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Gnon wills it.
Trump cannot get stuff done, because he is merely president, and the permanent government is full of people that hate him.
But it is not just the permanent government. His political appointees are in bed with his enemies, and are subverting his agenda. Two years after Hitler was elected, Hitler had a Nazi running ever boy scout troop and every trade union chapter. Trump cannot even get a Trumpist running border security.
The one area where Trump has been successful is putting his people in the judiciary. Trumpist judges, though still massively outnumbered, are coming in at every level. Trump has been effective in appointing judges, because he has a big bench he can draw upon, which bench knows who whom, which bench is self policing, which bench can be relied upon to carry out his program without him needing to be on their back. Personnel is policy, and the Federalist society has a supply.
Reflect on the Federalist society: They have their article of faith – original intent. And they have a network to identify their fellow faithful. Just as Constantine adopted Christianity that provided him with a cohesive group to staff his government, in a Roman Empire disintegrating from elite incohesion.
To govern, you need a synthetic tribe, which Hitler had, which Constantine adopted, and which Trump lacks, except for the federalist society which is narrowly focused on judicial process.
The Federalist article of faith (Original Intent) that provides unity and cohesion is also an effective antibody against enemy outgroups. It is something no leftist can admit is even thinkable – to them, just words with no meaning that they dare conceive of. So when leftist entryists attempt to infiltrate the Federalists, they use their shibboleths incorrectly, like a Marxist purporting to be channeling Adam Smith, and wind up babbling random nonsensical meaningless scripted formulaic NPC gibberish.
We, on the other hand, agree with the leftists, that original intent is not really going to fly, while we agree with the Federalists that judges exercising executive, legislative, budgetary authority is intolerable. One emperor is a stationary bandit. A thousand little emperors is mobile banditry and anarcho tyranny. We, however, propose a solution far more radical than that of the federalists – that the final court of appeal should be the Sovereign, should be Moses, the King, or the President, and he should be able to intervene in any case, and fire any judge. We also propose William the Conqueror's "forms of action", meaning that judges should be reduced to data entry clerks filling out forms that result in remote procedure calls to a system of central databases, similar to the system used by Australia's border control force for dealing with "Illegal persons". (Australian Border Force is Judge Dredd with more typing required than Judge Dredd had to do, but the same refreshing speed, efficiency, and absence of lawyers and priestly robes as with Judge Dredd.) William the Conqueror's "Forms of action" kept judges in line for seven hundred years, and modern databases and remote procedure calls make William the Conqueror's solution lightning fast, so that it can be applied by a cop on the beat, after the fashion of Judge Dredd and the Australian Border Force.
We have our mailing lists and forums, like the federalist society. What we don't have is some articles of faith, a canon, a creed, a catechism. Constantine's Christians had a creed. Trump's federalist society has one. By getting agreement on certain principles, we can identify our fellow faithful, we can provide a tribe capable of governing. Our basic plan is that someone grabs power, needs a tribe to actually govern. Ideally, a warrior grabs power at gunpoint, swiftly discovers that guns do not suffice, realizes he needs a priesthood, looks around for a priesthood, finds us, as Constantine found Christendom, and Trump found the Federalist Society. When Trump appoints someone in charge of border security, he does not necessarily get someone who favors border security. When Trump appoints a Federalist Society judge, he reliably gets a Federalist, as Constantine reliably got a Christian, and Hitler reliably got a Nazi.
The political appointees that Trump appoints are frequently disloyal to Trump and hostile to his agenda. The Federalist Judges he appoints are loyal to federalism, thus reasonably loyal to Trump and supportive of his agenda. Indeed the left regularly complains that federalist judges are more supportive of Trump and his agenda than they are to federalism, which is not true, but has a substantial grain of truth in that federalist judges appointed on the basis of their federalism are more supportive of Trump and his agenda than are political appointees appointed on the basis of loyalty to Trump and his agenda. The Federalist society polices itself. Trump is not having much success policing Trump political appointees.
We are the reaction. Our program is to rectify social decay by reviving ancient and lost social technologies, among them Pauline marriage. These ancient social technologies tend, for the most part, to be social technologies preserved by Christianity through the Dark Age following the collapse of the Roman Empire, and by the Children of Israel through the dark age following the collapse of Bronze Age civilization, thus our program is Christian – old type Christian. Modern type Christians tend to assimilate to progressivism and worship demons.
There is a lot of stuff in the New Testament that can plausibly be used to justify gnosticism, communism, and suicidal social policies, stuff that is plausibly interpreted as opposed to family, social cohesion, and civilization "There is neither Jew nor Greek". But those variants of Christianity that survived have given sane, Gnon compliant, survival consistent, interpretations of these statements, banishing the crazy from this world to the next. After the resurrection there will be neither Jew nor Greek, neither man nor women, but in the here and now, women should obey their husbands. The New and Old Testaments, as generally interpreted by the community of saints in the apostolic succession, is sound social technology. It commands a market economy, durable marriage, and the authority of husbands and fathers over wives and daughters.
Nature's God is the Gods of the copybook headings. The God of the Old and New Testament keeps getting reinterpreted as the Gods of the marketplace, but the ancient and long lasting Christian tradition is expressed by those copybook headings – Natures God, a God who in the fall instituted evolutionary psychology and a world of conflict accurately described by game theory. The curse of Eve explains the distressing female behavior also explained by evolutionary psychology, but people who are reluctant to believe in On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, for example Vox Day, tend to interpret away the Curse of Eve and become blue pilled, or at best purple pilled, on women. I have often sarcastically remarked how in Vox Day's books Action Girl is apt to rescue the Lad in Distress. Darwin protects us from that heresy better than overly literal biblical literalism.
So: here are the articles of the Canon:
Division of powers, divided sovereignty does not work, more rulers means mobile banditry and anarcho tyranny. A stationary bandit has better incentives than a mobile bandit.
You cannot separate state and church. The church will undermine the state and take state power for itself, or the state subvert the church, or both at once. Harvard is our high holy Cathedral. A holiness spiral ensues as the priestly classes, the professoriat, the judiciary, and the media, pursue power by each being holier than the other. Obviously we have a state religion, a state religion that every day becomes crazier, more dogmatic, and more intrusive, and that state religion needs to be formalized and made official so that the high priest and grand inquisitor can stop holiness spirals.
When Charles the Second was restored, the people of England held pagan celebrations, in the correct expectation that an officially official religion would be less repressive than an unofficially official religion.
The earthly telos of holiness is to promote the broadest possible cooperate/cooperate equilibrium. Holiness competition results in people finding grounds to declare other people unholy, thus Starbucks and LucasFilms declare their customers unholy, thus holiness competition destroys the earthly telos of holiness. Therefore we cannot allow excessively holy people to gain power in the state religion. Which requires that the state religion be formally the state religion, and appropriate restraints applied.
Freehold necessarily involves and requires rejection of the principle of equality before the law, and property rejection of equality of outcomes. Not all men were created equal, nor are women equal to men, nor is one group or category of men equal to another. Stereotypes are stereotypical, because the stereotype is usually true for most individual members of the group or category.
We have never had equality before the law, and are having it less every day. Cops have a special right to use violence, blacks have a special right to use violence and to not be insulted, similar to that of the traditional aristocracy, Hispanics and illegal immigrants in California have a special right to use violence and to not be insulted.
State building is coalition building to rule. We need a coalition of the smart, the cooperative, and the productive, ruling the stupid, the disruptive, and the destructive. The doctrine of equality means you cannot reward the elite with status? What! Of course the ruling elite is going to be rewarded with status, and that is exactly what is happening.
The ruling elite always gets rewarded, the ruling coalition always gets rewarded. Members of the ruling coalition always get a superior right to use violence, and a superior right to not be insulted. That is the way it is, and that is what we saw when white people were ethnically cleansed out of Detroit. The doctrine of equality before the law was always a lie intended to destroy the coalition of the smart, the cooperative, and the productive, to guilt the best people into surrender, so that they could be destroyed by a coalition of the worst.
Freehold means that we acknowledge that some state power is in fact private property, and the sovereign lets his loyal vassals enjoy their privilege, because if he tries to meddle, he will be overwhelmed by detail and complexity, so best to formalize that privilege and make it official. If we don't have the aristocracy that so offended the founding fathers, we find ourselves with blacks exercising aristocratic privilege over whites. Equality before the law is an unworkable ideal, hypocritically betrayed in actual practice. Some people are going to be unjustly privileged. Let us try to make it the best people rather than the worst people, and try to make it the people that the state draws is wealth and coercive power from, rather than the people who sponge off the state.
The immense biological and reproductive differences between men and women means that they can only cooperate for family formation on asymmetric, unequal terms. The wife has a duty to honor and obey, the husband to love and cherish. To ensure cooperation between men and women, the state, the family, society, and religion have to force men and women who sleep together to stick together, to force them to perform their marital duties, to force the man to cherish and the woman to obey, otherwise you get defect/defect, and reproduction and family become difficult for both men and woman.
For hypergamy to be eugenic rather than dysgenic, taxpayers and warriors need to have a special right to use violence and to not be insulted. For marriage to work, pimps, sluts, and whores need to have a substantially less protection against violence, insult, and rape. For marriage to be incentive compatible for women it has to be simply legal for a respectable man to chain a slut up in his basement, and if she does not want to risk that outcome, she needs to sign up in a nunnery or submit to husband. A right to protection should require chastity and/or submission to the authority of a husband or father. Sluts shall have legal authority equal to chaste women? What! This inevitably results in sluts being given legal status higher than that of chaste woman, and that is exactly what is happening. Wives, like whites, are very much second class low status citizens. We have an aristocracy, and black whores are at the top.
Women always wind up heading off the protection of the most alpha male around. If that is the protection of uncle Sam, you get what we have got.
You will notice that the doctrine that all women shall be equal required and led to the doctrine that all women are naturally chaste, enshrined in our current law on rape and sexual harassment, which presupposes that the primary person who is harmed by rape and sexual harassment is the woman, and the primary person who is going to object to it and be distressed by it is the woman, rather than the father, her biological kinfolk, and the husband. The transparent falsity and absurdity of this doctrine leads to the transparent falsity and absurdity of all rape and sexual harassment charges and convictions, as near to all of them as makes no difference. Legal equality necessitates and results in a denial of biological inequality.
Rape and sexual harassment laws that give women equal status to males are a problem, because in practice their resistance to rape and sexual harassment is a fitness test – they are pissed at you if you fail the test, not pissed by being successfully raped. So rape and sexual harassment charges based on the legal theory that these are crimes against the women herself, rather than her husband or family, always originate from failed shit tests – and the overwhelming majority of these failures do not involve rape and sexual harassment. What happens in the vast majority of cases, for all practical purposes all of them, is that a woman is sexually attracted to a man, hits him with a brutal and hard to pass shit test out of the blue, he fails, she feels creeped out, and comes to believe that something must have happened that legally justifies her feeling of being creeped out. In the rare and unusual occasions when they are based on an actual attempt at rape or sexual harassment, they are based not on the rape or the sexual harassment, but on the man failing her fitness test by retreating from her hostile response. They originate from male behavior that is not all that bad – just weak, the male trying something, but then retreating in the face of determined opposition.
We cannot give women the same legal right to protection against violence and insult as men, because they fail to cooperate in that protection. The best we can do is grant state backing for nunneries, husbands, and fathers protecting their wives and daughters, because husbands and fathers are are going to cooperate in that protection, and the male priests supervising the nunnery will cooperate in that protection. Violence and insult against women has to be handled as an offense against the male authority that cares for them, because if handled as an offense against the women themselves, the women are unhelpful, untruthful, deluded, and uncooperative, failing to report the kind of offenses that we want to suppress, and delusively reporting non offenses.
Men and women want families. Men and women want to cooperate to have families. But prisoners dilemma gets in the way. To fix the prisoner dilemma problem, need to hit women with a stick.
Anti discrimination law violates people's property rights. Google hates us, but the problem is not primarily too much capitalism, but too little. In the James Damore affair, Google's Human Resources Department (the Human Resources department being a tentacle of the state inserted into every corporation) threatened the board and the management of Google with a lawsuit for not hating us enough, issuing an official opinion that thinking forbidden thoughts constituted a "hostile environment for women". Because stereotypes are usually true, private individuals and corporations should be free to make use of the information expressed by stereotyping. The trouble with libertarians and libertarianism is that they support every socialist intervention that is destroying our lives and our economy.
Family law and anti discrimination law violates the fourth amendment and the seventh, eighth, and final commandments
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that thy neighbour's.
Anti discrimination law reaches into a man's property, and commands it to be applied to the good of the ruling coalition, and moment to moment consent to sex reaches into a man's marriage and abolishes marriage.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The state deciding whether James Damore's thoughts constituted a "hostile environment for women" is an unreasonable search if ever there was, and it is an obvious violation of private property rights that libertarians would get terribly excited by if the government was bothering a black serial murderer.
Technological advance and industrialization comes from Ayn Rand's heroic engineer CEO, mobilizing other people's capital and other people's labor. We first see this archetype appear immediately after the restoration, when Charles the Second made it OK to use the corporate form to get rich. Unfortunately, Ayn Rand's hero is not heroically on our side, contrary to what Ayn Rand promised. He unheroically endorses the official religion, knowing his property could be attacked if he does not. But we should keep in mind that this makes him merely the instrument of power, not power. When we are in charge he will support our official religion and scarcely notice the change in the slogans posted in the rec room, which formerly endorsed coveting what belonged to others and females adopting male clothing and roles, but will then condemn coveting and endorse males performing male roles and females performing female roles.
Rand's superman is not on our side. But he is not on the progs side. He is his own side, and this makes him largely irrelevant for political power, which requires cohesion.
The state can facilitate science by being a customer and buying high tech stuff. Indeed, a great deal of advance has come from the state seeking means to hurt people and break their toys, but when the state tries to itself advance technology, it usually turns out badly: Nasa could not build rockets. Kidnapped Wernher von Braun. Asked him how to build rockets. Still could not build rockets.
Nasa puts Wernher von Braun in charge. Now it can build rockets. Puts a man on the moon.
Wernher von Braun retires. New types of rockets don't work. Old types of rockets gradually stop working no matter how much government money is poured down the toilet.
Where did Nasa find Wernher von Braun?
Nazis kidnapped him from the German rocket club which they shut down.
Seems obvious that we would have wound up with a whole lot better rocket technology if the rocket club became, or spawned, a bunch of startups, one of them led by Wernher von Braun, and governments outsourced rockets. Which is what gave us the reusable booster that lands as a rocket should land.
Before Wernher von Braun, american government rockets did not work. After Wernher von Braun, government rockets gradually stopped working. And the rocket club, not the Nazis, and not NASA, found Wernher von Braun.
Radar and wartime electronics present a similar story. Harvard created a huge radar and counter radar program during the war – which led nowhere, as NASA's rockets went nowhere after Wernher von Braun retired.
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
Spandrel observes that religion is our genes looking for a tribe to join, and concludes We shall drown, and nobody will save us
Alfa NL observes that Spandrel is very clever, but the natural law arguments for marriage, the family, for desiring the survival of our personal descendants are kind of chilling, and it is a lot easier say that marriage, property, and the survival of our descendents is the will of God, and that the purpose of organized religion is not to be a synthetic tribe in which the tribe secures the genetic survival of its members, but to help its members follow the will of God. "God is a better sounding story than nihilism. I prefer the story of God. If that makes me a LARPer for holy status points in the eyes of Gnon's guardian, so be it."
Recall the wisdom of Heartiste, minion of Satan. In human affairs, irrational optimism will get you your way, while rational pessimism will not.
God wills our survival. We shall therefore win. We shall defeat those such as Merkle that wish to take all of us quietly and comfortably with them to their graves. We shall silence them and exile them forever from the seats of power. We shall tear down their temples and make their temples and their prophets damnatio memoriae, so that like the Amalekites nothing remains but the condemnation, the erasure, and the memory of their wrongs.
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HBO Dominates the TV DGA Nominations, Sweeping the Drama Category — Analysis
Nominations for "Watchmen" and "Succession" solidified their positions as 2020 Emmy contenders.
Libby Hill
After delaying the announcement of the group's final three TV categories due to voting issues, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) released its last batch of nominations on Friday, with just four networks splitting the 15 eligible slots in dramatic, comedy, and variety/talk/news/sports special.
Overall, it was HBO that came out ahead in the DGA Award nominations, sweeping the dramatic series category, with two nominations each for "Watchmen" (Nicole Kassell and Stephen Williams) and "Game of Thrones" (David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik), with Mark Mylod of "Succession" taking the final spot for his work on the show's superb Season 2 finale.
Were that not enough, the premium cable network nabbed two nominations in comedy, for Bill Hader's direction on "Barry," as well as showrunner David Mandel's work on the "Veep" series finale.
But HBO wasn't the only corporate content provider riding high after the announcement. Amazon staked its claim in comedy, with three nominations, all of which came from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Dan Attias, Daniel Palladino, and Amy Sherman Palladino). The Directors Guild seems to embrace the series more with each passing year, with the show earning one DGA nod for its first season, two for its second, and now three for its third outing.
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Meanwhile in the realm of variety/talk/news/sports special, nominations were split between ABC and Netflix. The only broadcast network nominated, ABC garnered noms for "Live in Front of a Studio Audience Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'" (directors James Burrows and Andy Fisher) and the 91st Annual Academy Awards (Glenn Weiss).
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Still, there are plenty of tea leaves to interpret from Friday's nominations. Double nods for "Watchmen" suggest that the Damon Lindelof-led series has serious long-haul Emmy potential. While the show was snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) — a group that tends to lag several years behind TV trends — it's now scored with both the DGA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), meaning it's not going unnoticed by Hollywood at large.
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Then there's "Mrs. Maisel," whose three nominations are impressive enough, but whose competition at the DGA Awards is ineligible for the 2020 Emmy Awards, making it the far and away frontrunner — at least for now.
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All of Friday's DGA TV nominations can be found here, with previously announced categories found here.
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Q: How to get the text from current cell in datagridview textchanged event? i am making a windows form application in which i used a datagridview.
i want that when i write something in textbox in datagridview,than a messagebox appears containing the string i wrote..
ican't get my text in textchanged event..
all thing must be fired in textchanged event..
here is my code:-
 void dataGridView1_EditingControlShowing(object sender, DataGridViewEditingControlShowingEventArgs e)
        {
            if (dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == 1)
            {
                TextBox tb = (TextBox)e.Control;
                tb.TextChanged += new EventHandler(tb_TextChanged);
            }
        }
        void tb_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //listBox1.Visible = true;
            //string firstChar = "";
            //this.listBox1.Items.Clear();
            //if (dataGridView1.CurrentCell.ColumnIndex == 1)
            {
                string str = dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells["Column2"].Value.ToString();
                if (str != "")
                {

                    MessageBox.Show(str);
                }
            }

A: void tb_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var enteredText = (sender as TextBox).Text
    ...
}

A: Showing MessageBox in TextChanged will be very annoying.
Instead you could try it in DataGridView.CellValidated event which is fired after validation of the cell is completed.
Sample code:
dataGridView1.CellValidated += new DataGridViewCellEventHandler(dataGridView1_CellValidated);

void dataGridView1_CellValidated(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
{
    if (dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value != null)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[e.ColumnIndex].Value.ToString());
    }
}

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Huge wealth of Rishi Sunak's family not declared in ministerial register
Juliette Garside
27 November 2020, 12:19 pm ·6-min read
The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is facing questions over the transparency of his financial affairs after a Guardian investigation established that his wife and her family hold a multimillion-pound portfolio of shareholdings and directorships that are not declared in the official register of ministers' interests.
Akshata Murty, who married Sunak in 2009, is the daughter of one of India's most successful entrepreneurs. Her father co-founded the technology giant Infosys, and her shares in the company are worth £430m, making her one of the wealthiest women in Britain, with a fortune larger than the Queen's.
Sunak is bound by the ministerial code, which requires him to declare any financial interests that are "relevant" to his responsibilities, and which could conflict with his duty to the public. Ministers must also declare those interests of their close family, including siblings, parents, spouse and in-laws, which might give rise to a conflict.
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But Sunak's entry mentions no family members other than his wife, and only refers to her ownership of a small, UK-based venture capital company. Research by the Guardian shows that Murty and her family hold many other interests, including:
• A combined £1.7bn shareholding in Infosys, which employs thousands of staff in the UK and has held contracts with government ministries and public bodies.
• A £900m-a-year joint venture with Amazon in India, through an investment vehicle owned by Murty's father.
• A direct shareholding by Murty in a UK firm which runs Jamie Oliver and Wendy's burger restaurants in India.
• Five other UK companies where Murty is a director or direct shareholder, including a Mayfair outfitter that supplies the tailcoats worn by pupils at Eton College.
Sir Alistair Graham, a former chair of the committee on standards in public life, which acts as a watchdog for UK public office holders, said it was vital that Sunak declare the financial interests of himself and his close family given "the chancellor's capacity to determine the government's financial and business policies".
"He seems to have taken the most minimalist approach possible to this requirement. Perhaps Rishi Sunak should carefully read the 'Seven principles of Public Life' to make sure he is fulfilling the two principles of 'Honesty and Leadership'."
Sunak and Murty have not responded directly to requests for comment. The Treasury said all the proper procedures for declaring interests had been followed, and that decisions about what to declare were not taken by ministers themselves but by civil servants and independent advisers.
A Treasury spokesperson said the prime minister's independent adviser on ministerial interests "confirmed he is completely satisfied with the chancellor's propriety of arrangements and that he has followed the ministerial code to the letter in his declaration of interests".
Ministers are held to a higher level of disclosure than MPs. The code of conduct states they must provide a "full list in writing of all interests which might be thought to give rise to a conflict". This list "should also cover interests of the minister's spouse or partner and close family which might be thought to give rise to a conflict". Advisers then decide what to put on the official list of ministers' interests.
Sunak and family's financial interests
After becoming chief secretary to the Treasury in July 2019, Sunak revealed for the first time that he was the beneficiary of a blind trust. He also included Murty for the first time, stating: "Mr Sunak's wife owns a venture capital investment company, Catamaran Ventures UK Ltd." There is no information about his own family or his wife's parents and siblings.
Catamaran represents just a small part of the interests held by the chancellor's wife. The source of her extraordinary wealth is a stake in Infosys, founded by her father NR Narayana Murthy (his children have dropped the "h" from their surname).
According to the Infosys annual report, Akshata Murty owns a 0.91% stake in the group; that stake is currently worth £430m. Each year, her shares entitle her to millions in dividends. Of all the family, only her brother, Rohan Murty, owns more of the company. The combined family holding is worth an estimated £1.7bn.
Murty's holding is not secret, and it is not clear why it was not declared in the register. The interest could be seen to present a conflict, because Infosys is a contractor to the UK government and publicly funded organisations.
Since 2015, the firm has won taxpayer-funded work worth £22m, according to filings on the government's contracts website. These include a £5m deal with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, awarded in 2018, which runs until 2021.
Infosys has also worked for the Home Office and has signed a framework agreement with Whitehall, which means it can be awarded contracts without competition. The company employs an estimated 10,000 staff in the UK, some of whom benefited from Sunak's furlough scheme.
The Murty family has invested part of the wealth created by Infosys through Catamaran Ventures, which takes stakes in growth businesses. It is understood Murty has no financial or legal interest in the Indian arm of Catamaran. However, the fund benefits other family members, including her father. One of its most successful deals is a partnership with the online retailer Amazon.
Together they own Cloudtail, one of the largest sellers on Amazon's Indian marketplace, with revenues of over £900m last year. The investment could be seen as a conflict of interest, given that the chancellor is responsible for decisions about how to tax large digital corporations, such as Amazon, in the UK.
Murty set up Catamaran's UK arm with Sunak in order to invest her private wealth. He transferred his shares to her just before entering parliament and she is now the sole owner. Through it, she has invested in a clutch of start-up businesses. What Sunak has not declared is that his wife also holds direct shareholdings – in her own name, rather than through Catamaran – in at least six UK companies.
She is an investor and director at the gentlemen's outfitters New & Lingwood, which measures Etonians for their tailcoats, and sells silk dressing gowns for £2,500 each.
Murty also holds shares in a UK business which operates Jamie's Pizzeria, Jamie's Italian and Wendy's outlets in India, the nanny agency Koru Kids, and gyms operator Digme Fitness, where she is a director. Both Digme and New & Lingwood have furloughed staff during the pandemic. Soroco, a software company co-founded by her brother, lists Murty as a director of its UK arm.
Before entering the Treasury, Sunak met the government's then head of propriety and ethics, Helen MacNamara, to decide what needed to be declared, a government source said. MacNamara reviewed the interests of Sunak and Murty and confirmed at the time, and again recently, that she was satisfied with what had been registered. Sir Alex Allan, the former independent adviser on minister's interests, also approved the disclosures, according to the source.
Allan resigned from his post last week following a dispute over the publication of a report into allegations of bullying by the home secretary, Priti Patel.
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Man Arrested For Pittsburgh Shoplifting Found To Be Texas Homicide Suspect
A man arrested for a shoplifting incident in Pittsburgh turned out to be a suspect linked to a homicide case in Texas, according to the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office via TribLIVE.
Joseph C. Tedder, 22, of Hutchinson, Kansas, was arrested by local Pittsburgh area authorities without incident on charges of shoplifting in Pittsburgh and fugitive charges for fleeing Texas on Wednesday (December 22) morning.
Pittsburgh Police responded to a reported incident at the Family Dollar in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood at around 7:30 p.m. in which a caller claimed they planned to fire an employee, identified as Tedder, who they said was shoplifting from the store.
The caller specifically requested assistance in order to make sure the firing could be handled without any additional issues occurring.
Police arrived at the scene and were told that Tedder fled the area once he realized they were coming.
A brief investigation revealed Tedder had been wanted out of Texas since early November in connection to a homicide case in which he was accused of going to an apartment to sell illegal drugs before gunshots were heard in the area.
One of the other two men wanted — both of whom sat in the car during the alleged drug deal — went inside to see what happened and found a man dead in the stairwell.
Pittsburgh Police contacted the Allegheny County Sheriff's Office for assistance and deputies located a vehicle on Brighton Road in Brighton Heights that Tedder had been spotted in previously at around 10:00 p.m.
Deputies entered the home — which they said the believed belonged to his brother — and arrested Tedder on the warrant from Texas.
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Chinese Sketches >
22: Celebration Of The New Year
China New Year!--What a suggestive ring have those three words for "the foreigner in far Cathay."[*] What visions do they conjure up of ill-served tiffins, of wages forestalled, of petty thefts and perhaps a burglary; what thoughts of horrid tom-toms and ruthless fire-crackers, making day hideous as well as night; what apparitions of gaudily-dressed butlers and smug-faced coolies, their rear brought up by man's natural enemy in China--the cook, for once in his life clean, and holding in approved Confucian style[+] some poisonous indigestible present he calls a cake!
[*] The title of Mr Medhurst's work.
[+] "In presenting gifts, his countenance wore a placid appearance."-- Analects: ch. x.
New Year's Day is the one great annual event in Chinese social and political life. An Imperial birthday, even an Imperial marriage, pales before the important hour at which all sublunary affairs are supposed to start afresh, every account balanced and every debt paid. About ten days previously the administration of public business is nominally suspended; offices are closed, official seals carefully wrapped up and given into the safe keeping of His Honour's or His Excellency's wife.[*] The holidays last one month, and during that time inaction is the order of the day, it being forbidden to punish criminals, or even to stamp, and consequently to write, a despatch on any subject whatever. The dangerous results, however, that might ensue from a too liberal observance of the latter prohibition are nearly anticipated by stamping beforehand a number of blank sheets of paper, so that, if occasion requires, a communication may be forwarded without delay and without committing an actual breach of law or custom.
[*] A universal custom which may be quoted with countless others against the degradation-of-women-in-China doctrine.
The New Year is the season of presents. Closely-packed boxes of Chinese cake, biscuits, and crystallised fruit, are presented as tributes of respect to the patriarchs of the family; grapes from Shansi or Shan-tung, hams from Foochow, and lichees from Canton, all form fitting vehicles for a declaration of friendship or of love. Now, too, the birthday gifts offered by every official in the Empire to his immediate superior, are supplemented by further propitiatory sacrifices to the powers that be, without which tenure of office would be at once troublesome and insecure. Such are known as _dry_, in contradistinction to the _water_ presents exchanged between relatives and friends. The latter are wholly, or at any rate in part, articles of food prized among the Chinese for their delicacy or rarity, perhaps both; and so to all appearance are the baskets of choice oranges, &c., sent for instance by a District Magistrate with compliments of the season to His Excellency the Provincial Judge. But the Magistrate and the Judge know better, for beneath that smiling fruit lie concealed certain bank-notes or shoes of silver of unimpeachable touch, which form a unit in the sum of that functionary's income, and enable him in his turn to ingratiate himself with the all-powerful Viceroy, while he lays by from year to year a comfortable provision against the time when sickness or old age may compel him to resign both the duties and privileges of government.
To "all between the four seas," patrician and plebeian[*] alike, the New Year is a period of much intensity. On the 23rd or 24th of the preceding moon it is the duty of every family to bid farewell to the Spirit of the Hearth, and to return thanks for the protection vouchsafed during the past year to each member of the household. The Spirit is about to make his annual journey to heaven, and lest aught of the disclosures he might make should entail unpleasant consequences, it is adjudged best that he shall be rendered incapable of making any disclosures at all. With this view, quantities of a very sticky sweetmeat are prepared and presented as it were in sacrifice, on eating which the unwary god finds his lips tightly glued together, and himself unable to utter a single syllable. Beans are also offered as fodder for the horse on which he is supposed to ride. On the last day of the old year he returns and is regaled to his heart's content on brown sugar and vegetables. This is the time _par excellence_ for cracker-firing, though, as everybody knows, these abominations begin some days previously. Every one, however, may not be aware that the object of letting off these crackers is to rid the place of all the evil spirits that may have collected together during the twelve months just over, so that the influences of the young year may be uncontaminated by their presence. New Year's eve is no season for sleep: in fact, Chinamen almost think it obligatory on a respectable son of Han to sit up all night. Indeed, unless his bills are paid, he would have a poor chance of sleeping even if he wished. His persevering creditor would not leave his side, but would sit there threatening and pleading by turns until he got his money or effected a compromise. Even should it be past twelve o'clock, the wretched debtor cannot call it New Year's Day until his unwelcome dun has made it so by blowing out the candle in his lantern. Of course there are exceptions, but as a rule all accounts in China are squared up before the old year has become a matter of history and the new year reigns in its stead. Then, with the first streaks of dawn, begins that incessant round of visits which is such a distinguishing feature of the whole proceedings. Dressed out in his very best, official hat and boots, button and peacock's feather, if lucky enough to possess them,[+] every individual Chinaman in the Empire goes off to call on all his relatives and friends. With a thick wad of cards, he presents himself first at the houses of the elder branches of the family, or visits the friends of his father; when all the seniors have been disposed of, he seeks out his own particular cronies, of his own age and standing. If in the service of his country, he does not omit to call at the yamen and leave some trifling souvenir of his visit for the officer immediately in authority over him. Wherever he goes he is always offered something to eat, a fresh supply of cakes, fruit, and wine, being brought in for each guest as he arrives. While thus engaged his father, or perhaps brother, will be doing the honours at home, ready to take their turn as occasion may serve. "New joy, new joy; get rich, get rich," is the equivalent of our "Happy New Year," and is bandied about from mouth to mouth at this festive season, until petty distinctions of nationality and creed vanish before the conviction that, at least in matters of sentiment, Chinamen and Europeans meet upon common ground. Yet there is one solitary exception to the rule--an unfortunate being whom no one wishes to see prosperous, and whom nobody greets with the pleasant phrase, "Get rich, get rich." It is the coffin-maker.
[*] Chinese society is divided into two classes--officials and non-officials.
[+] No matter whether by merit or by purchase.


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Evanston residents travel to Springfield for gun control rally
Rally participant Karla Thomas displays her sign, reading "enough is enough." Evanston residents went to Springfield to join other protestors seeking gun control.
Source: Nina Kavin
Catherine Henderson, Assistant City Editor
On Wednesday morning, more than 60 Evanston and Chicago residents hopped on a bus to the State Capitol in Springfield in response to recent gun violence, then watched the Illinois House of Representatives pass six gun control bills.
The travellers joined 500 people for a rally organized by the Illinois chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national organization advocating for what the group calls "common sense" gun control. In the same afternoon, the Illinois House of Representatives passed six gun control measures, banning bump stocks, raising the minimum age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to 21 and creating a gun dealer licensing system, among other reforms.
Nina Kavin — co-founder of Dear Evanston, a Facebook page discussing race and inequity in the city — organized a bus that left Evanston at 5 a.m. Kavin said participants visited state Reps. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) and Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) to thank them for supporting gun control legislation and joined other protestors for a rally in front of the capitol.
Kavin said some participants watched the proceedings as the House voted on gun control measures.
"There's a lot of energy on this bus," Kavin said. "I feel amazing at the outpouring of support for this bus trip. … You can look at all the people who are out there to support change and progress, and that's what I saw while organizing this."
Kavin said she was "ecstatic" about the measures passed Wednesday, and that it was a privilege to see the vote the day she was there.
Betsy Storm, co-leader of the Evanston chapter of Moms Demand Action, said it was a coincidence the House voted on gun control measures the same day of the rally. She said the organization planned their lobby day months before, but that it was a "present" for the advocates.
"Gun violence prevention work is difficult, challenging work," Storm said. "To see the fruits of your labor … in one day materialize, it's really reaffirming and nurturing for people who are already in the movement. Second, it helps bring new people to the movement because they can see — particularly younger people — that it's possible to make change."
Storm said she thinks the tipping point for bringing gun control reform is approaching. She thanked the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, for using their voices under such sad circumstances.
Recent Evanston Township High School graduate Brethney Neal said she had a "great day" learning about civic engagement and gun control while on the trip to Springfield.
"I experienced how bills got passed," Neal said. "It's something that is talked about a lot in school, and you don't really understand the process until you see it firsthand. It was a very educational and fulfilling trip."
Neal said she decided to go because she worries about her friends going to school and her family going to church — two places where mass shootings have occurred — and wants more gun legislation to make these spaces feel safe again.
Kavin said she was happy about her day in Springfield, but recent school shootings tainted her view of progress. She said gun violence does not just happen with semi-automatic weapons, highlighting the recent murder of Yakez Semark in Evanston.
"I organized this trip because of all the young people who are lost to gun violence in Chicago and Evanston," Kavin said. "A lot of people are motivated whenever there's a mass shooting, and obviously that's something to be motivated by, but I was motivated more by the fact that so many people are killed in Chicago and killed in Evanston with handguns every day."
Email: catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu
Twitter: @caity_henderson
Betsy Storm
Bretheney Neal
Dear Evanston
Moms Demand Action
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Rifle's new city manager is longtime Colorado, Alaska administrator
Rifle City Council has chosen Scott Hahn to be its next city manager, following a lengthy selection. He replaces former manager Jim Nichols, who split from the city under a separation agreement earlier this year.
Hahn is currently the borough manager for the town of Skagway in Alaska. Although he has been in Alaska on and off since 2002, he has a long history in Colorado.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Northern Colorado and his master's degree from the University of Colorado, Denver. With a Colorado public service career spanning back to the mid 1980s, Hahn said he is anxious to get back to what he considers his home state.
"I like the western culture atmosphere in Rifle and am impressed with the city improvements made to date," he said in a news release sent out by the city on Friday. "It reflects well on the leaders, staff, and citizen support as well as bodes promisingly for the future."
In Colorado, Hahn previously worked as town administrator for Erie, and was town manager in Hayden and city administrator in Salida. Much of his family is in Salida, and he indicated he is familiar with the unique challenges of towns on the Western Slope.
A special meeting of Rifle City Council is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday at for approval of Mr. Hahn's employment contract. The minimum two-year contract carries an annual salary of $140,000. If everything moves forward as anticipated, he will start on July 23.
In March, the council finalized a severance deal with former manager Nichols, who left under a mutual separation agreement after just three months on the job. Nichols was paid three months' compensation, or $36,000, based on his contract salary of $144,000.
Nichols had signed on for a two-and-a-half-year term with the city in November of last year following an extensive search to replace former manager Matt Sturgeon. Specific reasons for the city's separation with Nichols were not made public.
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U.S. consumers also will be able to order items from the collection online.
"We're thrilled to have the opportunity to build on successful past collaborations with a world class design talent like Stella," said Mark Hansen, president of Gap brand.
Gap, like other retailers, has looked to high-profile designers to help it lure shoppers into its stores, especially as the economic downturn has depressed consumer spending.
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Our products are designed to give you the ultimate in performance and are Secured by design and Police Approved as standard.
Felt on the barrel rings help reduce marking to the door curtain over time and reduce operating noise.
The safety edge stops and reverses the travel of the door on contact with an obstruction.
Concealed within the barrel of the door is a powerful and quiet motor that drives the door and holds the curtain locked when closed.
Security is excellent with strong locking straps that prevent forced lifting of the door.
The wall-mounted control unit has a courtesy light to guide your way and push button control for the door. The alarm is also housed in the control unit that sounds on an attempt to force up the door from the bottom slat.
A safety brake is fitted to every AlluGuard 77 door that will prevent the door from dropping in the unlikely event of a motor failure.


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Deputy Sheriff Richard Allan Lura
Carver County Sheriff's Department
Carver County Sheriff's Department, Minnesota
End of Watch Wednesday, November 28, 1973
Richard Allan Lura
Deputy Sheriff Richard Lura and Deputy Sheriff Ronald Kalkes were killed when their patrol car was struck by a train as they responded to a call.
The collision occurred at the Zemble Street crossing in Chaska, Minnesota.
Deputy Lura had served with the Carver County Sheriff's Department for 18 months. He was survived by his wife and three children.
Tour 1 year, 6 months
Badge 246
Cause Struck by train
Related LODD Deaths
Deputy Sheriff Ronald Jerome Kalkes
Carver County Sheriff's Department, MN
EOW: November 28, 1973
Rest in peace Deputy Sheriff Lura.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis


Sales activity in Perth declined five per cent this week, with REIWA members reporting 597 transactions.
House sales increased three per cent, while unit sales declined 21 per cent and vacant land by 20 per cent.
There were 14,005 properties for sale in Perth this week.
Listings for houses increased two per cent while unit and vacant land listings declined two and one per cent respectively.
The total number of listings recorded this week is four per cent higher than four weeks ago and five per cent lower than the same time last year.
REIWA members reported there were 8,459 properties available to rent over the week, which is a one per cent decline on last week.
This total listings figure is also seven per cent lower than four weeks ago and 18 per cent lower than the same time last year.


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BASF, the world's leading chemical company, has sponsored the Wasp Wipeout program taking place in the Nelson-Tasman region of New Zealand. Wasp Wipeout is a community-led conservation project that aims to significantly reduce German wasp and common wasp populations in the Nelson-Tasman region.
BASF supports community-led project to defend New Zealand's native wildlife
Supports Nelson-Tasman region's Wasp Wipeout project
NZ$22,000 sponsorship for 2017 and 2018 campaigns
Nelson, New Zealand – 2 March, 2017 – BASF, the world's leading chemical company, has sponsored the Wasp Wipeout program taking place in the Nelson-Tasman region of New Zealand. Wasp Wipeout is a community-led conservation project that aims to significantly reduce German wasp and common wasp populations in the Nelson-Tasman region.
BASF will provide just over NZ$22,000 to support the project's summer campaigns in 2017 and 2018. In New Zealand, wasps pose a serious threat to the biodiversity of the ecosystem, harming native birds and insects and competing for food with native species. They are estimated to cost the economy more than NZ$130 million per year, causing damage to primary industries and posing a significant threat to human health and outdoor recreational activities.
The control method adopted by the project, and approved for public use, utilises the protein-based wasp bait Vespex®, produced by a local company, Merchento, using BASF's insecticide, fipronil. The resulting wasp bait is making a significant difference in the fight against these costly pests. The protein-based bait targets only wasps and is not attractive to non-target insects including bees. BASF worked closely with Merchento and the New Zealand Department of Conservation to develop procedures to ensure good stewardship around the use of the product.
David Hawkins, Managing Director and Chairman of BASF Australia and New Zealand, said "The protection of biodiversity is an important part of BASF's commitment to sustainability. We are pleased to have been able to use our expertise to combat a problem that negatively impacts not only biodiversity, but public health and the economy."
Vespex is currently the only available tool for the cost-effective management of wasp populations across wide areas where it is impractical to locate and destroy individual nests.
fipronil, the active ingredient of the bait, is a broad-spectrum insecticide that disrupts the central nervous system of the insect. It is used at a low concentration in the bait, which allows the wasp time to return to and contaminate the nest before succumbing to the poison. The use of fipronil in wasp baiting has been shown to be extremely effective in controlling wasps in large scale trials conducted by the Department of Conservation in the Nelson-Tasman region. BASF has worked to ensure the adoption of good stewardship practices with the use of Vespex bait so that native species are protected.
The Wasp Wipeout project involves a number of local organizations including the Nelson Mail newspaper, the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the Tasman Environmental Trust, Nelson City Council, Tasman District Council and various community groups. The program invites local residents and organisations to have their areas baited by an approved user and volunteers. The program will be completed over an intensive baiting period this February in an attempt to eradicate wasps from the region.
Data protection @ BASF


Short Story: who doesn't want a flaming skull motor cycle riding badass on their shin?
Long Story: Ghost Rider is one of the most criminally underused characters in the modern Marvel catalog. His fighting personal demons while on the hunt for the ultimate demon captivated my early comic reading years. I'll also go on record, I really dug both Nicholas Cage movies.
My first memory of Nighcrawler came from the X-Men cabinet arcade machine at the local bowling alley. I didn't dive into his stories until my later teenage years when I found his struggles with acceptance and often times his faith to designate with my own life.
There was a Captain America and the Avengers video game that I played religiously on the Sega Game Gear. Hawkeye was my guy, which for a Metrovania style platformer isn't saying much because all the character mechanics are the same except for the skinover. Through my comic reading years, Hawkeye kept creeping in and I continued to be drawn into his archetype – the cocky/confident source of comic relief from a guy who really has no super powers but always proved instrumental in taking down the issues big baddie.
On the day I was to get Scarlet Spider from the cover of Amazing Spider Man Super Special #1 added to my leg, I took so much flak from another artist at the tattoo shop for having an unhealthy obsession for the Ben Reiley clone, I panicked and decided to have Nova stabbed in his place.
At the time I almost regretted it but it gave me a chance to revisit my favorite Scarlet Spider stories and I kept circling back to the Spiderman v Scarlet Spider v Kaine show down and ultimately, that was the image I decided I need to carry with me. .
When it comes to interstellar badassery, stories of the Nova Corp and Richard Rider always caught my attention. The best part, as a poor teenager into college kid, I could raid the back issue boxes and walk out with entire runs of Nova comics for $5. Much like Ghost Rider, Nova just seems to be one of those criminally underused characters.
My Cubone is especially close to my heart because my mom died when I was 11. If you know the story of Cubone then you'll understand that he has a hard time being alone & is wearing his mother skull because he can't let her go. Done by Steven at Suicide Kings.
This is my Mass Effect half sleeve. Michigan tattoo artist Johnny Andres (Facebook page is Johnny Andres Art) did this piece for me. This piece shows a beautiful scene of the Milky Way galaxy on the outside of my arm. That's what most people see at first glance, but on the inside it shows the crash of the Normandy SR-1 from Mass Effect. I wanted this for a couple reasons. First of all, the game takes place in the Milky Way galaxy. The galaxy we all live in. But the game takes place in the future. So, I wanted a piece that showed present day familiarity, as well as my sci-fi love hidden underneath. The comet above the crash is Halley's Comet, which was a nickname for me growing up, as my name is Haley. So, what does the tattoo mean to me? At first glance, people often think they have the full story. But there's so much hidden meaning in everything. The placement of my Comet is right next to the crash from my favorite game series. My love for Mass Effect is part of my identity. The original game trilogy got me through some hard times, and taught me a lot of valuable lessons, especially when it came to morality. It's just something that's very dear to me.
Lugia has always been the most majestic Pokémon, in Pokémon the movie 2000, Lugia is summoned to bring peace to the islands when the legendary birds refuse to stop fighting. In life, I feel driven by that force. To treat others with respect and dignity, to smile at a stranger in the grocery store, to tell people when they're wrong and I stand up for the weak. Lugia symbolizes the ability to bring balance where there is imbalance. A symbol of peace. Thanks!
This is Lugia, done by Barbie LaVon a few years ago.
This was a collaborative idea – my grandfather bought me an NES Sport Pak for Christmas the year that he died – He died Jan 11th. Of which, Super Mario Bro 3 was one of the first games I ever played – I was only 4. I like to think he knew what Video Games would be for me in life in his time close to death (he had leukemia); and I have him to thank for what he's started. Yoshi is my favorite, so that's why it remains the center. I plan to add to it shortly <3.
This was done by Phil @ New Skool Tattoos.


I wanted a fun picture of my daughter in an Andy Warhol type drawing so I got online and found a place called mydavinci.com. What you do is upload your photo to their website then they create an image for you. I selected to have them create a drawing for me first and then I previewed it and told them what corrections I needed. I think this cost an extra five bucks. I realized from the broken English I was emailing someone from China. Now I am reading their website and it is true – their mission is to connect American buyers with Chinese artists. Very cool. I'm not sure but I think they print the drawing in Illinois. Regardless, they did an excellent job and I'm very happy with my drawing. I haven't found much info as to what they are bringing in moneywise but it's gotta be good.


"I have struggled with my weight since I was a teenager. I've tried diets and multiple weight loss products but I was never able to lose weight permanently. My friend, Bridgett, knew my struggles and introduced me to Zija. I lost 67 pounds over the course of nine months. Zija not only helped me lose weight — Zija changed my life. I was an anxious, overweight, struggling mom. I didn't know myself outside of being a mom and wife. Zija gave me the confidence and courage to really discover who I am as an individual and in doing so I'm a much better mother and wife. Zija's products and the people that I'm surrounded by on a daily basis truly changed my life. I firmly believe that everyone needs Zija."


After a recent caricature portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, I thought to continue the 'writer' theme and do Mark Twain.
The art tends to start as a pencil drawing, and many a time I have found that even though the drawing doesn't look exactly as I want it to, the persistence in believing that the art will turn out eventually, also occurred in this example. The really nice thing about doing these artworks digitally is that the process can include some raw and brutal correction; with some ease. I added the scan of the pencil drawing in on the morning of the rendering, and realised that there were several mistakes with the left side.
After a quick alteration and set up, the digital painting began, and I hope you agree that the end result turned out pretty good. If you are interested in seeing the painting process as well as the before and after comparison, then it can be found here!
If you have any interest in buying the print, or both "great writer" prints then you can find those in the store, or at any of the online venues I sell. I believe that the series will continue, and have already looked at Walt Whitman as a next possible candidate. These aim to be a writer series that could end up as a calendar or a nice addition to the walls of some literature fan. For now, Mark Twain is the second writer in the series, but if you feel you know any writer that may fit the bill then send a suggestion on the contact form. Others to consider will be Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, and William S. Burroughs. For now I hope that you enjoy the feature and process of Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe.
Yeats? T.S. Eliot? Oscar Wilde? Emingway?
Thanks for that. I would like to get as many US writers first, then I can do the calendar idea based on that principle.