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The one where Mr. Collins is actually being appropriate, or #11 Too Good to Be True
Firstly, thanks to all the new readers I've acquired lately. Please keep passing along the link. I want as many people to get the joy (i.e., pain) of remembering and reliving the oppressive, manipulative, shallow Sweet Valley World. It's done wonders for my self-esteem. I hope it has helped yours too.
Damn, I did not realize that attempted sexual assault was one of Francine's favorite topics. I am not sure if she is using it to exploit the problem and a serious social issues that utilize the fucked up gender dymanics in society. My guess is not.
Cover girls: Suzanne's not all that. I love the "bitch please" look Elizabeth's got going on.
Mr. Devlin is a lawyer friend of Ned's who live in New York City, and suggests an exchange of his daughter Suzanne for one of the twins. They both want to go, so Ned ends up flipping a coin. Elizabeth wins, and because she is a total doormat and Jessica is a totally borderline sociopath, she guilts Elizabeth into letting her go.
Suzanne, apparently is a "knockout" and looks like a movie star/supermodel. We have to hear 100 times how skinny she is. And she's nice and helpful and loves everyone and everyone loves her. There is a junior class picnic (i.e., I think the only people who go are our usual main characters) and everyone is all up on Suzy. Winston keeps serenading her with dumb songs. I'll give you five guesses as to what teacher is chaperoning the picnic. Suzy supposedly almost drowns in the lake and Mr. Collins jumps in to save her and pparently tuches her chest a lot. I don't know. That' swhat is says. It seems fishy, but no one questions it because Suzy is so wonderful. And skinny.
Jess and the city. Cue the mention of every clichéd image of New York City in the eighties. They eat at Windows on the World, ride in a horse-frawn carriage around Central park, go shopping at Tiffany's….Of course the Devlins are rich. Jess meets Suzanne's boyf Pete, who is essentially an Upper East Side Bruce patman. She forces him to go out with her, and they go to a symphony and Jess is bored and tried every desperate way she can to hook up with Pete. He's not having it. I love when Jessica is rejected. Jessica is also having a shitty time in nyc. She expected men to fall all over her, but she hangs out with Suzanne's bitchy friends and gets drunk and passes out at their party. She also endures a boring dinner party thrown by Mrs. Devlin where the only teen there is a girl who plays to flute and -HEAVEN FORBID!- just got back from a camp for overweight kids. Holy shit, could she hammer in the message any further? Overweight people are gross. We get it. But you know what else is gross? Manipulative sociopath southern Californian teenagers ho base their self-worth on their attractiveness to men. HATE!
Just a side thought- since she hangs out with wealthy assholes in nyc in the eighties, I just imagined an American Psycho crossover, where Jess meets Patrick Bateman, who will kill/sleep with any woman he can find, and he finds her so repulsive even HE doesn't want to be around her. Slash fiction writers, get going on that.
Ok, back at Sweet Valley, Liz lost her lavaliere, you know the one her parents gave her and Jess on their sixteenth birthdays. They only mention it in every single fucking book. It turns out that Suzy stole it! Because she's mean!!! It turns out that Suzy is a bitter hag because her parents put her in boarding schools all her life and don't care about her. So she lashes out by manipulating men and others around her. Sure, she's fucked up, but finally an interesting character! Can we get a spin-off series please? And she has her sights set on Mr. Collins. So, when Liz has a job babysitting Teddy, his son, Todd gets Laker tickets for that night so Suzy glady steps in to cover for Liz. When she gets there, Mr. Collins is all back off girly, but she persists. After he gets home she tries to get him to give her some wine and to kiss her. They imply that Rog gets an erection, but at least he has some good sense to tell her to get the fuck out of his house. Suzy wants revenge, so she rips her shirt and tells Liz that Mr Collins attacked her. Liz, being the hue pushover, believes it, and has Ned and Alice tell the SVH principal.
Back over to attempted rape story #2, Jessica is out with Pete again in New York, and finally she invites him up to the Devlin's apt. He gets kinda drunk and akes his move, and Jessica pushes him away, and he's all "you've been begging me, you little cocktease" and the Devlin's come home in time. Um, I am not sure what the message is here. Don't lead men on? Is this supposed to parallel the other sexual assault storyline? I have no idea. I think when Francine doesn't know where the plot is going she just throws sexual violence in.
Lila has a birfday party at Fowler Crest and on the way Todd and Liz drop by Mr. Collins' to ask him his side and Liz realizes she's been a fool. She goes to confront Suzy at the party and then Suzanne shows her true colors and everyone realizes what a faker she is. It's all very Melrose place. Winston also accidentally on purpose spills punch on her white Hallston dress which enrages her. Well, at least she's not fat.
Suzy goes home, Jess comes home and lies and says she had a wonderful time in nyc. Sweet Valley goes back to harmony.
Talk about appropriate. Liz babysits for Mr. Collins? Isn't that a little weird? Plus, she kisses him on the cheek when she leaves his house.
Lila invites the whole junior class to her birthday, instead of just the people she likes. Still it seems as if the same ten or so people are there.
Suzanne tried to spread a rumor at the party that Liz hit her head and turned into slutty Elizabeth again. Bruce is around when they are talking about it. Uh, awkward? I wonder if she and Bruce have ever talked about it.
My grade: D-
Posted in: Sweet Valley High | Tagged: deception, field trip, party, sexual assault, sexual relations, thin is in, travel
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32 thoughts on "The one where Mr. Collins is actually being appropriate, or #11 Too Good to Be True"
LOL @ Elizabeth's overexaggerated "suspicious" look. She looks like she's got something up her ass!
And LOLOLOLOLOLOL at Jessica realising she's not the hot shit she thought she was!!!! I fucking LOVE when that happens. And HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DOES SHE HAVE TO LEARN that cockteasing way older guys is like playing on the freeway? Or leaving your door wide open when you go out? I mean come on, she's already been nearly raped by that college guy, did she seriously not learn to be more careful? I can tell you right now that if I'd had the experience she had with that guy, you can bet that I wouldn't make the same mistake twice. Stupid Jessica.
And Mr Collins…oh GOD. I never realised how creepy his involvement with his students was until you pointed it out. Please, please, make some adult friends!!!!
I hate how Suzanne shows up later as this sick angel who falls in love with Todd. Evil
Laila says:
I love, love, love this blog! I don't have a copy of this book, and I don't remember the part where they imply Mr. Collins has an erection? Love the idea of the American Psycho cross-over!
ihatewheat says:
what happened was that when Suzanne was all up on him, he turned away, red-facced, and Suzanne was all, I could tell he wanted me too.
Then again, I could be putting too much faith into the writing.
if anyone from sachem ever asked me to babysit, i probably would have freaked…collins is just a closet pedo i bet waiting to come out…
ick! When does Todd fall in love with Suzanne? I don't remember that one.
In Special Christmas…Suzanne insists on coming back to SV to appologize to everyone for her behavior last time. She thinks she has Multiple Sclerosis and is trying to make amends without letting everyone know she is ill (turns out to just be mono). It's one of the books where Todd is in Vermont, and he comes to SV for the holidays, too. Turns out that Todd and Suzanne had run into each other while they were skiing at the same place in Vermont, and had sort of fallen for each other. Then, they meet up again in SV and are in loooooooove. Blech.
Fo real? If you think you have MS, don't you get that shit checked out?
A doctor misdiagnosed Suzanne with MS. Yeah, Pascal really has a lot of faith in the medical world.
This was one of my favorite SVH books. I loved the character of Suzanne and was so pissed when they brought her back all nicey-nice. Not everyone who is exposed to the wonders that is Sweet Valley turn out to be great people!
So, just HOW could Suzanne "tell" that Mr. Collins was all hot for her, huh? That's riiiiight!
Ugh, so many times I've wanted to choke Lizzie for being such a doormat sister. She's always talking about how lovable Jessie is. She walks all over you, Liz…I want to yell at her through the book and change the SVH future: "JESSICA WILL EVEN GET YOU DRUNK SO SHE CAN WIN A SHALLOW CONTEST, CAUSING YOU TO KILL YOUR BF!"
Want slashfic? Here ya go:
Jessica is found tied and wrapped in plastic on the shore of Sweet Valley Lake. The otherwise quiet town is shaken to the core by the loss of the popular girl.
Encyclopedia Brown, an investigator driven by his intuition and troubled by a dark secret (what's his secret? turn to page 81 for the answer) is drawn to the case, which he believes is connected with a series of murders he's investigating.
In retracing Jessica's steps, Enc. uncovers a labyrinthine underworld in the heart of Sweet Valley. Nothing is as it seems. The Babysitter's club tug the sleeves of their cardigans down to cover needlemarks, Jessica's father has a strange fixation on Huey Lewis, and girls who go for a Sleepover at the Black Lodge return quiet and withdrawn.
When it looks like Encyclopedia is about to solve the case (again), a deeper pattern begins to emerge. Diabolic forces are at work in Sweet Valley, forces set in motion on that dark, unspoken night in the Little House on the Prairie. Enc finds that the closer he gets to the true source of this horrific pattern of pleasant artifice concealing desires twisted upon themselves, the harder it is to look away from the evil in his own past: his failed marriage to Nancy Drew, his hesitation at a crime scene that resulted in the death of the Hardy boys. Worse, the circumstances in Sweet Valley begin to parallel his own Dark Secret.
(Page 81, Mystery of the Stolen Skateboard)
Solution: Bugs Meanie did it. Bugs Meanie ALWAYS does it. In a fit of passion, Encyclopedia pulls out a .38 and puts 2 in Bugs' head. The town is never again plagued by petty mischief, Encyclopedia Brown gets an early acceptance into the New York Police Academy, and the whole town has sworn to keep the secret.
Bugs rises from his vengeful grave, but death has not improved his competence. His attempts to inflict suffering on the living are, at best, minor inconveniences. He is immortalized in the shamefully insipid "Goosebumps" series.
I love it! I recently picked up a stack of SVHs at a used bookstore, and they are definitely causing as much brain damage the second time around.
I have fond memories of furtively reading this one at the local bookstore, age 9, in between sneaking peeks at the Playboy greeting cards and the YOUR BODY IS CHANGING books. To this day I don't know which of the three kick-started puberty.
Goldray says:
Ben, I am totallly LOVING the Twin Peaks references. LMAO.
Loved your comment Ben! Twin Peaks is awesome! 🙂
i don't know, i actually think that jessica has competition in the sociopath department with the arrival of suzanne.
love this blog by the way. love it.
BurtonFanatic says:
"Suzy wants revenge, so she rips her shirt and tells Liz that Mr Collins attacked her. Liz, being the huge pushover, believes it, and has Ned and Alice tell the SVH principal."
Do you think this is how the writer of "Wild Things" go their idea?
I look forward to your review of books 104-106 where they get pursued around London by a werewolf AND a bad-boy aristocrat simultaneously
RollingStone says:
Wow, Suzanne's hair is even higher than Jessica's!
By the way, did anyone else sense some foreshadowing in the name "Devlin"?
And what the hell is a "Hallston" supposed to look like?
Suzanne ROCKS! says:
Ok. 1st of all. do people in NY really act like that!
i mean i watch gossip girl and when i read this book i'm like"yeah right!".
but…….the '80's is very different from the '08…
GREAT RECAP..LOVE THIS SITE.
sallyj says:
it's actually a Halston.
love your blog 🙂
heroine_tv says:
"Sure, she's fucked up, but finally an interesting character! Can we get a spin-off series please?" Ha ha! Great recap.
Why does Jessica almost get raped in every other book???
Neek1981 says:
Cause she's so perfect-looking that no one can keep their hands off of her. (gag me!!!) Did you read the SVU book called No Means No, where she is almost date raped and has to testify in court? They made a big deal about the fact that she was dressed so sexy. She wore a leather bustier on the date, if I remember correctly.
Karla Keffer says:
"It's done wonders for my self-esteem. I hope it has helped yours too."
It really has. You can't even imagine. Thanks, IHW!
girlwiththeradio says:
this is possibly the most awesome line in the series so far
"She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine."
BartTempleton says:
Yeha, I just re-read this last night for the first time in like 15 years and that stood out to me. Not only is the sentence itself great, but I was thinking, "hmmm. I think this is the 20-30-something ghostie's own fantasy."
In 1987, I think 16 year olds were getting caught up in the wonder and excitement of the MTV era, and stars of the previous decade would not have held as much luster as Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen, , etc.
Golden Lavaliere says:
I loved how, in "Special Christmas", Suzanne Devlin ended up just having mononucleosis the whole time instead of MS. They mention how much MS medication she was taking, but don'cha think all that medication would've f-ed her up for real??
I also liked that the twins led her to a fake address for yet another party to get her back for being such a biatch in Too Good To Be True, and even though she almost dies in the car trying to find the place, everyone is great friends after she is safe & sound!
I think Fran-Pasc must have had an enemy by the name of Susan/Suzanne somewhere along the line, I can think of 3 biatches in SVT/SVH by that name:
1]Susan Devlin – above
2]Suzanne Hanlon – Lila-esque snob who tries to change Ken Matthews circa book 27
3]Susan Rainer, "The Twins go to college" [SVT super ed I think]
I'm sure there are others..
Golden Lavaliere – considering what they were treating MS with in the early 80s, she would most certainly be f-ed up for real
I'm slowly re-reading the series on my own timeline (i.e. one every 4 months), and just read this one last night. The whole time I was reading I was remembering the classic IHW description of Elizabeth's expression on the cover.
So much to say.
First let's just get this out of the way:
>>>>"They imply that Rog gets an erection."
Pretty much. We are told about how his "face flushes red" and he can't look away from Suzanne as she attempts seduction. It's quite clear our good Mr. Collins is fighting his "urges."
Suzanne's seduction scenes were actually pretty racy for YA (she takes a bath in HIS home hoping he'll find her in it; meaningfully and slowly drinks water directly from a garden hose he's holding as she looks up at him; and purposely drips water onto her chest to make her shirt wet and bra show). It reminds me that between the mid-70s and mid-80s, YA fiction was actually pretty frank about sex, drugs, and booze. It was only later, towards the 90s, that it policed itself.
Speaking of which, the book was saturated with references to unpunished teen drinking! Jessica alone drinks wine, champagne, and freaking brandy, all on separate occasions, and gets so drunk she "passes out" in the bathroom. I haven't even gotten to the other characters' drinking yet. Again, all of this would be a big no-no in the 90s culture of MADD, alarmist news reports about college drinking, etc.
As usual, as IHW points out, there's a date rape scene that has a vague whiff of victim-blaming about it. When Pete (who's abuout 3x colder, arsehole-ier, and rapist-er than Bruce Patman)tells Jessica that because she kept trying to kiss him all night, she deserves to be raped by him, there's pretty much no counter-argument offered by the ghostwriter. Maybe the ghostie's literary integrity wouldn't allow her to break into the third-person narration with an omniscent authorial statement…or….maybe Francine just doesn't care about infecting young readers with retrogressive social ideas. I'll take the second one for $5,000, Alex.
But the real shocker of this book was that the ghostwriter was actually one of the better ones in the first half of the series. She was probably the ghostie from Double Love, because that one was better than others, too. Although Todd and Liz together were gagworthy as usual, their actual dialogue (and the dialogue in general) wasn't impossibly stilted as in DECEPTIONS a few books later.
This is all comparitive, mind you. "Good" SVH ghostwriting is not exactly Atwood or Nabokov.
Anyway, I have to give this one a higher grade than IHW gave it. C+ at least.
If you liked Suzanne, I recommend that you NOT read Special Christmas. Ever. Her transformation to ailing do-gooder who has an "emotional affair" with Todd under Liz' nose is really too much to bear.
Oh, and one more thing–IHW was completely right about the ghostwriter going WAY overboard with the sizeism/weight issues. In that respect, this book was probably the single worst I can remember in the whole series–I mean, worse than POWER PLAY, even.
No less than half a dozen times, Liz compares her body size unfavorably to the thinness of Suzanne. There's an acutal line that acknowledges how effed up that is. "Watching Suzanne's impossibly thin form set off to perfection in her bikini, Elizabeth couldn't help but feel self-conscious about EVEN her own lovely, size-six frame." It actually said 'even her own lovely, size-six." Da hell?
And Suzanne's mother is described in the same sentence as having totally "hollow cheekbones" that Jessica tries to emulate by sucking her face in , and being "gloriously thin." WTH? GLORIOUSLY thin, though?
Thumbs down on the rampant sizeism, Francie! Reign your ghostwriter in.
Okay, here's my confusion about this book:
Ned Wakefield is a LAWYER. His UNDER-AGED houseguest reports being assaulted by a TEACHER at his DAUGHTERS' HIGH SCHOOL. Ned, the LAWYER, calls the school PRINCIPAL and not the POLICE! What the hell. My parents weren't lawyers, but I promise if one of my friends came over with her shirt torn and said that a teacher assaulted her, the police would be called. There'd be hell to pay.


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Greymane Lodge
History of Greymane Lodge
Legends of Greymane Lodge
The esoteric teachings
Customs of Greymane Lodge
Officers of Greymane Lodge
Housemaster Greymane
Master of Students
Dream-chaser
Speaker to Streams and Stones
[Steward of Thundering Vale]
Greymane Lodge treasures
Unfortunately Greymane Lodge is very secretive, and moreover represents the survival of a pre-literate tradition. At any sort of remove in time it becomes impossible to say exactly who in the lodge did what, or why. The Greymane adepts may know more, but they aren't telling.
Greymane Lodge had its origins in the cult of Greymane, who is an ancient folk-hero of the area that is now the episkopies of Valina, Orio, and Gla, the western part of Periander and the eastern part of Guinmo. In ancient times, when the area was occupied by forest-dwelling hunters and swiddeners, this cult was very important in preparing boys with the skills and attitudes they were held to need in the forests. But with the rise of agriculture and cities it declined in importance. By 4600 AED the cult of Greymane was carried on only by rustics, though tales of Greymane were (and are) still told to children in the cities, by their nurses.
Sometime about 4700 the remaining Greymane mantises recognised that their lore was becoming dangerously fragmentary. Under leadership that is unrecorded, they instituted an annual festival, held in the forest at Thundering Vale, to which each adept brought his apprentice, and where all the lore of Grey-mane was recited, so that each practitioner might learn from others any sections of lore that his master, or his master, might have for-gotten. The festival became also an important occasion for the teaching of mantic skills and general lore of the World of Dreams. Thus was the Greymane Brotherhood formed.
Around the time of the Civil War (4792-4797) the adepts of Greymane became concerned that their sacred meeting-site was subject to some sort of threat—perhaps merely the threat of deforestation and encroaching agriculture. After performing epic quests in the World of Dreams, in 4802 they persuaded four other organisations that were struggling to preserve ancient traditions to join them in protecting the forests around Thundering Vale. From the point of view of the Greymane Brotherhood, the purpose of the original hunting college was to give the other four lodges a stake in the preservation of Thundering Vale and the surrounding forests.
The rise of permanent residence at Thundering Vale gradually changed the structure of the Greymane Brotherhood. Collegiate teaching by a shifting core of masters at Thundering Vale replaced the system of individual apprenticeships. The best mantises and wisest loremasters concentrated at Thundering Vale, and the quality of junior instruction and pastoral care in the community at large fell. The tradition of Greymane faltered even though the transmission of its lore was more secure than ever before.
The reorganisation of 4883 was a crisis for Greymane Lodge, which had the greatest difficulty in raising 8,000 minai to buy its shares in the College. Almost half of the forty masters then living either failed or refused to raise their stakes, and the lodge was forced to sell memberships to apprentices. The Brotherhood of Greymane was nearly destroyed. The part that stayed at Thundering Vale lost contact with any youth that it might instruct. The masters who resumed wandering found that they had lost the art of training successors by one-on-one apprenticeships. By 4930 no trace of their tradition survived. The future was in doubt for a tradition at least six hundred years old.
In 4889 Greymane Lodge elected a new Housemaster, Arkhan, who led it out of the wilderness. He gave up on the plan to fill the companionships with trainee mantises. Instead, he emulated Skywalker Lodge in taking in youths and ephebes as companions for a general education. And for these he arranged such a training as the Greymane mantises of long ago had given to the youngsters of their tribes. The pedagogical cult of Greymane, which had dwindled away three generations before, was gloriously reborn among the rural gentry of five episkopies. Struggling to fill ten places at the expansion of 4902, Greymane Lodge was at the forefront of the movement to add a further thirty in 4951.
The story of Greymane is partly preserved in countless folk-tales now told mostly to children, and widely known over a great part of western Thelmond. These stories detail hundreds of incidents, but many of them are sheer invention, and some key facts are omitted from the folklore. Moreover, the folk stories are unordered, leaving incidents with-out context and meaning. The esoteric teachings of Greymane Lodge include certain obscure facts about Greymane, and a frame story that fits many of the incidents into a connected narrative. In addition, the lodge preserves many teachings of Greymane that are not mentioned in the stories.
Greymane was a boy who was raised by wolves. He was suckled by a she-wolf, taught to hunt by a he-wolf, and initiated into a wolf-pack. In his infancy he had a great many adventures in which various animals appear as stock characters: a tiger, a black leopard, a jackal, several different wolves, a fox, a fishing cat, two elephants, a bear, a python, an orang-utan, a troop of gibbons…. Daimons of various numinous objects also figure: a volcano, a river, a waterfall, a thermal spring, several notable trees, at least one astronomical body of each sex….
In his adolescence Greymane was persuaded by all his wisest friends to leave the wolf-pack in which he had grown up and return to his proper people. He was adopted by a widow, became a swineherd, was denounced as a warlock for his dealings with wild animals, was stoned, called his animal friends to his aid, drove out his tormentors, and married a girl of great beauty. Later he was recognised as a king's son who had been exposed in the forest by a wicked uncle. He returned to his palace, killed the usurper, and seized his rightful throne. For twenty years he was a conqueror, and for twenty years a law-giver, and then he returned to the forest as a hermit-priest.
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In fact Greymane was not exactly a boy, but a demigod, gotten by aneurian (werewolf) on the daimon of Thundering Vale. He was born out of a rock that cleft open in a cave behind Roaring Falls. His mother manifested as a wolf to suckle him. And in most of the incidents of his infancy he was a wolf-cub, not a boy. At about the age of two Greymane discovered the ability to turn himself into a human adolescent. Encouraged by certain daimons he began to slink around the swiddeners' villages to espy what they did.
Discovering that humans had many powerful tools that wolves lacked, Greymane attempted to approach them to learn their arts. But he was driven off by children throwing stones, and returned to the wolves. Presently his sire died and his dam ceased manifesting as a she-wolf. The pack fell on hard times, and Greymane, a peripheral bachelor, was driven away by the new alpha.
So Greymane took again the form of a boy, and approached the humpy of a widow-woman, kind but none too sane, who was starving in the forest. She was happy enough to accept him as a son of hers who had been lost in the woods years ago, and had now returned to her rescue. Greymane's efforts to succour her were at first very clumsy, and achievement hard-won. But in time he learned enough to keep the old woman alive and to pass in human society.
His next step was to find the band that had been hers, and to 'return' to their village. Working as a menial he observed enough to learn the basics of stone-knapping, tool-fitting, the making of fire and earthenware, and the use of string, rope, and various plant products such as gums and drugs. Working around the house of the headman, Greymane established a liaison with his daughter Inda, who taught him a thing or two. Keen to continue this branch of learning, Greymane approached the headman, who treated him with contumely, scornfully specifying the goods he expected as the minimum wealth of his daughter's husband. Greymane continued his dalliance with Inda, was caught by her father, thrashed, and driven off into the forest.
Returning to the forest, Greymane used the skills he had learned among humans to rescue his pack from the difficulties into which they had sunk, and to defeat and kill several of their rivals, such as the tiger. Acting sometimes in the shape of a wolf and sometimes in that of a man, he led his pack to unprecedented prosperity, then used their services and those of his friends among the daimons to amass a fortune exceeding that specified by Inda's father. He returned to the human band (they had moved their village in the normal course of things), drove off Inda's husband, and installed himself.
As a successful hunter, a mantis, a dreamer, and a friend of daimons and wolves, Greymane soon eclipsed his father-in-law as headman. Successful in war, he built a coalition of bands and forged it into a tribe, which prospered through his leadership, the favour of the daimons who were his friends, and co-operation with the wolves. Greymane then became a lawgiver and teacher, promoting the willing co-operation of free individuals, and the uncomplaining acceptance of the inevitable. Many of his maxims have been passed down by word of mouth.
By Inda and possibly a concubine or second wife Greymane had five sons and seven daughters. The sons became mantises, who sallied annually into the mountains, the plains, the lagoons, and even the seas. At first all five returned each year, bringing crafts and treasures to the tribe, but one by one they met other fates: the eldest became a husband and farmer; the second a smith (or perhaps stone-knapper); the third became a trader, pirate, and king; the fourth became a singer and dancer and the lover of a daimon; and the fifth died young. Eventually Greymane himself died, and was buried in Thundering Vale. His seven daughters each took a part of the people away to found her own tribe, and Greymane's village was reclaimed by the forest.
In the hunt, Greymane Lodge cultivates a special expertise in strategies that depend on planning and co-ordination, such as driving game into nets or ambushes. Some members (the acolytes, generally) have tame wolves that are trained to co-operate with humans in this sort of hunting. Greymane Lodge therefore values stealth, patience, planning, and teamwork.
More significantly, Greymane Lodge concentrates on teaching ethics, the exegesis of dreams, and the management of relationships with daimons. Its esoteric teachings include mystic disciplines (such as Dreaming) and a considerable body of secret lore about its eponymous hero and sacred places in western Thelmond.
Greymane Lodge is dedicated to the practical and moral instruction of youth, to the preservation and transmission of its secret knowledge. It values loyalty and teamwork, and the reciprocal duty of subordinate and superior. Greymane Lodge considers itself to be a pack, in which leadership is service.
During the week of the Festival of Thundering Vale, prospective Greymane recruits stay in the lodge hall, watching and perhaps competing in the Games, and mingling socially with the members. Each is observed anonymously by an adept who has been appointed as his or her examiner. In the evenings they dine with the lodge, drink, sing Greymane folksongs and dance Greymane folk dances. At night the lodge dreamweavers take them on simple explorations and administer tests in the World of Dreams. On the afternoon of the seventh day each candidate recounts and explains one of his or her dreams of the week to the assembled members. Then the members meet in private. Each examiner gives a summing up of the candidate he or she has observed, and either nominates him or her or declares him or her to be ineligible. And then each member, in order of seniority from the most junior up, declares a vote for as many candidates as there are vacancies. The seneschal tallies the votes, and the suitable number of candidates with the most votes are admitted as probationary members. In the case of ties, the housemaster chooses. Those elected become probationary members, and have until the Festival of Greymane (six-and-a-half or seven-and-a-half months) to memorise the Epic of Greymane. Those who succeed become permanent members, those who fail have their shares refunded and are permanently barred from joining.
Members choose their own companions, and are expected to guide their studies and give them moral support. But the companions are accommodated in dormitories in groups of ten that live and hunt together, and study and train in small classes.
The annual festival of Greymane Lodge is the [of Greymane], which is celebrated at the last (eleventh or twelfth) New Moon each year. All the stories and sayings of Greymane are recited through the preceding days, each line declaimed by an adept and repeated by the members in chorus. Plays are performed, secrets told, dreams woven. And on the night of the feast itself the members perform a secret ceremony in a secret sacred site, in which new members are initiated and acolytes and adepts promoted.
Totem: wolf. Motto: The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
The head of Greymane Lodge is Housemaster Greymane. The Housemaster is nominally elected by the members from among the huntmaster-adepts of the lodge, but often only one candidate stands and he is routinely acclaimed by the members. The term of office is indefinite, but the house-master is always subject to a vote of no confidence by the members provided that an adept moves it.
The Housemaster is responsible for the protection and transmission of the lodge traditions, and therefore directs the training of members as dreamweavers, mantises, and mystagogues. He has some disciplinary authority, and presides at the lodge assembly.
The Seneschal of Greymane Lodge is elected by the members from among the adepts. His term is indefinite. The seneschal is in charge of hiring or buying the lodge's servants, organising their work, and disciplining their lapses.
The Purser of Greymane Lodge is elected by the members for an indefinite term, usually from among the adepts of the Lodge.
The Purser is the treasurer of Greymane Lodge, responsible for collecting and disbursing dues and incomes, paying expenses, and rendering accounts.
The Greymane Master of Students is appointed by the housemaster, usually from among the huntmaster-adepts of the lodge. He is in charge of the training and education of the companions, for their assignment to dormitories and classes, and for their discipline. It is up to the Master of Students to arrange with the masters of students in other lodges for the instruction of companions from each lodge in the specialities of other lodges, as required, and to make adjustments for the honorariums involved.
The Master of Students also chooses, within the limits of practicality, which members will teach what classes and earn the honorariums. This power brings some patron-age among the less experienced members.
The Dream-chaser is the official in charge of arranging those functions of Greymane lodge that involve the use of the mystic discipline Dreaming. He or she is also in overall charge of training Greymane acolytes in the use of Dreaming. The Dream-chaser is therefore in effect the chief dreamweaver and chief Dreaming instructor of Thundering Vale. He or she is also one of the chief advisors to the Housemaster.
The Dream-chaser is elected by the adepts of Greymane Lodge from among themselves. The term is indefinite, and on occasion a corrodian has continued to hold the post after retiring from the lodge.
The Speaker to Streams and Stones is the chief mantis of Greymane Lodge and is in over-all charge of teaching the mystic discipline Spiritualism to Greymane acolytes. But as mantis and Spiritualism teacher to the College he or she is overshadowed by Skywalker Lodge's Theomantis. He or she is also one of the chief advisors to the Housemaster.
The Speaker to Stones and Streams is elected by the adepts of Greymane Lodge from among themselves. The term is indefinite, and on occasion a corrodian has continued to hold the post after retiring from the lodge.
For reasons that are lost in antiquity, the Steward of Thundering Vale is usually chosen from among the huntmaster-adepts of Greymane Lodge. Filling that post is almost a right and duty of the lodge.
Greymane Lodge generally manages its relations with daimons through mantises rather than priests. Many retired members of Greymane indeed hold priesthoods, but there are none attached to the lodge except for the priesthood of the lodge-house, which is not very prestigious.
Retired Greymane housemasters use the title 'Priest of Greymane', but no functions are attached to this post.
Greymane Lodge does not own significant treasures in the conventional sense. It has a vast collection of ritual objects used and collected by twenty generations of Greymane mantises: masks, capes, rattles, drums, bone flutes, bullroarers, whisks, wands, aspergillums, censers, and such mantic paraphernalia. There is also a collection of mementos and trophies of forgotten adventures, and curious gifts from daimons. And there are a few written and more drawn materials: mandalas and so forth on various media. Many of these things are curious and beautiful, but few are of any great commercial value.
The Greymane adepts consider their secrets to be their great treasures.
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In 1986 the Maine Baptist Association in partnership with the New Hampshire Baptist Association assumed ownership of 52 acres of farmland on the Sandy River in Farmington, Maine. At the time of this acquisition an old colonial home was the centerpiece of a property that also included an attached shed and carriage house along with a detached barn and country store. The old colonial home was built in 1790 by Moses Chandler, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and an officer under George Washington. The property was subsequently owned by descendants of Moses Chandler including a Dr. Mary Cushman, a medical doctor and missionary to Africa.
When the general store was renovated and converted to a church sanctuary the building was renamed Cushman Chapel in recognition of her years of Christian service. The colonial home, known to local historians as the Moses Chandler House, has eight rooms, five working fireplaces and has been painstakingly restored by Earl and Carole Edgerly who served as the First Resident Managers of the Conference Center. Earl also served as pastor of the Farmington Baptist Church (SBC) which meets in a building they built on a ten acre lot that the Conference Center deeded to Farmington Baptist Church in 1997.


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Complete coverage of the 2012 election
Obama, Romney Differ Over Jobs Report at Virginia Events
Big Bird protests outside Romney event in Virginia coal country
Published Oct 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM | Updated at 10:53 PM EDT on Oct 5, 2012
Obama, Romney Talk Jobs Report in Virginia
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Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey gets reaction to the September unemployment report, as President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaign in opposite corners of Virginia. (Published Friday, Oct. 5, 2012)
President Barack Obama celebrated much-needed good economic news in Virginia Friday as the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since he took office. "We are moving forward again," he boasted. Republican rival Mitt Romney -- also campaigning in the battleground state -- retorted that the president still hasn't done enough to help millions of people who are out of work, while a protester dressed as Big Bird made a plea for jobs on "Sesame Street."
The figures announced by the Labor Department -- 114,000 new jobs last month to bring the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent -- gave Obama fresh evidence on the heels of his disappointing debate performance to argue that his economic policies are working. Romney countered that the country can't afford four more years of the president's leadership and argued that the rate is low in part because some people have quit looking for work.
"These are tough times in this community," Romney told a rally outside a construction equipment store after meeting with coal miners who have been laid off. "We're going to bring back jobs and bring back America."
Obama responded that Romney wants to roll back policies that are repairing the economic damage.
George Mason U Students Turn Out for Obama Rally
The president held a rally at the Fairfax campus Friday, just hours after the government's new jobs report revealed unemployment has dropped below 8 percent.
(Published Friday, Oct. 5, 2012)
"Today's news certainly is not an excuse to try to talk down the economy to score a few political points," Obama said. "It is a reminder that the country has come too far to turn back now."
Outside Romney's appearance at Carter Machinery in Abingdon, Va., the demonstrator dressed as Big Bird carried a sign reading "Cut Big Oil Not PBS" in response to the Republican candidate's comment to PBS anchor Jim Lehrer at Wednesday night's debate that he would cut funding to PBS.
"I'm sorry Jim, I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS," Romney said. "I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. I actually like you too, but I'm not going to keep spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for them."
In Fairfax, Va., Obama embraced the public television icon.
"So for all you moms and kids out there, don't worry -- someone is finally getting tough on Big Bird," he quipped. "Rounding him up. Elmo has got to watch out, too. Gov. Romney plans to let Wall Street run wild again, but he's going to bring down the hammer on 'Sesame Street.' It makes perfect sense."
The unemployment rate fell from 8.1 percent in August, matching its level in January 2009 when Obama became president. There is one more monthly unemployment report before Election Day, so Friday's numbers could leave a lasting impact on Americans who are already casting ballots in states that allow early voting.
The candidates campaigned Friday on opposite ends of one of those early voting states, Virginia. Romney, in the state's far western coal country, said he wants to develop coal and other domestic resources to make the United States energy independent in eight years. Obama focused on recruiting women at an appearance at George Mason University in the Washington suburbs, where he argued that his health care policy has improved their health care choices.
Obama, seeking to rebound after Romney dominated their first debate Wednesday night, is accusing his rival of being dishonest about how his policies would affect the tax bills of middle-class families and the Medicare benefits of retirees. He told an audience at George Mason University that his rival "got an extreme makeover" in their face-off.
He also argued Romney can't bring change to the country when he's "willing to write off half the nation before you take office," a reference to Romney's disparaging remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes. Romney made the comments at a fundraiser in May that was secretly recorded, but the videotape did not emerge until last month. Romney went as far as he's ever gone to try to take back his words in an interview Thursday night with Fox News.
"Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right," Romney said Thursday. "In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong."
At the White House, senior adviser David Plouffe retorted: "I would take with a huge grain of salt trying to clean something up five months after you said it for the first time."
The next presidential debate is not until Oct. 16, a town hall-style meeting at Hofstra University in New York, giving both sides ample opportunities to blanket battleground states and raise money for the final weeks of television advertising.
Romney planned a rally later in the day in St. Petersburg, Fla., kicking off a weekend of campaigning in that state, the largest of the prized battlegrounds. Obama was holding a Friday rally in Cleveland before heading to California on Sunday for a fundraising spree that will include a concert in Los Angeles featuring Jon Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Stevie Wonder.
Traveling aboard Air Force One, Plouffe foreshadowed an intense focus on Ohio in the coming weeks, where polls have shifted in Obama's favor. No Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio, and Obama's campaign sees blocking Romney there as one of its best paths to victory.
Plouffe said the true measure of the first debate was whether it moved voters in the battleground states. Speaking of Romney, Plouffe said: "Is he going to take the lead in Ohio? If he doesn't, he's not going to be president," he said.
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package rfx.server.util.ua;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * Operating System parser using ua-parser. Extracts OS information from user
 * agent strings.
 *
 * @author Steve Jiang (@sjiang) <gh at iamsteve com>
 */
public class OSParser {

	private final List<OSPattern> patterns;

	public OSParser(List<OSPattern> patterns) {
		this.patterns = patterns;
	}

	public static OSParser fromList(List<Map> configList) {
		List<OSPattern> configPatterns = new ArrayList<OSPattern>();

		for (Map<String, String> configMap : configList) {
			configPatterns.add(OSParser.patternFromMap(configMap));
		}
		return new OSParser(configPatterns);
	}

	public OS parse(String agentString) {
		OS os;
		for (OSPattern p : patterns) {
			if ((os = p.match(agentString)) != null) {
				return os;
			}
		}
		return new OS("Other", null, null, null, null);
	}

	public List<OSPattern> getPatterns() {
		return patterns;
	}

	protected static OSPattern patternFromMap(Map<String, String> configMap) {
		String regex = configMap.get("regex");
		if (regex == null) {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("OS is missing regex");
		}

		return (new OSPattern(Pattern.compile(regex),
				configMap.get("os_replacement"),
				configMap.get("os_v1_replacement"),
				configMap.get("os_v2_replacement")));
	}

	protected static class OSPattern {
		private final Pattern pattern;
		private final String osReplacement, v1Replacement, v2Replacement;

		public OSPattern(Pattern pattern, String osReplacement,
				String v1Replacement, String v2Replacement) {
			this.pattern = pattern;
			this.osReplacement = osReplacement;
			this.v1Replacement = v1Replacement;
			this.v2Replacement = v2Replacement;
		}

		public String getOsReplacement() {
			return osReplacement;
		}

		public String getV1Replacement() {
			return v1Replacement;
		}

		public String getV2Replacement() {
			return v2Replacement;
		}

		public OS match(String agentString) {
			String family = null, v1 = null, v2 = null, v3 = null, v4 = null;
			Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(agentString);

			if (!matcher.find()) {
				return null;
			}

			int groupCount = matcher.groupCount();

			if (osReplacement != null) {
				family = osReplacement;
			} else if (groupCount >= 1) {
				family = matcher.group(1);
			}

			if (v1Replacement != null) {
				v1 = v1Replacement;
			} else if (groupCount >= 2) {
				v1 = matcher.group(2);
				if (v2Replacement != null) {
					v2 = v2Replacement;
				} else if (groupCount >= 3) {
					v2 = matcher.group(3);
					if (groupCount >= 4) {
						v3 = matcher.group(4);
						if (groupCount >= 5) {
							v4 = matcher.group(5);
						}
					}
				}
			}
			return family == null ? null : new OS(family, v1, v2, v3, v4);
		}
	}
}

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Look Inside | Reading Guide
Under Western Eyes
Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers
Part of Modern Library Classics
Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller
About Under Western Eyes
Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this is the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-Revolutionary czarist Russia.
A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity. This new edition includes commentary and a reading group guide.
Describes a band of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Geneva. This book is a study of individuals under pressure, and it remains a telling account of the fugitive life – especially in its portrait of Razumov, heir to the long line of Russian anti-heroes in Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Conrad wrote three political novels that have had constant influence on the way we look at contemporary history. The third of these, Under Western Eyes, is the eternally pertinent story of Russian radicals exiled in Geneva, those who spy on them, and the iron links that chain them to each other and to their motherland.
Introduction by Cedric Watts
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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About Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in 1857. After both of his parents died of tuberculosis, Conrad went to live with his uncle in Switzerland. After attending school in Kraków, he joined the French and then the British merchant marines,… More about Joseph Conrad
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Jul 10, 2001 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757358
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Ocqueoc Township ( ) is a civil township of Presque Isle County in the U.S. state of Michigan named after the Ocqueoc River. The population of Ocqueoc Township was 634 at the 2000 census and slightly increased at 655 at the 2010 census.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 52.6 square miles (136.3 km), of which 52.3 square miles (135.5 km) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.8 km) (0.59%) is water.

Geographic features
Hammond Bay (Lake Huron)
Ocqueoc Falls
Ocqueoc Lake

Transportation

Private airports
The nearest private airports in Presque Isle County are:
Presque Isle County Airport (Rogers City)
Leo E. Goetz County Airport (Onaway)

Commercial airports
The nearest commercial airports are:
Alpena County Regional Airport
Cherry Capital Airport (Traverse City)

Highways

Notable roads
North Allis Highway
Ocqueoc Falls Highway
Ocqueoc Road

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 634 people, 280 households, and 199 families residing in the township.  The population density was 12.1 per square mile (4.7/km).  There were 691 housing units at an average density of 13.2 per square mile (5.1/km).  The racial makeup of the township was 98.42% White, 0.32% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.47% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.79% of the population.

There were 280 households, out of which 19.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.4% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.9% were non-families. 25.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.55.

In the township the population was spread out, with 17.0% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 18.6% from 25 to 44, 29.5% from 45 to 64, and 31.1% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 54 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.9 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.9 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $28,125, and the median income for a family was $33,269. Males had a median income of $27,143 versus $25,250 for females. The per capita income for the township was $15,432.  About 9.4% of families and 14.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.3% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

Education
Ocqueoc Township is part of the Onaway Area Community School district.

The Onaway Schools consists of an Elementary school (K-5) and Middle/High School (6-12).

Area Attractions
 Rogers City Municipal Marina has nearly 100 slips, most on floating docks. There is a fishing platform on the east wall for breakwater fishing.
 P. H. Hoeft State Park has one mile (1.6 km) of sandy shoreline and  on Lake Huron. Hiking trails run through the forest and along the lake.  There is a 142 site campground. The day use area has a playground, picnic sites, and a beach.  It was one of the fourteen original Michigan state parks, and the land was donated by lumber baron Paul H. Hoeft on January 2, 1922.  It is a 'four season park' offering camping even in the winter.
 Presque Isle County Historical Museum (Rogers City)
 A list and link for state historical markers is at Presque Isle County.

Area Events
 Memorial Day Weekend Open House including Afternoon of Arts & Crafts at Forty Mile Point Light
 Presque Isle County Fair, Millersburg, Michigan, last weekend in June
 Rogers City Nautical Festival, first complete weekend in August
 Rogers City Salmon Tournament, second weekend in August
 Posen Potato Festival, Posen, Michigan, first weekend in September
 Annual Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival—Four days in second week in October, Forty Mile Point Open For Tours All Four Days
 Ocqueoc river and Ocqueoc Lake

Media
The following can be accessed in Ocqueoc Township, MI

Newspapers
The local newspaper, the Presque Isle County Advance, has served the area since 1878. The Advance made statewide news itself in February 2006, when it fell victim to a fire which also destroyed Big D's Pizza. Both businesses recovered, with Big D's moving to a new location and the Advance moving into  a beautiful new structure 10 months after the fire.
The Alpena News is the daily newspaper of record for much of northeastern Lower Peninsula of  Michigan.

Television
Channel 4:WTOM-TV "TV 7&4" (NBC) (Cheboygan) (simulcasted in channel 7, Harrietta)
Channel 6:WCML "CMU Public Television" (PBS) (Montmorency Township)
Channel 8:WGTQ "ABC 29&8" (ABC) (Goetzville) (simulcasted in channel 29, Kalkaska)
Channel 10:WWUP-TV "9&10 News" (CBS) (Goetzville) (simulcasted in channel 9, Tustin)
Channel 11:WBKB-TV "Channel 11 News" (CBS) (Alpena)

Radio

FM

AM

References

Townships in Presque Isle County, Michigan
Townships in Michigan
Populated places on Lake Huron in the United States

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Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel to Build "Utopian" Luxurious Lodge and Residence in New Zealand
September 6, 2021 September 6, 2021 Editor
Peter Thiel, a billionaire of tech fortune who is known as the co-founder of Paypal and Palantir, is planning to create a luxury lodge and private residence in his New Zealand property.
At 193 hectares, the property will be converted into his version of a "utopian" building that will include meditation pods, lodges, spas, pools, guest cabins, and a library.
Thiel was able to purchase the property at $13.5 million in 2015. Thiel is currently an active investor of Facebook and is a part of the board of directors for the company.
His dream property will be designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates who is also known as the primary architect of the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. They stated that their primary inspiration for designing it is following organic architecture that can easily blend into the indigenous landscape. Representative Joe Feif states that they prioritize avoiding damaging the environment to make it as eco-friendly as possible. An estimated 15 employees will work on the property. Its operation date is yet to be created.
The property will be designed to accommodate as many as 10 guests who will have a view of the Southern Alps and Lake Wanaka. They will have access to state-of-the-art facilities like theatre lounges and pools. The colour motif of the building will mainly revolve around shades of green as to follow a rustic palette. This makes it easily blend in with the hills near where it is located.
Billionaires targeting New Zealand as the place for expensive homes are not new. It has been a destination for many others like Google co-founder Larry Page who was recently given residence in August this year. Thiel, on the other hand, was awarded in 2017.
The country is seen by many as a good place to relocate in the event of a global environmental catastrophe. This is mainly because of its isolated yet self-sustaining environment. There are also online blogs dedicated to guiding people who want to prepare for future disasters by relocating to the country. Thiel has not responded to requests by local media sources who ask if the goal of constructing the building is to serve as a bunker.
Thiel also has other properties in New Zealand including a home in Queenstown and one in Auckland. In an interview in 2011, Thiel has stated that the country aligns with his vision for the future which is why his recent constructions come as no surprise.
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Since works began at Millbrook Park in December 2011, major progress has been made in turning the initial vision into homes for thousands of new residents and to creating a new community.
Millbrook Park Church of England Primary School sits within the Inglis Consortium's site of Millbrook Park, the former Inglis Barracks.
By 2025 it is anticipated that 2,174 new homes will be built creating a new community in one of London's most desirable residences.


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Over six hours Thursday night and early Friday, Hunt said, crews on the eight CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters helped get the people and animals aboard. Some of the helicopters landed, according to Hunt, while others remained in the air, "hoisting" people and animals in baskets.
"You have to remember, this was at night," Hunt said at the news conference. "They flew (with) night vision goggles. Some of the crews came from Minnesota and Maryland and were not specifically familiar with the area at all," Hunt said.
The rescue occurred in the Bladen County community of Kelly, population 545, about 27 miles northwest of Wilmington.
The people were flown to Kinston, where they stayed the night in shelters, WRAL reported. Buses were scheduled to return them the 110 miles south to Bladen County on Friday, which also has shelters for Florence evacuees, according to the station.
In his tweet, Cooper called the rescue "a dangerous operation." He thanked the crews "for your courage and bravery."
The crews "heroically saved lives," Cooper said. "We are eternally grateful to our first responders who continue to show unflinching courage in the face of danger."
Florence has killed 32 people in the state, according to a news release from the governor's office. Nearly 5,000 have been rescued by first responders, "and with several rivers at major flood stage, rescue efforts remain ongoing," the news release said.
At Friday's news conference, Hunt said the crews who rescued the people and animals of Kelly "are resetting for another mission tonight, if possible."
Crystal Simmons, of Wallace, SC, was without water, electricity and phone service when flooding from Hurricane Florence washed out a road near her home.
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Three people found stabbed in a northwest Charlotte home
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Driver killed after car plunges off steep road to Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains
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CMS board to meet Friday morning to consider superintendent's contract
NC lawmakers let virtual charter schools add more students despite low test scores
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Maughan Technical Services is based at Coach House, just off the picturesque and historic Green in Wallsend. Coach House is a brick built building dating to the 1800s and was originally the coach house for the old Mordue Brewery site. In the picture you can see us at the end of the lane by Dene House, which is visible on the right of the picture.


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Q: SQL to select data, insert into temp table then reselect data from temp table and insert again, until no data found I've been trying to work out the best way to capture data from a table where data can be held as the parent and child, example as below.

Parent ID
Child ID
Order Number

A1
B2
1

A1
B3
2

A1
B4
3

B1
C1
1

B1
C2
2

B4
D1
1

C1
E1
1

D1
F1
1

I'm trying to capture the links starting with a specific parent and then identifying the children and then searching the child code as a parent to identify any additional links, if that makes sense, until no more links are found.  So searching 'A1' above should end up showing the following.

Parent ID
Child ID
Order Number

A1
B2
1

A1
B3
2

A1
B4
3

B4
D1
1

D1
F1
1

I was thinking about inserting the parent data into a temp table and then searching the child as the parent code to see if any data exists, add to the temp table and then search again, but I'm not sure if a loop can do this and if it can how to identify which parents/childs have already been searched.  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks

A: You can use a recursive CTE:
WITH Tree AS (
    SELECT
        Orders.ChildId,
        Orders.ParentId,
        1 AS [Depth],
        CAST(Orders.ParentId + '|' +  Orders.ChildId AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) [Path],
        Orders.Orders
    FROM    Orders
    WHERE   Orders.ParentId = 'A1'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT
        Orders.ChildId,
        Orders.ParentId,
        Tree.[Depth] + 1 [Depth],
        Tree.[Path] + '|' + Orders.ChildId [Path],
        Orders.Orders
    FROM        Tree
    INNER JOIN  Orders
    ON          Orders.ParentId = Tree.ChildId
    WHERE       '|' + Tree.[Path] + '|' NOT LIKE '%|' + Orders.ChildId + '|%'
    AND         Orders.ChildId <> Orders.ParentId
)
SELECT  ParentId, ChildId, Orders
FROM    Tree

This has loop detection built in which is why it's also adding a path and checking it.  Otherwise it could run forever if your data has parental loops in it.

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March 2017 cover of National Geographic
Susan Goldberg[1]
Geography, History, Nature, Science
Total circulation
6.1 million (global)[2]
September 22, 1888; 132 years ago (1888-09-22)[3]
NG Media
(National Geographic Partners/
Disney Publishing Worldwide)
Washington, D.C.[4]
English and various other languages
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National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is the long-lived official monthly magazine of the National Geographic Society. It is one of the most widely read magazines of all time.
1.2 Historical overview
1.3 Current popularity and reach
3 Editors-in-chief
5.1 Gallery
6 Map supplements
7 Language editions
9 Controversies
Overview[edit]
Format[edit]
Topics of features generally concern science, geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is well known for its distinctive appearance: a thick square-bound glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its use of dramatic photography. The magazine is published monthly. Additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. It is available in a traditional printed edition and through an interactive online edition.
Historical overview[edit]
National Geographic been published continuously since 1888, nine months after the foundation of the Society itself. Since 2019, controlling interest in the magazine has been held by The Walt Disney Company.
Current popularity and reach[edit]
As of 2015, the magazine was circulated worldwide in nearly 40 local-language editions and had a global circulation of approximately 6.5 million per month according to data published by The Washington Post (down from about 12 million in the late 1980s) or 6.7 million according to National Geographic. This includes a US circulation of 3.5 million.[5][6] As of 2020, its Instagram page has more followers than any account not belonging to an individual celebrity.[7]
The current Editor-in-Chief of the magazine is Susan Goldberg.[1] Goldberg is also Editorial Director for National Geographic Partners, overseeing the print and digital expression of National Geographic's editorial content across its media platforms including National Geographic magazine. She is responsible for the news, National Geographic Traveler magazine, National Geographic History magazine, and maps. She is also responsible for all the editorial digital content with the exception of National Geographic Books and Kids. Goldberg reports to Gary Knell, CEO of National Geographic Partners.[citation needed]
January 1915 cover of The National Geographic Magazine
The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. It was initially a scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members and currently it reaches the hands of 40 million people each month.[8] Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900–01, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. The June 1985 cover portrait of the presumed to be 12-year-old Afghan girl Sharbat Gula, shot by photographer Steve McCurry, became one of the magazine's most recognizable images.[citation needed]
National Geographic Kids, the children's version of the magazine, was launched in 1975 under the name National Geographic World.
In the late 1990s, the magazine began publishing The Complete National Geographic, a digital collection of every past issue of the magazine. It was then sued over copyright of the magazine as a collective work in Greenberg v. National Geographic and other cases, and temporarily withdrew the availability of the compilation. The magazine would prevail in the dispute, and in July 2009, resumed republishing containing all past issues through December 2008. The collection was later updated to make more recent issues available, and the archive and digital edition of the magazine are available online to the magazine's subscribers.[citation needed]
In September 2015, the National Geographic Society moved the magazine to a new partnership, National Geographic Partners, in which 21st Century Fox held a 73% controlling interest.[9]
In December 2017, Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, including the latter's interest in National Geographic Partners.[10] NG Media publishing unit was operationally transferred into Disney Publishing Worldwide.[11]
Editors-in-chief[edit]
The magazine had a single "editor" from 1888–1920. From 1920–1967, the chief editorship was held by the president of the National Geographic Society. Since 1967, the magazine has been overseen by its own "editor" and/or "editor-in-chief". The list of editors-in-chief includes three generations of the Grosvenor family between 1903 and 1980.
John Hyde: (October 1888 – September 1900; Editor-in-Chief: September 1900 – February 1903)[citation needed]
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875–1966): (Editor-in-Chief: February 1903 – January 1920; Managing Editor: September 1900 – February 1903; Assistant Editor: May 1899 – September 1900)
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor: (1920–1954) (president of the society and editor-in-chief at the same time)
John Oliver La Gorce (1879–1959): (May 1954 – January 1957) (president of the society at the same time)
Melville Bell Grosvenor (1901–1982): (January 1957 – August 1967) (president of the society at the same time) (thereafter editor-in-chief to 1977)
Frederick Vosburgh (1905–2005): (August 1967 – October 1970)
Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (1931– ): (October 1970 – July 1980) (then became president of the society)
Wilbur E. Garrett: (July 1980 – April 1990)
William Graves: (April 1990 – December 1994)
William L. Allen: (January 1995 – January 2005)
Chris Johns: (January 2005 – April 2014) (first "editor-in-chief" since MBG)
Susan Goldberg: (April 2014 – present)[1][12][13]
Articles[edit]
During the Cold War, the magazine committed itself to presenting a balanced view of the physical and human geography of nations beyond the Iron Curtain. The magazine printed articles on Berlin, de-occupied Austria, the Soviet Union, and Communist China that deliberately downplayed politics to focus on culture. In its coverage of the Space Race, National Geographic focused on the scientific achievement while largely avoiding reference to the race's connection to nuclear arms buildup. There were also many articles in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s about the individual states and their resources, along with supplement maps of each state. Many of these articles were written by longtime staff such as Frederick Simpich.[14] There were also articles about biology and science topics.[citation needed]
In later years[when?], articles became outspoken on issues such as environmental issues, deforestation, chemical pollution, global warming, and endangered species.[citation needed] Series of articles were included focusing on the history and varied uses of specific products such as a single metal, gem, food crop, or agricultural product, or an archaeological discovery. Occasionally an entire month's issue would be devoted to a single country, past civilization, a natural resource whose future is endangered, or other theme. In recent decades, the National Geographic Society has unveiled other magazines with different focuses. Whereas in the past, the magazine featured lengthy expositions, recent issues have shorter articles.[citation needed]
Photography[edit]
Color photograph of the Taj Mahal. Source: The National Geographic Magazine, March 1921
In addition to being well known for articles about scenery, history, and the most distant corners of the world, the magazine has been recognized for its book-like quality and its standard of photography. It was during the tenure of Society President Alexander Graham Bell and editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor (GHG) that the significance of illustration was first emphasized, in spite of criticism from some of the Board of Managers who considered the many illustrations an indicator of an "unscientific" conception of geography. By 1910, photographs had become the magazine's trademark and Grosvenor was constantly on the search for "dynamical pictures" as Graham Bell called them, particularly those that provided a sense of motion in a still image. In 1915, GHG began building the group of staff photographers and providing them with advanced tools including the latest darkroom.[15]
The magazine began to feature some pages of color photography in the early 1930s, when this technology was still in its early development. During the mid-1930s, Luis Marden (1913–2003), a writer and photographer for National Geographic, convinced the magazine to allow its photographers to use the so-called "miniature" 35 mm Leica cameras loaded with Kodachrome film over bulkier cameras with heavy glass plates that required the use of tripods.[16] In 1959, the magazine started publishing small photographs on its covers, later becoming larger photographs. National Geographic photography quickly shifted to digital photography for both its printed magazine and its website. In subsequent years, the cover, while keeping its yellow border, shed its oak leaf trim and bare table of contents, to allow for a full page photograph taken for one of the month's articles. Issues of National Geographic are often kept by subscribers for years and re-sold at thrift stores as collectibles. The standard for photography has remained high over the subsequent decades and the magazine is still illustrated with some of the highest-quality photojournalism in the world.[17] In 2006, National Geographic began an international photography competition, with over eighteen countries participating.[18]
In conservative Muslim countries like Iran and Malaysia, photographs featuring topless or scantily clad members of primitive tribal societies are often blacked out; buyers and subscribers often complain that this practice decreases the artistic value of the photographs for which National Geographic is world-renowned.[citation needed]
Srirangam Temple, India (National Geographic Magazine November 1909)
Pyramid of the Niches, El Tajín (National Geographic Magazine February 1913)
Traditional butter making in Palestine (National Geographic Magazine March 1914)
Spanish Gypsy (National Geographic Magazine March 1917)
Kathmandu Market (National Geographic Magazine October 1920)
Bulgarian Muslims from Rhodopes (National Geographic Magazine October 1932)
Map supplements[edit]
Supplementing the articles, the magazine sometimes provides maps of the regions visited.[citation needed]
National Geographic Maps (originally the Cartographic Division) became a division of the National Geographic Society in 1915. The first supplement map, which appeared in the May 1918 issue of the magazine, titled The Western Theatre of War, served as a reference for overseas military personnel and soldiers' families alike.[19] On some occasions, the Society's map archives have been used by the United States government in instances where its own cartographic resources were limited.[20] President Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House map room was filled with National Geographic maps. A National Geographic map of Europe is featured in the displays of the Winston Churchill museum in London showing Churchill's markings at the Yalta Conference where the Allied leaders divided post-war Europe.[citation needed]
In 2001, National Geographic released an eight-CD-ROM set containing all its maps from 1888 to December 2000. Printed versions are also available from the National Geographic website.[21]
Language editions[edit]
First Ukrainian National Geographic magazine presentation
National Geographic English editions collection
In April 1995, National Geographic began publishing in Japanese, its first local language edition.[22] The magazine is currently published in 35 local editions around the world.
English (United States) ngm.com Susan Goldberg October 1888
Arabic (United Arab Emirates) ngalarabiya.com Alsaad Omar Almenhaly October 2010
Bulgarian nationalgeographic.bg Krassimir Drumev November 2005
Chinese (Chinese mainland) nationalgeographic.com.cn Bin Wang July 2007
Chinese (Taiwan) ngtaiwan.com Yungshih Lee January 2001
Croatian nationalgeographic.com.hr Hrvoje Prćić November 2003
Czech national-geographic.cz Kateřina Fejková October 2002
Danish natgeo.dk Karen Gunn September 2000
Dutch (Netherlands/Belgium) nationalgeographic.nl Arno Kantelberg October 2000
English (India) nat-geo.in Niloufer Venkatraman
Estonian nationalgeographic.ee Erkki Peetsalu October 2011
Finnish natgeo.fi Karen Gunn January 2001
French nationalgeographic.fr Jean-Pierre Vrignaud October 1999
Georgian nationalgeographic.ge Natia Khuluzauri October 2012
German nationalgeographic.de Florian Gless October 1999
Hungarian ng.hu Tamás Vitray March 2003
Hebrew nationalgeographic.co.il Daphne Raz June 1998
Hebrew (Orthodox) April 2007
Indonesian nationalgeographic.co.id Didi Kaspi Kasim April 2005
Italian nationalgeographic.it Marco Cattaneo February 1998
Japanese nationalgeographic.jp Shigeo Otsuka April 1995
Kazakh nationalgeographic.kz Yerkin Zhakipov February 2016
Korean (South Korea) nationalgeographic.co.kr Junemo Kim January 2000
Lithuanian nationalgeographic.lt Frederikas Jansonas October 2009
Norwegian natgeo.no Karen Gunn September 2000
Polish nationalgeographic.pl Agnieszka Franus October 1999
Portuguese (Portugal) nationalgeographic.pt Gonçalo Pereira April 2001
Romanian natgeo.ro Cătălin Gruia May 2003
Russian nat-geo.ru Alexander Grek October 2003
Serbian nationalgeographic.rs Igor Rill November 2006
Slovene nationalgeographic.si Marija Javornik April 2006
Spanish (Latin America) ngenespanol.com Claudia Muzzi Turullols November 1997
Spanish (Spain) nationalgeographic.com.es Josep Cabello October 1997
Swedish natgeo.se Karen Gunn September 2000
Thai ngthai.com Kowit Phadungruangkij August 2001
Turkish nationalgeographic.com.tr Nesibe Bat May 2001
The following local-language editions have been discontinued:
Mongolian nationalgeographic.mn October 2012 June 2014 21
Greek nationalgeographic.gr October 1998 December 2014 194
Ukrainian April 2013 January 2015 21
Azerbaijani nationalgeographic.az September 2014 December 2015 16
Latvian nationalgeographic.lv October 2012 March 2016 42
Farsi (Iran) www.ngmfarsi.com October 2012 September 2018 69
Portuguese (Brazil) nationalgeographicbrasil.com May 2000 November 2019 235
In association with Trends Publications in Beijing and IDG Asia, National Geographic has been authorized for "copyright cooperation" in China to publish the yellow border magazine, which launched with the July 2007 issue of the magazine with an event in Beijing on July 10, 2007 and another event on December 6, 2007 in Beijing also celebrating the 29th anniversary of normalization of U.S.–China relations featuring former President Jimmy Carter. The mainland China version is one of the two local-language editions that bump the National Geographic logo off its header in favor of a local-language logo; the other one is the Persian version published under the name Gita Nama.[citation needed]
Worldwide editions are sold on newsstands in addition to regular subscriptions. In several countries, such as Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey and Ukraine National Geographic paved the way for a subscription model in addition to traditional newsstand sales.[citation needed]In the United States, newsstand sales began in 1998; previously, membership in the National Geographic Society was the only way to receive the magazine.[citation needed]
Awards[edit]
On May 1, 2008, National Geographic won three National Magazine Awards—an award solely for its written content—in the reporting category for an article by Peter Hessler on the Chinese economy; an award in the photojournalism category for work by John Stanmeyer on malaria in the Third World; and a prestigious award for general excellence.[23]
Between 1980 and 2011 the magazine has won a total of 24 National Magazine Awards.[24]
In May 2006, 2007, and 2011 National Geographic magazine won the American Society of Magazine Editors' General Excellence Award in the over two million circulation category. In 2010, National Geographic Magazine received the top ASME awards for photojournalism and essay. In 2011, National Geographic Magazine received the top-award from ASME—the Magazine of the Year Award.
In April 2014, National Geographic received the National Magazine Award ("Ellie") for best tablet edition for its multimedia presentation of Robert Draper's story "The Last Chase," about the final days of a tornado researcher who was killed in the line of duty.[25]
In February 2017, National Geographic received the National Magazine Award ("Ellie") for best website.[26] National Geographic won the 2020 Webby Award for News & Magazines in the category Apps, Mobile & Voice.[27] National Geographic won the 2020 Webby Award and Webby People's Voice Award for Magazine in the category Web.[27]
Controversies[edit]
On the magazine's February 1982 cover, the pyramids of Giza were altered, resulting in the first major scandal of the digital photography age and contributing to photography's "waning credibility".[28]
The cover of the October 1988 issue featured a photo of a large ivory male portrait whose authenticity, particularly the alleged Ice Age provenance, has been questioned.[29]
In 1999, the magazine was embroiled in the Archaeoraptor scandal, in which it purported to have a fossil linking birds to dinosaurs. The fossil was a forgery.[citation needed]
In 2010, the magazine's Your Shot competition was awarded to William Lascelles for a photograph presented as a portrait of a dog with fighter jets flying over its shoulder. Lascelles had, in reality, created the image using photo editing software.[30]
In March 2018, the editor of National Geographic, Susan Goldberg said that historically the magazine's coverage of people around the world had been racist. Goldberg stated that the magazine ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic, thereby promoting racial clichés.[31]
On May 31, 2020, a Content ID bot filed a false copyright claim on YouTube on behalf of National Geographic against a public domain NASA video of the launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission which was also distributed by National Geographic on YouTube. The video was restored the following day on June 1.[32]
Asian Geographic
Canadian Geographic and Géographica in Canada
Chinese National Geography (founded in 1949)
Chris Johns (photographer), staff photographer and subsequently, editor-in-chief (2005–2014) of the magazine
GEO, Germany
Joel Sartore staff photographer, head of The Photo Ark project
John Patric, noted writer for National Geographic during the 1930s and 1940s
Vokrug sveta (Russian: Around the World)
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^ Celebrating 125 years
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^ "Named The Best Travel Photos Of The Year, And They Are Stunning". Digg.com. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
^ "Maps of the News – December 2009 Edition", Contours, The Official National Geographic Maps Blog, posted December 17, 2009,
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Stephanie L. Hawkins, American Iconographic: "National Geographic," Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination, University of Virginia Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8139-2966-8, 264 pages. A scholarly study of the magazine's rise as a cultural institution that uses the letters of its founders and its readers; argues that National Geographic encouraged readers to question Western values and identify with others.
Moseley, W.G. 2005. "Reflecting on National Geographic Magazine and Academic Geography: The September 2005 Special Issue on Africa" African Geographical Review. 24: 93–100.
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