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Kroos is a 2019 documentary film about German professional footballer Toni Kroos. The film was directed by Manfred Oldenburg and produced by Leopold Hoesch.

Synopsis
The film tells the story of national player Toni Kroos from Greifswalder SC to Real Madrid. The various stages of his career are presented and his sporting career is traced. In addition to the athletic analysis, the film provides insights into the private life of Toni Kroos. The father of three founded the Toni Kroos Foundation in 2015, which is also presented in the film.

In addition to family members of Toni Kroos – among others wife Jessica, brother Felix and his parents Birgit and Roland Kroos – the film mainly features his sporting companions. These include the coaches Pep Guardiola, Jupp Heynckes and Zinédine Zidane, the president of FC Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeneß, the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, as well as the professional footballers Gareth Bale, Luka Modrić and Sergio Ramos and even singer, entertainer and football fan Robbie Williams. In addition, football experts and journalists such as Marcel Reif and Wolfram Eilenberger comment on the development and special features of Toni Kroos and his playing style.

Production
The film is a production of Broadview Pictures, funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Deutscher Filmförderfonds.

Reception
Manfred Riepe praises the director in the magazine epd Film, because Oldenburg says in this entertaining film a little more than that the ball is round and the game lasts 90 minutes: "This film conveys itself even to those who normally don't care much about football".

On Spiegel Online, Peter Ahrens criticizes that one learns little about the main character, even though Kroos is always in the picture. "What he thinks about the world, about football, about the business, about the things in life, cannot be understood even after an hour and a half on the cinema screen (...) The deeper the film delves into the subject, the less important Toni Kroos seems to be".

References

External links

 "Kroos – Das Hirn des Fußballs", Zeit-Online, Christian Spiller
 "In Deutschland frisst der Fußball alles auf", Toni Kroos in an interview with Harald Hordych, Süddeutsche Zeitung
 "Kroos? Krööser? KROOSARTIG!", BILD, Norbert Körzdörfer
 "Der stille Anführer", RP-Online, Phillip Oldenburg
 "Unser Weltmeister im Kino: Die fantastische Reise des Toni Kroos", Ostsee-Zeitung, Sönke Fröbe
 "Köln ist meine auserwählte Heimat in Deutschland", Toni Kroos in an interview with Carsten Fiedler, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

2019 documentary films
2019 films
2010s German-language films
2010s French-language films
2010s Spanish-language films
2010s English-language films

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Q: PHP namespace not finding class in same namespace in same directory - works in dev, not prod I have the following PHP files. It works in dev. They have the same namespace, and same PHP version. When I deploy to Heroku, it gives an error. Do you know why?
Product.php
namespace app\models;
class Product extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord
public function getEbay()    {
    return $this->hasOne(Ebay::className(), ['product_id' => 'id'])->inverseOf('product'); # line 56

Ebay.php
namespace app\models;
class Ebay extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord

2015-03-25T02:00:01.003508+00:00 app[web.1]: [25-Mar-2015 02:00:01 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Class 'app\models\Ebay' not found in /app/models/Product.php on line 56

>heroku run php --version
Running `php --version` attached to terminal... up, run.5360
PHP 5.6.6 (cli) (built: Feb 19 2015 10:11:22)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies

Local:
$ php --version
PHP 5.6.6 (cli) (built: Feb 25 2015 13:54:50)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

Ok I even put the use in the index.php and it still fails.
C:\Users\Chloe\workspace\project>heroku run cat web/index.php
Running `cat web/index.php` attached to terminal... up, run.3679
<?php

// comment out the following two lines when deployed to production
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'localhost' || $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == '127.0.0.1') {
  defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
  defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');
}

require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');

$config = require(__DIR__ . '/../config/web.php');

use app\models; Ebay::className();
(new yii\web\Application($config))->run();

C:\Users\Chloe\workspace\project>heroku logs
...
2015-03-26T17:10:13.590855+00:00 app[web.1]: [26-Mar-2015 17:10:13 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Ebay' not found in /app/web/index.php on line 14

A: Ok I found it. It was because the file was named EBay.php in Git and Heroku but Ebay.php on the Windows file system. Curse you Git! This solved it.
git mv -f models/EBay.php models/Ebay.php

This command failed so I had to investigate further:
heroku run ls models/Ebay.php

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First of all, I love vacation! Who doesn't? But there are some things that go along with planning, preparing, etc. of the trip that I just don't like. Is it just me or can you relate to some of these complaints I have?
1. Planning an itinerary. Especially for a vacation like our trip of a lifetime to Europe. I'm pretty sure that we will never visit these places again. I get excited about the trip when I'm planning it and that's fun but I also feel worried that I haven't included a great sight to see or food to eat. To make sure we have covered all our bases in the planning process, first we talk to everyone and anyone who has ever been to the part of the world we are traveling to. We consider and look into any suggestions of sights we must see. Then we consult travel books, especially the travel guides recommended by friends and family. And then the internet has lots of information that needs to be looked at.. Hopefully, after all this, we have come up with the perfect itinerary!
2. Booking a hotel without seeing it. Especially when we are booking with fellow travelers and they are depending on us to find somewhere to stay. We have crossed a couple of hotel chains off our list entirely but sometimes we get disappointed by the chains we have been happy with. Most times we do not know what we will get until we get there. If we know someone who has stayed where we are going and they have no complaints we will stay were they did but that rarely happens. We trusted Rick Steves, whose travel guide we are using to plan our European vacation, when we picked our hotel in Barcelona. My sister, Sandie, and friend, Susan, planned their trips with the help of his books and say that they were not disappointed. I feel pretty confident about this hotel selection. Hopefully it is one that I can recommend to anyone traveling to Spain.
3. Waiting for the travel date to arrive. I get so anxious to put the last of my dresses into my suitcase and get to the airport. The last couple of days before a vacation just drag by. It used to be worse, though, when I was working. Retirement days do go a lot faster than work days!
4. Packing. Especially if I'm packing for a warm weather trip in the middle of winter. First of all I have to hunt down the summer clothes. Secondly, I have to try everything on to make sure things still fit after all the eating festivities of winter. Then to decide what the weather might be like at the destination of our trip. While I am checking the weather, I often see that it got warmer where we are going so I throw an extra pair of shorts into the suitcase. But wait, there's a cold front coming in, throw in a pair of jeans and take out the shorts! It goes on and on like that the last week of vacation because I don't like to over pack! I should just solve this problem by buying a bigger suitcase and packing everything.
5. Leaving the house feeling like we forgot something. I run the checklist I have in my head off to Soko while we are still in the driveway. What do we need to make sure we haven't forgotten? Passports - check, wallet - check, phones - check. Did we shut off the... One time, when we were going on a road trip with the kids. I was going over the list in my head as Soko was pulling out of the driveway. We got down the block when I started to panic thinking that I might have left the iron on. I needed to go back to the house to check. With the kids moaning in the back seat, Soko headed back. Thank goodness, because the iron was on!
6. Getting to the airport on time. We spend half the day at the airport because I add two hours to our drive to the airport in case of traffic. Then I want to be there 2 1/2 hours early and add at least another hour just in case there is a problem and delay checking in. So usually we are at the airport about 4 hours before the flight is due to take off. The hard part is convincing Soko that we need to leave for the airport at the crack of dawn for a flight leaving late afternoon!
7. Finding our way around an airport. I don't know how many times we have run around the airport trying to get to a connecting flight. The gate is always a mile away and our first flight is always late taking off. While on flight one, I study the last page of the In Flight Magazine where the map of the gates are and formulate a plan of how to get to the next flight. As soon as we exit the plane, I am off and running. Only when we are sitting in front of the connecting flight gate can I breathe again!
8. The last day of vacation. No matter how much I tell myself that I am still on vacation and that I have a full day left, I always have it in the back of my mind that it is the last day. I don't like the feeling I get knowing it is the last day. I am never ready for a vacation to end.
9. Unpacking. I'm usually too tired to unpack the first day back from vacation and sometimes can't get to all of it by the second day and then something comes up the third day and I am still looking at the unpacked suitcases. And where am I going to put all the souvenirs?! Why did I buy so much?! I remember why once I start unpacking and looking at all the things I brought back. Because these knick knacks are wonderful and it reminds me of the great time we had!
10. Waiting for the next vacation!
I don't mind the planning so much but I do worry about whether or not we've booked a good/clean place to stay and I do not enjoy the actual travel to get there. I find it nerve wracking and I worry non-stop until we arrive at our destination.
Thank you so much for sharing your worries. It actually makes me feel better to know that I'm not the only one who has some anxiety about the whole traveling process! But it is all worth it in the end!!
I worry about booking and paying for a room without seeing it or knowing someone that has been there before, Will it be clean, will it have a good view, are the people at the hotel telling me the truth, and what aren't they telling me. It makes me very nervous! Such good tips! Thank you for sharing at Celebrate It!
I'm beginning to think that booking a hotel is on the top of lots of peoples "travel worries" list. I wish there was a way of being more sure about our hotel choice without seeing it. If I could pay triple of what I pay now for a room would that guarantee a clean room?! Maybe yes but I couldn't afford to go on a vacation if I had to pay that much!
I can relate to all of these concerns when I'm preparing for a trip. No matter how many times I travel, each and everyone creeps into the recesses of my brain. Thanks for sharing on Sunday's Best.
Thanks so much for letting me know that!!


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6 calls today. How can you make this stop?
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We're all looking for words to describe our feelings as the September 11th tragedy is marked at tenth anniversary ceremonies in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, and many communities such as Merced.
I was still looking for words as I prepared this column. What I found were memories of that day that are just as fresh in my mind as they were ten years ago, writings from a source dating back exactly ten years, and an old American Flag.
On that day in 2001, I was at my upstate New York office when a friend of a co-worker called to tell us what had happened. We immediately turned on our radios and began searching for details on the internet.
We did not have television service at our office, so our only real connection to the outside world was through radio and the web. The first image I saw of the plane hitting the second tower was a still image on the CNN website.
Our staff sat around in shock as we saw more pictures, heard more details, and began talking with friends and business associates coming to our office.
I was the lead staff person for a committee that was meeting during the lunch hour. None of us at that meeting felt like working or eating. Somehow, we got through the meeting and somehow we got through that workday.
I was also teaching a college course part time and September 11 was a class day. My class would meet in the late afternoon after my regular workday was finished.
I called my department chair Joe Bulsys at the college to ask whether the class would meet. If it did meet, I needed some guidance as to how to handle the students who were most likely seeing a day that would be etched in their memory for a lifetime.
Joe told me that the college President had not formally cancelled classes and that I should go to the classroom with no plan to teach that day's lesson. He suggested I tell the students they could leave if they wished, and invite them to remain there and watch the television news coverage along with me in the classroom.
About half of the class showed up, and about half of those chose to leave at the beginning of the class period. I stayed with the others for the next hour as we watched the network coverage on television.
When I got home at the end of the day, my two teenage daughters were watching the coverage from our living room. My wife Vaune and I sat with them quietly as the broadcasts continued.
I began keeping a journal in the months following my Mother's death in 2000. I intended to use the journal to write my memories of her and to help me deal with the loss. I located that first journal over the weekend and found that I had an entry dated September 12, 2001.
A day after the tragedy in NYC and Washington. Everyone is shocked by the events. Vaune and I went to church last night where a very beautiful prayer service was held. They burned incense in a pottery bowl throughout the service. To me, it represented the ongoing stream of sadness and pain so many of us were feeling….
I know I don't have an answer and probably will never get an answer. I ask God to help me through this, ..and to touch each family dealing with the loss of loved ones in the bombings.
We have an American Flag handed down to us by my wife's grandmother. She came to this country as a young woman from Italy. Her husband worked the coalmines of Pennsylvania and would eventually die before his time from lung disease.
The flag is worn and has some mildew marks from being stored while wet during the years she would fly it in front of her Pennsylvania home. It has forty-eight stars.
The reds and blues are not as brilliant as the synthetic flags that are manufactured today.
The white has long lost its' sharpness.
But my wife and I wouldn't think of putting any other flag in front of our house on those special days when we display it so proudly.
We fly our family heirloom American flag on special occasions every year such as Memorial Day, Flag Day, and Independence Day.
In recent years, we've added September 11 as a day when that cherished family heirloom is displayed on our front porch.


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Ken Jeong Brings Laughs and Tears at MTV Movie Awards
By Devon Thomas
June 7, 2010 / 3:17 PM / CBS News
Ken Jeong accepting the Golden Popcorn at the MTV Movie Awards on June 6, 2010. (AP) AP
NEW YORK (CBS) The MTV Movie Awards ceremony was full of surprises and showstoppers, as expected, but none as touching as that of actor Ken Jeong's sudden, heartwarming tribute to his wife.
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The 40-year-old actor drew laughs early in the show when he sang a cheeky rendition of "Stu's Song" atop a piano in a skin-tight leotard with "Hangover" co-star Ed Helms. Then accepted the Golden Popcorn for "Best WTF Moment" for his hilarious performance as Korean crime boss Mr. Chow, popping out of a car trunk naked in front of a stunned Bradley Cooper.
On stage accepting the award, the actor was excited and joyful. He took the time to thank the voters for the honor as well as giving "shoutouts" to the man who discovered him, his family, the cast of "Community" and his cast mates on "The Hangover."
But then Jeong's playful oration took a touching turn: "I want take the opportunity to thank my wife Tran ... Todd and Bradley Cooper, who actually helped me through a really difficult time when my wife was going through breast cancer treatment," said Jeong, tearing up as his wife looked on from the audience.
"The reason why I did this is that she taught me that life is short, and then don't be afraid to take chances," he said.
"I just want to tell you that Tran is cancer-free for two years," he ended. The crowd loudly cheered in response.
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The pic is taken in Spain again, near Trevelez. As the terrain is high some 1500m above the sea, expect a lot of cooler weather there.
What will we name this picture this time? I know! A life tunnel! I'm f***ing twenty-six bloody years old, and I feel I was born yesterday. That fast.
It is all about bloody advertising, even with blogs, you have to build so called reader-base. But generally blogs that focus on certain topic, news etc become pretty popular, they become like mini newspapers, newsletters that will attract readers more than personal blogs.


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Q: r error occurs in statement with else but not in if statement My data set contains numeric values with decimals
When I write a simple if statement like this:
data$Segment <- ifelse(data$RankAll> 10,'Gekko',0)

I do not get an error but when I write it like this:
data$Segment <- if (data$RankAll<4) 'Moore' else if
                   (data$RankAll<6) 'Marvin' else if
                   (data$RankAll<8)'Branes' else if
                   (data$RankAll<10) 'Fox' else 'Gekko'

It returns the error:
Warning messages:
 1: In if (data$RankAll < 4) "Moore" else if (data$RankAll < 6) "Marvin" else if (data$RankAll <  :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
2: In if (data$RankAll < 6) "Marvin" else if (data$RankAll < 8) "Branes" else if (data$RankAll <  :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
 3: In if (data$RankAll < 8) "Branes" else if (data$RankAll < 10) "Fox" else "Gekko" :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
 4: In if (data$RankAll < 10) "Fox" else "Gekko" :

the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
What am I doing wrong?

A: See SamDickson's approach in the comment above for an approach that keeps the same logic as the original.
To do the same thing with DRYer code:
data$Segment <- cut(data$RankAll, breaks = c(0, 4, 6, 8, 10, 100), right = FALSE)
levels(data$Segment) <- c('Moore', 'Marvin', 'Branes', 'Fox', 'Gekko')


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James Alan McPherson is the author of Hue and Cry, Railroad, and Elbow Room, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His essays and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals — including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Plough-shares, The Iowa Review, and Double-Take — and anthologies such as volumes of The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories. McPherson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Prize Fellows Award. He is currently a professor of English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will launch a campaign Thursday becoming the first challenger to Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president.
A member of the U.S. Senate since 2007, Sanders will be a liberal challenge to Clinton, who he sees as being too soft on Wall Street. He describes himself as a "democratic socialist."
Sanders has been an outspoken critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal the Obama administration is negotiating with 11 Pacific countries. Sanders is also a critic of the controversial Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which struck down corporate campaign contribution limits. Sanders has tried to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.
While Clinton is heavily favored over Sanders, the Vermont senator's entry in the race will provide a platform for Democrats to criticize Clinton from the left. Sanders' presence could also highlight a divide between progressive and moderate Democrats.
Before assuming office in the Senate in 2007, Sanders represented Vermont in the U.S. House for 16 years. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress.
According to HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates publicly available polling data, Sanders trails Clinton by 55.1 percentage points. He also trails Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Vice President Joe Biden.
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Lord Peter Wimsey
"Whereas, up to the present, there is
only one known way of getting born,
there are endless ways of getting killed."
-- Dorothy Sayers
One thing unique about the Lord Peter Wimsey series is that Peter develops over the course of the books. He becomes more of a character, more of a human being.
We know something about him right from the start: We know from the first book, for example, that he is an aristocrat, and wealthy; that he has Bunter, his "man"; that he plays classical piano quite well; that his experiences under fire during the war left him with shell-shock (what we have later come to call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and he still occasionally screams during his sleep -- Bunter wakes him and soothes him when this happens, usually bringing him a brandy to quiet his nerves; that he is a bibliophile; and that he is an amateur detective. We also learn his address -- 110A Picadilly.
Wimsey's connection with the official police force is Inspector Charles Parker, who is Wimsey's good friend throughout the series, and who eventually becomes his brother in law.
Dorothy L. Sayers needed money -- badly. She wanted to retire and study theology. So she decided to write a series of books that would produce enough income to retire and pursue her passion.But what to write about?
She read the newspapers to get a sense of what people liked to read about, and she noticed two common threads that seemed perennially to be written about -- detectives and the aristocracy.
So! People liked to read about detectives and about the aristocracy. (If they didn't, these themes wouldn't appear so often in the daily press.) Dorothy Sayers decided to create a fictional detective who was also an aristocrat -- and Lord Peter Wimsey was born.
Whose Body?
Introduced in Whose Body? (1923). The first words out of his mouth are "Oh, damn!" It seems that he is quite the bibliophile, has just left his home in pursuit of a rare book, but has forgotten to take a catalogue with him. Now he must return home to retrieve the catalogue, and is annoyed.
Whose Body? is a lighthearted read, but as entertaining as it is and as much as I love this story, and enjoy rereading it, it failed to make the name of Lord Peter Wimsey a household word. When she completed it, Dorothy Sayers herself was left feeling, "I can do better than that!"
And she did! Having gotten one murder mystery under her belt, she turned her attention to writing the book that would put Lord Peter Wimsey on the map of great detective, crime, and murder mystery literature.
Clouds of Witness
Clouds of Witness (1926) is the book that brought Lord Peter Wimsey to the attention of the public. Readers and critics alike responded favorably. (Years later, it was the first Lord Peter Wimsey book to be dramatized on the BBC television series Masterpiece Theatre in the early 1970s.)
Whimsical as Lord Peter Wimsey could be (we learn much later of his family motto -- "As my whimsy takes me"), Clouds of Witness is much darker and more sinister than was Whose Body?
As the story begins,Lord Peter Wimsey's brother Gerald, the Duke of Denver, is in the dock for murder.Lord Peter visits Gerald in his prison cell to offer his services, but Gerald refuses to cooperate.
"I didn't kill the fellow," he says, "and it's up to them to prove that I did, or else they'll have to let me go."
The uncooperative Gerald refuses to let anyone help him -- not Peter, not the family solicitor (read "lawyer"), nor anyone else. So Peter must investigate on his own with the assistance of his good friend Charles Parker.
Then Peter's sister Mary confesses to the murder, but a brief investigation reveals that she doesn't know any significant details. In exploring Mary's motive for confessing to the crime, Dorothy Sayers displays great wisdom and discernment in the emotional side of male-female relationships. This theme is to be revisited throughout the series.
It seems that Mary is involved in a relationship with a man who is unworthy of her affections. This man himself becomes a suspect in the murder mystery investigation and in one scene feels obliged to shoot Lord Peter.
Dorothy Sayers introduces the plight of a young woman who is married to an abusive, jealous farmer. They live way out on the moor, so she is isolated and has no access to social interaction of any kind. This hard-working farmer's wife lives a life of drudgery and she lives in fear -- for the farmer has threatened to throw her into Peter's Pot (a dangerous area of quicksand out in the moor) if he even suspects her (whether justified or not) of having an affair.
During his investigation, Peter comes across this woman. His heart goes out to her and he longs to find a way to get her out of her situation and to protect her. But first he must stick to his priority -- to continue his investigation and free his brother from an impending verdict of murder.
The trail leads Peter from England to the United States. In New York city, he discovers the crucial, tangible clue that will prove his brother's innocence. But first he must fly back to England in time to present the evidence in court before the verdict is rendered and all is lost.
The climax contains an absolutely riveting passage. Peter hires a pilot and a private airplane to fly him back to England. But these are the days before one had heat in the plane. Far out over the Atlantic ocean, in the dead of winter, a severe storm is coming in on Peter and his pilot. Ice is forming on the wings, the propeller is beginning to stall, the cabin is ice-cold, and they are in great danger of crashing into the sea. Now Peter's life, as well as that of his brother, is at stake.
Will Lord Peter Wimsey make it back in time to save his brother's life, or will he himself die in the attempt?
Unnatural Death
In Unnatural Death (1927), Lord Peter Wimsey and Charles Parker are eating in a restaurant when they are approached by another patron, who brings to their attention a suspicious event having to do with a will. A new law may well provide a motive for murder. Once Wimsey and Parker work through the feasibility of such a law's impact, the book becomes a how-dunnit.
Even in such an early book in the series, Sayers began experimenting with the detective novel form. She was to turn her hand to all the standard elements (including codes and ciphers, timetables and alibis, wills, doctors gone wrong, the schoolboy's way out, illicit drug smuggling and distribution, and others). She was to become exceptional at exploring and conveying human relationships and their underlying motivations -- particularly male-female relationships, romances, unrequited love, platonic relationships, friendship, and the like, and how they affect human behavior. This aspect of Sayers's writing was to elevate this series, in my mind, above the more mechanical plots of so many.
The Unpleasantness at
the Bellona Club
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), the fourth book in the series, was the second to be televised on the Masterpiece Theatre series. Ian Carmichael again took the part of Wimsey, and it was his portrayal of the great detective that brought this extraordinary murder mystery series to my attention. I will always retain a soft spot in my heart for his performances, and he has completed dramatizations of the entire series of novels for BBC radio! (One wishes and hopes that the BBC might turn its attention to the short stories, as well!)
The Bellona Club is a men's club.One of the members is discovered to have passed away, apparently while sitting in his chair reading a newspaper. Since the General is known to have a heart condition, it doesn't appear to be very much out of the ordinary. But when attendants move him, they discover that, although rigor mortis has set in and he is stiff as a board, his knee joint hinges easily. This decidedly suspicious condition indicates that the body was forced sometime after rigor mortis began.
Lord Peter is called upon to investigate and unearths some startling facts. The General's sister, it seems, died on the same day at precisely 11 a.m. -- and she has a will with the following clause: If the General predeceases her, her entire (and considerable) estate goes to one party; if she dies first, then the estate goes to another. It is clearly established when the sister died -- but did the General die before her or after her?
The primary suspects are George Fentiman and Miss Ann Dorland, and in exploring their personalities and situations, Dorothy Sayers once again displays an extraordinary understanding of the human psyche which raises this series far above the common, ordinary puzzle murder mystery. For example,George Fentiman is the young, eccentric nephew of the deceased. Like Wimsey, he has suffered shell shock during the war and, like Wimsey, he periodically suffers relapses which cause him to behave in socially unacceptable ways. He has occasional outbursts, as when he hears the news of his uncle's death. He happens to be in the Bellona Club when he hears the news, and immediately stands up and bellows out the lines from a Punch cartoon he once related to Lord Peter -- "Take him away! He's been dead for three days!"
More than once, when George suffers a nervous breakdown, he disappears for days. Either he returns when his senses come back to him, or he is found wandering, unwashed and babbling incoherently.Because of his condition, George has difficulty holding down a job. Extremely self-conscious, he feels emasculated because, in keeping with the times, George believes the man in the household should be the breadwinner. His devoted wife must work in order to make ends meet. In spite of this, their ends don't quite meet, and the couple are in debt, seemingly beyond hope of getting out.
Although he loves his wife dearly, George's outbursts quite often are directed at her. He is deeply afraid that he may lose her, and becomes insanely jealous of any male she comes into contact with, including Lord Peter.
The other prime suspect, Miss Ann Dorland, is a "spinster" (in the vernacular of the time). A quiet, lonely, deeply emotional woman, Miss Dorland is suffering the pangs of unrequited love. She was under the impression that a man loved her and that they were to be married -- but had he led her on, or had she led herself on?
Now she keeps to herself, quietly attending to her hobbies. Ann has pretensions of being a painter, but she is not very talented. She also has a small chemistry lab, and the official police investigation reveals that she has digitalin -- a substance which is difficult for a lay person to obtain and which has been discovered in the General during an autopsy. The General had been taking digitalin by prescription for his heart condition, but a larger-than-usual dose was found on his body, and too much of the substance is dangerous and can be lethal. Had he taken too much himself, or had someone slipped him the extra quantity surreptitiously?
Although George Fentiman and Ann Dorland are the prime suspects, they are not the only suspects. George's brother Robert is a likely candidate, for he, too, stands to inherit. Or might he be trying to help his brother out?
And who is the mysterious "Oliver," who witnesses described as being a suspicious character?
As usual, Lord Peter Wimsey is aided by the always delightful Bunter and by Charles Parker, making this an extremely satisfying read.
In an essay Dorothy Sayers tells us that, by this time, she had realized the income she desired from the series, and that she determined to bring the Lord Peter Wimsey series to a close. (Luckily for murder mystery buffs, her first attempt at ending the stories was a trifle premature, for as good as the series was even at this early juncture, some of the best Lord Peter Wimsey novels were still to lie ahead!)
Having considered the best way to bring it to an end, Miss Sayers decided to avoid a dilemma that other murder mystery writers had gotten themselves into. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for example, had killed off Sherlock Holmes in the famous death struggle with Professor Moriarty, during which the two fell over the Reichenbach Falls in Meiringen, Switzerland. Doyle later felt the need to revive Holmes, and was confronted with the challenge of how to do so. Doyle's mother came up with the solution, but that is another story discussed elsewhere on this web site.
The solution that Dorothy Sayers hit upon was to marry Lord Peter Wimsey off, for everyone knows that when a detective marries he no longer solves murder mysteries. (This was, at least, in the detective fiction of the time!).
Strong Poison
In Strong Poison (1931), Dorothy Sayers introduced Harriet Vane.Many reviewers have observed the remarkable similarity between Miss Vane and Sayers herself. Vane, like Sayers, was a successful author of murder mystery books. Both were women. And both had a relationship with Lord Peter Wimsey, giving rise to speculation by some that Dorothy Sayers was imagining herself in a role where she might herself be Lord Peter's lover.
The novel opens with Harriet Vane finding herself in the dock for the murder of Philip Boyes. Harriet had lived with Boyes as his lover for some time, but although she wanted to marry, he said he was against marriage on principle.
Both Boyes and Vane were writers of books, Philip aspiring to Serious Literature with some critical success but nowhere near the sales that Harriet was achieving with her detective murder mystery books.
Then the two had a falling out. Harriet said at the inquest that Philip had proposed marriage to her, thereby making a fool of her. "He wasn't against marriage at all, he was just testing me..." she complained.(Again, Miss Sayers displays her considerable understanding of human relationships in this book.)
So, when Philip Boyes was found dead with a considerable quantity of arsenic in his body, Harriet Vane became the prime suspect. The story became a sensation in the press.
Lord Peter Wimsey, reading the account, decided instantly that she was innocent and that he would investigate, find the guilty party, get Harriet exonerated, and then propose marriage to her. She would accept, of course.
It was Dorothy Sayers's intention to conclude the novel in just that way, but it seems that Harriet Vane didn't cooperate -- she rebuffed Lord Peter's attentions and rejected his proposal of marriage.In truth, as Dorothy Sayers later revealed, she realized that she had not developed Lord Peter enough. He was still, in her eyes, a two-dimensional character who needed to be fleshed out and given qualities that would make him more human.And so she set out to write another book.
The Five Red Herrings
The Five Red Herrings (aka Suspicious Characters) (1931) is a terrific mystery and an extremely worthwhile read. I want to establish that from the outset because it is also one of the most difficult of Miss Sayers's books for a modern reader to plow through. It is a challenge for two reasons:
In simulating the authentic Scottish dialect that her characters used, Dorothy Sayers spelled many of the words in their dialogue phonetically. This was common practice at the time, but many writers today simply use plain English, spelled correctly, and then comment something to the effect that "he had a habit of dropping his g's." (It's easier, after all, for one to translate plain English into a phonetic code, as it were, than it is to be on the receiving end trying to decode it.) It is well worth the effort to struggle through this phonetic jungle, however, and you'll soon find that you can pick it up.
Secondly, it is difficult to keep track of who is who. There are seven artists -- one is murdered, one is the murderer, and five are red herrings. Sayers employs frequent meetings among Wimsey and the police to examine and reexamine the evidence repeatedly throughout the book in an effort to disentangle this Gordian knot.
That said, the characters in this novel are entirely believable, and once again Sayers demonstrates her remarkable ability to create fully human characters with all their illogical contradictions.
There is an old trick that writers of murder mystery books often employ -- display the key clue in plain sight but mix it in with a number of nonessential items. (So, for example, the contents of a woman's pocketbook may be emptied onto a countertop and all the items listed and described -- lipstick, compact, keys, and the like. Only one of these is the all-important clue, however, and the reader is distracted by the sleight of hand.)
Sayers goes a step further. She lists the items but the chief clue is something that is missing but that should be there.
But now for the human quality that Dorothy Sayers added to make Lord Peter Wimsey a more three-dimensional character -- the ability to feel remorse. All through the series so far we have been keenly aware that sleuthing was Lord Peter's hobby. While working on a case there was no challenge that Wimsey's considerable intellect was unable to meet; no hidden clue that he couldn't or wouldn't ferret out in the thrill of pursuit. Now for the first time, though not for the last, Lord Peter Wimsey feels deep sympathy for the person he has brought to justice. Circumstance, and not moral decay or willful, malicious intent, has brought the criminal into the situation in which he finds himself. Wimsey regrets his role in bringing him to justice, although he interprets his own actions as necessary. He does not feel like celebrating his victory, and this raises him to the human level -- and makes him marriage material at last.
Have His Carcase
Now, Dorothy Sayers could return to the preempted romance between Lord Peter and Harriet Vane. Have His Carcase (1932) begins with Harriet Vane on a walking tour. Her trial for murder behind her, freed from the dingy cell she endured during her detainment, and Lord Peter Wimsey's advances having been deflected successfully (at least for the time being), Harriet needs a breath of fresh air and a change of scenery. She tramps along the countryside, contemplating the plot for her next murder mystery book. As she traipses along a beach near the sea, she discovers the dead body of a male. The tide is coming in, and Harriet fears that the body may well be washed out to sea -- she has no time to summon help, nor does she have the strength to move the corpse. So she takes several items for evidence and she snaps photographs.
The authorities are a long way off in another town, and Harriet must walk the distance. Naturally, the body has been washed out to sea by the time Harriet is able to report the death.
The phrase "Have His Carcase," a translation from the Latin habeas corpus, refers to the body of evidence. In this case, the body of evidence is a human body. If there is no body of evidence, there is nothing to build a case upon -- no proof that a body was washed out to sea. (Perhaps, after all, he awoke and left on his own.)
But there were Harriet's photographs, which clearly showed a lot of blood at the scene. There were the items she took -- a glove (blood soaked). Inevitably, Harriet must call Peter into the case.
The police to whom Harriet reported the body almost immediately take Lord Peter into their confidence while Harriet feels excluded. Is this because of a sexist notion of the time that women are naturally squeamish and should be protected from forensic information of a graphic nature? Or do the police cater to Wimsey's social position? Or do they respect his successful track record at solving crimes?
Or are they keeping Harriet in the dark because, since she reported it, it may be a publicity stunt to promote her books? Or, finally, and worst of all, could Harriet herself be the prime suspect?
Lord Peter Wimsey trusts her implicitly. He takes her into his confidence, continues to make proposals of marriage to her, and the two work together to solve the case. But the police are different.
Once again, however, Dorothy Sayers realized that she couldn't yet allow Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane to marry in spite of the fact that the two had worked together closely. Harriet was not on an equal footing with Lord Peter in the murder mystery arena. Peter was the expert, after all, and Harriet was merely a writer of literary murder mystery books but a novice at solving real ones. The two could not marry until Harriet Vane could be shown to be absolutely Lord Peter's equal. But how to do it? The answer would have to wait for two more books while Dorothy Sayers figured out a solution to this dilemma.
Murder Must Advertise
Sometime during her career, Dorothy Sayers worked at an advertising agency. She hated the petty office politics that went on in the corporate world (as it still does today!). She decided it would make an ideal setting for a murder mystery.She turned into Murder Must Advertise (1933), one of my favorite novels in the series.
It is here we learn Lord Peter's full name: Peter Death Bredon Wimsey. We are told clearly that "Death" rhymes with "breath" (not with "teeth"). Peter -- as Death Bredon -- is employed by the Pym's Publicity advertising agency, ostensibly to replace a man who has died from a fall down a spiral staircase at the agency. Unbeknownst to the staff of the agency, Death Bredon is in reality Lord Peter Wimsey, investigating the victim's death.
Dorothy Sayers's descriptions of the inner goings on at any large agency are spot on target. Everything from fellow employees coming around to your desk to collect for the deceased man's widow, to the office pool (betting on the outcome of a sports match), to gossip at the water cooler (or, rather, the teapot!) are included.
Two chapters describe brilliantly the psychology of a faithful employee trying to save the company from losing a client. This true-blue man heroically goes into action, changes a crucial headline, and saves the day -- all after hours when no one is around. He is indignant that the agent in charge of this account isn't responsible enough to see the deadline through -- he will have something to say about that in the morning!
But when morning comes, the other agent gets into work before him and complains to a higher up. When the employee who saved the campaign (and the good name of the firm) arrives, he is called on the carpet, chewed out, given a warning, and never given the chance to explain himself. Anyone who has worked at a large corporation will easily identify with this, for he or she has at least observed something like it happen to others, and may have experienced it themselves.
It seems superfluous to say this, for this is Sayers writing at her best (and even writing at her worst is very good indeed!), but this very incident, when the reader comes to learn the denouement, is at the very core of what is behind the murder.
The distribution of illicit drugs, wild parties, and big money are inexorably tied in with the advertising. But how?
Murder Must Advertise is one of my personal two favorite murder mystery books of the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and Ilove them all. For the past several years I have created an annual ritual for myself by going through the entire Wimsey canon. Oh, joy!
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy Sayers's murder mystery, The Nine Tailors (1934), has found itself on a list of the four greatest detective story mysteries of all time -- and deservedly so! (The other three on the list is The Lodger by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley.)
The Nine Tailors is a book that people either love or hate. Dorothy L. Sayers included information from her research on campanology. (Campanology is the art of bell ringing.) Sayers points out that the British have a different attitude toward this art than does the rest of the world. Most people want to make the sounds musical; the British practitioners of this art, says Sayers, are more interested in mathematical patterns and precision.
While some readers may wonder why Sayers included so much information about this art, it fits neatly into the plot. The people, the setting, and the landscape all contribute greatly to this story about the Fen country. Sayers was raised in this geographical area, was well aware of the problems with water and flooding that the inhabitants dealt with, and incorporated this setting into the plot. I am with those who hold this to be among her masterworks.
Gaudy Night
In Gaudy Night (1935), Miss Sayers solved the problem of how to present Harriet Vane on an equal footing with Lord Peter. This is Harriet's story and presents her in her true element as a respected scholar. She attends a Gaudy (similar to a college reunion) for her school. It was an all-woman class (Dorothy Sayers herself was in the first class of female scholars at her school). Once again, relationships and contemporary attitudes prevail.
This book is unique in that there is no murder. Instead, a series of poisoned letters threaten harm to several of the scholars, Harriet included. Of course, Lord Peter is called in. He makes a comment which she interprets to be chauvinistic, but in defense (to paraphrase) he says, "Harriet, you should know me by now. What I said applies to any cloistered society -- including priests in an abbey. I meant no superior male view in what I said." (There was a bias by some that women had a place in society, and that scholarship was outside that place. Harriet was sensitive about this attitude, and Lord Peter's comment angered her.)
But at long last the Wimsey-Vane romance was to come to its point of no return. Peter solved the case, and was on the verge of leaving when Harriet observed that he had not proposed to her. He replied, "I have the feeling that whatever happens now between us is final." He was afraid to propose, for that could well be the end of their relationship if she rejected him again.
She said, "There is that risk."
Well, you must know by now that he took that risk, and Harriet accepted his proposal. The two were on equal footing at long last, and their relationship could finally be consummated.
When Dorothy Sayers finished writing Gaudy Night, she said, "I have done it. I have written the book that I have always wanted to write." This book has divided readers into two camps -- supporters love the book, while others dislike it intensely. I think both camps can agree, however, that it is brilliant.
Busman's Honeymoon
The final published novel about Lord Peter Wimsey tells the story of the Wimsey-Vane nuptials. They honeymoon at a cottage where Harriet often visited in her youth. But, of course, they become involved in a murder mystery investigation, and their honeymoon becomes a Busman's Honeymoon (1937). Harriet gets to see his vulnerable side when he solves the murder but again feels remorse for having brought the perpetrator to justice.
Actors in Film and Radio Shows
There is a soft place in my heart for Ian Carmichael's characterization, quite possibly because he was my introduction to the series when he played Wimsey in the Masterpiece Theatre dramatizations. (Carmichael starred as Wimsey in Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings,Murder Must Advertise, and The Nine Tailors.) These are available in Lord Peter Wimsey -- The Complete Collection.
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Years later, when Edward Petherbridge took up the mantel and played Wimsey in the three dramatizations that followed Wimsey-Vane romance (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night) some advocates feel strongly that he was even closer to the character in the novels. These have been released on DVD as The Lord Peter Wimsey - Harriet Vane Collection.
I love the portrayals by both Carmichael and Petherbridge; nevertheless, I was overjoyed when BBC radio completed dramatizations of the entire eleven novels -- all starring Ian Carmichael. They're simply brilliant, and it is a pleasure to listen to them over and over again. The following BBC radio shows are available):
Whose Body? (with Ian Carmichael)
Clouds of Witness (with Ian Carmichael)
Unnatural Death (with Ian Carmichael)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (with Ian Carmichael)
Strong Poison (with Ian Carmichael)
The Five Red Herrings (with Ian Carmichael)
Have His Carcase (with Ian Carmichael)
Murder Must Advertise (with Ian Carmichael)
The Nine Tailors (with Ian Carmichael)
Gaudy Night (with Ian Carmichael)
Busman's Honeymoon (with Ian Carmichael)
Jane Horning tells us that Dorothy Sayers "wrote detective novels about him [Wimsey] for nearly fifteen years, and then announced that she would not write any more detective stories. Asked why, she replied, 'I wrote the Peter Wimsey books when I was young and had no money. I made some money and then stopped writing novels and began to write what I had always wanted to write.' For the rest of her life she concerned herself with religious literature" (The Mystery Lovers' Book of Quotations: The Wit and Wisdom of the World's Great Crime Writers. pages 185, 186). But during her tenure writing the Lord Peter Wimsey stories and novels, she produced some of the finest detective stories ever -- the kind one likes to read and reread. And she produced several anthologies, each with a classic introduction to the detective, crime, and murder mystery genre. She also left an unpublished Wimsey story (which was ultimately published posthumously in Lord Peter, the book that collects all of Lord Peter Wimsey stories, as well as an essay about the series by Sayers and a pastiche called "Greedy Night" by E. C. Bentley. In addition, Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories includes the stories of Montague Egg (wine merchant extraordinaire!), another detective she created.Sayers also left an unfinished manuscript -- Thrones, Dominations -- which was completed by Jill Paton Walsh. Walsh wrote a second Wimsey novel, A Presumption of Death.
Note: Lord Peter contain the complete Lord Peter stories, including a story published posthumously and not published elsewhere. It also has an essay by Dorothy L. Sayers that gives us information about her thoughts when developing Lord Peter Wimsey and writing the books. There is also a pastiche/parody by E.C. Bentley called "Greedy Night."
Note: Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Complete Stories includes the Montague Egg stories and other stories by Sayers in addition to the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.


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CBC paints brokers with same brush as 'shadow' lenders
Brokers are scratching their heads after a CBC radio program about mortgages appeared to lump monolines and brokers together with shadow lenders.
By Justin da Rosa
A CBC radio segment mortgages appears to offer misleading and potentially damaging information about non-bank lenders and brokers.
"Housing prices have increased … so people need to borrow more; you can't borrow from the banks so you turn to this non-bank sector and it is an expensive option," CBC business commentator Armine Yalnizyan said on Friday's Metro Morning segment entitled Shadow Banking. "Bank mortgages, which average about three per cent for a five year fixed term compared to non-banks which can vary between seven and 15 whopping per cent."
The story -- which reaches 2 million people in the GTA -- may be misleading and, perhaps, detrimental to potential mortgage borrowers who may discount the services a broker could provide.
"This story highlights the continued misconceptions about mortgage brokers and non-bank lenders that still persist," James Laird, president of CanWise Financial told MortgageBrokerNews.ca. "If a business journalist still thinks that brokers and monolines only exist to service the alternative space, then we as an industry have to educate consumers on all of our offerings including the prime business that the majority of our industry focuses on."
"Shadow" lending has come under scrutiny in the mainstream media as many borrowers have had to turn to private options because they don't fit the profile required for more traditional mortgages.
Referencing a Reuters story, Yalnizyan appears to lump all non-bank mortgage options – including monoline products – together.
"(Shadow banking) is where you turn to when the bank or the credit union turns you down because of a faulty credit rating or … you already borrowed too much, according to your income or maybe your income stream isn't that steady," she said. "So that could be the 'bank of mom and dad,' it could be an individual; but increasingly they're investors and, in fact, branch plants of the banks and mortgage brokers."
And, in a call with MortgageBrokerNews.ca, Yalnizyan admitted she was unfamiliar with monolines and the fact they are regulated and CMHC insured.
She also clarified what she wanted the piece to focus on.
"The concerns that policymakers have is that there is a growing segment of risky loans out there," Yalnizyan told MortgageBrokerNews.ca. "In the effort to contain risk in the regulated sector, we have pushed a lot of risk into the unregulated sector and we've actually magnified the profile of that risk."


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December 16, 2019 at 2:05 am PST | by John Paul King
Hallmark Channel pulls, then reinstates ads featuring kiss between lesbian brides
Image courtesy of Zola
At the end of a tumultuous week for The Hallmark Channel, the pay television network has announced it would reverse its decision to pull several ads featuring a same-sex kiss.
The controversial commercials were among a series of six ads for Zola, a wedding planning website, which had been airing on the Hallmark Channel since Dec. 2. In all of the ads, couples standing at the altar for their wedding wonder if guests might have arrived on time and bought them better gifts if they had used Zola to create a custom wedding website. Most of the ads include a same-sex couple; while only one focused specifically on the lesbian brides, the two women were shown kissing in several of them.
According to the New York Times, the ads which featured same-sex kissing were pulled after the channel deemed their content "controversial." The decision was made by executives at the network after the anti-LGBTQ hate group, "One Million Moms," published a petition urging Hallmark to "please reconsider airing commercials with same-sex couples."
One Million Moms is a division of the conservative American Family Association, an organization that defines its mission as the "fight against indecency," and which has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group for the "propagation of known falsehoods" and the use of "demonizing propaganda" against LGBTQ people.
Following the posting of the petition, anti-LGBTQ comments began to flood Hallmark's online message board, such as one from an unnamed user who said, "Why would you show a lesbian wedding commercial on the Hallmark Channel? Hallmark movies are family friendly, and you ruined it with the commercial."
On Thursday, Hallmark notified Zola via email that it was pulling four of the ads – the ones featuring a kiss between the two women – because the channel is "not allowed to accept creatives that are deemed controversial," according to an account representative from the television network.
On Friday, a Hallmark Channel spokesman implied in a statement that "overt public displays of affection… regardless of the participants," was against the network's current policy. However, later that evening, Hallmark's parent company, Crown Media Family Networks, issued a statement saying, "The debate surrounding these commercials on all sides was distracting from the purpose of our network, which is to provide entertainment value."
The response from Zola was one of both surprise and skepticism. The company's chief marketing officer, Mike Chi, commented that Zola had previously run ads featuring same-sex couples on the channel without incident. He also observed that the ads including kisses between same-sex couples were allowed to remain on the air.
Chi pointed out, "The only difference between the commercials that were flagged and the ones that were approved was that the commercials that did not meet Hallmark's standards included a lesbian couple kissing. Hallmark approved a commercial where a heterosexual couple kissed. All kisses, couples and marriages are equal celebrations of love and we will no longer be advertising on Hallmark."
Outcry was swift from the LGBTQ community and its advocates.
In a statement from GLAAD, president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said "The Hallmark Channel's decision to remove LGBTQ families in such a blatant way is discriminatory and especially hypocritical coming from a network that claims to present family programming and also recently stated they are 'open' to LGBTQ holiday movies. As so many other TV and cable networks showcase, LGBTQ families are part of family programming. Advertisers on The Hallmark Channel should see this news and question whether they want to be associated with a network that chooses to bow to fringe anti-LGBTQ activist groups, which solely exist to harm LGBTQ families."
In addition, GLAAD created a petition calling on the network to reinstate the ads.
Pro-LGBTQ voices also took to social media. The hashtags #boycotthallmark and #BoycottHallmarkChannel trended on Twitter over the weekend, with one commenter including a graphic featuring the word "Homophobic" using the same font and crown design used by Hallmark in its own branding.
#Halmark, any employees have #LGBTQ friends or family members? How do you make them feel, when you show support for anti-same sex marriage? Is this your idea of inclusiveness?#HallmarkChannel the Heart of TV for the #Homophobic#HomophobicHallmark #BoycottHallmarkChannel pic.twitter.com/YbJ13WQdeY
— WHY (@8w8h8y8) December 15, 2019
Then, on Sunday afternoon, Hallmark president and CEO Mike Perry issued a new statement, saying, "The Crown Media team has been agonizing over this decision as we've seen the hurt it has unintentionally caused. Said simply, they believe this was the wrong decision,"
The statement goes on to stress Hallmark's commitment to "diversity and inclusion," saying it has "the track record to prove it" and citing its publication of LGBTQ greeting cards, previous commercials featuring same-sex couples, and recognition it has received from HRC and Forbes for its inclusive business practices. It also announces the company's plan to work with GLAAD on how "to better represent the LGBTQ community," as well as its intention to reinstate the commercials from Zola.
Shortly afterward, GLAAD issued a statement, with Ellis saying, "The Hallmark Channel's decision to correct its mistake sends an important message to LGBTQ people and represents a major loss for fringe organizations, like One Million Moms, whose sole purpose is to hurt families like mine. LGBTQ people are, and will continue to be a part of advertisements and family programming and that will never change. GLAAD exists to hold brands like The Hallmark Channel accountable when they make discriminatory decisions and to proactively ensure families of all kinds are represented in fair and accurate ways."
Speaking on CNN immediately after Hallmark's announcement was released, Ellis confirmed Perry's statement that Hallmark and GLAAD would be working together, saying, "We're talking with them, we've been talking with them all weekend, because they want to do the right thing, and I think that the quick decision was the right thing. And now we have to watch and see what they do in the future."
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Przełęcz Karkoszczonka (729 m n.p.m.) - głęboka przełęcz w głównym grzbiecie Beskidu Śląskiego, między Beskidem (860 m n.p.m.) na południu a Trzema Kopcami (1082 m n.p.m.) na północy.

Opis
Jeśli pominąć Bramę Wilkowicką, jest Karkoszczonka najniższym punktem w wododziale Wisły (tu: Brennicy) i Soły (tu: Żylicy) na terenie Beskidu Śląskiego. Tym samym jest najniższym i najwygodniejszym przejściem między Szczyrkiem a Brenną, używanym zresztą przez miejscową ludność od wielu wieków.

Od strony wschodniej, ze Szczyrku, na przełęcz wyprowadza droga wiodąca doliną potoku Biła, natomiast od strony zachodniej, z Brennej Bukowej - droga wiodąca dolinką źródłowego cieku Brennicy. Obie drogi w większej części są pokryte wąskim dywanikiem asfaltowym, jednak przejazd przez przełęcz jest zamknięty dla ruchu samochodowego (szlaban po stronie Brennej - droga leśna, w dyspozycji Administracji Lasów Państwowych). Co pewien czas pojawiają się w prasie informacje o zamiarach przebudowy tej drogi i jej otwarcia dla ruchu publicznego - na razie skutecznie przeciwstawiają się temu pomysłowi Lasy Państwowe, organizacje ekologiczne i zwyczajny brak środków.

Pochodzenie nazwy
Do niedawna przełęcz nazywano powszechnie "Skałką", co związane było zapewne ze starą nazwą Klimczoka. Obecna nazwa została przeniesiona z dawnego osiedla pasterskiego na polanach opadających spod przełęczy na wschodowi, ku dolinie Biłej. Pochodzi od słowa "karkosze", oznaczającego w góralskiej gwarze gałęzie, odrąbane ze ściętych drzew iglastych.

Wśród mieszkańców Szczyrku Biłej przełęcz zwana jest też czasem "Granicą". Jest to odniesienie do granicznej funkcji grzbietu Beskidu Śląskiego, który rozdzielał w tym miejscu Żywiecczyznę, należącą aż do rozbiorów do Królestwa Polskiego (później: Galicję) od Księstwa Cieszyńskiego (części Górnego Śląska). Po II wojnie światowej biegła tym grzbietem granica województw krakowskiego i katowickiego, a także granica powiatów żywieckiego i cieszyńskiego (co ma miejsce również obecnie). Wspomniany grzbiet był również przez ponad dziewięć wieków granicą dwóch diecezji kościoła katolickiego w Polsce: krakowskiej i wrocławskiej. Jednocześnie jest naturalną granicą językową i etnograficzną (Brenna: strój górali śląskich, Szczyrk: strój górali żywieckich).

Szlaki turystyczne
Na przełęczy węzeł szlaków turystycznych:
 - do Brennej Bukowej (1,45 godz.)
 - do Szczyrku Centrum (50 min.)
 - na Klimczok (1 godz.)
 - na przełęcz Salmopolską (2,30 godz.) i dalej na Malinowską Skałę (4 godz.)

Infrastruktura turystyczna
Tuż pod samym siodłem przełęczy, po stronie doliny Biłej, znajduje się schronisko turystyczne "Chata Wuja Toma".

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The key to establishing –and maintaining– relationships with current and potential customers is to keep in touch with them. By constantly engaging with your customers, you are building a solid foundation for a relationship with them, as well as staying "top of mind" at all times.
In today's day and age, there are thousands of ways in which you can stay in touch with your customers → Social media, websites, print advertising, hosting events, trade shows…the list goes on and on. But, you may find yourself asking, "Which one will be most effective for my business?" Well, it varies.
Typically, we recommend a combination of multiple touch points so that you are constantly staying connected with a multitude of customers across various channels. One channel that we personally have found to be extremely effective to businesses is email marketing.
Email Marketing is considered any and every email sent to a potential or current customer. These emails can range from sending out special promotions or discounts, information about upcoming events, links to new blog articles, or simply saying "hello." The emails being sent are meant to build trust, relationships, and positive feelings between the company and customer.
So you want to start using email to keep in touch with customers, but how do you do that? Below, we have outlined 5 easy tips to help you get started and begin implementing email marketing today.
Choose an email marketing system and get started. There are plenty of FREE email systems out there, such as MailChimp and Constant Contact, that allow you to quickly, easily, and effectively send out emails all while being cost efficient. These two sites offer both FREE and paid memberships.
Send out a monthly eNewsletter. This is an easy way for you to stay connected with a large audience, without having to personalize each email. Once a month, send an email that provides your customers with helpful information. For example, send them to your newest blog post that offers tips on how they can enjoy the summer sun, or any other information that pertains to your business. You do want to make sure this email is not overly promotional, however. This monthly email should focus on giving your customers information without asking for anything in return. Let them know you are a resource for them.
Keep them in the loop with timely information. Aside from your monthly email, be sure to let your current and potential customers know when any upcoming promotions, events, etc. will be occurring. This can be done more on an "as-needed" basis, rather than on a set date and time each month.
Personalize your emails. This is usually pretty simple to do in any given email marketing platform. You can set up a form letter which will allow you to easily change the name, job details and any inquiries to the client.
Don't over-do it. No one likes to be blasted with a slew of emails. Don't do it to your customers. You will increase your chances of having a strong amount of "unsubscribes" or people marking you as "SPAM." Send emails once a week, if necessary, but no more than that. Let them know from the get-go that you will not bombard them with emails, but instead will only send emails when you have information that will benefit them.
The most important thing you can remember when beginning to implement an email marketing strategy for your business is to be patient. Building your email list and trust with current and potential customers takes time. If you don't already have an established brand or email list, you will have to start out small and slowly climb your way up the ladder. BE PATIENT.
Aside from our tips on how to have successful communication with email marketing, we would like to offer some quick tips for major email marketing "NO-NO's" below.
And as always, remember that your email should bring value to your customers' lives. Let them know that you are here for them as a resource, friend, and trusted business partner. Customers want to feel like they matter, so let them know that they are your most important customers by taking the time to stay engaged with them.
Need help developing a strategy to obtain and retain customers? Contact the marketing experts at Brand It today by emailing hello@branditonline.com or giving us a call at 419-363-2817.


Oh Thou, who art ever the same, grant us so to pass through the coming year with faithful hearts, that we may be able in all things to please Thy loving eyes. Amen.
Allahumma ya mowlana antas-salaam, wa minkas-salaam, wa ilaika yarjaus-salaam, haiyyina rabbana bis-salaam, wa adkhilna daras-salaam, tabarakta rabbana wa-ta'laita, ya zal jalali wal ikram.
Except the tie that binds us to thee.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds… to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
May we know that it is the journey that is important. May we find our own truths and the divine within ourselves and in doing so help our fellow travelers to find their own. May we see each other through spirit and not through worldly eyes. Namaste.
Om is the best sound of all the Vedas. It arose from the nectarine essence of the Vedas. May Indra grant me intelligence. May I hold the immortal teaching in my mind. May my body be strong. May my speech be sweet. May I hear a lot of wisdom. O Om, you are the receptacle of the Supreme Truth. Remove the worldly intelligence that is obstructing my knowledge of you!
Tena twaam anubadhnaami rakshey maa chala maa chala.
Oh Lord, kindly forgive my wrong actions done knowingly or unknowingly, either through my organs of action (hand, feet, speech) or through my organs of perception (eyes, ears) or by my mind. Glory unto Thee O Lord, who is the ocean of kindness.karacharaNa kR^itaM vaakkaayajaM karmajaM vaa.
jaya jaya karuNaabdhe shriimahaadeva shambho.
In the beginning, as a result of my own deeds in past lives, I arrive in the womb of my mother, and stay there in all helplessness and discomfort. Forgive me, O Lord. Forgive my sinful past deeds.
O God! I awaken, go to sleep, live and die by You and to You is the final gathering. I have awakened and the morning has come with the Dominion belonging to the God. All praise is due to God, there is no partner with Him, there is none worthy of worship besides Him, and to Him is the final gathering.
The spirits of the mountain exist in strength.
their heads pierce the air and mount to the sky above.
O generous and loving God.
that they may have peace.
that they may find the joy of abundant life.
And renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope!
O Thou the Goal of my desire!
O Thou Who art my God!
And the most hidden of the hidden!
For this city (town, village, … ), for every city and community, and for those who live in them, let us pray to the Lord.
I vow to understand it.
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holiest dwelling-place of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, at the approach of morning.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who created mirth and joy, bridegroom and bride, gladness, jubilation, dancing, and delight, love and brotherhood, peace and fellowship. Quickly, O Lord our God, may the sound of mirth and joy be heard in the streets of Judah and Jerusalem, the voice of bridegroom and bride, jubilant voices of bridegrooms from their canopies and youths from the feasts of song. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who makes the bridegroom rejoice with the bride.
Night has come upon us and the night has come with the Dominion belonging to God. All praise is due to God, there is none worthy of worship except God, He has no partners, and He is able to do all things. Lord, I ask you the best of this day and what comes after it, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of this day and what comes after it. Lord, I seek refuge in You from laziness and the worst of old age. Lord, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of Hell and the punishment of the grave.


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"Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise," declares the Psalmist. "For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere." The joy of worship has been a passion of the human heart since time immemorial. And while church buildings have come a long way since the tabernacle erected by the Israelites in the desert, the design of today's churches, like that of the original tabernacle, is replete with meaning. From the architecture to the imagery on the walls, from the musical choices to the incense, churches contain significance in each of their parts.
Yet, as William Whyte explains in Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space, starting with the Reformation, church design in much of Great Britain downplayed symbolism and decoration in favor of plainness—and not only in newly built churches: Some long-established churches were changed in ways that made them plainer. The point of attending church services was at least as much to hear and learn about God's word as it was to perform rituals symbolic and sacramental, so the general idea behind the plainness movement was to create an environment suitable for preaching and attentive listening. There was little to nothing to look at: Explicit symbolism was removed from interior walls, which were often whitewashed.
Many churches during this era contained private pew boxes from which worshipers were treated to hour-plus-long sermons. Families would gather semi-privately inside the boxes rather than on benches in the open. It was hardly all severity, though: Along with the movement toward plainness was a movement toward comfort—so pillows came to the pews and mats came to the floors.
These visual changes had an acoustical effect as well. The plaster and whitewash, cushions and padding muffled echoes, contributing to an "auditory church" that was "perfectly designed for preaching," Whyte writes.
The plainness push petered out early in the 19th century. Whyte details how the Victorians—led by the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge—sought to reintroduce symbolism in churches and to teach churchgoers to "read" a church building like a book. Sacred space could instruct by engaging all the human senses.
The scale of the "Victorian restoration" and its transformation of British churches is staggering: "Tens of thousands of churches were built and still more altered in England alone" during the 19th century, Whyte writes. By helping us to better understand this change to sacred spaces—not only the fact of the move away from plainness but the motivations for it—Whyte has given us valuable insight into the shaping of our Victorian forebears who did so much to shape the world.


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Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., on Monday described reports of alleged abuse at a camp overseen by Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock as "disqualifying" – after one of the victims described counselors allegedly throwing urine on him and locking him outside overnight.
"It's disgusting," Loeffler said in an interview with Fox News. "It's really alarming, and frankly it should be disqualifying."
Loeffler was reacting to a Washington Free Beacon report, in which 30-year-old Anthony Washington described the abuse he allegedly suffered as a 12-year-old at Camp Farthest Out — a camp for inner-city children that Warnock oversaw in his role as the senior pastor of the Douglas Memorial Community Church in Maryland.
Nearly 2.1 million voters had cast ballots, roughly on pace with the Nov. 3 general election. It's unclear how the Christmas holiday will affect the pace of balloting. In-person early voting runs as late as Dec. 31 in some counties. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump tweeted that he would visit Georgia on Jan. 4, the eve of the runoff, for a rally in support of Republican David Perdue and Loeffler. -AP contributed
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There are days I wake up and I hate being an adult. I know it seems a little cliche, but life really was a lot easier when I was a teenager. You never would have convinced me of that though. Hindsight really is 20/20. Today I paid my bills, and I realized although I've loved the fact that I've had time off because the kids at school are on vacation, this also meant that I didn't get paid. I'm literally broke for the first time in my life, and I hate it. Although my parents are helping how they can, I hate asking. I just feel so helpless.
What am I doing wrong? I'm applying for jobs I'm qualified for, many I'm more than qualified for, and still get no response. I'm beginning to feel like there is something wrong with me. I checked my e-mail sent folder today...350 resume's sent in the past two months, and that's not counting the ones that I've printed out and mailed. You'd think statistics would say that I'd at least have gotten a job interview from at least one of those! I've been at the end of my rope for a little while now when it comes to employment, and the Theodore Roosevelt quote, "When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on." only takes you so far. Teddy I'm losing my grip, what do I do then?!
I'm beginning to get a little scared that I'm not going to be able to move next year to Colorado. Although I really want to follow my heart and just go, I do have to have a bit of a plan. If I can't find work here that allows me to pay my bills, what's the difference there? If I can't find work there, I'm worse off than I am here. I won't have my parents as a safety net. So what do I do?
To be honest my first gut reaction is to eat. I mean I cook/bake when I'm stressed, so eating what I make is only a natural progression...right? Well I'm being a good girl. I'm not about to ruin all of my hard work from 2011 in it's last days. Why is my brain wired to go to food as a comfort? This seems to be the hardest thing to change. I've been able to change exercise habits, eating habits, and some other emotional habits, but this one eludes me. I also seem to be struggling with dealing with my depression and stress. Although I have made baby steps this year, I know that I need to make some bigger steps next year in order for me to gain control of my life back.
I'll give myself today. I'll let myself be stressed, angry, and fed up with the annoyances of being an adult. I'll let go of the rope for today. Tomorrow though I'm going to make progress to not allow all of that to control me. I'm going to get a grip back on that knot at the end of my rope and start climbing. 2012 only holds one resolution for me, stop allowing the fear of the bad things, control my life!


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Dipali Cunningham: a Champion's Champion from 1991 - 2015
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Rupantar has been the race director of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team since 1985, having been asked by Sri Chinmoy to serve in that capacity. As well as working on the big races the US Marathon Team organise each year - the 3100 Mile Race and the Six and 10 Day Race - he also spends a considerable amount of time archiving the Marathon Team's 40 year history on this website.
The New York Times recently published an article touting a runner "as one of the country's top female ultramarathoners". Kudos to the runner highlighted. However, the Times writer, while defining ultrarunning as any distance beyond the marathon (which I have no qualms with), failed to examine distances beyond the many races that were highlighted in the article. Ultrarunning beyond the 50 mile and 100 mile trail races has a long and storied history dating back to at least the pedestrian races in the 19th century. See Harper's Magazine article by Sam Shaw "Run Like Fire Once More" for a bigger history of multi day racing.
If multiday races were included, then surely Dipali Cunningham would be up there as one of the all-time greats. Here is a brief resume from a career spanning from 1991 to 2015:
36 multiday races
30 first place finishes
12 times overall wins (i.e beating all the men in the race!)
3 world records (6 day race) :
1998 504 miles
2009 (best) over 50 years old 513 miles
2014 American US age group record 55-59 475 miles
3rd place in world for 700 miles (women)
4th place in world 1,000 miles (women)
33 Australian National records (24 hours to 1,000 miles)
Sri Chinmoy Ten and Six Day Races
2019 Ten and Six Day List of Runners
Vice-Consul of the Russian Federation in New York attends 6 & 10 Day Awards Ceremony
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BBC.COM: Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence: The 3,100-mile race around a New York block
One of the most insightful and revealing stories about the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race appeared on the home page of the prestigious BBC.COM this past Friday, June 21. Including interviews with past and present runners, the article gives the reader a runner's insight into why anyone would want to run for 52 days around a New York City block, and what the experience is like for these pioneer ultra runners.
The article is written by long time reporter Justin Goulding of BBC Sports, under the Sport Insight section.
From the article: "It is a race so long that runners need a haircut during it. They can get through 20 pairs of shoes. They run more than two marathons a day. For almost two months. On five hours of sleep a night."
For the complete article...
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The Twenty-Third Annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race
Welcome to the 23rd Annual Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. Called 'The Mount Everest of ultramarathons' by The New York Times, this is the longest certified footrace in the world. It attracts athletes from around the world who want to test themselves against this daunting distance, transcend their own previous capacity, and participate in a great adventure. Along the way, they may also set new world records and gain spiritual insights.
Athletes are able to test themselves in a format unlike any other ultra-marathon event. In order to meet their goal of 3100 miles in 52 days, they must log an average of 59.6 miles per day. The runners begin at 6 a.m. and run for extended periods throughout the day, taking breaks as needed. If they want to, they can continue as late as 12 midnight when the course closes for the night. View 2019 runner list »
Media articles from previous years:
BBC.COM, The New York Times: • Sports Illustrated: • The Times of London • The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post • Harpers Magazine • Outside Magazine • More media articles»
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The LUMC Flow cytometry Core Facility (FCF) accommodates all research and diagnostic flow cytometry equipment of the LUMC. It also encompasses 3 cell sorters, 2 mass cytometers and a cell imager. In addition, flow cytometers are available for analyzing samples with high biological hazard at ML-II and ML-III levels.
Flow cytometry enables the rapid measurement of multiple physical and biological characteristics of individual cells or particles. Over the last decades, flow cytometry has developed into a well-established technology that supports many applications in studies on the nature of individual cells within homogeneous or mixed cell populations. Ongoing developments on new lasers, fluorescent dyes, antibody reagents, digital signal generation, data acquisition, and software tools for data analysis, have made flow cytometry the leading technology in research and clinical fields that study blood and immune cells, stem cells and various types of cancer. Our beginners and advanced courses provide users with basic knowledge, practical experience and advanced insights into flow cytometry.
The FCF provides equipment and support for all aspects of flow and mass cytometry: experimental design, handling of cells, setup of equipment, data acquisition and data analysis. We currently serve 350 users within the LUMC and externally (Leiden Bio Science Park, universities and others).
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