What's old is new again in today's round of development news. Not just the recycling of older properties, but the revisiting of previously explored ideas in new and exciting media. Maybe the werewolf movies or tabletop games of our past just didn't have the right form to be their best selves. Now they're given another chance.
First, let's talk monsters. According to Deadline, Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of, well, The Order. It's a horror/drama from the same folks who make the Van Helsing show and seems like it'll have the same mixture of schlock, scares, and magical intrigue.
A college freshman, played by Jake Manley, joins a secret society and finds out that there's a lot more to his world than meets the eye -- including a werewolf war. If it sounds a bit like the Underworld movies, then you're right, but add a heaping helping of Riverdale on top of it, because there's plenty of school-days drama and romance. So maybe a dash of Buffy, too?
The focus on the collegiate setting doesn't seem overly strong, as the series description only lists half of its love interest's double major (poli-sci), though I'm certain actress Sarah Grey will more than overcome this seemingly underwritten introduction. The dark, magical series comes from Dennis Heaton and Shelley Eriksen, and will feature Matt Frewer, Sam Trammell, and Max Martini in supporting roles. Will they all be werewolves? We can only hope.
Another thing to hope for is the success of a new crowdfunding initiative. According to Variety, the funding and publishing platform Fig will be attempting to bring video games to life from the unpublished work of the late Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
While the game is having one of its biggest resurgences ever in popularity, these games won't be taking from his efforts there, as those assets are owned elsewhere. Instead, while no details have thus far been released, these plans for publication will focus on Gygax's later IP — "some of his most cherished and shared only with his closest friends," according to Fig CEO Justin Bailey.
The service has already funded a few successful video game campaigns in the past (like those for Pillars of Eternity 2, Psychonauts 2, and Phoenix Point), so the plan has potential. What remains an unknown factor is the quality or even subject of the unpublished work that these games will be adapting. Gygax continued making role-playing and fantasy games after his split with his D&D partners, but they never achieved the popularity of his original creation.


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Kyle Bent (born August, 12, 1997) is an American rapper from the town of Randolph, Massachusetts. Bent was originally born in Jamaica where he resided until the age of two, before his parents decided to move to the United States.
In third grade, Bent was introduced to the art of freestyle rapping by a close friend of his. Being new to this world, he decided to explore further, which ultimately led him to start experimenting with songwriting. Bent worked to hone this skill. By the fifth grade he had formed a rap duo with another friend of his, which lasted for about a year. Throughout that time, Bent taught himself the basics of audio engineering and recording, which he used to create his first few records.
In 2010, Bent was introduced to a man named Tarik McFarland, who became his music engineer. Tarik saw potential in Bent and took him under his wing, in an attempt to develop him as an artist. Throughout their working together, Tarik helped Kyle construct over seventy songs that were spread throughout five different project releases.
After working with Tarik for about a year, Bent was contacted by a man named Tom Murray who offered to sponsor him. Tom helped Kyle get exclusive placements on sites such as WorldStarHipHop and Datpiff, as well as other notable sites that were setting the tone for hip-hop culture at the time. This allowed Bent to reach more people and expand his fan base.
In 2014, Bent released a music video called "Mind Control" which brought him his first hundred-thousand views on YouTube. The video was featured on MTV, On Demand, Music Choice, as well as other established music networks of the time. It also caught the attention of influential hip-hop blogs such as Undergroundhiphop, HHS97, The Source, XXL, and DJBooth.net. This helped bring more publicity and notoriety to Bent's name.
In early 2016, as Bent was attending college at Bridgewater State University, he released another music video called "Higher Power", which was well-received on a site called Reddit. The exposure from the site helped Bent's video garner over three-hundred thousand views overnight. This led him to get signed by, Denver-based label, "Made in the Shade Records" later that spring.
Since then, Kyle Bent has headlined countless venues and music festivals both within and outside his local region. He completed a U.S tour with American hip-hop artists, Hopsin, Joyner Lucas, and Token in late 2016. Then went on to headline his own East Coast tour early that following year. He has also shared stages with the likes of artists such as Nelly and Machine Gun Kelly.
Ultimately, as an artist, Kyle Bent wants to transcend all boundaries and stigmas that surround rap music. His focus is to leave a positive impact in the lives of those who listen to his music.
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Waiver Wire Week 14: 2022 Fantasy Football
Week 14 we will see the final bye week. We also enter the final regular season week for fantasy. My suggestion is to look ahead at defenses for the first round, and matchup stream. Get a week ahead of the game. The Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints, and Washington Commanders all have a bye week coming up.
Tyler Huntley, Baltimore Ravens
We are waiting on Lamar Jackson's injury, but Tyler Huntley would be the starter if Jackson misses any games(which is very likely). Huntley completed 27 of 32 passes for 187 yards and rushed ten times for 41 yards and the winning touchdown. Huntley plays like Lamar Jackson, so the offense won't have to change. Huntley's rushing ability puts him on the fantasy radar, as well as his impressive completion percentage against Denver.
Mike White, New York Jets
Mike White is a streamable option for the rest of the season. He led the Jets to six red zone possessions and had a one-yard touchdown rush. White had a touchdown pass dropped by Braxton Berrios and missed numerous Garrett Wilson touchdowns. Wilson missed a touchdown by a foot out of bounds and overthrew him on an 80-plus-yard touchdown. White threw for over 300 yards again and pushed 400 this week against the Vikings. White plays Buffalo this week, but after Buffalo, he is home for the Lions and Jaguars, and then on the road for Seattle and Miami.
Brock Purdy, San Fransisco 49ers
Brock Purdy was Mr. Irrelevant at the 2022 NFL Draft. Now he is the starting quarterback for the San Fransisco 49ers. Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a season-ending foot injury, which puts Purdy in line to start. Purdy went 25 of 37 passes for 210 yards, two touchdowns, and an interception. Not bad for someone right off the bench. To add, he did it in a winning effort against the Miami Dolphins. The 49ers added Josh Johnson, and the news of Baker Mayfield may be intriguing, but as of now, Purdy is the starter.
Desmond Ridder, Atlanta Falcons
This is a speculative add, more so for deeper leagues, but with the Atlanta Falcons all but out of the playoffs, there is a chance we see Desmond Ridder come in so the Falcons can evaluate their rookie quarterback.
Zonovan Knight, New York Jets
I can't imagine Zonovan Knight being on any waiver wire, but he is only 39.3% rostered on ESPN. Knight rushed 15 times for 90 yards and caught all five of his targets for 28 yards. Knight is benefitting from Mike White and looks very good on the ground. He had multiple rushes inside the five-yard line, but the Jets decided to throw on 3rd and 4th and goal at the end of the game. Knight is a must-add if on the waivers, and the undrafted rookie looks like a potential league winner, even with Michael Carter returning from injury.
Deejay Dallas, Seattle Seahawks
We don't know the details of Ken Walker's injury yet, but if he misses any time, Dallas takes over as the lead back in Seattle. He rushed ten times for 37 yards against the Rams. Dallas hasn't done much this season, but Ken Walker has been the unquestioned RB1 for the majority of the season. For those in need of a flex play, Dallas would get the Panthers next.
Dallas is however dealing with some version of a high ankle sprain himself. There is alot to monitor in this situation early this week.
James Cook, Buffalo Bills
James Cook has been getting a bigger role in the Buffalo offense. On Thursday night he rushed 14 times for 64 yards and caught all six of his passes for 41 yards. The Bills traded for Nyheim Hines, who was expected to be the pass catcher, but it seems Cook is taking on that role with Hines seeing most of his touches on special teams. Cook must be rostered from here on out going into the fantasy playoffs. He gets a tough matchup this week against the Jets.
Cam Akers, Los Angeles Rams
The Rams season has hit a downward spiral, but Cam Akers appears to be reemerging as the RB1 in LA. He rushed 17 times for 60 yards with two touchdowns. Early in the season he was demanding a trade, and it seemed as if the Rams really were trying to be aggressive in doing so, but he stays a Ram. Akers now is auditioning to maintain the top spot, and it seems like he will the rest of the season, and possibly into the next.
Jameson Williams, Detroit Lions
Get Jameson Williams on your roster now while you can. If Williams was fully healthy entering the NFL draft this past April, he may have been the top wideout taken. Williams has top-tier speed and is on a Lions team that has a good offense (Oh and may have a top QB next year too as the Lions have the Rams' first-round pick). In his debut, he only saw one target but expects the playing time and targets to go up as well.
Demarcus Robinson, Baltimore Ravens
Demarcus Robinson saw an uptick in targets with Tyler Huntley playing quarterback. He caught seven of eight passes for 41 yards. While the yardage isn't anything that jumps out, the volume does. Robinson is an interesting addition. In two of his last three games, he has seen eight or more targets and should be on fantasy rosters in deeper leagues.
Odell Beckham, Free Agent
The Odell Beckham tour is underway as he just met with the Giants and Bills. The Cowboys want Beckham as well. Odell may or may not have an impact this season, but if he does it would be in the fantasy playoffs, and Beckham is someone you want to roster not only to have but to block your opponents from playing him against you.
Alec Pierce, Indianapolis Colts
Alec Pierce has been inconsistent all year but has the talent to succeed. He caught four of eight passes for 86 yards and a touchdown on Sunday night against the Cowboys. The Colts have had Quarterback struggles all season, so Pierce is a good dynasty target right now, but he has had multiple weeks this year with eight or more targets. With a bye this week, he should be easy to sneak on your team for free.
Darius Slayton, New York Giants
Someone must be the WR1 for the Giants. Odell Beckham is still a free agent and was hosted by the Giants. Slayton caught six of eight passes for 90 yards on Sunday against Washington. He has been putting up solid numbers under the radar for the Giants. Slayton should be rostered down the stretch, even if Odell does sign with the Giants.
Greg Dulcich, Denver Broncos
Greg Dulcich has been a great addition this year for the Broncos. Against the Ravens, he caught six of eight passes for 85 yards. He started his first three games on a great stretch for the Broncos, then cooled off. Now after this game he looks to build off that against the Chiefs in which the Broncos likely will be playing from behind most of the game.
Evan Engram, Jacksonville Jaguars
For those in need of a streamable tight end, Evan Engram caught five of seven passes for 30 yards and a touchdown. While inconsistent, Engram has put up respectable numbers on the occasion this season and is worth a stream in you're down a tight end this week.
Chigoziem Okonkwo
Chigoziem Okonwo is unknown to the redraft community. He has seen five targets in back-to-back weeks, and this week caught four of five passes for 68 yards. This is more of a dynasty add, but it's someone to keep a deep league flier eye on.


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Home India SHOCKING! Watchdog watches, while the corrupts soar in position in governments
SHOCKING! Watchdog watches, while the corrupts soar in position in governments
A new investigation by CobraPost has revealed that governments both at the Centre and in states were stonewalling efforts of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to clean up corrupt systems.
These governments run by political parties of all hues have been guilty of selectively safeguarding corrupt government officials.
Documents accessed by the website revealed how successive governments had shown no urgency to bring 32 officials – a mix of secretaries, collectors, bank officials and engineers – to book, officials against whom the CVC had recommended prosecution on corruption charges.
So glaring has been the inaction over the CVC's recommendations to prosecute the officials that some cases are pending with various ministries for more than four years, although they should have been acted upon within the stipulated period of four months.
These officials are B.P. Acharya, principal secretary, Hyderabad; L.V. Subramanyam, secretary, Hyderabad; Manmohan Singh, secretary, Department of Personnel and Training; Aditya Nath Das, principal secretary, Hyderabad; B Sam Bob, principal secretary, Hyderabad; Sada Kant Shukla, Ministry of Home Affairs; D. Muralidhar Reddy, collector, Guntur; S.N. Mohanty, Vice Chairman and the High Commissioner of AP government; Pradeep Shukla, Principal Secretary in Department of Personnel and Training in UP and Homi Rajvansh, IRS. Of these, Acharya's case stands out. The CVC had recommended action against Acharya not once but thrice: first in March 2012, then twice in September 2013. The CVC is so piqued at these delays that it recently summoned as many as five ministries to seek clarifications.
By not providing required information on these officials' acts of omissions and commissions or by simply refusing to act against them, the CVC's probe is effectively stalled. Not only that, governments have appointed or extended the tenure of some top PSU bosses despite pending CVC probes against them. Cobrapost has documents pertaining to three such recent appointments or extensions showing the rot within.
When in September 2010, Arup Roy Choudhury was appointed the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the 'Maha Navratna' NTPC amid stiff competition, it raised many eyebrows considering his past as the chief of NBCC, another PSU. Although many vigilance enquiries were still pending against him, the then Union Power Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde said this in his confidential note on May 12, 2010: "By virtue of his experience in project construction, project management, project monitoring and all other related areas and leader of a PSU for more than 9 years makes him more suitable for the post. Hence, I recommend Shri Arup Roy Choudhury for the post of CMD, NTPC".
During the next five years of his tenure, the Power Ministry blocked the CVC's probe by denying relevant documents to the watchdog. Since January 9, 2009, the CVC has sent as many as five reminders to the Power Ministry asking for inputs on a specific complaint (no. 1648/08/10) but in vain. In its various replies to applications filed by RTI activist A.K. Jain till April 2 last year, a dejected CVC observed: "CVO (in the Power Ministry) recommendation report (on Roy Choudhury) not yet received." This deliberate dilly-dallying ensured a smooth run for Roy Choudhury, who retired on August 31 last year, unscathed.
Another PSU honcho to have enjoyed a free run despite several pending vigilance enquiries into irregularities including the misuse of government funds for personal benefits is A.B. Agrawal. The chief of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) got seven extensions in a row since March 2013 before the Modi government showed him the door on September 24 last year.
The CVC could not go ahead with the proceedings it had initiated against Agrawal as the Ministry of Power, much akin to Roy Choudhury's case, refused to cooperate by not providing any relevant information. Observed the CVC in a letter to the Power Ministry on March 29 last year:
"Investigation report sought by the Commission vide OM no Conf/5766/14 from M/o Power is still awaited. Further a case being dealt with in file no 013/PWR/058 is also yet to be taken to the logical conclusion. Therefore, it would not be possible for the Commission to consider vigilance clearance in respect of Shri A B Agrawal at this stage." Agrawal even appealed to the Delhi High Court against his repatriation to NHPC, his parent company, but got the thumbs down.
"Superannuation or end of term brings new opportunities for some officials, their questionable past notwithstanding. They are welcomed by state governments, technically outside the watchdog's purview. A case in point is that of R.N. Sen, former chairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The West Bengal government appointed Sen the chairman of the West Bengal State Electricity Regulatory Commission (WBSERC) in September last year.
"Roy Choudhury too was appointed head of the West Bengal Public Service Commission immediately after the end of his term as NTPC chief.
Sen has as many as eight vigilance enquiries for financial and technical irregularities pending against him. He was also charge-sheeted by the Chief Vigilance Officer of his earlier company, DVC. The allegations involve violation of rules while awarding Rs. 123 crore contract to NBCC, irregularities in awarding overhauling work of turbine in BTPS, Raghunathpur Thermal Power plant and overdrawing of salary and allowances to the tune of Rs 8,89,868.
"In another reply to Jain's RTI application, the CVC in June 25 last year admitted that "the cases have not yet reached its logical conclusion". The CVC asked the state government to get Sen's appointment cleared from the Union government: "It is therefore advised that Department of Power & NES, Government of West Bengal may refer to the matter to the Ministry of Power, Government of India, being the last employer of Mr Sen."
However, the Mamata Banerjee's government went ahead with the appointment.
"It appears that the West Bengal Government has decided on the appointment on the assumption that there were no pending vigilance cases. The documents of CVC suggest to the contrary," says Padamjit Singh of All India Power Engineers' Federation (AIPEF) who made several representations to the state government against Sen's appointment.
Raising a red flag, the CVC has conveyed to the Union government three areas of concern: delay in processing complaints, selective approach and non-acceptance of CVC's advice. According to the CVC, "Delays have been noticed not only at various levels of processing the complaints/cases but also at the level at which decisions are to be taken by the competent authorities. The common areas where delays have been noticed pertain to the investigation of complaints, issue of charge-sheets for initiation of appropriate departmental proceedings, appointment of inquiry officers and the issue of the final orders after the completion of the disciplinary proceedings."
The "selective approach" that certain departments apply to let the accused off the hook is expressed in no uncertain terms: "The organisations' unwillingness to accept the CVC's advice against some officers is viewed as examples of a 'selective approach' by the organisations in order to favour/disfavour certain officers. Instances of some organisations letting off delinquent officials without punishment or with lighter penalties convey wrong signals."
Finally, the CVC has conveyed its concern over the way its advice is ignored by authorities concerned: "It remains a matter of concern that either the consultation mechanism with the Commission was not adhered to or the authorities concerned did not accept the Commission's advice. Further, there have been instances where the advices tendered by the Commission have been diluted considerably without approaching the Commission for reconsideration of its advice."
Says the Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India, K.V. Chowdary, 'The CVC has to raise the alarm bell before it is too late. A slew of measures have been taken recently conveying the government that enough is enough. Now act fast." Accordingly, the CVC recently conducted an internal study "Existing Pattern of Prolonged Disciplinary Proceedings" spelling out time-bound remedies and asking the government to 're-engineer' its internal mechanism to accelerate the vigilance process. Elaborates Chowdary, "We thought the time is ripe. CVC must be more active to give a clear signal that the government's vigilance process needs to shed the existing flab." The CVC may be ready to crack the whip but whether it will be allowed to by the vested interests well-entrenched in political executive and bureaucracy is a moot question.
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To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
More than once already I've tried – in the interval since my last letter1 – to write to you and to Mother. So I thank you for having again written me such a kind letter.2 How right I think both of you were, Mother and you, to have left Breda for a while3 after Cor's departure. Certainly grief mustn't build up in our hearts like the water of a turbid pool. From time to time I feel like that inside, as if I have a very turbid soul, but that's an illness, and for people who are well and active, certainly they must do as you have done.
As I write to Mother4 I'll send her a painting in let's say around a month, and there'll be one for you too.
However, it does one good to think that a canvas like that is in such hands, and it consoles painters a little to be able to imagine that really there are souls who have a feeling for paintings.
But there are relatively few of them.
I consider it very good and very fortunate that you're not absolutely enthusiastic about De Goncourt's masterly book. So much the better that you prefer Tolstoy, you who read books above all to derive energies from them in order to act. I think you're right a thousand times over.
But I, who read books to seek in them the artist who made them,13 could I be wrong to like French novelists so much?
I've just finished the portrait of a woman of forty or more, insignificant. The face faded and tired, pockmarked, an olive-tinged, suntanned complexion, black hair.
Because I sometimes paint things like that – with as little and as much drama as a dusty blade of grass by the side of the road – it's right, as it seems to me, that I should have an unbounded admiration for De Goncourt, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Huysmans. But as regards yourself, don't hurry, and continue boldly with the Russians. Have you read Ma religion by Tolstoy15 yet – it must be very practical and really useful. So go right to the very depths of that, since you like it.
Lately I've done two portraits of myself, one of which is quite in character, I think,16 but in Holland they'd probably scoff at the ideas about portraits that are germinating here. Did you see at Theo's the portrait of the painter Guillaumin and the portrait of a young woman by the same?17 That really gives an idea of what one is searching for. When Guillaumin exhibited his portrait, public and artists laughed at it a great deal,18 and yet it's one of the rare things that would hold up alongside even the old Dutchmen Rembrandt and Hals.
I myself still find photographs frightful and don't like to have any, especially not of people whom I know and love.
These portraits, first, are faded more quickly than we ourselves, while the painted portrait remains for many generations. Besides, a painted portrait is a thing of feeling made with love or respect for the being represented. What remains to us of the old Dutchmen? The portraits.
At this very moment I've just received a letter from Theo in which he answers me on the subject of what I'd said of my desire to return to the north for a while.20 It's quite likely that this will happen, to say exactly when, that still depends 1r:4 on the opportunities there may be to go and live with some artist or another.
But as we know several of them and it's often advantageous to live in pairs, it won't take long.
Finally, I say 'à bientôt' to you, thanking you again very much for your letters.
I would need courage, and I often lack it.
And it's also that since my illness the feeling of loneliness takes hold of me in the fields in such a fearsome way that I hesitate to go out. With time, though, that will change again. It's only in front of the easel while painting that I feel a little of life.
Anyway, that will change again, for my health is so good that the physique will win the day again.
I kiss you affectionately in thought, and more soon.
On the basis of Vincent's remark that he has 'just' received a letter from Theo (ll. 124-125) – this was letter 802 of 18 September – we have dated the present letter to Thursday, 19 September 1889.
Enclosed with letter 803 to Mrs van Gogh.
1. The last letter to Willemien was letter 785 of 2 July 1889.
2. Willemien had written to Vincent between 8 and 12 September (FR b2931).
4. The letter to Mrs van Gogh is letter 803.
5. Van Gogh painted two versions of Pietà (after Delacroix), F 630 / JH 1775 and F 757 / JH 1776 , after the lithograph by Nanteuil-Leboeuf after Delacroix's Pietà (for the lithograph, see letter 686, n. 3). The canvas he describes here, which he made for his bedroom, is F 630.
6. Letter 805 to Theo reveals that these paintings are copies after the series The labours of the field , consisting of ten prints on one sheet, engraved by Adrien Lavieille (see letter 156, n. 1). Here Van Gogh mentions 'a few' copies (in letter 805 he meanwhile has seven). Because he most likely kept to the order of the prints, the 'few' mentioned here were probably the first of the series (for the prints and Van Gogh's paintings after them, see letter 805, n. 6).
7. Pierre Loti's novel Mon frère Yves (1883) is the story of the friendship between the first-person narrator, Pierre, and his friend Yves, both sailors. Pierre is an officer and can therefore protect Yves, who has inherited his father's tendency to drink too much. This weakness causes problems on board ship and in Yves's young family. Pierre's support is crucial, and eventually Yves mends his ways. Willemien probably read this book because Vincent mentioned it here; on 19 October 1889, she wrote to Jo van Gogh-Bonger that she had enjoyed it very much (FR b2404).
For Loti's Pêcheur d'Islande, see letter 714, n. 3, and for Madame Chrysanthème, see letter 628, n. 20.
8. The article 'Carmen Sylva' by Pierre Loti was published in Le Figaro, Supplément Littéraire of 28 April 1888; the second part appeared on 5 May. Van Gogh took his information from the first part.
9. Loti gives a detailed description of the boudoir of the Romanian queen. Commenting on Delacroix's painting, Loti said: 'When she was seated at her work, I could see, from the spot she had indicated to me on the first day, and which it was my habit to resume, her face and her veil standing out in front of a large, superb canvas by Delacroix: the entombment of Christ. And always, sitting on either side of her, the young girls in oriental dress, completing this picture that I should like to have painted.' (Lorsqu'elle était assise à travailler, de la place qu'elle m'avait indiquée le premier jour et que j'avais coutume de reprendre, je voyais son visage et son voile se détacher en avant d'une grande et superbe toile de Delacroix: la mise au tombeau du Christ. Et toujours, de chaque côté d'elle, assises, les jeunes filles au costume oriental, complétant ce tableau que j'aurais voulu peindre).
10. Loti quotes the saying that a house without a child is like a bell without a clapper. The passage comes from Carmen Sylva, Les pensées d'une reine (The thoughts of a queen): 'A house without children is like a bell without a clapper. The dormant sound would surely be very beautiful, if there were something to awaken it!' (Une maison sans enfants est comme une cloche sans battant. Le son qui dort serait bien beau, s'il y avait quelque chose pour le réveiller!) See Sylva 1888, p. 45 ('L'amour').
11. The 'little copy' is Pietà (after Delacroix) (F 757 / JH 1776 ); the canvas measures 42 x 34 cm. Van Gogh painted this 'sketch' first, as emerges from letter 801. It did eventually come into Willemien's possession (see also n. 21 below).
12. For the novel Germinie Lacerteux by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, see letter 574, n. 5. Germinie's sad appearance, which Van Gogh compares with that of his model, is expressed in the following passage, among others: 'the whiteness of her back, contrasting with the brown of her face. It was the whiteness of lethargy, the whiteness, both sickly and angelic, of flesh that is not alive.' (la blancheur de son dos, contrastant avec le hâle de son visage. C'était une blancheur de lymphatique, la blancheur à la fois malade et angélique d'une chair qui ne vit pas.) Ed. Paris 1887, chapter 5, p. 52. Cf. letter 685, n. 10 and Sund 1992, p. 292 (n. 91).
13. This idea is based on Zola's Mon Salon; see letter 515, n. 11.
14. Van Gogh is referring to the first version of the portrait of Jeanne Trabuc, the 55-year-old wife of the chief orderly. He made a repetition of it and let Madame Trabuc choose between them (see letter 805). Only the portrait that was sent to Theo is known: Jeanne Trabuc (F 631 / JH 1777 ). Because we do not know if Theo received the first or the second version, we cannot tell whether the portrait he had is the one referred to here.
15. For Tolstoy's Ma religion, see letter 686, nn. 10 and 20.
16. Self-portrait (F 626 / JH 1770 ) and Self-portrait (F 627 / JH 1772 ).
17. For Guillaumin's Self-portrait with palette and Portrait of a young woman , see letter 800, n. 21.
18. Guillaumin exhibited his Self-portrait with palette in 1880 at the fifth exhibition of the Impressionists (no. 72, Portrait de M.G.). Portrait of a young woman was shown at the eighth and last exhibition, in 1886 (no. 65, Portrait). See Ruth Berson, The New Painting. Impressionism 1874-1886. Documentation. Volume II. Exhibited Works, San Francisco 1996, pp. 150, 244.
19. Theo Mesker, Anton Mauve, 1871 (present whereabouts unknown). Ill. 1143 . See Engel 1967, no. B1.
20. The letter to Theo was letter 802. This remark prompted Willemien to ask Theo on 2 October 1889: 'Is Vincent perhaps coming to Paris again, he wrote that to me' (FR b2401).
21. The consignment of paintings intended for his mother and Willemien, which Vincent sent to Theo in December, did contain canvases of a wheatfield and an olive grove, but not the copy after Delacroix. See letter 824. F 757 did eventually come into Willemien's possession; see Account book 2002, p. 20.
22. Van Gogh had not been out of doors since his attack on 16 or 17 July 1889 (see letter 793, n. 1).


IN the first three months of 2008, murders were up 25 percent in New York City com pared to the same period last year. New Yorkers hearing of the rising violence will surely worry that the bad old days might be returning.
Most remember when murderous drug gangs carried on wars in our streets – mowing down hundreds of victims including scores of innocent bystanders.
Of course, that carnage brought a reaction – New Yorkers said Enough! And – thanks to increases in police strength by thousands of officers and the institution of new anti-crime strategies – crime began to fall steadily. Yearly murders dropped from 2,245 in 1990 to 496 last year.
Having spent many years charting trends in crime and policing, I'm frequently asked whether violence is likely to return to the levels of the early '90s. The answer is clearly "no" for the short run – but the longer term holds reasons to worry.
The NYPD can deal with crime surges such as the present spike in murder. It will deploy officers to "hot spots" and, by using tactics tail- ored to specific problems, bring the situation under control.
But problems nationally and locally could cause crime to literally shoot up.
In the '80s, the crack-cocaine explosion spread from other parts of the country to New York, triggering the drug wars. Something similar could be in the offing now – for murder rates rose in many US cities last year. This year's early numbers show murder rising in Los Angeles and Chicago – the country's second- and third-largest cities. This may be the harbinger of a national trend.
Another area of concern is the pending US Supreme Court ruling on Washington, DC's gun-control law. One reason New York is much safer today than in 1990 is that firearm murders have fallen from the neighborhood of 1,500 a year to the 300 range. And key to that has been enhanced NYPD enforcement of the Sullivan Law (forbidding unlicensed persons to possess a handgun), which has deterred criminals from carrying their weapons.
But a federal appeals court last year struck down DC's gun-control law on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. If the Supreme Court affirms that ruling, statutes like New York's Sullivan Law will likely face court challenges. And any undercutting of the NYPD's authority to arrest gunmen will inevitably lead to a rise in shootings.
Finally, there is the question of the NYPD's size. In 2000, there were nearly 41,000 officers in the force. But budget cuts and difficulties attracting recruits have reduced the number to the 35,000 range – and falling.
Department strength is scheduled to rise to 36,838 when a new police class is appointed this July. But the paltry starting salary of $25,100 a year – the result of collective bargaining – has discouraged recruits from entering previous classes, so that quota most likely won't be filled. In any event, normal attrition will bring the force down to the 34,000 range in 2009.
All this, when the NYPD has had to detail a thousand officers to counterterrorism operations – compared to just 17 before 9/11.
Given the challenges it faces, it's unreasonable to expect the NYPD to accomplish with 34,000 officers more than it did with 41,000. To keep New York safe, the NYPD needs a realistic staffing level – and to obtain that requires a much higher starting salary for recruits.


On Judgment Day God is going to ask us if we lived our lives to the fullest extent possible. At this point, you know lying is not an option because God is all knowing.
God might be satisfied with the fact that we did not lie during that moment.
I wonder if that would fly with God.
So I ask you, are you truly living?
If the answer is no then what is holding you back?


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Midnight_Reaper 2020 '19 '18 '17 last edited by
Polygon, a website, released an article about A&A&Z, linked below:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/6/17431468/axis-allies-and-zombies-rules-preview
In this article, we learn the following:
This game comes with paper money. The IPCs included will be "blood-stained" and unique to this game.
The Zombies come in two fashions: At the start of every player's turn, you flip a card and put a zombie on the named territory. Also, all Infantry casualties from ground battles become zombies.
The neutral countries will come into play. One revealed card states: "Add a zombie to Spain. It is no longer neutral and has an IPC value of 2."
They posted the setup card for Japan. On it are infantry, tanks, artillery, fighters, bombers, submarines, destroyers, transports, aircraft carriers, and battleships. So, similar to A&A '41, just with artillery added. Also, Japan starts the game with a 15 IPC income.
At least some of the technologies for the game are on the card, with a couple described in the text. Listed techs include: Z.I.B.R.A. suits (Infantry), Z-4 Explosives (Artillery), Chainsaw Tanks (Tanks), AirD.O.T.S. (Aircraft), Deadnapper Convoys (Transports), and Zombie Mind Control Ray (Zombies).
Only change to regular unit values that I saw were Tanks at A3/D3/M2/C5 (so, 5 IPC 3/3 tanks).
Will ship with 215 minis, between the five countries and the zombies.
Will come with: "… rules and components to fully modify Axis & Allies: 1942, allowing fans and collectors to play an even more grand version of the game." I suspect this means, allow you to turn A&A '42, SE, into A&A&Z, '42.
MSRP: $40.
No release date in this article, but others have stated that we should expect an October '18 release.
-Midnight_Reaper
DoManMacgee 2020 '19 '18 last edited by
I didn't expect the Zombies to be so… "uninspired" I guess is the word I'm looking for.
What happened to all the talk of "Zombies will stop the stalling" that we'd heard previously? It sounds like they're just a random factor (luck of the draw) thrown in for the sake of randomness.
In fact, if anything, the threat of zombies spawning due to INF casualties will only encourage EVEN MORE stalling, since the game is actively discouraging you from swapping minor territories (i.e. the 2 INF Vs. 1 INF or 1 INF/1FTR Vs. 1 INF fights that define the Eastern Front in smaller-scale A&A games).
Moreover, the threat of Zombie INF discourages any major engagement whatsoever, because even if I beat your 20 INF/5 TANK/5 FTR stack with my 30 INF/10 TANK stack, I'm probably just going to lose the rest of my army to the 40-45 Zombies that show up afterwards. And it's not like anyone's going to be capable of building less INF-heavy armies with the IPC incomes dramatically reduced, so things are just going to devolve into a stall war for fear of Zombies.
There has to be something else to the Zombie mechanic that they haven't revealed yet, because from the sounds of it they've basically made the game unplayable.
But hey, paper money. Isn't that what people on here have been rioting about for like the last 4-5 editions of A&A?
Others will say the puns for the tech ("Z-4" instead of "C-4", etc.) are in bad taste, but I think they're hilarious
CWO Marc 2021 2020 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10 last edited by
I looked at the Polygon article and these four paragraphs caught my eye:
In Axis & Allies and Zombies, every time an infantry unit dies it will turn into a unit of zombies. These zombie units linger on the board, contributing later to the war of attrition on both sides of a battle.
Zombies will also spawn randomly all around the board. A new deck of cards is being added to the game. On each player's turn they draw randomly from that deck, spawning zombies in a single territory – even in traditionally neutral countries or places that start the game without any military forces on the board.
Players will have to decide if a territory filled with the undead is important enough to do battle in, or if the risk is simply too great. Van Essen said that this opens up new avenues of advance on virtually every front, and forces players to make new and interesting decisions on the fly.
"There are people who will never, in a hundred games of vanilla Axis & Allies, land a guy in Brazil," Van Essen said, "but suddenly there's a zombie in Brazil that's taking your income away. You've got to go down and fight it."
What this seems to imply, in my opinion, is that the zombies are basically there as an annoyance factor. Their job is to gum up the works in two basic ways: by preventing you from doing things that you want to do ("Players will have to decide if a territory filled with the undead is important enough to do battle in, or if the risk is simply too great.") and by forcing you to do things that you don't want to do ("suddenly there's a zombie in Brazil that's taking your income away. You've got to go down and fight it."). A third potential annoyance effect has to do with unit purchases: from tha part that says "every time an infantry unit dies it will turn into a unit of zombies", it sounds as if players may come to the conclusion that they shouldn't buy any infantry at all in order to mininize the zombie-fication annoyance effect. If so, perhaps that's the actual anti-turtling mechanism that the game supposedly introduces into the A&A universe: make it counterproductive to buy infantry units in the first place.
The part which says that the game "opens up new avenues of advance on virtually every front" is a strange statement because it sounds to me as if the zombie-fication of territories actually restricts movement rather than opening it up. Unless, of course, the designers regard "opens up new avenues of advance" as meaning "discourages you from going where you want to go and forces you to go where you don't want to go," which isn't the definition I'd apply to the concept of opening things up.
I'm also wondering about the game's victory conditions. It sounds to me as if the players are actually better off fighting the zombies rather than each other, and I'm wondering if the designers intend for the players to come to that conclusion on their own – kind of like those scenes towards the end of Independence Day in which the world's military powers (including various countries which are traditional enemies) realize that they need to set their diferences aside and work together on a global scale to defeat the common threat of the alien invaders. So perhaps this game should really be called Axis & Allies vs. Zombies, at least in some sort of house-ruled version.
GEN MANSTEIN 2020 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer '13 last edited by
Sweet !!! I hope they add a Ice Walkers Deck too !!! :evil:
However, all things considered, I'm glad the Zombies appear to be constrained in a way.
If they only show up as INF Casualties and as the result of the Zombie Cards (TM, Copyright Wizards of the Coast 2018, all rights reserved.), then you can easily remove them from the game with the following quick house rules:
House Rule 1.) Skip phases 1 ("Play a Zombie Card") and 2 ("Zombies Attack").
House Rule 2.) Zombie do not spawn when Infantry are killed.
Then you can make up some other fun house rule for the neutral countries with IPC Values/strategic importance, or just ignore them.
So to all the naysayers who panicked about the Zombies "ruining the game", it turns out that it's incredibly easy to get rid of them. I know that won't sway people who take personal offense at the zombies being in a WW2 board game in the first place, but that's your conscience and we already bogged down two other threads with those kinds of arguments.
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yeah, it seems zombies can be easily removed from the game.
Now, if the map is bigger than 41, we have a "new" 41 intro game with higher income and more pieces.
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I dunno, I think the adjustments to play will make this game an interesting variant.
-does it look to you all like zombie units can't move from territory to territory? Seems like it to me. Also, since the Zombies go first on every player's turn, does that mean zombies go first wherever that particular player is facing them, or worldwide, against everyone, wherever there's zombies present? That gives the Zombie Hordes five worldwide shots against the living for every round of play. Might be too powerful, unless zombies attack at 1 (which they presumably do). Might be too powerful anyway.
-it seems like most of the nations would probably avoid purchasing Infantry if they can help it. Except that leaves the Russian player in quite a pickle, as Infantry has always been the lynchpin of Russian defense. Can he afford (both strategically and financially) to purchase all tanks and artillery? I doubt it.
-The Infantry Bite-Proof Armor and the Zombie Mind-Control Rays might be the 'Heavy Bomber' of this game.
the Zombie Capture Transport sounds hilarious. Don't have units of your own to transport into battle? Snatch up a couple of coastal Zombies and dump them on an enemy coastline to rob him of IPC's. I wonder if you can Battleship Bombard along with a zombie drop-off.
Can't wait to see what other wrinkles are in store when this hits the shelves!
I was looking at the zombie cards when I noticed two more things about this game:
I think that they will have custom dice. If you look at the zombie card on the right, the one about adding zombies to Spain, there's some interesting text at the bottom:
"On a roll of 1-3, get 1 arty; on a roll of 4-5, get 1 tank; on a roll of {special symbol}, get 1 fighter."
That tells me that the dice will go from 1-6, with the 6s replaced with a special symbol…
I think there will be limited ways to move zombies around. If you look at the zombie card on the left, the one about adding zombies to Hawaii, there's some interesting text at the bottom:
"Choose a zombie occupied territory. Move half of the zombies in that territory (rounded up) into an adjacent territory."
I bet the "Zombie Mind Control Ray" will work in a similar fashion, for one territory of a player's choice per turn.
I assumed the dice would be normal D-6 with a symbol instead of the 6 pips.
Zombies look to be static and movement is card driven. Otherwise it would be more of a world against zombies game.
I don't know if zombies will be a 1 to 1 replacement in battle though.
There are only 30 zombie minis. I guess they will be chipped up high on the Russian front.
lozmoid TripleA '12 last edited by
This game is starting to look cool now we're seeing more of the art and mechanics!
I don't imagine it will take very long, after the game gets published, for someone to develop a set of house rules in which the zombies can get captured by a player and weaponized for use against other players – say, for instance, by dropping them from a bomber onto an opponent's capital. And since they're already dead, they wouldn't even need parachutes, so in their case there would be no need for a paratrooper tech upgrade.
Those card images just gave me a thought. Both of them are divided into a "desperate times" (spawns a Zombie(s)) and a "desperate measures" (provides some other bonus to the turn player). I wonder if we'll get differently named cards…
Additionally, one of the cards mentions something about a "Infantry Reward" for "liberating a Zombie controlled territory." Interested to know more details on that.
And another point. If a Territory is "Zombie-controlled," does that mean neither player collects IPCs from it?
Side-note: I thought of an even more devious use of the Zombies' spawning conditions.
Scenario: My Soviet Stack is next to my opponent's Nazi Stack. At least one of our stacks is heavy in INF.
1. I attack the Nazi Stack.
2. After I've either lost all my INF or have dealt sufficient damage to the Germans, I withdraw the Soviets.
3. Zombies spawn in the territory where the battle took place.
4. I pass turn.
5. The rest of the Nazi Stack is wiped out by Zombies.
Might totally change the dynamics of when it's considered "safe" to have your stack adjacent to an enemy stack.
I believe once a zombie territory is formed, the IPCs are dead. It now falls on you to clear the territory so as to collect those IPCs.
This is another way to keep forces fighting both each other and the zombies.
Strategic retreats are an interesting new twist though.
The down side is both Russia and the Germans need IPCs to continue to fight, fuel the war effort.
Landing zombies in Canada or Africa could really hurt the UK player as well.
Interesting game gimmick. I could see some really wild games with zombies being shipped all over the board.
Needs the right group of friends and a lot of beer and pretzels though.
@robert:
I concur, that's some out-of-the-(zombie)-box thinkin'
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No if Zombies take a territory where there is nothing but Zombies it retains its IPC value and when the zombies have 25 IPC's of territories, it is considered a Zombie Apocolypse and they win.
Also there are dice with a Zombie head on it as a 1 then there are the zombie dice when they attack. They are special die with 2 attacker symbols and 1 defender symbol and then 3 blank sides. the Zombies attack first each round in territories they are present with enemy units.
innohub '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 last edited by
Thanks for article sharing!–- It seems the benefit of zombies is:
1. Break down the original repeated game flow pattern
2. Activate lands in map that user seldom would go in traditional AA game
3. Introduce possibilities of riot/rebellion near each country's own homeland due to the card events like asian time
4. A faster paced game (cheaper armor, a new victory condition by zombie victory…)
All these seems pretty cool in game play perspective to me. Not sure how much the the random factor compared to strategy/tactics. It would be great if luck factor is still under considerable control and then it could be my next AA collection!..
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@smo63:
Zombies can't win. ZA goes to VPs between players.
@innohub:
Also thematic Hallowe'en games and a gateway game for the mainstream.
Axis & Allies Zombies Preview
Axis & Allies & Zombies • • Marshmallow of War
For those interested, photos of our meetup are going up now. Wizards put on a phenomenal spread of food including a mountain of pizza, held a raffle for prizes, and gave us all copies of AAZ! Scott and other developers even signed boxes.
It was truly an amazing event and we're so grateful to Wizards for their hospitality.
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Axis and Allies Zombies at Gencon 2018
Axis & Allies & Zombies • • taamvan
@DessertFox599:
Ummm. is this game supposed to take place in 1941? If so why does …
If you come into A&A, of any variety, expecting perfect historical accuracy than you're doing it wrong. Game play has always trumped historical accuracy / realism in this series of games.
Sacrifice a Unit and Trigger Zs gambit move and the Z Camouflage Card: must you play?
Axis & Allies & Zombies • • thrasher1
@Krieghund said in Sacrifice a Unit and Trigger Zs gambit move and the Z Camouflage Card: must you play?:
Are there more cards that can have an unintented negative effect?
I'm sure there are. Any card can do so if it gets in the way of your plans.
That's why I tried to cover all the cards here: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35217/negative-effects-of-aaz-cards-for-the-active-player
Answers about Axis & Allies and Zombies
Axis & Allies & Zombies • • djensen
@Midnight_Reaper:
Seriously though, a game with a map about '42 size with rules for playing an intro version of the European War from 1939 to 1941 and main rules for playing from '41 to the end? That actually does sound intriguing to me.
This bit here is what gives me hope for the game. Especially if there's a way to play out the whole war starting from 1939.
…Just as long as they don't cheap out on the components (wishful thinking, I know) or make another 1941-small map…
Q&A with Axis & Allies & Zombies Game Designer, Scott Van Essen Part 1
Axis & Allies & Zombies • featured full-image game design interview • • djensen
Scott Van Essen, designer of Axis & Allies & Zombies provides detailed answers about how the game was created. Part 2 will be available next week.
Click here to see the full blog post
Polygon A&A&Z article, October 30, 2018
Axis & Allies & Zombies • • zooooma
@zooooma:
Welcome back, friend!
Thanks, zoooma….
It all seems so long ago…
( https://web.archive.org/web/20011214160853/http://www.wargamer.com:80/axisandallies/ )
Maybe time for a thread about the 'good old days' of Axis and Allies and boardgaming in general on the internet 🙂
Sorry to disrupt this AAZ forum but: thanks to wargamer.com, thanks to GeoCities (where I started), thanks to the various clubs, thanks to Peter Goudswaard (who?), thanks to David Jensen… Thanks to everyone older than me who kept the 'brand', the concept of Axis and Allies alive in the 'dark' 80s and 90s. When we could only dream about so many new games…
OK, I will stop NOW 🙂
AAZ 1942 (second edition): rules question: damaged factories and Z-control
@Krieghund ,
That's what I expected. Thanks for answering this question.
Would have made an interesting strategy: conducting strategic bombinb to facilitate a Z-take over…
This is the long awaited followup to the first part of our interview with Axis & Allies & Zombies game designer, Scott Van Essen. Scott…


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Confessions of a YarnAddict: 21 Today!
I can't believe my baby is 21 today! Where's the years gone? I thought as Vanessa is 21 today, I'd share a few pictures of her I found recently. Below is Vanessa's first time cross country skiing in the mountains in Norway. Simon is next to her and my Dad is in the back ground.
She tried skating too. That's me and my Dad trying to keep her upright at a skating rink in Oslo.
Below is Vanessa up in the mountains in Norway during the summer. I'm not sure which year this was or exactly where it is.
And Vanessa and I on the beach in Hvitsten in Norway which is where I lived when I was pre-school/early primary school age. This beach was a few minutes walk from our house.
And here's Vanessa last autumn when we went to Norway for a few days together. I'm so proud of the young woman she's grown up to become. She's doing a maths degree at UWE in Bristol and at the moment she's nearly finished a year's work experience in Cardiff and in September she's going back to Bristol to finish her degree. I can't wait to see what she does next.


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A lot has changed since he visited Cape Cod in the mid-1800s. While Wellfleet oystermen no longer have a near-monopoly, the oyster industry is still a major part of the town economy. During a visit to Wellfleet Harbor, you can watch the oyster farms being worked or you can take your pick of restaurants that will serve some shellfish that was harvested just a few hours ago.
Start your visit at the town pier, which is also home to the harbormaster's office. Mike Flanagan, who's been harbormaster for 20 years, oversees about 200 slips and nearly 400 moorings. While some boats go offshore for scallops and sea clams, he says the harbor is mostly a small boat fishery for oysters. Flanagan says his job, like any other, has its ups and downs. Then he points across the harbor to Chipmans Cove and Indian Neck Jetty and says, "How can you go wrong looking out at this area?"
Strolling down the pier, which also is home to fishing charters and a boat rental company, you can share Flanagan's view or, to the north, the view of the Duck Creek marshland. Don't forget to look up to see the comings and goings from an osprey nest. At the far end of the pier is the Jan Rutz Harbor Bandstand, named in memory of a longtime volunteer for the Wellfleet Historical Society.
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We wanted to take advantage of the break over the holidays to help our students who may have been struggling in some areas. We had 3 teachers tutoring the primary students in the subjects of Math, English, and Chemistry, which were the areas in which the children needed the most help. The kids were tutored for 2 hours/day in each subject and we planned an assessment at the conclusion so we could measure the success and impact of the program. To support this effort, we purchased 50+ workbooks for the orphanage to use as additional teaching materials for the students. All students in secondary school were provided supplemental materials and workbooks, called Revision Books in Kenya, for their 2 lowest-scoring subjects. They completed their workbooks over the break and turned them into our employee, Margie, for review. We will provide an update on the results as soon as we get them.
As a result, the secondary students are currently staying at the orphanage until the strike ends. This is a very unfortunate situation and disappointing for Moja Tu as well as the students; however, we plan to take advantage of the additional time. We are working to secure additional tutors to help the students during the delay so we may continue to catch the students up on various subjects and improve their scores. Many of the kids at Tania Center have come from difficult backgrounds and in many cases are still struggling to achieve their potential. We are hopeful that the strike will come to an end soon so they may resume their normal school curriculum.
We are confident this additional focus will help our children improve their performance and help any of those who may be lagging behind catch up.


This review will consider the state-of-the art in the storage of mechanical energy for hydraulic systems. It will begin by considering the traditional energy storage device, the hydro-pneumatic accumulator. Recent advances in the design of the hydraulic accumulator, as well as proposed novel architectures will be discussed. The review will continue with a discussion of energy storage flywheels. This will include recent advances in flywheel design and the properties of flywheels, particularly when compared to accumulators, as applied to hydraulic systems. These differences necessitate a discussion of the hydraulic system architectures used to incorporate flywheels, which will cover the various methods that have been proposed for utilising energy storage flywheels in hydraulic systems. The review will conclude by highlighting some of the unanswered questions in this area of engineering research and design.
Paul M. Cronk is a graduate student and research assistant in the Mechanical Energy and Power Systems (MEPS) Laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. The author obtained a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD degree in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, the author served as a officer in the US Navy aboard the nuclear powered submarine USS Houston. His research interests are in hydraulic energy storage and hydraulic power regeneration system design.
James D. Van de Ven is an associate professor and McKnight Land-Grant professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he operates the Mechanical Energy and Power Systems (MEPS) Laboratory. The author received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, he was an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining WPI, the author was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota in the NSF sponsored Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power. The author research interests are in efficient energy conversion, energy storage, fluid power, kinematics and machine design.
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Arizona AG sues Biden, alleging immigration policies harm the environment
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed an amended complaint and moved for a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration's termination of border wall construction and the Remain-in-Mexico policy, saying the measures violated the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).
Brnovich first presented his lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in April, alleging the administration has not complied with its obligations under NEPA.
Biden fulfilled his campaign promise and ended border wall construction on his first day in office by freezing the military funding used and ending the national emergency declaration along the border that former President Donald Trump instigated to finance construction.
Biden also ended the Trump administration's Remain-in-Mexico policy, more officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which kept migrants in Mexico until their hearings were processed. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the memo ending MPP that it did not "adequately or sustainably enhance border management."
Brnovich's office alleges in the lawsuit the DHS did not provide the required NEPA environmental impact statements or environmental assessments when it ended construction and the MPP policy. The office said combining these actions and the federal government's reduced attention to border security has increased the number of migrants crossing the southwest border illegally.
Brnovich cited statistics that said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 180,034 migrants along the southwest border in May. Each border-crosser leaves an estimated quantity of six to eight pounds of trash in the desert, including plastic containers, clothing, backpacks, food, vehicles, bicycles, and paper, as well as human waste and medical products, all of which can harm the environment and its inhabitants, according to the attorney general's office.
"There is no doubt that the Biden Administration's immigration policies are causing a humanitarian, public safety, and environmental crisis at our border," Brnovich said in a statement. "I will do everything I can to stop their destructive actions and protect Arizona."
The injunction would require the Biden administration to analyze the environmental effects of its policies, rescind its cancellation of border wall construction contracts, refrain from further measures without conducting the environmental analysis required by NEPA and reinstate the MPP until a proper environmental analysis is completed.
Several other Republican-led states, including Texas and Montana, also have sued the DHS for the Biden administration's immigration policies.
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Early twentieth-century occultists used 'correspondencies' in their rituals. These are items, fragrances and symbols which represented different facets of their spells. For example, a rusty nail signifies a curse, a diamond, the attraction of great wealth.
I tried the idea once: the subject of the nail prospered, and the beneficiary of the diamond is ruined. Some years ago I contributed to the MedTarot Group. A member suggested I should join an occult school and try their rituals claiming the results were astounding. The last statement I read was 'They work for me every time'. Click, delete, no more correspondence on the MedTarot group for me. It is a pity; the group was centred on "'Unknown Author's' book Meditations on the Tarot". An excellent book of meditations based on the twenty-two mysteries.
That was sixteen or so years ago when the internet was less sophisticated. Now, we perform magic every day. I talk to a friend in America while sitting on a train, Liz FaceTime's her grandchildren a few times each week. Antibiotics cure millions. Surgeons perform miracles. Electricity, gas and water service our homes, we live in modern heaven. Real magicians work in research and development facilities. Keep Crowley and Agrippa, give me technology and security.
Mysteries? Nothing is more mysterious than the phone or computer you are using this moment. Do you know how it works, could you make the battery, screen, microprocessor? Goodness, most of us don't see the hidden mysteries within the communicator. Voice recorder, weather guide, wallet, compass, pedometer and scrabble. Camera, typewriter, watch, directory, business, social club and shop, all available in your pocket, bag, by your bed, in your hand. Occult magic? It's over, or did it ever begin?
Photographs are voodoo magic, capturing the spirit and soul of moments in time. Printed images seem to reproduce more of a feeling of reality. They are Dorian Grey's of yesterdays faces, some portraits of horror; other's imprison the mind. Tear stained with sorry, torn with anger, scenes of happiness and 'wish you were here messages'. The print converts the image into a message.
I have a correspondence box. The items you see are not lifetime possessions they are symbols of memories: Although most have been acquired during the last decade. The symbols follow a guideline to the past. Like the cave explorers rope or paper chase signs hanging from a tree: the symbols return my mind to today after exploring yesterday.
Written reflections are composed of building blocks of thought, conversation, fact and fiction. The essays and articles become cures too, or sources of, discord. Some leave impression others not. Although, my feeling is the inner-being knows the truth, the reality. It understands wisdom few will dare accept as truth and this is why so many live in fear. The inner-self knows there is only silence in "The Final Sleep". It directs the conscious mind to record its life, archive the achievements and failures. And, if another human needs help and happens to find your recorded or written words they may find an answer. Consider the potential of this knowledge. The ability to write four letter on the communicator 'HELP' followed by the problem. 'HELP – LONELY'. An hour later the message is "Thank- you; I have a friend'.
Look into my memory box. The Ronson lighter reminding of the masks of human character. The Drager diver of underwater happiness. Three crystals of wellness. Two bullet cases of death. Surgeon, Swiss and shepherd's knifes cut away the illusions. Dices with death and business mistakes. A box full of ideas, memories, graves stones of failures. Why did my inner-being choose these symbols of the past?
They are: "Like the cave explorers rope or paper chase signs hanging from a tree: the symbols return my mind to today after exploring yesterday".
That was something worth reading!
Excellently… Well written and presentable…. I enjoy every beats of tips in the write up…. Thanks and remain bless in Jesus name amen!
God bless you Ian…. I am grateful.
Ian… If you are on Google Hangout.. Can we chat?


I am a fan of Zaarly. If you are unfamiliar with the site, Zaarly is the most interesting internet startup company I have run across in years. The concept is simple: Zaarly allows buyers to name their price for the goods and services they wish to buy. This works by allowing the market place to cater to the buyer rather than the seller. Likewise, people who never knew they had an interest in being a seller can find offers that make them reconsider. I have used Zaarly for everything from landing a meeting with an incredible social media expert to scoring tickets to a ballgame.
When a new concept like this comes along, it makes me consider what restaurants can learn from it. After a bit of consideration, I can think of five very important lessons that restaurants can learn from Zaarly.
Lesson One: People Follow A Leader: In reading a recent article on Zaarly, I learned a bit more about the team they have assembled. Innovative minds from around the country have left their jobs and homes to work for this company. Most have done so to work for Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback. This is an incredible testimony to his leadership skills, but also an important lesson for restaurant managers. People will not follow a manager. To create a loyal staff of top performers, you must be a leader. Only through leadership can you inspire your staff to perform at the highest level and produce the highest quality results.
Lesson Two: Demand Drives Supply: This is the primary concept of Zaarly's business model. Let the consumer have a voice and supply will follow. Unfortunately, restaurants often ignore this idea. Each year thousands of restaurants open to offer a product they are certain the community will love. They also fail with great frequency. Many failing and failed restaurants are driven by the idea that if they create the supply, the demand will follow. These failed restaurateurs often blame the market for their concept not catching on. A successful restaurant focuses on the demand in the market and fills it. These restaurateurs realize that filling demand is far easier than creating it.
Lesson Three: People Pay For Convenience: Most transactions on Zaarly are what I would consider transactions of convenience. Someone offers to pay to have someone else deliver anything from a latte to a steak dinner. The restaurant industry is built on this principle. Someone could cook a meal at home for less money, but they pay for the convenience of having someone else do it for them. They will sacrifice quality to avoid getting out of their car. They will even pay an additional charge to have the meal delivered to them. If you are concerned about your restaurant's profits, consider ways to make dining at your restaurant more convenient than your competitor. When you compete on convenience, you can charge extra to help your bottom line.
Lesson Four: It's Who You Reach: Groupon often brags about the number of subscribers to their offers. What they seldom mention is what percent of those subscribers become customers. I would argue that the second number is more telling. Zaarly does not advertise on the Super Bowl, but they did target a select group of early adapters to spread the word about their service. Having Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore tweeting about your site before it is even launched is far more cost effective. Locate the foodie influencers in your community and target them. Buy meals for restaurant bloggers. Have your staff spread the word across their social networks. Shake the hands of your best customers. All of these will have a greater return on investment than any advertising you could pay for.
Lesson Five: Happy People Work Harder: This is a concept widely accepted as fact in Silicon Valley, but seldom adopted in restaurants. Zaarly provides a comfortable and laid back environment in which employees push themselves and voluntarily put in much more than an eight hour day. This is because they don't hate being at the office. If you want to receive greater effort from your top performers, find a way to make them happy at work. Creating a work environment that makes your staff look forward to arriving at your restaurant will result in them creating a better environment for your guests. You can't eliminate every hassle a server or chef will experience during a shift. Limiting hassles that are within your control will have a significant impact on overall morale and performance.
This might be the first time you have heard of Zaarly. I encourage you to check it out. More importantly, I encourage you to consider the underlying principle of this post. Behind every successful company are concepts that you can apply to make your restaurant more profitable. Look beyond your competitors for insights and you will soon find them trying to determine your secrets.


Being an Ivy League graduate millennial that grew up poor, you can imagine the span of reactions in my Facebook feed as racial conversations have flooded the airways this summer. From the defeated and hopeless Black people filled with confusion and, literally, dying for understanding, to the privileged and aloof White people with an unwavering allegiance to the flag regardless of the accuracy in execution of what it represents, I've seen it all.
I remember when I first learned that one of Muhammad Ali's nicknames was the Louisville Lip. Being from Cincinnati, just 100 miles from Louisville, Muhammad Ali was the first person to get me to realize that a little boy from seemingly nowhere could aspire to greatness.
We millennials threaten to leave the country if Trump is elected — a move I believe to be largely inspired by Muhammad Ali's refusal to go to war for a cause he didn't believe in. We are known for passion and understanding the "why" — a mindset on a path paved by that butterfly floating, bee stinging, pretty, bad man named Ali.
I remember watching the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. I was just seven years old but a lot of foundations were laid for me at that time. You see, I was just becoming old enough to understand perspective. I watched this old, fragile man shiver his way to the torch and in that moment realized the importance of the Olympics. Anything that could inspire a man in his condition to endure the obvious physical strain to be a symbol of greatness — American greatness, Black American greatness — had to be bigger than just lighting a torch. Muhammad Ali is responsible for my love of the Olympics.


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Q: How can I pad and/or truncate a vector to a specified length using numpy? I have couple of lists:
a = [1,2,3]
b = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

which are of variable length.
I want to return a vector of length five, such that if the input list length is < 5 then it will be padded with zeros on the right, and if it is > 5, then it will be truncated at the 5th element.
For example, input a would return np.array([1,2,3,0,0]), and input b would return np.array([1,2,3,4,5]).
I feel like I ought to be able to use np.pad, but I can't seem to follow the documentation.

A: This might be slow or fast, I am not sure, however it works for your purpose.
In [22]: pad = lambda a,i : a[0:i] if len(a) > i else a + [0] * (i-len(a))

In [23]: pad([1,2,3], 5)
Out[23]: [1, 2, 3, 0, 0]

In [24]: pad([1,2,3,4,5,6,7], 5)
Out[24]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

A: np.pad is overkill, better for adding a border all around a 2d image than adding some zeros to a list.
I like the zip_longest, especially if the inputs are lists, and don't need to be arrays.  It's probably the closest you'll find to a code that operates on all lists at once in compiled code).
a, b = zip(*list(itertools.izip_longest(a, b, fillvalue=0)))

is a version that does not use np.array at all (saving some array overhead)
But by itself it does not truncate.  It stills something like [x[:5] for x in (a,b)].
Here's my variation on all_ms function, working with a simple list or 1d array:
def foo_1d(x, n=5):
    x = np.asarray(x)
    assert x.ndim==1
    s = np.min([x.shape[0], n])
    ret = np.zeros((n,), dtype=x.dtype)
    ret[:s] = x[:s]
    return ret

In [772]: [foo_1d(x) for x in [[1,2,3], [1,2,3,4,5], np.arange(10)[::-1]]]
Out[772]: [array([1, 2, 3, 0, 0]), array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]), array([9, 8, 7, 6, 5])]

One way or other the numpy solutions do the same thing - construct a blank array of the desired shape, and then fill it with the relevant values from the original.
One other detail - when truncating the solution could, in theory, return a view instead of a copy.  But that requires handling that case separately from a pad case.

If the desired output is a list of equal lenth arrays, it may be worth while collecting them in a 2d array.
In [792]: def foo1(x, out):
    x = np.asarray(x)
    s = np.min((x.shape[0], out.shape[0]))
    out[:s] = x[:s]

In [794]: lists = [[1,2,3], [1,2,3,4,5], np.arange(10)[::-1], []]

In [795]: ret=np.zeros((len(lists),5),int)
In [796]: for i,xx in enumerate(lists):
    foo1(xx, ret[i,:])
In [797]: ret
Out[797]:
array([[1, 2, 3, 0, 0],
       [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
       [9, 8, 7, 6, 5],
       [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]])

A: Pure python version, where a is a python list (not a numpy array): a[:n] + [0,]*(n-len(a)).
For example:
In [42]: n = 5

In [43]: a = [1, 2, 3]

In [44]: a[:n] + [0,]*(n - len(a))
Out[44]: [1, 2, 3, 0, 0]

In [45]: a = [1, 2, 3, 4]

In [46]: a[:n] + [0,]*(n - len(a))
Out[46]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 0]

In [47]: a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

In [48]: a[:n] + [0,]*(n - len(a))
Out[48]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

In [49]: a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

In [50]: a[:n] + [0,]*(n - len(a))
Out[50]: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Function using numpy:
In [121]: def tosize(a, n):
   .....:     a = np.asarray(a)
   .....:     x = np.zeros(n, dtype=a.dtype)
   .....:     m = min(n, len(a))
   .....:     x[:m] = a[:m]
   .....:     return x
   .....:

In [122]: tosize([1, 2, 3], 5)
Out[122]: array([1, 2, 3, 0, 0])

In [123]: tosize([1, 2, 3, 4], 5)
Out[123]: array([1, 2, 3, 4, 0])

In [124]: tosize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 5)
Out[124]: array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

In [125]: tosize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 5)
Out[125]: array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])


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So far the idea is that each instance of RGS runs seperately. How exactly this will be done is still a question, though Docker might be a good solution. AWS, Heroku, and a custom solution are also posibilities.

I think this project needs a new name.

A landing page/marketing will need to be done at some point, but now is not the time.

# Wireframe notes:

- [x] Switch "Select" from checkbox to some sort of count so you can check out multiple of one item
- [ ]~ Get all buttons working
- [ ]? Design a "modal" system of some sort
- [x] Eventually connect the wireframe to the backend

I understand the wireframe shouldn't work, but I want to try something new. Design the backend first, then redecorate the front end.

## Getting the wireframe working
07/05: ~~I just realized how hard this is going to be to get working. For example, exporting a sample item to jinja is hard. Multiple stores is really the kicker.~~

07/08: ~~OK. So I can import the data into the page, sort/filter via JS (not yet, but I've done it before). The problem is defining "unique" traits. i.e. should two of the same bikes be considered different items or the same? I think different, and sorted with javascript, and clicking each category brings up a checkbox pop-up that can filter by options~~

07/09: Great so I got sorting working all crispy and neat. Unfortunately, I just remembered how complicated names are. I'll have to add some limiter to say "if more than n options, just make it text based" which will also nix the search bar, which is cool

# General TODO
- [x] inventory searching (Allow for multiple options per column)
- [ ]~ inventory sorting
- [ ] implement actual authentication
- [ ] reservation system
- [ ] inventory editing
- [ ] check out/in system
- [ ] configuration
- [ ] export data to barcode


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Samuel Irving Landis and Constance Rosenfeld Landis
By Lori Silberman Brauner	April 23, 2013, 12:00 am Edit
Samuel I. Landis, 89, and Constance Rosenfeld Landis, 88, both of Highland Park, died within six hours of each other on March 28, 2013. Sam resided at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home in Piscataway, and Connie had spent the last three years at the adjacent Parker at Stonegate Residence. They would have been married 67 years this April.
Born Samuel Irving Berkowitz in New Brunswick, he grew up in New Brunswick and Highland Park.
Sam Landis graduated from New Brunswick High School in 1941 and enrolled in New York University before enlisting in the U.S. Army in October 1942.
He served as a Surgical Technician Fifth Grade with the 98th Portable Surgical Hospital in the Ryuku Islands of the Western Pacific and saw active duty in the Saipan and Okinawa campaigns. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his protection of an anesthetized serviceman during battle. Upon his return, the immediate family changed their last name to Landis, which approximated their original Russian family name. He enrolled in night school at Rutgers University, from which he graduated in 1953.
Connie Landis was also born in New Brunswick. She graduated from New Brunswick High School and the University of Connecticut in 1945.
The couple met in the seventh grade, when Sam launched a persistent, long-term courtship, culminating in their marriage on April 13, 1946, following his Army discharge.
As an adult, Sam held several positions in his father-in-law's department stores, Roselles and Nathans, before purchasing the W.E. Mount & Sons Ford dealership in the mid-1950s. He moved the business, Landis Ford, to North Brunswick, where it operated for 25 years.
Sam was a prominent community leader and a dedicated supporter of a host of Central Jersey nonprofits, including United Jewish Appeal, Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey Easter Seal Society, Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Federation of Raritan Valley, NAACP, and New Brunswick Tomorrow. He is a founder of the Easter Seals Raritan Valley Workshop and was director of the Middlesex County Community College Foundation. Connie was a lifelong member of Hadassah.
They were lifelong members of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick.
They owned a farm in Downsville, NY, where they enjoyed horseback riding and hosting friends and family.
The couple is survived by two daughters, Andrea Landis Solomon of Chelsea, Mass., and Margery Landis of Brunswick, Maine; their son, Scott (Nina Maurer) of South Berwick, Maine; three grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and a dear family friend and companion, Vester Small of New Brunswick.
Services were held at Anshe Emeth on March 29 with arrangements by Crabiel Parkwest Funeral Chapel, New Brunswick. Memorial contributions may be made to AEMT and Easter Seals Raritan Valley Workshop, both of New Brunswick, or the Middlesex County Community College Foundation.


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First ever bear harvests reported in York County - statewide numbers could explode in 2019
Last year, 3,153 bears were harvested in Pennsylvania, which was good enough for 11th best all time and the lowest bear harvest in the past 11 years.
Four of those bears were harvested in York County.
Why is that significant?
Because until 2018, York County had never recorded a legal bear kill, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
"We're not seeing a spike in bear population, but there is some expansion of the bear population," spokesman Travis Lau said. "We saw that in York County where we had four lawful harvests this year."
Lau said the layout of York County isn't prime for a growing bear population, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for increased bear harvest numbers.
"There just aren't a lot of bears in York County, but they found some nooks and crannies to get in," Lau said. "Our bear biologist thinks we might have had some resident bears there for about 10 years, and certainly some of the hunters there did report seeing bears in previous years. I still wouldn't expect a big bear harvest out of there."
The weather effect
As for the rest of the state, the lower harvest numbers this past year could have been a result of empty woods on popular hunting days.
"It comes down to what we believe is poor weather on some key hunting days," Lau said. "Particularly, the opening day of firearms deer season had a lot of rain. You may not think of that as a big bear hunting day, but a lot of WMUs start extended bear season on that day, and we usually end up with a large bear harvest that day."
Pennsylvania's all-time high bear harvest was recorded in 2011, when 4,350 bears were bagged. Hunters harvested 4,164 in 2005. All other bear harvests have been under 4,000.
Here are the 2018 harvest numbers broken down into regions and counties (2017 numbers in parenthesis)
Northwest – 517 (388): Venango, 96 (61); Crawford, 79 (40); Jefferson, 79 (55); Warren, 72 (109); Forest, 70 (35); Clarion, 52 (51); Erie, 29 (13); Butler, 26 (18); Mercer, 13 (6); and Lawrence, 1 (0).
Southwest – 261 (237): Somerset, 85 (75); Fayette, 58 (66); Indiana, 34 (11); Armstrong, 33 (36); Westmoreland, 26 (26); Cambria, 21 (21); Allegheny, 2 (1); Beaver, 1 (0); and Greene, 1 (1).
Northcentral – 989 (1,187): Tioga, 166 (214); Lycoming, 159 (252); Clinton, 158 (153); Potter 109 (161); Centre, 87 (93); Clearfield, 87 (66); Cameron, 67 (52); McKean, 67 (86); Elk, 54 (72); and Union, 35 (38).
Southcentral – 474 (383): Huntingdon, 142 (91); Bedford, 80 (57); Fulton, 58 (29); Blair, 44 (27); Juniata, 34 (41); Perry, 31 (44); Mifflin, 29 (43); Franklin, 26 (24); Cumberland, 12 (8); Adams, 7 (6); Snyder, 7 (13); and York, 4 (0).
Northeast – 775 (1,112): Pike, 104 (193); Luzerne, 105 (108); Monroe, 103 (82); Bradford, 96 (112); Wayne, 70 (156); Carbon, 60 (57); Sullivan, 53 (156); Susquehanna, 46 (66); Wyoming, 40 (70); Lackawanna, 34 (65); Columbia, 38 (29); Northumberland, 24 (16); and Montour, 2 (2).
Southeast – 137 (131): Schuylkill, 50 (47); Dauphin, 48 (49); Northampton, 17 (19); Lebanon, 10 (8); Berks, 8 (7); and Lehigh, 4 (1).
Record numbers on the horizon?
There is a proposal to expand bear season throughout the state, which could drive the state to all-time high bear harvests.
"The potential is there because we have the bears, and presumably we'll have the hunters out there, too," Lau said. "The more the seasons are stretched out, the less the weather will impact the harvest numbers."
The proposal would allow bear hunting statewide with muzzleloaders in the fall. At the end of that week, a special bear firearms season comes in for junior, senior, active military and disabled permit license holders.
This bear season would run parallel with muzzleloader and special firearms deer season.
This statewide proposal is similar to the current system in WMUs 2B, 5B, 5C and 5D.
After that week, a two-week long archery bear season would commence.
"There's plenty of room to increase the harvest without hurting the bear population," Lau said.
If this proposal is approved in April, the Game Commission believes this could also increase the amount of bear licenses sold.
"There certainly could be individuals out there that will be prompted to buy a bear license if the seasons are expanded," Lau said. "Those extra days might make the difference for them in the WMU that they hunt in."


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