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AMANDA PLUMMER ACTS DIFFERENTLY
Amanda Plummer is not the girl next door -- unless, that is, you live on Mars. It's not that she's a space cadet. She's just unlike any
other actress you've met. She came out of nowhere less than five years ago and burst onto the stage and screen -- not just a
promising lump of flesh begging to be noticed in small roles, but a full-blown actress with imagination and mannerisms of her own.
Her professional debut as a wizened fourteen year old farm girl in an off-Broadway play called Artichoke earned her raves that
have been echoed ever since. One critic called her "charming," while another said, "She quivers, her voice is a nasal squeak, her
stare is glittery and hypnotic, and her upper lip moves in perpetual rumination." That performance even earned her the honor of
being singled out for attack by critic John Simon, who said she was like "Shirley Temple doing Boris Karloff." Plummer broke into
movies as the star of the offbeat western Cattle Annie and Little Britches, which prompted Pauline Kael to write, "The only other
actress I've seen make a movie debut this excitingly, weirdly lyric was Katharine Hepburn."
Dorothy Parker once said of Katharine Hepburn, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B," and one could similarly characterize the range of roles Amanda Plummer has thus far essayed. There was Vera, the high strung teenage orphan in A Month in the Country; Frankie, the teenage ugly duckling in The Member of the Wedding; Jo, the pregnant teenager abandoned by her mother in A Taste of Honey; Ellen James, the teenage orphan who has her tongue cut out by rapists in the movie The World According to Garp. Get the picture? If it were anyone else playing such an unbroken succession of orphans and eccentrics, the world would be sick and tired of her. They would be clamoring for Boris Karloff to eat this pathetic little Shirley Temple.
But Amanda Plummer is no doe-eyed simp, no professional victim. She's, how you say, special. She won a Tony Award on Broadway for Agnes of God, a poor play but one that she made riveting with her performance as an emotionally disturbed nun who kills her baby.
Possibly her most spectacular performance yet is in Sidney Lumet's new movie, Daniel, in which she and Timothy Hutton play characters based on the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Before our eyes, she degenerates from an Ivy League revolutionary proud of her police-inflicted battle scars to an institutionized Thorazine receptacle, burned up by her own anger, her past, her sense of social injustice. Plummer acts -- no, lays herself bare -- with an animalistic intensity, an alien vitality that's enough to make anyone wonder, "Where is this girl coming from?"
Technically speaking, Amanda Plummer came from the brief marriage of two flamboyant actors, Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. To some people, that explains everything. Hamlet meets the Unsinkable Molly Brown. No wonder their daughter is funny and flighty, grave and giggly; solemn and spooky; it's all in the genes. Or is it? It's true that Amanda inherited her father's aquiline profile along with his last name, and that she has her mother's eccentric voice; she chews her vowels and swallows her consonanats in a high-pitched, squawky slur. But there's more to Amanda Plummer; anyone who's seen her perform can tell she's got a whole secret life going on inside her head. And no matter what kind of frail creature she's playing, her secret makes her
strong.
But the secretiveness that makes her so provocative onstage can make her appearances in real life strange. Plummer shows up
for interview looking like something from Loon Lake, barefoot and bedraggled, with a boy she met on the beach whose name she
can't remember. "This is ...I forget your name," she says to the sullen youth, who sticks out his paw and mumbles, "Matt." Plummer is wearing her bathing suit under what looks like a rumpled nightgown. Her short, reddish-brown hair is tucked into a purple headband. She's carrying a pair of baby-blue shoes, and she tows her handbag along the ground like a bobsled.
"How you doon?" she says, tilting her head to one side like a nervous crow and crooning in a voice eerily reminischent of beatnik girls and die-hard Method actors. Al Pacino meets Rickie Lee Jones. In the car, she runs her toes through the plush carpeting and talks about her cat, Isadora, who tore up the apartment she was staying in, forcing her to move. When we get to the restaurant she's chosen for lunch, she lags behind, humming to herself and dragging her feet like a bored child. Where is this girl coming from?
Although she's twenty-six, you'd never accuse Amanda Plummer of being an adult . She giggles and gets ahead of herself when she speaks, babbles and backtracks. Ask her a question and sometimes she goes into herself looking for an answer, a word, a feeling, that you wonder if she'll ever come back. And then, sometimes, a surprisingly sophisticated response will come off the top of her head. When she's not tuned in to another planet, she seems so defenseless that, as one person after another will testify, you just want to throw your arms around her. Meet Amanda Plummer, space puppy.
"Because you are an actor's daughter or son, it's assumed that you're terribly unhappy because they were working and not around," she says. "But I had a fascinating childhood."
We're sitting in Fairfield's a suburban San Diego bar and grill with loud cha-cha Muzak, where actors from the nearby La Jolla Playhouse repair after the show to discuss how well the audience performed that night. Plummer orders cheesecake for lunch, between Cokes and cigarettes. She has the day off from rehearsing the lead in Romeo and Juliet, a part she craved since she was nine.
"My parents stuffed me with poetry and music and beauty." she continues. "Mum...Mum's a great lady. And Dad, who didn't spend much time with me when I was growing up. The way I saw him was on stage and screen." She doesn't mean it to sound so pitiful. "It's not a sob story, that's just the way it was. I love my father so fuckin' much. I didn't know what to do with all the love I have for him. We get together now, and we have a great time."
That doesn't mean she wasn't a weird kid. Left alone with her mother when her father asked for a divorce, left alone with nannies when her mother went on tour, left alone with her imagination when nannies came and went, she retreated into her own private world.
"I was a morbid child, obsessed with blood and darkness," Plummer says pleasantly, like some Victorian great-aunt recalling a favorite niece. "I didn't like being Amanda Plummer. I never liked being Amanda Plummer, not since I was so big", she says (well, our suspicions have been confirmed), nibbling cheesecake while a chintzy version of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La Da" blares from the bar. "I was always being characters, ever since I was in first grade. I would make up a characters that would last a whole year, and I would go to school as him or her or it. I had some that were its. When I was a kid, it was easier to be animals. The psychology wasn't quite there -- it was more like kill or be eaten. You know, stalk, fight, play. Being an animal had its hierarchy, too. The highest was a cheetah. She's the sleekest, and she can run the fastest. When I was feeling my best, then I was worthy to be a cheetah. Lions were for when I was very lazy. After I ate, I usually was a lion."
She pushes her plate aside and lights a Parliament. "But as I got older, it got into boy stuff," she says. "First, I started with people in movies, like To Kill a Mockingbird. I saw that when I was thirteen. I was Jem -- Jem Finch. You know, Gregory Peck's character's son. And my girlfriend Leslie was Scout. We would go to school as these people and think and act and walk like them. Then I started inventing my own characters and keeping diaries of the people I was. I still have some of them, and they're really weird."
Plummer laughs all of a sudden and her low, lusty chuckle comes as a shock. You forget she's a twenty-six-year-old woman who's been around the block a couple of times. It must be because she's so skinny and wide-eyed, and so, ah, in touch with her childhood
fantasies.
"When I was fifteen, I hadda be somebody I hated, 'cause I really hated myself at fifteen," she continues. I hadda be Asenath
Baleland. Asenath was awful, and she wrote tiny. She wrote, you know, that tiny little perfect kind of writing, flowery and ...oh she
was a pain in the ass." She sighs, "But -- I had to be her. You know that time when you're going through sexual realizations, and
they're not that comfortable? She embodied that totally. Characters that I would be were what I was going through a lot of times."
She puffs on her cigarette. "I don't really know how to explain it," she says in her baby voice, stubbing out the butt. "See, I wanted to belong in a boy's world very badly, ever since I was a kid. I loved playing with boys. I was considered a different kind of girl because they could talk to me and fight with me on their level. But, on a girl level I was so introverted, I'd race through the halls. I had crushes all the time, but I was too shy. I found a happy medium -- that I am a boy and I am a girl. You're everything, so it's okay. Asenath eventually passed, and I worked my way up to Thomason Harboard boy-girl."
Boy-girl in what way? "She was very free, she was a free person," Plummer says, as if she's talking about a sister or a cousin instead of an imaginary version of herself. "I was a slob, and I didn't wear colors. I wore brown and black, or dark blue. Yeah, it was sort of mystical. I was very interested in going back and forth in time. And the body was always something that kept me confined. Amberstwyth was, like, the ultimate leaving of the body."
Uh, Amberstwyth? "She would fly! She was the rain, she was the sky, she was anything she wanted to be. That was the hardest one. I failed all the time, and I went into a depression because of it. When I couldn't be her, all of the sudden I had to be Amanda, 'cause she was the highest of highs, and I couldn't go backward. It was the height of my wanting to leave this time. I'd do things to kind of click me out of time, so that I'd end up somewhere else. I would brush my teeth, wash my face, go to the bathroom all in different orders every morning. If I caught the right order on the right day, I would disappear. This is serious. This is weird!"
She does that strange, throaty laugh again. "I was seventeen -- rather old to be doing things like this," she says. "It's funny now; it
wasn't funny at the time." No kidding. These characters sound cute and exotic -- definitely not girl-next-door type stuff. But imagine
how lonely it must be to tour the ozone by yourself, and how painful to return to earth.
"When I was in high school, I was goin' through a very unhappy time. I was depressed. Most kids are, aren't they? An' I'd go, 'What am I gonna do with my life?'" Plummer reaches for another cigarette. "It was hard, because I didn't know what to do. I didn't have friends, except for Leslie. And I had a very hard time in the world. I still do. I'm working now, so I have someplace to put it all. I didn't then. I'd go home and go into crying fits because I saw a fur, a mink coat in a window. I couldn't stand killing animals. I would follow women who wore leopard-skin coats down the streets. I would follow them and swear at them. They'd walk faster and faster. It was, like, crazy, you know? I couldn't deal with it. Everyone seemed murderous to me. I think I identified a great deal with animals. I felt very victimized."
Gust of cigarette smoke. "It's complicated stuff. I just got very unhappy. I didn't know what to do. How am I gonna live? Can I
live? Can I live in this world? How can I be a part of this world? Do I wanna be a part of this world?"
Things got really bad during her senior year in high school. She skipped school for a whole month. She refused to answer the telephone. She tried her damnedest to click herself out of time, to be Amberstwyth, the highest of highs. She was on the verge of flipping out. She couldn't contain her sensitivity and imagination any longer. She had to find a way to let it all out before it destroyed her. She couldn't be Asenath or Thomason or the rain or the sky anymore. She had to be herself. She had to be an actor. She went to Middlebury College in Vermont and tried out for plays. Wouldn't you know it? The first part she got was the one for which her mother won a Tony Award -- the character in Noel Coward's Private Lives that she had been named after.
Finally, for the first time, she was Amanda. Where was this girl coming from?
Born in a trunk isn't far wrong. Her first home was on Bank Street in Greenwich Village, actually, but when she was barely out of diapers, before she was already appearing on Broadway, as the baby in the boat in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, the long-running musical that made Tammy Grimes a star. And she played nonspeaking roles on tour with her mother in Finian's Rainbow and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She grew up fast.
"Backstage isn't a child's world," says Grimes over the phone in her trademark brandy-for-breakfast whisper. "You have to be quiet and professional, and everyone has a job. A mother can't be a mother, because you've got this work to do. A child is an outsider, a guest."
Grimes tries not to sound defensive about being a working mother with divided attentions. When she had Amanda, she was only twenty- three, a shy girl for a rich Boston family and shocked at sudden stardom and equally swift parenthood. So don't think ill of her for bringing up baby Amanda as an outsider in that quiet world halfway between art and life. Sitting on the sidelines in darkened theaters taught the child about silence and observation. Watching her mother plan her days around those three hours onstage each night taught her about discipline and instilled in her the routine of performance. You have to be worthy of the role, whether you're Molly Brown or Amanda.
Or a cheetah. Did Amanda ever discuss the characters she invented?
"There was a whole world going on in her room. All over the wall were directions, like 'Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins won't be home for tea' or 'Go to the North Pole and turn right.' I never asked. A kid has lots of secrets."
In fact, Amanda's desire to act came as a surprise. As a child, she was so obsessed with animals, especially horses, that it was assumed she would be a veterinarian or a jockey. "She was a beautiful writer, though," her mother recalls. She reads Amanda's inscription on a book called Poems That have Missed Their Mark, which Amanda gave her for Christmas years ago. "I hope I've rid myself of improvised crap- onward to preciseness."
Grimes begins to read from her daughter's own poetry -- romantic verses surprisingly dense with Shakespearean imagery for a ten-
year old- and she becomes increasingly emotional. "I had the strength for my work and for her," the actress confesses, breaking off her recitation. "Because I could never get a marriage to work, she's the most important emotional relationship I have." She returns to the book of poems, reading only snatches now. "Please Mommy, never be sorry that you miss me so...My mother's beautiful eyes...I love you so...My mother..."
Grimes begins to weep softly. "Sorry." Sniffling, "Guess I'm not sorry." This must be what it's like to have an actress for a mother. She's forgotten who she's talking to. "Now your weepy mother is gonna sign off, Amanda, I miss you."
"I never wanted to go into the the theater," Amanda Plummer says. "I never even liked actors. They seemed to be very loud and very theatrical, and I didn't believe anything they said. Give an actor a drink and...." She giggles, "I thought they were all liars."
After lunch, Plummer says she needs to pick up some things at the drugstore, so we walk across the parking lot to the shopping mall. She's still barefoot. She likes the feel of hot pavement.
"George C. Scott was real. I liked him," she reminisces. "He wasn't ever patronizing to a child. Beatrice Lillie spent a lot of time with me. She loved to play with balloons, letting them go. And Gregory Peck! I met him one time in his swimming trunks. He put me on his back and dove into the pool and played whale with me. I was just a little girl, but"- she leans in close and speaks in a low gruff voice- "I was aware of what was in his swimming trunks!" She laughs and runs off to buy Tampax and Clearasil.
Watching this strange bird tiptoe across the cold floor of the drugstore, singing to herself and rummaging through her purse, where
twenty- and fifty-dollar bills are flying around loose, I wonder what Freud would have to say about Amanda Plummer. That she refused to be a Plummer when she was growing up because she was mad at her daddy for leaving her? That she resisted her mother's lifestyle and profession? Actors can be amazingly blatant about the emotional needs that drive them to exhibit themselves in front of an audience. And the way Plummer talks about roles, she's played betrays a transparent identification with the characters.
"Romeo and Juliet taps into the most insecure part of me -- to actually be loved, to open yourself up that much! I mean, I'm not
loved onstage. I'm usually abandoned or tortured. You become very strong and decide, 'I don't need anybody.' But you have to
accept people. That's what happened with Jo in A Taste of Honey. She had to breathe in a little and understand and accept her
mother."
But great acting defies analysis, Freudian or otherwise. Whatever the secret ingredient is that makes acting more than an imitation of life, whatever it is that translates childhood bruises into universal truth. Wherever this girl is coming from. I can't wait to see where she's going.
The next day, Plummer is rehearsing a soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet. The rest of the cast has gone home, and she's working alone with director Des Mcanuff, a young playwright and rock musician who is also one of the most talented directors in America. It's an indication of Plummer's canny instincts that she turned down an offer to play Juliet on Broadway in order to try out the role at the brand-new theater in La Jolla, where McAnuff is the artistic director.
"She's phenomenal," McAnuff whispers in my ear, like a man who's won the lottery and doesn't want anyone to hit him up for a loan. "She's the most emotionally free actor I've ever worked with. She seems so young, you believe that her Juliet is fourteen -- yet she's also very practical and direct. There's so much emotion there!" He shrugs. "She just blows me away."
The speech they're working on is the one that begins, "Gallop apace you fiery-footed steeds..." Juliet is waiting for the night to fall so newlywed Romeo can show her what's in his swimming trunks. Plummer does the speech four or five times, stopping and starting, correcting herself, toying with inflections, giving completely different line readings, not discarding them because they're wrong, but moving through them, trying them on for size. From her fantasies as a child, she's apparently learned to be completely oblivious to the reality around her so she really seems to be talking to herself yet at the same time extravagantly physicalizing her inner thoughts.
"With Amanda, it goes past acting. It comes from some secret place beyond being an actor," says Daniel director Sidney Lumet, who compares Plummer to the young Marlon Brando. "She's got a wellspring of talent that's unfathomable." He speaks of his favorite moment of Plummer's performance in the movie -- the scene in the hospital where she tells Timothy Hutton, "I feel like something's torn..." and then, her eyes flashing, mind drifting, she forgets who she is or what she's saying. In that instant of falling apart, she embodies everything the movie means to convey about the burden of heredity and the price of political idealism. Says Lumet, "You don't get acting any better than that."
Other directors and stars who have worked with Plummer offer similarly high praise, but she is not so easily pleased. Much as she liked working with the director and cast of Daniel, she isn't satisfied with her performance. "I think I overacted, damn it," she grumbles. "It seemed all right at the time."
Even some of her admirers object to Plummer's work in Daniel -- they've had enough of her wounded-creature act. A Vogue editor
hisses, "I wish she'd play someone healthy." A well-known director feels the same way about her decision to play Laura, the
crippled young dreamer, in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie: "You could call her up
at four in the morning and she could do that part."
Plummer knows she needs a change of pace. That's exactly why, when Daniel debuts before American moviegoers, she'll be treading the boards in Southern California as Shakespeare's Juliet. A fourteen year-old suicide, it's true, but for once, a lover.
"Yeah." she says, "It's about time. I've been 'waifish' long enough. I'm lucky not to have a conventional face or a conventionally beautiful body, because the kind of roles I get are the most fascinating of any roles. But I'm dying to do the girl next door."
She peers up through her spiky hair with a crooked grin "I could make the girl next door pretty interesting."
Rolling Stone, October 13, 1983


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Q: How can I properly reference this config file so I'm not hard coding the path? Im trying to reference this config file that is in the same folder as the class that contains this code.  I'd like to do some type of relative reference to it, so I can use it from other places.  When I try using just the file name without the path, the application doesn't find the file. I debugged and the folder it seems to be looking in IIS folder which makes sense as Im using it in an IIS hosted wcf service.  Anyways, how I can properly reference this config file without hard coding the path? So it looks in the project location. Thanks for any help. Have a great weekend!
 public void Init()
    {
        var fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap { ExeConfigFilename = @"C:\workspace\new\UnityDemo-v1.0.0.1\src\Core\unity.config" };

        Configuration configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
        var unitySection = (UnityConfigurationSection)configuration.GetSection("unity");
        _container = new UnityContainer().LoadConfiguration(unitySection);
    }

Cheers,
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A: Use Application.StartupPath to get the path the application started in then simply combine with the filename to get the full path:
var filePath = Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "unity.config");
var fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap { ExeConfigFilename = filePath };

This will work only in winforms.

Another option is to use Environment.CurrentDirectory - by default it will be set to the process startup directory. Note that this property is mutable:
var filePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "unity.config");
var fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap { ExeConfigFilename = filePath };

A: Using config files with services hosted in IIS is tricky, because the application directory is the one IIS runs in and that will be heavily protected against placing any files there. There may be other ways but for me it works to name the file web.config  and copy it to the directory the .svc file resides in and then you can read the settings directly without having to reference the config file. I do not know of any way to do this copying from within the program itself. The installer will be able to do it though.
See: this question

A: Another option that worked for me in .NET is using Server.MapPath. This returns the full path of the given relative virtual path in the web application.
var filePath = Server.MapPath("/unity.config")

This physical file path can then be used to create the file map as above.

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What a bombshell. "Pope Resigns" is probably not a headline you ever thought you'd see. When I first heard, in a phone call at about 6:30 this morning, I literally had to shake my head to get the words understood. The announcement seemed jarring, out of the natural order of things: Popes don't resign, God takes them. A resignation seems worldly, like something that happens in the world, where people give you 30 days' notice and send a blast email saying they're moving on to newer opportunities.
I thought almost immediately of John Paul II in the final years of his illness. Asked why, in his suffering, he would not resign, he is reported to have said, "Christ did not come down from the cross." You accept your suffering and add it to the mystic chord of the world's.
Benedict is old, 86, and for 24 years, as John Paul's Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he was one of the few to see, up close and every day, the cost of John Paul's great courage and the price the Vatican as an institution was paying for the otherworldly endurance and grit of John Paul, whose last few years were one long goodbye, and whose ability to administrate was diminished as he became physically disabled. John Paul's illness, Parkinson's disease, was gradual, one of more or less steady, long-term decline. He could do the job until the last years. "Tell those American journalists the pope doesn't run the church with his feet," he had groused, half comically, to an American cardinal. Benedict's illness or illnesses on the other hand—we're not so sure about that, or those. And he is older than John Paul was when he died at 84.
Perhaps in Benedict's decision we are seeing not a witness to suffering but an act of self sacrifice and humility that in its own way too is other-worldly.
He had a hard act to follow in John Paul. Benedict was shy, an intellectual, a soft-spoken scholar, not a showman—there seemed not an ounce of the public actor in him. But all public figures in this age are called to act their roles. And John Paul was one gifted actor, full of zest and warmth. He had wanted for a time, when he was young, to be an actor and playwright. The world first met him, as pope, when he was only 58, and would always hold some of his youthfulness in its mental picture of him. Benedict was old when he came to the chair of Peter.
It is too early to say how his eight-year papacy will be seen by history and historians. He may come to be seen as a bridge between the 20th century and its men, and the 21st and its, between the last great long-serving pope and the next one. He was a writer and thinker attempting to lead in turbulent times. The scandals that grew under John Paul, who came from the heroic school of dissenter-priests, who'd himself bravely resisted the Nazis and the communists, and who probably couldn't believe priests would do such things as the crimes of which they were increasingly accused, had to be faced and addressed by Benedict. Maybe he hopes he took the burden on his back and, as he leaves, can bear it away.
We will be hearing a great deal of speculation the coming weeks. We should keep in mind that it doesn't matter all that much what insiders say about who might have an inside track. Nobody thought it would be Karol Wojtylwa in 1978, just as nobody thought his predecessor, John Paul I, would die 33 days into his papacy. Almost nobody thought Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—too old, too conservative—would succeed John Paul II in 2005.
People never know. It's always surprising now.
They ask if it will be a European, or a cardinal from one of the developing countries. They ask: Will the Italians make a comeback after the papacies of a Pole and a German?
But if you go at the question through a different lens, the great question becomes: Will the College of Cardinals throw the long ball or a shorter one? Will they pick a relatively young man of accomplishment, high energy, and an assumed long future—a 21st-century priest who will have time to put his imprint on the church and the age? Or will they choose an older man who, like Benedict, might have a more limited amount of time and, for that reason, seem be a safer, less decisive choice?
It would be electric if the next pope were an African.
Or young Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle from the Phillipines, or Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City.
It would be less electric but nonetheless stirring if he were our friendly neighbor to the oft-ignored north, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, formerly archbishop of Quebec.
But the papacy is not like the old American vice presidency, the choice doesn't hinge on geography. Nobody said, "How about a Pole?" before John Paul was chosen, and no one said, "A German is best," to argue for Cardinal Ratzinger.
Who is the most ardent, loving and truth-minded among us? Who, in that group, has been able to do things?
What is the mood of the cardinals as they begin to think and ponder? What assumptions do they hold about what the world most needs?
What specific and pressing need of the church—the re-evangelization of Europe and the West, growing tensions with Islam, the need to dramatically reach the world's young, the need to make the church new again, to have it understood as a revolutionary force again—is in their view predominant? And which cardinal's gifts, character, talents and history most closely match that need?
Do the Cardinals long for a certain stability? By March 31, Easter, we will have had three popes, including the new one, in eight years. If the cardinals long for stability, do they achieve that through the choice of a young man? Or will they in the end think no, a tried and true veteran might be the stablest choice in a charged and changing world?
What will the Holy Spirit do? In what direction will the Holy Spirit lead them? That is the most important question of all.
And nobody knows. But this decision: it will be momentous.


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« LIEUTENANT WILLIAM DAWES – 'THE ETERNAL FLAME' & 'UNIVERSAL TERROR'
'TERROR' – ARTHUR'S ALGORITHM – OPEN SESAME! »
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT- TAKE TWO – CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP RN & MAJOR ROBERT ROSS – MARINE COMMANDER
'From 1788 there had been continuous disputation between the civil power represented by the autocratic uniformed naval governors, and the military'. John McMahon, Not a Rum Rebellion but a Military Insurrection, Journal of Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 92, 2006
1788 – Sydney: The chain of command at Sydney was dysfunctional. For many reasons relations between Captain Arthur Phillip an officer of the Royal Navy and Marine Commander Major Robert Ross of the Royal Navy's military arm were toxic.
From the get-go Governor Phillip had no confidence in Major Ross holding him responsible for failure to procure reserve small armaments – musket balls.
Consequently, during the fleet's stop-over in Rio de Janeiro August to September 1787, Phillip was obliged to purchase 10,000 of them.
1787 – 13 October, Africa: At the Cape of Good Hope the fleet's reception played out the complete opposite to that experienced at Rio, Brazil (August-September 1787) where Phillip had lived previously while serving in the Portuguese Navy. See: Arthur Phillip – The Importance of Being Arthur
The Dutch colonial administration at Cape Town proved obstructive in the extreme and Phillip was initially held to ransom by traders who day-to-day withheld bread and other essentials until he agreed to meet their inflated prices.
Many tonnes of supplies were absolutely necessary for the expedition's future survival at New Holland. Yet Dr. John White, the fleet's chief medical officer, wrote; 'it must be lamented that the quantity fell very short of what we ought to have taken'. John White, First Fleet Journal.
Not only was quantity lacking, apart from hardy goats, most livestock intended for breeding – cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry – proved to be of poor quality, all fared badly on the long haul to Botany Bay.
Many sheep, fed dry fodder on the sixty-eight (68) day voyage from Cape Town, when turned out onto fresh grass at Sydney, developed acidosis and died.
Although Captain Phillip was most anxious to comply with Sir George Blane's dictum for health and safety, ships should be at sea no longer than forty-two (42) days, the lengthy negotiations meant the Fleet was held up at Cape Town far longer than anticipated.
Portsmouth to Tenerife – 13 May 1787 to 1 June, 19 days; Tenerife to Rio – 10 June to 6 August, 56 days, adverse weather forced Phillip abort a planned stop-over at St. Jago, Cape Verde; Rio to Cape Town – 4 September to 13 October 1787, 35 days. Cape Town to Botany Bay – 12 November 1787 to 20 January 1788, 68 days. See: Apollo II – Fly Me To The Moon
1787 – 12 November, Cape Town: New Holland was a long way off when the fleet sailed from Cape Town on 12 November 1787 and this caused Phillip reassess his strategy; 'a mere abortion' of a plan.
'Had he [Phillip] conceived the idea and put it into practice at leaving Rio de Janeiro it might have succeeded in some measure but as it was now produced [25 November 1787] it was a mere abortion of the Brain, a whim which struck him at the time as the sequel will sufficiently evince'. Bowes-Symth. ibid.
1787 – 25 November, at sea: What Phillip decided was, at the very least an extremely risky and complicated manoeuvre; he ordered the fleet split into two ( 2) divisions.
Not only was Phillip's order seen as fool-hardy many saw it a strategic error and Major Ross, who had not been consulted, regarded it a massive slight.
'I could not, I confess, but feel myself much hurt at His Excellency's not having given me the most distant hint of his intention prior to our quitting the Cape that I might have made some preparation for such an event and more particularly so as I found that it had been made known to others, as a proof of which I received my first intimation of his design from the mess of the Sirius's gun-room'. Major Robert Ross Despatch to Stephens, Secretary Navy, 10 July 1788, Historical Records of New South Wales.
Ross was outraged when ordered to transfer two (2) companies of marines in mid-ocean onto Scarborough and accompany them in the dash for New Holland.
Dissension between the two (2) men deepened and bitter antagonism between the two (2) arms of the naval service increased markedly.
Phillip transferred from HMS Sirius to HMS Supply taking Alexander, Friendship and Scarborough, fastest of the transports, and made for Botany Bay.
Arthur Bowes-Smyth surgeon on the second division Lady Penrhyn had a lot to say about most things and gives flavour to the marines' resentment.
'Since Commodore Phillip left us the remaining seven [7] ships of the fleet have kept better together as Captain Hunter who does not carry such a press of Sail as the Commodore used to'. Arthur Bowes First Fleet Journal, Australian Documents Library.
1788 – 18/20 January, Botany Bay: HMS Supply and the first division ships reached Botany Bay on 18 January 1788 followed closely by the remainder of the fleet. See: William Dawes & the Eternal Flame
The extremely rough voyage Cape Town to Botany Bay took sixty-eight (68) days, during which entire time water was rationed to three (3) pints per person per 24 hour period.
Botany Bay in January the weather was very hot and fresh water of primary concern. Within an hour of anchoring Supply's pinnace was lowered and a small party rowed to a stretch of fine sand where, having indicating their need for water, followed a group of local Aborigines led them a little way to 'a run of fresh water'.
Phillip however formed the opinion Botany Bay's water supply was not sufficient to sustain such a large number – 1500 souls – complement of the 'First Fleet'.
1788 – 20 January: At 6 am the following morning, 20 January, Governor Phillip set off in one (1) of three (3) long-boats to examine the adjacent country-side.
'Before he left us he directed me to land a certain number of men on the south side of the bay every morning to fell trees and form saw-pits, in order that the whole [of the convicts] might be set to work in erecting stores etc. in case he did not meet with a more promising situation'. Major Ross. ibid.
Although most convicts had dysentery and, many had not set foot on dry land for some years, Ross pushed sick exhausted men to the limit of endurance clearing ground and digging saw-pits. See: Three Amigos + One
'Several of the First Fleet [convicts] had been tried as early as 1781 and 1782. As seven [7] years transportation was the most common sentence, many had already served five-sevenths of their time on embarkation and six-sevenths on disembarkation at Sydney Cove. Dr John Cobley, Crimes of the First Fleet, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1982
1788 – 22 January, Port Jackson: Towards evening two (2) days later, 22nd January, Captain Phillip's party returned to Botany Bay with good news, the 'First Fleet' had found a home.
From fleet journals we can speculate some women convicts were confident Captain Phillip had found a town they sorted their clothes selecting the best to impress the locals.
Perhaps the town would be similar to Rio with its many churches, monasteries, markets, music and well-dressed women promenading in the cool evenings; or perhaps like Cape Town, rougher around the edges, but with busy regular intersecting streets, fine houses, coffee palaces and colourful market-stalls.
While no convicts had been allowed off their ships in either place, still in chaiins they were allowed on deck to exercise. From what they saw and, gleaned from marines who went ashore and those officers who took lodgings, there had been much to enjoy.
What Phillip had found at Port Jackson, nine (9) miles (14km) north of Botany Bay, was not a town but country that promised better soil for planting, a strong running stream would supply ample fresh water. A sheltered cove situated deep within the port offered safe anchorage; 'here a thousand Sail of the line [warships] may ride in the most perfect Security'.
Major Ross, seeing his own strenuous efforts come to nought, received Phillip's news with a mixture of anger, frustration and anticipation.
As the weather continued threatening, there would be time to prepare an orderly departure. Ships damaged on the voyage could be repaired before the short sail to Albion – Phillip's initial name for the permanent settlement at Sydney Cove.
Meantime Surgeon Bowes- Smyth, who regarded the 'Natives [as] altogether a most stupid insensible set' ventured into the bush and got himself lost.
'I lost myself & cd. not find my way back to the Wooding party, which threw me into no small panic least I shd. meet with any of the Natives before I cd. extricate myself from the Labrynth I had got into. At one time I was surrounded by fern (exactly the same as in England) on every side above my head'. Bowes-Smyth. ibid.
Men went fishing with trawling nets and it is here a picture emerges of what was to go so very wrong between the First Australians and the Englishmen who claimed for themselves 'the right' to everything 'as if [it was] their own'.
'No sooner were the fish out of the water than they [Aboriginals] began to lay hold of them, as if they had a right to them, or that they were their own'. Dr. John White. ibid.
1788 – 24 January, Botany Bay: Then at first light on the 24th came a huge shock. Out of the haze two (2) ships, first jubilation – supplies from England – then dismay they were not flying English colours. See: Abandoned and Left To Starve
'There would be 'some justification for the saying that England won Australia by six days'. Edward Jenks, The History of Australian Colonies cited in British Colonial Policy, Hugh E. Egerton, 1928.
Only Captain Phillip the spy knew for certain who they were. He had watched from the shadows as Comte Jean-Francois La Perouse led La Boussole and L'Astrolabe out of Brest Harbour in August 1785 sparking England's race for New Holland. See: Arthur Phillip The Spy Who Never Came In From The Cold
Phillip did not know if 'a state of war' existed between France and England thus making La Perouse's arrival extremely problematic for a Captain of the Royal Navy.
'He ordered a [marine] party to be sent Point Sutherland to hoist English colours. He also stipulated that the move to Port Jackson be kept secret, and that no one was to go on aboard the French ships'. John Moore, First Fleet Marines, Queensland University Press, 1987
1788 – 24 January: 'This evening Major Ross came on board us [Lady Penrhyn] and informed us that the governor was resolved at all Events to leave the Bay at daylight in the morning' [25 January]. Bowes-Smyth. ibid.
For Phillip in view of ambiguity – war – secrecy was paramount, it was imperative he erect 'English Colours' at Port Jackson before the French were aware of its existence.
'His failure to invite the French commander there [Port Jackson] reflect some fear fear that he might be known as a spy'. Alan Frost, Arthur Phillip His Voyaging, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987
1788 – 25 January: Leaving Major Ross to manage a sticky situation Phillip quit Botany Bay for Port Jackson aboard HMS Supply arriving just as night fell.
As for the other ten (10 vessels the same 'strong southerly current' that forced La Perouse sail south to seek shelter at Sutherland, made an orderly departure impossible. Three (3) attempts to leave the bay were foiled by high winds and opposing currents running across the bay's wide-open face. .
1788 – 26, January, Sydney Cove: At first light Phillip landed and Moore states; 'a firing party of marines lined up and fired a feu de jois, in between the volleys of which, toast were drunk to His Majesty King George III, the royal family, and success to the new colony'.
Captain Phillip raised the Union Jack from a hastily erected flagstaff to proclaim Britain's victory over France; 'raising the flag was one of the acts recognised as an assertion of a prior claim against other colonial powers eyeing off the same land'. Larissa Behrendt, The Honest History Book, 2017 See: Australia – Britain By A Short Half-Head
Phillip was aware La Perouse could have unseen sailed north from Sutherland to Sydney Cove and raised the French flag so he knew it was imperative 'to make sure the French did not make the claim first'. Behrendt. ibid.
1788 – 26 January: Not until morning of 26 January was the English fleet able to exit Botany Bay and then with great difficulty putting both lives and ships in peril.
'We were obliged to work out of the Bay wt. ye. utmost difficulty and danger wt. many a hairbreth (sic) escape…Charlotte was once in imminent danger of being on the Rocks. The Friendship & Prince of Wales…came foul of each other [as did] Friendship and Charlotte…it was wt. the greatest difficulty our ship [Lady Penrhyn] avoided the same fate'. Bowes-Smyth. ibid.
1788 – 26 January, Sydney: Bewildered Aborigines looked on as in adverse conditions these large unwieldy craft took to the open sea. Just on dark – '½ 6' – the ship succeeded in anchoring alongside HMS Supply.
'Everyone blaming the Rashness of the Governor on insisting upon the fleet working out in such weather, and all agreed it was next to a Miracle that some of the ships were not lost, the danger was so very great'. Bowes-Smyth. ibid.
1788 – 27/28 January, Sydney Cove: The following day dawned 'cloudy and windy' bruised battered marines and male convicts began disembarking into Sydney Cove and so began 'the downfall of its ancient inhabitants'.
'For the first time since creation, been interrupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquillity which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and towns, and 'the busy hum of its new possessors'. Marine Captain David Collins, Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1, Ed. Brian H. Fletcher, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1975
The 'new possessors' England's convicted criminals were again set the task of clearing a parade ground and erecting a landing stage so supplies could be unloaded without delay.
1788 – February 6, Sydney Cove: Very early on the morning of 6 February the women, all two hundred and twenty-two (222), were rowed ashore. Bowes-Smyth observed; 'some few among them might be sd. to be well dress'd'.
That night came a storm of monumental proportions. Torrential rain, deafening thunder, lightening split a tree setting it alight; a pig and seven (7) sheep with two (2) lambs tethered beneath it burnt to death.
'So vicious were these early storms that during the next night [7th] a sentry was blinded by lightening'. Lieutenant William Bradley RN, A Voyage to New South Wales, 1786-1792, New South Wales Public Library, cited Moore. ibid
The 'First Fleet' was overwhelmingly male 1300 men and 222 women. Amid the storm's chaos sailors, marines and seamen from the transports brought grog to the party; 'a Scene of Debauchery and Riot ensued during that night'. Bowes Smyth. ibid
1788 – 7 February: At 11 o'clock next morning the 'pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war' was played out as Governor Phillip took formal possession of New South Wales without consent of its Peoples.
'The detachment under arms and with colours flying and band playing forming a guard of honour to receive the Governor then marched past accompanied by the band which played several pieces "suited to the business"…the troops formed a circle around the convicts who were ordered to sit down.' Moore. ibid
Phillip was well aware in these 'new possessors' baddies vastly outnumbered the goodies
'The first month or two ashore would lay the foundations of that ethos in which group attitudes and relationship would develop, and in many ways the very early days would establish the real nature of the marine-convict relationship would be asserted'. Moore. ibid.
1788 – February 27,28,29: Governor Phillip 'la[id] the foundations' by stamping the ethos of hierarchy and authority on a dangerous and volatile situation. See: From Here to Eternity, Blind Man's Bluff, Catch 22
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Your dog may be the ultimate exercise partner. Think about it: dogs are always eager to spend more time with you, they have plenty of excess energy to burn, and temptation to skip a scheduled sweat session melts away when your furry friend stands at the front door, leash in mouth, ready to log a few miles with you.
Before you hit the pavement, though, you'll need to train your pooch to run with you. Here's how to make your run enjoyable and rewarding for both you and your best (furry) friend.
Just like humans, dogs need daily exercise for their health and happiness. And again, just like humans, American pets have a pudge problem: an estimated 52% of dogs are overweight or obese. Walking or running with your dog on a leash is one way to get you both moving more. Not all dogs are cut out to log multiple miles at once (more on that later), but many can learn to be great running partners. "Even if you think your dog is too hyper or too poorly behaved to jog alongside you, he may just need some training and some time to get used to it," says Angi Aramburu, owner of Go Fetch Run, a group exercise class for owners and their dogs in New York City.
Before you hit the road, consider your dog's health, build, and breed. Older pups may have joint problems that can slow them down or make running uncomfortable. Dogs with short legs may not be able to keep up with the pace you'd like to maintain, while larger breeds are prone to hip dysplasia, an abnormal formation of the hip socket that can lead to arthritis, says Arumburu. Then, if your furry friend is a chihuahua, bulldog, pug, or other snort-nosed, flat-faced breed (also known as brachycephalic), running may simply require too much exertion. Their squished faces are cute, but they tend to have narrowed nostrils and partially obstructed airways, which make breathing difficult when they work too hard.
If you aren't sure whether your dog's fit to run, check with your veterinarian. "A vet can let you know if there are any red flags, and can provide advice about what's safe and healthy for your individual dog in your individual surroundings," says Aramburu. Even if you're certain your pup will be fine, give your vet a heads up. The doc may recommend dietary adjustments to go along with the uptick in exercise, for example.
Running on hard surfaces can damage a puppy's joints and bones that haven't fully formed yet. "You really should wait until a young dog's growth plates [areas of cartilage near the ends of bones] have started to close, and that time frame really varies by breed and size of dog," says Sharon Wirant, an animal behaviorist with the ASPCA. "A much smaller dog like a Jack Russell Terrier could probably start going on regular runs earlier than a larger dog, like a Great Dane, whose growth plates will take longer to seal up," she says. If your puppy is still growing or hasn't started running with you yet, ask your vet about when it's safe to start.
"A sedentary person can't just jump off the couch one day and run 5 miles, and neither can a sedentary dog," says Aramburu. "Too much too soon increases your dog's risk of injury, just as it would a human's." Find a beginner 5K training plan that will let you and your pooch progress at a safe, healthy pace. Many of these plans combine intervals of walking and jogging, so there's plenty of time for active recovery and catching your breath.
Before you pick up your pace for any workout, be sure you've given yourself—and your dog—at least a few minutes of walking or slow jogging. "Warming up those muscles is a great idea for both you and your dog, and can protect you both against injuries" says Wirant. Another warm-up ritual to make a habit: giving your furball a chance to sniff around and do his business. That means fewer stops for pee and poop breaks once you get moving.
Running on dirt trails will be easier on your pup's joins and paws than running on asphalt, says Aramburu. (The same goes for your own joints!) Plus, your dog will enjoy the natural sights, smells, and sounds—perhaps more so than the sidewalk in your neighborhood. Be sure to check at the park entrance or trailhead that dogs are allowed, either on- or off-leash. And before you let your dog off-leash, check into what types of wildlife roam the park. Deer and foxes can both seriously injure or even kill your beloved pet.
Spending time outdoors with your dog—especially if you're tackling the trail—may put you both at risk for picking up ticks along the way. Protect yourself by wearing bug spray and long socks, and check with your vet to be sure your pet is up-to-date on tick medication. Then, after any run through woods or long grass, inspect both yourself and your dog for ticks that may have hitched a ride home, and promptly remove any that you find. If you do realize your dog's been bitten, call your vet for next steps.
A dog that misbehaves on walks probably isn't ready to run, says Wirant. "You want to teach them to walk nicely on leash, and break the behaviors of stopping to sniff or marking every tree, or racing ahead and pulling you."
It's also important to teach a "Leave It" command, so that your dog will ignore or walk away from tempting items (like trash, roadkill, or sticks) they might come across on a path. Teaching them to "Sit" and "Stay" is also helpful, especially at traffic crossings. If you have trouble training your dog any of these commands, consider an obedience class or dog trainer.
Use a 4- to 6-foot leash; anything longer than that can spell trouble on the jogging path, since you want to train Fido to stay by your side. "Their nose should be even with your knee, and your arm should be straight down and holding their leash right by their collar, at least while they're getting used to running with you," says Aramburu. During the teaching stage, it can be helpful to maintain this position during walks as well. "Normally you want to give them more freedom while you're walking, but it's fine to keep them really close for a few minutes at a time and then praise them and let the leash out so they get a reward for being good."
Dogs overheat more easily than humans, since they have heavy fur coats and they don't sweat. So it's important to be careful when it's warm out, and to avoid running in midday heat. Longhaired pooches may feel cooler in the summertime after a haircut—but don't go too short, since that coat also protects against sunburn.
Run in the shade, when possible, and avoid hot blacktop, asphalt, or sand, which can burn dogs' paws. To test a surface's temperature, Banfield Pet Hospital recommends placing your hand or a bare foot on it for 10 seconds. If it's too hot for you, it's too hot for your pet.
Check your dog's paws when you get back from a run to make sure they haven't suffered any cuts or injuries, says Winart. Take extra care in the heat, since their feet are susceptible to burns, and when you're on the trail, where you'll come across more rocks, sticks, and uneven terrain.
If you run in the snow, try to avoid roads that have been treated with salt, which can sting dogs' feet—and then upset their stomachs if they lick their paws once they're inside. Canine booties or disposable latex boots can shield paws from irritants; if your dog won't tolerate them, you can also apply petroleum jelly or Musher's Secret wax to their pads provide some protection.
During and after your run, watch your dog for signs of heatstroke or overexertion, like lethargy, weakness, drooling and dark red gums, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, or panting to the point that he can't catch his breath. If your dog stops and refuses to continue, don't force him.
Any time your dog seems overheated, find shade and give him cool or air-temperature water; you may even want to dump some on his head or body. Just don't let your dog gulp too much water during or after exercise. When they're hot and thirsty, it is possible for dogs to drink too much, says Wirant, and suffer from potentially fatal water toxicity or from bloat, a dangerous condition in which they swallow a lot of air.
As a dog owner you probably know better than to leave puppy poop behind, but still—it's easy to forget to take waste bags with you when you head out for a run. Not only should you be prepared to pick up after your dog while you're exercising, you should also know where you're going to dispose of it, even if that means holding onto it until you find a trash can.
Giving your dog time to "go" before and after your run will reduce your chances of having to make a mid-workout pit stop. "With time, you can absolutely train your dog to urinate and defecate on demand by taking them to the place where they usually go and using a verbal cue," says Wirant.
When you finish a tough run and you're still panting and sweating, you probably wouldn't have a snack—you'd get sick to your stomach. Same goes for your dog, so hold off on treats until you've both calmed down a bit, says Wirant. (Watch out for ice cubes and ice water, too: The extreme temperature change could cause vomiting.) In the meantime, reward your dog by praising him, petting him, and giving him lots of attention. And before you head inside, let him have a few minutes to run around and explore, and to go to the bathroom once more.
Once your dog has mastered the art of running on a leash, you'll have yourself an always-willing, always-excited exercise partner. Just be sure your dog seems happy. A good sign: he wags his tail and barks when he sees you take out his running leash. Leave him home for a few sweat sessions if he seems stiff or uncomfortable after exercise.
In the long run, working out with your dog can keep unwanted pounds off, extend your life, and help you stay healthy and happy—and same goes for your furry friend. Keep it up!


This tower is (loosely) inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy trilogy, specifically purgatorio. In the original poem, purgatory is envisioned as terraces on a mountain, where people not yet good enough for heaven have to overcome their sins. In the poem, there are terraces for the 7 deadly sins, 2 for special cases, and the garden of eden, making 10.
I liked the idea of a spiral tower that reduces in width over time, like many pictures of the mountain. My tower might have sections named after each of the sins, but the purgatory theme is not necessary to the build. The coloured sections are where it increases, at a rate of half. Gray is the wall, light gray is for the flat parts around corners. The top part is considered the 7th layer. Yellow represents doors into the separate sections. From the interior, different sections will be isolated from one another. If you want to go from the bottom to the middle, you have to go outside and around the tower. Sections can occupy multiple floors, since the bottom sections are pretty tall.
The total height is 180 blocks (that means you can build it starting at sea level and have about 10 blocks to spare). Width and length of the tower are 45 (through the middle).
Anyone can use the picture and this description to build it for themselves. I'll be posting progress with the project as time goes on.
For now, this project is going to happen in creative, because it's pretty huge, and I want to be able to show everyone pregress quickly. That said, I do hope to create it in survival one day.
Serious progress is being made in the general structure. All the flooring is in for the first two sections, and the walls are of equal height. I have enough wood to continue with flooring, but that is difficult without walls present, so I will wait on that. Farming the other resources I will need (sugar cane, wool, milk, wheat, eggs) is coming along very slowly, peripheral farms are my next focus, but aren't directly linked to this build. the view in the first section shows the effect I'm trying to achieve with the design. Pulling the eye to the central pillar and showing off the vastness of the sections. Everything about the tower is meant to be imposing.
"I liked the idea of a spiral tower that reduces in width over time, like many pictures of the mountain."
PS: I like you have also added your blueprint - it shows that you not just built and preplanning can help so much!
While building in survival, I found out the tower is too tall to build from sea level, so the smallest round is flat as well as the center. I didn't want the smallest part to be too small to be in, and I wanted six circles around with the staircase. The main reason it got soooo big, was that I put all the pathways as 2 blocks wide, plus the outer wall. I wanted a staircase I could run up without hitting the sides. Planning it out was fun. I find that engineer's graph paper (10 lines to an inch) is better than MS paint. Regular graph paper doesn't have enough squares to fit a big build, and paint is uncooperative at such small scale.
When I planned my spiral tower I thougth about the area on the top level first. I do not work with MS.Paint aswell - I use the free program paint.net. I earlier times I also used paper but a pixel coumputer program is just better for this. But honestly I would never use a a engineer's graph paper with 10 lines to an inch - 10^x meters are just better :D. After I finished the top level I started to think about how many time I want to go around the tower - 5 times were enogth. Next I copied this building four times with mcedit (so sad we cannot use it anymore ;( ) and built the staris; each one with one pathways wide more than the last one to see the diverence. I prevered the one with pathwide = 3. In your case I would even think about 1 for a moment because you tower is so much higher than my one.


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'Aquaman' Sequel Rumored To Include The Others
By Matthew Aguilar - March 4, 2019 12:52 am EST
Some predictions are making their way to the surface for Aquaman 2, and if they are right the sequel will feature the introduction of The Others.
Aquaman was a huge hit for Warner Bros. and their DC movie universe, bringing in over $1 billion at the box office. As a result, interest is high in a sequel, and fan community The Aquaverse is saying that the anticipated project will feature the debut of The Others. Now, you might be wondering why this is noteworthy, as I say 'I want a Cardiac' movie several times a day but that doesn't mean it's happening. For that, we go to a post from four years ago.
That post, also from The Aquaverse, stated: "We've been told that 2018's AQUAMAN starring Jason Momoa will also feature Mera, Orm, Black Manta and THE TRENCH!" Now, three of those are pretty much no-brainers, but that last one is not one everyone would just immediately assume. That prediction turned out to be true, and now they are doing it again with The Others.
THE OTHERS #Aquaman2⃣🔱 pic.twitter.com/UOtEBKHX5Y
— The Aquaverse (@AquamanUniverse) February 27, 2019
"THE OTHERS #Aquaman2⃣🔱 Everyone remember this tweet from 4 years before the movie came out? Stay tuned, we're going to do it again..."
Fans of Geoff John's run on Aquaman will remember a storyline that revealed Aquaman had a prior team before joining the Justice League. They resurface after some time has passed, and end up guarding the ancient artifacts of Atlantis. If there's a way to implement them into the story, even if we don't get to meet them all, they could be immensely entertaining.
Everyone remember this tweet from 4 years before the movie came out? Stay tuned, we're going to do it again... //t.co/RElDoeg3mZ
The Others include Aquaman (the group's leader), Ya'Wara, The Operative, Kahina the Seer, Vostok-X, Sky Alchesay, Sayeh, and Prisoner of War. Introducing these characters would definitely shake up the power pool, as Ya'Wara can command jungle cats and Sky can communicate with the dead. Each member has their own specialty and seeing how Arthur and Mera deal with them could make for some amazing sequences.
Now, this would need to be handled correctly, as that's a lot of people to spotlight when you already have Black Manta, Aquaman, Mera, and Orm still in play, but we've got faith James Wan can make it happen.
You can see more of what we want to see in a sequel right here!
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[Active] Hide inside the mirror to run away from danger.
Can be used while being attacked and can select the direction of teleportation with arrow keys.
While the skill allows you to escape both hitstun and knockdown, you have no invincibility or super armor when exiting the mirror, so a large enough attack or other enemies can still hit you during the exit animation.
As with any other skill, any suction effects (such as unawakened Generate Black Hole), even if they induce hitstun (such as Final Strike) will prevent you from using this skill at all, preventing you from using it as an escape tool.
You can't escape from Hyper Active as well.
You can warp into any direction when escaping an attack, including up or down. Holding down while on the ground already will cause you to warp very slightly forward instead, allowing you to catch unsuspecting opponents from behind.


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Thilli$$$ theams with ERIC HOLDER on criminal justice "reform"
Brant Clifton October 19, 2017
That's right. Our junior US senator is teaming with Barry Obama's attorney general — the one who sided with the New Black Panthers over regular voters — to "reform" the criminal justice system. (Feeling better about "holding your nose" in 2014, yet?) Here's the NY Times showing Amnesty Thom & his amigos some love:
A broad coalition of law enforcement officials and activists is expected to urge President Trump on Wednesday to adjust policies on policing and criminality, the first time such a group has spoken out against the Trump administration.
Some of the nation's most prominent prosecutors, police chiefs and criminal justice overhaul advocates — including Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, as well as representatives from the conservative Koch brothers network — will gather in Washington for the National Law Enforcement Summit. The former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general whom Mr. Trump abruptly fired in the first few days of his presidency, will speak.
That's right. Obama's AG and the acting AG, a holdover from Obama, who spent a lot of time sabotaging Trump during the early days. Sounds like *fun*:
[…] They and other presenters are expected to pose the challenge to Mr. Trump, who ran in 2016 as a "law and order" candidate but whose attorney general's policies — as well as Mr. Trump's own messaging — have come under increasing criticism from local law enforcement officials.
In his inaugural address, he described a raging "American carnage" that he vowed to halt — a turn of phrase that rankled local officials who have prided themselves on crime reduction. Mr. Trump has frequently cited his support for police officers, and he has surrounded himself with local law enforcement officials at any opportunity.
His attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has pursued an aggressive approach to crime in major cities. Without citing evidence, Mr. Sessions has claimed that changes imposed by the Obama administration that sought a reduction in mandatory minimum sentences for some drug prosecutions had led to a large increase in crime.
Members of the coalition plan to urge Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions to reverse the current course the Department of Justice has taken.
"Today, our nation faces new public safety challenges, including an increase in opioid abuse, an uptick in homicides in some cities and strained police-community relations," a group of police chiefs and prosecutors, including Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney in Manhattan, wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions. "We believe that these challenges are best answered with modern strategies, innovative solutions and a reliance on confirmed data," they wrote, citing new public safety hurdles such as the opioid epidemic and "strained police-community relations" after years of national focus on police shootings of unarmed black men and women. […]
Vance, of course, is a Dem. His daddy was secretary of state for JIMMY CARTER. Democrats everywhere you look here. I guess Thom is the "bipartisan" token. So, Thom thinks taking the Black Lives Matter route is the way to reelection in 2020 (or Blount Street in 2018)?
Oh, yeah. The "summit" is sponsored by The Brennan Center for Justice. A HUGE honkin' liberal group known for trashing EVERY Republican president and their judicial nominees.
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17 thoughts on "Thilli$$$ theams with ERIC HOLDER on criminal justice "reform""
GUWonder says:
Thom "Amnesty" Tillis is just Kay Hagan without the skirt. He is likely one of the main reasons that Moore, Berger, ans Woodhouse dropped the threshold for winning a primary to 30%.
We need a conservative Unaffiliated ready to go – on the ballot, not a write-in – if they use that lousy 30% monstrosity to jam "Amnesty" Tillis down our throats again. Tillis is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable.
Louis Guin says:
I agree thank you. He needs to go.
Noble overfield says:
Yes Tillis needs to go
We need to send him home he has not did anything the hole time that he had been in Washington so if he wants to join
Eric Holder he sent him to Eric.
Esmerelda says:
Maybe Thom Thillis is angling for a Roger Goodell's job at the NFL.Or the new lobbyist for the NFL, who is now all about issues in communities like "reforming" the Justice system.
E Deploribus Unum says:
Cyrus Vance Jr, protector of Harvey Weinstein in exchange for campaign contributions:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/18/ann-coulter-weinsteins-pimps-revenge-ugly-girls/
john steed says:
Richard Burr and Thom Tillis seem to be in competition as to which one can out-liberal the other in a race to the left.
Burr has just co-sponsored a bill to give billions of dollars to the insurance companies as corporate welfare to bail out Obamacare. This after Burr promised to work to repeal Obamacare.
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Blog-3931.112112-13570.114136-Richard-Burr-is-cosponsor-of-bill-to-bail-out-Obamacare.html
JDL says:
Is there necessarily something wrong with trying to find a compromise? I'm a straight R ticket voter, but I find it absurd to think that Republican ideas are the ONLY ideas. Yes, I may think overall our ideas are better, that doesn't mean Dem ideas cannot serve a helpful purpose in our society, in some way.
That type of narrow minded thinking is exactly why we're in the situation we are in nationwide. D's only think their ideas work, Republicans jump in and do the same thing. Yet, nothing ever really improves in drastic ways. Perhaps they never will, but I don't want to be a tunnel vision voter. I want to hear others points of view, and see if we can come to an understanding where both sides can work to propel our country forward. That may mean doing a sacrifice on my end, but if it's better for the country at large, so be it.
Tillis is a surrender monkey. Democrat "compromises" use that word in an Orwellian sense. It is never meeting in the middle. It is giving them everything they want. It is like all of John Boehner's and Mitch McConnell's "compromises" which have constituted giving away the farm to Obama.
If we were dealing with real compromises where the sides med in the middle and each got half of what they wanted, you might have a point, but that has not been the way these things have been working.
Can you explicitly tell me why McConnell is so bad? Because honestly, he saved the sup court, and has done many other things that tend to fly under the radar that have propelled conservative causes.
What has he actually done that has damaged the country? Because there are procedures for how things go in the senate. He cannot just be a human wrecking ball. It doesn't work that way whether you'd want it to or not. Some things have to be done in a timely manner or in compromises. Otherwise, you may never have anything get done.
My comments have to do with the Obama era and the Omnibuses, Cromnibuses, debt ceiling increases, etc. which were always surrenders to Obama, not meeting in the middle. On the RedState site, they coined the term "Surrender Theatre" for all the contortions Boehner and McConnell would go through before giving the Democrats what they wanted. Oh, as to getting something in return, about the only thing McConnell got was one big infrastructure project for his own state, something that at the time was called "the Kentucky kickback".
McConnell is a vicious anti-conservative who pledged to "crush them [conservatives] everywhere". In Senate races, if he cannot impose his own establishment flack, he walks away from the race, as he is right now doing in Alabama:
:http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Blog-3931.112112-13571.114136-McConnell-and-establishment-abandon-Roy-Moore-in-Alabama-Senate-race.html
McConnell is also noted for the really underhanded dirty tricks he uses against conservatives, as he did in Mississippi. The Senate Conservatives Fund traced the money for this outrage to 7 establishment GOP Senators with McConnell giving the largest amount: :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672565/The-worst-race-baiting-ads-Ive-seen-Radio-ads-Mississippi-senate-race-accused-tea-party-candidate-Ku-Klux-Klan-links-drove-black-Democrats-vote-against-REPUBLICAN-primary.html
RIchard Burr was one of the "shameful seven" who bankrolled that dishonest racist campaign.
A Edmondson says:
Where have you been? McConnell is awful. He can't look after himself, much less a bunch of Rinos !!!!
Christine Puliselic says:
Both Tillis and Burr have to go. They democrats/socialists/communists/anti-Americans who have no business in a Constitutional Republic government. North Korea would be happy to welcome them along with obama's cabinet, the clintons and soros. And Sessions if he continues to refuse to do his job.
Lets consider how we got into this mess with such crappy GOP officeholders who behave more like Democrats.
The big reason is major out of state interference in our primaries from various establishment groups. With Tillis in the primary, it was Karl Rove's establishment group and the establishment liberals of the US Chamber of Commerce who bought the nomination for him.
While these out of state establishment machines were dumping in big bucks in independent campaigns to push Tillis, our grassroots Republican organizations had their hands tied by Plan of Organization provisions that required them to stay out of primaries. The most they could do was straw polls, and Tillis regularly lost those, showing to anyone who looked where grassroots Republicans were on that primary, but that was largely invisible to the average voter. Indeed, in one Congressional District GOP convention straw poll, Tillis ran a miserable fourth place.
When major out of state forces are monkeying around in OUR primaries, we do not need local grassroots Republicans shackled by outdated rules on being involved in primaries. They need to be able to fight back openly against the likes of Rove, the Chamber, and McConnell's PACs.
The potential of the new 30% threshold for primaries combined with non-Republicans being able to vote to GOP primaries makes the liklihood of the hijacking of our primaries even more of a danger and makes dropping the prohibition on party officials engaging in primaries even more imperative. If Karl Rove and Mitch McConnell can involve themselves in our primaries, then county organizations need to be able to endorse.
Some state GOP organizations already allow endorsements in primaries, and in some which candidate is endorsed is even printed on the ballot. North Carolina needs to drag its PoO into the 21st century.
JCO says:
What is wrong with you all. You say you are christian; however, you hate. You all hate everything and everybody. Don't you have anything better to do?
Ron Margiotta says:
Tillis has never been a true representative of the "conservative" element of the party in N.C.—His positions have become even more so outside of the mainstream Republicans in N. C. In my humble opinion he cannot and should not expect to be reelected or elected to any position in our State.
Ron Margiotta, Wake Cty.
Carl Mischka says:
Raphael, pls call me. 252-626-8189. Thanks.


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Finding and approaching fish, fly choices, hooking and landing and more tips for chasing pre and post-spawn carp that are on the prowl for food
by Chris Hunt - Wednesday, Jun 19th, 2019
Photo: Chris Hunt
The big invasives, brought here more than a century ago as a food fish from southern Asia (and rarely eaten) start to move into the shallows when Mother Nature strings a few nice days together in April or early May. Some fish will spawn during these first few weeks, but, for the most part, they're staging. And they're eating.
As warmer weather--and warmer water--sets in, the big females (females are usually bigger than males) start to move onto the flats in earnest. This is when, as a wading angler, you'll see one big fish (the female) cruising the shallows, often trailed by two or more smaller carp (the males). The smaller carp will try to bump into the female in hopes of getting her to spill eggs so that they can fertilize them. This is, generally, how carp spawn. They don't make redds. They're broadcast spawners, meaning the milt from several males can fertilize the eggs of several females.
It's a carp orgy.
Catching fish that are really into spawning is tough to do. But, as the spawn progresses into June, there are really good opportunities to sight-fish to carp that are either post-spawn, or simply taking a smoke break from all the gluttonous cyprinid sex. In shallow water, these fish are easy to identify, simply because they're not frolicking around in masses of free love, but rather tailing lazily and clearly on the prowl for food.
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Here's how to identify your targets when the flats are all stirred up during the spawn.
Masses of frolicking fish
When you see several fish rolling and breaching and generally bumping into one another, know that these fish are actively spawning. You can sure cast to them, but you best bet at a hookup is likely a snag. My advice? Don't bother.
Cruising carp
Often, pairs or threesomes of spawning fish will break off from the orgy and slowly move away from the larger mass of fish. These fish can be targeted, and they will occasionally eat, but they're not in food mode just yet. I honestly believe these are fish that might be a bit exhausted from the constant spawning and are just recovering. Wading anglers will notice that these fish, when they're spooked, will tear through a pod of carp and cause panic throughout. Advice? Cast in front, much like you would with a bonefish or a redfish, but don't get your hopes up.
Tailing carp
These are the players. They're not actively spawning, and you can tell this by their slow rolls or the fact that their tails are waiving lazily in the breeze when their noses and barbels are sifting through the muck on the bottom. Often, they'll group together, and you'll see several tailing carp working in concert. These fish deserve a cast and a slow strip of whatever you've got on the end of your tippet. Be stealthy and try not line these fish--the can be very spooky.
The flies
This is one of carp fishing's great mysteries. What do they eat? The answer is simple. Everything. But not everything all the time. Here on the Snake, the season starts with big dragonfly and damselfly nymphs--this is what's in the water when the fish are first coming in, and I would wager that's a pretty common food source early in the season, wherever carp move into the shallows to spawn. Imitations include traditional wet flies, like the Stayner Ducktail or an olive Rio Grande King. Even a small olive Woolly Bugger is a serviceable fly for these swimming nymphs.
As the water warms up, we tend to see more crawfish, and this is when it gets fun on the flats. Hungry carp will move out of their way to go after crawfish. And, often, the carp share the water with hungry smallmouth bass, so sometimes, blind-casting to carp using crawfish patterns can result in a surprise hookup with a lively smallie that's likely trying to defend its redd. Any traditional crawfish patterns should work well, from olive to brown and even purple.
These backwaters are also home to leeches and worms, so I often default to a dark 'Bugger, which could be a leech or crawfish--it's easily my most effective pattern for Snake River Carp.
If you've walked and waded for bonefish or permit, you're equipped to wade for carp. Slow and deliberate. Don't move too much water. As a great bonefish guide once told me in the Bahamas, "If you can hear the water moving around your legs when you walk, you're walking too fast."
Carp are smart--perhaps the smartest freshwater fish most of us will ever encounter. They can sense movement, and it often seems like they know you're there, even when you're taking every precaution. And, when you spook one, they'll blister through a pod and alert every single fish, and they'll spook, too. Carp give off pheromones when they panic, so when one fish spooks, you'll see dozens of fish spooking in their wake.
The set
Last week, I shared one of my favorite carp locations with a fellow fly-fishing friend of mine, and he hit the river, eager connect to a big behemoth and see what it's like to watch his tippet knot click through the snake guides on his 8-weight. The results?
"I missed three and hooked one, but I lost it."
I've been chasing these fish for 20 years, and sometimes it's easy to forget that they do require very specialized equipment (seriously, pretend you're on a bonefish trip) and some specific skills that a lot of trout anglers don't intuitively possess. The most important? Don't trout set these fish. Strip set. Just like you would if you were casting to anything salty.
My buddy hadn't gone after carp before and didn't know what to expect. I kind of kicked myself for not helping him shorten the learning curve just a bit by mentioning that strip-setting on carp is absolutely vital.
Carp are one of the most challenging fish fly rodders can target in fresh water. While they may lack the sex appeal of trout or even bass, they make up for it line-peeling runs that will, quite often, make you think back to when you tied your backing knot, and have you hoping you did a good job. Don't be intimidated or discouraged by tough outings for carp--sometimes, you can be surrounded by them all day long and never earn a bite. In time, you'll one day figure out the right ingredients to a great carp outing--good weather, warm water, ample food and willing fish. We're not always in control of all of these elements, but when it all comes together, you'll become like a lot of us--carp junkies who, when we can't make a run to the Caribbean, will make a run to the river for the next best thing.
Chris Hunt is the national digital director for Trout Unlimited. He lives and works in Idaho Falls, but has been known to disappear into the desert for days to chase carp and sing to the coyotes around a campfire.
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Open Access (OA) pioneer and OA journal eLife founding member and sponsor, the Max Planck Society just released a white paper (PDF) analyzing open access costs in various countries and institutions and comparing them to subscription costs. Such studies are fundamental prerequisites for evidence-based policies and informed decisions on how to proceed with bitterly needed reforms. The authors confirm the currently most often cited ballpark figures of a world-wide annual academic publishing volume around US$10b, averaging at around US$5000 for each of the approximately 2 million papers published every year. This confirmation from different sources than are usually cited is very valuable and solidifies our knowledge on the kind of funds available to the system.
The authors detail that various institutions in various countries spend significantly less than the current subscription costs on their current author processing charges (APCs) for publishing in open access journals, around US$2000-3000 per article. They conclude from these data that a conversion from subscription to author-pays model would be at least cost-neutral (if not a significant cost-saver) and keep the publishing industry alive.
I find these statements quite startling for a number of reasons:
Over 15 years ago, the US government (via the NIH) helped Brazil develop an incredibly successful publishing model, SciELO. It has since spread, with many other countries all over the globe joining. In their now roughly 900 journals, SciELO publishes peer-reviewed papers, fully open-access at an average cost of US$90 per article. Recently, these figures have been confirmed with numbers from the NIH's open access repository PubMedCentral, where such costs come to lie around US$50 per article. Thus, publishing fully open access with all the features known from commercial publishers clocks in at below US$100 per article. This we already knew before this study. Why was there a study needed, that shows that we can also get such universal open access for up to 100 times the price of PMC/SciELO? Is the survival of the publishing industry really worth up to US$9.9b in subsidies every year? What value do publishers add, that could possibly be worth the annual bill of 9.9 billion in virtually any currency?
The authors emphasize that "Whether calculated as mean or median, however, the average APC index will never be dictated by the high-end values." This may of course be financially relevant for the tax-payer in the short-term, but in the long-term the tax-payer will also be interested in whether the science they fund is reliable: is publicly funded science a good bang for the buck? If we only were to convert to this 'gold' OA model and left everything else virtually unchanged, the situation for the reliability and hence credibility of publicly funded science would be even worse than it is today. As outlined in detail elsewhere, high-ranking journals argue that their APCs will come to lie around US$50,000 per article. While this may indeed not change the average cost to the taxpayer with currently in excess of 30,000 journals, it will mean that in addition to knowing the professional editor and, if needed, fake your data, you then also would have to be rich (or work at a rich institution) in order to publish in a venue that helps secure a job in science. Given that these journals publish the least reliable science, this would be the one single scenario I could imagine, that would be even worse for science than the status quo.
The authors also do not mention that the large majority of open access journals (including Max Planck Society's very own eLife) do not charge any APCs at all (an issue already raised by Peter Suber). It is not clear from the study if articles published in these journals have been counted at all. If not, their costs are overestimating the actual costs by a significant factor.
Thus, as I see it, this is a study that at best serves no real purpose, at worst constitutes a disservice to science by suggesting such a transition would even be desirable, when it clearly is not. I have asked one of the co-authors of the study, Kai Geschuhn to comment on my criticisms. You can find her reply below, I'll leave it uncommented:
Like it or not, offsetting subscription costs against publication fees still isn't the common understanding of how to finance open access. With this study, we didn't want to raise the question whether scientific publishing should cost US$50, US$100 or US$5,000 per article. The aim rather was to show that the transition to open access is feasible already. The figures presented in the paper relate current subscription costs to scientific article outputs on different levels (global, national, and institutional) in order to show that there is enough money in the system to finance all of these articles. While this is obvious to you, it is often not to libraries which usually expect the open access transition to become even more expensive. This misconception is mostly due to the assumption, that the total number of publications from an institution or a country would have to be financed. We suggest calculating with articles from corresponding authors only, which usually leads to a reduction of up to 50% of the total amount.
After ten years of debate, we finally need to agree upon a realizable first step. We believe that offsetting budgets actually is key to this so we have to start the calculation.
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