In Victoria, B.C. we visited Margot Johnston (L) and Rainey Hopewell (R), our guests in Claiming the Commons – Food for All on Haultain Boulevard" (episode 185, 2010). The boulevard garden continues to flourish. They've added a sitting area bench made from tree rounds. Coming: a book box for a neighborhood free library.
We saw that a number of front yard gardens had sprouted up along the street in the past three years. Rainey impishly introduced us to the recently-opened corner "locavore" shop selling exclusively locally-produced food and products, and the coffee house/neighborhood hub. A sense of community along the street seems to be growing.
Rainey and Margot's circle of community goes beyond the street. A sign in their front yard reminds us of yet more members of the Earth Commons to include in our circles of caring.


This retro bikini top from our ModCloth namesake label was inspired by Sissone, the aunt of our Accessories Buyer who hails from France and loves a vintage-inspired swimsuit. Cap sleeves, sewn-in bust cups, floral appliques, functional buttons, and bright white dots imbue this black top with a romantic vibe that's adored from Miami to Marseille.
Fully lined. Bust cups. Sizes 1X to 4X have boning at sides.


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Margaret Greenfields is a practising Liberal Jew, a socialist and 'green' social policy practitioner/academic and former community lawyer. She has identified as an LGBTQI ally for as long as she can remember. In 'previous incarnations' Margaret has been a Lesbian Parenting and Sexual Violence Policy officer for the Legal Charity 'Rights of Women' as well as working at the Family Rights Group with families involved in care proceedings. She has also worked as a researcher for the Universities of London, Bath and Manchester. Margaret has at various points in her personal history been very active in co-operative housing schemes and community theatre, left-wing and radical feminist politics, 'intentional communities' and has a long history of involvement in collaborative research with 'marginalised' communities including Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, refugees and asylum seekers, homeless people and those at the margins of society. She is passionate about the value of arts practice and music – particularly community singing (although has limited free time now to be active in this field); has academic qualifications in/studied theatre and literature, theology; inter-ethnic/faith relations and community development practice.
Margaret has published widely in the fields of social and health inclusion, including producing evaluations and research reports for Government agencies and NGOs. She regularly lectures/ delivers training in collaborative research practice in the UK and Europe/South Africa. She is currently a Research Fellow at IDRA (the Institute of Dispute Resolution, Africa located in the College of Law, UNISA) and Professor of Social Policy and Community Engagement and founder Director of the Institute for Diversity Research http://bucks.ac.uk/research/research_institutes/idrics/about-idrics/ at Buckinghamshire New University. From Margaret's point of view this project involves a 'coming home' to working with her own community as well as creating an important (and joyful) opportunity to explore faith, identity and sexual orientation through the prism of arts, social sciences and humanities practices.
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Tosahwi (c. 1805/10 – c.1878/80), meaning White Knife, was a Penateka Comanche chief. He was deemed "cooperative" by William Babcock Hazen.

Young man: warrior and war chief
In January 1846, along with Amorous Man, Old Owl,  Buffalo Hump, Yellow Wolf, Santa Anna, Ketumse, and Asa-havey ("Milky Way"), he signed the Treaty of Tehuacana Creek. After 1849, with the death of Old Owl and Santa Anna, the departure of Pah-hayoco (now settled, during his last years, as resident guest among the Kotsoteka band), and Buffalo Hump's becoming first chief and Yellow Wolf's becoming second chief of the Penateka Comanches until his own death in 1854, Tosahwi became one among the most important chiefs of the Penateka band, second to Ketumse in the reservation.

Councils and treaties
In 1861, along with the Yamparika head chief Ten Bears, the Nokoni chief Horseback and his Penateka comrade Asa-havey, Tosahwi went to Fort Cobb where they met General Albert Pike (C.S.A.), and the Comanche chiefs (including the Nokoni head chief Quenah-evah, called "Eagle Drink" by the white people, and the Kotsoteka chief Mow-way) signed for an allegiance with the Confederation. As a leader of the Penateka band, Tosahwi engaged in many raids in the American Southwest in the 1860s, but in 1867–1868 he was the first Comanche leader to surrender to the military at Fort Cobb in the Indian Territory, and, on this occasion, he is reported to have had an alleged exchange with Philip Sheridan where Sheridan purportedly stated "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead", which was sometimes rephrased as "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." Sheridan denied ever making either statement. He signed as head chief of the Penateka the Medicine Lodge Treaty, and accepted to sit in a reservation, under the control of Fort Cobb, having the Comanche Agency in the Eureka Valley. He managed to keep out the Penateka, preventing their involvement in the Red River War in 1873–1874.

Sources
 Wallace, Ernest & Hoebel, E. Adamson. The Comanche: Lords of the Southern Plains, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1952
 Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant. Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1983
 Leckie, William H. The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1967
 Fowler, Arlen L. The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1996
 Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1970

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Native American people of the Indian Wars
Texas–Indian Wars
Native American history of Texas
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I love Tahitian pearls. I love their colors. I love their shapes. I love the beauty of the environment where they're grown. They just make me happy. I know ... all special pearls make me happy, but there is an extra-special allure with Tahitian pearls. It's better experienced than explained. I know many of you get that.
Pearl farmers understand this. Theirs is a business of passion, focusing on the creation of perfection, following traditional methods that are repeated throughout French Polynesia. Their pursuit of the perfect pearl is a constant goal.
This is why innovation in Tahitian pearl farming always intrigues me. A few years ago, Tahitian pearls seeded with baroque beads surprised me. I was excited two years ago when I stumbled across strands of Tahitian soufflé pearls in Papeete. And in 2016, and pearl farmer from Takaroa I've known for number of years introduced the first exported tiny Tahitian pearls on the market - the smallest colorful Tahitian pearls I'd ever seen (and I think Hisano appreciated them even more than I did).
Producing tiny Tahitian pearls is not only innovative, it's fraught with risk. Tahitian pearls are traditionally large pearls and when all other factors are equal, they are valued by size. Any pearl smaller than 10 millimeters is considered a small Tahitian pearl, and the smallest size most are accustomed to seeing is in the eight to nine millimeter range.
The producer, Alexander Collins from Takaroa, has doubled down. What began almost as a fluke is now becoming his trademark. He is producing more and more tiny Tahitian pearls.
Jennifer Heebner from the Cultured Pearl Association of America, just had the opportunity to meet with Alexander and interview him for her blog. The full story was published today.
Tiny 5 mm and 7 mm Tahitians - Did you Know They Exist?


I first heard about The Black Ghosts thanks to a Switch remix that I found on hypemachine (what a great site). A little later I got to hear the Boy-8-Bit version of Anyway You Choose To Give It, and finally stumbled upon the Fake Blood mix. I loved both the remixes, and something told me I could have some fun tinkering with them.
Both have a very different take on the song; Boy-8-Bit is obviously retro and fully vocal, Fake Blood (who are these guys?) are heavy on the Max Headroom-style stuttering and rave sounds.
However, both mixes are at exactly the same speed and in the same key. Putting them together was just a question of finding the right moment, and tweaking the levels a little bit where the two are superposed. Frankly, it's one of my all-time favourite, seamless edits.
Download the 9-minute beauty here (you'll need iTunes to listen).
And here's the video. It's kinda cheap and silly - Fame meets a physics lesson - but I suppose they need a bit of MTV airplay to get them going.
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Of Monsters & Men hit the road with Highasakite & Aurora!
The Icelandic outfit have travelled far and wide to bring the superb tracks from their latest record to their avid fans around the world, and have nurtured a great Nordic touring tradition along the way.
The band are freshly returned from the US, where they've been performing around the country alongside Swedish super-group and the latest Nordic Playlist curators, Amason. Now arrived in the UK, the band are set to continue hosting opening sets from some of the Nordic region's finest stars as they take their show to London's Brixton Academy supported by not one, but two of Norway's most exciting talents – Highasakite and Aurora!
Discover Of Monsters & Men's Nordic Playlists here!
Highasakite – Fresh from breaking an outstanding record in their native Norway and all set to support Of Monsters & Men on their UK tour, it's been quite the week for Oslo's Highasakite! Their sublime record Silent Treatment has now been sitting pretty within the Norwegian album charts for a staggering 93 weeks, making it the longest charting album in the country's history.
"The ambition was to make music that would put us and hopefully the listener in a certain mood, to create images for the listener and make an album with depth – an album you can listen to several times and still discover something new…" was how the band's lead guitarist Trond Bersu described the album when he curated his own Nordic Playlist, and his ambition has clearly succeeded as the chart-topping record continues to garner acclaim and success not just in Norway, but around the world.
Tune in to Highasakite's Nordic Playlist now!
Aurora – If you're making your way to London's Brixton Academy on Wednesday 25th November, not only will you be able to catch a sure-to-be brilliant set from Iceland's Of Monsters & Men, but you'll also be able to see the first UK performance from Norwegian star Aurora since her voice was selected to soundtrack the prestigious John Lewis Christmas advert in the UK!
Aurora – who we know well here at the Nordic Playlist after her curation of the Nordic Playlist – has had a phenomenal year, and her fans are now counting down to the release of her long awaited, much anticipated debut album at the start of the New Year. In the meantime, you can get to know this dazzling artist better by watching an exclusive interview filmed to accompany her Nordic Playlist just below, or by heading our to Wednesday's show for a taste of what her upcoming record has in store.


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My Kitchen Rules judge Manu Feildel takes viewers travelling in My France with Manu
He's a juggler as well as a hit judge but Manu Feildel, who revisits France in a new show, is happiest in the restaurant trade.
By David Dale
April 6, 2014 — 2.00am
It's just as well Manu Feildel learned to be a juggler as a teenager, because he now has to keep far too many balls in the air. He's a judge on My Kitchen Rules. He's a cookbook author.
He runs a restaurant called Le Grand Cirque in Melbourne. And he's just made a two-part documentary on travelling through western France, which starts tonight on Channel Seven.
Restless souls: Manu Feildel looking for truffles in Dordogne.
He's been a restless soul since he was 13, when he surprised his family of professional chefs by enrolling as a student at a circus school. After three years of "unicycle, clowning, juggling, a bit of acrobat", he decided cooking was his passion after all, and moved to London (where he studied at the Cafe Royal) and then to Sydney (where he was the chef at Bilson's when it was awarded three hats in The Good Food Guide).
That led to a new career as talent quest judge, but after four years, he became restless about that too.
Manu Feildel in France.
"I was asking Channel Seven last year if we could do something else than My Kitchen Rules," he says.
"They said 'What would you be interested to do?' I said 'I know a lot of people have done food and travelling, but that's pretty much what I would love to do'. They came back and said 'What about if you go back home and show us your country?' I thought that was a great idea."
Did his time filming in Brittany (and trying to refresh his circus skills, with mixed success) give him an urge to live in France again? "Probably not. I'm pretty much set to stay in Australia, if you don't mind."
Why? "Australia is a little bit more easy going - friendly, smiling people. From north to south and east to west there are so many different places, it's like a different country in every state. The produce is great, the sunshine, I feel at home."
I felt compelled to pick a bone: "Your Sydney restaurant, L'Etoile, was my local, but you closed it. Now I find out you've opened a restaurant in bloody Melbourne?"
His response: "Oh, sorry. I think a lot of people would be annoyed, but at the end of the day if something is not working and you've done everything in your power, unfortunately there's only one solution and that's to move. I was attached to the place - it was my first baby - but I just had to put my business cap on.
"I just find Sydney quite difficult in the last few years. They've become really, really … what's the word … fickle. There doesn't seem to be loyalty from the customers. As soon as there's a new restaurant opening, they just fly like birds and never come back to the nest."
So of all his careers, which does he prefer? "I enjoy being a judge, and I try to find something positive in every dish. But if you had a knife on my throat and I had to choose, I'd probably say restaurants. A restaurant is something I will always be involved in, because it's my life. It can be stressful at times, but it's what I've been born for."
Just not in Sydney.
My France With Manu begins at 7.30pm Sunday on Seven.
A game of revenge
There are about to be spoilers here, so if you have only recently got around to thinking you might catch up with seasons one, two and three of Game of Thrones on DVD or download, in preparation for the start of season four tomorrow, you'd better stop reading now.
But seriously, where have you been for the past three years? And if you are planning to start watching GoT4 tomorrow, you must be one of the few thousand Australians who pay a premium to subscribe to the Showcase channel, because you will not be able to buy the new episodes on any download service until all 10 episodes have been broadcast, thanks to an exclusivity deal between Foxtel and the US channel HBO. Or you're planning to be an illegal downloader, and I have no sympathy for you.
All I want from this season of Game of Thrones is for the psychopath Joffrey to die, slowly and painfully. But I'm worried that in wanting that, I've become like him. I can blame the writers of GoT for turning me into this monster.
I started out admiring the brave and honourable Ned Stark, assuming he was the hero of the series. The writers had him executed in episode nine of season one. Then I assumed Ned's son Robb was the hero, since he was also brave and honourable, and was gathering an army to remove the conniving and sadistic Lannister family from power. In episode nine of season three, the writers massacred Robb, his wife, his mother, his unborn child and most of his followers (in what has come to be known as the Red Wedding).
Now I have to assume that the dwarf Tyrion Lannister is the hero, since he is often brave and occasionally honourable. So I expect him to be murdered nine weeks from now.
The GoT showrunner David Benioff isn't confirming anything, except to say: "There is tremendous clamour for revenge, especially in the wake of the Red Wedding … [but] this is definitely the most dangerous season for Tyrion. It seems like almost every episode he's in jeopardy of having his head removed from his shoulders … It's just more intense than it ever has been.''
Peter Dinklage, who's become an international sex symbol through his portrayal of Tyrion, also expects his character to die before King Joffrey, because justice is not a priority for the writers. Dinklage confessed this recently on The David Letterman Show: ''I haven't read the books, and George Martin, our author, is probably going to kill my character soon because I mentioned that. I started to read it, and I got confused.''
Game of Thrones starts at 3.30pm tomorrow on Showcase.
The empress of Asperger's
One of the most intriguing characters ever written for television is back. She's Saga Noren, the emotion-free detective in the Danish thriller series The Bridge, about a corpse discovered on the border of Sweden and Denmark. Noren turned into Sonya Cross, the detective in the US thriller The Bridge, about a corpse on the border of Mexico and the United States, and Elise Wasserman, the detective in the BBC thriller The Tunnel, about a corpse on the border of Britain and France. Season 2 of the Danish original has just started on SBS1.
The Saga/Sonya/Elise character is often described as manifesting Asperger's syndrome (or being "on the autism spectrum", now the term Asperger's is medically unfashionable). Diane Kruger, star of the US version, has an autism adviser on set to make sure she gets the mannerisms right.
Sofia Helin prefers to trust her own acting abilities. She told the Nordicana conference in London recently that playing Saga is "like being behind a glass wall".
"No character has ever affected me in so many ways as Saga - both negatively and positively," she says. "I'm a person who is driven by my emotions very much. Saga helps me to think about facts in situations."
But is Saga an Asperger's case? "Keeping the audience curious about what's wrong with her, we all agreed is a good idea. Saga doesn't see herself as someone with Asperger's. She has probably read about it. She knows that she would have it if she asked some expert. In some way, with her logic and smart thinking, she has managed to step away from these experts. To me it's more interesting to not put a title on her."
Helin's costar, Kim Bodnia, thinks every culture should remake The Bridge to portray their own border conflicts. He says: "I would wish that North Korea and South Korea would do it."
The Bridge season 2 is on Wednesdays at 9.30pm on SBS1.
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Christiena Taralson, '19
Fargo, N.D.
Find your passion. Go for it. Don't be afraid of it.
Trumpeter Takes National Stage
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As a young teenager, UND senior Christiena Taralson was certain she'd grow up to work in the medical field. She wanted to save lives and make people whole again.
"I really had my heart set on being a surgeon," she said. "That always was my childhood dream."
And she likely would have followed that path if she hadn't first been stopped cold turkey one November morning in the middle of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The high school junior from Fargo was playing trumpet and just had opened the parade as part of the Macy's Great American Marching Band.
"It was a magical moment. I was playing on Herald Square in New York City. The confetti cannons went off, and I just broke into tears," Taralson said. "I couldn't believe it. Seeing millions of people staring at you. Cameras all over and knowing there were 3 million people watching from home. That's where I decided this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I was going to be a trumpet performer."
Taralson recently looked back on that life-changing moment and the many rewarding ones she's had since as she followed her dream to the University of North Dakota.
"I toured about seven other schools and checked out all the other music programs. I took lessons from other trumpet professors and was offered a lot of really good scholarships," she said. "But when I met Dr. Ronnie Ingle at UND, I knew instantly he would be able to take me down the right path to succeed. I chose UND because that's where my heart lies. I knew I should be here."
UND trumpet students put in many hours of practice together inside the Hughes Fine Arts Center.
Trumpet player Christiena Taralson was honored as one of the nation's best at a summer competition.
And four years later, she's certain she made the right decision when choosing Music Performance at UND. This past summer, she competed for the first time in the trumpet soloist division at the prestigious Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in Denver. Each year, up to 150 young musicians attend the intense weeklong seminar to learn from the masters — world-renowned faculty and professional musicians — about technical skills, chamber music performance and careers in music.
The students come from everywhere, too. Yale. The Peabody Institute. The Juilliard School. Eastman School of Music. So much top-grade talent in one place can be an intimidating experience. Even so, Taralson kept her wits and took her time as she let her music take the judges and audience to another place.
Shrouded by a stage curtain, the judges couldn't see her performing. Taralson had only her melodic notes to tell the story of a pompous promenade, a graceful ballerina dance and a sorrowful death march.
"I really took my time and centered myself. I wanted to give the music the respect it needed," she said. "I either wanted the judges to love it or hate it. I didn't want them to feel neutral about me. If they hated it … good. At least I knew I got a reaction out of them."
She got more than a reaction. She was awarded first place.
"I won? I couldn't believe it," Taralson said. "That was the talk of the week. Who's this girl from North Dakota? It's really different to switch seats like that and all of a sudden be a role model for these students you looked up to yourself.
"I try not to get intimidated by the Doc Severinsens. They're just another person. I've learned that over my years at UND. I have to get over where they're from. I'm from North Dakota. So what? I can go make it anywhere."
I won? I couldn't believe it. That was the talk of the week. Who's this girl from North Dakota?
Professor Ingle knows she's right about that. He's been teaching students the same lesson for years.
"I don't let my students dwell on the fact that we're not in New York or L.A. They know clearly that doesn't matter in terms of their own success," Ingle said. "Christiena demonstrates the drive, sincere passion and desire to do something great with the trumpet. For Christiena, the sky's the limit. She's going to do anything she sets her mind to, and I'm very excited to see what she's going to do with her career. She's ready to go."
Taralson plans to audition for graduate schools at top trumpet colleges next year. Among the possibilities: Yale, Juilliard and Florida State. Not bad company.
Anyway, those schools don't intimidate her anymore. She's not one to toot her own horn, but she really has met and played trumpet alongside the great Doc Severinsen.
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HOW WE MOVED TO THE UK
Are you planning on moving to the UK or wonder how some people manage to move to a whole new country and get to stay permanently? How did they get there? What kind of visa did they have to arrange, is it temporary and if not, how do they get the ability to stay? It's a question I often thought of back in my early days of travelling. However, after many years of wondering, I now get to live out this dream. Here's our story….
Back in mid 2016, my husband and I started exploring the idea of possibly moving abroad. By this time, we had been married for 4.5yrs and had already moved around quite a bit between Australian states and housing in general, so we were somewhat use to moving and travelling around. We discussed our options as to where we would go, either America, Ireland, London or Manchester. Obviously, planning to move abroad or moving to the UK, requires a lot of hard work and dedication. In total, we worked for a good 18 months and saved as much as possible. Ensuring that we had enough funds to live comfortably for the first few months was also important to us. We didn't want to worry about looking for work straight away, but rather, focus on finding a place to call home and settling in. Prior to leaving Australia, we sold the majority of our possesions through garage sales, gumtree and Facebook marketplace and arranged to ship the belongings we didn't want to part with.
Initially we had our heart set on going to America, but after much research and discussions with lawyers, we found that America was too hard to get in to, especially as an Australian, so we crossed that off the list. If you're an Australian and have moved to America permanently, I would love to know your story. We toiled with the idea of Ireland, but than decided to make Manchester our home. At the time, we felt London was too expensive and would be too crowded and fast paced for our liking, while Manchester was affordable, slower pace (compared to London) and a great location to start our business.
My husband holds a Swiss and French passport, as well as an Australian one. This being said, we knew moving to the UK would be easy, as his EU passports allowed him to enter the country. As for me, I entered the UK using my Australian passport, along with an EEA (European Economic Area) family permit. Yes, this is a Family Permit, not a visa. My family permit was arranged only a few weeks before leaving Australia and was surprisingly quick and easy to do. This permit allowed me to have all the same rights as my husband (or any EU citizen), e.g; right to reside in the UK, leave and enter the country as I please and of course, work.
After 6 months of living in the UK, we then applied for pre-settled status. This involved quite a bit of paperwork along with biometric testing of fingerprints. This process took around 6 months to be approved by the Home Office. Back in December 2019, just before Christmas, we received our confirmation of pre-settled status which was amazing and I now hold a UK residency card. Sorry to all the Brexit fans out there!! We've now been living in the UK for close to 2.5 years.
So what does it mean for us to have pre-settled status? To put it simply, this means we are on our way to accumulating 5 years of residency in the UK. Once we have resided in the UK for 5 years, we can then go on to apply for settled status, meaning we will be able to remain in the UK permanently. Following another 12 months after this, we will have the opportunity to apply for British citizenship (not that we necessarily would), although, my husband might, as he seems to like collecting passports, haha. Pre-settled status also allows us to be out of the country for no more than 6 months, without it affecting our status. Any longer would result in our status starting again. If, for some reason, we were out of the country for a continuous period of 2 years, then our status would lapse.
How you get to enter and/or stay in the UK may be different to ours depending on your country of citizenship and your own personal circumstances, but we hope this information has been helpful to some.


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    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0'
    }
}

    dependencies {
        implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
        implementation(project(path: ":CordovaLib"))
        implementation 'com.android.support:support-annotations:28.0.0'
        implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
        implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:28.0.0'
        implementation 'com.android.support:support-v13:28.0.0'
        implementation 'me.leolin:ShortcutBadger:1.1.22@aar'
        implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:17.2.0'
        implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.0.0'
        implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:17.2.0'
        implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.2.0'

        // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END
    }

Any solution on how to get it sync?

A: The dependency:
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:17.2.0'

(currently) doesn't exist.
Use 17.1.0 or 17.0.0.
This is list of the latest available versions.
You can also check the history in the release notes page.

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November 1559 – July 1560.
Inevitably the Act of Separation and letter to the Regent Mary informing her of the decision hardened attitudes. First to enter the lists was the Congregation who by sound of trumpet and declaration sought the French troops and foreign Scots ( also soldiers in the main) in Leith to leave the town; and residents were asked to stop the fortification work. This almost naive, playing by the rules, action achieved nothing save disregard and some minor skirmishing. It was perhaps indicative of the amateur way the Congregation`s affairs were conducted in the following months.
There followed several weeks of setbacks for the Congregation as their cause wavered without clear direction or action. Regent Mary continued to try to divide and rule, and in time people began to slip away while spies, some say traitors, kept Mary informed. The wavering James Hamilton, Duke of Chatelherault was subject of pressures and suggestions that he had become a supporter of the Congregation (which he had). The soldiers of the Congregation were desperate for pay and their leaders who had anything left gave up their silverware to be coined to pay them. Lord James is said to have paid out over 13,000 crowns of his own money since the 10th of May when his force was assembled. Meanwhile 4000 crowns, from Sir Rawfe Sadler and Sir James Crofts at Berwick, was seized by the Earl of Bothwell and never recovered despite hot pursuit by Argyll, Lord James and the Master of Maxwell. At almost the same time a foray by a Dundee contingent of the Congregation forces sought to fire their cannon on the French in Leith, but this failed because of deserting soldiers and a French initiative to charge and seize the cannons. An assault by the French on 5 November almost succeeded in which some thirty men died and some gentlemen were captured. On the other hand they gained the support of William Maitland of Lethington, the younger – a secretary to the Regent, who confirmed that there was "nothing but craft and falsehood in the queene." Amid much wailing, the decision was taken that the Congregation should leave Edinburgh and reconvene at Stirling .
Knox preached on 7 November at Stirling and fairly roasted the Congregation for their indecision and lack of resolve. The telling off put some spirit back into the Congregation who that evening met and appointed Robert Melvill and William Maitland to go to Queen Elizabeth in England and make known their position. Meanwhile, the Lords and their forces divided into two groups, Argyll, Glencairn and Maxwell in Glasgow and Lord James and the Earl of Arran in Fife, each to give support to the people there.
Following on the departure from Edinburgh, the houses of the burgesses were given to Frenchmen as a reward, and Bothwell appeared from hiding to declare the Earl of Arran a traitor. Hearing that the Congregation were reconvening in Stirling [ to provide answers to questions from the English Court ] the French set out to take them. On the way they ransacked Linlithgow, the Duke of Chatelherault`s home, and wasted the lands of Kinneill. This prompted Argyll and Glencairn and friends to go to Glasgow while Lord James and the Earl of Arran went to Saint Andrews then to Cupar. The French now turned their attention to Fife, intending to fortify the town, castle and Abbey of St Andrews. On the way they started to fortify Burntisland, while Lord James sent soldiers to Kinghorn but it was taken by the French. In Fife at this time the French had about 4,000 soldiers while the Congregation`s forces amounted to some five hundred horsemen and one hundred soldiers. Now centered at Dysart, the Congregation`s forces continued to skirmish daily for over three weeks during which Lord James and Arran slept clothed and with boots on the whole time.
A new dimension to the conflict was the need for the French to service their troops in Fife. Two of their vessels were seized by ships sent from Dundee, prompting a French vow to take St Andrews and Dundee. To this end they contracted a Captain Cullane and two ships to ferry supplies to Kinghorn. A real turning point in the conflict then emerged when on Monday 23 January 1560, English ships appeared in the Forth and took Captain Cullane and his ships prisoner. The word to the French commanders was that these English ships were the first of many more to come. The `excuse` offered by the English was that the warships were seeking pirates who were active along the coasts. As Knox wrote in a letter, the French " retired more in one day than they advanced in two". In their withdrawal back to Leith there was much pillaging and wasting of both Papist and Protestant property by the French troops. The tale is told of a Frenchman in a red cloak who took bread from an old woman in Stirling, then sought to take a little salt beef and meal she had for her children. When the soldier bent over the meal chest (kiste) she tipped his heels up, so that he fell into the chest and was suffocated.
The negotiations in England meanwhile, were bearing fruit as evidenced by the happy arrival of the English warships in the Forth. Elizabeth despatched the Duke of Norfolk to the North of England to determine what the Scots needs were. When the Congregation were approached about a meeting place, Maxwell said Carlisle – seemingly for his own convenience to his estates in Dumfriesshire. This would have meant the likes of Lord James having to travel, at considerable personal risk, from St Andrews. This prompted Knox to write to the Lords in Glasgow on 6 February whence he castigated them for their relative inactivity and lack of consideration for those who had been fighting their cause. Shaking off their lethargy it was agreed to meet with the Duke of Norfolk at Berwick. On 27 February the parties met, the nature of assistance to the Scots agreed, and the Treaty of Berwick signed.
of mounts at strategic points for their cannon, thereby tightening the English grip on Leith. As was their wont, the Congregation convened and subscribed a Band of mutual cooperation at Edinburgh on 27 April.
In Edinburgh Castle the Regent Mary was distraught when she read the Band and complained bitterly at the bad advice she had received from all and sundry.
To rub salt in to her wounds the wasting of the surrounds of Leith to create shortage of victuals for the English troops was to no avail, as the people produced hidden stores and accepted lower prices, such was their distaste for the French.
At Leith the assault trenches were taken as far as they could be by the English and on 7 May began an attack that lasted some ten hours. At one point they had secured an entry but the scaling ladders were just too short to enable the soldiers to reinforce those on the top of the walls. There was strong suspicion that someone, possibly Sir James Crofts, whose own soldiers did not take part, was responsible. In the event the assault failed and the French claimed a short lived victory. At this point the French were observed stripping the dead naked and leaving the bodies exposed for several days. At this the Regent crowed (in tones not dissimilar to those attributed to Cardinal Beaton at the execution of George Wishart) "Yonder the fairest tapestrie that I ever saw. I would the whole field betwixt me and them were strowed with the same stuffe." Despite the setback, the Duke of Norfolk ordered the siege to continue and sent 2000 fresh troops and a promise of more if needed.
The final twist in the drama soon followed when a letter from the Regent to Msr D`Oysell was intercepted in which she sought some medication for herself although there was apparently a secret message within. The letter was destroyed . Subsequently she sought to speak to Argyll and Glencairn and others, but they suspected a trap and saw her one at a time during which meetings she expressed regrets at the war. On 9 or 10 June Mary of Guise died " consumed partlie with grievous displeasure and melacholie, partlie with longsome and incurable sickness." Her body was encased in lead and lay in Edinburgh Castle until 19 October before it was shipped to France for burial.
Before the Regent`s death the king of France had despatched ambassadors to England to treat for peace with Elizabeth ( He refused to deal with the Scots whom he viewed as his subjects – which they were by marriage). The ambassadors` work continued in the new circumstances and a peace was agreed in July. The French soldiers were transported to France, mainly by English ships, and the English soldiers returned over the border on 16 July. Suddenly, almost against the odds, it was all over leaving the Congregation in charge, a parliament to be convened, and a Protestant Church to be ratified. The Confession of Faith was produced in a very short time and ratified by the Estates of Parliament on 17 August 1560 along with Acts abolishing the jurisdiction of the Pope and the saying of the Mass.
But the Reformation was to take a further 130 years before the Presbyterian Church was finally established in Scotland.


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Maybe I should be flattered.
Sometime on Friday, I started getting really pointless comments on this blog: just random strings of numbers and letters, popping up on loads of different posts, not just recent ones. They were flooding in. So I logged into Haloscan (the third party who provide this blog's commenting facility), and turned on comment moderation and IP-banned the commenters, which took me all of two minutes. Problem solved.
"Hmm," I thought, "a denial-of-service attack? Against Haloscan? Why?" Sure enough, Haloscan went down a little while later, for a few minutes. It seemed like a lot of effort to bring down a site that merely provides a free commenting service to anyone who wants it, and for such a short time. It's not as if they're poltiical. It did rather look like the attackers had put themselves to far more inconvenience than they'd managed to cause their attackee.
Then over the weekend I got an email from WatchingAmerica.com to say that their site had been taken down by a major DoS attack, had been down for two-and-a-half days, that other sites were affected, and that lots of engineers were working on stopping the attack. Gosh. Their site's up again now, so I suppose the excitement's over.
So it looks like Haloscan weren't the target; I was, along with a bunch of other (presumably) dangerous right-wing neocon warmongering etceteras. I had no idea my little old blog was such a threat. Cool.
Of course, my host's servers were affected hardly at all, as the attack concentrated on posting comments, and my comments, like so many other people's, are hosted externally. Great for me, a bugger for Haloscan, and really bloody stupid of the attackers.
The absurd side of royalism.
Just as a really very plain and dull girl becomes The World's Most Beautiful Woman Ever!!! just because she marries a prince, similarly, she can't be allowed to die without some absurd fairy-tale explanation. If only MI5 had thought of putting her to sleep for a hundred years as a punishment for pricking her finger on a spinning-wheel, no-one would have suspected a thing.
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So, if we were to send the pelts of fifty lovely little freshly-skinned chinchillas to a tanner rather than a furrier prior to selling the result to Madonna, she would end up with a hideously expensive jacket that would not only arouse zero outrage but would also look considerably less shite than the one she did, in fact, buy.
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Secondly, where's all the outrage directed at vegetarians who wear leather? For them, it's not a waste product. It puzzles me, actually, that so many vegetarians who won't touch gelatine or rennet — waste products both — are content to wear leather shoes.
People forget what the original reason for the anti-fur campaigns of the Twentieth Century was. Fur often came from endangered species. Some tribesman would trek into the Amazon, kill one of four rare jungle cats left in existence, sell the pelt for, oh, 50p, and it would eventually be sold to some ugly woman with a cigarette holder for a million squillion gajillion pounds. This, for a whole raft of reasons that I shouldn't need to explain, was a problem. A problem completely and utterly solved by fur-farming. Chinchillas, in fact, are a pretty good example: they were hunted into endangerment back in the days when fur came from the wild; now, they're farmed, and not so endangered. Great.
Of course, there are plenty of good arguments to be made against fur-farming on anti-cruelty grounds. Not a single one of those arguments applies to fur without also applying to meat, leather, and milk.
Let's be honest here. Madonna has been singled out for attack for two reasons. One: chinchillas are cute. Two: meat tastes good.
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'We're not going to be intimidated': Manchester's cycling tsar on the bollards dividing streets and opinions in Levenshulme
"I hope that the people of Levenshulme are willing to give it a chance and see what happens when people are given the choice of not having to drive or allowing our kids to safely play in the streets."
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Some of the plant voxes installed to reduce 'rat-running' (Image: Manchester Evening News)
"It's understandable," Chris Boardman MBE, Manchester's cycling and walking commissioner, says when asked about what he makes of some of the responses to Levenshulme's newly-installed traffic-calming measures.
"A lot of this is new territory - it has never been done before on this scale.
"It's going to be a year of people saying that they didn't know about it as they begin to notice and pay attention to what's happening."
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The traffic-calming measures, installed on Monday (January 4) as part of a six-month trial in Levenshulme, aim to turn the area into an Active Neighbourhood, by using methods that encourage people to make journeys by foot or bike instead of by car.
The trials have seen the introduction of new plant boxes, or modal filters, that aim to reduce rat-running and divert traffic away from some residential streets.
But, the filters have proven controversial. Following their installation, some residents attempted to knock or move them in order to bypass the diversions.
While Manchester's cycling commissioner says he expected there to be some public opposition to the trials, he says he will not stand for vandalism.
The filters on Delamere Road were knocked down within hours of being installed (Image: submitted)
"We're looking into it as it's just straight vandalism of public property," Chris says.
"There's no way we're going to be intimidated by a few vandals who want to stop something that benefits the vast majority of residents.
"If people don't agree with it then fine, but they need to tell us in a consultation. We cannot tolerate people just damaging public property because they don't like it.
"That's not what democracy is - we shouldn't stand for it."
Manchester City Council has since acted to secure the planters to the streets with brackets, in order to deter any further acts of vandalism.
Engineers have since carried out additional assessments and, in response, are installing bollards at the majority of filter locations.
Bollards are being fitted to stop drivers from bypassing the filters by mounting the kerb (Image: Manchester Evening News)
The bollards will prevent cars from mounting the kerb and attempting to drive around the planters, while maintaining access for pedestrians, people on bikes and people with disabilities.
Earlier this week, a lack of signs and visibility surrounding the project were raised by residents. Manchester Council has since began to install additional signage on local streets and on the planters themselves to increase awareness of the filters during the six-month trial.
Chris says many of the issues raised are 'easily fixable' and he says this has already demonstrated to him why starting the project on a trial basis was so crucial.
"I'm a massive fan of temporary measures," he adds.
Chris Boardman, Manchester's Cycling Commissioner, said he hoped people would give the trial a fair chance (Image: Eddie Garvey)
"I think we should try before we buy. Let's try it, but do it properly, for six months - a meaningful amount of time. Let's then assess it and see if we want to change it or take it out.
"If this isn't going to make lives better, we shouldn't be doing it. But to know if it's going to make lives better, we need to be willing to try something different."
The Mayor's £160 million Cycling and Walking Challenge Fund has helped to kick-start a vision for Greater Manchester to become the first city-region in the UK to have a 'fully joined up' cycling and walking network.
Chris says there are currently 30 Active Neighborhood schemes in development this year across Greater Manchester as part of the Bee Network proposal.
"There are now 1.7 billion more miles being driven on Manchester's residential streets than there were ten years ago," he explains.
"In that time, we've taken away the right to travel without a car. People have got used to driving their kids to school when it's just an eight minute walk away.
The street filters in place on Manor Road (Image: Manchester Evening News)
"30 pc of journeys in Greater Manchester in a car are less than 1 km - we're trying to change that."
In March 2014, Waltham Forest in London announced it had secured funding to start implementing changes to its residential streets as part of a new 'Mini Holland' project.
The scheme received similar opposition from local residents, who in some extreme cases were seen protesting in the street while carrying coffins saying it was the 'death of the village'.
But, Chris says that now that people have seen the impact the project has had on the area, less than 2 pc of residents want the area back to the way it was beforehand.
"There's always going to be people that are unsettled because you are implementing something new," he adds.
"People don't like change but support and approval for the project is routinely above 70 pc - the evidence is there if we choose to look at it."
He says he is incredibly proud of how well the Bee Network project has been received so far and said he 'loves the fact' that Manchester Council has been so in favour of the plans.
The idea is to make streets more cycle and pedestrian-friendly
But, ultimately, he adds, it isn't up to him.
"I'm an advisor - I listen to people and provide solutions," he explains.
"But I don't own the roads. The roads are looked after by councils and their ambition and courage is what decides the pace of schemes like this.
"It's also up to the residents who back those councils, or not as the case might be.
"Nobody else in the country has got this right just yet, but I think that's because we're not leading with the right questions.
"It's not a case of should we be doing it, it's a case of don't you think this would make for a nicer place to live?
"Wouldn't you like the option to not have to drive your kids to school? Wouldn't it be great if you could move around with less traffic?
Providing an update to the scheme, Executive Member for the Environment, Planning and Transport, Councillor Angeliki Stogia, said Manchester Council would be closely listening to feedback from residents.
"This six-month trial will provide evidence to show how an active neighbourhood scheme works in practice for Levenshulme and was always intended to be responsive to residents' feedback," Cllr Stogia said.
Manchester Council hopes the trialed filters will show how an active neighbourhood can work for residents (Image: Manchester Evening News)
"We know that some members of the community fully support the aims of this scheme, while others have expressed reservations about how it could affect the neighbourhood. That is why we consulted at length prior to installing any planters and only proceeded at locations where a clear majority of those responding were in favour.
"The behaviour of a small number of individuals who have vandalised the planters is unacceptable and particularly disappointing when we consider that this is a scheme which has the potential to significantly benefit the local area.
"Likewise, those who have illegally driven on the pavement have acted appallingly and I urge any residents who witness such dangerous behaviour to contact Greater Manchester Police.
"We're working hard to give this trial scheme the best chance of success, which is why we want feedback from as many people as possible on all elements of the trial. Please get in touch with us to share your views on the scheme and make sure your voice is heard."
Any comments about the ongoing trial scheme can be emailed to levyburnageproject@manchester.gov.uk, or visit www.manchester.gov.uk/consultations.
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The Gamers Of The Year, 2018
Ethan Gach
Published 3 years ago: December 29, 2018 at 1:00 pm -
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At the close of every year, Kotaku highlights not just video games but gamers—people who did noteworthy or influential things in the world of video games.
This year, we've decided to honour an entire community, one that did its best to group together and recover after a senseless, unthinkable tragedy.
In the early afternoon on August 26, a gunman shot two people and injured nine more at a Madden qualifier tournament hosted by the Good Luck Have Fun (GLHF) Game Bar in Jacksonville, Florida. Kotaku's Gamers of the Year for 2018 are the two victims, Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson, as well as the entire Madden esports community that gathered to grieve, support one another, and celebrate their lives.
Elijah "Trueboy" Clayton
Elijah "Trueboy" Clayton was the first one shot. The 22-year-old had just scored a touchdown in the round of 32 when the red dot from a laser sight for an 8mm handgun appeared over his chest, as could be witnessed on the tournament's live stream. Clayton played football in high school, first at Chaminade College Preparatory in West Hills in 2012, then at Calabasas High School after transferring in 2013.
During that time, the LA Times reported, Clayton would also play Madden on laptops and in the computer labs at school with his friends.
According to Brad Kaaya, an NFL quarterback who is currently on injured reserve for the Indianapolis Colts and a former classmate at Chaminade who spoke to the LA Times, Clayton was great at mimicking different teams' defensive squads and had a knack for the strategic side of the game. By the time Clayton started playing Madden competitively in 2015, it didn't take long for him to make waves in the community.
In 2017 he managed to qualify as one of eight finalists in the Madden 17 Club Series finals in Los Angeles, before going on to place 3rd in the Madden 18 Ultimate League this past April. Clayton amassed $US96,000 ($136,230) in winnings and some friends speculate he might have gone on to be the 2019 season's best player, but it was his friendly and inspiring demeanour that they say was his bigger contribution to the game.
"He was super genuine, super caring, really kind," Shay "Young Kiv" Kivlen, a friend and peer of Clayton's in the Madden scene, told ESPN in the days following the shooting.
"Like if he cared about you, he was going to go out of his way [to show it]. If you needed anything from him, he was going to do it." There are reports of Clayton reaching out to different players on social media, either to congratulate them recent successes or try and offer some comforting words when things were going poorly.
Taylor "SpotmePlzzz" Robertson
Taylor "SpotmePlzzz" Robertson was the second person killed that day. He was also a former high school football player, whose combination of good natured enthusiasm and cerebral skill made him one of the pillars of the competitive Madden community.
The 27-year-old from West Virginia worked at a bank and played Madden on the side, with the dream of someday using the earnings to buy a patch of land in his home state for his wife and son to call their own.
Where Clayton was an up and coming star in the community, Robertson was a veteran, having already cemented his legacy by taking first in the Madden 17 Classic.
"It's certainly possibly for any player to get to this level," Robertson wrote in his EA Sports Profile. "You just have to put in the time, you have to grind, you have to play a lot of games, and just work on getting better. So anybody out there who's looking to get into it, just start practicing
ZAN, the program manager for Muthead, a third-party league that runs its own Madden tournaments, recalled on Twitter that Robertson said he would drive to his grandparents for a better internet connection so he could stream all of his games when he was first invited to participate in the league.
"One of the most polite, gracious, and professional guys I have come across in my life," ZAN said. "Not just Madden."
Shay Kivlen, who was also friendly with Robertson, called him one of the nicest people he'd ever met. "Never said anything bad about anyone — just super positive and a super-positive attitude," he told ESPN. "Like it was inspiring to see just how kind he was and how nice he was."
Kivlen could have also died that day in Jacksonville. Another of the game's stars, Kivien took first at this year's Madden Bowl. He would have been in the room when both Clayton and Robertson were killed, except he'd decided to go back to his hotel room to rest after losing earlier in the day. Days later, he spoke about his survivor's guilt.
"It goes through my mind all the time," Kivlen told ESPN. "If I win that game, I'm probably standing right behind [Clayton], watching his game. And who knows what would have happened, especially if I was the target."
Kivlen changed his Twitter background to a memorial for both Clayton and Robertson following their deaths showing pictures of them, the years they lived, and the message "Rest in peace." Several other players have followed suit, and also participated in fundraising tournaments as well the charity stream event hosted by EA in early September after the company donated $US1 million to a Gofundme campaign to be administered the victims and their families.
EA chose to have the National Compassion Fund, a non-profit organisation, oversee the distribution of the fund, with $US10,000 ($14,191) being paid out immediately to the families of the two victims, followed by a minimum of $US5,000 ($7,095) for those who were hurt during the shooting.
Another Madden player, Justin "Swizzy" Saline, started a GoFundMe campaign specifically for Clayton and Robertson to try and get the families more financial support faster, which ended up raising just over $US50,000 ($70,953).
Rico Williams (left) and Scott Cole (right), announcers for competitive Madden, at the Jacksonville Tribute Livestream in September. (Screenshot: EA, Twitch)
Eleven other players were injured in the shooting that day: Tony Montagnino, Toliver Lynch, Jacob Mitich, Dalton Kent, Darren Crews, George Amadeo, David Echevarria, Alex Madunic, Christopher McFarland, Drini Gjoka, and Timothy Anselimo.
One player, Ronald "SirusTheVirus" Casey, used his body to shield two of the event's younger attendees during the attack: 18-year-old Joel Crooms-Porter and 25-year-old Matt Clark. All three came out of the shooting unscathed, with one of the mums taking to Twitter to praise Casey for prioritising her son's safety.
The competitive Madden community has tried to celebrate the lives of Clayton and Robertson and the stories of the survivors. On September 3, Kivlen did a charity stream with Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans that was hosted by Cameron Kasky, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting earlier in the year.
They raised an additional $US7,937 ($11,263) for both fallen players' families. On October 6, the Muthead League canceled its season 6 plans and instead held a charity stream where pros played for fun and the $US10,000 ($14,191) prize was instead donated to the Clayton and Robertson's families.
While some wounds have healed, others haven't, and maybe can't. Timothy 'oLARRY' Anselimo, an NBA 2K player who was at GLHF because he had decided to try and start making inroads with pro Madden, was shot three times, including one bullet that went through his thumb. Following two surgeries and physical therapy, he's been signed to compete for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the upcoming season of the NBA 2K League.
Following a recent interview with NBA TV's Beyond the Paint in which he opened up about his recovery, Anselimo shared his struggle with PTSD in the wake of the shooting in a message to his friends and fans on Twitter.
"I'm just now finding the strength to try and get back to a normal life but believe me it isn't easy," he wrote. "Having to always watch over your shoulder, dropping the shampoo bottle and jumping out of the shower because your brain thinks it's gunshots again. I was lucky enough to not be this way my whole life but unfortunately will be this way for a long time."
"It isn't easy but I'm fighting," he added.
Timothy 'oLARRY' Anselimo practicing as he recovers from multiple surgeries. (Screenshot: NBA TV)
Drini Gjoka, who plays for Complexity's Madden team, was also injured that day. Luckily, the bullet only grazed his thumb. "I will never take anything for granted ever again," he tweeted immediately afterwards. "Life can be cut short in a second," he said.
Recently, he told Kotaku in an email that that day changed the competitive Madden community, bringing those in it closer together through their shared experience. "After the event I 100% feel more connected to the community," he said.
"These guys I travel to play against and talk to are all my brothers, we all have each others back if anything goes wrong."
Tony Montagnino, who was shot in his lower back and leg, said the increase in positivity and bonding between the pro players has been a silver-lining to the tragedy. "There's a lot more hugs than handshakes when we see each other now," he told Kotaku in an interview over the phone.
"There's a lot more 'Hey man I love you' instead of 'I'll holler at you later.'" Montagnino said that there seemed to be much more security at a recent tournament in Las Vegas. While EA hasn't yet issued any report about how it will move forward with local qualifiers in the future, he's hopeful the company will continue to take security concerns more seriously. Gjoka agrees.
"They did a great job of not letting anyone that's not involved with the tourney in the venue, and felt completely safe inside," he told Kotaku.
He and other players have taken to expressing that sentiment with the hashtag #WeAreMadden, a symbol both of solidarity and an attempt to put human faces to millions who play one of the most popular video game series of all time. Before competing in the Madden Classic at the beginning of the month, Kivlen noted it was his first major event without Clayton there to cheer him on. "Hopefully I can make him proud this weekend," he wrote on Twitter.
But by the tournament's end, despite finishing third, he also seemed rejuvenated by the familiar faces who were still around.
"The best thing about this weekend for me was seeing everyone again. It really is a brotherhood. Nothing can tear us down," Kivlen said. "Seeing everyone come together in the wake of losing our brothers Trueboy and Spot was something special and I'm proud to be a part of this community."
jaylien says:
Great article thanks. I love that the focus was on the players and that the asshole perpetrator was relegated to "a gunman". Screw that guy and may his name be lost to history.


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Q: Can't upload images on new theme I am using underscores to create a new WordPress theme, the site is being hosted locally using MAMP. Whenever I try and upload a image either in a post or in the theme customization tab, this error is shown "An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later."
I have tried reinstalling WordPress but the issue prevails. Also if the theme is changed images upload perfectly.
Anyone know what might cause this, is there something missing in the underscores code that is creating this problem.
Thanks

A: That is a common Mac OSX issue – you need to adjust your file permission for the uploads folder. The problem with changing the permissions manually is your have to change them each time you create a new project, which is tiring.
You can give MAMP permission and you will never have to worry about the same problem again. Here are some instructions: http://ifmeister.com/mamp-file-permissions-for-a-local-development-environment/
Good luck.