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2.20 Humbug
US Airdate: March 31, 1995
writer: Darin Morgan
director: Kim Manners
<-GIBSONTON, FLORIDA->
(Two kids splash each other in the pool, laughing.)
YOUNGER GLAZEBROOK SON: Stop!
(They continue play-attacking as someone strange watches them from the trees. Its green eyes staring at them, he breathes heavily and makes his way through the trees. Its skin looks scaly. The boys do not notice it as it walks out towards the lawn quietly. The older one hears it and looks in the general direction. The younger one does the same, then splashes the older brother. This incites the older brother to splash back, and they continue playing. The strange being swims into the pool and slowly approaches them underwater. He jumps out, screaming. The boys scream back. The younger one splashes the man lightly as he picks the boy up playfully.)
Oh, Dad, cut it out.
OLDER GLAZEBROOK SON: Beautiful, Dad.
JERALD GLAZEBROOK: Quit picking on your brother. Remember he loves you!
YOUNGER GLAZEBROOK SON: No, I don't!
OLDER GLAZEBROOK SON: We're glad you're back home, Dad.
JERALD GLAZEBROOK: Ah, not as glad as I am.
OLDER GLAZEBROOK SON: Did you see a lot of weird stuff this year?
JERALD GLAZEBROOK: Yup, it was the weirdest show ever. But right now, your mother thinks you guys are getting ready for bed and if she comes out here and finds you guys still in the pool, she's going to kill me. So come on, out of the pool.
(He puts his youngest son down. The boys moan and whine. In the forest, something else is watching them.)
YOUNGER GLAZEBROOK SON: Awww...
OLDER GLAZEBROOK SON: Awwww, Dad...
JERALD GLAZEBROOK: Quit your whining. Come on or no bedtime story. Out you go, that's it.
(The thing in the trees is more of a monster than the Alligator-Skinned Man, weezing as it breathes. It winces constantly and it's face is bloodied naturally. The boys start back to the house.)
OLDER GLAZEBROOK SON: Come on, Dad, there's no school tomorrow...
(Jerald floats on his back a little, shooting water up into the air with his mouth. The thing watches and makes it's way into the pool. It approaches Jerald and he stands, looking at it.)
JERALD GLAZEBROOK: What the hell?
(It screeches and bites into Jerald's side. It repeatedly does so as Glazebrook screams with each bite. It rips through the skin and Jerald holds himself up on the ladder as blood pours out into the pool. It screams and snarls in victory.)
<-X-FILES OFFICE; FBI HEADQUARTERS; WASHINGTON, D.C.->
(Mulder hands Scully a picture of Glazebrook's face.)
SCULLY: What happened to him?
MULDER: Nothing you can ascertain from that photograph. The victim suffered from ichthyosis, a congenital skin disease characterized by the shedding of the epidermis in the form of scales.
(He hands her another picture of a large wound in the side of Glazebrook.)
This shows the entry wound of the undetermined weapon. There were no other injuries inflicted upon the body, no internal organs removed and/or cannibalized, and there's no signs of sexual molestation either.
(He stands.)
That's forty-eight attacks over the last twenty-eight years. Occurring in every state in the continental U.S. almost, the first in Oregon and the last five in Florida.
(He shows pictures of various people with the same wounds.)
The victims range from all different age groups, races, both male and female. The mutilations appear so motiveless that one would suspect some form of ritual yet they adhere to no known cult. A lone serial killer would have been expected to escalate the level of violence of his attacks over such an extended period of time. So what do you think, Scully? What are your initial thoughts?
(Scully looks at the picture of Glazebrook.)
SCULLY: Imagine going through your whole life looking like this.
(There is a picture of Glazebrook on his coffin. There are flowers all around and the mourners sit off to the side. The priest is at the podium.)
PRIEST: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death..."
(Scully and Mulder walk over. Sheriff Hamilton nods to them from across the way.)
"I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies."
(Mulder walks past Scully in the row of seats and they sit down.)
"Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me..."
(He turns the page with his foot, having no arms.)
"...all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Jerald Glazebrook.
(In the front row of seats, Glazebrook's wife rubs the back of her eldest son in comfort. She has a thick beard. Her younger son is seated next to the other son. Scully watches them.)
Beloved husband, father, friend and entertainer.
(Scully looks at a man in the front row as he takes out a flask and drinks from it. There is a smaller person attached to him, who has his head in the bigger man's side and is also dressed in a suit.)
We mourn not only the passing who overcame the obstacles of his earthly incarnation but also the passing of the love that dwells in his all too-human heart. We mourn the passing of the admiration and the respect he instilled in his fellow colleagues.
(Scully looks in back of her at a row of other circus freaks, each deformed in some way. There is a fortune teller, a teenager and a little kid, both of whom have the same problem. Scully and the little boy smile at each other.)
We mourn the passing of the laughter and the enjoyment he brought each audience who saw him.
(Mulder slowly looks to his right and slowly looks up at the giant sitting next to him.)
For although Jerry was a world-renowned escape artist, there is one strongbox from which none of us can escape.
(The coffin starts to shake violently. Sheriff Hamilton tries to hold it down and looks to some other people.)
HAMILTON: Help...
MAN #1: I got it...
(Other men run up to the coffin and lift it up and away from the grave. A bump starts moving underneath the covering of the grave.)
WOMAN #1: Move it out of there...
WOMAN #2: Oh my Lord!
(As the congregation moans and gasps, a man breaks through the covering, growling, carrying a railroad spike and a hammer.)
MAN #2: I don't believe it...
BLOCKHEAD: Having not known the deceased personally, I am in no position to perform a proper eulogy. I'm sure he was a nice guy, et cetera, et cetera. But as an admirer of the man's work, I am in a position to perform an impromptu tribute in his honor. Namely, ramming this spike into my chest!
(He does so with one quick blow, sparks flying off of the contact point. Blood coats the front of his sweater. The crowd gasps and cringes. Even Mulder and Scully flinch. The man, Doctor Blockhead, staggers around, screaming.)
MAN #3: You crazy, don't you have any respect at all?
BLOCKHEAD: I think I hit my left ventricle!
(Hamilton grabs his arm and Blockhead shoves him off.)
WOMAN #2: This is a funeral!
BLOCKHEAD: Get back, fascist!
(People start jumping at him left and right. In fact, the whole congregation starts after him.)
MAN #2: For crying out loud!
MAN #4: Get him out of here! Get him out of here!
WOMAN #3: You're awful!
(Mulder and Scully are left all alone, seated where they were. The rest of the seats are pretty much in disarray. They sit in silence for a second.)
MULDER: I can't wait for the wake.
<-PHIL'S DINER->
(Mulder, Scully and Hamilton are sitting at a table.)
MULDER: On his vicap form, Jerald Glazebrook's occupation is listed as artist.
HAMILTON: Jerry was an artist... the best escape artist since Houdini. He should have been headlining Vegas but his skin condition kept him on the sideshow circuit.
SCULLY: I guess I didn't realize that sideshows were still in existence.
HAMILTON: There are about two or three of them still around.
MULDER: I got the impression that Glazebrook wasn't the only sideshow performer residing here.
HAMILTON: The town was founded back in the 20s when some of Barnum and Bailey's troops started coming down here during the winter off-season.
SCULLY: You know, this town's history might help explain our case's history. A sideshow performer would have toured much of the country over the years. And their isolation from everyday society caused by their physical deformities could have built up pathological resentments so intense that murder might be...
HAMILTON: Now, now, hold on a second. Around here, we refer to them as "very special people." Now, some of them may be different on the outside but it's what's inside that counts. And on the inside, they're as normal as anybody.
SCULLY: Until their arrests, many serial killers are considered by their friends and family to be quite "normal." If you truly regard these people as normal, then you must also consider the possibility that they are capable of committing these crimes.
HAMILTON: It's just been my experience that many people have a harder time accepting these people's deformities than they do themselves.
(Mulder opens up the menu and looks at a picture.)
MULDER: Sheriff, what is this? This design here, it's, uh, copyrighted by Hepcat Helm.
(He points to a picture of a monkey with a mermaid's tail, then at the copyright logo.)
Is that a local artist?
(Hamilton chuckles.)
HAMILTON: A bit too local. His workplace is right behind my station house.
MULDER: Do you think that we could meet Hep... cat?
<-HEPCAT HELM'S WORKSHOP->
(A grotesque rubber head sits on a pike as Screamin' Jay Hawkins' song, "Frenzy", plays loudly. Hepcat Helm is sitting at his desk painting as Hamilton walks in, followed by the agents.)
HAMILTON: Hepcat! Hepcat!
(Hepcat looks at them, then turns down the music.)
HEPCAT HELM: Who are the rubes?
HAMILTON: These are F.B.I. Agents Scully and Mulder. This is Hepcat Helm. He operates a carnival funhouse.
HEPCAT HELM: Oh man, how many times have I told you not to call it that?
(He throws down the handkerchief and goes over to them and looks at Mulder.)
It's not some rinky-dink carny-ride. People go through it, they don't have fun. They get the hell scared out of them. It's not a funhouse, it's a tabernacle of terror.
(Hamilton looks over at Mulder.)
HAMILTON: It's a funhouse.
(Mulder takes out the menu and shows the picture to Hepcat.)
MULDER: Mister Helm, I wanted to ask you about this menu illustration. I recognized most of the historical portraits you've drawn here, but what's this here?
(Scully rolls her eyes at the words "historical portraits.")
HEPCAT HELM: It's the Feejee Mermaid.
(He walks back to his desk carrying the menu.)
HAMILTON: Is that what that thing is?
SCULLY: What's the Feejee Mermaid?
HEPCAT HELM: The Feejee Mermaid. It's, it's the Feejee Mermaid!
HAMILTON: It's a bit of, uh... humbug Barnum pulled in the last century.
HEPCAT HELM: Barnum billed it as a real live mermaid but when people went in to see it, all they saw was a real dead monkey sewn on the tail of a fish.
(Mulder walks over to him.)
MULDER: A monkey?
HEPCAT HELM: A mummified monkey.
HAMILTON: It supposedly looked so bad, he had to exhibit it as a "genuine fake."
HEPCAT HELM: Oh, but see? That's why Barnum was a genius. You never know where the truth ends and the humbug begins. He came right out and said, "This Feejee Mermaid thing is just a bunch of B.S." That just made people want to go and see it even more. So, I mean... who knows? Maybe for box office reasons, Barnum hocked it as a hoax... when in reality...
MULDER: The Feejee Mermaid was a reality.
(Hepcat exhales loudly and shrugs. Mulder walks back over to Hamilton.)
Sheriff, we're going to need to find a place to stay tonight.
HAMILTON: There are lodgings right across the way, but, uh... what's all this about?
(Mulder takes out a picture of a long row of small footprints in the sand heading towards a rock pile.)
MULDER: These tracks were found at several of the past few crime scenes. They've defied exact identification but one expert speculated that they might be simian in nature.
HAMILTON: You don't mean to tell me you think these tracks were made by the Feejee Mermaid?
SCULLY: Do you recall what Barnum said about suckers?
(She nods slightly towards Mulder.)
<-GULF BREEZE TRAILER COURT->
(The proprietor, Mister Nutt, is a midget. (TD NOTE: Umm, better make that a "small person", don't wanna step on any toes here, Vic!) He climbs up a small stepladder and puts it down on the desk in front of the two agents. Nutt's dog sits on the counter.)
MULDER: Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?
NUTT: And what makes you think I've ever spectated a circus, much less been enslaved by one?
MULDER: I know that many of the citizens here are former circus hands and I just thought that maybe you would have done...
NUTT: You thought that because I am a person of short stature that the only career I could procure for myself would be one confined to the so-called "big top." You took one quick look at me and decided that you could deduce my entire life.
(Mulder shakes his head a little. The dog whimpers as Nutt starts around to the area in shelf in back of the desk.)
Never would it have occurred to you that a person of my height could have possibly obtained a degree in hotel management.
(He holds up his degree.)
MULDER: I'm sorry, I meant no offense.
(Nutt walks back up to the desk.)
NUTT: Well, then why should I take offense? Just because it's human nature to make instantaneous judgments of others based solely upon their physical appearances? Why, I've done the same thing to you, for example. I've taken in your all-American features, your dour demeanor, your unimaginative necktie design...
(Mulder looks down at his tie.)
...and concluded that you work for the government. An F.B.I. agent.
(Mulder looks at Scully, who arches her eyebrows in surprise.)
But do you see the tragedy here? I have mistakenly reduced you to a stereotype. A caricature. Instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual.
MULDER: But I am an F.B.I. agent.
(He holds up his badge. The dog whimpers some more. Nutt smirks a little and takes out another paper.)
NUTT: Register here, please.
(He rings the bell. Mulder and Scully are led by their trailers by the bellhop, a man named Lanny. He is the man with the smaller twin that has the twin's head inside of his chest at the funeral. He is also carrying their bags.)
LANNY: I was on the stage for most of my life. I was a headliner.
SCULLY: Did it not bother you to have other people staring at you?
LANNY: Best work I ever had. All I had to do was stand there. Occasionally, I'd say...
(He stops and stands tall as if on stage. They watch him.)
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet my brother Leonard."
(He pauses.)
"Excuse him, he's a little shy." Big laughs, I tell you, big laughs.
(They start to walk again.)
MULDER: Why'd you give it up?
LANNY: Mister Nutt, the kindhearted manager here, convinced me that to make a living by publicly displaying my deformity lacked dignity... so now I carry other people's luggage.
(They come to a set of trailers.)
I believe these are your trailers. If they are not, then I am wrong.
(Mulder takes the suitcases from him.)
Oh, that's most considerate. Thank you very much.
(They shake hands and Lanny starts off.)
Good night. Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite.
(He turns back in a worried manner. Walks back hurriedly, unscrewing his flask.)
No, no! That, that's not what I meant. I, I didn't mean to imply we had bedbugs. I, I meant to say, "Don't let... don't let the..."
MULDER: The Feejee Mermaids bite.
(Lanny tips his flask to him.)
LANNY: Yes, that's right, the Fee, the Feejee Mermaids. Don't, that's right, that's...
(He takes a sip from his flask and starts off.)
That, that's exactly... the Feejee Mermaids bite...
SCULLY: Mulder, what is this Feejee Mermaid business?
MULDER: Every murder investigation begins with a list of possible suspects. You should try not to be so exclusive, Scully.
(He hands her her suitcase.)
SCULLY: As long as you try not to let the atmosphere of this town distort your list all out of proportion.
(They stare at each other.)
(Hepcat Helm is listening to the same song as before, playing it extremely loud. He is painting a mask for his funhouse, then he walks over to a desk under the window and wipes off his hands. He takes an instrument and goes over to another sculpture, this one made mostly of glass. Reflected in the glass, in the window behind him, is a small monster slowly crawling in through the window. Helm stands up and the monster is gone. He goes to work on another part and sees the small monster crawling towards him in another reflection, looking blurred and distorted. He turns around and looks at it.)
HEPCAT HELM: What the hell?
(It pounces, its grotesque face flying at it. Blood splatters over the menu as it pries it's jaws into his neck. There is a gash in his head.)
(Mulder is going for his morning jog. He stops in the road, trying to catch his air, and hears some splashing in the lake next to the road. Looking over, he sees a half-naked man coming out of the water, wearing only a loincloth. He has a tattoo of a puzzle all over his body, some of the pieces painted blue, mostly around the head and shoulder regions. He crouches down and starts eating the fish as Mulder watches intently. The strange man looks over at Mulder and throws down the fish, then starts off towards the forest.)
<-SCULLY'S TRAILER->
(The time is 7:15. Scully's eyes flicker open. Birds chirp outside as she looks out the window. She closes her eyes for a second and looks back outside, still laying down. A man seemingly falls off her roof. She sits up and sees that there is actually a men bouncing on a trampoline outside her window while another two people watch. In the background, people are performing various stunts. There is a frantic pounding on the door. She loosely puts on her robe and opens the door. Lanny stands there, his robe also loosely tied on.)
LANNY: Uh, ma'am... sheriff, he, uh... wants to see you.
(Leonard is exposed out of Lanny's stomach. Scully can't help but stare at him. Lanny, meanwhile, has his eyes on her cleavage, which is partly exposed. They both slowly look at each other, then look down at their objects of interest, then tie their robes up tighter.)
There's been another murder.
(Hamilton is standing over Helm's body, writing down notes on his pad. Scully is kneeling over Helm. Mulder is looking at the window. There is a streak of blood on it.)
WOMAN ON APB WIRE: Unit Thirteen, man down...
MULDER: Hey, Scully, there's some blood on the window here we should send to the lab.
SCULLY: Why run a test on the victim's blood?
MULDER: No, not this window.
(He walks over to the adjacent window as she stands.)
This window. This seems to be the point of entry and there's a... smear of blood on the outside of the window.
(He takes off some blood from a streak on the outside of the window with his finger.)
SCULLY: Why would there be blood before the attack?
HAMILTON: Why didn't the attacker just come through the open door? For a person to crawl in and out of these windows, they'd have to be a contortionist... or just plain crazy. Or both.
(Doctor Blockhead is suspended over a vat of hot water in a straitjacket, grunting and groaning. He starts unbuckling the straps when Mulder and Scully walk over.)
MULDER: While they're performing the autopsy, I want to go down to the...
(Mulder and Scully watch from a short distance as he frees himself. He throws off the straitjacket, takes the key and looks at the agents.)
BLOCKHEAD: How many people do you know that can get out of a straitjacket in under three minutes?
SCULLY: Fortunately, none.
MULDER: We caught your act yesterday at the funeral. That was some trick with the railroad spike.
(Blockhead unlocks his restraints and jumps down.)
BLOCKHEAD: Doctor Blockhead does not perform "tricks."
(He walks over to a toolbox and opens it up. He takes out a hammer and a nail. There are a number of skull pins next to the nails. Mulder and Scully walk over to him.)
Doctor Blockhead performs "astounding acts of body manipulation and pain endurance."
(He puts the nail in his left nostril and begins tapping it into his head as Mulder and Scully watch on in horror and awe.)
SCULLY: You must be one of those rare individuals whose... nerve endings don't register pain.
(He puts the hammer down and pulls out a pair of pliers.)
BLOCKHEAD: You just keep telling yourself that.
MULDER: Have you ever performed this tr, uh, act on anyone else?
BLOCKHEAD: What, are you sick? I tell my audiences that if they're stupid enough to try this themselves, they'll end up with a slight lobotomy. I am a professional.
MULDER: Exactly how does one become a professional blockhead? May I?
(He takes the pliers and starts to pull the nail out from Blockhead's head.)
BLOCKHEAD: Starting in my homeland of Yemen, I studied with yogis, fakirs and swamis, learning the ancient arts of body manipulation.
(Scully and Mulder grimace all through Blockhead's speaking as he slowly pulls out the nail. Mulder looks at the bloody nail.)
But most men know nothing of these arts. For instance, did you know that through the protective Chinese practice of Tiea Bu Shan, you can train your testicles to draw up into your abdomen?
MULDER: Oh, I'm doing that as we speak.
(The Conundrum pops out of the vat, gasping for air. They all look at him in shock.)
I saw him this morning down by the river, he was eating a fish.
BLOCKHEAD: He knows between-show snacks will ruin his appetite.
(He rubs the Conundrum's bald head.)
MULDER: I could be mistaken. Maybe it was another bald-headed, jigsaw-puzzle-tattooed, naked guy I saw.
SCULLY: Is this... man also a body manipulator?
BLOCKHEAD: No. In the classical sense, the Conundrum's a geek.
MULDER: He eats live animals.
BLOCKHEAD: He eats anything... live animals, dead animals, rocks, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries...
SCULLY: Human flesh?
BLOCKHEAD: Only the Conundrum can answer that question. But he doesn't answer questions, he merely... poses them.
(He takes out a jar of crickets.)
When an audience partakes in the Conundrum's human piranha act, they are left to ask themselves...
(He pours out some crickets onto the Conundrum's head, who eats them joyously.)
"Why." But... where are my manners?
(He holds out the jar to the agents.)
SCULLY: Thank you.
(She takes a cricket, puts it in her mouth, smiles and walks away. Mulder looks at her, then at the crickets, and leaves. He catches up to Scully, and watches her in disbelief. She smiles, reaches behind Mulder's ear, and "pulls out" the live cricket.)
It's an old sleight of hand my uncle once taught me. He was only an amateur magician, but he was still better than those two.
MULDER: Well, I'm going over to the lab to see if they can test the blood on the window against the blood on Doctor Blockhead's nail.
(He holds out his hand, then moves it in a clockwise direction. When he finishes the circle, he is holding out the nail. He starts off.)
Everybody's uncle is an amateur magician.
<-GIBSONTON MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES; 3:14 PM->
(Scully walks into the old cabin. The bell rings as the door opens. There is a sign next to a pot that says "Freaks Free; Others Please Leave Donation." Scully walks over to it, puts a bill in, and starts looking around. She looks at a picture of siamese twins. Passing various strange things in jars, she picks up another picture of the siamese twins. They are named Chang and Eng. The curator walks out behind her. His face is disfigured and is reflected in a small mirror.)
CURATOR: Welcome to my museum. May I put to rest any questions you may have conjured?
SCULLY: I was just reading about the fascinating life of Chang and Eng and wondering if their death was just as fascinating.
CURATOR: Oh, very much so. On a cold January eve in 1874, Eng awoke to find his brother had passed away during the course of the night. A few hours later, Eng himself departed from this world. Now, these facts themselves may be less than fascinating but imagine... imagine being Eng and lying there.
(He puts his disfigured hand on her shoulder.)
Knowing that essentially half your body was now dead... that the rest must inevitably follow... and being able to do about it absolutely nothing. At the autopsy, it was officially concluded that Chang died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
SCULLY: And what was the official cause of Eng's death?
CURATOR: Fright.
(He smiles and starts to walk away.)
SCULLY: Do you have any information on blockhead or geek acts?
(They walk into another room.)
CURATOR: This is a historical collection of human curiosities. Blockheads are skilled performers.
SCULLY: Like magicians?
CURATOR: Like sword swallowers who really do swallow swords. And geeks are neither skilled nor curiosities. They're merely unseemly... not even attaining the level of "gaffs."
SCULLY: "Gaffs?"
(The curator takes a picture of two siamese twins who look very different.)
CURATOR: Observe closely the dissimilarity of the facial features. Conjoined twins are always identical. These twins are phonies... gaffs.
SCULLY: Sort of like the Feejee Mermaid?
(He laughs and puts the picture down.)
CURATOR: You're investigating the Alligator Man's murder, yes? I have something I believe you might find of some interest.
(He hands her a picture of "Jim-Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.")
SCULLY: What does this have to do with the Glazebrook murder?
CURATOR: I've recently come into possession of an authentic P.T. Barnum exhibit. Now, I don't show this display to all my customers... only those with the intellectual curiosity to appreciate it.
(He walks over to a door behind Scully.)
Barnum billed it as "the great unknown."
(He opens the door. Scully is about to enter, but he stops her.)
I must first ask of you two favors. Tell no soul what you witness in here.
SCULLY: And the second favor?
CURATOR: An additional donation of five dollars.
(She hands him five dollars and steps inside the dark room. He locks the door behind her. She walks over to the only object in the room, a trunk cast in a spotlight. She tentatively opens the trunk to find... nothing. A door swings open to her left with an "Exit" sign above it. A buzzer goes off and she looks down at the trunk, smiling slightly at having been duped.)
(Mulder hears a clanking and a groaning underneath the trailer. He looks under and sees a small figure moving around. He walks over to where the small figure is, unhooking his holster. He kneels down and Mister Nutt crawls out.)
MULDER: Does Agent Scully know that you're under her crawlspace?
NUTT: I was merely repairing the plumbing on this unit. I know what you're thinking, my friend, but you are grossly mistaken.
(He and Mulder stand.)
Just because I am not of so-called "average" height does not mean I must receive my thrills vicariously. Not all woman are attracted to overly tall, lanky men such as yourself. You'd be surprised how many women find my size intriguingly alluring.
MULDER: And you'd be surprised how many men do as well.
(Nutt, offended and disgusted, walks off. Mulder looks at his footprints. Scully steps out of her trailer.)
SCULLY: Oh, it's you. Is Mister Nutt finished with the plumbing?
(Inside, Mulder and Scully sit across from each other.)
MULDER: The blood from the window matched the blood from the nail but they were both O-positive. They've been sent for further analysis. I ran a background check on Doctor Blockhead. His real name is Jeffrey Swaim and he wasn't born in Yemen, he was born in Milwaukee. He does not hold a doctorate.
SCULLY: Well, I ended up running a bit of a background check myself.
MULDER: On who?
(She flips open a folder.)
SCULLY: On an orphan discovered in the wild forest of Albania in 1943. "Although physically adept at catching his own food, he could not speak a word, save for a few savage grunts. Brought to this country, he was exhibited behind a locked cage, necessitated by his feral ferocity, where he would terrify onlookers by devouring chunks of raw meat." However, for reasons I could not ascertain, he ran away from the circus and spent a vague number of years mysteriously roaming about, supporting himself through a number of non-descript jobs. Eventually, he wound up in Gibsonton, where he took up a career in law enforcement and has spent the past four terms serving as sheriff.
MULDER: You're talking about Sheriff Hamilton?
SCULLY: I'm telling you that before becoming Sheriff Hamilton, James Hamilton was Jim-Jim, the Dog-Faced Boy.
(She hands him the picture given to her by the curator.)
<-SHERIFF HAMILTON'S HOUSE->
(Sheriff Hamilton is digging a hole in the front yard with a shovel. Scully and Mulder are in the bushes watching him. Hamilton looks up at the full moon, then cuts something, rubs it on his hand and throws it into the hole. He recovers the hole and walks inside. Mulder and Scully wait until he is gone, then walk over to the hole and start to uncover it. Mulder is using a shovel while Scully is playing look-out. Mulder stops and they whisper to each other.)
MULDER: You know, Scully, hypertricosis does not connote lycanthropy.
SCULLY: What are you implying?
MULDER: We're being highly discriminatory here. Just because a man was once inflicted with excessive hairiness, we've no reason to suspect him of aberrant behavior.
SCULLY: It's like assuming guilt based solely on skin color, isn't it?
MULDER: Yeah.
(They look at each other, then kneel down and start digging with their hands. Mulder takes out a napkin and puts the object in it. Hamilton walks out and shines a flashlight on them.)
HAMILTON: May I ask what you're doing?
MULDER: We're exhuming... your potato.
(He holds up the napkin with the sliced potato that Hamilton buried and they unearthed.)
HAMILTON: May I ask why?
(They stand.)
SCULLY: Sheriff, it, it's, it's been documented that many serial killers possess a fascination with police work, some of them even holding positions on their local force... so surveillance of investigation team members is often utilized as a precautionary...
MULDER: (interrupts) We found out you used to be the Dog-Faced Boy.
(He hands Hamilton the advertisement of the Dog-Faced Boy. Hamilton looks at it and smiles.)
HAMILTON: Boy, look how skinny I was back then.
SCULLY: So that is you?
HAMILTON: Oh, sure. I spent the first half of my life as Jim-Jim. Then one morning I noticed a bald spot on top of my head and realized I was not only losing my hair but my career as well. Eventually all the hair went... on top of my head, anyways. The rest of my body is still pretty hairy, which is why I never go to the beach.
SCULLY: That doesn't quite explain the potato.
HAMILTON: I got, uh... some warts on my hand.
MULDER: That doesn't quite explain the potato.
HAMILTON: To get rid of warts, you rub a sliced potato on your hand and bury it under a full moon.
(Mulder and Scully look embarrassed.)
Investigation isn't going too well, is it?
(Mulder throws the potato back in the hole.)
<-TRAILER PARK->
(The Conundrum walks along, a piece of paper in his shorts. The manager's dog starts barking at him, and he runs after it. After chasing it for a while, the dog runs into his doggy-door and the Conundrum slides after it, just missing it. Mister Nutt opens the door and looks at him. The Conundrum stands, ashamed, and hands him the paper with one of Blockhead's skull pins in it. Nutt looks at it, and it is a check with the name "The Conundrum" at the top. Nutt closes the door.)
NUTT: So, tell me, Commodore... why are the weirdos the only ones that pay their rent checks in advance?
(He walks away, but the dog continues growling and barking at the door.)
I warn you, you tattooed cretin, I have a licensed firearm and I'm more than eager for an opportunity to use it!
(He goes to open the door when the mutant's hand reaches out and grabs his ankle. He screams as he falls to the ground. The thing pulls his foot through the door and starts trying to pull Nutt through as he looks on in horror. He finally kicks it away and crawls back in. The mutant shoves its head through the door, screaming. Nutt screams as well.)
(A man with bloody hands unlocks the door and walks in, waking Scully up. She sits up in bed, pointing her gun. Lanny puts his bloody hands on her shoulders.)
LANNY: I found him. He's dead. He's dead...
(She looks at him, confused.)
<-MISTER NUTT'S TRAILER->
(Hamilton points out the blood on the outside of the doggy-door to Scully)
HAMILTON: Lanny says all of the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
(Inside, Mulder is looking at Nutt's body. Lanny is also there, standing off to the side in his robe.)
MULDER: Scully, come here!
LANNY: He was like a brother to me...
(Hamilton puts his hand on Lanny's shoulder. Scully kneels down next to Mulder.)
MULDER: I don't know if a contortionist can get through that doggy-door, Scully, but look at this...
(He shows her the skull pin, which is in Nutt's hand. Lanny starts screaming and banging on the door. Hamilton grabs him and turns him around.)
HAMILTON: Lanny! Lanny! Take it easy. You're going to hurt yourself.
LANNY: So what?
HAMILTON: So you might hurt me in the process.
(Scully looks a little disappointed. Lanny hugs Hamilton, who looks at the agents.)
He gets this way sometimes. I'll have to toss him in the drunk tank.
MULDER: We'll take Jeffrey Swaim into custody.
HAMILTON: C'mon, Lanny, let's go...
(They walk out. Mulder stands up and walks to the door.)
SCULLY: You know, Mulder...
(She stands.)
For a while there, I was beginning to suspect this case involved something a bit more, um...
MULDER: Freakish?
(She shrugs a little and nods, kind of like an embarrassed "yes.")
You really shouldn't complain about banality, Scully, when your main suspect is the human blockhead.
(He smiles and starts out.)
<-DOCTOR BLOCKHEAD'S TRAILER->
(Doctor Blockhead has attached hundreds of hooks into his chest. All of the hooks have ropes on them. He is adjusting them, sitting on a bed of nails when there is a knock on the door.)
BLOCKHEAD: It's open!
(Scully walks in, showing her badge, followed by Mulder.)
SCULLY: Mister Swaim, federal agents, we're here to qu...
(She stops, looking at him.)
BLOCKHEAD: It's a variation of an American Indian sun dance ritual. I suspend myself by these hooks and the pain becomes so unbearable I leave my body. If people knew the true price of spirituality, there'd be more atheists.
SCULLY: Mister Swaim, we're here to take you into custody to question you about some recent murders.
BLOCKHEAD: I don't answer any questions until I talk to my lawyer.
MULDER: Who's your lawyer?
BLOCKHEAD: I represent myself.
(Scully grabs his arm.)
SCULLY: Sir, if you're going to be uncooperative, I'll have to handcuff you.
BLOCKHEAD: What gives you fascists the right to do that?
(Scully stands him up and handcuffs him.)
SCULLY: Did I not mention we're federal agents?
BLOCKHEAD: Did I not mention I'm an escape artist?
(He throws off the handcuffs, puts them on Scully, pushes her into Mulder and runs out the door. Mulder, despite trying to stop his fall, falls onto the bed of nails.)
SCULLY: Mulder, are you okay?
MULDER: It's more comfortable than a futon.
(The door swings open and Sheriff Hamilton stands there, holding Blockhead by the roped hooks.)
HAMILTON: Hey... look what I caught.
(He gives the ropes a little tug.)
BLOCKHEAD: Ouch!
<-POLICE STATION->
(In the drunk tank, Lanny moans and groans. He has blood on his hands still, and his eyes open when he ears a slithering sound. He looks onto the ceiling and sees something horrific.)
LANNY: What the hell?
(The thing on the ceiling squeals happily as it crawls to the window. Lanny screams.)
No! No!
(Hamilton leads Blockhead into the station by the arm. Mulder and Scully follow quickly.)
BLOCKHEAD: This has all the makings of one of those mistaken identity, miscarriage of justice things that prove so popular on "60 Minutes."
(Hamilton sits him down. Mulder holds up a bag containing the skull pin. Hamilton sits at his desk.)
MULDER: Does this belong to you?
BLOCKHEAD: The fifth amendment of our beloved constitution says...
(He stops and everyone turns when they hear a high-pitched moaning.)
MULDER: What is that?
HAMILTON: It's Lanny in the drunk tank. He'll be all right once he sleeps it off.
(Scully is looking down the hallway at Lanny.)
SCULLY: No, I don't think he's going to sleep this one off.
(They all run over to Lanny's cell, including Blockhead, who is led by Mulder. They look at Lanny, who looks dead, blood on his hands. There is blood on the wall underneath the window.)
MULDER: There's been another attack.
HAMILTON: How could anyone have gotten in there?
SCULLY: No one got in, but some one got out.
(Lanny moans. Hamilton unlocks the door.)
MULDER: What are you talking about?
SCULLY: I'm not sure myself, Mulder, but I think we'll know more when we find Leonard.
MULDER: Leonard?
SCULLY: Lanny's brother.
(The agents walk in, followed by the others. Scully rolls Lanny over and pulls his robe away to reveal that Leonard is gone and there is a wound where he once was.)
HAMILTON: Oh, God, they extracted the twin.
SCULLY: No, the twin extracted itself.
(Mulder kneels down and looks at the wound.)
MULDER: But it's an appendage...
SCULLY: Yeah, Mulder... this wound is identical to the other victims' wounds. With one exception. He's not bleeding.
(Mulder stands.)
HAMILTON: If you're trying to tell me his twin brother can crawl out of his body and then go gallivant around town, you're as drunk as he is.
(Scully stands up.)
SCULLY: You said it yourself, Sheriff. It's what's inside that counts. I have a feeling that Lanny has an internal anomaly that allows his conjoining twin to disjoin
MULDER: But, how? H-how...
LANNY: How could I turn him in without turning myself in?
SCULLY: Lanny, why does he attack other people?
LANNY: I don't think he knows he's harming anyone. He's merely seeking... another brother.
(He moans, almost crying.)
HAMILTON: Are you in pain, Lanny?
(Lanny sits up.)
LANNY: It hurts. It hurts not to be wanted. I don't know why he hates me so. I've taken care of him for all of our lives. Maybe that is the reason why.
SCULLY: How long can he survive outside of your body?
LANNY: Long enough... to understand that you cannot change the way you were born. Don't worry. He'll come back. He always does. I'm still his only brother.
(Lanny lays back down.)
MULDER: Sheriff, we're going to need the paramedics.
(Hamilton runs off.)
Scully, you're the medical expert. If you think the twin can disengage, I believe you, but how mobile could such a thing be?
(Scully looks out the window and sees a small figure crawl along the ground quickly. The gate in the back swings open.)
SCULLY: Too mobile.
(Scully looks at him and runs out. Mulder follows. Blockhead looks at Lanny.)
BLOCKHEAD: So your twin can, uh...
(He makes a "going out" motion.)
(He makes a "coming in" motion. Lanny nods.)
What an act!
(Scully and Mulder run out of the gate to the nearest building, which is large and brown. They hear a snarling growl.)
SCULLY: I'll cover the back.
(She runs off and Mulder runs up the steps. He flicks the switch next to the door and the generator turns on. Taking out his gun, he opens the door and begins walking down the dark hallway. He peeks around the corner and sees Leonard crawl backwards down the adjacent hallway away from Mulder. Mulder aims his gun, but is too late. He runs that way and turns the corner. He runs down the next hallway. Turning the corner, he finds a dead end. He pushes against it, then heads back. Scully hears another growl then some footsteps. She turns the corner and points her gun.)
(A rumbling starts and a suspended mannequin with a head similar to Leonard's comes flying at her on a rope from the ceiling and stops, cackling and making strange noises.)
The funhouse.
(Mulder turns another corner and finds another dead end. He hears a growl and sees Leonard crawling away again. He runs down that hallway and quickly turns the corner, slamming into a wall. He staggers into the adjacent wall, which spins around, taking Mulder with it. Scully walks into the hall of mirrors. Everywhere around her, there are Scullys. She hears another growl and turns to see Leonard on the ground. She fires at him but only ends up breaking the mirror that reflected him. She looks at the shards and sees Leonard is nowhere around. She starts walking down a hallway and bumps into a mirror. Turning left, she walks down another hallway and Mulder slides out of a shaft in front of her. She instinctively points her gun, but steps back when she sees who it is.)
MULDER: I thought I heard a shot fired.
SCULLY: I think we better go outside and catch this thing coming out.
(She steps over Mulder and walks down the hallway. The agents run out and see Leonard crawling into the woods. They run down the road and point their guns at another small figure. The figure starts barking and they lower their guns.)
It's the manager's dog.
MULDER: The trailer park.
(The dog leads them through the forest.)
<-CONUNDRUM'S TRAILER->
(The Conundrum steps out of his trailer, carrying a garbage bag. He puts it in the can as Leonard sneaks up behind him. He turns and screams as the mutant jumps onto him and starts biting. Mulder and Scully run into the park, hearing screaming and shrieking. They come to the Conundrum's trailer and see him lying on the ground, looking a little bloated. They kneel down next to him.)
SCULLY: Are you all right?
MULDER: Have you seen a, uh... uh...
(He tries to show how big it is, but runs off in frustration, not expecting an answer. Scully runs off as well. The Conundrum looks at his stomach and rubs it as it gurgles contentedly.)
(In the morning, the sheriff is talking to a deputy. Scully is walking slowly towards the middle of the camp.)
HAMILTON: Uh, check out the area behind that trailer. Let me know what you find.
(The deputy walks off and Hamilton turns to Scully.)
Now, you're sure it was the twin you saw running around here. I mean, maybe it was the Fiji Mermaid and he jumped back in the river and swum his way back to Fiji.
(Hamilton walks away as Mulder walks up to her.)
MULDER: Now you know how I feel.
(Mulder keeps walking. Scully walks up to Doctor Blockhead, who is tying various pieces of junk to the roof of his car. The Conundrum gets into the front seat.)
SCULLY: You're taking off?
BLOCKHEAD: With that thing still on the loose?
SCULLY: They've been searching for it all day. It can't have sustained itself for this long.
BLOCKHEAD: It will probably try to crawl back up into its brother.
SCULLY: No, his brother Lanny died last night. I already performed the autopsy on him this morning.
(Blockhead throws the rope over and walks around the car.)
BLOCKHEAD: So, I guess it's true, you can never go home again.
SCULLY: His body wounds were non-fatal. He died as a result of advanced cirrhosis of the liver.
(Blockhead starts tying things on this side.)
BLOCKHEAD: Oh, there's a moral to the story. Lay off the booze.
SCULLY: Well, his body possesses some anatomical discrepancies ... some offshoots of the esophagus and trachea that almost seem umbilical in nature and... I've never seen anything like it.
(Blockhead finishes tying.)
BLOCKHEAD: And you never will again. Twenty-first century genetic engineering will not only eradicate the siamese twins and the alligator-skinned people, but you're going to be hard-pressed to find, uh, a slight overbite or a not-so-high cheek bone. You see, I've seen the future and the future looks just like him.
(He points at Mulder, who is standing in front of a trailer in a classic model pose. Hands on his hips, one foot up on the step, looking off into the distance.)
Imagine going through your whole life looking like that. That's why it's left up to the self-made freaks like me and the Conundrum to remind people.
SCULLY: Remind people of what?
BLOCKHEAD: Nature abhors normality. It can't go very long without creating a mutant. Do you know why?
SCULLY: No, why?
BLOCKHEAD: I don't either, it's a mystery. Maybe some mysteries are never meant to be solved.
(He gets in the driver's side as Mulder walks over. He looks at the Conundrum, who looks sick.)
MULDER: What's the matter with your friend?
BLOCKHEAD: I don't know what his problem is. Maybe it's the Florida heat.
SCULLY: Hope it's nothing serious.
CONUNDRUM: Probably something I ate.
(He smiles at the agents and the two freaks drive off. Scully and Mulder watch them go, then look at each other in realization.)
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May 26, 2018 May 14, 2018 ~ rossiroad
I thought that I might review the next arc in one whole post, but then episode one turned out to be one hour long! So I don't want to write what will probably be 2.5 hours of watch time into one post!
This is the first episode I'm watching without reading the same thing in the manga first and I will say that the episode held up a lot better. Explaining the game was actually interesting this time since I didn't know what it was! But the fact that what took about 15 minutes to explain in the show took 3 minutes to explain while I read the manga on the toilet in between watching the show and writing the post shows why I might not enjoy the shows explanation so much.
It's so strange at this point for people to be asking "what happens if we lose", we all know what happens when we lose! Don't ask, we know by now!
The lighting actually seems decent this time but the setting isn't great. The manga always nails the setting well and this show always screwed it up! The manga is set in a classroom while the show is in a huge building which looks crazy. It would have been way easier to keep the setting the same so this change is baffling.
Also this show makes everything look dramatic to a laughable extent. There is at least 3 minutes of reaction/dramatic shots in this episode and that's generous! It felt like 6 minutes honestly! If its wasting 3 minutes every episode then that means they could have made another episode of the contraband game instead! That arc really needed another episode. Then again they could also have added two episodes to the arc by skipping recap episodes so maybe my priorities aren't that straight.
So the rules of the game are that there are two teams of three. Each player plays one round of a game against another player and the one who wins two out of the three matches is the winner!
We all know how stories go with best out of threes, theirs always a last round. Meaning that they will either lose their first or second round. But it sort of spoiled the ending of its own story with this line up.
Their idea was that if they put both Akiyama and Mushroom head (who is the transvestite in the manga) first they would be able to win without having to rely on Nao. So since we know that Akiyama is basically invincible he will win so Mushroom head will lose and if he does win Akiyama will lose for no reason just to set up Nao. But that makes no sense since the games aren't revealed beforehand so there is no way Akiyama could possibly know.
Anyway I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. In the manga Nao has to continue the game through a revival round because she lost and is massively in debt. In the show Nao continues because she wants to save people she doesn't know from being in debt.
It really sucks that Nao doesn't know she sucks at everything. At least the manga Nao has some self awareness! She thinks she can come along and win for no reason! It makes no sense!
Alright the game this time is 24 round Russian roulette. Which looks ridiculous. There is a normal pistol with a rotation bullet storage which is huge! It's crazy. The main difference is that you have to place 3 bullets in each, have 6 turns, and you can pass up until five times where it's declared a draw. It costs money to pass and if the other player pulls the trigger and wins they get to scoop all the money up.
So as you can imagine there are ways to rig this game in your favour. The ones that I thought of at first were forcing passes and then scoping all the money that's left off the table. I knew bluffing would be a good idea or finding a way to see what bullets were in there were much better. But that's not really possible.
Now here's what I didn't get. The strategy of putting all three bullets in a line so if one bullet goes you know the next one is also loaded. That was something I might have thought of eventually but something that just sounded stupid to me was shuffling the gun. If all the bullets are in a similar place then they will be at the bottom of the bullet holder. It just sounds stupid.
But in my defense I did not see the Akiyama spin it, if Akiyama needed to spin it to test then how could I have worked it out! I don't mind leaving things a mystery but I hate it when things like this are left out. It's the worst feeling when a person gives you an idea you couldn't have possibly thought of. It's so more satisfying if you see the evidence, don't realise it, and then find out later how someone else could have put the puzzle together based on what you saw. It's the reason why Sherlock Holmes is such a successful book and why the TV adaptation completely sucks!
If we saw Akiyama spin the holder twice, with the bullets appearing in the same place or similar place it would have been possible to work out, yet not obvious, which would create a much more better twist because people are either like "Ohhh I see now." or "I knew it!" which is way more preferable to "How could I have possibly known that?"
I did get the bluffing that Mushroom head was doing very easily as well as the marks on the gun, it was a good idea!
The main mistake that I made while thinking about this game is not being able to shuffle it. I've never played Russian roulette before (thankfully) but I was already under the impression that you had to shuffle it, and I thought that's where the rigging would come into play. I would have liked somebody to come in and tell me, no that's not a thing.
It makes sense to think that first impression I think, but it also makes sense to not be able to shuffle it. If one player survives you could remember what location the bullet was in and never lose or something. It makes a lot of sense for either, but it would make the most sense if both parties shuffled, that's what the true randomness of Russian roulette is in my opinion. Also most guns aren't a whole spinning wheel that is effected by gravity.
The ending of the show was with Nao realizing a mistake that could have been made causing them to lose the game. Now I get to theorise what it could be. It would have to be more of an error of mushroom head than anything.
They should both have three layers of bullets one after the other according to the strategy so they know where all of them are. So they should all draw the round without anything extra happening since they both know they'll lose and it's most profitable. This means the only real way for Mushroom head to lose the game is if he shoots for some reason or if the other players didn't place all their bullets next to each other. Even then there would still be at best a 50% chance of them choosing the wrong option.
Also I was under the impression that the game ended after 6 rounds shot however it seems to be going on forever, which kind of sucks because our team had a lead!
Well through one way or another I'm sure the next team will win the round through the trickery mentioned and I will be impressed if the way they overcome it isn't one of these ways and also very annoyed if it's something stupid, or that 50% thing.
So yeah that's all I've got to say about this episode! And I'm very glad that I decided to review this individually because I have a lot to say, mainly this show isn't nearly as bad if you don't know what's going to happen whereas I think the manga will stay good regardless of whether you know what's going to happen and provide a different appeal. Heck I'm planning to go back and read the contraband game again myself just to understand it so I'm sure it holds up!
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Bannet says:
So glad I now know someone else who has read the manga and is watching the drama! (I'm assuming the j-drama version?)
Great manga, and I feel that when I watch a drama I expect everything to be cheesy and laughably so, but there are definitely cases like this that go just a bit to far in the ridiculous spectrum. I still enjoyed it though because I love the concept of the story~!
Yeah there's a lot to like about the live action version of the show. I often tend to get annoyed at it because it's paced pretty slowly compared to the original. In the show's defense I did a switch where I watched the show first and read the manga second and the show shined a lot better in that scenario because I didn't know everything that was going to happen.
Yes this is the J-drama version. I just found it on CR.
That's fair, kinda hard to not have a subconscious bias, in a way, when it's the first medium you watch/read of the story.
Are you thinking of watching the k-drama version? They change the story up a bit, which could give you a fresh perspective of the plot overall?
I am interested but I have no idea where to watch it. I would like to watch at least an episode to see what its like.
The thing is this liar game changes the story a little bit. Like all that stuff in minority game with the villain and how they cut nearly all of the contraband game out. So it would have to be good changes and not changes.
Ah good point. I can't remember where I watched it… May have been on Viki.
From memory the k-drama changes more of the story then it does the games, though there were games that from the manga that weren't added, as well as new games added.
I had forgotten all about this comment, sorry it was a long time ago.
That sounds like some cool changes. I think I'll have to check out some of it, if I remember. I'm not sure where to find it as well.
No worries, I just noticed I hadn't responded to it since you posted, so my bad!
If I find it again I'll keep you posted because I'd love to hear your opinion on the differences.
Nice. I'm wondering if it's on kissasian or something.
Maybe!
Tjohnson says:
Awesome review!

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Q: Angular 2 Parent afterViewInit fired before Child afterViewInit I have a parent container and a child component.
Child components are variable in number and are fetched off XHR request.
Parent Component:
@Component({
  selector: 'parent',
  template: `
     <child *ngFor="let c of children" [c]="c"></child>
   `
})
export default class ParentContainer implements AfterViewInit {
children: C[];

constructor(public api: Api) {
this.api.getC().subscribe(res => this.children = res);

ngAfterViewInit() {
  console.log('parent afterNgView');
}

Child Component:
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selector: 'child',
template: `

Child

`
})
export default class ChildComponent implements AfterViewInit {
@Input() c: C;

ngAfterViewInit() {
  console.log('child afterViewInit');
}

When I execute this I see parent afterNgView appear before all the child afterNgView logs. I was expecting the children ngAfterViewInit to execute first.
There must be a way to ensure all children are done loading before a parent handler is invoked. I looked through NG2 LifeCycle Hooks assuming the parent AfterViewInit would only get called after the children. That's not the case.
How can I get the children to inform the parent they are finished? There should be something out the box ... ?
This is a screenshot from NG2 LifeCycle Hooks guide (https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/lifecycle-hooks.html)

This is what I'm doing until I find something cleaner:
Parent Component:
@Component({
  selector: 'parent',
  template: `
     <child *ngFor="let c of children" [c]="c" (childIsLoaded)="childIsLoaded($event)"></child>
   `
})
export default class ParentContainer implements AfterViewInit {
children: C[];

constructor(public api: Api) {
this.api.getC().subscribe(res => this.children = res);

childIsLoaded() {
  console.log('Child\'s ngAfterViewInit Complete !!');
}

ngAfterViewInit() {
  console.log('parent afterNgView');
}

Child Component:
@Component({
selector: 'child',
template: `

Child

`
})
export default class ChildComponent implements AfterViewInit {
@Input() c: C;
@Output() childIsLoaded = new EventEmitter<any>();

ngAfterViewInit() {
  ...init code...
  this.childIsLoaded.emit();
}

In the above snippet, the child emits an event notifying the parent that its ngAfterViewInit fired. There must be something out of the box that does this for me ? Instead of me re-writing this child-notify-parent scheme for all my nested components .. ?

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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
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The average family wastes over $2000 per year due to lack of planning. Instead of being one of those families, my family saves money by living strategically.
At the start of the week, I plan my family's meals in order to maximize the use of my groceries. I choose meals with the same ingredients to prevent items from spoiling in the refrigerator and going to waste.
While planning the meals for the week, I use the Internet to find deals and printable coupons for the items on my list. Armed with a shopping list and matching coupons, I make better choices at the grocery store.
I am stronger than the pride that tries to prevent me from shopping for sales. Using coupons is fun because it is easy to do and saves me money. When I provide for my family's needs while saving money, I feel smart.
Each week, I also plan my family's activities so we can identify ways to best make use of our time as a family. I group car trips together in order to save time as well as money on gas.
My home is organized so I know where things are when I need to use them. The ability to find what I need with ease prevents me from purchasing items I already own simply because they are misplaced.
Today, I choose to pay attention to the small details of my affairs so I can identify areas where I can save time and money. I prepare my week in advance to refrain from wasting.
1. How can I make time to plan effectively for my week?
2. What three things can I do to save money that is currently being wasted?
3. What could my family do with the savings from being organized?


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Posts archive for August, 2018
The hardest part of starting up is starting out
Cool Holdings, Inc. Announces Another Opening of Its OneClick Apple Boutique Stores in Orlando, Florida
The Opening of this Official Apple® Premier Partner Store Further Expands OneClick's Relations with Simon Property Group. The Home of the 17th OneClick Store is Orlando's Most Trafficked Mall with Over 17 Million Annual Visitors
MIAMI, Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Cool Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ : AWSM ) announces the grand opening of its new Apple® OneClick® retail store in the Orlando International Premium Outlet Mall. The 1,500 square foot location will be an Apple® Premier Partner store and will offer the entire suite of Apple® products, as well as third party accessories complementing the customer experience. The store will provide service repairs to all product categories with a trained team of Apple-certified technicians.
Commenting on the new opening, Felipe Rezk, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Cool Holdings, Inc. stated: "We are extremely excited about the opening of this store in Central Florida, and, specifically, in the Orlando International Premium Outlet Mall that has over 17 million visitors each year. We are expanding our relation with Simon Property Group, one of the most important mall operators in the country. The new store brings our number of U.S. stores to four in Florida, including the two Miami stores located at Dolphin Mall and the Wynwood Art District, and our flagship store in Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise. We are in the process of a full renovation of our Dolphin Mall store and we anticipate the new concept will be ready around the Christmas season. We are very proud of our team of sales professionals, as well as our Apple-certified technicians, who are dedicated to providing each customer with the ultimate customer experience at all our stores. OneClick is committed to expand its footprint in North America."
The Company's 17 OneClick® retail stores are now comprised of 7 stores in the Dominican Republic, 6 stores in Argentina and 4 stores in the United States.
About Orlando International Premium Outlets
Orlando International Premium Outlets is Florida's largest outlet shopping destination spanning over 773,586 square feet and welcoming more than 17 million visitors annually. Located in the heart of Orlando's booming hospitality industry, the center is only 5 minutes from Universal Orlando Resort and 10 miles from Walt Disney World Resort. Visitors and locals will enjoy an array of more than 180 outlet designer and name-brand outlet stores including adidas, Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Tory Burch, Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Steve Madden, Salvatore Ferragamo, Michael Kors, Coach, kate spade New York, Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, St. John Outlet, Ted Baker London, Forever 21, Nike, Under Armour, Victoria's Secret (only outlet in market), Havaianas and Guess. In addition, Orlando International Premium Outlets offers 20 distinct dining options including Vinito Ristorante, a full-service Italian restaurant. Dining selections cater to wide variety of tastes including international flavors from Brazil and Latin America.
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Cool Holdings, Inc. Announces Completion of $11.4 Million Debt Exchange
MIAMI, August 16, 2018 – Cool Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWSM) today announced that it has completed an exchange of $11.4 million of outstanding debt and related accrued interest into approximately 3,110,000 units at a price of $3.68 per unit. Each unit was comprised of (i) one share of common stock or 0% Series A Preferred stock of the Company and (ii) a warrant to purchase one share of common stock of the Company with an exercise price of $3.56 per share. The warrants are exercisable beginning six months after issuance and expire three years from the date of issuance. Each share of preferred stock is convertible into common stock on a one-for-one basis. The exchange of units for outstanding debt and related accrued interest was made in reliance on the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Act., and all of the securities issued in the transaction are "restricted securities.," as defined in Rule 144(a)(3), promulgated under the Act. Following the transaction, the Company now has 7,202,284 common shares outstanding.
Commenting on the exchange, Mauricio Diaz, Chief Executive Officer of Cool Holdings stated: "We are pleased to complete this transaction that significantly enhances our capital structure, eliminates future debt service requirements and significantly improves our balance sheet. We are now moving forward with our plans to grow our chain of OneClick retail stores into new geographic regions and raise additional working capital to fuel sales growth."


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Recall petition launched in Meagher County
Recall petition launched as victim, law enforcement, county attorney butt heads
Recall petition launched in Meagher County Recall petition launched as victim, law enforcement, county attorney butt heads Check out this story on greatfallstribune.com: http://gftrib.com/29AlmCq
Kristen Inbody, kinbody@greatfallstribune.com Published 5:46 p.m. MT July 7, 2016 | Updated 5:50 p.m. MT July 7, 2016
Katherine Walter is collecting signatures on a recall drive against the county attorney. Her husband, Michael Walter, was beaten last year after confronting an angler on their ranch, and the attacker is accepting a plea agreement for a misdemeanor assault charge. She wanted him to be prosecuted with a charge of aggravated assault, a felony.(Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/KRISTEN INBODY)Buy Photo
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS – A recall petition seeks to unseat Meagher County Attorney Kimberly Deschene for her prosecution of a case in which a man was assaulted in a fishing access dispute.
Katherine Walter is leading the recall drive after her husband, Michael Walter, was beaten last year after confronting an angler on his ranch. Deschene is filing an application for an injunction against her Friday. Deschene said Katherine Walter "does not allege one fact from which she has personal knowledge. Nevertheless, she has begun a smear campaign to collect signatures for her defective campaign."
And the case has sparked allegations by Walter and others that Deschene, who is a bar owner as well as county attorney, treats DUIs with a slap on the wrist. It's a claim Deschene denies.
County Attorney Kimberly Deschene (Photo: COURTESY PHOTO)
In August, Deschene filed felony aggravated assault and misdemeanor criminal trespass charges against Joe Davis Jr., 57. When a sheriff's deputy interviewed Michael Walter at the Mountain View Medical Center, they found his face badly swollen with blood on his mouth. Photos in the case file show bloody clothes and a blackened eye.
Michael Walter told the deputy he confronted Davis, a former Marine from Great Falls, and told him he didn't have permission to fish on his property, according to the Meagher County Sheriff's Department.
Davis "argued with Walter and then came over the fence onto Walter's property, while yelling profanities, and proceeded to hit Walter several times. Walter said that he was hit approximately 10 times around his eye and nose," according to the deputy's report.
Davis said "I'm going to end you" to Walter, and Walter "feared that he would be seriously injured or even be killed," according to the report.
Michael Walter eventually was able to subdue Davis, and Davis's girlfriend helped calm him.
Per a plea agreement this month, Davis is pleading guilty to assault and trespass, both misdemeanors. A misdemeanor charge has a max jail time of six months and a $500 fine.
Deschene said the Montana Attorney General's Office reviewed the case and agreed with her assessment that the case didn't meet the elements of aggravated assault.
"Assault is a serious charge. It was resolved correctly," she said. "Aggravated assault means serious bodily injury, lasting damage and a reasonable fear for your life in the attack."
An access dispute along Newlan Creek near White Sulphur Springs led to an assault charge against an angler. (Photo: TRIBUNE PHOTO/KRISTEN INBODY)
Katherine Walter said her husband does have permanent damage from the assault, nerve damage and shooting pains across his face. She said Deschene tried repeatedly to talk them into accepting the misdemeanor assault charge and didn't establish in the case how extensive the injuries were.
"He's had to see a dentist, an eye specialist, the emergency room, an injury specialist and a primary doctor," she said. "He keeps being revictimized by a county attorney who keeps dismissing his injuries as 'not that bad.'"
She said her husband has a mild temperament and wouldn't pick a fight against a county attorney so "that's why I'm filing the petition."
"Everyone kept saying they were sorry about what happened, but our county attorney wouldn't do anything," she said. "We gave up hope of having justice a long time ago, but we don't want this to happen to another family because the county attorney won't do her job."
She has 90 days to collect 206 signatures to proceed with the recall election. She's spent several hours in the past week gathering signatures in the Montana Roadhouse parking lot.
"If I have to knock on everybody's door in the city, I will do it," she said.
Deschene serves in a 20-hours-a-week position as the top county law enforcement official, county prosecutor and county legal adviser. A 2007 University of Montana Law School graduate, she also has a private practice.
In a court document seeking an injunction, Deschene said Katherine Walter yelled at her and said she would go to any lengths to see she lost her job. Deschene disputed her claims and said she failed to provide grounds for a recall.
Deschene has been elected twice, running unopposed. White Sulphur Springs has one other attorney, who is son to a county commissioner, and he doesn't want the job.
County Commissioner Ben Hurwitz said he has confidence in the county attorney. He's a rancher and sympathetic to the Walters. He knows what it's like to have strangers who want to hunt and fish on his land. He wouldn't want to have to deal with a hostile one.
"In this issue in particular, Kimberly's right," he said. "Walter was damaged. There's no doubt about it, but I don't want to see the county attorney take this on and lose. If she charges him with felony assault and loses, he walks away scot-free."
Davis had a clean record until this point. The assault charge will stay with him, Hurwitz said.
"I read the petition," Hurwitz said. He sighed. "It's got a bunch of stuff that is not true. There's a lot of real broad statements in the petition. I don't know how far it will go."
Deschene said the petition has no merit.
"I've explained this many many times I wasn't sure it met elements of the felony. She said if you don't charge it as a felony I'll make sure you lose you job. This is her making good on her threat," Deschene said.
"I'm so upset about this," she continued. "I was on the fence about whether it met the elements so I sent the file to the attorney general's office. I wasn't going to carry on with forcing the felony charge when someone with that much more experience is saying it's not a felony."
Among Katherine Walter's arguments for the recall petition are complaints that Deschene didn't keep them sufficiently informed about court proceedings, made comments about the case on social media and allowed family and employees to do the same, didn't collect enough witness/doctor statements and doesn't recuse herself when cases involve a conflict of interest.
Deschene denied that she failed to protect confidential information. In the filing for an injunction, she documented emails informing the couple about court proceedings and said she has never been unprepared for a trial in her eight years of practicing law.
Katherine Walter said Deschene is "putting our residents at risk." Particularly, she zeroed in on Deschene owning Bar 47 and also being in charge of prosecuting DUI charges.
"People are doing whatever they want and there's no justice for them," she said.
In November, Sheriff Jon Lopp told Meagher County commissioners that he gave his deputies a verbal warning after they complained that they don't see the point of making stops and investigating cases when the county attorney won't prosecute, according to meeting minutes.
Lopp called his deputies frustrated with the way things operate in Meagher County, particularly in the county attorney's office, and noted a deputy had left for Gallatin County, which also offers significantly higher pay.
Lopp told the deputies it is their duty and obligation to continue enforcing the law when it is violated, according to minutes from the Nov. 3 meeting.
About half the DUIs in the county go through the justice of the peace and half through municipal court, Lopp said. He sees a big discrepancy between the two, with county charges pleaded down to lesser charges more readily.
"We're just doing our job," he said. "I don't want my office getting sucked into the petition to recall thing. We do our job the best we can and go from there."
When asked if he thought it was appropriate for a county attorney to own a bar, Lopp said, "No." When asked if he or the men of his office hated her, he said, "If she feels that way, that's too bad. Hate is a pretty strong word."
Hurwitz said commissioners have had sessions with law enforcement and Deschene so they will be able to work together.
"It's not been very successful. We've tried. We can only do so much," he said. "The sheriff's department has always been upset with her because she owns a bar. It goes against their grain."
The justice of the peace also owns a bar, in Ringling, and "they're both doing fine," he said. "They would recuse themselves if something happened in their establishments. It hasn't been a problem."
Hurwitz said DUIs are prosecuted with appropriate vigor.
Elected officials "have discretion. The sheriff has discretion on who he charges and arrests. So does the county attorney," he said. "There's natural-born conflict there."
Deschene said she's been the victim of a "whisper campaign" that's based on lies and been difficult to defend against.
"I don't know how to fight back when it's all behind closed doors," she said.
She's relied on second opinions from the attorney general's office and retired judge and former county attorney Nels Swandal of Wilsall was made a deputy county attorney so he could review her cases. Swandal said he hasn't visited her office since 2015 but they still email back and forth and talk on the phone about cases.
Swandal hasn't looked at the DUIs. He said it's not uncommon for county attorneys and justices of the peace in smaller counties to have other sources of income, from law practices to ranches.
"She has four children. That's expensive," he said, adding that he trusted Deschene's judgment.
"She thoroughly reviews the cases I've seen, analyzes them and tries to do what's just, not that everyone agrees with her," he said. "I learned as a county attorney, you can't please everybody."
The deputies "absolutely hate me," Deschene said. "When I bought the bar, they said they would make sure this wasn't going to work for me. They complain about us to the liquor board all the time. We're being scrutinized to a higher standard, and we've just had to take it. We can't ever make a mistake where others might get a free pass."
Deschene said she thought hard before she bought the bar, which was on the market for two years. A Main Street business, it needed someone who could turn it around. Now it employs 17 people, and she's proud of what she's done with the business.
"It's totally untrue that I don't prosecute DUIs. I've convicted many people of DUIs. Whether or not I own a restaurant in town hasn't impacted my decisions," she said.
No one else wanted to be county attorney. No one else wanted to take on the business, she said.
"They can get rid of me, but I'm doing an honest, good job. I'm fair, reasonable and ethical. I take care to do the right thing," she said.
Reach Tribune Staff Writer Kristen Inbody at kinbody@greatfallstribune.com. Follow her on Twitter at @GFTrib_KInbody.
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EFF councillor allegedly resigns after labelling party "thieves and liars"
A council sitting in Cape Town descended into chaos on Thursday, when EFF councillor Xolani Cekiso is said to have resigned from his party in fury.
There was a stormy session of Cape Town's Council on Thursday, which apparently ended with a dramatic resignation from EFF Councillor Xolani Cekiso. The chamber had gathered to discuss issues regarding water and sanitation before this incident is said to have occured.
Several councillors have stated that the walk-out happened with Cekiso branding the red berets "thieves and liars". The scene was reminiscent of what we saw during "de Lille-gate" in October 2018. At these same chambers, five DA councillors dramatically resigned in solidarity with Aunty Pat, after the ex-mayor had gone to war with party executives.
We were stonewalled by local EFF representatives in the Western Cape when we approached them for comment, but the office of Metro Chairperson Grant Twigg acknowledged that Cekiso did make a stand against the party.
The Civic Centre in the Mother City was a hotbed of political activity on Thursday, as residents of informal settlements descended upon the venue to make their grievances felt. Demanding an audience with Mayor Dan Plato, police eventually used stun grenades when the crowds got too boisterous.
However, the demonstrators got their wish when Plato came to confront the crowds, vowing he would visit regions in Kraaifontein and Khayelitsha to ensure that service delivery would improve for the disadvantaged citizens.


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Changed cutter bar oil, greased, and replaced any worn bearings. Small wear hole on back shield other then that machine in nice shape. 2009 John Deere 835 MoCo - mower in good condition, 11' 6" cut width, 1000pto, center pivot hydro-swing, impeller conditioners.
New Kuhn FC3160TLD mower conditioner, In stock!
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Turmeric: Health Benefits or Hype?
GMO foods are to be avoided of course. To learn them see the graphic below. These contain genetically modified ingredients, Glyphosate and the most chemicals.
Certified Non-GMO foods with Glyphosate - Bad News. A whole new generation of non-GMO foods with Glyphosate is getting certified. The public is demanding non-GMO, so these toxic foods are getting approved. I see them filling grocery shelves and flying under the radar. Marketed as healthy, they contain plenty of herbicides and pesticides. Don't buy them. Let food manufacturers know we want CLEAN ORGANIC FOOD.
Organic foods are free of GMO's, Glyphosate and other farming chemicals. Hooray! For health and long life buy Organic. You may pay a bit more, but you'll save even more on health costs, and benefit with a healthy mind and body.
How Much Life Force is in Your Food?
How Much of Your Food Do You Actually Absorb?
Is GMO-free Safe to Eat? NO! Many non-GMO foods harvested with Glyphosate!
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Nigeria signs $30 billion industrial revolution agreement with investment partners
By Footprint to Africa	 February 11, 2019 No Comments
The Nigerian Government signed a $30 billion agreement to foster industrial revolution in the country and boost export earnings from made in Nigeria products.
The agreement, which was signed in the Council Chambers of the State House, marked the formal preparation for the take-off of Nigeria industrial revolution plan as conceived in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
The investment partners who co-signed the agreement with the federal government were Africa Export and Import Bank (AFREXIM), Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), African Development Bank (AFDB), Bank of Industry (BOI), and the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).
The project, which was tagged Made in Nigeria for Exports (MINE), will designate three different parts of the country as special economic zones. The three places named were Enyimba Economic City, in Abia State, Funtua Cotton Cluster in Katsina State and Lekki Model II in Lagos State.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who spoke at the signing ceremony, said Project MINE was conceived to position Nigeria as the pre-eminent manufacturing hub in Sub-Saharan Africa and a major exporter of made in Nigeria products to the West African sub-region, the entire Africa and the World.
The president also revealed that the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) project had been championed by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelahmah but under his direct supervision.
According to Buhari, the project was designed to boost the country's manufacturing share of the gross domestic product (GDP) to the tune of 20 percent, generate $30 billion in annual export earnings and create 1.5 million jobs by 2025.
He added that to achieve this, the Nigerian Government was offering investor- friendly incentives, up-to-date infrastructure and ease of doing business with a view to attracting local and foreign investments.
Buhari called on experienced special economic zone developers and operators to partner with Nigeria, with the overall goal of upgrading the existing free trade zones in Calabar and Kano owned by the government.
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Trump aides already regret releasing damning Ukraine call readout: report
Brad Reed
Donald Trump during the first presidential debate (Screenshot)
Aides to President Donald Trump who pushed him to release the damning readout of a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are already feeling buyer's remorse.
Just one day after the release of the readout, sources tell Axios that Trump aides sincerely believed that releasing it would put an end to the scandal that has engulfed the White House for the past two weeks.
Even though the president explicitly asked his Ukrainian counterpart to launch an investigation of potential 2020 rival Joe Biden, aides apparently believed that Trump would be exonerated because he didn't specifically threaten to hold up aid to the country unless they did his bidding.
"It puts the whole quid pro quo to bed, but trades it for several other issues," one administration official tells Axios, despite the fact that the readout itself does not disprove that there was a quid-pro-quo arrangement.
Another source tells Axios that Republican lawmakers who got a sneak peek at the transcript similarly didn't think it would be a problem for the president.
"The sense was that the transcript didn't come close to living up to the hype Democrats had set up, and didn't remotely approach impeachable," the source explains.
Despite their confidence, however, support for impeachment proceedings only grew in the wake of the readout's release.
On Wednesday, Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard reported that former President George W. Bush privately told House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that he is "the savior" because of his kingmaker role in the Democratic primary that cemented the nomination for President Joe Biden.
"You know, you're the savior, because if you had not nominated Joe Biden, we would not be having this transfer of power today," Bush reportedly told Clyburn, adding that Biden was "the only one who could have defeated the incumbent president."

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These comments would be one of the strongest rebukes made by Bush against former President Donald Trump, whom he reportedly disliked but typically avoided criticizing by name.

A spokesman for Bush, Freddy Ford, downplays this characterization of events, saying that Bush only told Clyburn he helped Biden get elected and was not editorializing on the former president.

Biden's campaign struggled early in the primary, receiving poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. He took the lead after a blowout win in South Carolina driven largely by Black voters, soon after Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black congressman, gave a full-throated endorsement.

Police arrested Samuel Fisher on Wednesday morning for his participation in the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Fisher had bragged about his role in the attack and bringing firearms to the city.
The Daily Beast reported goes by "Brad Holiday" in the right-wing conspiracy world. He is being charged with disorderly conduct on restricted grounds and unlawful entry. It was the New York Daily News, that announced Fisher had an "arsenal of ammunition, tactical gear, two machetes, an American flag, and at least one shotgun."

Fisher posted several photos of himself inside the Capitol on his social media and bragged about his role in the attack. When he was asked if he was on the "frontlines," the Daily Beast noted that he answered: "It was awesome. It was dangerous and violent. People died...but it was fucking great if you ask me….i (sic) got tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed."

He continued: "Seeing cops literally run ... was the coolest thing ive (sic) ever seen in my life. Cant (sic) divulge too much here...but fuck the DC police. In all seriousness and get ready."

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After being sworn into office at noon Wednesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Americans from across the country to sing, dance and play music on the National Day of Unity.
Biden's proclimation reads:

"Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy after an election that saw more Americans voting than ever before in our Nation's history, and where the will of the people has been heard and heeded.

"We do so at a moment of great peril and promise for our Nation. A once-in-a-century deadly pandemic. A historic and deepening economic crisis. Calls for racial justice some 400 years in the making. A climate crisis with force and fury. We also feel the rise in political extremism and domestic terrorism –- unleashed just days ago on our Capitol, the citadel of freedom, but brewing long before –- that we must confront and defeat.

"Yet in this dire moment, democracy prevailed. On this day, we set our sights on the Nation we know we can and must be. I am honored to do so alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman who has taken the oath to serve in elected national office, and who will not be the last. Together, we know that to overcome the challenges before all of us, to restore the soul of America, requires the beating heart of a democracy: Unity.

"With unity, we can save lives and beat this pandemic. We can build our economy back better and include everyone. We can right wrongs and root out systemic racism in our country. We can confront the climate crisis with American jobs and ingenuity. We can protect our democracy by seeing each other not as adversaries but as fellow Americans. For the world to see, with unity we can lead not just by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.

"As we start the hard work to be done, I pray this moment gives us the strength to rebuild this house of ours upon a rock that can never be washed away. And, as in the Prayer of St. Francis, for where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where there is darkness, light.

"On this Inauguration Day I swear an oath to be a President for all Americans and ask every American to join me in this cause of democracy. May this be the story that unites us as fellow Americans and as the United States of America.

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2021, a National Day of Unity and call upon the people of our Nation to join together and write the next story of our democracy –- an American story of decency and dignity, of love and of healing, and of greatness and of goodness.

"IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth. "

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Bell's Weekly Messenger
Ceased publication
Bell's Weekly Messenger was a British Sunday newspaper that began publication on 1 May 1796, under proprietorship of John Bell.[1] Initially a Sunday paper, from 1799 the London edition was reprinted on Monday for nationwide distribution.[2] By 1803, it was selling 6,000 copies a week, at sixpence a copy.[3] In 1799 there was even an augmented reprint of the previous year's editions, under the title Bell's Annual Messenger, printed for international distribution under the auspices of the East India Company.
From its inception in 1799 the Monday edition carried information on agricultural markets in the U.K. Although Bell's Weekly Messenger began as a general weekly, after it acquired in 1832 Evans and Ruffy's Farmers' Journal it gave extensive coverage to agricultural affairs and was for many years the leading agricultural newspaper in the U.K.[4][5][6]
The newspaper continued under the title Bell's Weekly Messenger until March 1896, after which it was continued as Country Sport.
In 1832 the first recorded British newspaper cartoon was published in Bell's New Weekly Messenger.
James Grant. The Great Metropolis. Third Edition. Saunders and Otley. Conduit Street, London. 1838. First Series. volume 2. p 128 et seq. Reprinted in Foster's Cabinet Miscellany, New York, Theodore Foster, 1838, volume 1, p 227 et seq.
^ A Catalogue of Books, Newspapers, &c. Printed by John Bell, of the British Library, the Morning Post, Bell's Weekly Messenger, &c. [...] Exhibited at the First Edition Club, London, 15 April-May 5, 1931 (London, 1931).
^ Prospectus. ESTC citation no. T124125.
^ J. C. Reid, Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England (London, 1971), p. 28.
^ Morison, Stanley (2009). "The Weekly Messenger as an agricultural newspaper". John Bell, 1745-1831: A Memoir. Cambridge U. Press. p. 54.
^ Evans and Ruffy's Farmers' Journal, National Library of Australia
^ Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa (eds.). "Bell's Weekly Messenger". Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. p. 47.
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