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DEC 5, 2019 | BY JOHN F. KATZ
MUSTANGS, COUGARS ARE THE BOSS FOR REUNION AT PITTSBURGH TRACK
PITTSBURGH, PA – Of all the engineers and designers who contributed to the Boss 302 project, it was Larry Shinoda who gave Ford's road-racing Mustang its distinctive look, and who also who gave it its name. "Boss" may have been what Shinoda called then-Ford Motor Company President Semon E "Bunkie" Knudsen, but to the 2,400-plus owners and admirers who thronged to the Summit CarFest Boss Reunion at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex this past summer, Larry Shinoda was the Boss; and the Boss was his car.
With a show field comprised of over 125 cars, the Labor Day weekend event was likely the largest gathering of Boss Mustangs (and Cougars) since the first Boss Reunion, held at the Ford Nationals in Carlisle, Pennsylvania back in 2005. That 35th-Anniversary celebration drew over 200 cars, recalled Lisa Leathery, who was then event director for Carlisle Productions. Lisa was also involved with the 2012 Boss Reunion in Dearborn; and in 2017 she contacted Randy Ream of the Boss 302 Registry to pitch a 50th Anniversary festival.
"Because of the up-front costs for a venue, insurance, and online registration, we knew we'd have to team with an existing event," she said. "And we wanted a race track that could offer a driving experience for owners of the 2012-13 models."
A likely contender was CarFest, the annual Labor Day Weekend bash promoted by the AutoInterests driving school. A typical CarFest includes not only road-course driving, autocross competition, a car show and on-site dyno testing, but also live music and a banquet with a guest speaker.
Lisa also realized the importance of inviting "some key cars that we would be able to promote," including a limited number of Concours restorations and original-condition Survivors, for a Special Display to be judged by Boss Registry rules.
Lisa snared some famous race cars as well, starting with Randy Saba's "Pony Tail," the '69 Boss 302 briefly drag raced by Bob Justice, then stored for 38 years after Justice's untimely death. In the hands of collectors since 2008, the car has fewer than 200 miles on the clock. Tim Olive brought the '69 Mustang racer built by Bud Moore for Mexico's Moises Solana. In April 1969, Solana won the VII Cicuito Los Fuertes, and with Freddy Van Buren continued to campaign the car for the next 10 years.
The 1969 "wide-body" Mustang presented by Mark Corich began life as an R-Code Cobra Jet, and served as a styling and color prototype for the Boss program before it was sold to a Ford engineer who raced it in local SCCA events. By 1973 it has been sold again to IMSA racers David and Richard Mroz, who had it rebuilt as a blister-fendered Trans Am car and drove it to a 20th-place finish in the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1975.
Ed Meyer brought "Dyno Don" Nicholson's '69 Cougar 429, along with a priceless display of documentation, including the original window sticker, an invoice from Kar Kraft for engine modifications, and a letter from the Ford Motor Company agreeing to sell the car to Nicholson for one dollar in exchange for (among other things) the promotional rights to his (anticipated) drag racing success.
Meyer has long served as the Boss Registry's chief judge, and back under the Special Display tent, his team evaluated the Concours and Survivor cars on 900-point scale. Jim Zappala's Wimbledon White '69 Boss 429 rated 892 points, the highest score of the meet. Zappala's 1970 Grabber Blue 429 also scored Gold, as did Mike & Steve Salsman's Bright Yellow '70 Mustang 302, and Eric Petosa's lime-green '69 Boss Cougar. Three out of the seven Survivor cars scored Gold as well.
"We were thrilled to have the Survivor cars," Lisa commented. "People get excited about them because if they are working on their own cars, they can see what is authentic and correct."
Bob Daily bought his Calypso Coral '69 302 in 1991, with just 29,000 miles on the odometer. "It's all original except for the tires, battery, and radiator hoses," he told us. "Even the paint, interior and trunk are original." The judges agreed and scored it Gold, along with Fred Kemmerer's '71 Boss 351, and Dave Wyras' 1970 Cougar.
Trey Capps purchased his '70 Boss 302 Mustang in 1976, the year his son, Lee, was born. It's painted the highly desirable Calypso Coral, with an unusual Vermillion interior. "And it sat for 42 years," said Lee. "Then in the last six months we put it back together." They earned Silver at the Reunion.
Canadian Jacques Patenaude bought his Bright Yellow '70 302 three years ago in San Diego. "All the numbers match," he noted, "although a few things are missing. We want to upgrade it to what it was when it was born." Meanwhile, it rated the show's only Bronze.
Then there was Joe Flowers' Wimbledon White Boss 429, which was featured in the December 2008 issue of Muscle Car Review. According to the article, the original owner wrote to Ford complaining that the car's performance was not up to its billing. Somehow the letter found its way to Bunkie Knudsen, who invited the man to Dearborn for a meeting, and then arranged to have the car blueprinted, tuned and modified according to internal Ford specifications to optimize its performance on the drag strip. With all of its mods intact, Flowers' car scored a Silver.
Also invited was Pittsburgh-area collector Dan Medice, who brought his five Boss Mustangs as well as a rare '69 Fairlane, one of 17 built with a 428 CJ and a four-speed. "It's an 8000-mile survivor," said Medice. "It was bought new by a Ford dealer who drag-raced it and blew it up about 20 times. My brother bought it in 1976, but he passed away from cancer before he put a new motor in it. He never drove it. So I put it together and now show it as a tribute to him."
Dan's Calypso Coral '69 Boss 302 was also a drag-race car, whose original motor has been stroked to 347 cubic inches. His '70 302, in Grabber Orange, has been modified with 12.5:1 compression and a Richmond six-speed. "I've owned that one for 30 years," he added. "It's just a ball to drive." He's owned his '71 Boss 351 for 20 years, and it remains mostly original.
Then Dan showed us his Dark Ivy Green '69 Boss 429, which he bought when he was 19, in 1975, "At the very first Ford Nationals in Carlisle, in 1995," he recalled, "Lisa put me in the tent with Larry Shinoda. Larry had his stuff set up and was signing build sheets. And I asked him to sign my car." And Larry did, in white ink, on driver's-side sun visor.
But surely the best story – and possibly the most desirable car here -- belonged to John Grafelman of Hanna City, Illinois. In 1977, John saw a white '69 Mustang listed for sale in the local paper. "But when I looked at it, I knew it wasn't a production model," he said. It could have been a '69 Mach 1 modified to look like a Boss 302 – despite the Boss style stripes, it was powered by a 428 driving through a C6 automatic – but even the "Boss" parts on the car weren't right. "The rear deck spoiler was too wide, and the rear-window slats were different," John noted. "It had a huge rear sway bar, and it had been lowered. But I purchased it anyway and drove it for two years," and Grafelman then stored it for another 30, all the while researching its provenance.
Around 2004, John's son, Jason, approached several Mustang restorers in California and found a photo of what appeared to be his family Mustang in Larry Shinoda's driveway. Further investigation strongly suggested that the Grafelman Mustang was, in fact, a pre-production Mach 1 used for both engineering development of the Boss 302, and most notably as a styling prototype by Shinoda himself. Ultimately, the Grafelmans confirmed that Shinoda had leased the car from the Ford Design Center when the design project was finished.
It takes more than a glance or two at Shinoda's prototype to notice that while the graphics say "Boss," nowhere on the car is the number "302." The initials "LB" in the hub of the leather-wrapped Momo steering wheel presumably refer to "Larry's Boss." Look closer and you can see the number "1" etched at the base of the wheel's downward-pointing spoke.
Close by at the Reunion were Shinoda's wife, Joyce, and daughter, Karen; Karen had shared memories of riding in that car as a child.
Grafelman, Saba, Olive, and Medice spoke to the more than 200 dinner guests at Friday night's banquet; also on the program were Ken Dowd of the Shinoda Boss design team, former Kar Kraft engineer Don Eichstaedt, and current Ford engineer Adam Christian, who helped develop the revived 2012 Boss Mustang.
For those who somehow don't know already, Ford developed the Boss 302 to compete against Chevy's Z/28 Camaro, both on the track and in the showroom. Carroll Shelby's Mustangs had won the first SCCA Trans-American Sedan Championship in 1966, and they won again in '67 (albeit incognito as "Terlingua Mustangs," while Ford focused its overt factory effort on the new Mercury Cougar). But the Z/28 won the last two races of '67 -- and scored not only the championship in '68, but over 7,000 civilian sales as well. Released in mid-1969, the Boss Mustang arrived too late to stop Chevy from dominating a second Trans Am season; but in 1970, the Boss 302 brought the championship back to Dearborn.
The styling of the '69 Mustang Sportsroof was already finalized when Knudsen hired Shinoda as Special Projects Design Director in late 1968. Aiming for a cleaner look for the Boss, Larry stripped the horse emblems off the rear roof pillars, closed off the rear-fender air intakes, and removed the rocker moldings. Then he blacked- out the taillight panel and the outer headlight nacelles and added tape stripes reminiscent of Ford's LeMans-winning GT-40 Mk 2. Functional front and rear spoilers (also black) and black venetian-blind like louvres shading the large backlight completed the Boss 302 look.
Shinoda also designed a similar but more subtle graphics-and-spoiler package for the Mercury Cougar's new high-performance sub-series called Eliminator, which could be ordered with the Boss 302 engine and suspension. And he created the graphics package for the Mustang Boss 429 -- although in every other respect, the Boss 302 and Boss 429 could not have been more different.
With its out-sized, semi-hemispherical cylinder heads, what became the Boss 429 engine was developed to battle Chrysler's legendary Hemi in NASCAR. At the time, NASCAR required a production run of 500 engines for homologation, and Knudsen thought that 500 429-cubic-inch Mustangs would solidify the pony car's performance image. And he wanted them called Boss 429, so buyers would associate them with the racing Boss 302. The fact that the 30-inch-wide Boss 429 engine wouldn't fit in the Mustang's 28-inch engine bay didn't seem to bother him. Ford subcontractor Kar Kraft was awarded the job of modifying engineless Mach 1's to accept the monster motor.
The Ford and Mercury Boss programs continued into 1970, albeit without Knudsen or Shinoda; Henry Ford II fired Bunkie in August of 1969, and Larry in September. Then Ford pulled out of Trans Am racing, and NASCAR changed its rules to discourage limited-production engines. The extensively restyled 1971 Mustang included a Boss 351 model, which by some accounts was the best Boss yet. But it stumbled in the showroom, with just 4,124 sales, and did not reappear for '72.
In all, Ford had built and sold 1,934 Boss 302 Mustangs in 1969, and 6,319 in 1970. Boss 429 production for the same two years totaled 852 and 498, respectively. Additionally, Mercury sold 169 Boss 302 Cougars in '69, and 469 in '70. A Boss 429 Cougar was theoretically available, but only two were sold, both '69 models, and both to professional drag racers (the Nicholson car, and another to "Fast Eddie" Schartman). It is generally accepted that none ever reached the general public.
But even that wasn't the end of the Boss Mustang story.
In 1994 Shinoda, now head of his own design firm, created a "Boss" graphics package for the then-current SN95 fourth-generation Mustang. Eventually Shinoda Performance Vehicles would offer aftermarket upgrades, from spoilers to twin-turbo kits. In 2012, Ford itself revived the Boss 302 moniker for a Mustang model faster than a Mustang GT but more polished than a Shelby GT500. Like the originals, it saw only two years of production.
Most of the Boss cars registered for the High Performance Driving Experience in Pittsburgh were these later models, although Terry Bookheimer and Dave Walmer both turned laps in Boss 302 Mustangs of 1969 vintage. Lisa took to the track in her own 2013 Boss. Retired Marine pilot Dennis Dilucente drove his 2012 Boss all the way from California and saw 135 mph on the road course. And Randy Ream explored the limits of his own 2012. Similarly, 10 of the 11 Boss Mustangs competing in Sunday's AutoCross were 2012-13 models. Michael VanDerMeid scored the best time, 45.044 seconds, in his 2013. But Mark Corich clocked a 49.23 in his '69 wide-body.
Climaxing the event was a parade lap of 45 Boss Mustang and Cougars. "A little bit of rain fell on the cars," Lisa admitted, "but that certainly didn't dampen the spirits of those who had participated in this event."
FORD PERFORMANCE PHOTOS / COURTESY JOHN F. KATZ
FORD PERFORMANCE PHOTOS / COURTESY BILL COOK
FORD PERFORMANCE PHOTOS / COURTESY AUTOINTERESTS, LLC


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Home Forget Route 66 – Take This Epic Chicago to Denver Road Trip Instead
written by Peter Stringer July 5, 2020
Many travelers dream of driving a legendary cross-country road trip or following the storied Route 66, but a Chicago to Denver trek offers a solid mix of natural wonders, small-town America and big city nightlife. There's something for everyone on this journey.
Route 66 dips into the Southwest and takes you through such locations as Oklahoma City and Santa Fe on a mostly diagonal path to the Pacific Ocean. However, the button-hook drive we're proposing here will show you a much different cross-section of America.
First thigs first: Why start your road trip in Chicago? Besides being an easy city to fly into from almost anywhere in America, Chicago is also a fun, friendly town with some of the best bars and restaurants in the country.
If you're a sports fan, you've got to make a pilgrimage to Chicago. They love professional sports here, especially the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks during the winter. When the boys of summer are in swing, you can head to Wrigleyville to catch the Chicago Cubs in action. The Cubbies won their first World Series since 1907 in the fall of 2016, ending baseball's longest championship drought.
Chicago, Illinois skyline on June 7, 2018.
Meanwhile, there's a diverse cross-section of nightlife in Chicago, ranging from Piano Bars to Dive bars to night clubs, all within walking distance of each other in many cases. Cover charges are rare in Chicago, and many spots stay open until 4 am. A late last call is either a feature or a bug, depending upon your enthusiasm for a night on the town.
Once you shake off your hangover, it's time to hit the road. Interstate 90 is your best bet to head west out of town, but before you start moving north toward Minneapolis, chart a course for Dubuque, Iowa on Route 20 where you'll cross the Mississippi River in about 3.5 hours.
Shortly thereafter, if you're willing to "go the distance," you'll come upon Dyersville, Iowa, home to the Field of Dreams Movie Set. Here you can pay homage to the 1989 Kevin Costner classic and take a few swings for the cornfields on the very same diamond that the 1919 Black Sox "returned" for redemption from their baseball banishment. Even if you've never seen Field of Dreams, if you like baseball, this is a definite must-see.
Baseball fans come from all over the country to see this legendary location. The diamond is well maintained, and you'll usually find other tourists on hand ready to have a catch. Over 65,000 fans visit the landmark every year.
Des Moines is probably a good place to call it a night, with plenty of restaurant and hotel options. Just over 200,000 people call Des Moines home, and U.S. News ranked it the 11th best place to live in the country.
The Des Moines Capitol Building is pretty iconic, as it's the only five-domed capitol in the nation. So you can check that off your list.
For Day 2, you can either press westward onto nearby Omaha, or dip south and stop in for some barbecue in Kansas City before heading back north along the Nebraska border and Missouri River up I-29. You'll pass through Sioux City, IA, which borders both South Dakota and Nebraska. Further north, just before you rejoin Interstate 90, you'll hit Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The falls, situated on the Big Sioux River, are worth a stop. While the falls aren't dramatic in terms of their vertical drop, the Falls Park covers 123 acres and 7,400 gallons of water drop every second over the course of the falls.
You'll notice the landscape starting to change as you head into South Dakota. But before you get to the Badlands, you'll have to stop in for a piece of Americana (and perhaps some popcorn) at the World's Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. About 70 miles west of Sioux Falls, The World's Only Corn Palace is a quick detour off I-90.
Badlands National Park in South Dakota
Badlands National Park is next, and it is spectacular. Set on nearly a quarter-million acres in southwestern South Dakota, the Badlands contains one of the richest fossil beds on the planet. Bison, big horn sheep and prairie dogs roam these lands of buttes, sod tables and clastic dikes. There's nearly a million years of history here, and it's etched upon the rock formations. But erosion is slowly eating away at them, and scientists estimate that in the next 500,000 years, they'll have totally eroded. As the official Badlands National Park website jokes, come visit them while you still can!
Next up, head for the Black Hills, where you'll find a few familiar faces. Four of them, in fact. Mount Rushmore is situated in Keystone, South Dakota, where the 60-foot faces of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are carved into the side of a mountain.
Nearby in Custer County, you'll find the Crazy Horse Memorial, the world's largest mountain carving, albeit a carving that's far from complete. The controversial monument has been under construction since 1948, with seemingly no end in sight. The finished version is expected to be 641 feet long and 563 feet high, depicting the Native American warrior Crazy Horse atop his steed. The ongoing drama surrounding the ambitious monument project is fascinating.
North of Custer is Deadwood, SD, a gold rush town from the late 1870s that attracted such Wild West legends as Wyatt Earp, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Deadwood was reintroduced into popular culture by the eponymous HBO series in the mid-2000s.
As you cross the border into Wyoming, Devils Tower is next on the agenda. Visible from miles away on clear day, Devils Tower rises 867 feet above its base. The stone monolith, considered sacred by several Plains tribes, was made famous by its inclusion in the 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Across Wyoming sit two incredible National Parks, Grand Teton National Park, and perhaps the most famous of them all, Yellowstone National Park. While you could head due west on state routes to access the parks, if you're more comfortable with divided-highway Interstate driving, keep following 90 up into Montana, and swing through Billings and Bozeman to make an approach from the north. You'll also enjoy some spectacular scenery throughout the drive in Montana.
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
Yellowstone is one of the five best National Parks in America, as it offers various thermal attractions, most notably Old Faithful and the Grand Prismatic Spring, while Grand Teton features iconic mountain sunsets and String Lake, as well as skiing and golf at nearby resorts.
Outside the parks, Idaho awaits, where you'll find the Snake River, Idaho Falls and Craters of the Moon National Monument. Craters of the Moon is a massive lava field suitable for hiking and camping in other-worldly landscapes. It's a bit off the beaten path, but also a memorable destination just south of Arco, Idaho.
After your swing through Idaho, head south for Salt Lake City, and explore Antelope Island State Park, where bison roam free. (Keep your distance. They're dangerous.) Check out the history of the Mormon Church downtown, or head east through the mountains to Park City, one of the world's premier skiing and resort towns.
Balanced Rock at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Photo by Peter Stringer
You're in the home stretch now. It's time to make tracks for Moab, home of Canyonlands National Park, Arches National Park, and Dead Horse Point State Park. All three are worth visiting, but Arches is the most impressive of the three, and typically ranks among the top five National Parks in America. Capitol Reef National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park are also within a few hours distance, but you'd need several days in Eastern Utah to hit them all and do these parks justice. If you can't find reasonable accommodations in Moab, 100 miles away in Grand Junction you're likely to find more plentiful options.
As you head into Colorado for the last leg of the trip, if you follow I-70 you'll be within striking distance of the Coors Brewing factory on your way to Denver. Otherwise, if you want to add Rocky Mountain National Park to your itinerary, you'll have to head a little out of your way, as the park sits northwest of the city.
As for Denver, whether you want to visit the legendary Red Rocks concert venue, experience the night life on 16th Street, or catch a Rockies game at Coors Field, there's plenty of fun to be had in the Mile High City.
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Peter Stringer
Peter is a co-founder of Amazing America. He's a travel junkie and photography enthusiast based in North Carolina. He's been to 47 states and 27 National Parks.
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Animals trying to beat the Heat!
Chi Chi trying her best to keep cool during this heat wave we are having on the farm! LOL!
I let Rosie and Thorn in the house with Lilly!! They needed some cooling off and a nap! Tim said if he saw goats in the house I would so be in trouble! Lol! I didn't.......but I sure thought about it!!
After all it was 117 degrees that day!!!
Even the girls were trying to beat the heat in the sprinkler!
You know it's hot, When the teenagers get in the kiddie pool to cool off!
And GiGi needing some love and shade from Tim! Will she go get under the awning or a shade tree? No until Tim comes down to show her, funny she does that everyday! LOL!


The San Diego Youth Rugby Club "Mustangs" Under-14 Boys Team (wearing red) with members of the City of Derry RFC Team (wearing green).
The San Diego Youth Rugby Club "Mustangs" Under-14 Boys Team (U14s) completed the club's first ever international tour this past Sunday after a nine-day, three-match journey around Ireland. Despite the strength of their Irish opponents, the Mustangs earned victories in each of their three matches to cap off a remarkable 2017-18 season.
The Mustangs had a very short turnaround upon arrival in Dublin and immediately begin preparing for their first match against the historic Wanderers FC. The wet and chilly conditions did little to stop the Mustangs from running out to a sizable lead before halftime, a lead only compounded in the second half. The San Diego Mustangs walked away victors in their first match, 52-12.
After a few days exploring the Irish capital, the team traveled out west to County Galway to face Monivea RFC, the Under-14 champions of Ireland's western province, Connacht, and a team that hadn't been beaten by an American side in over 40 years, if ever. A few area locals made sure to let some of the Mustangs' parents know that the San Diegans didn't stand a chance of victory, but the Mustangs ultimately proved them wrong, dispatching the western champions in a strong 52-19 victory.
Having seen part of Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, the Mustangs consequently shifted focus from the west to the north, heading to Northern Ireland for some sightseeing around the capital city of Belfast and to prepare for their third and final match of the tour against City of Derry RFC. The team toured the famous Belfast shipyards and saw a professional rugby match between Ulster Rugby and Ospreys Rugby of the Guinness Pro14 league before shutting out City of Derry RFC 75-0.
As is traditional in the spirit of rugby, each of the teams San Diego Youth Rugby played put on fantastic post-match hospitality. From the chicken curry meal cooked by the Wanderers in Dublin, to the gracious last-minute hospitality in Derry, to the camaraderie and singing enjoyed at the Monivea post-match celebration, the experience epitomized the connective, inclusive nature of the global rugby community and gave these young boys experiences they will never forget.
Having spoken to the coaches, parents and front office staff at the Mustangs organization, the tour to Ireland was a rousing success, success that the club hopes to replicate with every-other-year international tours at the Under-14 age level.


People here live in small spaces. There's no attic to store things. No spare room. Unless you're a hoarder who likes to sleep on the bed next to unopened boxes from Amazon, you have to get rid of stuff. Even books have to go. In thrift stores here you find first editions. This crate of French books was sitting by the curb on Sixth Street in the East Village a week ago. I take books I thought I'd keep forever to the local library branch and leave them in the vestibule there thinking maybe someone who couldn't afford to buy the books will be pleased to find them and like them like I did.
Friday is the best day. Like it's the best night even if I don't go out to the half-dozen Irish bars in my neighborhood anymore.
Friday is a good day to hold my sign too. More smiling faces. More well-wishing. Have a good weekend some say.
This morning on the tight two-lane street where I hold the sign, where cars come pretty close, a cab stopped right next to me. That happens sometimes. A parent on their way to work is dropping their little kid off at the pre-school on the block. Someone in a leg cast who works in the Dept. of Ed. building right there by where I stand is being let off, helped to the sidewalk by the driver. That's who I thought would be getting out of the cab today.
But it wasn't anybody dressed for everyday work. And it wasn't a parent in a hurry with a four-year-old. It was Laurie Anderson in a rumpled white lab technician's coat and thrift-store pants with beat-up low boots with her back to me getting out of the cab. I thought it could be her. It was her hair, sort of spiked, but softer than you'd think from all the great photos of her face you've seen. Her face wasn't as shiny as in the photos either. But it was a great face when she turned and saw the sign only four feet in front of her and smiled fully at me and held out her arms palms up with that face that said yeah of course why aren't they taught to read that's sad that's crazy. And then she scooted through cars to the other side of the street.
Raining out my apartment window. My phone shows rain all morning. No sign-holding today. I'll meet a friend in from Cleveland for breakfast.
This is a photo from the subway yesterday after I held the sign. After the next stop the train would be so full, I could barely see the two readers.
My favorite bookstore window is this one at Three Lives in the West Village. They have other bigger windows with various titles sharply displayed, but in this window they always highlight just one book.
I feel lucky to go to this store. My middle daughter used to live near it and she'd go in there more than a few days a week. That's how I got introduced to it.
The small rural town I grew up in in western New York State didn't have a bookstore. The bigger town down the hill did. There are parts of this city that don't have a bookstore. You could put that fact on the blackboard the first day of class and discuss it all year long and you'd come to recognize the harsh imbalances in the city.
Learned to read at 37.
"I was stealing so much — stealing from neighbors, stealing my nephew's clothes to sell," he said.
None of the rehab centers in Charlotte would take him back. But a social worker found a halfway house in Morganton, N.C., about 60 miles from Charlotte, that accepted him. Starting fresh, he finally stopped drinking and using drugs.
Mother. 1911-1975. The first one who read to us.


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A self-made billionaire explains how Britney Spears helped her teach a key business lesson to her employees
Shana Lebowitz
Sara Blakely.
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It's not every company founder who plays a Britney Spears song at a company-wide presentation.
But "Oops, I Did It Again" was a key part of a recent meeting led by Sara Blakely, the self-made-billionaire founder and owner of the intimate-apparel company SPANX.
Blakely had organized the presentation around her "oops" moments, or the mistakes she'd made throughout the company's history. The goal was to communicate to employees that failure can be a good thing because it means you're trying something new.
"To encourage people to fail, I'm bringing up my failures in front of the team often," Blakely said in an interview with Business Insider. "I'm always openly talking about it."
In this particular presentation, Blakely went through a bunch of "oops" moments, some more recent than others, and assigned a theme song to each one. "Oops, I Did It Again" played while Blakely talked about a particular pattern of mistakes she'd made.
Blakely's celebration of failure stems from her father's habit of asking her and her brother what they'd failed at that week, when they were kids. If Blakely announced that she'd tried out for something and bombed, for example, "he would actually high five me and say, 'Congratulations! Way to go!'"
"What it did was just reframe my definition of failure," she said. "Failure for me became not trying versus the outcome."
When it comes to her employees, Blakely says it's important for them to approach their failures from a constructive perspective.
"If there's a failure or an oops in your life," she said, "if you learn from it and if you can laugh about it, then it's all worth it."
Alana Kakoyiannis contributed additional reporting.
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If anyone loves anything having to do with John Carpenter's The Thing, it's ME!! This was one of the most influential films of my life as an impressionable, nerdy teen growing up in California when it struck theaters in 1982, ranking right after Ridley Scott's Alien. So I'm giddy to reveal the first look inside the chilly new board game based on the classic film.
With its 35th anniversary hitting in June, The Thing is being celebrated as Carpenter's true masterpiece, far closer in execution to the source material -- John W. Campbell's 1938 novella, Who Goes There? -- than the 1951 Howard Hawks-produced film. As such, Mondo announced this project in February, but now we have box art and a board!
The Thing: Infection At Outpost 31 is being released by Mondo in conjunction with USAopoly. If you think about it for a moment, the sci-fi horror yarn makes for a perfect setting and plotline in a Clue-like, hidden-identity tabletop game. The standard version of the nightmarish novelty will be in stores and available online this October, and a special, limited-edition Mondo prestige version will be sold at MondoTees.com.
An alien lifeform has infiltrated a bleak and desolate Antarctic research station assimilating other organisms and then imitating them. In the hidden identity game THE THING ™ INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31, you will relive John Carpenter's sci-fi cult classic in a race to discover who among the team has been infected by this heinous lifeform. The game has been designed to be as authentically cinematic as possible, ensuring that the players will experience the paranoia and tension that makes the film so great.
"Mondo brought more than their storied design acumen to the table," said Joe Van Wetering, Creative Design and Game Development at Project Raygun. "Thanks to their deep understanding and reverence for THE THING, they helped define the tone and shape the game play itself. INFECTION AT OUTPOST 31 reflects a true collaboration between our two brands resulting in a game that will excite tabletop and film aficionados alike."


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University of Notre Dame, History
Tenured Professor, Western Medieval History
Location: Indiana, United States
Position: Associate Professor, Full Professor
The Department of History of the University of Notre Dame seeks to appoint a tenured professor in Western Medieval History at the associate or full professor rank. All geographical, chronological, and thematic specializations will be considered except those falling in Byzantine or Middle Eastern History. Applications or inquiries should be sent to Professor Olivia Remie Constable, Department of History, 219 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Applicants should send a letter stating qualifications and current projects, a CV, and the names of three references by October 15. The University of Notre Dame is an affirmative action employer with a strong commitment to fostering a culturally diverse atmosphere for faculty, staff, and students. Women, minorities, and those attracted to a university with a Catholic identity are encouraged to apply. Information about Notre Dame is available at www.nd.edu. Information about the history department is available at http://history.nd.edu/.
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Edition No. 271 September 21 – 27, 2019
Sam Dastyari speaks about what big Chinese donors hope their money will buy Karen Middleton reports
The Lambie interview: inside her power play
"Pauline Hanson's all about the 'here, look at me for a few seconds' … I just want to get the job done. I want mass support and I want respect, and respect has to be earned."
Margaret Simons With her crucial vote, Senator Jacqui Lambie wields untold influence over Scott Morrison's government. How does she plan to use this power?
Exclusive: Key NDIS emails held on private bank server
"Concerns about a lack of transparency have stalked the rapidly growing National Disability Insurance Agency, which is running behind schedule on original timelines to deliver the NDIS."
Rick Morton As a royal commission begins on the disability sector, correspondence reveals NDIA chair Helen Nugent has used an email account owned by Macquarie Bank to direct the $22 billion agency.
The murky ethics of political donations
Karen Middleton As Gladys Liu faces questions about raising $1 million for the Liberal Party, a repentant Sam Dastyari is calling for an end to the 'arms race' of political donations.
NSW abortion bill dividing Liberals
"The spill never had any prospects. It was called off the next morning after senior Liberals – including some who oppose the bill – lined up to rubbish the spill and its proponents. But the threatened coup may be just a harbinger of more trouble. "
Russell Marks The decriminalisation of abortion threatens a schism in the NSW Liberal Party, with opponents of the reform putting Gladys Berejiklian's leadership in peril.
Robo-debt class action launched
Mike Seccombe As prominent lawyer Peter Gordon launches a class action against Centrelink's controversial robo-debt scheme, the minister in charge claims it's all a political stunt.
Israel deadlock sees Bibi set for bye-byes
Jonathan Pearlman Second poll unlikely to save Benjamin Netanyahu. Donald Trump's mixed approach on Iran. The Solomons switches allegiance to China. New IRA looking to add recruits with bomb plots.
Ruby Hamad
Protecting the white body politic
"There are no accidents in the rhetoric of protection: it intends to seal off white Western society from the remainder of the world's population both biologically and geographically. The white female body was, and often still is, regarded as in need of protection, not for the sake of the women but because they function as stand-ins for white society itself. Of course, this alleged protection does not apply to non-white women."
Paul Bongiorno
Entering Trump's dinner circle
"The duchessing of Scott Morrison in Washington begins today with one of the most colourful ceremonies Donald Trump can muster. The United States Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, resplendent in their 18th-century uniforms and playing antique instruments, will perform in the prime minister's honour on the South Lawn of the White House. This will be followed by the rare privilege of a white-tie official state dinner … But the hoopla in America for this Morrison visit will do nothing to help him manage the strained relationship with Beijing."
Donation building
Richard Ackland Schmo Morrison was in full marketing-man mode as he batted away accusations against forgetful Comrade Gladys Liu. Membership of a strange Chinese state propaganda machine; squillions of dollars raised at great fundraising feasts; agitation to amend the foreign investment regime so Chinese business can snap up swaths of agricultural land – nothing to see here, move on, says Schmo.
Letters, Poem & Editorial
on fridays,
our children are bursting train carriages
backpacked full of hope
wielding placards bedroom-made
from flattened cornflake boxes
and upcycled tomato-stakes
Hanson law review
No one could accuse Pauline Hanson of being a fair-weather critic of the Family Court. For the past 20 years, she has agitated for an inquiry into family law. This week, finally, she got her wish. In her parliamentary career, Hanson has never attempted to hide her views about this system: she considers it stacked against men.
Raise the Newstart payment
Rick Morton ("Newstart: the human cost of Morrison's plan", September 14-20) details the damage done to selected Newstart recipients through the introduction of the cashless credit card. …
A Canadian perspective
Interesting article about your social services in Australia. Our provincial governments here in Canada have tried to stigmatise our native people with the same thing, as well as make the assumption that all …
The fiery resistance of journalist Mona Eltahawy
Miriam Cosic Journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy has dedicated herself to fighting what she calls the most dangerous ideology in the world: patriarchy. "The quickest way for these men in power to show their power, to flex their muscles, is over the bodies of women … History is not linear. Just because we achieve progress in something, it doesn't mean that it's going to continue progressing."
Sophie Hyde's Animals
Christos Tsiolkas Despite some missed opportunities in its storytelling, Animals is sustained by riveting performances from its two leads, and by Sophie Hyde's generosity as a director.
Geordie Williamson Although rebooting Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal may seem a strange choice, the Netflix prequel Age of Resistance is technically impressive and speaks to contemporary concerns.
Trans rights activist Rebekah Robertson
"The amount of oversight in our lives was extreme. So, I think when I hear people fanning the flames of doubt and fear about the amount of scrutiny that families like ours go through in order to access treatment for our young people, they seriously don't know what they're talking about."
Romy Ash
Jam doughnuts
The best wines for spring 2019
Leanne Altmann A walk through the best wines for this spring.
Amanda Spratt's cycling hopes
Kieran Pender Australian cyclist Amanda Spratt had her best season yet in 2018 – but fell just short of the world title. Can she go one better this year?
Angela Woollacott
Don Dunstan
Ender Başkan
A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man
Nesrine Malik
We Need New Stories
The Cryptic
Crossword No. 271
1. Wilhelmina "Mina" Wylie and Sarah "Fanny" Durack were champions of which sport?
Swimming.
2. Zucchero is the Italian word for which common pantry item?
Sugar.
3. What is the currency of South Africa?
Rand.
4. "The quality of mercy" is a monologue from which Shakespeare play? (Bonus point for naming the character who delivers it.)
The Merchant of Venice. (Bonus point: Portia.)
5. How old was former Zimbabwean prime minister Robert Mugabe when he died this month?
6. What does the Latin phrase omnia vincit amor mean?
Love conquers all.
7. Quokka, Waltzing Matilda, Skippy and Great Southern Land are all names of what?
Qantas Dreamliners.
8. What 11-letter word beginning with 'b' is the name for a short musket with an expanded muzzle?
Blunderbuss.
9. Australia's minister for trade, tourism and investment shares his name with which English city?
Birmingham.
10. "I guess I should've known/ By the way you parked your car sideways/ That it wouldn't last" is the opening lyric to which song?
"Little Red Corvette", by Prince.
"I nearly died of shock when I found out who I was sitting next to."
Bob KatterThe founder of Katter's Australian Party expresses surprise at realising he is sitting next to Gladys Liu after rushing into the chamber to vote against Labor. He later discovered the motion would have required Liu to explain her past membership of groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
"Don't invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it because it doesn't lead to anything."
Greta ThunbergThe teenager tells the United States congress to try harder to address climate change.
PARLANCE
"I've always treated people with respect."
John SetkaThe union leader defends his record, which includes calling his wife a "weak fucken piece of shit", a "treacherous Aussie fucken cunt" and a "fucken dog"; telling the Labor Party to "suck me off"; and referring to Rosie Batty's activism as a denial of rights to men.
"I deeply regret the outcome and accept that my approach failed. The decisions I took contributed to that failure. I failed."
David CameronThe former British prime minister waits until a week before the publication of his memoirs to apologise for unleashing Brexit.
"These people need to move on with their lives. Get over the hate, the pain of a break-up, it's about working together to find the answers to all this."
Pauline HansonThe senator, recently appointed co-chair of a family law inquiry, suggests women lying about domestic violence is a widespread problem, citing her son's experience as evidence.
"I called the royal commission because I wanted to shine a light on the aged-care industry."
Scott MorrisonThe prime minister takes credit for the aged-care royal commission, first put forward by the Greens and Labor, which he fought for months.


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The Berlaymont is on fire. I just stepped out of my office for lunch only to find evacuated officials, fire engines, and clouds of evil-smelling smoke emanating from the top of the building. Wow.
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agirlnamedluna says:
Oh wow, I didn't see anything about it anywhere, any idea what is happening?? Two weeks before the European elections, what bad timing!
getawaywithit says:
BBC News has something about it now – fire in the press room, apparently: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8055637.stm
chilperic says:
I loved the way the BBC reported it:
"Officials said the building was evacuated within minutes of the alarm being raised shortly after 1300 (1100 GMT).
Journalists working in the press room, known as "the bunker", said they had noticed a steady build-up of smoke for 20 minutes before then, but that the smoke detectors had failed to react."
One can just picture the journalists standing round for 20 minutes, nattering away, watching the smoke steadily build up until they could barely breathe, and wondering why the alarm had not gone off yet…
Does this mean there must be a Commission job that's even worse than being made Archbishop?
(Quick! The nunnery's on fire!)


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Checkout these 12 Photos from the the Start at Sylvan Park. Everyone appearred to be well prepared both mentally and physically for a day of testing on the Toughest Century in Southern California.
I arrived at Sylvan Park at 5:20 and could tell that this would be an outstanding day of cycling with an absolutely beautiful and crisp morning. Riders began to arrive shortly thereafter and registered. Each rider was given a cool pair of socks and a large Santiago Cycling Water Bottle along with their Route Sheet, Day of Event Info Flier, and Lunch tickets.
The tandem team of Doug Patterson and his son Steven were the first riders to start at 5:45. We don't recommend leaving before 6:00 because the First Rest Stop may not be open yet but it is important to get an good start to beat the heat which can develop in the Canyons of the climbs to Oak Glen and up from the Mill Creek Ranger Station. Most riders had started by 6;45. However, if you are a fast rider, we encourage you not to start until after 7:00 or later so you don't arrive at the Rest Stops before we can open them up!!


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Bitter Pills: Trans Women Face Shrinking Access to Hormones
An ever-tightening grip on cyberspace has led to fewer support resources and a smaller pool of hormone suppliers for China's transgender community.
Yang Ziyu
SHANGHAI — If there is one ritual that Lanya, a 26-year-old transgender woman in eastern China, has kept sacrosanct over the past decade, it's taking pills — or "candy," as it's known among China's trans community.
"Estrogen, anti-androgen — you have to take these during your adolescence or your physical characteristics will be hard to change," she says, naming two essential components of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT.
But with its potentially debilitating side effects, the candy isn't always sweet. "The problem is that neither professional medical advice nor prescribed hormones are readily accessible in China," Lanya tells Sixth Tone, adding that in the absence of reliable information, the risk of improper use is compounded. Like all of the trans women Sixth Tone interviewed for this story, she has been given a pseudonym to protect her privacy.
Lanya began taking estrogen in 2008, when she was 16 years old. Unlike her trans counterparts in certain Western countries, who can receive puberty blockers and other prescriptions under a doctor's watchful eye, Lanya resorted to buying long-acting oral contraceptives — with only the vague knowledge that they contained estrogen — from local pharmacies, claiming they were for her parents. Without any guidance or supervision, she began taking once-per-month pills every day.
Unexpectedly, her breasts began to grow: After a few months, she was up to a B-cup. But her budding breasts were also painfully swollen. "I would cross my arms to protect them — and occasionally there would be a milky discharge," she says. By Lanya's account, her body grew flabby, and her mood became increasingly unstable. Eventually, she decided to take a break from contraceptives and look for other options.
A transgender woman prepares to undergo a sex reassignment surgery in Dehui, Jilin province, Sept. 22, 2015. VCG
Ziye, another trans woman from eastern China, followed a similar course. While attending high school in Zhejiang province, she took the same long-acting contraceptives daily for around two weeks until a routine health check revealed damage to her liver. Shocked and afraid, Ziye stopped taking the pills, leaving her body in the throes of a severe hormonal imbalance. "I guess breast growth can be difficult when it doesn't happen naturally," she tells Sixth Tone with a sigh. "But I'm not giving up — I want to be a girl. As long as they get bigger, I don't care how gradual it is."
What Ziye didn't realize until she got to college was that she also needed to suppress her male sex hormones, or androgens. Initially, she started doing this with domestic drugs, then turned to hormone suppressants imported from Germany. But instead of larger breasts, she observed a handful of troubling symptoms: nausea, depression, and a persistent pain around her abdomen.
Try. Get hurt. Stop for a while. Try again. This is the cycle that defined Lanya's and Ziye's teenage years. For fear of having her secret revealed, Ziye never once went to the hospital to speak with a doctor about transitioning. "They would have thought I was a pervert," she says.
"Most of our pills come from gray areas," Lanya explains, referring to markets that aren't quite black but can't operate openly either. "Why? It's affordable and accessible." Lanya explains that to get such hormones prescribed by a doctor, one must first be diagnosed with yixingbing — a term that equates being transgender with a mental illness.
Even if trans people are willing to go through the humiliation of being diagnosed, it doesn't necessarily mean they'll be able to get what they're looking for. "For reasons that are both opaque and complicated, not all hormonal drugs manage to get registered by the National Medical Products Administration — which means they can't enter the market," Pan Bailin, a doctor specializing in transgender medicine and surgery at a Peking University-affiliated hospital, tells Sixth Tone. Meanwhile, Ziye laments that some of the domestic drugs that have been approved cost nearly twice as much as imported ones.
Over time, these expenses add up. Lanya, for example, says she has spent over 70,000 yuan ($10,000) on pills. "Counterbalancing your masculine traits becomes a lifelong commitment," she says with a hint of resignation.
Varieties of hormonal drugs used by Chinese transgender women, Shanghai, Nov. 22, 2018. Wu Huiyuan/Sixth Tone
According to a 2012 report by the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 0.3 percent of the population in the Asia-Pacific region is transgender. Applied to China's population of nearly 1.4 billion, this ratio suggests there could be 4.2 million transgender people living in the country — which does not keep its own statistics for LGBT demographics.
A lack of financial resources and available medical treatments can lead to perilous self-medicating regimens similar to Lanya's and Ziye's. According to a survey from the Beijing LGBT Center and Peking University published last November, 66 percent of the 2,060 transgender respondents said they had obtained HRT drugs from so-called online pharmacies — unlicensed vendors on social platforms like WeChat, QQ, and Zhihu — and 51 percent reported having obtained such drugs from friends. All of the 11 trans women Sixth Tone interviewed said they had purchased hormonal drugs through online vendors at least once.
"No one is helping us, so we have to help each other," says Lanya, referring to the many trans women who try to assist their peers by procuring hormones for them. Her own foray into HRT was cut short when Xiasl — perhaps China's best-known online resource for transgender people, and the source of her do-it-yourself treatment guidelines — was abruptly shut down. Though Lanya says she can't be sure when Xiasl went offline, other trans women told Sixth Tone they had accessed the site as late as last year.
By around 2010, the sometimes-pejorative term yaoniang, or "pill girl," was being used online to refer to trans women who take pills to feminize themselves. Around the same time, more forums where trans people could share advice on self-medicating and body contouring, as well as discover and nurture kinships they rarely experienced in real life, began popping up. But such resources for China's trans community — from yaoniang-related websites to forums on the Reddit-like Tieba — have been shut down in recent years to comply with "relevant laws, regulations, and policies." In particular, authorities have increasingly applied China's cybersecurity law, which prohibits the dissemination of sexual or otherwise obscene "information," to any content it deems morally inappropriate.
By June of this year, almost all transgender-related content had been purged from Zhihu, a formerly important resource for the transgender community as well as concerned or curious parents. In the absence of such online support networks, young trans women are often left to fend for themselves in hostile home and school environments.
A transgender woman tries on a pair of heels at a shoe store in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, April 6, 2015. VCG
Yuanlin, an 18-year-old trans woman from a small village in central China, sought companionship in cyberspace to combat the isolation she felt in real life. She was afraid to buy hormonal drugs from local pharmacies. "People are closely connected in our town," she tells Sixth Tone. "If I bought those drugs at a store, the entire village might find out."
By Yuanlin's account, her hometown in the countryside was too traditional to accept a "sissy boy" in its midst. In October of last year, she began taking anti-androgens that made her feel tired and depressed. Meanwhile, the violence she suffered both at school and at home made life unbearable: As a small, slender, effeminate "boy," Yuanlin says she was physically and even sexually harassed by her classmates. Her bullies would cup their hands on their chests to mimic breasts — "They'd ask me if that was what I wanted," Yuanlin recalls.
During this year's Chinese New Year holiday, Yuanlin's parents found her pills hidden in her closet. "They came and got me from school, and my father beat me," she says. "They said I had shamed the family name. Our holiday 'celebration' turned into a nightmare." Feeling shunned by her family and her peers, Yuanlin became depressed and failed the gaokao, China's ultracompetitive college entrance examination. Then over the summer, she ran away from home and attempted suicide.
Three months later, she returned to her high school to repeat the semester and retake the gaokao. Yuanlin says that by that point, she had vowed to stop pursuing "girly stuff" — at least until she made it to the relative safety of university. "My friends online assured me that I wasn't mentally ill," she says, "but sometimes the thought would become stuck in my mind anyway: Why does everyone else seem 'normal' except me?"
According to research, the violence Yuanlin was subjected to as a teenager may be just the tip of the iceberg. The 2017 survey from the Beijing LGBT Center found that 70.8 percent of trans respondents reported experiencing violence at school. Over 46 percent said they had considered suicide, and around 1 in 8 had attempted it at some point.
Wu Huiyuan/Sixth Tone
Though the World Health Organization stopped classifying transgender people as mentally ill in June, the Chinese term, yixingbing, continues to carry the connotation of pathology. And to gain access to HRT through official health channels, a clinical diagnosis is still required. "To my knowledge, this can only be obtained from a few hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai," says Pan, the Peking University doctor.
"I understand that some kids wish to de-pathologize what they've got, but in my professional opinion it comes down to their brains sending different instructions," Zhao Yede, one of the few surgeons in China who specializes in sex reassignment surgery, tells Sixth Tone.
"When I heard the word 'illness,' I didn't want to have the surgery in China," says Yuyu, a trans woman who works as a programmer in Shanghai. But Yuyu gives Zhao — a revered figure in China's trans community — the benefit of the doubt, acknowledging that performing surgeries that run counter to China's "traditional values" must carry with it a considerable amount of pressure. "It's too early for a society like ours to pursue the topic of gender equality on this level," she says, referring to the medical community's lack of tact in treating trans people. "We need people who are trying to help."
Having performed over 1,000 sex reassignment operations throughout his career, Zhao says he gets harassed from time to time by parents demanding that he make their children "normal" again. "Sometimes the whole family — even old folks in their wheelchairs — shows up and begs me to talk their kid out of it." Pan, too, once received an anonymous letter threatening a lawsuit if he continued prescribing hormones to his patients.
Yuyu, the programmer, says that even compared with other LGBT communities in China, the situation is especially grim for trans women. "Society is becoming less tolerant of 'sissy men,' let alone us," she says. "To them, we've betrayed masculine norms — I feel like our very existence is sometimes viewed as morally wrong."
For Yuyu and the perhaps millions of other trans people in China, hormones from online vendors are usually obtained too late to be effective. To achieve an ideal outcome, medical intervention should come before puberty, explains Pan. But because of the risks of HRT, the treatment is only recommended for people aged 16 or older. In countries with more societal and medical acceptance of trans people, puberty inhibitors are often introduced during adolescence to bridge the gap until their mid-teens. "More than half of my patients are adults — it's almost impossible for them to change their secondary sex characteristics once they've developed," says Pan.
When 25-year-old Yuyu started taking hormones two months ago, she worried about whether it would be possible to have sex reassignment surgery at her age. After being bullied through three years of middle school, she had cut her hair short, hoping to lead a brand-new life as a "boy" in high school. And for the most part, she succeeded.
Yuyu's high school years passed smoothly until her graduation, when students were finally allowed to cast their dull uniforms aside. She remembers tears welling in her eyes at the sight of other girls rehearsing for a dance performance in their vibrant sundresses. She then glanced at her own reflection in the mirror, only to see a boy in a somber, dark suit. Her appearance appalled her. "To this day," she says, "I feel so ashamed for burying the real me."
"It costs tens of thousands of yuan to have the surgery and maintain a feminine body," says Yuyu. "But I have forever lost the chance to spend my golden youth as a beautiful girl."
In China, the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center can be reached for free at 800-810-1117 or 010-82951332. In the United States, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached for free at 1-800-273-8255. A fuller list of prevention services by country can be found here.
Editor: David Paulk.
(Header image: Wu Huiyuan and Ding Yining/Sixth Tone)
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YFC Rurka Kalan team won the Street Child World Cup, 2010
YFC under 16 team won the Punjab State Football Championship
YFC under 16 team won the National Inter School Football Championship held at Gurdaspur
YFCs under 15 team was runners-up in the Manchester United premier Cup held in Goa
YFC's under 14 team was runners-up in the Punjab Grassroots Football League, 2009
YFC's senior team finished second in the Panjab State Football league in 2009
YFC's senior team has won rural tournaments held at Bundala, Noorpur, Kala Sanghian, Rurka Kalan, Shankar, Bilga and Khothran villages
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Musical Acts We Can't Wait to See More of in 2019
Nicole Blanco Ramos
Eyes and ears are peeled for these 10 artists on the rise
Exciting times lie ahead, spurred by all the "new" that comes with the New Year. In music, we're talking upcoming album releases and hot new EPs. We're likewise stoked for international acts finally coming to town and seeing about how long-beloved annual music festivals decide to switch things up this year.
As pleased as we are to witness a new era unfold for industry vets and well-knowns (shout out to Rihanna, The 1975, Ariana Grande and Lana del Rey), we're equally thrilled to see what 2019 has in store for the new crop of artists who more than showed promise the year before.
In the roundup ahead, fresh faces with even fresher perspectives, up-and-comers mixed with seasoned artists easing into their momentum and genre-bending gems you'll want to keep on your radar in 2019.
Hailing from Toronto, this 22-year-old cross-genre producer and artist has shown a mastery of his craft well beyond his years. His bio reads: "I see myself as an analogue artist in the digital age," a thought mirrored in his handling and fusing of contemporary hip-hop, Afrobeat and R&B. He captivated listeners last year with his first studio album entitled Analogue and made his music video debut with "Story" with early listeners already looking forward to new music and more appearances in 2019.
Nathan & Mercury
Nathan Huang, Alex Samonte, Karlo Maglasang and Daniel Monong make new band on the block Nathan & Mercury, a local pop and R&B group whose one-time gig in 2017 spun into a full-blown commitment to creating music together. With only two singles available on their streaming platforms thus far, fans and followers have the band's first EP to look forward to this year.
English artist Nao is a rarity in the industry for her airy yet perfectly rounded vocals. As earlier singles like "Take Control of You," "Bad Blood" and "Apple Cherry" prove, Nao breathes new life into R&B, soul and the many other genres she marries together.
While her first EP So Good from 2014 flew under the mainstream radar, it did earn her a sizable fanbase that steadily grew with her subsequent releases: her debut studio album For All We Know in 2016 and sophomore album Saturn in 2018. Looking ahead, she kicks off her North American tour on January 12 with the rest of her world tour next.
A R I Z O N A (the band, not the state as the threesome aptly points out) know a thing or two about unconventional beginnings. Zachary Charles, Nate Esquite and David Labuguen were discovered in 2015 on social news website Reddit. They hit the ground running and paved their way in the early aughts with singles like "I Was Wrong" and "Oceans Away." In 2017, A R I Z O N A released their first studio album GALLERY and made appearances in various music festivals like Governors Ball Music Festival, Firefly Music Festival and Lollapalooza. This year, the electropop band heads to Coachella.
Indie rapper Tahj Malik Chandler (more commonly known by his stage name Saba) is the latest Chicago native to spring onto the hip-hop scene. He first garnered recognition in 2013 when he collaborated with fellow Chicago-born artists Chance The Rapper and BJ The Chicago Kid on "Everybody's Something," a track that appears on the former's mixtape entitled Acid Rap.
A fully realized artist now with two studio albums under his belt, Saba capped off his 2018 with the release of the "SIRENS" music video featuring singer and producer theMIND and being named "Chicagoan of the Year" for music by The Tribune.
Britain-based collective Superorganism is the newest supergroup to step into the synth-pop space. Fronted by pintsized 18-year-old Orono Noguchi, the eight-member crew is what The Telegraph's culture writer Patrick Smith likens to The Monkees…had they been Millennials. Eclectic and upbeat, Superorganism has won over the internet with notable singles "Something For Your M.I.N.D." and "It's All Good" that now appear in their self-titled debut album. Like A R I Z O N A, Superorganism are slated to perform at Coachella come April.
Indonesian singer, songwriter and producer Nicole Zefanya, better known as NIKI, got her start on YouTube uploading covers of contemporary hits and creating mashups. In 2017, she signed on with international media collective 88rising (Keith Ape, Rich Chigga and Joji), who introduced her as the "next R&B princess straight out of Indonesia." Fans, meanwhile, made references to Kehlani, Tinashe and Jhene Aiko. Not even a year into getting signed by a major record label, NIKI was enlisted by American singer Halsey to join her on tour and open for her on her shows in Asia.
Fern.
Leaning into music at the tender age of 12, Manila-based artist Fern Tan AKA Fern. has since been working on his music. Now 18, he busies himself both behind the scenes and in front of the mic, producing music for singers like Julie Anne San Jose and Claudia Barretto alongside tracks of his own.
His debut single "Into You" topped Spotify charts on the same day of its release and was followed by equally well-received singles "Are You Mine" and "Wanna Dance with You." Both appear on his 2018 EP Fern.
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Actress and singer Kiana Rose Brown has gone from high school student in the slasher anthology series Scream to regular college kid in the family-oriented sitcom All About the Washingtons and now, solo R&B artist with a budding career as Kiana Ledé. In 2016, her mashup of Drake's "One Dance" and Rihanna's "Needed Me" peaked at #1 on the United States Viral 50 chart on Spotify. After releasing several other mashups, she began dropping original tracks through 2017 and released her first studio album Selfless last year. Working with R&B singers she aligns herself with, Kiana Ledé has gone on to open shows for Daniel Caesar and is currently on tour with Ella Mai.
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The single "Grace" from their mellow retro beat-filled EP CATNIP earned them a nomination for Best Modern Rock song at the 15th Korean Music Awards. The following year, they released their sophomore EP entitled LOVE, a six-track compilation recounting salad days and almost romances. Those looking to see ADOY live can catch them at Wanderland Music and Arts Festival in March 2019.
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President and CEO of Mobileye	- Israel
Prof. Amnon Shashua is President & CEO of Mobileye and a Senior Vice President at Intel Corporation. In 1999, he founded Mobileye, which develops system-on-chips and computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems and is developing a platform for autonomous driving to be launched in 2021. Today, over 65 million cars rely on Mobileye technology to make their vehicles safer. In August 2014, Mobileye claimed the title for largest Israeli IPO ever, by raising $1B at a market cap of $5.3B. In August 2017, Mobileye became an Intel company in the largest Israeli acquisition deal ever, for a total of $15.3B.
Prof. Shashua holds the Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; his field of expertise is computer vision and machine learning. Shashua has published over 120 papers in the field of machine learning and computational vision and holds over 45 patents. In addition to Mobileye, he has founded a number of startups in the fields of computer vision and machine learning: in 1995, he founded CogniTens, which specializes in industrial metrology; in 2010, he co-founded OrCam, which harnesses computer vision and artificial intelligence to assist the visually and hearing impaired; and most recently he founded AI21 Labs, which is working to use AI to understand and create natural language.


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#ifndef STAN_MATH_FWD_CORE_STD_COMPLEX_HPP
#define STAN_MATH_FWD_CORE_STD_COMPLEX_HPP

#include <stan/math/prim/core/complex_base.hpp>
#include <stan/math/fwd/core/fvar.hpp>
#include <stan/math/prim/meta.hpp>
#include <complex>

namespace std {

/**
 * Specialization of the standard library complex number type for
 * reverse-mode autodiff type `stan::math::fvar<T>`.
 *
 * @tparam T forward-mode autodiff value type
 */
template <typename T>
class complex<stan::math::fvar<T>>
    : public stan::math::complex_base<stan::math::fvar<T>> {
 public:
  using base_t = stan::math::complex_base<stan::math::fvar<T>>;

  /**
   * Construct a complex number with zero real and imaginary parts.
   */
  complex() = default;

  /**
   * Construct a complex number with the specified real part and a zero
   * imaginary part.
   *
   * @tparam Scalar real type (must be assignable to `value_type`)
   * @param[in] re real part
   */
  template <typename U, typename = stan::require_stan_scalar_t<U>>
  complex(const U& re) : base_t(re) {}  // NOLINT(runtime/explicit)

  template <typename U>
  complex(const std::complex<U>& z)  // NOLINT(runtime/explicit)
      : base_t(z.real(), z.imag()) {}

  /**
   * Construct a complex number from the specified real and imaginary
   * parts.
   *
   * @tparam U type of real part
   * @tparam V type of imaginary part
   * @param[in] re real part
   * @param[in] im imaginary part
   */
  template <typename U, typename V>
  complex(const U& re, const V& im) : base_t(re, im) {}

  /**
   * Set the real and imaginary parts to those of the specified
   * complex number.
   *
   * @tparam U value type of argument
   * @param[in] x complex number to set
   * @return this
   */
  template <typename U, typename = stan::require_arithmetic_t<U>>
  auto& operator=(const std::complex<U>& x) {
    this->re_ = x.real();
    this->im_ = x.imag();
    return *this;
  }
};

}  // namespace std

#endif


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Bible > Judges > Chapter 17 > Verse 5
◄ Judges 17:5 ►
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest.
Micah set up a shrine for the idol, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as his personal priest.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.
And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.
He had a shrine for worshiping God there at his home, and he had made some idols and a sacred priestly vest. Micah chose one of his own sons to be the priest for his shrine.
This man Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.
This man Micah had his own shrine, had crafted his own ephod and some household idols, and had installed one of his sons as a priest.
Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.
The man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Micah owned a shrine. He also made an ephod and household idols. He ordained one of his sons to be his priest.
And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had a brothel of idolatry, {Heb. house of gods}, and made an ephod and teraphim {the vessels, clothing and instruments pertaining to idol worship} and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod, and household gods, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the house of Michaias was to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and theraphin, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.
And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.
And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;
Micah's Idolatry
…4So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah. 5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest. 6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.…
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.
So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any layman who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death."
From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
Judges 17:4
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, "Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do."
He replied, "You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, 'What is the matter with you?'"
The Danites set up idols for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Ezra 1:7
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Exodus 28:4,15
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office…
Genesis 31:19,30
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's…
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
consecrated.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
1 Kings 13:33,34
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places…
his sons
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
Now this man
וְהָאִ֣ישׁ (wə·hā·'îš)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person
מִיכָ֔ה (mî·ḵāh)
Strong's Hebrew 4318: Micah -- the name of several Israelites
had a shrine,
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house
and he made
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (way·ya·'aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make
an ephod
אֵפוֹד֙ ('ê·p̄ō·wḏ)
Strong's Hebrew 646: A girdle, the ephod, highpriest's shoulder-piece, an image
and some household idols,
וּתְרָפִ֔ים (ū·ṯə·rā·p̄îm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8655: (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol
and installed
וַיְמַלֵּ֗א (way·mal·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4390: To fill, be full of
אַחַד֙ ('a·ḥaḏ)
Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first
of his sons
מִבָּנָ֔יו (mib·bā·nāw)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son
וַיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be
his priest.
לְכֹהֵֽן׃ (lə·ḵō·hên)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3548: Priest
(5) Had an house of gods.--The Hebrew is Beth Elohim, which may mean equally well "a house of God" (Vulg., ?diculam Deo, and so too the LXX.). It is quite clear that Micah did not abandon the worship of God under the names of Jehovah and Elohim, by which He was known to the Israelites. How he coordinated this worship with his grossly idolatrous symbols, or whom those symbols were intended to represent, it is impossible to say. The fact remains that in the Beth-Micah we find "a house of gods"--"whole chapel of idols"--consecrated to Jehovah as a pious act (Judges 17:2; Judges 17:5; Judges 17:13; Judges 18:6).
An ephod.--No doubt the ephod was nothing more than a gorgeous priestly garment, though possibly it may have been used for oracular purposes. (See Judges 8:27.)
And teraphim.--These were Syrian images (Genesis 31:19), the use of which among the Israelites seems to have lasted for a long period, until it was put down by King Josiah in his great reformation (2Kings 23:34; Ezekiel 21:26; Hosea 3:4; Zechariah 10:2). I have entered upon the interesting question of the use of Teraphim in an article on the subject in Kitto's Cyclop?dia. (See Excursus II: Teraphim.)
Consecrated.--The curious Hebrew phrase is "filled the hand" (see Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 7:37), i.e., gave him the office by putting certain offerings in his hands. It is rather installed than "consecrated."
EXCURSUS II.--ON Judges 17:5. (TERAPHIM.)
THE Hebrew word Teraphim is always simply transliterated as in our version, or rendered by "images," with "teraphim" in the margin, except in 1Samuel 15:23, Zechariah 10:2, where it is represented by "idolatry," "idols." The singular of the word, "a teraph," does not occur in Scripture, although it is clear that only one can have been put into David's bed (1Samuel 19:13-16). The LXX. adopt many different renderings, as does the Vulg., but they all point to idolatrous images or the implements of necromancy, as do the two renderings of the Targums, images and (Hosea 3:4) "announcers."
1. Teraphim are first mentioned in Genesis 31:19, where Rachel steals her father's "images," and successfully hides them from his search under the hiran on which she was sitting--the coarse carpet used to cover the wicker-work pack-saddle of her camel. Josephus supposes that she was actuated by idolatrous reverence; Iben Ezra that she expected oracular guidance from them; others that she stole them because of their intrinsic value. She probably shared the superstitions of her father, and regarded them as sacred (Genesis 30:14; Genesis 31:30), as being the figures of ancestral divinities (Genesis 31:53). It is not impossible that they were among the "strange gods" which Jacob ordered his family to bury under "the sorcerer's oak"--Allon Meonenim (Judges 9:37). But that Jacob's right feeling in the matter was not permanent is proved only too clearly by the conduct of Micah (Judges 17:5) and the Danites (Judges 18:3), although, unlike Jeroboam, they could not even plead the poor palliation of political motives.
2. The next definite notice of teraphim occurs in 1Samuel 19:13-16, where Michal, in the dark eastern chamber, conceals her husband's absence by putting the teraphim in his bed, with a bolster of goat's hair for a pillow. The use of the article shows that even in David's family the use of the "teraphim" was perfectly well known. Nor can we rely on the vague conjecture of Thenius, that barren women (Rachel and Michal) were especially addicted to their worship, or on that of Michaelis, that Michal may have possessed them unknown to David. The passage seems to show that they had at least some rude resemblance to the human shape, whence Aquila renders the word by protomai ("busts"), which is used of figures like the ancient Hermae. This is not the place to enter into the curious reading of the LXX. on this verse, by which they seem to connect the worship of teraphim with what the ancients called extispicium--i.e., divination by means of the liver of sacrifices, as in Ezekiel 21:21. Josephus follows the same reading, and dishonestly suppresses all mention of the teraphim.
3. The next important passage is Hosea 3:4, where the prima facie view of every unbiassed reader would be that the "image" (matsebah) and the teraphim are mentioned without blame as ordinary adjuncts to religious worship. Hence, perhaps, arose the notion that the teraphim were in some way connected with the Urim and Thummim, which led to the rendering of the word in this passage by ????? (LXX., "bright gems"), and by ????????? ("enlightenments," Aquila), and by "implements of priestly dress" (St. Jerome). This is the theory maintained most unconvincingly, though with great learning, by Spencer in his De Legibus Hebr?-orum, lib. 3, pp. 920-1038.
But if these passages show that even in religious families teraphim were sometimes tolerated as material adjuncts to an Elohistic worship, on the other hand we find them unequivocally condemned by Samuel (1Samuel 15:23), by Josiah (2Kings 23:24), and by the prophet Zechariah (Zechariah 10:2 ); and in Ezekiel 21:21 the use of them, is attributed to the heathen Nebuchadnezzar.
The general inference seems to be that the use of the teraphim involved a violation of the second commandment, but that this use of symbols, this monotheistic idolatry, which is very different from polytheism, arises from a tendency very deeply ingrained in human nature, and which it took many years to eradicate. If centuries elapsed before the Jews were cured of their propensity to worship "other gods,"we can feel no surprise that "image worship" continued to linger among them, in spite of the condemnation of it by the stricter prophets. The calf-worship, the toleration of teraphim and consecrated stones (baetylia) and high places, the offering of incense to the brazen serpent, the glimpses of grave irregularities even in the worship of the sanctuary, show that it was only by centuries of misfortune and a succession of prophets that Israel was at last educated into the spiritual worship of the true God.
The reader will find further remarks on this subject in the article on "Teraphim," by the present writer, in Kitto's Biblical Cyclop?dia.
Verse 5. - And the man Micah, etc. It is impossible to say for certain whether the state of things here described in respect of Micah preceded the events narrated in the preceding verses, or was consequent upon them. If it preceded, then we have the reason of his mother's vow: she wished to make her son's "house of God" complete by the addition of a graven and molten image. If it was consequent upon his mother's vow, then we have in the opening verses of this chapter a history of the circumstances of the foundation of Micah's "house of God," which was to play an important part in the colony of Danites, whose proceedings arc related in the following chapter, and for the sake of which this domestic history of Micah is introduced. House of gods. Rather, of God (Elohim); for the worship was of Jehovah, only with a corrupt and semi-idolatrous ceremonial. An ephod. See Judges 8:26, 27, note. Teraphim. See Genesis 31:19 (images, A.V.; teraphim, Hebrews); 1 Samuel 15:23 (idolatry, A.V.; teraphim, Hebrews); 19:13 (an image, A.V.; teraphim, Hebrews); Hosea 3:4,to etc. They seem to have been a kind of Penates, or household gods, and were used for divination (Ezekiel 21:21; Zechariah 10:2). Became his priest. One function of the priest, and for which it is likely he was much resorted to, was to inquire of God by the ephod (Judges 18:5, 6). What his other duties might be does not appear.
17:1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Jud 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under the Judges, here is showed how unhappy they were when there was no Judge. The love of money made Micah so undutiful to his mother as to rob her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him. Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses. This woman's silver was her god, before it was made into a graven or a molten image. Micah and his mother agreed to turn their money into a god, and set up idol worship in their family. See the cause of this corruption. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and then they soon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Bettcher's D looks ahead to Year 2
Dan Salomone
Whether you want to call them the New York Cardinals or the Arizona Giants, James Bettcher has made the defense in the likeness of his former team. Can you blame him?
Bettcher came to the Giants in 2018 after five seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, the last three as defensive coordinator. In those three years, they ranked fifth, second and sixth in yards allowed. Arizona was also one of the league's most effective run-stopping units each season, allowing a league-low 3.67 yards per rushing attempt in that span.
Cover 3: X-factor for 2019 season
Best is yet to come for WR Corey Coleman
Fact or Fiction: Forecasting 2019 stat leaders
The Cardinals led the NFL in 2016 with 48 sacks, including a team-high 12.5 from outside linebacker Markus Golden. Like a handful of other players from those teams, Golden is now a Giant.
"I remember this defense like the back of my hand because I played in it three years," said Golden, who signed with the Giants this past March as he looks to rebound from a torn ACL in 2017. "You've got guys like Kareem [Martin] that know the defense and have played in it. So it's been great. Everybody is just helping each other out."
In addition, the Giants added veteran safety Antoine Bethea and defensive lineman Olsen Pierre, who both overlapped with Bettcher.
"I think it's very helpful because now you have pretty much somebody at every level who's played in this defense," Martin said. "I think player-to-player, that's one of those coaching things that's really important in a defense or offense or anything. The fact that they can lean on O.P. or Markus or A.B. and ask a question, 'Hey, when you guys played this defense in the past, could you do it this way?' I think that's really big and is going to pay off for us."
Martin added: "A.B. has been a pro for a long time and is still playing at a high level. Markus Golden, when he gets on the field, he's going to bring a lot of energy. He's going to give it his all. That's one thing I know about him, and O.P. is the same way. His quickness in the inside, he's probably one of the quickest three-techniques I've had a chance to play with. I'm just excited to see all of them play."
In Bettcher's first season, the Giants improved from 31st to 24th in yards allowed, and went from tied for 27th to 23rd in scoring. Still, everyone inside and outside of the building knew that was not good enough.
"It's not easy to win games when you don't have playmakers," general manager Dave Gettleman said in his season-ending press conference. "We need to improve the defense, guys. Just like I looked you right in the eye last year and told you we've got to fix this O-line, we've got to get better on the defensive side."
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Q: Como fazer para selecionar tudo menos o top X no MYSQL Estou programando um projeto pessoal de agendamento e não sei o como implementar um SELECT em todos os tasks que não sejam o top 5 do dia.
Como faço para implementar isso no mysql?
Por exemplo, tenho um SELECT * FROM schedules aqui :

Quero selecionar todos depois do 5, mas sem depender do Schedule_id porque ele pode variar muito no uso real do programa.

A: Achei uma pergunta similar em inglês.
Resolvi da seguinte forma seguindo o que estava escrito.
SELECT * FROM Schedules WHERE Schedule_id NOT IN (
    SELECT Schedule_id FROM (
        SELECT Schedule_id FROM Schedules ORDER BY Schedule_id Limit 5
    ) AS x
)

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