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OSR Conflict: I may Have Misjudged Vince Florio
In my recent conflict with the #DnD SJWs seeking to destabilize the #OSR I may have misjudged someone. Everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, once.
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Lords of Olympus: "Stealth"
So, my player doing the session reports has come through, a little late but better late than never. Here's his report of the session before last.
In Atlantis.
Fito returned with Poseidon to Atlantis to try to get Triton, Poseidon's son, allegedly to convince him go on adventures with his father. Since Poseidon did not want to see his wife Amphitrite, he decided to use his Metamorphosis power to grow a fake mustache. He blended right in! Fito then asked Triton to please help him and talk to him in private, so he got into an interrogation room with him, as Triton doesn't seem to enjoy Fito's presence.
After a lot of secreting, Fito told his half-brother that he was absolutely tired of following Poseidon around, and that he wanted him to take responsibility in Atlantis, but that he needed him to help rescuing Arrit, as she was in grave danger. Triton accepted, and as they left Atlantis, leaving Poseidon behind, they took Elon's Musk Aquacopter and set sailed. In his trip, he saw many parts of the multiverse, such as the giant pillars of heaven and the whirlpool of the great monster Charybdis. They moved to Parnassus as to try to rescue Arrit, but didn't arrive on time.
In the Underworld:
Guillermo Hudson went to the Underworld as to contact Erebus. He told Hecate about his origins and he tried contacting Erebus directly, accompanied by Ralph. A weird silent shadow emerged and answered Guillermo's questions. While he didn't know about Guillermo's primordial parents, he showed him and image of three strange women who would surely know: The three fates.
Telling Hecate about this, she told him that she wouldn't try to contact them directly, as it was far too dangerous, for everything the fates pronounce is considered to be true, and is absolutely unavoidable. He recommended for him to go to Olympus to contact Themis, the Fate's mothers. He decided that it was a wise choice, but since he didn't have world walking, he remained waiting for someone with the ability to travel through planes…buying some shoes with Frank, Paneb's brother, in the Underworld's poor zone.
Paneb got healed from his train encounter by Hecate, but afterwards, when he finally was alone, he tried to find Roman, since he had told him that he would guide him to a person that would protect him, and he feared both Hecate and Frank's influence on him. He went to Hecate's tower of the Trivium, trying to infiltrate in her own home, with the amazing strategy of randomly opening doors to find him. He was greeted by three giant frogs thanks to his horrible luck. After fighting them, he had a moment of super-intelligence….and kept on doing the same thing. This lead to him colliding with Hecate by accident and ending up begging for forgiveness.
On the same side, Ralph used his new metamorphosis power to disguise as a wolf. He infiltrated the Trivium and used his heightened sense of smell and found out about Roman's location, on a pedestal with magical spell cast upon him.
On Mount Parnassus
Arrit started her therapy with Psychologist extraordinaire Dr Sidney Greenberg. He managed to get her to talk, but not without her trying to run away a couple of times and puking on Apollo's original Louis Armstrong trumpet. Meanwhile, Ares and Corey infiltrated the temple complex of Delphi. After killing some poor guys for clothing and some guards in a lot of "stealth", Ares found Sidney Greenberg, enraged at Aphrodite's lover, he tried to kill him, but Corey stopped him just in time, telling Ares that killing your ex-lover's boyfriend isn't the best way to pick up a girl.
Apollo and Prometheus suddenly appeared, and a fight between him and the God of War broke out, Corey used this opportunity to mind control Arrit's terribly poor ego and run away with her while having Arrit piggyback her, they entered the Olympian road and fled.
In Olympus.
In his desire to obtain political power, Aetos had a plan. Apparently, The City's communication with Olympus was scarce. Considering The City had the Door Which Must Not Be Opened, a door that would likely end the entire multiverse if it was opened, Aetos wanted to give Zeus a means of easy, secure, and fast non-scrying communication with the city (Apparently, according to Athena, they didn't do scrying with them because the scrying could be hijacked). He met Zeus, and after a few sex jokes and Thai Massages, the King of the Gods was ready to hear his deal. Aetos offered to use his Advanced Metamorphosis to create a clone of himself that Terminus, the God of the City, could put into stasis with a magical spell. Since this clone would be contactable at anytime, Aetos would be aware of any emergency call that Terminus sent to Olympus. For this, Aetos requested Zeus to make one of his own sons immortal. Both agreed and Athena offered to send the clone to Terminus.
He afterwards went to his realm of Grecoromania, taking with him some of his finest servants, his friend the Minotaur, one of his bastard sons, Flavius, who was a sort of super agent for the equivalent of Grecoromania's CIA, and some fine Grecoromanian tech that would synergize with his Metamorphosis powers. Now, he's moving along the Olympian road, taking his servants back to his new palace in Olympus.
WILL COREY START GIVING DATING SEMINARS TO ARES'S TROOPS? WILL PANEB NOT COLLIDE WITH SOMETHING TERRIBLE EVERY SINGLE SESSION? AND JUST WHAT IN THE WORLD IS ARRIT'S DEAL?!
ONLY <FATE> TRULY <KNOWS>....
The Thing From the Cave
Today, I present to you a new and sinister adventure for Lion & Dragon or any other OSR game where you want to add a touch of Medieval-Authentic style!
RPGPundit Presents #56: The Thing From the Cave presents both a challenge and a mystery:
Panicked and distressed news abound regarding the town of Buckfastleigh. A band of openly-blaspheming brigands, led by Allen of Exeter, have invaded the town. Worse still, they have summoned a demon that is now slaughtering wantonly and is accompanied by phantasmal hounds and flying imps. Can the characters separate exaggeration from reality? Is there really a demon? And can they stop such a threat? Will the decaying abbey hold any clues about what might REALLY have emerged from Reed's Cave?
The Thing From the Cave is available at DTRPG right now, or at the Precis Intermedia Webstore, either way for just $2.49!
And while you're at it, be sure to pick up the rest of the great supplements in the RPGPundit Presents series:
RPGPundit Presents #1: DungeonChef!
RPGPundit Presents #2: The Goetia (usable for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #3: High-Tech Weapons
RPGPundit Presents #4: Hipster Elves
RPGPundit Presents #5: The Child-Eaters (an adventure scenario for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #6: The Distinguished Wizard's Guide to Pipes and Pipeweed
RPGPundit Presents #7: The Medieval-Authentic Vancian Wizard's Spellbook
RPGPundit Presents #8: Three Medieval-Authentic Grimoires (usable for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #9: The Book of the Art of Hours (usable for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #10: The Kitchen Sink
RPGPundit Presents #11: Crazy Wizards!
RPGPundit Presents #12: Two More Medieval-Authentic Magical Grimoires (Usable for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #13: Making the Most of Your Dragon Corpse
RPGPundit Presents #14: The Secret Order of the Red Lady (an adventure for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #15: Last Sun: Gazetteer of the Middle Northern Wildlands
RPGPundit Presents #16: Last Sun: The Great City of Arkhome
RPGPundit Presents #17: The Hunters (an adventure for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #18: Advanced Medieval-Authentic Astrology (a supplement for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #19: The Frantabulous Gonzo Robot Generator
RPGPundit Presents #20: Arkhome II
RPGPundit Presents #21: Hecate's Tomb (an adventure for Lion & Dragon!)
RPGPundit Presents #22: 13 Cursed Artifacts of Renown
RPGPundit Presents #23: Uncanny Creatures and Objects of the Middle-Northern Wilderlands
RPGPundit Presents #24: History & Rule Of the Clerical Order ( Lion & Dragon compatible!)
RPGPundit Presents #25: The Door of 16 Gates
RPGPundit Presents #26: Mutant Hordes of the Last Sun
RPGPundit Presents #27: Simple Domain Management and Mass Combat
RPGPundit Presents #28: The Midnight Duke (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #29: The Azure Order of Wizards
RPGPundit Presents #30: Adventures in the Twilight Realm of the Fae (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #31: The Arcana (Medieval-Authentic Tarot) (for Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #32: Last Sun: Goldhalcon and the Demon Realms
RPGPundit Presents #33: Assault on Yaxley Manor (for Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #34: Miscellaneous Wonders of the Last Sun
RPGPundit Presents #35: 30 Courtly Events and Intrigues (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #36: Saga of the Green and Blue Mutant Chiefs
RPGPundit Presents #37: Advanced OSR Critical Tables (for Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #38: 20 Medieval-Authentic Sinister Supernatural Encounters (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #39: The Great Tree Druid
RPGPundit Presents #40: The Tower of the Mad Astrologer (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #41: Medieval-Authentic Merchants and Caravans (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #42: At The Darkness!
RPGPundit Presents #43: The Dragon Egg (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #44: Medieval-Authentic Activities For Successful Characters
RPGPundit Presents #45: Last Sun: Zombie Empire & The Theocracy of Lariel
RPGPundit Presents #46: Courtiers, Priests, Sages and Craftsmen (for Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #47: Intelligent Animal Characters of The Last Sun
RPGPundit Presents #48: 3 Occult Killer Antagonists (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #49: Highbay, City of Stoners
RPGPundit Presents #50: Archer Class for Lion & Dragon
RPGPundit Presents #51: Highbay's Magical Drug Pharmacopoeia
RPGPundit Presents #52: The Ladystone (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #53: Floating Islands of the Last Sun
RPGPundit Presents #54: Medieval College Adventures (compatible with Lion & Dragon)
RPGPundit Presents #55: (Sky-)Ships Happen!
Stay tuned for more next week!
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Help Fund a Scholarship for Young Genre Artists
So I wanted to bring people's attention to a very good cause: the Zelart Scholarship.
The scholarship is named after a young artist who had contributed work to RPG books, who died in an accident. This annual scholarship in his honor goes to a young and underprivileged artist in order to help them in their nascent career.
All funds raised go to the artist awarded the scholarship, and applications for the scholarship are open for anyone to apply.
So if you want to give a few bucks to a charitable cause for the arts and related to RPGs, please check out the Indiegogo page for the scholarship and help out a young artist to move along with their career!
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Inappropriate Characters: Venger Birthday Special
So last night we had another live episode of Inappropriate Characters!
In this episode, while congratulating him on his birthday, we asked Venger some tough questions about his recent blog post where he "came out" as a Trans-alien, and his real motives for doing so.
We also talked about the OSR Logo debacle, and about the end of White Wolf as an independent publisher, and about the imminent demise of RPGnow.
Also, my cat shows up.
So, be sure to check it out, to share it, to subscribe to the channel, and if you want us to be able to make more episodes more frequently, please support us on patreon!
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Inappropriate Characters LIVE Tonight! Venger Birthday Special!
So, in about an hour from time of writing, we're going LIVE with a new episode of Inappropriate Characters.
That will be LIVE, at 7:30pm CST, where we'll be talking about all sorts of news and controversy in the RPG world. Including the folding of White Wolf, the OSR logo bullshit, Venger's controversial blog post, the end of RPGNow, and more!
All this, on Venger's birthday! So some join us and wish him a happy birthday, and watch the most interesting RPG-chat show starring three of the most-censored RPG designers in the hobby!
Inappropriate Characters starts at 7:30pm CST.
My "Lords of Olympus" Guy Failed Me
I don't have time to post myself, today, because I'm about to play Lords of Olympus!
Now this is where I'd normally post a session report about the last session of LoO, but sadly, my session-report guy has failed me. He had four weeks to hand over his session report, and he didn't. I'm guessing because he already got the points for it.
Ah well, this has always proven a flaw in the system. Still I'm disappointed because he was sincerely excited about the campaign (and still is as far as I know) so I hoped these would still keep coming once he didn't need to do them any more.
I'll have to figure out what the plan is for me to substitute these.
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Time for a few new images from Uruguay!
The entryway to another of the many inner-courtyard complexes of houses hidden at the center of city blocks.
There's a big mishmash of historical influences on any single block, but always beautiful.
Wow! That's an awful lot of birds:
Maybe my cat will catch them!
...guess not.
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D&D Stuff They Taught You Wrong on Purpose: The DM is NOT a "Storyteller"
Today, a new video: If you're a newer #DnD player, you might have been taught wrong about the GM being a 'storyteller'. What you do is much more interesting than that.
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Sky Ships Stats & Combat Mods for Your Gonzo OSR Game!
In a previous issue, Floating Islands, we detailed floating worlds above the ground of the material plane of the Last Sun. Now, in the newest issue we have it's sequel: RPGPundit Presents #55: (Sky-)Ships Happen!
While the Floating Islands book details the cultures of the floating islands and mechanics to generate them, SkyShips Happen is a guide to different kinds of flying vehicles in the skies of the Last Sun. Skyships you could also use in any Gonzo OSR game or other fantasy RPG.
These vehicles include magical flying galleons, balloons, blimps or zeppelins, or high-tech sky ships. Discover the dangerous fleet of the pepperpot-like "Guardian Robots", determined to exterminate all organic life, the amazon-piloted "Valkyrie fighters" of the FSA sky-station, high tech Posh Elf Warbirds, the police cruisers of the now-defunct Sky Police, the UFOes of the Grey People, and the advanced war fleet of the evil Sky-Nazis.
You'll also get a set of rule mods for handling very simple sky-ship combat.
Then there's also a d100 table of typical Floating Island character occupations, for generating starting PCs or NPCs, including various special items. There's also stats for the evil Guardian Robots, the brilliant Techno-Walruses (complete with special cybernetics), and stats for the Superfly II, the fastest sky-ship in all the skies.
So, if you want to introduce flying vessels into your gonzo game, be sure to check out RPGPundit Presents #55: (Sky-)Ships Happen on DTRPG, or at the Precis Intermedia Webstore!
It's a 20 page sourcebook for just $2.99!
Classic Rant: "Real" Magick in RPGs: Aleister Crowley
December 1st is the anniversary of Aleister Crowley's "Greater Feast for Death". That is to say, almost 71 years ago (ed.), he croaked.
Certainly, one could have all kinds of material related to Crowley that would spice up any historical/occult campaign set anytime from the 1890s to the 1940s. But what about in a modern campaign? What makes the guy important?
I can't possibly dedicate a single blog entry to telling you everything about the man and his magick: there are tons of biographies of the guy out there, and feel free to read one if you're really interested. What matters now is only the "cheat sheet", of how you can use him in your campaign without knowing every detail.
For starters, Crowley was very important not only to modern magick, but to modern society. As one of his biographer's put it: "new ageism, witchcraft, hippies, paganism, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: it's all his fault".
It really was. Crowley was doing all that shit 40 years before it was cool, in many cases 40 years before it technically existed. And magically, his influence was paramount. He took a bunch of medieval systems and Victorian pseudo-masonry and gave it a purpose for our new Aeon, the new astrological age.
And while we're at it, he ended the world.
Magically speaking, the apocalypse happened in April 1904. The procession of the astrological ages took place at that moment, when Crowley received the Book of the Law from the god Horus, after a vision received inside the great pyramid in Cairo. Essentially, this was the change from the "age of Pisces" to that "age of Aquarius" the new-agers talk so much and know so little about. Its already happened, and it marked a moment when humanity grew up in its capacity for understanding of its relationship to the universe. As a result of this vision, Crowley predicted a number of things that few in 1904 would have expected to come to pass: devastating wars, atrocities, and incredible human destruction; but these were just the birth pangs for an age of societal evolution where equality of all human beings, sexual and gender liberation, a new interest in the discovery of the self, experimentation with drugs as a means for transcendence, new pseudo-scientific/psychological ways of understanding magical symbolism, a breaking free from old restrictions and limits of both morality and human potential, all would come to pass. He predicted, in other words, a world that looks very much like our own.
The essence of his teaching is a word I've used in this series before: Thelema. It means "will", and is represented by the law of this Aeon: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will".
This is a new magical paradigm that gives a greater purpose to magical work; not that it is completely new, but that it was something that had been long lost or hidden in the background of mumbo-jumbo, of people summoning angels or demons or working with elemental forces or ritual without really grasping a bigger philosophical purpose behind it all. That purpose is to discover your True Will.
"Will" in this case means not whatever the fuck you want (to the chagrin of the many satanists and heavy metal geeks that love Crowley on that mistaken basis) but rather it means that you have a higher self, a higher purpose, that magick is supposed to help you get in contact with. Discover your true will, and then unite to it (in Love, meaning union), and then to the universe itself. This is the purpose of magick, not unlike many other mystical systems, not unlike Tantra or Buddhism, Sufism or Taoism; its to "know thyself" and then become "one with everything", or nothing.
The Book of the Law itself is a short but fairly complex spiritual text, that most magicians will have read at some point, and certainly every thelemic magician; it might make very little sense to a non-magician who reads it, but you may want to give it a try. Its not hard to find online, and its in the public domain as far as I know (at least, its on a ton of websites).
There is one other mystical operation of Crowley's that's very worthy of mention, though probably even more incomprehensible to the non-magician; its the kind of thing that if you were running CoC, would cause you to lose 1d10 SAN just by reading it (the Book of the Law would probably cause you to lose 1d4, while we're at it): This is "The Vision and the Voice". I mention it here because it is the record of Crowley's personal enlightenment, 5 years after writing the book of the law; where in the middle of the North African desert he entered into a series of "pathworkings", or astral journeys, to the 30 Enochian Aethyrs, gnostic dimensions beyond our own. There he encountered a series of powerfully transformative initiatory visions, that changed his understanding of magick and himself. The system for using the "Enochian Aethyrs" was not invented by Crowley, it was given by angelic beings to Dr. John Dee, the famous Elizabethan magician, in the 1580s; and while the Golden Dawn used some elements of enochian magick, as far as anyone knows no one had actually used the "enochian calls" to travel to the Aethyrs until Crowley did it (not even Dee, although he received the system of magick, there's no evidence he ever used it). Of course, since then, quite a few other magicians have done so. It's almost as though the Enochian Aethyrs weren't meant to be accessed until the new aeon.
"The Vision and the Voice" is the kind of book that many would-be occultists will own, very few will have read, fewer still tried to seriously understand; and some (though not necessarily the same as those who understood) may try to imitate. Without proper preparation, trying to pathwork to the higher Enochian Aethyrs is a recipe for going batshit nuts. It would do to the psyche what going to the outer planes would do to the health of 3rd level AD&D characters… almost certainly nothing good.
It's a good example of the kind of spiritual visions and trips that a very experienced magician is capable of doing, however.
Aside from these, Crowley wrote a ton of books on the themes of magick, yoga, and taoism (and designed a rocking tarot deck). Remember, in your game, none of these should be very difficult to find!
Resist the temptation to make "books of true occult power" difficult to obtain, they're NOT. They're all over Amazon, Ebay, and the internet in general. What's difficult is having any sense of context to study them properly, and the lack of laziness to actually do the work they suggest and do these right. Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" alone is, in one very large book, more than enough to get someone all they need to know to start successfully performing magick, yet most people won't bother to thoroughly read it, even those who own it or claim to be magicians.
In a modern setting, Crowley should be portrayed as misunderstood by the general occult scene, with the know-nothings being generally scared shitless of him, aside from a minority of fawning admirers who like the idea of him because he's "wicked" without actually knowing anything about him at all (he's the Occult equivalent of Che Guevara in that sense: far more people will go around wearing his image on a T-shirt than actually know what he did or why). Among serious practitioners, there's a group of hardcore "old aeon" magicians who despise him, a larger group of modern magicians (self-described as Thelemites or not) who base their magick on what he did, and a third group that express admiration for him but don't necessarily follow his precepts. But in each sense, every modern magician is affected by him, even those who have never read him; including some who may not have a clue who he is. His teachings have affected all books of magick that came after him whether he gets credit for it or not, as well as movements like Wicca that try very hard sometimes to pretend that he had nothing to do with them, even though the whole basis for what they do started with him.
Crowley also spawned 2 magical orders: the A.'.A.'. and the O.T.O. (the latter, though not founded by him, was completely redefined by him). I've talked about these before, and remember: they're mostly useless in terms of serious magick, though they may have serious magicians in them. They're usually used by their membership as ego-trips or social clubs.
Other fun things you can do with Crowley:
-From time to time, some magician (usually a total newb) will go around claiming they're Crowley's reincarnation. This is usually coupled with the person trying to talk or act like Crowley (though usually not matched with some of Crowley's non-magical achievement, like being a world-record mountain climber or chess champion), and is met with derision.
-Crowley taught a secret form of sex magic as part of his OTO framework, this is not really secret anymore, its available online, but more than a few unscrupulous people have started sex cults based on it.
-Boleskine, the Loch Ness mansion where Crowley attempted (and failed) his first effort at doing the complex magical operation known as the Abra-melin rite, has long been said to be haunted, and the locals have many stories of people who have gone mad, or killed themselves or others, as a result of the house's nefarious influence (the Abra-melin operation culminates in summoning up demons, after having obtained a full connection to your Holy Guardian Angel (your higher self or true will), and some have speculated that having failed to complete the operation, the demons got loose with nothing to control them). The mansion was for many years owned by Thelemite and Led Zeppelin frontman Jimmy Page, and has since been turned into a bed & breakfast. Some have even tried to connect Boleskine/Crowley to the Loch Ness Monster, pointing out that modern sightings of the monster only started after Crowley's time there.
-Crowley had a commune in the 1920s in Cefalu, Italy, named "The Abbey of Thelema". The house where the commune was based has been abandoned for decades, is half-ruined, and has been put up for sale. It is frequently squatted in by Crowley-fans and occultists, and still has the fading images of the wall-paintings that Crowley and his students drew there, some of them quite unusual.
-The Book of the Law was received in connection to an ancient Egyptian funeral Stele called "The Stele of Revealing". The Book of the Law contained the instructions that the Stele should be stolen or otherwise obtained (it was at that time on display at the Boulak museum in Cairo) and taken to Boleskine, and that if this was done it would have stunning and transformative effects on the world. Crowley himself never got around to doing this; the Stele is now in the Cairo museum, where it was reported unharmed by the recent civil unrest in that country.
-The Book of the Law instructed Crowley to "find the value of the English alphabet", that is, to figure out a numerical system of gematria (as in, the Kabbalah), by which one could directly determine the number-value of English words without having to translate into Hebrew first. Crowley never ended up accomplishing this (he didn't seem to bother to try very much, being quite happy with Hebrew Gematria) and after him many would-be "English kabbalists" have broken their minds trying to make a system that makes sense and works magically as well as the Hebrew gematria system. Some have claimed success, but none has been universally adopted and recognized as a success.
-The Book of the Law also contains a code, a series of letters and numbers that Crowley was instructed were not for him to understand, but that someone would come after him to decipher it, and its meaning would be clear to all and near-universally accepted as correct. Up till now, that hasn't happened, though many many would-be-Crowleys have tried.
-it recently came to light that Crowley was an agent of British Intelligence. He is credited, among other things, with having given Winston Churchill the recommendation of using the "V for victory" sign as often as possible, as a magical countermeasure to the Nazis' own use of magical symbols (the swastika, the nazi salute, etc).
-every once in a while, items show up on sale on E-bay which claim to have once belonged to Crowley. Most of these are unquestionably fake.
-Crowley was the first white man to have provably used the I Ching for divination on a regular basis. To do so he had designed his own special set of divining sticks. After his death these came into the possession of one of his magical heirs, Grady McMurtry (who re-founded the biggest claimant to the modern OTO). McMurtry in turn lost the pouch with these sticks one night at a party on a California beach when he was either drunk or stoned out of his mind. They have never been found.
-Crowley has no tomb; he was cremated, and his ashes eventually brought to America by one of his students, Karl Germer. Germer's wife eventually dumped the ashes under a tree in the garden of their New Jersey suburban home.
Anyways, all of these and many many other details about the guy's life should give ample fodder for modern-occult adventure.
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(originally reposted July 26, 2013; on the old blog)
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I requested an older version be an option after an upgrade. They decided to trot me out as a 'naysayer' in their Changelog. It shows a lack of concern for their users.
Oh, and I would have expected that you stopped using Slimstat on your website, since you consider it such a poor product. Instead, I see that to this day you still (shamelessly) use it. Well, that in my book speaks to the quality of our product more than your own petty review. Thank you for being a loyal user anyway!


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Q: Modifying probability of selection in PySpark sampling without replacement I understand that to sample efficiently, Spark uses Bernouilli Sampling where it allocates each row in the sample the same probability of being included.
I would like to know if there is a way of sampling in PySpark modifying this probability of selection, to say, a mantissa, instead of each row having the same probability of being selected.
Thank you for your response. Please see below for Python code that I am using to sample nsize amount of rows using the sample method.
sampleout_lsoa['nsize'] = sampleout_lsoa['nsize'].astype(int)
sample_lsoa = (sampleout_lsoa.groupby(stratum_lsoa, group_keys = False).apply(lambda x: x.sample(x['nsize'].iloc[0])))

stratum_lsoa are a list of stratum that I am sampling on. nsize are a column of integer value representing the number of rows, per strata that I require to be sampled.
At the moment I believe that Python allocates each row an even chance of being selected; so if nsize respresented a 10% sample of the rows in the DataFrame sampleout_lsoa, each row will have a 10% chance of being included.
What I would like is a way of altering this probability of selection to values between 0.0 and 1.0; a different decimal for each row so that determines its chance of being selected. Do you know if this is possible in Python,R or Spark?

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UPDATE: Fish & Wildlife releases new analysis of Newhall Ranch impact on environment
unarmored threespine stickleback
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife released a report Thursday that addresses two key concerns raised a year ago by California's highest court that effectively stalled plans to build 21,000 homes for the Newhall Ranch project.
State officials released what they call the Draft Additional Environmental Analysis for the Newhall Ranch Resource Management and Development Plan and Spineflower Conservation Plan Final Environmental Impact Report.
It's their hope that changes made to the EIR would satisfy the court and place Newhall Ranch back on track for construction of the massive housing project.
They are inviting the public to weigh on their updated report.
"What we hope to accomplish with this draft, is to open it up to a public review period that ends on January 6, 2017," Jordan Traverso, spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, told The Signal Thursday.
In November, citing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and insufficient protection for a tiny endangered fish, the California Supreme Court tossed out the developer's report concluding 21,000 planned homes in the Newhall Ranch project would not adversely affect the environment.
The court ruled that Newhall Land Development Inc. – now FivePoint – failed to provide evidence in its Environmental Impact Report to prove its project was consistent with meeting state guidelines to control harmful greenhouse gas.
The court also concluded that measures calling for capture and relocation of the unarmored threespine stickleback — a species of fish protected by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife — amounted to illegal movement, or "take," of the endangered indigenous fish.
STICKLEBACK
On Thursday, Fish and Wildlife officials with the help of FivePoint developers released its revised EIR addressing each of the Supreme Court's concerns.
About protecting the federally protected unarmored threespine stickleback, the developer has proposed building special bridges that would sidestep sensitive fish habitats.
"We are building bridges that will not touch the (Santa Clara) River," Emile Haddad, Chairman and CEO of FivePoint, told The Signal Thursday.
About reducing greenhouse gas, the developer has proposed installing solar panels on the roof of every Newhall Ranch home and installing an electric vehicle charging area in every home's driveway.
The suggestion – a solar panel on every roof and an electric charger in every drive way – is a step toward achieving a "zero emission standard," Haddad said.
"This will be the first zero emission community in the country," he said, on the understanding that every car in every Newhall Ranch driveway was electric and took advantage of the feature.
"In addition, FivePoint will install another 4,000 charging stations, 2,000 on the Newhall Ranch in commercial, retail and public places, and another 2,000 around Los Angeles County," FivePoint spokesman Steve Churm said.
Critics say the proposed changes won't affect green house gas emissions.
"It doesn't reduce green house gas one iota," said local environmentalist Lynne Plambeck.
"Unless they supply Teslas with all the houses, it's useless," she said, referring to the Tesla electric car.
And, as for bridges intended to protect stickleback habitat, Plambeck said: "You have to have abutments that are all hard-scaping which defeats the whole purpose."
With the release of the draft EIR Thursday, comes a 60-day public comment period.
It examines whether the revised project design and construction of proposed bridges would result in harm or other significant adverse effects to the unarmored three spine stickleback, a native fish protected under state and federal law.
"With respect to unarmored threespine stickleback, the project applicant – FivePoint LLC, formerly, The Newhall Land and Farming Company – has proposed modified design and construction methods for bridges and bank stabilization in or near the Santa Clara River to obviate the need for the two prior mitigation measures of focus for the Supreme Court, consistent with Fish and Game Code section 5515," Traverso said.
The additional environmental analysis also examines whether the revised project would result in significant greenhouse gas emission impacts, she said.
The revised project is designed to achieve net zero GHG emissions with the implementation of mitigation measures intended to reduce, mitigate and offset 100 percent of GHG emissions.
Haddad said he would offset the emissions by going "off site" with a plan to replace wood-burning stoves in African homes with stoves that produce no emissions.
The California Air Resources Board reviewed the revised Newhall Ranch project and concluded that there is an adequate basis to determine it does not result in any net additional GHG emissions, Taverso said.
21,000 HOMES
Newhall Ranch developers have argued in the past that the Environmental Impact Report they prepared was sound and sensitive to the environment.
The first phase of Newhall Ranch was approved by Los Angeles County supervisors in February 2012 after exhaustive studies.
The project calls for developing 422 lots on about 295 acres. That would produce 270 single-family homes, 744 condominiums and 430 apartments, along with 16 commercial lots.
The phase 1 plan also calls for 119 lots for open space, plus at least one fire station, park and school.
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Changes to Mexico's business regulations
What these changes to employment laws mean for multinational companies.
This spring, an amendment to the Federal Labor Law, Social Security Law, National Workers' Housing Fund Institute Law, Federal Tax Code, Income Tax Law and Value Added Tax Law closed a loophole some multinational companies have used to avoid their financial liabilities and obligations under Mexican employment law. The result is that a number of companies may now be out of compliance with the local law because of new restrictions on employment outsourcing.
In Mexico, the use of third parties as the legal employer of record for multinational organizations has increased by 360% between 2003 to 2018. This new law forbids companies from using an employer of record outsourcing service to hire employees who perform "core business" functions in an effort to force more companies into compliance. Organizations will still be able to use in-country employer of record partners to employ workers performing specialized work under the amended law.
And while there is still plenty of speculation about how this law will be enforced and its effect on foreign companies doing business in Mexico, the government hopes to ensure that all multinationals employers are adhering to in-country employment laws including benefits, fair wages and profit-sharing requirements.
Failure to comply with these laws is not only unfair to Mexican workers who are eligible for benefits but is detrimental to public finances in Mexico. There is also risk for companies using non-compliant employment outsourcing services in Mexico, including additional fines, an inability to deduct expenses for tax purposes, and potentially a criminal charge of tax evasion.
This new law, signed in April, provided employers three months to prove their outsourced employees were not involved in "core business" functions or to put those employees on their own payroll. This will force some companies to set up in-country entities or take their operations out of the country.
Our take on Mexico's new labor laws
We were asked to be a part of the discussions that resulted in the final version of the amendment. And from our perspective, it's a law that seeks to keep employers in compliance with the existing laws and to ensure fair and just treatment of employees in Mexico—no matter for whom they work.
Our GEO (Global Employment Outsourcing) service keeps our clients in compliance with existing laws in every country we employ workers on their behalf. Compliance is the foundation of our service and the basis for the trust our clients have in us. For companies that sought to hire in Mexico and may not have been aware of statutory employment laws, like profit sharing, or what fair wages were in the local market, we have been here to help them. We're happy to talk about how we can help you ensure compliance with employment laws in Mexico too.
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I've always hated running. Not in the "I hate working out, but especially running" kind of way. No matter how good of shape I've been in, running always made me go, ugh.
I grew up as a figure skater, so I always had plenty of strength and endurance. Give me an intense 90-minute skating practice, no problem; An hour dance class, wahoo! Yoga, pilates, aerobics, biking, hiking, all fine by me — but running was my bane. In skating you train pushing yourself between elements with high bursts of energy and there's really little time to think about anything but your body and controlling it in between. My problem with running was the steadiness of it — the continual, repetitive motion bothered me and no mental distractions stimulation meant I just got bored.
I tried it many a time, I mean after all, what cheaper, more convenient cardio workout is there? But frankly, I just never had enough in it to really make myself do it. That is, until I got a dog. Last summer we got Daisy, and the boxer breed is known for high energy. Without a fenced backyard, that meant I needed to force myself to run, though this time out of love rather than just personal exercise. Because of that, I've found some ways to make myself not only learn to run, but enjoy it.
I can't do the treadmill. For me it's like adding monotony to monotony. Plus, for some reason they don't let Daisy come to the gym. Luckily there's a gorgeous trail right down the street and can escape to. The landscape the fresh air always seem to put me in a good mood.
I have this tendency to push myself to the max. All the time. When it comes to running, that means either a) I burn myself out fast or b) I'm super sore the next several days. That means slowing myself down in the beginning and pushing myself later on. Pay attention to your body and keep your energy consistent.
I might have a mental problem, but I simply can't just run without distracting myself. I'm just alone with my thoughts and get bored. So I turn on my Pandora to a new station each time and do my best to zone out. Sometimes I use running as my allotted time to overanalyze think through things. I even turn to social media for distraction — you might see some Foursquare check-ins and Instagram photos whilst running (did I mention I'm a multi-tasker?). If you're able to lose yourself in the moment, even better. I can do it occasionally, just not on a consistent basis, so I have back-up.
When I start running, I feel great — energized and motivated. But a ways in, I start into that mental block of wanting to stop and walk or slow down. Listening to my body, I can tell a distinct difference between needing to slow down so I don't kill my muscles and wanting to slow down "just because." I play little games with myself when this happens. For instance "just keep running until this song ends." Then the song ends and I'm feeling okay, so I'll tell myself, "just keep going until I get to the end of that block ahead." As I do this more and more I find I can just keep going and can run a lot longer than I would otherwise.
Breathing is extremely important in exercise. I used to get horrible side aches whenever I ran, to the point where I was clutching my side and could barely walk — and this is when I was in amazing shape. A few of my good running friends said it was my breathing and sure enough, since I have learned to breathe properly, I haven't had an issue. The key is making sure you get enough oxygen and breathing deep breaths filling up your lungs entirely. Control your breaths in and out and work on controlling in both directions. If you've learned pilates breathing, control it in much the same way. Conveniently, this is also a great distraction.
Hope you enjoyed these tips and you can get yourself out running!
Why do you love or hate running?


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Anthony has particular experience representing capital partners in the negotiation of complex joint venture arrangements for preeminent properties in New York and across the United States. Additionally, Anthony has worked on many mortgage and mezzanine financings, including construction loans and permanent financings.
Prior to joining the firm, Anthony practiced in the real estate groups of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and, later, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.


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There are a number of ways to enjoy yourself on Water Island. You can spend a relaxing day on the beach, kayaking in crystal clear waters or, exploring the shoreline at Limestone. Nature enthusiasts can hike around the island, explore the remains of military fortifications or even take a bike tour. Perhaps a boating or fishing excursion is more your style. For something more laid back, there's always, lunch and drinks at Honeymoon Bay or joining residents for movie night on the beach.
However you decide to spend your time on Water Island, it will surely be memorable.


BSI, has commenced development of a new publicly available specification (PAS) related to chilled and/or frozen goods delivery services. PAS 1018:2017 This specification is to be developed in response to the demand for chilled courier services which has been rapidly increasing as a result of economic growth and expansion of mail-order services in the world. In recent years there has been an increase in delivery services focusing on individual packages containing chilled and/or frozen goods for direct delivery to the customer. There has also been an increase in small quantity business-to-business chilled and frozen goods deliveries. Food is one item that may be delivered, but not the only type of good delivered using this method.
Customers can use high quality chilled and/or frozen parcel delivery services around the world with peace of mind, also to help improve convenience for delivery service users and the local economy, and also to expand global markets in this area.


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Guest view: Is free speech being taken?
Totalitarian governments have always sought to suppress speech they do not like, or those critical of the current regime and its policies. The totalitarian instinct and the suppression of speech is most notable in leftist, communist, and fascist regimes.
And now it has arrived in the United States. Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz recently said on a Sean Hannity program that "the hard left has always been against free speech, due process and the constitution."
The hard left is those who believe in the re-distribution of income and wealth, by any means including violence, and the elimination of traditional cultural values.
Mark Levin, a lawyer and talk show host, noted in his book "American Marxism" that the suppression of free speech began more than 40 years ago with the gradual takeover of institutions of higher learning by the hard left who were spawned in the radicalization of students in the 1960s.
Not only has the hard left taken over universities, by and large, but have moved to take over corporate boards, and have now moved, with the Biden Administration, to get an even firmer grip on government.
The hard left uses shaming, discrimination, and punishment to suppress and limit free speech.
A person is shamed or ridiculed if they are in academia, government or work for a large corporation and express a view that is not in line with the politically correct view. This also happens to those who express conservative views about religious practice, marriage and family, climate science, or criminal justice.
Bigot, racist and science denier are among the catch-all phrases used to silence anyone who disagrees with the politically correct view. There is no willingness to debate the merits of an argument.
At one time in this country, discrimination was widely practiced. Then came along Martin Luther King who greatly advanced the civil rights movement and the promises in our constitution, so that all people have an opportunity, based on their character and abilities to advance in life and work towards their dreams. That civil rights movement has now been "turned on its head". Racial and gender preferences are now openly being practiced, again, by large corporations and academia, but in reverse. If one is a white male, no matter how qualified you are, you might as well withdraw your application for employment.
With many high-tech companies, if one made it known that they were a supporter of Donald Trump in the last election, there was a danger of losing one's job. If one would state that they believe there are only two sexes, male and female---not multiple genders, you also would likely lose your job. If one states that killing a human embryo in a mother's body is killing a human being, watch out for the thought police.
This final step in the suppression of speech is an extension of discrimination, but carried to an extreme. Punishment takes many forms, including being removed from social media platforms, fired from a job for attending a political rally, to being surveilled by federal law enforcement.
Right-wing protestors (grandfathers and grandmothers) are labeled as terrorists, although favored left-wing protestors who protest, are not.
We are in a very dangerous time, where enemies abroad are emboldened by seeing the moral decay and widening divisions in America, and when even our own government, and its allies in the media and corporate boardrooms, are infringing on our constitutional rights as citizens.
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Pillekuchen, auch Pillekooken, Pillekauken, Pinnekuchen, Pinnekeskuchen oder Leinewebers Pfannkuchen, im nördlichen Rheinland auch Schnibbelskuchen, eine Art Kartoffelpfannkuchen, gehört zu den Spezialitäten der Küche des Bergischen Landes.

Die Pillekuchen unterscheiden sich von vielen anderen Arten des Kartoffelpuffers durch den meist pfanngroßen Durchmesser.

Zubereitung

Zur Zubereitung werden Kartoffeln in dünne Streifen geschnitten, in einer Pfanne geschichtet, mit Salz, Pfeffer und Muskat gewürzt und in Fett gegart. Es können auch Würfel von Räucherspeck und Zwiebeln vorher angebraten und mitgedünstet werden. Schließlich wird ein Pfannkuchenteig aus Mehl, Eiern und etwas Wasser oder Milch dazugegeben und alles von beiden Seiten knusprig gebacken.

Alternativ werden für die kleinere Variante rohe Kartoffeln gerieben (Röstigröße) und in einer Schüssel mit Eiern, Salz und etwas Mehl zum Binden verrührt. Dieser Teig wird in handgroße Plätzchen geformt und in heißem Fett in der Pfanne ausgebacken.

Serviert wird Pillekuchen häufig mit Kopfsalat, Endiviensalat oder Feldsalat als Beilage.

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OnePlus is releasing an Avengers-themed OnePlus 6 in India
By Sam Byford / @345triangle
Apr 19, 2018, 4:20 AM UTC |
OnePlus has confirmed that it's partnering with Marvel on an Avengers-themed edition of the upcoming OnePlus 6. The phone will likely be exclusive to the Indian market, as was the case with last year's Star Wars-branded OnePlus 5T.
"OnePlus' association with Marvel Studios is a manifestation of the enduring love and support they have garnered from its respective community over the years with a purpose to go beyond the ordinary and achieve groundbreaking innovations in mobile technology only to create the best user experiences," OnePlus said in a statement obtained by Android Central, noting that the deal "marks a step towards strengthening our association with Disney India."
There aren't any pictures of the Avengers edition yet, because the OnePlus 6 itself hasn't been announced. Despite this, we do know that it'll have a notch and be powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor, so a formal unveiling can't be too far off. Avengers: Infinity War, meanwhile, hits theaters in India and the US on April 27th.
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Facial trauma has profound effects on patient's lives. From the debilitating pain associated with severe injuries to the damage trauma can do to the oral health system, oral surgery is often required to help patients regain oral function and improve quality of life. Following is some helpful information on hard tissue injuries and how they can be addressed with professional treatments.
Hard tissues include teeth and bones such as the upper and lower mandible as well as the joints that connect the lower mandible to the skull (TMJs). In addition to repairing damage done to hard tissues, dental professionals must be mindful of tissues like muscles, ligaments, and nerves near bones when providing treatment. Since the oral system is quite complex, great precision and care must be taken during any oral surgery to preserve or improve a patient's appearance and oral function.
Many times, following facial trauma, teeth may need to be extracted if they are badly damaged after a severe injury. When teeth cannot be saved with restorations or root canal treatment, they are surgically removed to prevent oral health complications such as abscesses. Extractions involve removing all remnants of a tooth including its roots.
If facial trauma has affected the density of the jaws or damaged the TMJs, bone grafts and/or oral surgery that are corrective in nature might be necessary. Bone grafts involve taking excess bone from another part of the body or from a tissue bank and grafting it to areas where bone has been damaged. Over time, new bone will fuse with older bone mass to improve its density. If facial trauma has caused misalignment of the jawbones, orthognathic surgery can reposition the jaws so that oral function is restored and so that the TMJs are not strained by improper jaw placement.
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Concentrating on homework is an issue that all students face at one time or another. Biology is one of those subjects that can be especially trying with so many complexities involved in the course. Today, we will share a few tips for coping with your Biology homework.
Keep all of your materials in order. Make sure you have some type of structure to how you complete assignments. You will need to have all the required supplies such as binders, folders, dividers, highlighters, etc., to stay organized.
Find yourself a quiet spot to complete your task. Turn off all cell phones, TVs, radios and other devices that will distract you. A noise-free area will allow you to be more focused and finish quicker.
You will always want to take down vital information while in class. Research suggests that writing things down makes you more likely to remember them later. This can be extremely beneficial for a course that has so many terms and formulas to remember.
Pictures and images can be very useful resources to help stimulate the brain. You can retain a lot of what you learn by associating the information with images.
Do your homework as soon as possible. Don't wait until the last minute to complete your assignment. You want the information to be fresh in your mind. You also want to be alert, waiting until you are tired will not have positive results.
Never be afraid to ask for help, that is what your instructor is there for, and they expect students to ask questions. If you're not comfortable with asking the teacher, find a fellow student that you feel is competent enough to pick their brain. You will be amazed at how willing people are to share their knowledge.
If you just can't seem to get it together on your own, you can also consider hiring a tutor. You can search on campus or find one online depending on your needs.
These are a few tips and tricks to help you stay on top of one of the most intense courses you will take in your educational career. Biology is no joke! Apply these suggestions and stay focused on the result, and all will work out in your favor.


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Q: Complex nonlinear equation solution I am trying to find an analytic/numeric solution for a set of equations involving functions, summation, and complex quantities.
Definitions:
step = 1;
num = 15;
rho = Range[step , num, step];
theta = Most[Range[0, 2 Pi, 2 Pi/10]];
area[l_] := \[Pi] (2 step l - step^2) 1/Length[theta]

(I choose functions below arbitarily)
K11[a_, b_] := I a + a b + a Cos[b]
K12[a_, b_] := Conjugate[K11[a, b]]
K21[a_, b_] := (I a + a Sin[b])^2 + a Cos[(2 b)/3]
K22[a_, b_] := Conjugate[K21[a, b]]
C1[a_, b_] := K11[a, b] - K12[a, b]

Equations:
eq1 = -a1 + I Sum[  Conjugate[ (r1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] K11[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + r2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] K12[\[Rho], \[Theta]])] area[\[Rho]], {\[Rho], rho}, {\[Theta], theta}];
eq2 = -a2 +  I Sum[  Conjugate[ (r1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] K21[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + r2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] K22[\[Rho], \[Theta]])] area[\[Rho]], {\[Rho], rho}, {\[Theta], theta}];
eq3 = -4 Im[r1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] (K11[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a1 + K21[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a2)] -  C1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] (n1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + 1) + C2 (1 - n1[\[Rho], \[Theta]]) (*C2 is a parameter*);
eq4 = -4 Im[ r2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] (K12[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a1 + K22[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a2)] - C1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] (n2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + 1) + 0 (1 - n2[\[Rho], \[Theta]]) ;
eq5 = -1 r1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + I n1[\[Rho], \[Theta]] Conjugate [(K11[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a1 +  K21[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a2)] ;
eq6 = -1 r2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] + I n2[\[Rho], \[Theta]] Conjugate [(K12[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a1 + K22[\[Rho], \[Theta]] a2)] ;

Condition and variables:
eqn={eq1==0,eq2==0,eq3==0,eq4==0,eq5==0,eq6==0}

Var= {a1,a2,r1,r2,n1,n2}

Problem:
Here, I want to plot a graph between (a1^2 vs C2). For that, I need to get analytic or numeric solution of the variables most of which are the functions of position and angle as given above. I couldn't deal using elimination method and solve feature.
Any help is appreciated.Thank you

A: I didn't save the working version I had, but perhaps this will help.
step=1;
num=15;
rho=Range[step , num, step];
theta=Most[Range[0,2 Pi,2 Pi/10]];
area[l_]:=Pi(2 step l-step^2)/Length[theta];
K11[a_,b_]:=I a+a b+a Cos[b];
K12[a_,b_]:=Conjugate[K11[a,b]];
K21[a_,b_]:=(I a+a Sin[b])^2+a Cos[2 b/3];
K22[a_,b_]:=Conjugate[K21[a,b]];
C1[a_,b_]:=K11[a, b]-K12[a,b];
eq1=Simplify[-a1+I Sum[Conjugate[r1 K11[ρ,θ]+r2 K12[ρ,θ]]area[ρ],{ρ,rho},{θ,theta}]];
eq2=Simplify[-a2+I Sum[Conjugate[r1 K21[ρ,θ]+r2 K22[ρ,θ]]area[ρ],{ρ,rho},{θ,theta}]];
eq3= -4 Im[r1(K11[ρ,θ]a1+K21[ρ,θ]a2)]-C1[ρ,θ](n1+1)+C2(1-n1);
eq4= -4 Im[r2(K12[ρ,θ]a1+K22[ρ,θ]a2)]-C1[ρ,θ](n2+1)+0 (1-n2);
eq5= -1 r1+I n1 Conjugate[K11[ρ,θ]a1+K21[ρ,θ]a2];
eq6= -1 r2+I n2 Conjugate[K12[ρ,θ]a1+K22[ρ,θ]a2];
Var= {a1,a2,r1,r2,n1,n2};
Reduce[eq1==0&&eq2==0,Var]

You can then use Simplify and N on the output from Reduce to make the result much smaller and possibly see what you are looking for in that. The Simplify on eq1 and eq2 make those dramatically simpler because of your summation over regular angles.
I'm not certain if your complete system will solve or not, I didn't wait for that because as you mentioned, you were just making up arbitrary equations for each Knn.
I'm not certain what it is in the way you wrote the code and was provoking Reduce to say that it could not solve the system. I did see that warning once, but I didn't save the code at that point to try to track down the reason for that.
I'm not certain whether your r1,r2 are real radius or not. If they are and you tell Reduce that Element[r1|r2,Reals] then the code speeds up dramatically. Anything that you assume, but you don't tell Mathematica, then it will assume the worst case with everything as unknown complex, possibly zero, possibly infinite, possibly etc. Are ρ and θ real? If so then telling Mathematica that might make your problem much easier to solve.
So I'm not sure where to go, if anywhere, with this now. I can't even seem to get it to solve eq3 for C2. Can you at least reproduce what I've shown here? Can you try to track down what the source of the "Reduce can't solve" warning?


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The Football Four Podcast recaps the Orange and Cotton bowls
USA TODAY Sports' George Schroeder and Nicole Auerbach recap the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowls, the College Football Playoff semifinals.
The Football Four Podcast recaps the Orange and Cotton bowls USA TODAY Sports' George Schroeder and Nicole Auerbach recap the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowls, the College Football Playoff semifinals. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1Owv3sU
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Alabama quarterback Jake Coker looks to throw against Michigan State during the 2015 Cotton Bowl.(Photo: Tim Heitman, USA TODAY Sports)
We finally know the two teams that will play for college football's national championship.
On this episode of the Football Four Podcast, USA TODAY Sports reporters George Schroeder and Nicole Auerbach recap the games they covered — the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl, respectively — and touch on what it's like to be on the losing end of a lopsided matchup with such high stakes.
They also examine the contrasting styles of the two Playoff finalists, Clemson and Alabama, what the Tigers can learn from Michigan State's defense on Derrick Henry, and what Jake Coker's emergence means for the Crimson Tide.
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This type is also known as adsorption type dehumidifiers. The technology used in these models is absorbing the moisture co ntent using an adsorbent such as silica gel.
These are very light weight and portable models and are the smallest in the desiccant series. These models have electronic volume control, which functions automatically based on the requirement of dry air. A hygrostat controls the machine for setting desired levels of humidity.
Operating range of TTR200 is 0 to 100% RH. / -15 °C to +35 °C.
Dehumidification performance is 0.35 kg/h.
Air flow rate is 40 – 120m³/hour.
Easy replacement of filter is possible without dismantling the equipment.
Typical applications will be for small warehouses, cold rooms etc.
Total weight of this desiccant dehumidifier is only 9 kg which makes it easy for handling and relocating.
A hose can be connected to an air output.
Other models in this series are TTR 300, TTR 400,TTR D, TTR 500 D & TTR 160.
This model of desiccant dehumidifier has a radial fan and an additional motor to pump air over long distances. This makes it ideal for applications in a ship and other marine environments. Marine dehumidifiers require high performance in harsh environments.
Operating range is from 0 to 100% RH. and -20 °C to +35 °C.
Dehumidification capacity is 1 kg per hour.
Air flow rate is from 40 to 120m³/h.
Nominal air volume is 100 m³ per hour.
Typical applications will be in ships, seaside warehouses etc.etc.
The air flow over a long distance is possible by changing the hose connection properly. The marine dehumidifier can connect to a long distance of flexible hose so that the processed air can be taken to longer distances.
Other models in stainless steel models are TTR 250 & TTR 250Ex. EX models are explosion proof models.
This model of desiccant dehumidifier is for explosion proof environment and the model complies to Ex protection class ATEX zone 22 (Ex II 3D Ex c T240 °C) .
Operating range of TTR 250EX is from 0 to 100% RH and -20 °C to +35 °C.
Air flow rate is 180 m³ per hour.
Dehumidification capacity is 1.1 kg per hour.
The weight of the TTR250EX is 21 kg.
Why cold room & freezers require desiccant dehumidifier?
Cold rooms, cold storage, walk-in freezers etc. operate at or below 5 Deg. Centigrade or below zero. Hence the cold rooms always will have high humidity up to 100%. This is because it absorbs humidity from the surrounding area outside the cold room. Hence you will definitely require a cold room dehumidifier to reduce the humidity. A condensation de humidifier works on the principle of condensing the moisture in the air. But when the temperature is low as in a cold storage or freezer, condensation will not happen. This is because the room temperature is below that of the condensation coils. Hence the only option for such rooms is desiccant dehumidifiers only. So if you have to reduce humidity in a cold room or freezer room, you should preferably use a desiccant type only.


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A Village Song: "Bazooka Joe Don't Live There Anymore"
By Ariel Kates
The singer-songwriter Gone Marshall recently celebrated a bit of vintage Greenwich Village which might be familiar to you, over on the corner of MacDougal and Houston Street. If you're thinking fondly of some of the old-school neighborhood heroes, you might find meaning in the new song, "Bazooka Joe Don't Live There Anymore." Marshall, known for a distinct narrative lyrical style, centered 'Bazooka Joe' around Greenwich Village in the late '90s and early 2000s, particularly a well-known neighborhood variety and mailbox shop near and dear to our hearts, Lenny and Lucy Cecere's Something Special.
Something Special, legendary South Village shop
Of the song, Marshall said:
"Bazooka Joe" was inspired by a neighborhood hero I knew in New York's Greenwich Village back in the early 2000's, Leonard Cecere. He ran a superb old-school corner store called 'Something Special' on the corner of MacDougal and Houston for many years. It's gone now, and Lenny has passed away… learning of his passing was a spark that led me to write the song, actually.
I had a mailbox there, and it turns out, so did quite a number of celebrities and notables. His shop was a bit dog-eared, but it had a lot of character — something that's gone a bit missing over the years. Anyway, he told me once how he guarded a bridge with a bazooka during the Battle of the Bulge, and that's how the song got its name."
Gone Marshall is a singer-songwriter, lyricist, and vocalist who spent two decades working as a filmmaker before pivoting full time to music and songwriting over a decade ago. The result is evocative, image-driven musical storytelling with roots in alternative folk and rock, neo-psychedelia, and spoken word poetry. He has released a debut album ('The Crunch'), several EPs, and numerous singles to date.
Lenny Cecere and Gone Marshall
Marshall first met Lenny Cecere at his shop, Something Special when he relocated back to New York City to make a film and needed a mailbox. He was living in a small rented room on Morton street in the West Village and found Something Special, which he called "an old-school, slightly dog-eared combination card, gift, trinket, and mailbox shop on the corner. It was a real old time, independent establishment through and through, something that must have been standard in the Village throughout the 50s, 60's and 70s."
Lenny and his wife, Lucy — winner of a 2010 Village Award — were long time, original residents of that corner of the South Village, and they were beloved by all.
Lucy, Lenny, and their family accepting the 2010 Village Award
Lenny Cecere was born in Brooklyn, and Lucy was born in the Village, each to Italian immigrant parents. A WWII veteran, Lenny's unit was responsible for salvaging material from the battlefield. According to his son, Leonard Jr. "He landed in Normandy two weeks after D-Day, was involved in the Normandy hedgerow battles and in the Battle of Saint-Lô…The unit went through France and Belgium and was near Bastogne when the Battle of the Bulge began. My father told about his hour of glory during a freezing night when he defended a bridge with a bazooka against attacking tanks".
Lenny and Lucy Cecere in their shop
After marrying at Our Lady of Pompeii in 1949, Lucy and Lenny moved to nearby Sullivan Street. After they bought 51 MacDougal Street (part of the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District) in 1962, Lenny eventually took over the retail space on the ground floor, turning it into a store called "Something Special," selling doughnuts, bagels, candy, greeting cards, and eventually renting mailboxes and copying keys. Lenny became a beloved and widely-known fixture in the community, whom countless Villagers, famous and every-day, came to rely upon for essential services in their daily lives. Lenny was also an active member of the Father's Club at Our Lady of Pompeii School, and a member of the Knights of Columbus and American Legion posts in Greenwich Village.
Lenny passed away a few years after Lucy, in February of 2015. In their memory, Village Preservation proposed and led efforts that resulted in co-naming the corner of MacDougal and Houston Streets "Lucy and Lenny Cecere Way" in honor of the late Greenwich Village fixtures. "I know I will never forget them," Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman said. "They really touched my life. I'm sure everyone here feels the same way."
Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman along with elected officials and members of the Cecere familyat the street co-naming for Lucy & Lenny Cecere Way
And indeed, two years later we have the song "Bazooka Joe." Marshall wrote: "It didn't matter to Lenny that I was still scraping to get by – literally. I even painted his storefront once in exchange for mailbox rental, I was cutting it so close… I'm quite sure that any listeners who knew Lenny or his shop, or some of the folks who hung out there, would recognize a lot from the lyrics." Marshall talks about his awe at all the famous people (celebrities, writers, you name it) who had mailboxes at Something Special, too. Other notables, like Patti Smith, who didn't have a mailbox there would stop in for a coffee, or donut, or just to shoot the breeze with Lenny. Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick had their photos up in the shop. Lucy Lawless's ('Xena the Warrior Princess') photo featured her in a an outfit which Marshall refers to in "Bazooka Joe" as a 'jungle dress', feeding us with 'fire and thunder'
Marshall explained the song's title, referencing the story of Lenny's Battle of the Bulge experience, and adding that "it also made a bit of sense to allude to the popular Bazooka Joe bubble gum comics which were launched in the 50's. The Bazooka Joe sensibility kind of matches the feeling of 'Something Special', which was in its multi-purpose way, also a candy shop for school kids passing by on their way home from school. I believe he and his wife Lucy were quite possibly saints."
There's a wistfullness to the song, in that 'Bazooka Joe' does not live there anymore — however, their memory is not gone. Marshall wanted to document the kind of person Lenny was – open, frank, character-driven. It's really something straight from the heart.
A Song by Gone Marshall
Writing, Composition, Acoustic Guitar, Main Vocals: Gone Marshall
Fingerpick Acoustic Guitar: Richard 'RJ' Marshall
Female Vocals: Ieva Zdram
Electric Guitar: Jake Bisognin
Percussion: Brian Petry
Bass: Alan Reynolds
Mixed by: Skyler Taylor & Jason Rosette
Produced by Jason Rosette @ CAMERADO (ASCAP)
(c) 2020 Camerado Music & Jason Rosette obo dba Gone Marshall


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Going Viral: Surgeon, Professor Team in New Approach to Pain Treatment
By Chris Bryant
Photos by Bryan Hester
UA professor Carol Duffy, left, and Tuscaloosa surgeon William "Skip" Pridgen stand in Duffy's UA lab.
A chronic pain condition and numerous gastrointestinal disorders may all be caused by a virus.
That's a Tuscaloosa-based surgeon's theory likely headed for a clinical trial early next year and one drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.
The theory of Dr. William "Skip" Pridgen, the physician, is now at the core of a start-up company, Innovative Med Concepts, which has already raised most of the capital needed to fund the Phase II clinical trial to test a novel pain-treatment therapy.
Pridgen is the company's president and managing partner. Dr. Carol Duffy, a UA assistant professor of biological sciences, serves as the company's chief scientific adviser.
The clinical trial will test the effectiveness of a combination of two drugs in treating fibromyalgia, the chronic pain condition known both as a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. The trial, pending FDA approval, will involve 140 fibromyalgia patients at 10 sites around the country.
Results from lab work performed by Duffy could further support trial results and also lead to a potential diagnostic tool for physicians treating patients who exhibit fibromyalgia symptoms.
Once FDA authorization is granted and remaining funds are secured, the trial would be operated by a contracted clinical research organization. The researchers hope it will begin by February 2013.
"We are now in the final stages of accumulating investors," Pridgen says.
Proceeds from the sale of the company's recently launched smartphone app, called U Shape Health, will also help advance the research. The app was designed by Pridgen to encourage healthy lifestyle choices among its users, and it was launched with chronic-pain sufferers in mind.
The unnamed medicines have previously shown to be effective in treating the virus at the center of Pridgen's theory. He earlier filed a provisional patent on the repurposing of both of these drugs for the treatment of fibromyalgia and various gastrointestinal disorders, as they had not previously been known as treatment options for those conditions.
The company is assisted by an experienced team of consultants and UA's Office for Technology Transfer.
Most physicians treat, and understandably so, according to their training, Duffy says, and so she said she was surprised to see Pridgen, a surgeon, exploring non-surgical options to help his patients.
"Most of the time," Duffy says, "if you've got chronic pain and you go to a pain doctor, they are going to put you on narcotics; you go to a psychiatrist, they are going to put you on anti-depressants; you go to a surgeon, they are going to want to cut. But," she recalls telling Pridgen, "'here you are, a surgeon, putting people on anti-virals.'
"I was impressed that he was willing to go the extra mile and take this on."
Duffy, on the other hand, is a molecular virologist and laughs heartily when asked what she would have thought had someone asked her two years ago about the likelihood of working with a physician to raise funds for an upcoming clinical trial.
How the two met ties back, as do most things affiliated with The University of Alabama, to a student.
UA pre-med student Jasmina Hira was shadowing Pridgen in his treatment of patients. The surgeon told the student of his theory and she, having been in one of Duffy's recent classes and knowing her interest in all things viral, asked if he was familiar with the UA faculty member. She encouraged Pridgen to contact Duffy. He did. And, soon, a partnership developed.
Pridgen, who has treated more than 3,000 patients with chronic gastrointestinal issues and, more recently, chronic pain, says his theory began developing after seeing periodic recurrences of many of his patients' discomforts.
He theorized there was some type of persistent infectious agent present. They would be fine for periods, and then they would experience stress, and their problems would recur. As the patients aged, the duration of their flare-ups was longer, and the time period in between flare-ups was shorter.
They were getting sicker.
Pridgen theorized it might be a virus, so he prescribed an anti-viral drug for their treatment. His patients responded positively. Because some of them also voiced other complaints, he also prescribed a second medicine, which also happened to possess anti-viral properties.
Upon those patients' return, they indicated that not only were their GI problems much better, but other problems, including chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety were improving, and that their energy levels were rising.
In an observational study of some of Pridgen's patients, he found the medicine combination had an efficacy rate of almost 90 percent.
Duffy explains how it is that viral infections can so easily recur and how this adds further credence to Pridgen's theory.
Most people, when they're children, become infected by these viruses, Duffy says. The virus particles travel up the nerves to a ganglion, a mass of nerve cells.
"The viral DNA just sits there the rest of your life," Duffy says. Stress or, for women, even hormonal changes, can cause the virus to re-activate, travel back down a nerve branch and result in more inflammation.
"There are a lot of places in the body where this virus can hang out, and one of them is in the gut," Duffy says.
The two medicines to be tested within the clinical trial work in different ways to counter viruses, Duffy says.
"The first drug inhibits the virus from replicating at one stage of the virus life cycle, while the other drug inhibits it at another stage and, in addition to that, it also inhibits the virus from reactivating. So, you are basically hitting this virus in three different ways."
Duffy hopes to later develop a quantitative test to determine whether a person has fibromyalgia.
The UA professor's role in the effort comes in two waves. First, she is seeking to confirm the virus' presence in the affected patients. As part of his diagnostic process for patients presenting with both fibromyalgia and chronic GI disorders, Pridgen will take a tissue biopsy. Part of this biopsy will be sent to pathology for analysis, and part will be sent to Duffy's UA lab.
Using a technique known as PCR, Duffy will make enough copies of the tissue's viral DNA, a process known as amplification, to sequence the virus. By sequencing it, the researcher can identify whether a virus is present, and if so, determine precisely which one it is.
The second aspect involves the potential development of a quantitative test to determine whether a person has fibromyalgia. Presently, such diagnoses are based on patients' subjective responses to physicians' questions about their pain.
In potentially developing such a test, Duffy is focusing on signaling molecules in the body called cytokines. The body produces different levels and types of cytokines based on what it encounters, Duffy says. It typically deals with encountered bacteria relatively specifically, turning on particular countermeasures to combat different bacteria.
Viruses, on the other hand, are "stealthy, and they evolve pretty fast," Duffy says. "Our body's way of dealing with a virus is basically just to turn on everything. The analogy has been made of trying to kill a mosquito with a machete."
And all of that machete swinging causes problems.
"You look at the cytokine levels of patients who have fibromyalgia, all of their pro-inflammatory cytokines are elevated, and their anti-inflammatory cytokines are way down," Duffy says. "So, the body is not regulating itself right.
"It's basically exaggerating its reaction to the virus. Any little stress reactivates the virus, and, rather than the body saying, 'Oh, this is just a virus, I've been living with this since I was five,' the body keeps saying, 'Oh, my God,' and throws on all this inflammation, and that gives these people this pain.
"There is a theory that all pain, one way or another, is inflammation," Duffy says. "It's inflammation gone awry."
Duffy will obtain blood samples from the clinical trial participants and measure cytokine levels. Participants will periodically rate their pain levels during the course of the trial, and Duffy will study whether there is a correlation between the patients' reported pain levels and the cytokine levels.
If a correlation is shown, Duffy would then check cytokine levels in healthy people to gauge the typical difference in cytokine levels between pain-free people and people experiencing pain. This could lead to potentially pinpointing a cytokine level where fibromyalgia treatment would be acceptable.
Chronic pain and fibromyalgia are just two of a number of other chronic conditions that may be made better by this combination therapy, the researchers say. Fibromyalgia is the most severe condition, so it was selected as the first condition to be studied.
Duffy's pending roles in the project include determining whether a virus is present in fibromyalgia patients and, if so, which one is present.
If the clinical trial and tissue study prove Pridgen's theory correct, Innovative Med Concepts would then potentially approach pharmaceutical companies to gauge their interest in buying the patent and making the drugs available for fibromyalgia and a number of other conditions.
For someone whose career thus far has been devoted to basic research, Duffy says this new venture has required a shift in her mindset, and she said she finds it rewarding to potentially more directly help the public through her research.
"Everything I've ever done has been on grant funding, and grants are funded with taxpayer dollars," Duffy says. "Yes, I do my best to give them value for what they are giving me out of their taxes – by doing good research, solid research and by being a careful scientist. Even with basic research, someday someone is going to be able to use it for someone's benefit. With this, though, you can help people in a much more direct way.
"For somebody who is a molecular virologist — whose research program is based on 'how does this virus replicate?'– to have the opportunity to do something like this is very rare and very exciting."
Pridgen concurs.
"We may have found a rather big piece of the puzzle that no one has been able to figure out," Pridgen says. "It's an exciting time for me, Carol and The University of Alabama."
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Hottest artist from FL- Sizzle
Sizzle September 21, 2019
Jacksonville, FL — Friday, September 20th, 2019 — Sizzle is here to revivify Hip Hop. Sizzle has paved a lane of his own in this music era, staying true to real music with message and connection within. His ability to harmonize and rap flawlessly within one track is remarkable. Sizzle lives by the motto of God First above all and Selflessness second.
Sizzle's music is available on all major platforms. His number 1 streaming service is Spotify.
To touch one and teach one is the greatest gift we can offer one in life. His fans will always remain the flames that keep him lit.
Sizzle has released a new EP, named Timeless that reached more than 9,000 streams within the first few weeks. He released a number of singles including Outta Control, that was released earlier part of 2019 that has reached 30,000 streams, God Showed Out, and 2 B Loved, which was made in the sense of relating to the current view of relationships.
Sizzle has no limits when it comes to his creativity. He has something to offer in just about every area of creativity. From songwriting for not only himself but he is able to write for others effortlessly. He can write an entire song within hours. He also has started a collection of scripts he has written. From cartoons to movies, Sizzle has an impeccable creative ability to capture an idea and deliver it.
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Steve Hardeman, better known as his stage name Sizzle, is a Florida-based rapper-singer-songwriter that has an extraordinary way of blending his lyrical flow with harmonies that hit the core of his listener's emotions. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL. Since the early age of 9, Sizzle had a passion for music running through his veins and the way it was pieced together. Sizzle's avid lyrics and expressive harmonies expose a truly relatable artist who has the power to provoke a profound response. His name arose due his lyrical talented being considered "hot" or "fire", which is a term for extremely good, from that he birthed Sizzle.
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Our Stories – What We Love About Ovations
We just passed the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It seems fitting that this turning point in the universe, at which the sun is at its maximum declination and then begins slowly to subside for those of us in the northern hemisphere, is also the end of Portland Ovations' organizational year: a time when we look to the new, to what is coming next, to gather us together as the days begin again to shorten.
As we do that — planning and announcing Ovations' upcoming season of live, in-person performances — we also turned to our family of Members to listen to what they love most about Ovations, to learn why they not only attend shows but donate additional support towards our mission.
Here's what a few of them had to say…
School-Time Performances, Blue Man Group — and Ovations' presentation of Broadway National Tours at Merrill Auditorium in general — were definitely a few of the favorite memories for Members of all ages such as the Carville family.
How about you? Tell us your favorite Portland Ovations' performance memory!
The diversity of Portland Ovations' season is another thing our Members seem to love — and honestly, we do, too! While we started 90 years ago in 1931 as a classical concert association, today you never know what to expect in an Ovations' season. One week we'll be hosting Taylor Mac at the State Theatre, and the next the New York Philharmonic String Quartet at Hannaford Hall. We're always delighted to welcome Jim and Thurl, above, to our classical series and more!
What Ovations story do you have to tell us? Click here to email us a text or even a selfie or video from your phone!
And Jim and Lynn gave a particular shout out to Ovations' dance programs — we're the largest presenter of contemporary dance in Maine — as well as to Seeking Resonance, our ongoing partnership with Indigo Arts Alliance to center the voices of BIPOC artists.
Whether you love our thrilling local dance artists like Sara Juli or Riley Watts, or come back year after year to see the Alvin Ailey Dance Company on tour — we want to hear YOUR STORY of what you love about Ovations.


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Laura Coleman (b. c. 1986) is an English model, social media influencer and actress represented by MODELS 1. At Age 22, Coleman won the Miss England 2008 beauty pageant and represented England at Miss World.

Biography
Born in Melton Mowbray, Coleman comes from a family of models and beauty pageant winners. Her maternal grandmother Irene won 12 titles and became Miss Army Pin-Up and Miss Lovely Legs in the 1940s. Her mother Dena won 20 titles in her 20s, including Miss East Anglia and was a finalist in the Miss United Kingdom.

Coleman won the title of Miss Leicestershire in 2005 while studying for a degree in business law and marketing at De Montfort University in Leicester, and came fourth in Miss England that year.

Laura won Miss Derby in 2008 and went on to win Miss England on her second attempt on 18 July 2008, just a day after her graduation. Coleman then represented England in Miss World 2008, in South Africa.

Laura is currently living in London and represented by Models 1 model agency.
Laura is a social media influencer for sustainable brands and vintage fashion  on Instagram.

Coleman has appeared in several feature films including Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Excalibur Rising (2017) and The Witches of Dumpling Farm (2018.)

References

External links
Miss England official website

1986 births
Living people
People from Melton Mowbray
Alumni of De Montfort University
English female models
Miss England winners
Miss World 2008 delegates
21st-century English women
21st-century English people


I am nearly always happy with heat, provided it's dry heat, but to my Scottish constitution, the humidity in Brisbane was appalling - almost unbearable. I found that the only way to cope was to take it very easy, stopping often and making full use of air-conditioned havens such as bookshops! Actually as the day went on I felt I was getting used to it; the first hour was the worst. Even my camera was all misted up, having just been brought outside from an air-conditioned hotel room.
Once I got into my stride, I walked through the city centre, via King George Square, to the Botanical Gardens and from there, over the footbridge to the Southbank area. After a refreshing diet coke in the shade, I boarded one of the little city ferries and crossed to the Eagle Street area, where the Central Business District comes right to the riverside. I had a freshly made tuna sandwich for lunch, then explored a little more of the city centre, taking in St Stephen's Cathedral, the surprisingly attractive Post Office building and the Customs House. A detour up to St John's Cathedral proved to be a fruitless exercise, as it was undergoing extensive refurbishment.
I boarded a City Cat fast ferry back to North Quay and disembarked for the relatively short walk back to the hotel, taking in the Casino building en route.


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