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Vaccinations against COVID-19 allow semblance of normality despite Omicron variant
Crystal Wang
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Crystal Wang '25 is planning to major in English and History. Crystal is involved in two on-campus publications, The Flat Hat and The DoG Street Journal, as well as WM Archery and the Griffin Fechtcschule. Email Crystal at cwang28@wm.edu.
The views expressed within are the author's own.
Most of us are rational people, so I assume we know the severity of the omicron COVID-19 variant. In a matter of two months, it went from arriving in the United States to accounting for over 90% of all sequenced cases. It has pushed the College of William and Mary to mandate boosters for its students and renewed anxieties that this pandemic will never be over. But my life hasn't been very affected.
All of my teachers sent out a customary email a few days before the first day of classes. It goes as follows: "Hello, how are you? How was your break? I am Professor So-and-So. You are in this class, here's what you need to do for our first meeting." In addition to these niceties, each professor has asked whether I would be on campus for the first day. They wanted to know whether the first week needed to be virtual in case many students caught COVID and wouldn't be allowed on campus. All of my professors have also given us alternative ways to learn the material if we need to quarantine: recorded lectures, uploading old lectures, etc. But so far, everyone has shown up to class and, as far as I know, there has been no need to employ any of the alternative methods. Other than that first email, COVID concerns haven't been brought up. They were acknowledged and then we moved on.
Almost 9,000 of us were invited to the Charter Day Ceremony. Kaplan Arena, with a maximum seating capacity of 11,000, could have been packed full as the student body was enticed by the cancellation of afternoon classes, free T-shirts and food. Amidst rising Covid numbers, I got an email inviting us to Golden Weekend promising free T-shirts to the first 1,150 people at the gate. They were encouraging thousands of people to come out and watch a game in an enclosed area where people would be yelling, shuffling about and perhaps even pulling their masks down to yell even louder.
It goes to show how much of a bubble that we live in. We can almost forget that there is a pandemic going on outside of the College. We can almost forget that hospitals are overflowing, people are dying and the omicron variant is spreading like wildfire. We are in an echo chamber where almost everyone is vaccinated. With over 8,000 tests administered since the second week of January, we are as of the writing of this piece at 21 active positive cases, 64 positive cases overall on campus, and 417 pre-arrival positives. The administration feels safe enough to host huge events and I presume students feel safe enough going. Otherwise, the College would not put in the effort or money to put on these events. We are free to go about our lives.
I will admit, I was shocked when the College announced on the last day of December that students and faculty who don't upload proof of a booster by January 18th will be kicked out, i.e disenrolled or fired. I want to make it clear that I applaud this decision; I just never thought the administration would do it. But in doing so, we keep our semblance of normality. We are what happens when high vaccination rates prevail.
I think it is safe to say that I have not been very affected by the omicron variant. I can still go to my classes, the dining halls are still open, I can still go to my clubs, and I can go to all the indoor sporting events that I want. And for those who want to get drunk in a frat house with a bunch of people who want to get equally drunk, they are free to do so.
I have no idea what's going to happen in the future of this campus. I don't know whether we can keep this normality. But so far, we can go about our day in our pocket of vaccinated normality.
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Crystal Wang '25 is an intended English and History major from Charlottesville, VA. Within the campus, she's a staff member of the Flat Hat and The DoGStreet Journal as well as a member of the Archery and HEMA club. She can be found in Swem, frantically writing the essay she forgot about or in the Sunken Gardens scrolling through social media. After college, she plans to go into the publishing industry.


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Matt Cookson Honored in New Hampshire 200 List as One of the Most Influential Business Leaders
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Year-long research initiative by NH Business Review editors reveals leaders across several industries throughout the state
Matt Cookson, president and CEO of Cookson Communications, was honored by NH Business Review as one of the most influential Media and Marketing leaders in the Granite State for the second time on the New Hampshire 200 list. The New Hampshire 200 is the product of a year-long research initiative by the editors of NH Business Review, resulting in an insightful and engaging look at the state's most influential business leaders across major industries.
"I am so humbled to receive this prestigious honor for the second time for doing work that I enjoy," said Matt Cookson, president and CEO of Cookson Communications. "I absolutely love every aspect of what I do but more importantly, it's all about the great team we have in-house and the wonderful partners that we are able to support through our marketing, communications and creative efforts."
Cookson has worked in communications roles in government, higher education and the private and nonprofit sectors. Prior to launching his company in 2010, his professional positions have included press secretary for a member of Congress, assistant director of government affairs at UConn, director of public affairs at PC Connection, associate vice chancellor at the University System of NH and executive director of the NH Tech Alliance. He is also a 2003 Leadership NH alumnus and completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business entrepreneurship program. Cookson also gives time back through board service with the Greater Manchester Chamber, Northeast Delta Dental and the Association for Corporate Development. He also serves on the advisory board of CASA NH.
The New Hampshire 200, first launched two years ago, recognizes business owners and leaders from all corners of the state across major industries, including architecture/engineering/construction, business and professional services, education, energy, finance, healthcare, hospitality, law, manufacturing, media/marketing, nonprofit, real estate, retail and technology. The New Hampshire 200 book includes personal, career and industry insight for readers, such as business lessons learned, challenges, predictions and more. This prestigious list started in 2019 on a bi-annual basis and Cookson has been named to the list both times since its inception.
"We are pleased to announce this year's New Hampshire 200 list, which spotlights a truly remarkable group of individuals leading the Granite State in their respective industries," said Jeff Feingold, editor of NH Business Review. "This list has been months in the making and has involved extensive research, interviews, and communication with our contacts in regional business circles. We look forward to providing the people of New Hampshire this inspiring look at the individuals who are making an immeasurable positive impact on the state, and to honor Matt in our 2021 New Hampshire 200."
NH Business Review celebrated the New Hampshire 200 during a reception on December 9 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown and will also be publishing a New Hampshire 200 book detailing the accomplishments of the recipients.
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Introverts have been misunderstood for a long period of time. People think of them as weird people who are not normal and cannot understand the needs of a basic human and have fun as others do. Most people are not the basic introverts that other people think they are. Introverts can be fun and can do things that other people like extroverts can. Introverts choose not to do so because they are wired in such a way that they do not want to talk with others and have fun with them in the first place. People need a grave understanding of how good Introverts can be at doing things that others believe them they are not capable of doing. Introverts are just like other people, who want to do what they want to do, they just choose it to do quietly so that no one disturbs them and they can stay out of the limelight.


Adalimumab (Humira™) is a genetically engineered, fully humanized monoclonal antibody that binds TNF-α, preventing it from activating TNF-α receptor. The drug has been approved for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and Crohn's disease in the United States. Due to this wide-ranging therapeutic value, PF-06410293 is being developed as a potential biosimilar to Adalimumab. We have developed and validated two cell-based assays for the detection of either anti-Adalimumab innovator or anti-PF-06410293 antibodies in human serum, to support ongoing clinical studies.
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Getting ready for your next journey? Whether you're planning a trip or getting ready for your commute, find out everything you need to know about Barrow-upon-Soar station facilities here before you travel. At most train stations you'll find ticket machines to buy or collect tickets, as well as customer help points if you need a helping hand. There are also seating areas in most stations so you can sit back and relax while you wait for your train. For detailed information about the facilities available at Barrow-upon-Soar station, take a look below.
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Does Barrow-upon-Soar station have ticket gates?
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This is an unstaffed station. To book passenger assistance please call 08000 11 33 23. We recommend you book assistance 12 hours in advance. Assistance will be provided by the On Train Team.
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ACE ABC 01509 215500
Car parking is not available at this station.
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Category B. This station has a degree of step free access to the platform which may be in both directions or in one direction only - please check for details.
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laundry service with surcharge at the owners place, baby bed on request - free , free use of barbecue, free berth for boat (only with obligatory previous notice), breakfast with surcharge, half board with surcharge, full board with surcharge.
The distance to the closest beach is 20 meter. The distance to the sea is 20 metar. The distance to the town center is 7000 metar. Airport - 50 km. Train station - 50 km. Ship / ferry port - 0,72 km. Closest infirmary/hospital - 7000 m. Closest public transport (bus etc) - 950 m. Grocery store - 7000 m. Closest restaurant - 200 m.
Apartment type: A1. 3 bed/s for adults. Apartment capacity (adults): (3). Category of apartment is 2 stars. Apartment size is 40 m2. The apartment is on the ground floor. Access for the disabled is not enabled. Number of bedrooms in the apartment: 1. Number of bathrooms in the apartment: 1. Number of balconies in the apartment: 1.
Flooring: parquetry. In the bedroom is double bed. In the bedroom is one single bed (for one person). The bedroom has an exit to the balcony. , Bedding is available to guests., Bathroom inside the bedroom.
TV set, SAT-TV, smoking allowed inside the apartment , mobile air conditioning (included in price).
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Size of balcony/teracce of the apartment is 25 m2. Features and equipment of the balcony/terrace seating set, partly covered, ground floor (garden terrace), orientation sea side, partly sea view.


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Choral, instrumental ensembles to perform
Fitchburg State University's choral and instrumental ensembles will present their annual winter concerts in December. Admission is free and open to the public for these concerts, sponsored by the Humanities Department at Fitchburg State.
The choral concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7 at Weston Auditorium, 353 North St. It will be the 27th and final concert conducted by Associate Professor Marjorie Ness, who is retiring in December.
Performers will include the university choir and chamber singers, along with soloists Sarah Morin, Nathania Demosthenes, Eric Brodeur, Coty Markee-Culbreth and Lois Dwira, conducted by Ness and accompanied by pianist Roy Imperio. Also performing on Dec. 7 will be Harmonic Velocity, the student-led a cappella group under the direction of Devin Salviuolo and Theo Demosthenes.
Choral works performed will span the Renaissance through contemporary Broadway and pop selections.
The winter band and ensembles concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, also at Weston Auditorium. At that concert, the university's jazz band will play music ranging from hard bop era tunes such as Mr. P.C. by John Coltrane to bossa nova by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Latin jazz by Freddie Hubbard. The concert band will be playing a mix of new band music as well as traditional favorites and holiday classics.
The Humanities Department performances conclude at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 with the end-of-semester student recital for the Foundation Music Lesson Program at Kent Recital Hall in the Conlon Fine Arts Building, 367 North St. The performance will feature students of all ages displaying their skills on a variety of instruments.
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The Commons: Jim Flaherty challenges everyone to a reading contest
The Scene. Thomas Mulcair agreed with Stephen Harper. Just not now. Or at least not the version of Stephen Harper that was now in front of the NDP leader.
"Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are trying to shove another 450-page budget bill down the throats of Canadians," Mr. Mulcair reported. "The finance minister once again showed total disregard for our democratic institutions, choosing photo ops rather than Parliament, 450 pages. The Prime Minister once criticized the Liberals for their omnibus approach. He was right then, he is wrong now."
Staring down the Prime Minister, Mr. Mulcair chopped his hands from one side and then to the other to demonstrate the difference between this and that.
"Will the Prime Minister respect Canadians, respect the role of Parliament and split this omnibus bill to allow for proper study?" the NDP leader asked.
Alas, Mr. Harper was not inclined to agree with his earlier view.
"Mr. Speaker, Canadians' priorities are focused on the economy. They remain jobs and growth," the Prime Minister reported. "This government continues to move forward with the latest version of the plan presented in March to promote jobs and growth across this country and to continue the relatively superior performance of the Canadian economy."
You needn't read the budget yourself, you see, because it is mostly just the words "jobs" and "growth" written over and over again for 450 pages.
"What we, of course, will not do in all of our proposals is propose tax hikes and, more specifically, a carbon tax," Mr. Harper continued. "Our goal is not to kill jobs, our goal is to create jobs."
At least that's the plan now. These things tend to be subject to change. (A few budgets ago, for instance, Mr. Harper's government committed $66 million to "lay the foundation for market based mechanisms that will establish a price for carbon and support the development of carbon trading in Canada." It was written down in the budget and everything.)
A few moments later, the NDP's Peggy Nash dared suggest that the budget implementation act tabled before the House this morning included "non-budgetary measures." Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was apparently displeased to hear such aspersions cast upon the document.
"Mr. Speaker, we have a real plan for jobs. We had it in the first budget bill. It is in the second budget bill. The budget is a wonderful document. We delivered it in March. There is nothing new. What is in the bill today is in the budget," he grumbled and lectured. "If they have not read the budget, I would say to my honourable friends on the other side, I do not know what you did all summer. You got paid. You had a good pension plan. So, do your work; do your job."
Understanding their jobs, the government backbenchers sprang up to applaud.
The New Democrats persisted though and Mr. Flaherty was very short of patience.
"Mr. Speaker, as I said a moment ago, there are no surprises. The budget was delivered on March 29. The budget document itself is almost 500 pages. It is the economic action plan of the Government of Canada for our country, not only for this year but for the ensuing years," he waved the budget in his hand and then slammed it down on his desk. "This is the plan. This is the creation of jobs, growth and prosperity for our country. I urge the honourable members to read it for their own edification."
The Finance Minister was apparently inviting everyone to play spot–the–difference. This game promises to entertain everyone for at least a few days. Even if the current farce would seem to render the written word relatively moot.
The larger game at play will go for at least a few more years. That game was revealed a little later when Mr. Flaherty was set up with a planted question from the backbench.
"Mr. Speaker, I thank the honourable member for the very informed question," the Finance Minister said of Conservative MP Blake Richards. "Our government is supporting the economy. Of course we are, with jobs, growth and prosperity. The New Democrats need to explain why they are against that. Why is the NDP against extending the hiring credit for small businesses to create jobs; against promoting interprovincial trade; against improving the registered disability savings plan; against new tax relief for clean energy generation equipment; and against closing tax loopholes? Why is the NDP against all of this and against growing the Canadian economy?"
It's just that simple. Never mind those 450 pages and whatever they amount to. If you don't support C-45, you don't support further help for the disabled and their families.
The Stats. The budget, 12 questions. Ethics, seven questions. Food safety, four questions. The environment, three questions. National security, foreign investment, trade and health care, two questions each. Aboriginal affairs, affordable housing, airports, small business and border security, one question each.
Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty, six responses each. Pierre Poilievre, five responses. Gerry Ritz, Vic Toews and Christian Paradis, three responses each. Ed Fast, Peter Kent and Leona Aglukkaq, two responses each. Joe Oliver, John Duncan, Diane Finley, Steven Fletcher, Maxime Bernier, Bernard Valcourt and Peter Van Loan, one response each.
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A musical assortment of feels and tastes, singing and instrumentals, and somewhat a cross-section of the stylings of the work of Jim Hurst.
Jim Hurst was born in Middleboro, Kentucky into a musical family and was raised with a guitar in his hands and weekends growing up were spent picking with family and friends. Jim was influenced early in his career by flatpickers: such as Tony Rice and George Shuffler, but Doc Watson and Clarence White especially. He later heard Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, and especially Jerry Reed, calling his discovery of their fingerstyle playing "a turn in the road" for him. His diverse tastes led him to play in several bands, playing rock, country, bluegrass and blues. His legend was already growing when Holly Dunn came calling in 1990. He joined on as Holly's guitarist/harmony vocalist, touring the world, playing live TV, and stunning audiences with his musicianship. He joined Trisha Yearwood's band in 1992 and toured more extensively including many high-profile radio and television appearances. In the mid 1990's Jim also performed with Travis Tritt, Sara Evans and the McCarter Sisters.
In search of more bluegrass playing, Hurst joined âIBMA Vocalist of the Yearâ Claire Lynch in 1995, meeting bassist Missy Raines in Claire's band. Jim and Missy began the duet "Jim Hurst & Missy Raines" in 1998 while touring with Claire Lynch. They broke off from Claire Lynch's band in 2000 to focus more sincerely on the duet, a groundbreaking arrangement in bluegrass music circles. Together Jim & Missy's music delved into several different genres, while staying close to their bluegrass roots. Their two "Pinecastle Records" releases "Two" and "Synergy" were received with critical acclaim, culminating with Jim and Missy receiving the Guitar Player and Bass Player of year awards at the 2001 and 2002 IBMA Awards Show. Jim has also released a solo CD for Pinecastle Records, Second Son. Jim is a sought after Nashville studio musician, recording and performing with many acoustic artists such as John Cowan, Mark Schatz, Tim O'Brien, and Sam Bush. Jim continues to record and tour doing solo dates, with the Jim Hurst Band, and also with the two-time Grammy nominee Claire Lynch.
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Woman 10,000th person to like Gazette Facebook page
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The Gazette hit a social media milestone last week when its Facebook page surpassed 10,000 likes.
And to make note of the occasion The Gazette will give Jessica Shatley a $100 gift card for being the 10,000th person to like our Facebook page.
Shatley, 23, is a 2008 graduate of East Gaston High School and has worked as a hair stylist at Bianucci's Salon and Spa at 4003 S. New Hope Road since June.
The Gazette uses Facebook, as well as other social media tools such as Twitter and Pinterest, as a way to connect with the community and hear about issues that are important to readers.
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CHS names leader of enterprise strategy
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, U.S. — CHS Inc. on March 11 named Shirley Cunningham executive vice-president, enterprise strategy, effective April 22.
Cunningham, who most recently was chief information officer for Monsanto Co., will lead CHS enterprise strategy functions including information technology, human resources, planning and enterprise strategy, and enterprise marketing and communications. Cunningham will be a member of the CHS senior leadership team and report to CHS President and Chief Executive Officer Carl Casale.
In announcing Cunningham's new role at CHS, Casale said, "Shirley brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in leading and delivering enterprise-wide business initiatives. As CHS continues to develop and execute strategies for growth on behalf of our owners, leveraging the CHS enterprise across all of our businesses will be key to our success."
Cunningham has more than 25 years experience in information technology and business management including leading global IT operations, acquisitions, IT research and development, strategic planning and enterprise initiatives. She was also responsible for developing and executing Monsanto's quality oils strategy. In addition to broad business expertise, Cunningham has extensive global experience, having led Europe, Middle East and Africa IT operations for Monsanto. She also held leadership positions with several companies in the U.K.
She has a master's of business administration degree from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., and serves on several boards including Washington University School of Engineering, the AT & T advisory board and the St. Louis children's museum, The Magic House.
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Thanks Tim and yes Sluggo we're finally taking the plunge.
Can TB handle data for minute time frames such as 4 minute or 15 minute time lines? Next, can TB also handle simultaneous long short positions?
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thanks Ratio. how often do you upgrade or buy a new box? every 2 years ?
what type of hardware would you recommend running? is there a requirement for multiple processor motherboards? do you find yourselves upgrading this hardware on a regular basis?
is there a necessity for multiple pc's crushing through numbers?
rhc raises the issue of counter party risk (here). have you experienced any issues? next odl offers a coding platform. have you tried automating any processes?
Can I enter a series of trades into trading blox and compute all of the stats?
I have approximately one thousand trades to analyze to determine the efficacy of a particular trading methodology?
ps Tim appears to be absent until jan 9th ?
has anybody backtested a trend following/turtle system trading cfd's ?
any suggestions for a data provider?
Topic: Is trading moral and ethical?
don't think for a minute that this business entails little work. there is constant research and there is no such item as the holy grail trading system.
just plug in you laptop and make money. I don't think so.
thank you for your invaluable input. have a happy holiday.
law practice was busy and hedge fund was years away untill I could establish some treck record with pooled capital/ now fund is incubated. any experience trading cfd's ?
is it wiser to exit a losing position or ride out the loss? what is the benefit of using the atr for stops? why the atr ?


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Audio Report: roleplaying-o-rama
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What happens when I play a roleplaying game – like, a normal one – and two other Audio Reporters are there to see it? Hear all about it in this show with frequent guest Brian Isikoff. Fans of Fudge, True20 and those interested in roleplaying's general place in the industry are encouraged to apply.
So this show is kinda the whole reason we had been asking "what does role-playing mean to you". Hope you enjoy.
FoE3
Whoa – I've ascended to the ranks of Frequent Guest. Sweet!
I will say I'm sorry that I didn't facilitate a better (more fun) time for Mike in my Fudge game. GM's job is to faciliate the fun, so … my bad, Mike. I'll do better next time! 🙂
If anyone knows how to solve Skype on a Mac's common issue with Echo, it would be most appreciated 🙁
TimOPod
Hey guys, cool show. Of course the standered "how do ou fix a mac" answer is use a pc. That said, lemme get to the main point of this post. The G.M (D.M) is usualy the last person who has control of a game? Sure they may have a plot, but they shouldn't have to rail road players into it (not to say they don't try some times).
Stepping out side of the character classes is a good example of how a player can bend a story. In a d and d game (firsat edition) I was in last year (see system doesn't matter to much), I rolled up an amazine 1 hp fighter. Well, heavly armed homless guy who every one callled a hobo. Anyway, by time we stoped he game, I was one of the only original characters left, and I was also a major driving force. My hobo wanderings drove he group to follow me (as they didn't trust me). My bad habit of breaking into locked buildings looking for goods also drove the game.
There were alot of newer players who just followed and rlled dice because they didn't understand that it's really the players that steer the course annd tthe speed of the story. Oh yeha, and a 10 foot pole really helps, but thats a different story.
Basicly old school players like myself know that the D.M issn't there to tell me what to do, not that i'd listen really anywya.
keep up the good worrk
I've listened to the first part of the game and got to Chris' comments about fighting against the d20 game system. It's amazing how much I agree with those comments (which is why I regret answering his question a few days after you had already wrapped up this show). Over on Paul Tevis' Have Games Will Travel board, I posted the following:
For me, the biggest gripe I have is combat in d20. When trying to hit a target, d20 games want to include a lot of variables to make combat more realistic; when determining placement in a combat situation, d20 games want to remove a lot of variables to make combat more abstract. This leads to a strange bit of role-playing combat where it looks like you can do anything, but you're constrained by a series of moves and actions and you're forced to be at one of eight points around your opponent. As I've said before [http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/9/9535.phtml], D&D 3.5 is more of a miniatures battles game than a role-playing game when combat occurs. With the hit point system at high levels, we get into situations where combat isn't determined by the character's actions, but by strategic placement of miniatures on a grid and waiting to see who can inflict more paper cuts on the other first.
Additionally, the combat rules in the PHB slow down combat in every game I've played. Dungeons & Dragons touts itself as epic fantasy, but to me that means combat should be fast-paced and cinematic. When our role-playing sessions switched over to combat mode, the fun and speed just vanish as a simple thirty second fight takes thirty minutes to an hour to resolve.
… and now to listen to the rest of the podcast.
I don't have statistics on game-store closings nationwide, but north Atlanta recently lost one of its two all-games-and-only-games stores. With Sword Of The Phoenix gone, only The Game Pit remains.
(I leave out the Games Workshop store, which has moved so far into the exurbs that I haven't been able to find it, or anyone who has ever seen it firsthand.)
The 'mixed-game' stores (games & models, games & comics) seem to be faring better, though one of them has recently moved to a much smaller storefront. It may be that the 'mixed stores' are actually DEFLATING the game-store-closing figures, by keeping some square-footage of game product available while the store's other merchandise covers the bills.
Carl Cravens
Brian kept calling F10 the "10th edition"… it's not. It's the 10th ANNIVERSARY edition of the 1995 version of the rules. The core rules, Steffan's writings, are completely unchanged from 10 years ago. The rest is stuff added on, mostly rules sets for specific applications.
Not to say that's a good thing. I think F10 was a lost opportunity and could have been a lot more than it was.
Yes, well, slip of the tongue.
More informal game store closing news.
Of the game stores here in Tucson, only one closed its doors back in January of last year, Things For Thinkers (or was it Jan of '04?). Popular thought was the owner was using revenue from the store to finance a sub shop. Once that shop was up and running, he decided to abruptly close Things — nobody knew the store was closing. Later that year a new store (Hat's Games) opened. The owner of the store purchased the entire inventory from Things. We also have another new store that opened this year, but it mainly stocks Warmachine, CCGs, and has a very small section of RPGs (the Waldenbooks in the mall has a larger section).
RIchard Vowles
I was interested in the way that Chris described how the ordering process works (he has described it before). If the ordering process is so stuffed up, and even dealing with 7-9 vendors/distributors is hard why hasn't someone solved this so retailers and vendors can go direct? Or do the vendors not have the stuff to fulfill orders? Given we solved these technology problems in the late 80s it surprises me that some b2b site doesn't already cater for this.
I meant 90s.


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AOC says Biden 'needs' to be pushed on erasing $50,000 in student loan debt
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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) campaigns on June 23, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Ocasio-Cortez is running for re-election in the 14th congressional district against Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC
WASHINGTON - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday reiterated her push for President Biden to unilaterally cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, warning that whether or not the White House does so "all comes down to public pressure."
The New York Democrat said progressives need to keep pressing the Biden administration to move further left on the matter after the president indicated he was "unlikely" to use his authority to fully forgive student loan debt for individual borrowers.
"The Biden admin NEEDS to be pushed," Ocasio-Cortez wrote during an Instagram Q&A on Tuesday night. "They have said they're comfortable with $10K in forgiveness but we NEED at least $50K minimum and there is support for 50K."
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Biden has called for forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt as part of a broader coronavirus relief effort, and extended a freeze on student loan payments through Sept. 30, 2021 immediately upon entering office, benefiting about 41 million Americans — but Ocasio-Cortez said the president needs to go further.
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Last week, a group of progressive lawmakers, including Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as well as Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Vernon Jones, D-Ga., and Alma Adams, D-N.C., introduced a resolution calling on Biden to erase $50,000 in student loan debt via executive order.
The lawmakers maintained that Biden could use existing executive authority under the Higher Education Act to order the Department of Education to "modify, compromise, waive or release" student loans.
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"Canceling student loan debt is the single most effective executive action that President Biden can take to kickstart this economy," Warren said.
Still, canceling student loan debt may disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans: A recent working paper published by the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics shows that erasing all student loan debt would distribute $192 billion to the top 20% of earners in the U.S., but just $29 billion to the bottom 20% of U.S. households.
Under a universal loan forgiveness program, the average individual among the top-earning borrowers would receive $5,944 in forgiveness, while those with the lowest incomes would receive $1,070 in forgiveness, according to the study, authored by economists Sylvain Catherine and Constantine Yannelis.
Such sweeping executive action by Biden would almost certainly face a legal challenge, and it's unclear whether it could survive. Critics have argued that using such power exceeds the president's authority granted by Congress.
Erasing student loan debt would also add to the nation's already-ballooning national deficit, which totaled a record $3.1 trillion for the 2020 fiscal year -- not including the $900 billion coronavirus relief legislation that lawmakers approved in December.
Outstanding student loan debt has doubled over the past decade, nearing a staggering $1.7 trillion. About one in six American adults owes money on federal student loan debt, which is the largest amount of non-mortgage debt in the U.S.
It has been cited as a major hindrance in people's "economic life" by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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Essential Information Supporting Naturally Sustainable Good Health
Serrapeptase And The Power Of Enzymes
Enzymes are catalysts, made from amino acids by RNA (Ribonucleic Acid), which is made by DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid). Enzymes need a specific temperature and pH (measure of acidity/alkalinity) to perform their work. Enzymes from plants work best at the human body's temperature and pH. They are essential in every function of growth, repair and therefore health of every living cell in the body.
Thousands of enzymes are working every second to build and regenerate the body. They are constantly being converted or produced and they depend upon good living nutrition to keep ahead of daily damage and degeneration. They do need help in this job and this essential help comes from co-enzymes. These are critical vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin B12. Even a small deficiency in B12 results in disease. This becomes such a problem with elderly people, on poor diets, that they at times need injections.
Another co-enzyme, zinc, is needed by about 80 enzyme activities, not to mention the famous co-enzyme Q10. Without enzymes and coenzymes, there would be no living thing. All living things depend upon enzymes to sustain growth and health.
Three Types Of Enzymes
Food/Digestive Enzymes – These take the basic building blocks delivered by food we eat and convert it to colloidal particles (the smallest particles that exist in a free state) that can be converted into healthy living tissue.
Metabolic Enzymes – Metabolic enzymes use colloids to keep all of our organs and tissues functioning with hundreds of diverse chemical activities, repairing organs and fighting disease. The body's ability to stay healthy, to repair tissue when injured, to protect us from disease, is directly related to the quality and number of enzymes, coenzymes and nutritious food.
Clean-Up Enzymes – This third type is not really a separate group, but they are the enzymes for the last job on the line, clearing up. They are responsible for eliminating the mess, left in the body from the construction and repair work that is in continuous operation. These clean-up enzymes clear our bodies of the undigested carbohydrates, proteins and any non-vital tissue floating around. Another vital job is to provide anti-inflammatory enzymes to fight infections and tissue damage.
Enzymes Do Specific Jobs, Including
Digesting food
Breaking down toxins
Cleansing the blood
Supporting the immune system
Converting protein into muscle
Contracting muscles
Eliminating carbon dioxide from the lungs
Supporting the pancreas and other vital organs
Enzymes are the workers in the body – they carry out every chemical reaction. To have a healthy body you need both workers (enzymes) and building materials. The building materials are proteins (amino acids), minerals, and vitamins. All of these are necessary to build a healthy body. Trying to function without all the necessary enzymes is the reason for most body malfunctions.
Seven Categories Of Food Enzymes
Lipase to break down fat;
Protease to breakdown protein
Cellulase to break down fibres
Amylase to break down starch
Lactase to break down dairy foods
Sucrase to breakdown sugars
Maltase to breakdown grain
The Inflammatory Response
The inflammatory response is normally an important mechanism for protecting the body from attack by invading organisms, faulty cells and trauma. When the immune system becomes dysfunctional, it loses its ability to differentiate between innocuous and potentially dangerous substances. This dysfunction results in a wide array of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, allergies, psoriasis, uveitis, multiple sclerosis and some forms of cancer.
In spite of the huge range of successful enzyme studies showing safety and effectiveness, the standard therapy for inflammatory-mediated diseases and trauma include drugs such as steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs). These classes of drugs, in most cases, do offer temporary, symptomatic relief from swelling, inflammation and accompanying pain, but without treating the underlying condition.
Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) And Their Side Effects
The drugs used to control the inflammatory response may be immunosuppressive and cause dangerous side effects. The benefits and long-term risks associated with the use of NSAIDs, especially in cases of rheumatoid arthritis; need to be weighed very carefully. If not successfully treated, the inflammatory process itself can lead to limitation of joint function and destruction of bone, cartilage and articular structures.
NSAIDs are one of the most widely prescribed drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory joint conditions. They inhibit the biosynthesis of prostaglandins by irreversibly blocking cyclooxygenase, the enzyme which catalyses the reactions of arachidonic acid to endoperoxide compounds.
The neurological and gastrointestinal side effects of these agents have been reviewed in considerable detail. All of the NSAIDs, with the exception of Cytotec, inhibit prostaglandin El, a local hormone responsible for gastric mucosal cytoprotection. A common side effect from these medications is gastric ulcers. Adverse reactions that are more serious such as blood dyscrasias, kidney damage and cardiovascular effects have been noted. Most physicians rotate among the ten most widely prescribed NSAIDs, as soon as one causes side effects or stops working.
Introducing Serrapeptase, The 'Miracle' Enzyme
The search for a superior enzyme that offers safe but powerful anti-inflammatory properties, thus averting the terrible side effects, ended when Serratia peptidase (Serrapeptase) enzyme was discovered in the early 1970′s. Serrapeptase is now in wide clinical use throughout Europe and Asia as a viable alternative to salicylates, ibuprofen (sold as an OTC in the USA.) and the more potent NSAIDs. Serrapeptase is an anti-inflammatory, proteolytic enzyme isolated from the micro-organism, Serratia E15 and has no inhibitory effects on prostaglandins, is devoid of gastrointestinal side effects and offers a sensible alternative.
What Does Serrapeptase Do?
Serrapeptase is processed commercially in the laboratory through fermentation. It was originally found in the silkworm where it is naturally present in its intestine. This immunologically active enzyme is completely bound to the alpha 2 macroglobulin in biological fluids. Histologic studies reveal powerful anti-inflammatory effects of this naturally occurring enzyme. The silkworm has a special relationship with the Serratia E15 micro-organisms in its intestines. The enzymes secreted by the bacteria in silkworm intestines have the ability to dissolve avital tissue, but have no detrimental effect on the host's living cells. Thus by dissolving the silkworm's protective cocoon (avital tissue), the winged creature is able to emerge and fly away.
The mechanisms of action of Serrapeptase, at the sites of various inflammatory processes consist fundamentally of a reduction of the exudative phenomena and an inhibition of the release of the inflammatory mediators. This peptidase induces fragmentation of fibrinous aggregates and reduces the viscosity of exudates, thus facilitating drainage of these products of the inflammatory response and thereby promoting the tissue repair process. Studies suggest that Serrapeptase has a modulatory effect on specific acute phase proteins that are involved in the inflammatory process. This is substantiated by a report of significant reductions in C3 and C4 complement, increases in opsonising protein and reductions in concentrations of haptoglobulin, which is a scavenger protein that inhibits lysosomal protease.
Enteric Coating For Intestinal Absorption
Several research groups have reported the intestinal absorption of Serrapeptase. Serrapeptase is well absorbed orally when formulated with an enteric coating. It is known that proteases and peptidases are only absorbed in the intestinal area.
These enzymes are mobilised directly to the blood and are not easily detectable in urine. Other enzymes with structural similarities have been reported to be absorbed through the intestinal tract. Chymotrypsin is transported into the blood from the intestinal lumen. Horseradish peroxidase can cross the mucosal barrier of the intestine in a biologically and immunologically active form. Several studies have appeared so far which refer to the systemic effects of orally given proteases and peptidases (e.g. Serrapeptase), such as repression of oedema and repression of blood vessel permeability induced by histamine or bradykinin. These enzymes also affect the kallikrein-kinin system and the complement system, thus modifying the inflammatory response.
Superior Effects
In vitro and in vivo studies reveal that Serrapeptase has a specific, anti-inflammatory effect, superior to that of other proteolytic enzymes. A review of the scientific literature, including a series of controlled, clinical trials with large patient groups, suggests that Serrapeptase is useful for a broad range of inflammatory conditions. If one considers the fact that anti-inflammatory agents are among the most widely prescribed drugs, the use of a safe, proteolytic enzyme such as Serrapeptase would be a welcome addition to the physician's armamentarium of physiologic agents
Serrapeptase Has A Wide Range of Applications
The discovery of this unique biological phenomenon led researchers to study clinical applications of the Serrapeptase enzyme in man.
Researchers in Germany have used Serrapeptase for atherosclerosis to digest atherosclerotic plaque without harming the healthy cells lining the arterial wall. Today, researchers consider atherosclerosis an inflammatory condition (similar to many other degenerative diseases whose cause is identified as chronic inflammation). Some immunologists are even categorising atherosclerosis as a benign tumour. Hardening and narrowing of the arterial wall is a cumulative result of microscopic trauma; inflammation occurs in the presence of oxidised lipids. Serrapeptase does not interfere with the synthesis of cholesterol in the body, but acts as an anti-inflammatory and helps clear avital tissue from the arterial wall. It is important to note that cholesterol in its pure state is an antioxidant and a necessary component of the major organ and hormonal systems in the body. The use of medications, which block cholesterol biosynthesis, may eventually damage the liver and compromise antioxidant status of the eyes, lungs and other soft tissues.
Powerful Anti-inflammatory
In addition to atherosclerosis, there is a growing list of conditions, which respond to Serrapeptase simply taken orally in tablet or capsule form.
Pain Of Any Kinds
Headaches and Migraines (Caused by Inflammation)
Lung Problems
Bronchial Asthma
Blocked Veins etc
ENT Problems
Chronic Ear Infections
Runny Nose etc
Traumatic Swelling
Post Operative
Leg Ulcers (that are not healing)
Inflammation Of Any Kind
Inflammatory Bowel (Chron's, colitis etc)
Breast Engorgement
Fibrocystic Breast
Varicose Veins etc
Please note: This list is not definitive and it does not constitute advice of any kind.
Thanks to Robert Redfern of Naturally Healthy Publications, for original information.
My Serrapeptase Adventure is the remarkable story of "The 'Miracle' Enzyme", Serrapeptase, which gave me back my life in January 2006. It goes on to chart the four life-changing years in which I learnt that many of the symptoms from which Serrapeptase has rescued me were, in fact, known, and even expected, side effects of the toxic cocktail of prescription medications, which I took before I knew about Serrapeptase and to which I have never needed to return.
Mike Tawse
The 'Miracle' Enzyme is Serrapeptase – The 2nd Gift from Silkworms (by Robert Redfern) is a remarkable book about a remarkable enzyme. Read in detail, the fascinating studies, uses and practitioner's reports about Serrapeptase.
Serrapeptase Information Website
Serrapeptase Newsletters
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Carratu, L. et al. Physio-chemical and rheological research on mucolytic activity of Serrapeptase in chronic broncho-pneumopathies. Curr. Ther. Res. 28(6): 937-951. 1980.
Braga, P.C. et al. Effects of Serrapeptase on muco-ciliary clearance in patients with chronic bronchitis. Curr. Ther. Res. 29(5): 738-744,1981.
Mazzonie, A. et al. Evaluation of Serrapeptase in acute or chronic inflammation of otorhinolaryngology pathology: a multicentre, double blind randomised trial versus placebo. J. Int. Med. Res. 18(5): 379-388,1990.
Kakinumu, A. et al. Regression of fibrinolysis in scalded rats by administration of Serrapeptase. Biochem. Pharmacol. 31:2861-2866,1982.
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Esch PM, Gemgross H. Fabian A. Reduction of postoperative swelling. Objective measurement of swelling of the upper ankle joints in treatment with Serrapeptase a prospective study (German). FortschrMed. 1989; 107(4): 67-8, 71-2.
Majima Y, lnagaki M, Hirata K. Takeuchi K, M orishita A, Sakakura Y. The effect of an orally administered proteolytic enzyme on the elasticity and viscosity of nasal mucus. Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 1988; 244(6):355-9.
Selan L, Berlutti F, Passariello C. Comodi-Ballanti MR, Thaller MC. Proteolytic enzymes: a new treatment strategy for prosthetic infections? Antimicrob Agents Cheroother. 1993; 37(12): 2618-21.
Koyama A, Mori J, Tokuda H, Waku M, Anno H, Katayama T, Murakami K, Komatsu H, Hirata M, Arai T, et al. Augmentation by Serrapeptase of tissue permeation by cefotiam (Japanese). Jpn JAntibiot. 1986; 39(3): 761-71.
February 16, 2006 The Health-Care Survivor
Benjamin Loon
Hi. By taking this Can it help with calcification in my heart and arteries? Please respond. Thank you
June 10, 2019 at 16:20 Reply
The Health-Care Survivor
I am sure you will understand that it is not appropriate for me to advise anyone about their condition. I can, however, share my own experiences with you. If you have followed my story, you will know that Serrapeptase started a cascade of improvements in my own condition, including a sustained reduction in pain.
For detailed information, and to discuss any concerns you have, I invite you to contact Robert Redfern, the man who taught me everything I know about Serrapeptase, and much much more, about naturally sustainable good health. Robert will be able to give you much more detailed, and personally tailored, information than I can here.
Having said that, my understanding of the scientific evidence, and of anecdotal reports, leaves me in no doubt that you will find Robert's detailed information very useful and positive.
Scientific References can be found here.
Whatever you decide to do, I wish you well in your search for naturally sustained good health, and a pain-free future. Please use the Contact Me Form, to let me know if you think I can help you further.
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Changwon  FC is a South Korean football club based in the city of Changwon. The team plays in the K3 League, the third tier of South Korean football league system.

Honours

Domestic competitions

League
 Korea National League (regular season)
 Winners (1) : 2009
 Runners-up (2): 2006, 2015

 K3 League
 Winners (1) : 2022

Cups
 National League Championship
 Winners (2) : 2006, 2017
 Runners-up (1) : 2011

Season-by-season records

Current squad

References

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Sport in Changwon
Association football clubs established in 2005
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Q: How do I change the CSS for the sequential number element on click? I have used jQuery to generate a sequential numbering for my menu items.
When clicked, the hyperlink text becomes red.
However, the problem here is that I want the respective number to turn into red as well when the hyperlink is clicked (active).
Such as when 'WHY YOU NEED IT' is clicked, the text turns red perfectly. But I need the number 1's background color to change into red as well.
I tried replacing classes but it didn't work.
This is the JS.
jQuery(function ($) {
$(".menu-solutions-menus-container ul li").each(function (i, el) {  $(this).children('a').prepend("<number>" + (i + 1.) + "</number>");
});

$('.local-scroll').click(function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();

    var full_url = this.href;

    var parts = full_url.split('#');
    var trgt = parts[1];

    var target_offset = $('#' + trgt).offset();
    var target_top = target_offset.top;

    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: target_top
    }, 500);

});

$('.menu-solutions-menus-container a').click(function () {
    $('.menu-solutions-menus-container a').removeClass('active');
    $(this).addClass('active');
});

$('.number').click(function () {
    $('.number').removeClass('active');
    $(this).addClass('active');
});

Here's the jsfiddle workspace. (Change jQuery version to jQuery 1.7.2 or above if you don't see the numbers.)
The secondary menu in this site is where I would really want to implement it.
Thanks a lot in advance.

A: Your class names just need a tweek and this'll work fine
change
number.active {
    background: white;
}

To
.active number {
    background: red;
}

Edit (explanation)
The CSS selector number.active is looking for an html element number that has a class of active like this <number class="active" /> but what your HTML shows is that you wanted the parent  to have the active with a child node of <number>.
So to do that you put the parent class first, followed by a space to note a child node of the parent, followed by the element you want to target.
so:
parentElement.parentClass childElement.childClass {
    defs
}

you could write
a.active number {
    background: red
}

Edit 2 for top bars:
There's a few things, the first being that the grey areas are actually background colors, as opposed to borders. Second the CSS selector is looking for a parent class of "active" but your "active" is a child of the
's

what you can do is make the li the get the active class like this
$('.menu-solutions-menus-container a').click(function () {
    $('.menu-solutions-menus-container a').removeClass('active');
    $(this).parent('li').addClass('active');
});

$('.number').click(function () {
    $('.number').removeClass('active');
    $(this).parent('li').addClass('active');
});

$('.menu-solutions-menus-container a').click(function(){
     $('ul.shortcode_menu.solution-menu li').removeClass('active');
     $(this).parent('li').addClass('active');
});

Then change your CSS to reflect the
 is the element with the active class.
ul.shortcode_menu.solution-menu li.active {
    background: black;
}

Again I've changed it to background: black instead of border-top, as I think that's the effect you want.

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Discovery of complex anomalous patterns of sexual violence in El Salvador
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De-Arteaga, Maria; Dubrawski, Artur;
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Subject: Statistics - Applications | sexual violence | data mining | data visulisation | El Salvador | anomaly detection
When sexual violence is a product of organized crime or social imaginary, the links between sexual violence episodes can be understood as a latent structure. With this assumption in place, we can use data science to uncover complex patterns. In this paper we focus on th... View more
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George's Pet Goth
17 December, 2012By Joseph Rykwert
The life of James Wyatt, architect of collapsed masterpieces, is fairly recounted in new book writes Joseph Rykwert
In popular memory, Wyatt is the first British architect to die in a traffic accident. Besides that, he is remembered for the legendary burning of his first major building, the Oxford Street Pantheon, only 20 years after its very successful completion, as well as the collapse of another masterpiece, the wild Gothic folly, William Beckford's Fonthill 'Abbey' a few years after his death.
In deconstructing the myth, John Martin Robinson has attempted to reinstate James Wyatt not only as the architect to George III − which the subtitle of the book proclaims him − and the King's cosseted favourite, even friend, but also as the great architect of the generation between the Chambers/Adam and the Nash/Soane one. The Wyatts were respectable, upper-yeoman Staffordshire, though James moved easily into noble company as a teenager and was taken to Italy where he spent six years − first in Venice, in Consul Smith's neo-Palladian circle, then in Rome where he fell under the spell of Piranesi. The older man seems to have been charmed by the affable, talented − already accomplished − Englishman. To that personal charm of his and to his generosity there are many witnesses (including the King) on whom Robinson can draw.
That combination of personal attraction and precocious ability allowed him a triumphant return to Britain to an instant, fabulous commission, the design of that Oxford Street Pantheon, which − as long as it stood − was London's most fashionable assembly, the winter surrogate (it opened in January, 1772) for Vauxhall and Ranelagh. The project was instantly celebrated and the drawings exhibited at the Royal Academy before the building opened and Wyatt was elected an ARA. That success even prompted the Empress Catherine, always agog with the latest fashions, to invite him to St Petersburg: however, a number of notables (including three Dukes), worried in case Catherine did not allow him back, offered him an annuity to refuse the invitation while at the same time surfeiting him with prestigious commissions.
Wyatt was as rackety as his client was reclusive, and overstretched his considerable talents
This led to an inevitable conflict, since the architects who dominated fashionable London at the time were the Adam brothers. James's elder brother Samuel − builder, engineer, contractor − who may have been the go-between in getting his brother the Pantheon commission, had earlier been employed by the Adam brothers, notably at Kedleston. He insinuated his younger sibling into the work, and to inveigle some of the craftsmen whom the Adams had assembled and trained to work for him on the Pantheon. Moreover, by his election to the Academy, Wyatt took his place in Sir William Chambers' camp against the Adams whom Chambers had always managed to keep out of that institution. The Adams reciprocated.
In the publication of their Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, they accused an anonymous contemporary of plagiarism in the process of refuting a similar slur on themselves. And it is here, I think, that Robinson's partisanship leads him a little astray in maintaining his hero's superiority to those rivals. They came into direct contrast and even conflict in Portman Square, where Wyatt, who was doing a number of houses nearby, was commissioned to do a substantial one for Lady Home while the Pantheon was being finished. She was, by all accounts, a disagreeable enough lady; Wyatt may have reacted by an early display of the characteristics that were to be the bane of his career: he was unreliable, unpunctual, dilatory. Miffed, Lady Home went back to the Adams, who (perhaps stimulated, as Robinson suggests, by the rivalry) produced one of the most splendid interiors of their career, an arrangement of a subtlety and ingenuity which Wyatt would never rival. And indeed, the garden facade of the house, which Robinson − rightly, I think − attributes to Wyatt, seems (to me, at any rate) flabby, diffused and quite unworthy of the interiors.
The Home House fiasco first shows the disadvantages under which Wyatt laboured all his life: he was not only disorganised but had a short attention span. Although a fanatically hard worker − he even had a desk installed in his coach so that he could go on working while travelling (though that was not the coach in which he was killed, as I had once fondly imagined) − he would start enthusiastically on a project and then lose interest. He kept clients waiting − even the King on some occasions. He was a hopeless manager of his business, so that although he died bankrupt (and a subscription had to be raised at once to tide his wife over the worst), he was in fact owed £20,000 in disputed and unpaid accounts. Several of these were institutional. By the time he died, Wyatt had accumulated a vast number of official appointments. He was Surveyor-General of the Office of Works, to Somerset House and Westminster Abbey, Deputy Surveyor to Woods and Forests, Architect to the Ordnance − which produced perhaps the most buildings: Sandhurst, Woolwich Barracks and Military Academy − and much else; very briefly and quite disastrously, he was President of the Royal Academy.
All these activities would not fit easily into any narrative. The author has treated them half-thematically, half-chronologically: origins and the Italian stay, the Pantheon, rivalry with the Adams (which gets a whole chapter of its own), Wyatt's establishment and working methods, the Early English houses, the Irish practice (by correspondence), industry and design (the most original chapter − particularly in its detailed working of the connection with Matthew Boulton and Mrs Coade of the artificial stone), furniture, mausoleums and churches, Oxford, Classic (which Wyatt himself called Grecian − Classic had not yet assumed its 'modern' meaning), and Gothic; then, separately, Gothic country houses and cathedrals, Royal and public works, the Regency style and the − sad − end. The structure does not really help Robinson to tell his tale fluently − and occasionally prompts him into redundancy.
In Oxford, where so many academics held informed architectural views and opinions, Wyatt built his most 'Grecian' work, the Radcliffe Observatory, an emulation of the recently published Tower of the Winds in Athens, arguably his most refined and antiquarian project. And it was in Oxford, too, that work on the chapel of New College introduced him to the problem of restoring Gothic buildings and this led to further activity on castles and on cathedrals − Windsor and Salisbury most prominently − which earned him much (and some of it quite undeserved) opprobrium in the generations which followed. But it also introduced him to designing in the Gothic manner or style, in which he quickly became an expert, and in which he was abetted by the prime 'Goth', Horace Walpole, who had long been an admirer. He built a number of Gothic houses: Wycombe Abbey, Lee Priory, Norris Castle on the Isle of Wight, and others.
Wyatt's gigantic edifice for author, exile and recluse William Beckford. Fonthill Abbey collapsed several times during construction and was later demolished
A little disappointingly Fonthill and William Beckford, its patron, are treated as a Gothic byway. Beckford was a brilliant, polyglot collector and man of letters, the heir to a vast fortune built on Carribean sugar and the slave trade. Wyatt had worked for William's father on his opulent Georgian mansion, which (against his advice) William had pulled down to replace it with a 330-foot cruciform Gothic pile dominated by a central octagonal lantern, 130 feet high (which collapsed for a first time during construction − 'the crash and the loss sound magnificent in the Newspaper', Beckford wrote: 'I neither heard the one nor feel the other'), but his fortune did decline in the wars and with the fall in the price of sugar.
He sold the old house and the gems of his collection and in 1822 had to sell Fonthill. The defective foundations of the tower collapsed finally three years later (the carelessly supervised builder confessed on his deathbed − just before the event) and Fonthill has been a ruin ever since. But by then Wyatt had been dead for some years and his end had been, as I suggested earlier, brutal. Returning from a site visit with a satisfied client, their carriage overturned in a traffic jam. Wyatt's head struck the roof and he was killed instantly.
His many merits and his varied achievements outweigh his many faults and Robinson seems determined to be just about both− which is just as well, since his Wyatt will certainly be the Wyatt for his generation and some following ones as well − and he is an eloquent advocate. Perhaps it is a good friend of Wyatt's who should have the last word: Samuel Pepys Cockerell said of him that 'he possessed infinite taste and ingenuity − but he did not think'.
James Wyatt, 1746-1813; Architect to George III
Author: John Martin Robinson
Publisher: Yale University Press,
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