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If You're Wondering the Identity of the Rottweiler on 'Masked Singer,' Here Are the Odds-on Picks
By Amber Garrett
Nov. 20 2019, Updated 5:18 p.m. ET
We admit, it's been a lot harder on this second season of The Masked Singer to identify some of the mysterious contestants. While at this point last season we had near certainty on almost every celebrity behind the crazy costumes, the clues have been a lot more vague and the vocal distortion and other obfuscation tactics have been a bit trickier. But we're still determined to guess each one before they're unmasked, so it's time to turn to The Rottweiler.
We've seen some guesses that make good sense and even have a few of our own that we feel good about, but what are the odds any one of them is right? Well, since you can pretty much bet on anything, there are legit odds on things like this.
Here are the best guesses for who The Rottweiler is on The Masked Singer.
According to betting aggregators US-Bookies.com, there are three guesses with tempting odds. With 8 to 1 odds, Kevin Jonas is apparently a popular pick, but we just don't buy it. For one thing, the Jonas Brothers were touring everywhere this summer, so it's hard to believe the Camp Rock star found time between shows with his bros and being with his family to don a dog suit for FOX. But we've been wrong before about a different boy band.
With somewhat better odds of 7 to 1, people are looking to a slightly older boy band with Howie Dorough of The Backstreet Boys. Howie definitely didn't get many chances during the band's heyday to show off his vocals, so this would be a great opportunity for him. But we don't think it's him.
The odds-on favorite also happens to be our favorite after last week: Chris Daughtry. The winner of American Idol Season 5 and Daughtry lead singer has the same twangy soul we heard in Rottweiler's latest performance.
Fans have pointed to blue roses in his clue package as a sign it's Chris, who has blue roses tattooed on his arm. And a clue about playing under the Friday Night Lights could point to his high school football career. Plus, at one point, he warned his doubters "it's not over," which just so happens to be the title of one of his biggest hits. He also showed a North Carolina flag — the state where Chris was born.
But honestly, the biggest clue is that voice. While Chris sounds a little grittier with his rock band, you can hear some similarities to the tone in this Rottweiler performance of OneRepublic's "Love Runs Out." We were all over the map before the below performance, but, now we're sure it's Chris.
Whoever is hiding behind that dog face, the odds are also in his favor to make it to the finals if he keeps impressing the judges and audience. While the Flamingo holds the best odds at 7 to 2, followed by The Butterfly at 9 to 2, Rottweiler's odds climbed last week from 6 to 1 last week to 4 to 1. And if you like a long shot, the odds on Thingamajig are 25 to 1. All we have to say is, if Nicole Scherzinger has any sway, I like those odds.
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Hays County is home to a great multitude of bird species. Situated on the Central Flyway and existing in both the Edwards Plateau and Blackland Prairie eco-regions, Hays County has recorded over 300 species of birds. So fear not, whether you are watching them from your backyard or venturing into a natural area, you're bound to sight birds of many shapes, size, and color.
To help establish a greater variety of species on your own land, bird feeders can be placed just about anywhere and are quite enticing to visitors. The most basic and universal bird seed to provide for them is black-oil sunflower seeds which will be enjoyed by most passerines (perching birds). More specific foods are sugar water for hummingbirds, suet for woodpeckers and nuthatches, and millet or nyjer (thistle) seed for finches and pine siskins. Each food is best used with special types of feeders.
Installing bird houses can also be a rewarding project. Wrens will take advantage of just about any type of cavity, while Eastern Bluebirds, Purple Martins, and owls have more demanding requirements. Be aware that nonnative House Sparrows and European Starlings are keen on taking over bird boxes.
While birding at home is calming and enjoyable, birding in the wilds can offer exciting new observations and often rare bird sightings. There are countless parks and preserves throughout the County to find feathered friends, and some are more rewarding than others. If you're looking for specific types of birds, learn what kind of habitat and season they prefer. For instance, to see ducks, visit ponds and wetlands during the winter and Golden-cheeked Warblers are found nesting in Ashe-Juniper/Live Oak forests from March to June.
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Visit this instagram post to find out more about how you or a friend can apply to be featured on the cover of the March issue of CAPTIVATING! You can also find more information on our blog at the CAPTIVATING! website.
I'm very excited to announce that CAPTIVATING! has asked me to manage their social media campaign to find cover models with disabilities for our March issue!
I've been reading and researching a lot about social media lately. In the church, we tend to focus a lot of our social media efforts on Facebook. This makes sense because most of my parishioners are active on Facebook. I know people who are over 80 years old who use Facebook as a way to stay connected to friends and family.
Facebook is a great tool, but it's important to realize that the younger generation tends to be more active on other social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
A Great Learning Experience I Can Apply to the Church!
I was honored to be featured on the cover of Bold Blind Beauty. The editor, Steph, has taught me so much about branding!
A lot more goes into designing a worldwide social media campaign than meets the eye. I'm excited to try my hand at this one and then apply what I have learned in my local church setting.
We have created a hashtag for our campaign. It is #WeRCaptivating. What hashtag could I create for my local church or for the Disability Ministries Task Force of the Susquehanna Conference?
Steph, the creator of Bold Blind Beauty and the editor of CAPTIVATING! is a master when it comes to branding. As soon as you look at a piece she has created, you know that it belongs to one of her brands. She does this by always using the same color scheme, fonts, and style.
This concept of branding has inspired me to start thinking about how we use branding in church world. How could I help my local church to connect with our greater conference's brand? How could we develop our own brand for social media? What will the branding for our Disability Ministries Task Force look like?
Canva is a tool for creating social media graphics, posters, and even magazines. I had only tried Canva once before I worked with CAPTIVATING! It hurt my eyes and I quickly moved on to other projects. Then, Steph showed me some of the great things she is doing with Canva.
Steph is also visually impaired and her work inspired me. If Steph can use Canva to create great social media images- so can I!
I have learned that I have to use graphic design tools a little more slowly than most people because it causes me to experience eye pain- However- no pain, no gain!
I'm learning new and exciting ways to create content that people who are both visually impaired and sighted can enjoy!
It is important to collaborate with and support others working in your field. Whether we are talking about church world, the non-profit sector, or the disability community, it's important that we all work together to raise up one another! Working with Micro-influencers and Nano-influencers is a great way to get your message out there. I can't help but wonder what micro-influencers might be willing to help me to spread the word about my church, my writing (all profits are donated to my church), or Disability Ministries.
In today's world, most people will view your church's website before they ever set foot in your building.
If you are interested in other lessons I have learned regarding the use of social media, please check out these recent articles I wrote Instagram and Twitter.
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Among her many talents, Rev. Rebecca is also a phenomenal Social Media Campaign Manager. Thank you, Beckie, for taking the lead on our #WeRCaptivating Worldwide Search for Models with Disabilities! You ROCK!!!


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Quro Protocol: The digital currency that could save the world
Written by Tamara Davison
Last week, The Atlantic published a story about the future of nuclear power and the ongoing exchange of words over the Democrats' proposed Green New Deal.
''There really, really isn't a silver bullet for climate change,'' the US-based media outlet summarized the dim outlook.
Near-apocalyptic headlines are now trending. And adding to this the reports of unusual climate happenings such as February heat waves and wildfires in Europe, demands for sustainability are growing louder.
The big question that the world now faces is how to fast track sustainable living and prompt billions of people to play their part in what is anticipated to be a pivotal turning point for the future. And with the threat of climate patterns shifting and storm damage likely having a negative effect on some of the world's largest economies, it is in the interest of businesses to listen up too.
Many seem unwilling to step up to the mark, especially when it comes to financing opportunities that would trigger the end of carbon-heavy fuel use. So the real question is, how do we incentivise sustainability?
''What affects climate change is our behaviour, and how we change human behaviour is payment,'' summarizes Gilad Regev, CEO of startup Quro Protocol, his answer to this burning issue.
''What affects climate change is our behaviour, and how we change human behaviour is payment.''
Gilad Regev, CEO of Quro Protocol.
Based in Riga, Latvia, the company's founder is certain that he has found what might be the answer to helping humanity in the ongoing fight against climate change, and it's somewhat easier than one might assume.
It pays to be a good citizen
Launched just last year, Quro Protocol is hoping to turn human efforts into money, which sustainable users can then spend in partnering stores and services.
''The main system we have today to fight climate change is punishment, this is carbon credit", laments the Regev. In many countries around the world, governments try to discourage emissions from burning fossil fuels, for example through taxes. However, the system of carbon credits, including the so-called clean development mechanism (CDM) that allows richer countries to 'offset' their polluting emissions not by changing their industry but through supporting emission reduction in developing countries far away is controversial among climate activists.
In contrast, Quro is aiming to use positive financial incentives, rather than tax or otherwise punish climate-negative behavious. Set to pilot in Berlin, Germany later this month, the concept behind Quro Protocol is rewarding people and incentivising them to lead more sustainable lives.
The company points to positive examples for reward systems from buying eco-friendly products to choosing a greener travel option. It can involve the amount you've walked if you've chosen to buy a vegetarian meal. The more all aspects of our lives are on-boarded into the digital realms, the more their app should be able to track and measure the climate impact of human behaviour.
''We are going to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to reward good behaviour,'' explains Regev.
The organisation hopes to be able to record this through their platform and then pay users in The Quro, a digital currency. And just like the problem of climate change, the ultimate company vision is global.
The company hopes to shortly opening a Berlin office followed by other locations around the world. Currently, their global ambition is reflected by an international team from Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and board members from the United States and the United Kingdom, who all share the belief of creating sustainable living on a worldwide scale.
There is a general consensus that the quest to tackle climate change is no easy feat. Although Quro's idea is to offer payments for "saving humanity", now the question is how to build value around such a currency.
Unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin which rise and fall in value, Quro hopes to become a stable currency. The ultimate vision here is that as the currency becomes more trusted on a global scale, it becomes used more frequently and sustainable living follows suit. At this point, in order to build trust, Regev explains that stakeholders would be able to exchange the Quro for national currencies.
''The difference between Quro and the dollar is that Quro has a purpose, and that's to fight climate change", says Regev.
It might seem like an uphill battle to convince the world into believing in such a currency. Yet the world is nearing the point in which the options on the table are becoming ever slimmer. In addition to ambitiously proposing that the currency is used on a global scale, Quro Protocol might also offer a chance for poorer communities around the world to spur development.
More ways to change the world
More specifically, walking 1000 steps in Riga, London, Mexico or India will all equate to the same value payment. "It doesn't matter where you're from, what your gender is or what is the colour of your skin, everyone is equal,'' Regev explains.
The app is casting a futuristic image that thrives off equality and working together. An independent protocol will then also set how many Quro's can be earned based on the sustainable tasks achieved and partnering companies would work to then trade goods and services.
However, critics might say that this vision could only be realized if communities around the world were all online and app-savvy, and the current state of the world is far from equally connected.
Three years ago, the World Bank reported that as much as 60% of the world's population is still offline and despite calling for further digital development strategies, a 'digital divide' persists. In Europe, though more advanced than third-world countries, the digital divide lingers around age capabilities and household incomes. Although the digital age is in transition, McKinsey also recently pointed out that Europe still lags in operating its digital potential.
Despite this, Quro Protocol is now in contact with the European Commission and addressing the prospect of pan-European access to such a sustainability incentive.
''Of course, we want to include governments, but we're not going to wait for governments to act on that,'' Regev explained, suggesting that on lower scales they could work with individual cities, corporates and companies.
Who is already in the market?
Around the world, innovators are trying to find ways to reward sustainable behaviour through the help of digital currencies.
In Costa Rica, for example, citizens can recycle their old plastic, tins and glass and in return be awarded with ecolones, which are a digital currency that is partnered with companies who recyclers can then spend their credit. One ecolone is worth one Colon, which is Costa Rica's national currency. The Central American country has already been dubbed the region's poster child by Latam.Tech because of ongoing successes in sustainability on a large scale.
A 'pay-as-you-throw' system in one Portuguese city also rewards people and businesses that separate their rubbish. Linked to electronic tracking systems, according to the European Commission, recycling in Maia is already up by 33% as a result of incentives.
Although systems exist and many cities and businesses across Europe provide incentives for recycling, for example, national schemes are still somewhat few and far between. Restrictions stem from logistical concerns to simply not having the capacity, funding or manpower to carry incentives out a wide scale. When casting our gaze back to our interview partners at Quro, it seems that the app has developed these ideas. However, the ability to carry this out and scale it on the level needed to make a global impact will remain a huge challenge.
Quro's message is clear: The quest for sustainability is going to require efforts from all of us to be resolved.
With Quro Protocol, the ambitious plans could lead to increased awareness, global efforts and even improved equality. The uphill battle, nonetheless, is long. Yet with any good cause, it starts with an impassioned founder, and the way that Regev speaks about how such movements can shape the future is powerful. Already partnered with a solar panel company in Germany, it is now down to the Berlin pilot scheme to show what Quro Protocol could be capable of – and for concerned citizens around the world to watch these innovations closely.
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Why don't we have a dedicated European rail forum for questions? We seem to be getting lots of questions in different forums that don't really relate to where they get posted. For example here's one that was recently posted. Many get posted in TravelBuzz but there, due to the amount of traffic, they seem to disappear so quickly. European rail questions have also popped up in the different Travel forums as well as other airline programme forums. I for one would be very active in such a new forum. Someone's even managed to post a rail question below in this forum by mistake.
A few years ago, the TalkBoard considered and rejected this Forum proposal.
We would be happy to reconsider it. A demonstrated need would go a long way in getting the TalkBoard to vote for such a new Forum.


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City of Angels or "One of Life's Many Ironies" (from vignette on pp. 4-7)
The angel Jonathan, one of the Seraphim, pursed his lips and considered how best to get right to the point. Attuned as they are to the nature of truth, Seraphim would rather seem tactless than dishonest. Still, there are times when other people's feelings must be considered.
"I hear Los Angeles has quite a few demons," he said.
The angel Maximilian, one of the Malakim, tightened his grip around the steering wheel. Attuned as they are to the nature of honor and purity, Malakim hate demons with a passion. It goes against their nature to leave a demon alive. Los Angeles teemed with demons; nothing could be more frustrating for a Malakite than not being able to do a thing about it.
"You've heard right," Maximilian muttered, one of his eyes unconsciously twitching, pulling his hat further down his forehead. "They own L.A. like we own San Francisco." His passenger nodded, taking the time to use just the right words.
"That . . . that must be very hard on you."
Jonathan, like most Seraphim, had a habit of stating the obvious. Hard was not a strong enough word. Every hour, every moment, Maximilian prayed for the dark hand of death to strike down the demons surrounding him. Frustrated urges chipped away at the core of his being, like termites eating an oak. While his very essence urged him to wipe the city clean of the abominations, his Archangel had ordered otherwise. Maximilian was in Los Angeles as a punishment, and he was likely to be there for quite some time. Maximilian provided Heaven with important information about the demons' activities. The demons loved him, loved torturing the Malakite who couldn't fight back.
Once a month, Maximilian headed for the desert to visit a little-known angelic sanctuary run by a friend of his. It was a peaceful time of reflection and prayer. He would spend a week tending to the sanctuary, working off one of the many dissonant tones generated by denying his oaths, his need to purge the city of demons and defend Heaven's honor. At the end of the week, he headed back to suffer them again. Sometimes the memories of his time in the desert strengthened him through the three weeks that followed, but not always.
His passenger was talking again.
"I'm sorry," said Maximilian, shaking the fog from his head. "What?"
"I said, how many other angels are there around here?"
The Malakite shrugged. "Five, that I know of."
"Five?!"
"Including us."
The Seraph opened his mouth as though he were about to say something, then thought better of it and closed his jaw.
"Say it," said Maximilian, knowing what he was getting into. A Seraph will never shelve an issue by dismissing it as "nothing."
"It's appalling," Jonathan fired. "For twenty-five months I've been in the Americas, and I know that's not very long, but I've never heard of a city this big with so few angels."
"And no Tethers."
"There are Tethers," the Seraph corrected, his semantic side flaring up. "They're just not angelic. But there're more demonic sanctuaries here than in any other city in North America."
Maximilian was going to ask if that were really true, then remembered what he was talking to and thought better of it. Some Malakim would kill for a chance to go out in a blaze of glory fighting the powerful Diabolicals in Los Angeles; it was killing Maximilian to hold himself back.
"It's not like we could just flood the city with angels without the Demon Princes attacking us elsewhere and escalating the war," Maximilian said, wearily stating the obvious. "Besides, this city has a reputation for eating angels whole."
Jonathan sighed. "So we've given up on Los Angeles?"
"No," Maximilian shot back hurriedly. "No, no one's given up on anything." Still, he wouldn't meet Jonathan's eyes. The Malakite cursed inwardly, reminding himself to watch how he phrased things in the future. It's no use lying to a Seraph.
"I see," Jonathan said slowly, the perfect Seraphic comment. It could mean anything. Maybe he knew and maybe he didn't.
"So who'd you tick off to get sent here?" Maximilian asked, glad to be on the offensive.
"No one," the Seraph said. Maximilian grunted. "That I know of," Jonathan hastily added. "It was a bit strange, though. When Archangel Yves gave me this assignment, I didn't have an advance briefing. I've heard rumors about L.A., of course – how could I have avoided it? Still, I absolutely despise rumor. It's so seldom the truth. Yves said he wanted me to form an unbiased opinion and report back to him in a few weeks. I was told you'd meet me at the airport, and that was that."
"Well, keep your head down, that's my advice to you. Don't say anything to make them angry and you'll be okay."
"Them?" Jonathan asked.
"Them, the people we're going to see." Maximilian's shoulders sagged slightly. "You did want to meet the demons, didn't you?"
The Seraph breathed in slowly through his nose, nodding.
"Yes," he said, "I suppose we should get that over with."
"I-I hope they like you," Maximilian stuttered, finally seeing no reason to hold anything back from the new arrival.
"Really," Jonathan said, about to ask the obvious question before it dawned on him that he already knew the answer. The angel straightened his tie, ran his hands through his hair, and sat very calmly, almost serenely, until they arrived at their destination.
"I'm sure they'll like you," Maximilian gushed before hurrying out of the car, wincing. Never lie to a Seraph, he reminded himself again.
The party was debauched. Most of the fifty or sixty guests were human, but there was no mistaking the Diabolicals who paraded around the gathering as if they owned the place. He had become separated from the Seraph early on. Jonathan had wanted to mingle by himself, against Maximilian's advice.
"Better he learn to handle himself now than there be trouble later," Maximilian said out loud to no one in particular. He stared over at the bar, licking his lips, cursing his weakness. Just one of many, he thought sadly, shyly making his way through the crowd toward the island of alcohol on the other side of the room.
Halfway there, a delicate touch on his forearm stopped him dead in his tracks.
"Good evening, my angel," purred a voice from behind.
"Hello, Natalie," he said quietly.
"About to get a drink?" she asked.
"Was thinking about it," he said, lowering his head.
"Tosh. It would be far more entertaining to watch your friend make a fool of himself."
Maximilian tensed upright, his divine sense of honor shining like a celestial beacon. He angrily pushed his way through the crowd.
"The main lounge," Natalie called after him, laughing.
The angel got there just in time, but he found himself unable to take any action against the increasing chaos. He had taken an oath to protect Heaven against dishonor in all its forms, but he was restrained by his Archangel's orders from doing anything to jeopardize his position in Los Angeles. The Malakite could merely clench his fists and watch the Seraph talk to one of the nameless studio executives who cruised through these sorts of parties. Perhaps ten people were in the room, sitting in brightly colored bean bags and nonchalantly sipping at various drinks. While no one was looking at the duo in the middle of the room, it was obvious that no one was paying attention to anything else.
"Why would you say that?" asked Jonathan. "Why do you continue to say things with your mouth that your heart does not believe?"
The guy, who didn't know he was talking to an angel and wouldn't have believed it if someone had told him, smiled and chuckled.
"Hey," he said, "I just said to give me a call tomorrow and let's go do something."
"Yes, but that's not what you meant. You don't ever want to see me again."
"What?" the human laughed, shaking his head. "Jonathan, Jon, you're not making sense here." He smiled and put his hand on the angel's shoulder. "Really, call my secretary and tell her I said to make an appointment."
Jonathan shrugged off the man's hand. "But how can I do that," he said innocently, "when you're planning to call her when you get in your Suburban and tell her to ignore me?"
The guy's smile faltered for a moment, then grew into a wide, knowing grin.
"I don't know who put you up to this," he said, wagging a finger at the angel, "but you're good." He laughed while stealing a glance at his watch. "Listen, I have to split – lots of work to do tonight, you know how it is."
"Yes," the angel said in a slow, patronizing voice, "I do know how it is. You hate me, and you don't want to ever see me again. You're considering calling some friends of yours in dark gray suits to follow me around so you can get at whoever set you up. You want to get out of here as quickly as possible so you can drop your wife off at home and still have time to make it over to the apartment where you keep that fifteen-year-old runaway. It's been almost a week since you've done a line on her tight young belly." The angel tapped the side of his nose. "All that cocaine," he said, "must be 'hard work.'"
The man blanched, his jaw shaking. A woman stared at him from across the room, gauging his reaction. Then she threw her drink at him.
"You asshole!" she shouted while the man cringed. "I sit around the house all day doing nothing, and you can't even allow me the dignity of finding out about your lurid affairs in the paper like everyone else does!" Her voice assumed the warble of a woman on the edge of a breakdown. "I clean for you, I wait for you, I sit around the house doing nothing – nothing – and – "
"Oscar caliber," the Seraph interrupted, clapping slowly. "I can see why he picked you out of all the other actresses he's slept with. But I wouldn't exactly call blowing the pool boy this afternoon 'doing nothing' – "
"You bitch!" the guy shouted, picking the glass up off the floor and throwing it back at her. It caught a cheekbone just below her left eye, spraying blood on several shocked onlookers.
"Oh my darling," he said, rushing to her side. "Oh, my God, my baby, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."
"Yes, you did," the angel pointed out. "You just hope she doesn't sue you for divorce and take all your beloved material possessions."
"I think that is quite enough," rang a deep voice from the opposite corner of the room.
Maximilian bared his teeth at the new arrival, who walked gracefully out of the shadows and into the center of the room.
"I think I know what you are," Jonathan said.
The demon slapped the angel across his face with an open palm. Most of the onlookers began to find things of interest in other rooms.
"Then I shan't have to tell you how I expect my guests to behave," said the demon, removing a pair of handcuffs from his back pocket. "Put these on," he said to the angel.
"You haven't learned how to behave yet," the demon said, slapping the angel across the other cheek. "Here, I am the Host, not you. You are nothing."
The Seraph stood his ground. He and the demon stared deeply into each other's eyes.
"I could crush you," the demon said. "Listen to my voice. You know what I say to be true."
"It is true that you believe it," said the angel, unblinking.
Oh my God, thought Maximilian, his hands trembling. Oh God oh God oh God.
Natalie walked up next to the tortured Malakite, closing the door behind her.
"This must be rough on you, Maxie," she said, wiping sweat from his forehead. "I'll make it up to you later, I promise."
"Oh my God," the angel cried, and he emitted a painful noise that no human voice could ever make, audible only to celestial ears. It echoed for moments, sickly lingering in the air. Imagine the final chord of "A Day in the Life," with every note out of tune. The two celestials in the middle of the room broke eye contact and turned to the angel. "Oh my God," he squealed, "what have I done?"
He squatted, grunting in anguish, clenching his gut. "Oh," he cried, tears streaming down his cheeks, his nose pulled up into an animal's snarl. A large wet bulge grew in the seat of the angel's pants. He grabbed his seat and blushed like a first-grader who'd embarrassed himself in the schoolyard.
The demoness rushed the whimpering angel into a private office adjoining the main lounge. The other demon turned away in disgust, smoothly pocketing the handcuffs. Jonathan followed the sobbing Malakite.
Maximilian was inconsolable, his face flushed and his hands shaking.
"Shh," Natalie said, pressing her body against him from behind and running her hands through his hair. She undulated her torso against his back in a soothing repetitive motion. "Shh, it's okay. It's okay."
She moved her hands down to his belt and began to unbuckle it. Maximilian howled in pain and embarrassment, bucking her away from him. The demoness flew back against the wall, cracking her head against a shelf and falling to the ground, stunned. The angel hopped back and forth from one foot to the other, clutching the lump in the back of his pants and grimacing through his tears.
The Seraph, with some hesitation, helped Natalie up from the floor. He pulled a handkerchief out of his jacket and pressed it to the area on her head where blood was beginning to mat her hair.
"Thanks, angel," she told Jonathan with a weak smirk. "You're all right." Jonathan frowned slightly, not knowing quite how to react, and backed away from her as she turned back to the Malakite, using one hand to hold the angel's handkerchief to her bleeding head.
"I'm just trying to help you, you dumb bastard," she said to Maximilian. He'd calmed down, lowering his head and keening like a beaten dog, but refused to move his hands from the seat of his pants.
"I'll forget about this," Natalie said, motioning toward her increasingly bloody head wound, "if you'll let me help you. But I can't help you unless we can get your pants off."
Maximilian's face wrenched up in a dark grimace as he started sobbing again. Still, his trembling hands began slowly to unbuckle his belt. The angel dropped his pants, and the lump thudded wetly upon the ground. It was a prehensile tail, fat and fleshy and pale as a boiled egg, stretching down from the base of his spine and collecting in a few loose coils on the carpet.
"Well," Natalie said, with a nonchalant smirk, "that's going to be harder to hide."
"Harder?" asked Jonathan.
"Harder than the rest," she explained, unbuttoning the Malakite's shirt and removing his hat. The angel looked defeated, immune to any further indignities.
The other angel gaped while mentally noting his companion's obvious Discord: the tail, of course, hanging down limply between the tormented angel's legs; stigmata across his chest, temporarily staunched by blood-soaked bandages; two soft, spongy horns growing from the top of his head; and God only knew how much was wrong inside that head.
"This is not good," the Seraph said quietly to himself. The other angel cried, his new tail twitching with each spasm.
The Mechanics of Geases (from p. 28)
Barring special attunements. a Lilim must sense a Need and fulfill it to get a potential Geas (often called a "hook" by Lilim). At that stage, the only way to avoid the Geas-hook lodging itself in your soul is to refuse the favor she offers! While the hook has found no purchase, this causes the Daughter no dissonance – only annoyance.
Most Geas-hooks will not show up as Discord until they're invoked, at which point they become obvious; only Superiors can tell someone has hooks stuck in him. The favors owed to Lilith always show as chains or shackles in celestial form.
Only Lilith can trade the Geases she holds. Her Daughters can pledge unspecified favors to others, self-geas themselves to a specific task, or attempt to inflict Geases on others – but they cannot directly trade the favors they hold, not even to other Lilim. (They might be able to trade them to Lilith, but that's a tricky business, usually not worth the Princess' effort; she'd rather you just promise to invoke the Geas only when and as she specifies. Now, if you had a hold on a Superior . . .) Their favor networks usually involve seeking out someone who holds a Geas on someone who holds a Geas on someone who . . .
Anyone able consciously to expend Essence can, if he wishes, promise a favor to a Lilim – specified or unspecified. She need only exert her will (no roll required, just a round of concentration, but the subject must not resist) and the Geas will manifest, exactly as the ones owed to Lilith do.
Once a Geas is invoked and "active," only the invoker (or his death) can remove it, canceling his previous instructions. If he won't cooperate . . . pray for Intervention.
More from the section "The Mechanics of Geases" (p. 31)
Some examples of what a Geas can make someone do:
Geas/1: Personally show someone the way to a location; fetch groceries; copy a supposedly innocuous computer file and hand it over; use a Song requiring 1 Essence (such as Corporeal Healing) in a safe area.
Geas/2: Carry an innocuous, non-dangerous item for a week; comb a database thoroughly for some specific information; look the other way when someone comes by a guard station; help strew banana peels in front of a Malakite's apartment door.
Geas/3: Leave your daily newspaper at a diner after you've read it, for about a month; write a carefully researched editorial for a newspaper; be in the bathroom when the thieves run out of the bank with the alarms going off; use a Song requiring 2 Essence in a dubiously safe location; do something that may garner a note of dissonance.
Geas/4: Serve as a courier for secret messages of dubious content for a week; deliver the passwords for a computer system; help rob a bank; let an enemy go free one time; use an Essence-heavy Song in a mildly dangerous place.
Geas/5: Harbor someone innocuous for half a year; engage in smuggling for a week; let several enemies go free right under your nose; harbor an obvious "dubious character" for a month and don't tell anyone; disable security alarms for something under your care; throw yourself between someone else and a bullet; put a human in the hospital; risk losing Forces, if it doesn't reduce you below 7.
Geas/6: Work somewhere for a year and keep careful tabs on everyone there, delivering reports; violate your Superior's Dissonance conditions more than once; jump into a volcano for no obvious reason (celestials only); commit a serious crime, such as murder; assist your Superior's worst enemy, once; betray a friend; risk losing several Forces.
(And, of course, you can geas someone to invoke an equal or lower Geas of his own on someone, with the words you specify.)
A Geas can also be used in a negative sense: "Don't leave this room for one hour," or "Do not geas a customer of this establishment for one month, without permission." In cases such as that, the subject will gain a note of dissonance (or a point of damage) every time he violates the Geas until the duration is passed, and unlike the "active" form – "Do this!" – the dissonance (or damage) suffered will persist after the Geas has expired! The Geas-level required for a "negative" is one higher than the duration would ordinarily require; extenuating circumstances may cause a Lilim to bind herself less "fairly." The Daughters dislike geasing themselves to negative tasks, and will insist on careful wording of such a pledge.
A Geas that becomes impossible to fulfill – such as obtaining something that has been destroyed, for instance – will vanish, causing a final note of dissonance or point of damage. Its effects can then be cured normally.
The Video (from p. 104)
At first the video was grainy, but it eventually resolved into a solid image, crystal clear. The people in the video were an angel and a demon. Their skin shone with postcoital sweat.
The angel squeezed his eyes shut so tightly that the veins in his forehead throbbed blue and his skin burned red. Just before his face flushed completely crimson, his concentration broke and his shoulders collapsed into a hunch of defeat.
"I can't take it," the Malakite gasped to his lover. "I can't take it anymore."
"There, there," the demon whispered, brushing wisps of hair from the angel's forehead. "There, there, baby. I know it's rough."
"It's not rough," he moaned. "It's unbearable. I – I have a hole. In my soul." The demon laughed. Her lover gave her a gloomy stare.
"Sorry, baby," she said, covering her smile with one hand and caressing his shoulder with the other. "Really, I'm sorry. It's just that, 'hole in my soul' – it rhymes. It sounds like a rock song." She assumed a cockney accent. "See 'ere, sir," she whispered. "I've got a 'ole in me soul." While rubbing his shoulder, she murmured a Song of Charm, sapping his strength and, she hoped, soothing his anger. He slumped back down into his seat and stared at his hands.
"I want to kill you," he confided. "I want to kill you so badly. I want to wrap my hands around your head and squeeze until my palms meet."
"I know, baby, I know."
"You're a demon. I'm an angel. I'm supposed to kill you."
"I know it, baby. But you're strong. You don't have to give in."
"I want to," he whined. "I really want to. I burn to give in, but there's a hole, a hole in my soul."
She narrowed her eyes, pushing away any affection.
"'There is only a hole,'" she said slowly, repeating the words as if promising they would work, "'because I perceive there is a hole.' Say that for me, Max." The angel pinched his lips with fat fingers, avoiding her eyes.
"Say it for me," she said sternly. "'There is only a hole because I perceive there is a hole.'"
"Th – There is only a hole . . . because – "
"Why is there a hole, Maxie-baby? You know there's not really a hole. Why do you think there's a hole?"
"There is only a hole because I perceive there is a hole," the Malakite said, staring forward blankly. His breathing slowed.
"Go on," said the demon.
"There is only a hole because I perceive there is a hole," he repeated, shoulders sagging even further. He swayed back and forth, eyes glazed and mouth slack, muttering the phrase over and over like a mantra. Then, suddenly, he stopped.
He seemed to surface from his reverie, surface all the way, climbing out of his protective haze and stupor, the alcohol and the discordant buzzing of the Symphony all around him. He looked at the demon and then his eyes opened wide as though he had just experienced a horrifying revelation.
"I did it again," he said, his voice quavering with anguish. "I'm bad. I can't stop myself. David was right, I'm drawn to evil. I can't be a Malakite any more. If any of them saw me, they would destroy me. They would recognize me for the evil thing I am." He looked down at his body as though he had never seen it before, feeling the physical evidence of his corruption, but then he jerked his hands free, slick with blood from the stigmata on his chest, red as the hands of a murderer.
"Hey, hey, easy darling – " She touched him, trying to calm him as she had so many times before, but her touch increased his torment.
"Stay away from me!" he screamed, slapping her arm away from him. The violent motion unbalanced him and he staggered back, his feet tangling with his limp vestigial tail. He fell to the floor, shrieking with a mad rage so overpowering that Natalie finally realized she might be in danger.
"Nooo! I'm Falling!" He writhed in pain and terror, trying to rise and then collapsing in a pathetic heap on the floor. "I'm Falling! Natalie, help me!"
The demon hesitated for a moment, undecided, and then took hold of his hand to pull him off the floor. She resumed her soothing tone, as though talking to a child who is afraid of monsters.
"Come on, baby. You've just fallen down." She had him halfway to his knees when he toppled over again like a rag doll.
"I've Fallen," he moaned.
"Don't be so silly," she chided. "You haven't Fa–"
Suddenly he lunged up off the floor, grabbing her around the throat with both meaty hands. "It's all my fault," he said to her panicked face, shaking her ruthlessly. "It's ALL MY FAULT!"
He swung around, lifting her as though she were weightless, then with an explosive movement more powerful than any human could produce he hurled her across the room. She smashed against a wall, her body thudding to the ground where it lay, utterly still beneath a rain of bloody plaster.
The angel sang, sprouting wings and lethal claws. Howling, he attacked the room, beating the air with his wings, smashing and tearing like a trapped beast. He unleashed a fearsome cry, shattering everything breakable that was still whole. Shards of glass tore his skin from the violence of the explosion and the pain whipped him into new heights of madness. He threw himself at the door, splintering it with the force of his fury. Then he disappeared into the City of Angels.
The tape ended.
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The Painted Panoramas That Will Make You Yearn for Yosemite and Dream of Denali
Step into Heinrich Berann's sweeping portraits of America's national parks.
by Jessica Leigh Hester July 11, 2019
Upon close inspection of Heinrich Berann's depiction of Yellowstone, dazzling details emerge. National Park Service/Public Domain
With the alarming exception of rapidly receding glaciers, most eye-popping features of America's national parks don't change too often—grand chasms and clusters of giant sequoias don't usually appear or vanish overnight. Still, maps of these landscapes are updated fairly frequently—every year or so for heavily trafficked places, or every couple of decades for remote ones. The tweaks might be minor (a new campground here, a fresh parking lot there) or a lot more substantive.
Over the last quarter century, the National Park Service (NPS) has used new data, including satellite imagery and land cover information compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and the Department of Agriculture, to produce engaging maps that help visitors picture a landscape's features. Sometimes this involves shifting perspectives. Other times it might call for natural color, from the dark, blueish green of a coniferous forest to the warmer, lighter tones of a deciduous one. That's "essentially painting by the numbers," says Tom Patterson, a retired NPS cartographer—in service of helping visitors better understand a sprawling environment. The NPS has a classic example of how such flat representations can accentuate the majesty of its holdings: Heinrich Berann's impossibly detailed, slightly fantastical painted panoramas.
Berann, an Austrian artist known for his sweeping, often snow-cloaked landscapes, made four grand paintings of American national parks between 1987 and 1994. (The paintings, each a little more than three feet wide, have recently been digitized in high resolution, available on the NPS website, with and without labels, to show every tree, snowdrift, and brushstroke.) Berann began with North Cascades National Park in Washington State, "the closest landscape in the lower 48 to his native Alps," says Patterson. The artist then worked his way through Yosemite and Yellowstone before wrapping up in Denali, in Alaska.
Berann had a lot of practice painting snow-capped mountains, which he applied to Mount McKinley (now known as Denali). National Park Service/Public Domain
The paintings are astonishing—at once rugged, creamy, and saturated—and even after thinking about them for decades, Patterson is still slack-jawed that Berann pulled them off. (He even has a reproduction of one of Berann's European landscapes in his living room.) "I know all the steps this guy took to make those things, but I'm still astounded that he was able to do it," Patterson says. Without the digital elevation models and 3D rendering tools that aid cartographers today, he adds, Berann "was relying on topographic maps, aerial photographs, and, if he was lucky, a scenic flight over the park."
Before Berann began each painting, the NPS communicated a few instructions. At Denali, for instance, they requested that the panorama include Mount McKinley (now called Denali) and several other peaks in the Alaska Range, plus the roads and railways leading to attractions that guests might want to seek out, including the visitors' center and nearby hotels. Otherwise, Berann "more or less had free hand in what he did," Patterson says. The NPS team seemed to trust him and respect his vision. According to Patterson, Vincent Gleason, the former NPS publications director who commissioned the panoramas, was enamored with work like Berann's, which reflected a mastery of finicky, fastidious, careful craft. Berann's paintings had been printed in National Geographic and elsewhere—he was "a well-known, famous guy who was out there," Patterson says, so recruiting him for NPS projects probably felt like "a feather in Gleason's cap." That respect for Berann's work comes through in letters between him and Herwig Schutzler, a commercial contractor with R.R. Donnelley Cartographic Services, who mediated Berann's relationship with the NPS. "They had a long and detailed and often very flowery correspondence, often in German and very formal," Patterson says. "Very old world. It seemed like it was almost from the 19th century." Berann submitted sketches to the NPS for sign-off. Once he made any requested tweaks, he got down to painting.
Berran tweaked the scale of some park fixtures, including Yellowstone's Old Faithful Inn, which would otherwise be too small to see. National Park Service/Public Domain
That's where the panoramas came alive. Color, as Patterson put it, "metamorphosed Denali from a mechanical drawing into a beautiful landscape." The artist washed gouache and tempera over light pencil sketches drawn on heavy, coarse white paper, and filled in the landscapes from there, working on one swath of terrain at a time. First, he laid down the background, then he built up dark pools of shadows, which emphasize the peaks. He added clouds—wispy or foreboding—and water—stagnant or rushing, and often glittering, speckled with white. Skinny details, such as rivers and roads, came last. Between research and painting, Berann spent months, even years, on each panorama.
The paintings have a dizzying, dreamy quality, but they're light on geographical rigor. Because Berann "took liberties" with details, Patterson explains, the panoramas "have almost zero scientific value." (In a paper published in the journal Cartographic Perspectives in 2000, Patterson affectionately describes their air of "relaxed accuracy.")
Yosemite, in all its natural (if not entirely accurate) grandeur. National Park Service/Public Domain
No matter: Fidelity wasn't really the point. Usefulness and wonder were. Across his panoramas, Berann tinkered with scale and grade. He widened Yosemite Valley so viewers could appreciate Yosemite Falls, Illilouette Falls, Vernal Falls, Half Dome, and more, all in one view. He also radically exaggerated some peaks and enlarged human-made features such as Yellowstone's Old Faithful Inn, which would otherwise be lost in the landscape. As Betsy Mason reported in National Geographic in 2018, Berann also sometimes repositioned mountains to show off their best angle, such as when he "swung [Wyoming's Grand Tetons] to the east to reveal the most iconic view of the range, rather than the end-on view that would exist from the viewer's vantage point in real life."
Berann's panoramas afforded viewers "an airplane-window view," Patterson explains. The artist's vista encompassed more than one person would ever actually be able to take in. "With a Berann landscape, you can see it all," Patterson says. "Kind of." The perspective doesn't show the backsides of mountains or canyons, but it crams a lot of visual information into a fairly small space and, for all its invention and creative liberties, feels natural and real. The result, Patterson suggests, is easier to understand than an even a fully accurate aerial photograph. "If you look at a place like the North Cascades, it's mountain peak after mountain peak," he says. The panorama of the park, on the other hand, makes sense of a chaotic landscape of massive, similar-looking features.
It is reported that Berann widened the Yosemite Valley by 220 percent to better show off its details. National Park Service/Public Domain
Berann's colors aren't exactly natural. "They're gaudy," says Patterson, "but all come together in a magnificent way in the end." His approach has gone on to inform some of the NPS's other recent mapping techniques, though, including the move to 3D oblique views, which Patterson calls "a rather big change partially attributable to Berann." Take Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska—roughly the size of six Yellowstones and home to more than half of the tallest peaks in the United States, including Mount St. Elias, which reaches more than 18,000 feet. Maps of the park now offer more detail about what those vertiginous heights look like. For visitors, these peaks often out of view in the distance, swallowed by vegetation on the shoulders of the main park road.
This tactic follows Berann's lead of capturing the spirit of a place—grabbing the viewer's hand and saying, "Hey, come look at this, and prepare to be amazed." They bottle the magic that keeps people coming back to these special places, year after year, in perpetual awe.
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The Riverside Country Fair and National Date Festival delivers an array of delights from Funnel Cake to Monster Trucks.
Bull-riding is among the attractions at the 73d annual Riverside Country Fair and National Date Festival, Feb. 15-24.
As the presenting sponsor of the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Fantasy Springs Resort Casino is giving back to the community with a $5 admission fee for all fairgoers on opening day, Feb. 15.
The 73rd annual edition in Indio, which runs through Feb,. 24, features carnival rides, camel races, a beauty pageant, agricultural competitions, live performances by major musical acts, and plenty of tasty date treats.
The headliner entertainment in the Fantasy Springs Concert Pavilion includes Randy Houser, Ramon Ayala, Salt-n-Pepa, Kool & the Gang and Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez. The concerts are included with the price of admission.
The Grandstand Arena features exhilarating shows that are a must see and also part of the admission ticket. Humpz & Hornz Bull Riding, Monster Trucks, Junior Outlaw Sprints, Mini-Dwarfs Racing and Demolition Derby will thrill the crowds throughout the fair run. There will also be a special Monster Trucks and Freestyle MotoX show Feb. 20.
Indulge in all your favorite foods from cinnamon rolls to Funnel Cakes and deep-fried Twinkies, while the Musical Pageant will mesmerize crowds with a talented cast of singers and dancers in dazzling regalia.
New this year, there will be mid-week entertainment on the Pageant Stage that will include regional tribute bands. Two carnivals will delight the entire family with extreme rides for thrill seekers, as well as rides for the young or young at heart.
Witness exciting maneuvers on the dirt track during the Demolition Derby.
• SunLine Transit Agency – Ride the bus to the Fair. Bus riders will receive a $4 discount on admission with their SunLine Day Passes.
• Veteran's Appreciation Day – Feb. 18 – join us for the Presidents' Day Parade and a special presentation on the Pageant Stage at 5:30 p.m. dedicated to veterans.
• Kids' Day – Feb. 19—21 — with each paid adult admission, one child (ages 6 to 12) can get into the fair at no charge from 3 p.m. to close.
• Riverside County Department of Waste Resources – Feb. 20 – Bring in small used e-waste (electronic devices) for recycling. Get into the Fair for free. Acceptable items are listed on DateFest.org.
• NBC Palm Springs Day – Feb. 21 – Say the phrase that saves for a discounted $6 admission. Watch NBC Palm Springs News for more info.
• Riverside County Fair guests can visit the Orange County Fair (July 12 to Aug. 11) for free with a voucher from the information booth while supplies last.
The 73rd Annual Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival, Feb. 15-24. Gates are open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. from Friday through Monday and noon to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. Purchase tickets early to take advantage of discounted prices. For more information, call 1-800-811-3247 or visit datefest.org.
Kool and The Gang is among the headliners at the Fair.


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Ruby Lin wants to stop watching Ruyi because of Wallace Huo's Qianlong
October 6, 2018Anne J
When your husband's playing the lead in a big-budget drama, it's a given that the wife will be in full support and being Wallace Huo's wife, Ruby Lin has certainly helped promote Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace 如懿传 on social media. The show has been topping charts and generating buzz that it's impossible to miss some of the latest developments.
Qianlong, played by Wallace Huo, who started out sweet and devoted to the title character Ruyi, played by Zhou Xun, has devolved into a jealous and irate Emperor. For a man who holds so much power, it just seems like license to do anything he pleases.
To be honest, I'm not really watching this drama, but I couldn't resist peeking at the clips every so often and it's pretty messed up – there're bitch-slapping, deaths, whippings and castration. While the female schemers of the inner courts are to blame, Wallace Huo's Emperor Qianlong has undeniably been an endless source of grief.
It's definitely got viewers talking about what a terrible guy Qianlong is turning out to be, and it looks like Ruby Lin agrees. She wrote a post on weibo that says, "It's the first time I have the urge to drop this drama." If this is reverse psychology, it's working because I want to watch this now.
Interestingly, Wallace Huo was said to to have suddenly cried a good two minutes when filming the scene where he sees Ruyi for the last time. The actor got too into character and felt bad for all the wrong things that he had done towards Ruyi.
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I'm sure fans who love Wallace wanted to drop (or already dropped long ago) it too when seeing him turn evil. It's really hard to play any role today without getting criticize. When you play an evil role you get yell at because you're not the perfect person people want to see. Then, you play a perfect role and people also yell at you because nobody is perfect in real life and you're unrealistically too perfect. Then, try to play being in the middle between being perfect and not so perfect, people will still call you inconsistent when you are so smart and suddenly turn stupid without reasons.
Everyone gets hate, but the evil roles get more hate than ever. I think it will be fair if those playing evil roles will get higher pay (do they?).
For me I only dropped Ruyi because of the slow pace. The interactions and chemistry did not hit the spot.
Zi Wei's Ah Ma is worse to Ruyi than to her mother Yu He, glad she did not enter the palace.
judync
I really like both main characters, Wallace and Zhou Xun but I dropped the drama bc it was not going to end well for Ruyi. This is usually what happens in palace romances.
I dropped it a long time ago. Just can't watch Wallace Huo's life revolving over his scheming and whining consorts. It's all about who gets lucky to be the favored one but it spells bringing death on your doorsteps.
Zhilie
Ruyi and yanxi, both I don't watch. Found this two dramas contradicted each other..and made me start to hate Qian long.
Qian long is not hateful in Yanxi, he could've been a better husband but being an emperor he put his job first. In the very least he didn't plot to kill his own wives. And it was only that he isn't as smart, so once he got the proof that someone should be punished then he would punish them accordingly even when there are circumstances where he didn't really want to punish them too. Nie Yuan played it prideful, head strong, confident and powerful so he remained attractive and interesting throughout the show despite his flaw as a good husband.
Wallace doesn't lack any aura of an emperor but I believe the personality he have to play for Qian Long is just too soft and weak unlike a powerful person. On top of that the story is very slow and melowdramatic.
janno1954
I'm thinking of dropping it due to continued subtitles problems. It's been very deliberate and coincides with a required update to iOS 12.1. Just irritated I guess.
silverdezz
I find it's increasing hard to watch after she becomes queen. I dropped it around 60 eps mark because you started to pity Ru Yi more and more.
It's just way too sad…but that's being said, i would watch the last 2 episode when it ended. I have been keeping tracking of the story with youtube sneak peek.
the drama is just too miserable…
pdat
same, i hate yan wan so much that i often skip her part.
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I write in response to the correspondence issued by Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) Chairman, Gareth Davies – 'Continuing Welsh Rugby Union Governance Discussions' – dated 5th March 2018.
May I first emphasise how encouraged I was by Mr Davies' declaration that there exists clear support from WRU Member Clubs to change the WRU's governance structures in line with the Sport Wales Governance and Leadership Framework for Wales.
I was equally enthused by the Board of Directors' acknowledgement that the WRU should have a smaller Board of Directors, consisting of no more than twelve members.
However, I was deeply concerned to learn that the Board of Directors failed to support the process of transferring the current nine Districts to five 'Local Boards', as this was fundamentally the mechanism by which the Board of Directors would be reduced in size to facilitate the successful implementation of the governance framework.
Based upon the Governance Forums feedback data released by the WRU on 24th January 2018, the Board of Directors' decision to reject such a central element of the reforms effectively goes against the wishes of the 94% of Member Clubs that were 'in support of the direction of what has been discussed' - 70% of which agreed that 'we need to change the way rugby is governed in Wales'.
When the WRU first issued correspondence to Member Clubs in relation to the concept of governance reforms on 27th October 2017, Mr Davies was clear in his assertion there was a 'strong position that our clubs have an appetite to consider change'.
In that same correspondence, Mr Davies also made it abundantly clear that the information gathered from Member Clubs at the Governance Forums would 'frame the governance proposals going forward' and that 'our clubs hold the key to drive this change'.
Accordingly, there can simply be no misinterpreting the emphasis placed by the WRU on how pivotal the opinions expressed by Member Clubs would be in successfully implementing the governance reform framework presented during the five Governance Forums held throughout November and December 2017.
It is also alarming to me that any significant delay in successfully implementing the governance framework would result in what Mr Davies described in his 24th January 2018 correspondence to Member Clubs as; 'external pressure brought to bear' that 'will force the type of change anyway'.
In this regard, I share the subsequent judgement expressed by Mr Davies within that same correspondence, in that 'I would rather take this opportunity to change and be the masters of our own destiny, than wait for someone outside the WRU to enforce change'.
I am deeply concerned that the Board of Directors' actions to date threaten to jeopardise the successful implementation of the governance framework heralded by Sport Wales as having 'helped sport and recreation bodies not only strengthen their governance structures, but also enabled significant and positive organisational growth'.
·To outline - in clear terms - what steps are being taken by the Board of Directors to reach a swift and amicable solution.
I fear that the failure to perform this task has the potential to cause Member Clubs to question whether the Board of Directors - in its current form - are the appropriate persons to be entrusted with representing their best interests and in turn, the wider interests of Welsh rugby at all levels.
I wish to conclude by offering my absolute support to the Chairman's leadership of the WRU and I consider it essential that you take the necessary steps to support Mr Davies in his attempts to bring about much needed reform to Welsh rugby.
Unless we show exceptional courage and determination to drive through reform at such a pivotal moment in our game's storied history, I genuinely fear for the future viability of the sport we all love so dearly.


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Bawre Nain  ("Impassioned Eyes") is a 1950 Indian Hindi-language romance film directed by Kidar Nath Sharma. It was produced under the Ambitious Pictures banner at Shree Sound Studios. For the music, Sharma persisted with music director Roshan, in spite of several demands from film distributors to have him removed following his failure as a composer in an earlier film, Neki Aur Badi (1949). The music became popular and is stated to be the reason for the film's success. One of the noteworthy songs that popularised playback singer Mukesh was "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin", composed in Raga Darbari Kaanada. Bawre Nain is cited as Roshan's "first big hit" as a music composer.

The film starred Raj Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Vijayalaxmi, Prakash, Darpan, Pessi Patel, Jaswant and Cuckoo. Both Raj Kapoor and Geeta Bali were Sharma discoveries, with Raj Kapoor's first film being Sharma's Neel Kamal and Geeta Bali's Sohaag Raat.

The film was a success and is cited as a "classic", with special mention for Sharma's "exceptionally worded lyrics". Roshan's music, with songs like "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke" became a favourite with "millions", starting him on "a glorious career".

Plot
Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

Review and reception
Meghnad Desai, in his book "Pakeezah" described it as "a very thin story is used to drape stunning melodies" composed by music director Roshan. According to Ausaja, Geeta Bali "received rave review for her performance as a village belle", and "the music of this film made it a classic", with the song "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke" becoming "a hit of millions".

The reviewer in the Motion Picture Magazine (November 1950) published in India, lamented the endless use by film-makers of the "boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets/loses-girl formula". He termed it "a vicious little circle" with no "avenue of escape from it". The "hackneyed theme", with "stark raving melodrama" and too many coincidences, was described as a disappointment from someone of Kidar Sharma's stature, who had earlier made the praise-worthy Jogan (1950). Geeta Bali's performance was written as her best so far, with Raj Kapoor being just satisfactory. The music director Roshan came in for special mention for composing "lilting" songs. Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, authors of the book Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema, called the film an "extraordinary melodrama distinguished by Geeta Bali's innovative acting."

Cast
 Raj Kapoor as Chand
 Geeta Bali as Tara
 Vijay Laxmi as Rajni
 Jaswant
 Pesi Patel
 Manju as Gangu
 Sharda H. Rai
 Bankey
 Nazira
 Prakash
 Siraj
 Darpan
 Kanta
 Cuckoo

Casting
Raj Kapoor was given a break by Kidar Sharma when he hired him as an assistant director. Sharma then went on to create "highly stylized romantic characters" for him. Kapoor's first was his debut role in Neel Kamal (1947), opposite Madhubala. The second was Bawre Nain.

Geeta Bali was a discovery of Sharma's, who describes meeting her and her family in lowly circumstances while a young teenager in his book The One And Lonely Kidar Sharma. He cast Bali in her debut film and repeated her as the girl searching for her beloved in Bawre Nain.

Vijayalaxmi played the role of Rajni, a "modern" educated girl; the sort of character utilised to showcase the "vamp" in Hindi films of that time.

Music
Roshan's entry as a music director was with Sharma's 1949 film Neki Aur Badi (1949). However, despite the "nightmarish debut as a composer", Sharma retained him to compose the music for Bawre Nain. This, according to Vittal and Bhattacharjee was done against the wishes of the film distributors who had offered to increase their price to Rs. 25,000 per territory if Sharma dropped Roshan and took anyone else as the composer. Sharma refused to accept the offer and continued with Roshan.

Mukesh's varying tonal effects and soothing quality was put to good use in the song "Teri Duniya Mein Dil Lagta Nahin", which was composed in Raag Darbari Kaanada. It effectively captured the "mood of the song". This song is cited to have helped Mukesh "grow" as a singer, while becoming popular as a playback singer for Raj Kapoor in his films such as Awaara (1951) and Shree 420 (1955).

Shamshad Begum's versatility as a singer, according to Ranade, was matched only by Asha Bhosle in later days. In the song "Ichak Bichak Bhurr" Shamshad brought out a high-pitched trill on the word "bhurr", while in another part she had "two consecutive trills, one octave apart" in quick succession.

Rajkumari's rendition of "Sun Bairi Balam Sach Bol Re" was another popular number from the film, matching Geeta Bali's "on-screen zest".

Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle had a duet with the song "Mohabbat Ke Maaron Ka Haal".

The lyricist was Kidar Sharma himself, with Anantharaman citing two duets which were exemplary. The first was "Khayalon Mein Kisi Ke", sung by Mukesh and Geeta Dutt. The other was "Sun Bairi Balam Sach Bol Re", by Raj Kumari and Mukesh, which was also Raj Kumari's "biggest hit" in this film.

Soundtrack
The songs were composed by Roshan and penned by Kidar Sharma.
Song list:

References

External links

1950 films
1950s Hindi-language films
1950s romance films
Films scored by Roshan
Hindi-language romance films
Indian black-and-white films
Indian romance films

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LED BY CONTROVERSIAL VOCALIST Billy Corgan, in 2007 the re-united and re-vamped multi-platinum band Smashing Pumpkins burst back into the limelight at two residencies — one in Asheville, North Carolina, and the other in San Francisco, California, marking a return to the US music scene.
The Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong is a double DVD commemorative package presented by Coming Home Media — a beautifully-shot, 105-minute documentary on the first disc and a live show on the second disc that offers a rare insight into the making of their latest album Zeitgeist, followed by a fourteen-song concert recorded live at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco featuring six previously unreleased tracks.
Containing over four hours of material, this release celebrates the reunion and the extraordinary twenty-year career of the Smashing Pumpkins, said to be one of rock's defining and most acclaimed bands. Belgium's most prominent annual film event, The Ghent Film Festival, screened If All Goes Wrong in October (2008) as part of the iTunes music documentary competition.
22 June, 2007, sees the Smashing Pumpkins arrive in Asheville for a residency at The Orange Peel club following a successful European tour. The documentary follows Smashing Pumpkins on the road and at their residencies, featuring fans, associates and characters the band meets. It captures the band at a moment of unprecedented creativity, crushing uncertainty and undeniable gravity and opens up Smashing Pumpkins — especially Billy — to intimate exposure.
The talented and musically-savvy Smashing Pumpkins line-up is: Billy Corgan (Guitar, Lead Vocals), Jimmy Chamberlin (Drums), Jeff Schroeder (Guitar), Ginger Reyes (Bass) and Lisa Harriton (Keyboards).
There are interviews with band members, managers Jared Paul and Paul Geary, fans, journalists and fellow musicians who reveal the fears, excitement, determination, exhaustion and tension inherent in main singer-songwriter and lead guitarist Billy Corgan and his newly revitalized musical unit. The now-expected F-word drops in occasionally!
Billy's songs reflect moments in history and his life experiences, including the sadness of his childhood. He can turn out a new song for inclusion in the Smashing Pumpkins' act almost overnight and we see him at his creative best, capturing the energy coming off the street. The band talks of past members James and D'Arcy and their highs and lows and their expectations. For all their bravado, Billy and his band seem, at times, quite vulnerable and sensitive.
14 July, 2007, sees the band arrive in San Francisco — four days after the Smashing Pumpkins release their first studio album in seven years: Zeitgeist. The scenes around the club are fascinating as is the contrast of modern day San Francisco with the city of 1906.
The second disc covers over two hours of full concert footage from the Fillmore Residency, filmed in late July and early August from five of the eleven sold-out nights. It is very visual and dynamic, with a sparkling performance from Smashing Pumpkins.
Billy Corgan's fine voice and his thought-provoking lyrics are appealing — especially on Peace+Love, a good track with great musical input that includes a harmonica. As Billy tackles each track with gusto — the dramatic and inspirational Lucky 13; melodic and heartfelt Death From Above; the first class and lovely to listen to Gossamer; the quirky Heavy Metal Machine and upbeat, catchy Untitled — you can appreciate the musical ease with which the band plays.
"We went into the residencies hopeful to play some new music, with the idea I could write during the day and we could maybe even play new songs that same night," says Billy Corgan. "What I didn't anticipate is how much the process would inspire me, positively and negatively, to report what I was seeing and feeling from the shows. The documentary shows that process in an interesting way that reveals the link between the band and our audience."
It is great to hear those beautiful, long music introductions with a strong input from drums and the band plays extremely well. Zeitgeist is simply captivating. This package is superbly presented and is a great addition to any fan's collection. The Concert disc is 5.1 Surround Sound; state-of-the-art high definition from twelve cameras and features seven all-new tracks not available anywhere else, along with new versions of fan favourites and a selection of Smashing Pumpkins rarities.
• Coming Home Media is proud to release Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong, a two-disc DVD set with over four hours of content, including the band's first concert release, on 1 December (2008). Certificate: E (Exempt) | DVD Running Time: 271 Minutes (Approx) | Catalogue No: CHS 10036 | Barcode: 4046661141092 | UK Distributor: Pinnacle.
14 Gossamer* | 15 Zeitgeist. *Previously unreleased tracks.
Disc 1, The Documentary, is Directed by Jack Gulick (Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Steve Miller Band, Godsmack); Produced by Daniel E Catullo III (Steve Miller Band, Godsmack, Rush, Dave Matthews Band) and Jack Gulick. Included are live concert segments from The Fillmore Residency Directed by Daniel E Catullo III. Original score is by Billy Corgan.
Disc 2, The Concert, is Directed by Daniel E Catullo III; Produced by Jack Gulick and Daniel E Catullo III; Edited by Chris Lovett. Orginal Poster Art created by Craig Howell. DVD Design: Illustration and Design is by Linda Strawberry; and the Package is designed by Rodney Bowes.


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The Disney-owned cable network has renewed the comedy for a third season. A spinoff of ABC's Black-ish, the series follows Zoe Johnson (Yara Shahidi) as she makes her way through college.
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Like Black-ish, Grown-ish was created by Kenya Barris, who remains an executive producer of the ABC Signature Studios show despite having signed a rich overall deal at Netflix.
Another Barris-produced series at Freeform, Besties has cast three of its lead roles. The show revolves around Becca, an ambitious overachiever from an African-American family who discovers her birth mother is white, which leads to her meeting her previously unknown half-sister, Jesi, and the two figure out how to go from strangers to sisters.
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Ranada Shepard, Casey Johnson and David Windsor created Besties and executive produce with Barris.


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