crimson lifestyle doesn't exactly scream disaster relief, but it's about rebranding the town. From a P.R. perspective, it's irresistible. She adds that their budget should be tripled, getting Peter's attention. He apologizes, saying his mind is on other things. He asks her to meet with him tomorrow, where he promises his undivided, caffeinated attention. She says she knows Maxie sees him as a friend, and Valentin said he has her best interest at heart. She still thinks it's a good idea for him to step back, and let her lean on family.
Doc comes out, and tells Franco that he knows it's not his strong suit, but be patient. Betsy is in shock, and he wants to put her in the hospital for observation and treatment. It would be a good idea of Franco wasn't there when she's transported. Franco tells Elizabeth that if he has to be at the hospital all night, he will. She says she'll drive, and takes his hand.
Curtis asks if Sam has tried to contact Drew. She says not yet, and he tells her that's probably a good call. He knows she didn't ask, but his advice is to chill. When Drew is ready, he'll reach out. She asks if he has any other words of wisdom. He says the anger phase is painful and a bitch, but it becomes manageable. He tells her to look past the loss to the good times. They might look different, but they're still of value. The person she loves is still there – more flawed than she thought, but still real. Maybe they'll get to the point of wishing each other well. She says it sounds like he's been through it. He says both of their situations are unique. He had a broken heart, but eventually saw himself through it, just like she will. Her phone rings. It's desk sergeant Murray, who tells her that Drew is in custody at the courthouse. She asks what he's been arrested for, and he tells her assault and battery, and disturbing the peace.
Valentin asks Nina if it went well, and she thinks she piqued Peter's interest; they're talking tomorrow. She tells Valentin that before he knew she was there, he was making a money transfer. Valentin doesn't think there's anything unusual about that, but she says he hung up quickly when she walked in. He tried to cover, but it seemed forced. Valentin is sure it's nothing, but she thinks he's hiding something important.
Maxie returns to Peter's office. He says it must be his night for interruptions; Nina was just there. Maxie hopes she wasn't telling him to keep his distance. He asks why she's back, and she says she needs to know if she's doing the right thing moving back home. He says she's the only one who can make that decision. She thought she had, but just canceled two Ubers, then created a chain of rationalization about Georgie living in the hotel like Eloise. He says it's a valid point, if she's having a great time. She says she's hiding. She doesn't want to go home. It was her home with Nathan, and never will be again. Peter says there's all kinds of courage, and he thinks she's capable of doing anything for the sake of her daughter. If the best thing is for her to visit at home, then go home. She thinks he's right, but needs some help.
At the hospital, Franco appreciates Elizabeth waiting with him. He asks about the boys, and she says Aiden misses his video game buddy. Jake had a landscape assignment, and could have used his help. She describes the painting Jake created, and how he can't wait to show him. The boys miss him. Franco asks, what about her? Doc comes out, and tells them Betsy is sedated, but fighting it. It's time to go in.
Franco goes in to see Betsy. He tells her that some people will do anything to get a room. He says it's been a long time.
At the station, Sam tells Murray that she paid the fine, and was told Drew could be released. Murray says he'll check to see if Drew is in the system. She asks what happened, and he tells her that they broke up a fight on the pier, and both men were taken into custody. She tells him that she can pay the other guy's fine, but he suggests getting Drew released first. Curtis walks in, and tells Sam that her sister is at her house watching the kids. He asks what the status is, but she doesn't know. He wonders if it's a good idea to see him, but she says, too late. Drew walks out.
Murray tells Drew that his wife paid the fine, but the incident is still open. If there's a second occurrence, it will be considered a criminal charge. Jordan asks Curtis, what happened? He says he's there picking up a friend, and tells her that Drew is staying with him. Drew says it's not necessary, but Curtis tells him that he's sorry he left him on the pier; they saw how that turned out. Jordan says he's free, and don't let it happen again. Drew blows past Sam, who is all weepy. Cry me a river.
Maxie asks Peter why they're at the MetroCourt restaurant, and he says her fridge is probably empty. She says she has ketchup, and he picks up an order. Nina sees them leaving, and asks if that just happened. Valentin says, yeah, they ordered takeaway. She says she was so sweet to him, it made her teeth hurt. She asked him to allow Maxie to lean on her family, and they're stuck like glue. Valentin says, hypothetically, when someone tells her not to do something, what does she do? Maxie likes Peter, and if someone, however well-meaning, tells her to avoid someone, how would she react? Nina says she'd be mad, and probably spend more time with them. She gets it. She can't confront Maxie on this, but she's not backing off. There's more going on with Peter than he's admitting.
Elizabeth asks Doc if it's true that the truth can set you free. He says it depends on the truth. In Franco's case, it depends on what Betsy tells him.
Betsy is upset, and Franco says she can tell him anything. She says she's sorry, and starts to cry.
Sam wants to get the name of the other man, but Murray tells her his lawyer was already there, threatening to sue the department for bias, among other things. She says, Diane Miller, and Murray says, that's the one. Jason walks out, and asks how she's doing. She says, okay, and they stare at each other, unrequited love hearts popping out of their eyes.
Tomorrow, Maxie knows what Peter is trying to do, Kim asks what going on with Elizabeth, and Sam needs some distance.
Kyle packs boxes. Storm steals the packing tape. Kyle is excited that they finally closed, but the old house is her comfort zone. It's hard to leave the happy memories. Mauricio told her to hire people to pack, but that's a no. She wants to control the situation. I don't blame her. She's also purging, and says Portia is the worst; every single thing is her favorite thing. She does sound like a small hoarder.
LVP is worried about Lollipop, who looks sad. They lost Pikachu a few days after Pink Dog, so she's a little paranoid. In her interview, LVP says they both had good lives, but she doesn't want to talk about it; her eyelashes will fall off. That's rough. I lost two dogs within two months, and it was devastating. They're premiering The Road to Yulan and Beyond, but she's not looking forward to it. It's been emotionally draining, and the result of years of hard work. Ken thinks the dogs would be proud. Giggy!
Erika sets up some fancy cookies for a visit from Dorit and LisaR. LisaR asks what the surprise is, but Erika says Dorit is late (which is no surprise), and she'll see when Dorit gets there. Erika asks what LisaR thought about the psychic, and LisaR says she's impressed with Erika's psychic abilities. Erika thinks they all have them. LisaR talks about how she had the perfect storm happen, meeting some people who wanted to hook up with her clothing business just when her store was about to close. Dorit arrives, and Erika brings out the cardboard stand-up of her avatar. Dorit wants to have an avatar. Erika says being fearless is what it's all about. It was either pivot or quit, and she's in a place of yes. LisaR relates. Erika says, once the energy starts rolling, every door opens. Dorit says she's been pouring her heart and soul into design, and her mind is going everywhere. That's probably nothing new. She's launching her first collection in five years. LisaR says there aren't many jobs for women over forty, and brings up how men even look for younger women in relationships. Erika says that's her story, and LisaR is like, oops.
Teddi is feeling hesitant about the Berlin trip. She doesn't want to leave Edwin and the kids. He says he can handle it. She wants to go over the calendar with him. Being a helicopter mom, when she goes away, she leaves an extensive list, but he cares so much, he might as well wipe with it. He suggests being a full-time dad, but then retracts that before he gets in trouble. Teddi is apprehensive about the trip because of Erika's repeated snapping at her. She tells Edwin that Erica apologized, and she thinks they'll have fun. He asks about Dorit, but she doesn't know. We flash back to the altercation about LisaR, and she says she doesn't know if Dorit accepted her apology or not. She thinks a one-on-one might be in order. She hopes the past issues don't rear their ugly heads.
LVP gets ready for the premier. She says it's important for her to pull herself together to give the message. Dorit calls, and LVP tells her Pikachu died in her arms. She doesn't want to talk about it now though, but Dorit ignores that, and prattles on. Giggy! LVP tries to get it together to fight the fight.
Ryan, Dorit's business partner, wants to go over color combinations. She's going to celebrate the launch of Beverly Beach with a fashion show. Ryan says everything is sample size extra small, because the girls are tiny. Dorit thinks a swimsuit should show a cheeky derriere, and says her swimsuits all give a lift. She tells Ryan about going to Berlin, and promises to work 24/7 this week. In her interview, she says she feels the creativity burning inside of her.
Giggy! The ladies get reserved seats for the premier. Dorit is late, but manages to get there before it starts. The Awareness Film Festival director tells them to prepare for tears. I won't be watching any of this; just keeping my eyes on this page. It's enough I have to hear it. Kyle says it's impossible not to think of her own dogs, and even though I'm not looking, I start to tear up. The majority are stolen pets. Ken says they've seen videos of them being stolen, and I hate China. LisaR says she can't talk about it. I can't even listen to this. Teddi says you can't imagine this is happening in our world. I can. Our world sucks. LVP says every dog saved is a victory, even if it's one at a time.
They go to the after-party. Teddi says LVP has done great things for dogs, and LVP hopes it makes a difference. She's glad her friends came – even LisaR. In her interview, Teddi says regardless of their ups and downs, she and Dorit have fun together. Dorit is ready to move on and have a great time. Erika's meeting was moved to LA, but she wants to go to Berlin anyway, and these bitches are coming along for the ride. She tells Teddi about a horseback riding trail in Berlin, and says she wants an old nag to ride. In her interview, LVP says clearly, she has a type. BA-DUM-CHH!
Erika goes over her wardrobe with Mikey. She says there's an edge to Berlin that requires costumes. She explains you need lube and baby powder to get into latex. It takes a lot of trunks full of glamour for Berlin.
Dorit is feeling like she's coming down with the flu. Apparently, that wasn't creativity she was burning with. She's been working through the night to get the collection done. She has no time to sleep or be sick.
Giggy! LVP has never been to Berlin, but heard stories about WWII from her grandmother, Nanny Kay, who was a nurse during the war. She feels that it's going to be more significant for her than the others.
The most anyone knows in German is Dorit, who can ask for another beer. They all do imitations of speaking in German, but it sounds Swedish. Dorit bugs the crap out of LVP on the flight. They're only going to be gone for four days, and everyone has brought at least four bags. And I don't mean small ones.
On the way to the hotel, they marvel at the architecture. Dorit was violently ill on the plane, and Kyle suggests calling a doctor when they get there. LisaR has brought her infamous bag o' pills, and says Dorit must be happy she has it this time around, since she gave her something for nausea.
They're greeted by the Waldorf Astoria manager. It's the presidential suite for Erika, who says it's been nice knowing the others. The other suites are nothing to sneeze at though. One of Erika's views includes the zoo. Baby elephant! Erika is shown the panic room, and thinks she should lock these ho's up.
Dorit says she might be sick, but still wants to look her best. The doctor comes to her suite, and she tells him about getting sick on the plane, and the different medications she's taken. He tells her she shouldn't have taken two of them together, and doesn't think she'll get nauseated again if she doesn't. Doesn't she know how to google?
Teddi video chats with Edwin, who's driving. She tells him to pull over, and shows him the view from her room. In her interview, she says there are highs and lows in traveling without the kids. Of course he's not following the list, but luckily he loves them and she has her back-up spy babysitter. LVP calls Dorit, and says she looks like sh*t. Dorit tells her about how she shouldn't have mixed the medications – plus a bloody Mary. She's going to skip tonight, and has FOMO. LVP thinks that sounds like a sexual maneuver. Dorit doesn't want to miss out, but a healthy Dorit is more fun than a sick one.
The ladies go to a bar. Still in her suite, Erika tells Mikey they're going shopping in the morning, and then horseback riding. Afterwards, she wants to have a dinner in the suite. She calls the desk, and asks if it's possible. They tell her they'll create a special menu, and she says it was the easiest reservation ever.
LisaR hopes they're not going on a boat. LisaR mentions Brandi slapping LVP in Amsterdam, and Teddi is shocked. LisaR says she's never even wanted to slap her, but LVP can't say the same. LVP says LisaR seems less engaged with the group lately. LisaR says she's changed, and in her interview, says she's less engaged in the bullsh*t. Kyle suggests a hybrid of the old and new LisaR. LisaR says she has daughters who look up to her, and wants to show them that you don't have to get involved in a situation you can't fix.
Erika arrives, and tells them that she was planning the day for tomorrow. A question about who sleeps naked is asked. LVP says she did until the earthquake in '94. Nanny Kay was staying with her then, and thought it was a blitz. Kyle asks who that is, and LVP says her grandmother who lived with her for twenty-five years. She's perturbed that Kyle didn't remember who Nanny Kay is, and we flash back to the million times LVP has mentioned her. LVP appreciates that Erika remembered, and in her interview, Erika says she actually does listen when someone talks. Real friendship. Try it.
Next time, dancing, beer, shopping, horseback riding, and Dorit confronts Kyle.
🍱 I keep seeing that commercial for Nutrisystem with Genie Francis talking about losing weight "the healthy way." I don't think you need Nutrisystem to do that, and you can probably do it yourself at half the cost. As much as I love Genie, I find it annoying when celebrities promote weight loss systems that are only common sense. Yes, I'm talking to you too, freestyling Oprah. Here's the secret. Don't eat processed food. Watch your portions. Move around more. You might want to tweak that to your personal taste, but those are the basics. Not that I always follow those rules, but when I do, it never fails. Fad or restrictive diets don't work, because as soon as you're off of them and start eating like a human again, you blow up like a balloon. And while it would be nice if someone just delivered my healthy meals with their portion-controlled sizes every day for the rest of my life, that isn't realistic for most of us. That's the other secret. It has to be a lifelong lifestyle, not something you do for several months, and go back to your wicked food ways. Not to say you can't have special food occasions – using the word "cheat" gives you a subliminal guilt trip – but not even every weekend can be a holiday. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, carry on.
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Gamwanya scores late to claim victory for Men's Soccer
by Ryan Pavich September 16, 2018
Senior midfielder Serge Gamwanya dribbles the ball against New Hampshire on Oct. 8 2016. Gamwanya scored the winning goal against Bryant this past Saturday, September 15th. ARACELY JIMENEZ/STATESMAN FILE
The cross was placed perfectly in front of him, only the goalkeeper standing in his way. A tap with the right foot, and the ball flew just past the goalkeeper's outstretched hands into the right corner of the net. Three minutes later, the Seawolves walked off the field with a victory.
Senior midfielder Serge Gamwanya's goal in the 87th minute, which was set up by junior striker Jarred Dass, put Stony Brook ahead for good and secured the team's 2-1 victory over Bryant on Saturday, Sept. 15.
"Individually I don't think I had my best performance today," Gamwanya said. "But even though I didn't have my best performance, it's all about the team. You can have individuals, but you always have to put the team first. We got down one, and we knew that we had to stay positive, keep our heads up, and keep working for each other."
Stony Brook had to recover from a slow start. The team didn't find its first shot until the 19th minute, and continually allowed Bryant to press into its zone. Bryant only managed to create three shots in the first half, but they capitalized on their opportunity. Bryant sophomore forward Jared Lee found a redirected ball in the 29th minute in front of the net and punched it through, giving Bryant a 1-0 lead.
The Seawolves also had to adjust to a last minute lineup change before the game. Freshman goalkeeper Christian Miesch had started every game prior to Saturday and was in the lineup an hour before the game. An injury sustained during warmups forced him out however, and put junior goalkeeper Jacob Braham in net for the first time this year.
Head coach Ryan Anatol said in a post-game interview that the team didn't have an update on Miesch's injury, only that it was either a pulled muscle or a blow from hitting the ground in warm-ups. Anatol did expect the injury to be relatively minor, and is hopeful that Miesch could be ready to go for Stony Brook's next match. Meanwhile, the team is confident that whichever goalkeeper is in net will be ready.
"Jacob had to come into a very similar situation last year," Anatol said. "He had to come into the middle of the game and play, and he played a ton of games. It's difficult to get the call 10 minutes before kickoff, but we've said you have to be prepared for your opportunity and I thought he came in and did a good job."
The Seawolves' offense returned to form in the second half. The game was highly physical throughout, but it became especially rough the later it went, and several yellow cards were handed out to the Bulldogs. The Seawolves persisted through the hits, and found their opportunities late. Junior defenseman Gustavo Fernandes found the equalizer in the 76th minute, driving the ball from 25 yards out and getting a lucky bounce off a defender. Gamwanya's goal in the 87th minute gave the Seawolves the upper hand, and the team cruised to the end.
"We knew that it was gonna be that type of game, just because when we played them last season it was the same type of team," Gamwanya said. "That scrappy, wanna play hard, and wanna frustrate you. So we knew that we had to keep our heads calm, and just do what we have to do. But at the same time, we have to show them that you can't just come here and think you're gonna take points from us. Because we really work hard for this, as a team."
Stony Brook's victory puts them at a 3-3-1 record entering conference play. The Seawolves will kick off their America East Conference tour on Friday, Sept. 21, on the road against Albany at 7 p.m.
"We know Friday's gonna be a battle, so we're gonna be up for it, we're gonna be ready, we're excited to go on the road," Anatol said. "No better way to start off conference play than with Albany, so we're looking forward to it."
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