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Q: How to get Java profiling dump for creating flame graphs on the mac? I'd like to collect stacktraces from my Java app for creating CPU Flame Graphs for profiling.
This is very similar to this question: How to get complete stack dump from profiler in every sample for use in flame graph? with 2 differences:

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*I work with Java code and I need Java stacktraces

*I'm working on Mac (this means there is no pref and AFAIK dtrace on OSX doesn't support jstackextension).

I have already tried lightweight-java-profiler and Honest profiler, and both of them don't seem to work on Mac. I also Tried VisualVM, but I couldn't get it to produce the stacktrace dumps that I needed.
First prioirty for me are flame graphs generated from Java stacktraces, but having the native call stack as well would be great, because it would let me address the I/O issues (and maybe even generate hot/cold flame graphs).

A: Good news, the FlameGraph repository has "a script" to work with jstacks already in it.
https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph
It's the stackcollapse-jstack.pl.
It seems that by default it expects just stack trace after stack trace in its input, and counts each one as "a sample point."
So you can just do multiple jstack's into a file (run this once or a few times, or once a second "for awhile" etc.):
jstack pid_of_your_jvm >> my_jstack
Then execute that script:
 ./stackcollapse-jstack.pl my_jstack > my_jstack.folded

and finally convert to flamegraph:
 ./flamegraph.pl --color=java my_jstack.folded > my_jstack.svg

No third party helpers required (though they may still be useful).
Note also that the stackcollapse-jstack.pl file discards non RUNNABLE threads, you may want to tweak that if you want to also include "idle" threads (typically you don't).
Apparently you could use the linux "perf" command to generate stacks for a java process, as well, see the README https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph
This might include more native calls, for instance.

A: I created 2 little shell scripts based on @cello's answer. They generate hot/cold flame graphs.
Get them from this Gist.
Usage:
ps ax | grep java # find the PID of your process
./profile.sh 20402 stacks.txt
./gen.sh stacks.txt

Alternatively, to measure application from startup (in this, case, my gradle build that also needed to be run in another directory and with some input stream) I used:
cd ../my-project; ./gradlew --no-daemon clean build < /dev/zero &; cd -; ./profile.sh $! stacks.txt
./gen.sh stacks.txt

Results:

In this example, I can clearly see that my application is I/O bound (notice blue bars on top).

A: Try this: https://github.com/saquibkhan/javaFlameGraph

Installation
npm install javaflamegraph
Usage

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*cd javaflamegraph

*npm start - This will wait till it detects a process with name 'Java'. Can be best best used to start profiling at program
  startup.

*npm run start <process id> - This will start profiling for the given process id.
  e.g. npm run start 1234

A: Did you try the jstack command? just run it on the command line: jstack pidOfJavaProcess > stack.txt (naturally, replacing pidOfJavaProcess with the actual process number). You could run this in a loop in bash (the default shell used on Mac OS X):
while true; do jstack pidOfJavaProcess >> stack.txt; sleep 1.0; done

note the >> to append to the file, and not overwrite it each second. Press Ctrl+C to stop logging the stack traces.
This will only generate the java stack traces, and not the native call stacks from the JVM.

A: Install Flamegrpah
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/master/flamegraph.pl
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph/master/stackcollapse-jstack.pl
$ chmod +x *.pl
# Copy those Perl scripts into the PATH location

Collect the stacktrace of running java application
# Run multiple times (in loop) to get more samples
$ jcmd <Java Pid> Thread.print >> jcmd.tdump

Generate flamegraph
$ stackcollapse-jstack.pl jcmd.tdump > jcmd.tdump.folded
$ flamegraph.pl --color=io --title "Thread Dump" --countname "Samples" --width 1080 jcmd.tdump.folded > jcmd.tdump.svg

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Clan mothers
Dathomirians
Nightsisters
Shamans
Talzin
Dathomir[1]
19 BBY, Dathomir[2]
Zabrak (Dathomirian)[1]
Female[1]
2.23 meters[1]
Silver (with black sclera)[3]
White (with black markings)[3]
Clan(s)
Nightsisters[3]
Nightbrothers[4]
Sith[5]
Frangawl Cult[6]
Shadow Collective[5]
Karis[3]
Luce[7]
Naa'leth[3]
Talia[3]
Talia's twin[8]
Asajj Ventress[3]
Asajj Ventress's mother[3]
Savage Opress[4]
Viscus[9]
Darth Maul[10]
"Sidious is deceiving you—as he once deceived me."
"Then you know to betray the Dark Lord is folly."
"No, Count—to betray one's self is the ultimate defeat."
―Mother Talzin and Count Dooku[src]
Talzin was a Dathomirian female who lived during the final decades of the Galactic Republic's reign and became a formidable figure of power during the Clone Wars. On her homeworld of Dathomir, Talzin lived as a shaman and Clan Mother of the Nightsisters—a coven of Force-sensitive witches who used magicks to manipulate the wilderness around them and rule their male counterparts, the Nightbrothers. Talzin's expertise in magicks was significant enough to attract the attention of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, who came to Dathomir ostensibly to trade dark side Force teachings with Talzin and take her as his own Sith apprentice. Instead, the Sith Lord abducted Talzin's son Maul and took him as an apprentice in her place. Years later, he was presumed dead at the Battle of Naboo after sustaining mortal injuries, but his strength in the dark side allowed him to remain just barely alive. Although Talzin was aware of Maul's incredible survival, she was unable to rescue him and thus remained on Dathomir to plot her revenge against Sidious and his Sith, with her ultimate goal being galactic domination.
When the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems erupted ten years later, Talzin gained galactic notoriety by selling the services of the Nightsisters as assassins and mercenaries. In the midst of the Clone Wars, Talzin began targeting Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy and the newest apprentice of Lord Sidious. Asajj Ventress, a Nightsister-turned-Sith apprentice, had been betrayed by Dooku and returned to Dathomir to seek Talzin's help in exacting revenge. Although their early attempts to assassinate Dooku failed, Talzin had a long-term plan for the Sith Lord's demise: she would provide Dooku with a new apprentice in the form of the Nightbrother Savage Opress, who was also one of Talzin's children. Opress was Maul's biological brother and, after falling under the influence of her magick, became completely loyal to his mother and was hidden in the ranks of the Sith. Ultimately, both Ventress and Opress proved unable to kill the Count and were forced to seek refuge with Talzin once more. While she tasked Opress with locating Maul somewhere in the Outer Rim Territories, she welcomed Ventress back to Dathomir as a full member of the Nightsisters. The world was invaded by Dooku's droid armies shortly thereafter and nearly all of the Nightsisters were wiped out by the Confederate General Grievous and his forces, with the exception of Ventress and Talzin herself. Weakened, the elder Nightsister fled into the spirit world to survive. Shortly after the massacre, Opress returned to Dathomir having successfully retrieved a crazed and crippled Maul. Using what magicks she had left, Talzin reconstructed her son and restored his broken mind.
The act of restoring Maul forced Talzin to surrender her physical body to the spirit realm, but her son pledged to carry her torch of vengeance in a quest to draw out and kill Dooku and Sidious. Maul and Opress did succeed in forming the Shadow Collective as a power base but were quickly found and defeated by Darth Sidious himself. Maul was captured and Opress was killed, effectively halting Talzin's plans for revenge. In the interim, she undertook a scheme to absorb raw Force energy from the Dagoyan Masters of Bardotta. Her manipulation of Bardotta's Frangawl Cult, who revered her as the Great Mother, resulted in the successful abduction and absorption of nearly all the Masters, but the plan was derailed when Jedi Master Mace Windu and Representative Jar Jar Binks interfered with Talzin's attempt to absorb Bardotta's Queen Julia on the moon Zardossa Stix. Talzin was again forced into the spirit realm, but was presented with a final chance at escape and revenge when Maul was freed from Sidious's grasp and began plotting with his mother to capture and kill Dooku to draw out Sidious. Maul succeeded in capturing Dooku and transported him back to the heart of Talzin's power on Dathomir, where his mother possessed the Count's body and nearly killed him. The torture of Dooku gave the Nightsister enough strength to return to the physical realm, but her ritual was again interrupted, this time by Grievous and Darth Sidious, who had come to end Talzin's threat once and for all. Despite her return to the material world during the skirmish, Talzin was unsuccessful in killing Dooku and was unable to withstand the might of two Sith Lords and their cyborg general. She sent Maul to safety before being slain by Grievous, a death that marked the fall of Dathomir and the end of Talzin's Nightsister coven.
Rise of the Nightsister Edit
"Long ago, Sidious came to me on Dathomir. We exchanged secret wisdom—mingled dark side abilities with Nightsister Magicks. He promised to make me his right hand, but instead he stole what was most dear to me…my own flesh and blood. My son!"
―Mother Talzin[src]
Talzin's son Maul, abducted by the Sith.
Talzin, a Dathomirian female, lived during the final decades of the Old Republic prior to the rise of the Galactic Empire. She lived on her homeworld of Dathomir[1] as the mother to her sons Savage Opress[11] and the child who would eventually become known as Darth Maul.[5] She was also a member of the Nightsisters; a coven of witches who used their dark magicks and connection to the spirit world to rule the planet and subjugate their male counterparts, the Nightbrothers.[12] Talzin was a particularly talented witch and was recognized as a spiritual guide for her people.[1] Her prowess in magicks was impressive enough to attract the attention of Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith who was at the time plotting his rise to galactic supremacy. Sidious came to Dathomir on a special trip[13] to conference with Talzin and intermingle his knowledge of the dark side of the Force with her techniques in Dathomiri magicks. Their relationship brought Sidious to proclaim that he would make Talzin his Sith apprentice and right hand, but that promise was ultimately unfulfilled. Instead, the Dark Lord sensed the potential of the young Maul and abducted him from Talzin, taking the child away from his kinsmen and heritage on Dathomir.[5]
Furious at the betrayal, Talzin resolved to one day take revenge upon the Sith and retrieve her lost son.[5] In the meantime, she continued to lead her coven and protect her people from off-world threats. Sometime before the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, Talzin was forced by the Siniteen pirate Hal'Sted to gift a Nightsister infant to him in exchange for the survival and safety[13] of her tribe. Talzin reluctantly complied, taking the infant Asajj Ventress from her mother and surrendering her to Hal'Sted. The young Ventress was ferried to Rattatak, where she lost all connections to her people on Dathomir and was repeatedly orphaned, eventually coming to join Talzin's enemies in the Sith.[3]
Ten years before the Clone Wars began, Talzin's son—now known by the Sith moniker of Darth Maul—was defeated and presumably killed by the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Battle of Naboo.[14] Although Maul was bisected by a lightsaber, his deep connection to the dark side of the Force allowed him to survive.[15] Crippled and left for dead, the Sith went into hiding deep in the Outer Rim Territories while Talzin remained on Dathomir, fostering new hatred for Darth Sidious over his callous abandonment of Maul.[5] Although she was aware of his survival, Talzin did not know where her child had disappeared to and his whereabouts remained a mystery to her.[9]
It was also around the antebellum of the Clone Wars that Talzin came to know Dooku, a charismatic Jedi Master who would ultimately become the leader of the Confederacy and the new Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious. Dooku and Talzin became familiar when the Jedi rendered aid to the Nightsister in a time of need, though they parted ways thereafter and she added the Serenno noble to her list of targets for revenge[4]—particularly because of his association with Sidious.[5] By this time Talzin had been elevated to the level of Clan Mother and was recognized as both the spiritual and political leader of the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers.[1]
The Clone Wars Edit
The returned Sister Edit
"Where one sees failure, others see opportunity."
―Mother Talzin to Asajj Ventress[src]
When the Clone Wars exploded across the galaxy after the Battle of Geonosis,[16] Talzin largely kept her clan out of the conflict.[12] Although she did gain notoriety for selling the services of the Nightsisters' warriors and assassins to wealthy clients, Talzin maintained strict loyalty to her clan[1] and refused to ally with either of the warring factions.[4] Several years into the conflict, the long lost Nightsister Asajj Ventress returned to Dathomir, wounded and in need. After being orphaned on Rattatak the young Dathomirian pledged herself to Count Dooku as an aspiring Sith apprentice and Confederate commander, and although she carried out her Master's will dutifully for many missions, Darth Sidious became wary of her growing strength and ordered that Dooku kill Ventress. The command was carried out at the Battle of Sullust, where Dooku ordered Ventress's own Confederate forces to fire on her. She survived but was furious by her Master's betrayal and so traveled back to Dathomir to reconnect with her people and find revenge.[3]
Talzin advises Ventress on attacking Dooku.
Ventress's return was initially met with hostility from the other Nightsisters who were uneasy around outsiders and unaware of the new arrival's true parentage. Their aggressions were stayed by Talzin, who recognized the lost sister as Ventress and had her carried into their village for care. Talzin led her coven in a ritual to heal and rejuvenate the young woman, using the magicks to show Ventress visions of her life and betrayal by Dooku. The experience left Ventress with a need for vengeance against the Sith similar to Talzin's own, and the two agreed to work together against the Count in retribution for his disloyalty. This set in motion the long-awaited plot for revenge against Sidious, beginning with a mission to assassinate his apprentice and closest confidant. Talzin encouraged Ventress to strike at Dooku at his home on Serenno and selected the clan's two strongest warriors to accompany her on the journey—Naa'leth and Karis. Hoping to maintain anonymity in the attack, Talzin conjured a spirit ichor mist that allowed her assassins to operate in the physical realm while appearing nearly invisible. She armed the three women with a poisoned dart and Jedi lightsabers, ensuring that Dooku would not think the Nightsisters to be responsible for the attack in the case of his survival.[3]
Her foresight proved vital when the assassination attempt failed and Ventress, Karis, and Naa'leth returned in defeat. Ventress was convinced that her bid for revenge was foiled, but Talzin revealed that her plot was only beginning to unfold. Having only narrowly survived the attempt on his life, Dooku was now vulnerable and eager to find a new apprentice to replace Ventress. Mother Talzin jumped at the opportunity and contacted the Count with an offer to replace his lost Nightsister with a highly skilled Nightbrother to train as a pupil.[3] He agreed to meet with Talzin to discuss the specifics of the deal and so traveled to Dathomir to parley with the Clan Mother. During their meeting, Dooku, who was unaware of Talzin's hatred of the Sith, asked that the Nightsisters ally with him and pledge themselves to the Confederacy. Talzin refused, sticking to her original offer of a single Nightbrother—specifically one of Darth Maul's kinsmen. The Count was aware of Maul's prowess and so accepted the deal, leaving the Clan Mother to make arrangements. Her plan was to send Ventress to select a skilled Nightbrother from the men's village on the far side of Dathomir and transform that warrior into a beast slaved to her will. Ventress returned from the Selection with the Zabrak Savage Opress in tow[4]—a Nightbrother who, unbeknownst to all but Talzin, was another one of her sons.[9][11]
Opress was brought before Talzin, who marveled at his potential before forcing him into an enchanted sleep. She and her coven of spellcasters came together to perform an enhancement ritual, using dark magicks to transform the Zabrak's body and mind. The process was an overwhelming success, causing Opress to grow in both size and ferocity. His free will was largely destroyed by the magicks, making him a puppet who was ultimately loyal to Talzin alone. The true test of that loyalty came when the Nightsisters forced Opress to kill his beloved brother, Feral; Savage complied, murdering Feral in cold blood and proving his obedience to Talzin and Ventress. Satisfied with the results, Talzin gifted Opress with an enchanted pike summoned from the spirit world before taking him to Serenno to deliver him to his new Master, Dooku.[4]
The loose monster Edit
"You have an important destiny to fulfill, Savage Opress. You, and your brother."
Talzin presents Savage Opress to Count Dooku.
Dooku was supremely impressed with Opress and quickly began training him in the dark side of the Force. Although he fulfilled the Count's will with great skill,[4] the Nightbrother remained loyal to Talzin and her clan.[17] On Dooku's orders, Opress assaulted a Jedi Temple on Devaron and slew the Jedi defenders stationed there.[4] His brutal attack was caught on surveillance by the Republic, alerting the Jedi Order and their Grand Army to the existence of this new Sith apprentice. Recognizing the attacker as a member of the Nightbrother clan, Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker traveled to Dathomir to uncover his identity. Their investigations led them to the Nightsister village, where they were received by Mother Talzin in her chambers. She initially denied any knowledge of him, claiming that the Nightsisters lived as outcasts and maintained no contact with Dathomir's men. Kenobi, knowing that Dathomir was a matriarchal society, saw through the ruse and demanded that Talzin aid them. The Clan Mother finally acquiesced, using a crystal ball that she had created[18] to reveal that Opress was heading towards the planet Toydaria.[9]
While the Jedi rushed to intercept the Nightbrother, Talzin met with Ventress and told her that the time had come to strike against Dooku. Although Ventress did not believe that Opress would be ready to fulfill his duty, Talzin insisted that they could no longer keep their pawn's existence a secret and could wait no longer in their attack on the Count. Ventress gave in to the Mother's wishes and followed the Jedi to Toydaria. There, she met up with Opress and challenged Dooku; the Dathomiri duo very nearly killed the Count, but the Sith Lord was able to subdue Opress to Ventress's great chagrin. Being berated by both his Master and his Nightsister mistress, Opress broke down and attacked both of them. The battle devolved into a three-way brawl until Dooku fled the scene, nearly killing Ventress in the process and leaving Opress to face his Jedi pursuers on his own.[9]
With this second attempted assassination a failure and their plan revealed, Ventress and Opress were forced to flee Separatist forces to escape Dooku's wrath. While Ventress went into hiding elsewhere in the galaxy, Opress returned to Dathomir to seek guidance from his mother, Talzin.[11] The grievously injured warrior collapsed in Talzin's chambers and confided in the Nightsister that he was not strong enough to survive being hunted by Ventress, Dooku, and the Jedi. The Clan Mother helped Opress to his feet and revealed that there was indeed a way he could learn such strength. Her other son, Darth Maul, still lived hidden in exile somewhere in the Outer Rim. She offered Opress a magick-imbued talisman and tasked him with finding his brother and learning the path to power from him. Although neither of them knew his exact location, the talisman would guide the Nightbrother to his quarry while the Mother monitored his progress from afar.[9][19]
The Nightsister massacre Edit
"What… happened here? Where are the rest of the sisters?"
"Dooku sent his minions to destroy us, but we will survive. We always have."
―Savage Opress and Mother Talzin[src]
Mother Talzin using her magick to fight the Confederate army.
Sometime after the botched assassination, Ventress returned to Dathomir to once again seek refuge with Mother Talzin. Although Ventress believed she was now powerless because Opress had forsaken the Nightsisters, Talzin welcomed her back with open arms, insisting that she needed to abandon the Sith ways in totality and rejoin her sisters as a member of the coven. The promise of a reprieve from both war and Dooku motivated Ventress to accept the Mother's offer. The coven gathered in the village to participate in Ventress's baptism into the Nightsister clan, a ceremony led by Talzin and her spellcasters. The initiate was bathed in magick ichor while the Clan Mother proclaimed the baptism rites and ultimately declared Asajj Ventress to be a reborn sister of the night. Talzin called for a feast in celebration and joined her clan as they gathered outside the great edifice of the village to recognize the induction of their newest member. The revelry was cut short when the village was attacked by droid bombers—the first wave of an extermination assault on Dathomir launched at Dooku's command by his cyborg Confederate General, Grievous. Recognizing that the war finally reached her world, Talzin rallied her sisters for the defense of their home and lives.[7]
Although Ventress was upset that her presence brought Dooku's wrath upon her people, Talzin encouraged her to push past her regret and use her knowledge of Grievous and the Separatist battle droids to lead their people to victory. The Clan Mother joined her sisters on the front line of battle, using magicks to conjure a protective bubble around herself while unleashing a flurry of destructive lightning[12] on the approaching droid forces. Recognizing that the witches were vastly outnumbered, Ventress informed Talzin that they would need an army to have any chance at defeating Grievous, motivating Talzin to seek out Old Daka, an elder witch who would be able to assemble the required reinforcements. She joined Daka in the hidden cave deep within the fortress, where she asked the elder to summon the Army of the Dead—the reanimated corpses of deceased Nightsisters who would fight under Ventress's command.[7]
Daka's spellcraft helped Ventress to turn the tide of battle against the Confederacy, but Talzin sought additional assurances of victory. Thus, she had two of her attendants retrieve from her chambers a silver orb that contained a lock of Count Dooku's hair. The witch used the lock in a ritual of totem magick that created a miniature figure of the Count that could be subjected to tortures that the true Dooku would feel far away at his home on Serenno. Talzin began her voodoo attack simply by holding the doll over a boiling cauldron, causing blisters and painful burns to appear on Dooku's face. However, she quickly escalated by dropping the entire figurine into the boiling fluid, inducing extreme pain for the Count. As he writhed on the floor of his palace, Talzin used her magicks to reach out and appear to him as a specter breaking out of his torso. She insisted that he call off his troops or face a painful death, but the Sith Lord remained defiant in the face of the Nightsister's magick.[7]
Talzin tortures Dooku.
Although Talzin nearly tortured Dooku to death, the Count gathered himself long enough to contact Grievous and order him to abandon the hunt for Ventress and instead find and kill the Clan Mother. The general, having forced Ventress into a retreat, pushed past the remaining defenders and followed the green mist trail of Nightsister magick into their sanctum. He destroyed the enchanted barrier that concealed the hidden cave and killed the witches within, including Talzin's guards and Old Daka. Before he could execute the Mother herself, Talzin vanished into a green smoke, dissolving her physical form and fleeing into the spirit world to seek refuge.[12] With Daka's enchantment over the Army of the Dead broken and Dooku no longer in immediate danger, the battle was a clear victory for the Confederacy. The remainder of the Nightsisters were exterminated by Grievous's battle droids, the only survivor being a wounded Ventress who fled into the Dathomiri wilderness. Projecting her presence from the spirit world as a ghostly specter, Talzin found the young Nightsister lost and orphaned once more. Although Ventress pleaded with her not to leave, Talzin insisted that she move on from this chapter of her life and follow her own path,[7] and her disappearance led Ventress to believe that Talzin had perished with the rest of her clan.[8] The conflict decimated the Nightsister coven and destroyed most of Talzin's powerbase on Dathomir, but the Mother remained in the ruins of her village to continue pursuing her most pivotal objective: the retrieval and rebirth of her son.[20]
A sacrifice for her son Edit
"Come. Let us fix what has been broken. Come to me. Come to me. Follow us, son of Dathomir. Follow me, lost one. Come, child of Dathomir. Follow me."
―Mother Talzin leads Darth Maul to her[src]
In the aftermath of the massacre, Talzin remained in contact with Savage Opress while he scoured the Outer Rim in search of clues to the whereabouts of his brother. After some time, the Nightbrother found himself on Stobar, where his talisman reacted to dust found in a private hangar. He reported his findings to Talzin, who was monitoring his progress from afar on Dathomir. Understanding that Opress was close to finding his brother, Talzin began making the necessary arrangements to bring Maul back to health without the aid and support she traditionally received from her coven of spellcasters. Opress meanwhile followed the Force and his talisman to the world of Lotho Minor, a galactic dumping grounds covered in mountains of garbage and toxic waste. It was there that Maul's mangled body had been dropped years prior, and where, after a perilous journey across the surface, Opress found Maul broken and abandoned in the caverns beneath the planet. He had little memory of his former life and no knowledge of Opress, but agreed to return with his brother to Dathomir under the temptation of revenge against the one figure who he could recall: Obi-Wan Kenobi.[19]
Although he was driven to insanity by his injuries and isolation, he had managed to connect the remaining upper half of his body to a complex set of six cybernetic legs made from refuse and held together by the Force. When Savage and Maul returned to Dathomir, Talzin led them to her village, where she removed Maul's spider-like cybernetics and used magicks[20] and some of her own life energy[2] to restore Maul's sanity and memories, while additionally providing him with a new pair of cybernetic legs. When her work was done, she vanished once again,[20] leaving Savage and Maul to begin forming an army with which they could rival Talzin's enemy, Darth Sidious.[10][19]
Talzin restores Maul's mind and body.
She succeeded in restoring her son's mind and body, but the impressive exertion of magick power took a great toll on Mother Talzin. By sacrificing part of her own energies to resurrect her son, she trapped herself in the spirit world, unable to embrace her full strength and without a complete physical body.[2][12] She now relied on her sons and their rapidly growing criminal army—known as the Shadow Collective[15]—to execute her revenge against Sidious. Maul's obsession with Kenobi caused the plot against Sidious to be derailed multiple times,[20][21] but he and Opress eventually managed to recruit at army of underworld enforcers backed by the highly disciplined Death Watch exiles of Mandalore.[22] Talzin's son decided to exploit the political turmoil of Mandalore to make the world into the seat of his criminal empire that he would lead against Sidious, Dooku, and the Jedi.[23] The whole scheme was put into jeopardy early on; a faction of the Death Watch turned against Maul and Darth Sidious himself sensed the plot before the initial stages were ever completed. While civil war raged between Death Watch rebels and Shadow Collective loyalists, Sidious found and confronted Maul and Opress. Despite her sons' best efforts, the Dark Lord ultimately proved to be too strong and overwhelmed the brothers, killing Opress and capturing Maul. Talzin's remaining son was taken to the Spire prison on Stygeon Prime, where he was repeatedly tortured by Sidious and Dooku for his attempt at rivalry.[24]
Scheming for survival Edit
"As a Bardottan, you possess a strong connection to the Living Force, a connection that will now be mine. With the combined power of your spirit and my dark magick, I will become more powerful than any Sith or Jedi."
―Mother Talzin, to Queen Julia[src]
Talzin dueling Mace Windu.
At some point, Mother Talzin gained the allegiance of High Seneschal Peteen and the Frangawl Cult on Bardotta, who came to worship her as the "Great Mother." Under her direction, they abducted Dagoyan Masters, draining the Force within them into a containment sphere. Talzin later rendezvoused with the cult, who had captured Queen Julia, on Zardossa Stix, and revealed her intention to use a ritual to drain the life force from the Queen and absorb it to gain her powerful connection to the Living Force, making her more powerful than the Jedi and Sith and rejuvenating her fading physical form. However, Jedi Master Mace Windu and Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks were hot on their trail and arrived at the temple. Talzin attacked the two with Force lightning and engaged the Jedi Master with a blade conjured from magick but her distraction allowed Binks to free Julia, disrupting the ceremony. The Gungan also accidentally destroyed the containment sphere, causing a massive explosion. Her plan in ruins, Talzin shrieked in pain as her physical body disintegrated into mist.[6][2]
A final bid for revenge Edit
"That witch never learned—there are those with power, and those who dream of power…and her existence was nothing but a dream."
―Darth Sidious[src]
Mother Talzin appears from green mist to speak with Maul.
After being revived by Talzin and forming the Shadow Collective as per his mother's wishes, Maul was captured by Darth Sidious and imprisoned, only to break out with the help of his Mandalorian allies.[25] However, this was planned all along by Sidious, who believed that Talzin had survived the battle of Dathomir due to Maul's resurrection. On the run after a disastrous defeat at the hands of General Grievous, Maul implored Talzin for help and her image materialized from his chest in the form of green mist. Maul explained what had happened and Talzin surmised that Maul's escape had been planned by Sidious in an attempt to draw her out, and told him to rendezvous with the Black Sun's forces on Ord Mantell while she sent him aid in the form of Brother Viscus and the Nightbrothers to deal with Dooku. Maul and his army won the battle, and he contacted Talzin afterward to inform her of Dooku and Grievous's capture.[10]
In a secret asteroid outpost, Maul attempted to sway Count Dooku to his cause. Talzin again appeared from Maul's chest and told Dooku to forgive their previous disagreements on account of Dooku only following Sidious's will. She revealed that Sidious sought a new apprentice to replace Dooku—similarly to how she herself was cast aside—and explained her history with the Sith Lord, also revealing that Maul was her son much to Dooku's shock. She then offered Dooku a chance to join them, destroy Sidious, and rule the galaxy together. Shortly afterward Maul and Dooku were interrupted by an attack by Obi-Wan Kenobi and several other Jedi, and Dooku opted to join Maul,[5] though Talzin's son realized that this was a ploy and had the Nightbrothers arrange for Dooku to be used as the sacrifice for the Mother's resurrection.[2]
Grievous slays Talzin.
Maul brought Dooku to Dathomir and was greeted by Brother Viscus, who had survived his battle with Dooku. The Nightbrothers had made the necessary preparations for Talzin's revival and escorted Dooku to a chamber in a temple near the Nightbrother village so he could be sacrificed. Maul prayed to a monolith, imploring Talzin to reveal herself, and Talzin's essence manifested from the stone and possessed Dooku. She then began draining his life energy. Darth Sidious and General Grievous arrived shortly after, having tracked Dooku's signal. While Maul dueled Grievous, Talzin, in Dooku's body, was left to contend with her rival Darth Sidious. After a brief lightsaber duel the Sith Lord bombarded Dooku with Force lightning, forcing a fully rejuvenated Talzin to emerge from Dooku's body to take on Sidious once again. The two rivals traded barbs and attacked each other in a ferocious display of Force lightning. Although Maul begged for Talzin to take his strength, the tide began to turn against them when Dooku recovered and joined his Master's onslaught. Talzin pulled up a magical barrier around herself as her son implored her to fight on. Knowing that escape was impossible, Talzin threw Maul to his ship over his desperate objections. As the witch collapsed to her knees from the exertion, Grievous bypassed her defenses and impaled her with his lightsabers. Maul cried out in despair as Talzin turned to stone and the magicks faded from her body.[2]
Legacy Edit
Although Maul was able to escape Dathomir alive, Sidious judged him as no longer being a threat to the Sith rule of the galaxy.[2] Thanks to Talzin's sacrifice, Maul ultimately managed to survive the Clone Wars and wound up hiding on Malachor where he continued plotting revenge against the Sith and their Empire. Many years later, Maul attempted to recruit the young Ezra Bridger as an apprentice, recounting how he was ripped from his mother's arms by Sidious.[26] After escaping Malachor, Maul lived for a time on Dathomir, taking up residence in Talzin's old chambers while he studied Nightsister magick.[27] Maul would later be killed by his nemesis Kenobi on Tatooine.[28]
"No one remains. This is all my fault. Where do I go? What do I do?"
"This chapter is over. Your destiny will always be linked with ours, but you have your own path to follow now."
―Mother Talzin tells Ventress to leave Dathomir and start a new life[src]
Mother Talzin's main loyalties layed with the Nightsisters[4] and with her son Maul, and her primary goals were to exact revenge against Darth Sidious and eventually rule the galaxy alongside her son.[5] In service to these grander aims she was duplicitous and manipulative, able to control various different factions in a puppetmaster-like fashion to achieve her goals, all while maintaining a facade of loyalty to her various underlings who were none the wiser to her true intentions.[4][9] While she was ultimately overcome and defeated by Sidious, she possessed a shrewd and tactical mind and was able to go toe-to-toe with the Sith Lord for a time, accurately predicting his movements and adjusting her own strategies accordingly.[10][5][2]
As the leader of her Nightsisters, Talzin taught them to be loyal to nobody except each other and to only focus on themselves and their sisters.[4][7] As their leader and shaman, the Nightsisters obeyed her orders without question, as did her other followers such as the Frangawl Cult.[6] Acting as a maternal figure, she was very sympathetic and kind towards Asajj Ventress, aiding her and giving her a hug when she returned to Dathomir. While initially helping Ventress in her quest for revenge, she was also adamant in her belief that she should return home and renounce the ways of the Sith.[7] While supportive, she wasn't against deceiving Ventress to advance her own goals, helping Savage Opress after he betrayed Ventress[9] and sending him on a quest to find Talzin's other son, a fact she withheld from Ventress after her return. She comforted Ventress when the younger Nightsister blamed herself for bringing the Separatists to Dathomir, and also defended her fellow Nightsisters with her magick. However, when Talzin realized that the Nightsisters were going to lose the battle, she fled, and rather than continuing to give Ventress sanctuary she told her to leave and find her own path[7] so Talzin could focus on her endgame: vengeance against the Sith.[5]
Talzin watches as her son Savage murders his own brother.
While she did care for the Nightsisters,[4] Talzin's greatest attachment[5] was to her "beloved son," Darth Maul,[10] which ran contrary to her culture that viewed males as expendable tools for breeding.[4][9] After losing Maul to her former partner Darth Sidious, Talzin wished to rescue him, and she stated he was what was most dear to her.[5] After Maul was returned to her, Talzin provided some of her own life force to revive him,[2] sent him aid as he carried out her plans for revenge,[10] and eventually, gave her life to help him escape from Sidious. Her protectiveness and love for Maul was reciprocated and Maul was devastated by her death.[2]
Talzin's regard for Nightbrothers other than Maul seemed more in line with the Nightsisters' matriarchal tendencies; despite this, Viscus and the other males under her command respected her leadership and showed concern for her well-being, and were trusted with guarding the heart of her power at the Nightbrother village.[2] While Maul and Savage were both her children,[11] she appeared to be fine with using Savage as a pawn in her and Ventress's game for revenge, empowered him with magicks that suppressed his personality and amplified his anger, and allowed Ventress to force him to kill his brother Feral.[4] In private she displayed a much kinder attitude towards him, such as when she comforted Savage when he returned following his betrayal of Ventress,[9] and they regarded each other with mutual respect when Savage arrived on Dathomir with Maul.[20] She also pressured Ventress to treat Savage with respect after his transformation.[4] Despite her apparent fondness for Savage, Talzin never expressed any desire to avenge his death at the hands of Sidious even as she sought to have him killed for betraying Maul.[10][5]
Talzin despised the Sith and deeply resented Darth Sidious for taking Maul from her and casting her aside. A talented liar, she was able to trick Dooku into believing she was fulfilling a debt she owed him, while in reality was planning on having him killed.[4] She also showed signs of sadism, as she was very gleeful when torturing Dooku.[7] However, she later opportunistically tried to convert him to her cause, warning him about Sidious's true intentions to replace him in the process.[5] She didn't think very highly of the Jedi either, telling blatant lies to Anakin and Obi-Wan when they arrived seeking information on Savage's whereabouts, though she did eventually relent upon further prodding.[9] She displayed a snarky and dismissive side when confronted by Mace Windu, sarcastically declaring she was a "simple witch" and beneath his attention. In her lust for power she was willing to sacrifice innocent Bardottans including Queen Julia to enhance her own abilities.[6]
Powers and abilities Edit
"I am not a natural Force wielder like the Jedi or Sith. I use dark magick to achieve power."
Talzin utilizing a form of Force lightning against Mace Windu.
Mother Talzin was an extremely powerful witch and a master of dark magicks, able to manipulate the spirit ichor that flowed from Dathomir's depths in a variety of ways. Unlike other members of her kind, she claimed to not have a natural connection with the Force;[6] despite this, her powers were in fact derived from the Nightsister's unique connection to the Force, which allowed her to craft a crystal ball to see the future or events across the galaxy.[18] She often led the rest of the Nightsisters through incantations, such as when she transformed Savage Opress,[4] and when she made Asajj Ventress into an official Nightsister, as well as when she was able to disguise Asajj Ventress and two other Nightsisters from Count Dooku's detection, transforming them into ghostly versions of their true forms. She also could put people to sleep with the tap of a finger.[4][20] Talzin was capable of using her powers to torture Count Dooku using a lock of Dooku's own hair even though the Count was on a completely different planet at the time. She was even capable of appearing in more than one place at a time, as shown when a ghostly vision of her appeared from within Dooku's chest, although Talzin's physical body was still on Dathomir.[7] She was also able to contact members of the Frangawl Cult in the form of visions.[6] Talzin was also capable of dematerializing her body, transforming into smoke and vanishing into the spirit world when General Grievous had her cornered,[7][12] as well as materializing and disappearing from wisps of green mist before Savage Opress after he returned to Dathomir. Using her magicks and a portion of her life energy,[2] she was able to repair Darth Maul's damaged mind and build him a fully functional set of new legs formed from salvaged droid parts,[20] and after doing so could still manifest in the physical world by using her son's body as a vessel.[5]
In combat, Mother Talzin was capable of creating a green protection bubble capable of absorbing blaster fire[7] and Force lightning, although it was useless as a barrier against physical attacks.[2] She was able to launch Force lightning[12] at the opponent whilst maintaining the shield at the same time. Unlike other Force lightning users, Talzin's lightning appeared green in color and was fired in concentrated beams that could home in on multiple targets from afar. It was very powerful, able to destroy a B-1 battle droid in one hit.[7] She was able to create a lightsaber-like sword conjured from magick and survive in battle against Mace Windu, one of the most powerful Jedi in the Order, displaying impressive dueling skills.[6] While possessing Dooku, Talzin was able to use Dooku's lightsaber to briefly hold her own against Sidious, though Sidious remarked that Talzin's skills could not be compared to Dooku's. However her magicks proved to be powerful enough, at least while on Dathomir, to challenge Sidious's dark side powers, and it took the intervention of both Dooku and Grievous to overcome her.[2]
Though she was never known to use telekinesis in combat, Talzin was a powerful user of telekinesis, able to lift many types of objects with ease as well as levitate herself. She could also incinerate or form objects with her magic, as she was able to melt the silver orb that contained Count Dooku's lock of hair,[7] as well as create a drinking cup for Dooku when he visited her.[4] She could set things on fire simply by using her magicks, as shown with the large pot that contained Count Dooku's Voodoo doll. Although Talzin was extremely powerful, she asked one of the elder Nightsisters to use a resurrection spell, showing that she may not have mastered the ability to resurrect the dead.[7]
Talzin vanishes into the spirit world when cornered.
Talzin's magicks were said to be strongest on Dathomir; her power was such that Darth Sidious himself believed that even an entire droid army would be unable to defeat her there.[10] After sacrificing her life energies to her son[2] she receded into the spirit world,[6] and could be revived with a sacrifice in a temple near the Nightbrother village. Within this temple her spirit was able to emerge from a stone monolith to directly possess Dooku, drain his life energy, and even regain her physical form, though upon receiving a fatal injury she was permanently destroyed.[2]
"Well I remember auditioning for her and they said they wanted a Romanian witch type of voice."
―Barbara Goodson, about voicing Talzin[src]
Mother Talzin is voiced by Barbara Goodson, who is world-famous as the voice of another sorceress, Rita Repulsa, among many other roles.[29][30] When Goodson auditioned for the part, she was told that the creative staff of The Clone Wars wanted a "Romanian witch" type of voice. Because of that, Goodson's ensuing vocal performance was inspired by the late Russian actress Maria Ouspenskaya,[31] who notably portrayed the fortune teller Maleva in the 1941 classic horror film, The Wolf Man.[13]
Talzin's look was based on the "Nightsister Sith witch," an unused piece of concept art from Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace for what would become Darth Maul.[32]
Dooku: Jedi Lost (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Nightsisters" (First appearance)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Monster"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Witches of the Mist"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Massacre"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Bounty" (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Brothers"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Revenge"
"Sisters"—Age of Republic Special 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Disappeared, Part II"
Dark Disciple (Mentioned only)
Dark Disciple audiobook (Mentioned only)
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part One (Mentioned only)
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Two
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Three
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Four
Star Wars Rebels – "Twilight of the Apprentice" (Mentioned only)
Maul: A Star Wars Rebels Cinestory Comic (Mentioned only)
The Clone Wars episode Guide: Nightsisters on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Monster on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Witches of the Mist on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Three
Mother Talzin in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Nightsister zombies in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Nightsisters in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
"Blaster"—Star Wars Insider 151
Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy
Star Wars: The Dark Side
Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: Mother Talzin)
AAT Battle Tank History Gallery on StarWars.com (backup link)
Asajj Ventress in the Databank (backup link)
Brother Viscus in the Databank (backup link)
Jar Jar Binks biography gallery in the Databank (backup link); image #26-28 (of 29)
Mother Talzin in the Databank (backup link)
Nightsister Crystal Ball in the Databank (backup link)
Nightsister Zombies in the Databank (backup link)
Old Daka in the Databank (backup link)
Savage Opress in the Databank (backup link)
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↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Four
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Nightsisters"
↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18
↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Three
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↑ 8.0 8.1 Dark Disciple
↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part Two
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6
Nightsisters in the Databank (backup link)
↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy
↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
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Darth Maul in the Databank (backup link)
↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Revival"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Eminence"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Shades of Reason"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Lawless"
↑ Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir, Part One
Star Wars Rebels – "Twilight of the Apprentice"
Star Wars Rebels – "Visions and Voices"
Star Wars Rebels – "Twin Suns"
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↑ Barbara Goodson's profile at Voice123.com
↑ The Wicked-Cool Witch of Dathomir: Barbara Goodson. Barbara Goodson—Woman of Many Hats. Retrieved on October 11, 2013.
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curse of instinct never knowing peace. even pain is welcome when you cannot feel a thing and it only gets harder to put together the pieces that just don't fit; they just won't fit.
and it only gets lonelier when you're stuck outside. caught in a void; drown in denial. and it only gets harder to fit together the pieces; it only gets lonelier when you're stuck outside. you can't fit together the pieces and you're ripped apart by the void. the emptiness in you the emptiness in you.
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Can Spurs Keep Hold Of Their Best Players
My buddy Matthew Knouff and I are the only Tottenham Hotspur fans in our hometown, or at least the only ones that we know of, and that means that we often get a lot of stick when it comes to soccer. One of the biggest problems that Spurs are facing right now, and one of the first insults people throw at us, is that we are a feeder club to the big teams.
Spurs have assembled a remarkable squad of young talent, and the question is, can they keep hold of their best players?
Why They Will Stay
I will start by discussing the reasons why most players will stay at Spurs to see through the project which Mauricio Pochettino has put together. The first thing to mention is that this team shows a true togetherness that is rare in football these days, they win and lose together and that is something which has been installed in them all. There was a case for players leaving after Kyle Walker made his £50 million move to Manchester City, but despite the media attention, nobody else left.
Harry Kane could easily go for over £200 million if a big offer comes in, but he is a London lad, he loves his club, genuinely loves it, and he wants to win titles with Spurs, as well as the fact that he wants to stay in the league to break Alan Shearer's record. The likes of Dele Alli, Danny Rose, Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris will all stay, as long as Pochettino and Kane do as well.
Why They Won't Stay
History has shown us that chairman Daniel Levy loves to make money and Spurs' net spend over the last decade is one of the lowest in the league, this could mean he'll accept a staggering offer for his key players. Harry Kane may love the club but he deserves trophies and if that can't happen at Spurs, he'll walk away. Kyle Walker moved to Manchester City and is making double the money he made at Spurs, and looks pretty much nailed on to win the Premier League title in his first season. Walker's ex-teammates will no doubt be looking at him, and wanting the same.
Tottenham's biggest problem is their wage structure and the ceiling which they have put in place. Players may be rewarded well with bonuses, but as it stands, Spurs simply cannot compete with the European big boys in terms of what they can pay out. Spurs missed their chance to win the Premier League in the last 2 years, and they look set to miss out again this year, given that other clubs have invested heavily during that time, Spurs could slip further outside of the Premiership race, meaning that these players will be left with no trophies. More money and more chances of success, that is why Spurs will inevitably lose players.
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Glimpse of the future
By Ronan Hegarty2006-09-22T00:00:00+01:00
Martin McColl has unveiled the flagship store which is set to be the model for its entire c-store estate, less than a year after completing a management buy-out of the company formerly known as TM Retail.
The 2,400sq ft former Londis store in Bromyard, Hertfordshire, took 20 weeks to convert and will act as a blueprint when the company launches a major redesign of its entire retail estate.
Trading director Tony Start revealed that the company would complete the external rebranding of its store portfolio under two fascias - McColl's for c-stores and Martin's for CTNs - by October, just 10 months after it started. The new fascias are heavily supported with supplier logos aimed at making shoppers more aware of what is inside. The Bromyard store also has a number of suppliers' logos such as Tetley, McVitie's and Kellogg's on signs hanging from the ceiling, again to give shoppers a clearer picture of what is available.
Start said that the store was almost exactly how he wanted it but suggested that he would like to use the canopy space above the shelves to advertise key brands rather than make general claims such as 'chilled' or 'bread'.
He added that the group was keen on using local suppliers for lines such as bread, milk, ice cream and fresh produce. "In central London local sourcing may not be that important, but we know that in places such as Bromyard it does matter and where possible we will try to go with local suppliers," he said.
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New name for TM
The TM Retail Group has been rebranded as Martin McColl.


When did the music industry get so schizophrenic?
I miss the days when real R&B singers stuck to their lane but still got props from the hip hop world without gimmicks and shameless pandering.
If you think the first person to bridge the gap between rap and R&B was Drake, you probably just put in your order for your high school class ring. Those of us who are older and wiser know the true R&B trailblazer was Oran "Juice" Jones.
I'm sure you remember OJ Jones. If not, that's what I'm here for.
OJ was the first artist signed to OBR Records, a subsidiary of the renowned Def Jam label. This also made him the very first R&B artist on the hip-hop record label. While that doesn't seem like a big deal today, back then, rap and R&B were two totally separate entities. In fact, it was practically an insult to associate a rap artist with anything remotely resembling R&B. The soothing sounds of R&B clashed with hip hop's rebellious edge.
OJ Jones' signing signaled a partnership between the genres that would last till this day.
Jones' debut, Juice, dropped in 1986 and playa, look at that album cover. That's the personification of big pimpin'. It didn't even matter that he forgot to iron his slacks, OJ just invented swag.
That last line was enough to make Mr. Biggs turn in his playa's card.
"The Rain" was a hit, rising to No. 1 on the R&B charts and No. 9 on the pop boards. "The Rain" even scored a couple of Grammy nominations. OJ's star was shining.
Jones followed up his solo debut with a GTO: Gangstas Takin Over in 1987. Still trying to make pimpin' look easy he dropped "Cold Spendin' My Money" as the lead single. It's not a bad song (if you're a 60-year-old man who stalks women at college step shows) but it lacked crossover appeal of "The Rain." The album and single didn't make much impact.
Juice tried his luck once again in 1989 with To Be Immortal. The only song I remember from the set is "Pipe Dreams," which was an ambitious take on the evils of excess. Yeah, those songs are a dime a dozen these days but again, OJ showed he was ahead of his time. Neither that song nor the album made a blimp on the music scene's radar. Juice wisely decided to bow out of the game to start a family and care for his ailing mother.
It would be almost a decade before we'd hear from OJ again – if you lived in the UK, that is. Player's Call was released overseas and with songs like "Purse Comes First" and "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" you can tell he's back to pimpin'. Album single "Poppin' That Fly" actually wasn't bad for a 1997-era track but our friends across the pond weren't impressed. Player's Call wasn't released stateside for another 10 years.
OJ has since retired from the music game. These days, he's helping his son Oran II and his daughter, Perri Jones, launch their music careers. He also blogs occasionally for sites like Global Grind, but I haven't seen anything new from him recently.
Should He Come Back?: Nah. OJ had his run and he's better off mentoring a new generation of artists than trying to squeeze more bucks out a 30-year-old single. OJ changed the game, he's earned his retirement.
Was "The Rain" released before Def Jam made the video in 1986.
I love that album you made your mark on this world you deserve your retirement I would never forget you you are the juice.
Mr Jones I had the biggest crush on you in the 80s'. I thought you were the sexiest man alive!
Mr Jones you were the best singer I knew and the sexiest.
WHAT?! WHAT?! Who else was spittin' like that on an R&B record?
I am pretty sure he DID NOT go to the Naval Academy Class Of 81. And I am CERTAIN that he WAS NOT the Brigade Commander in 1981. Why? Because I WAS THERE. I am class of '83. And back then there were very few black midshipmen so each of use knew each other. If we did not know each other by NAME we at last knew the guy's face. The only black Brigade Commander that I know from the 1979 to 1983 period was a guy named Walt Nobles Class I 82. I am certain of that because he was in my company.
But in any case I DID love the song " walking in the rain" Played the vinyl until it wore out then brought a new one and made a repeating mix cassette that I kept in my car. Anytime I had a girl and she was messing up a bit I would pop that tape in.
You are absolutely right. Juice was never in the Navy. How do I know? Because I'm his cousin. The guy that wrote this article is probably the same guy that said Mr. Rogers was a Marine. Never-the-less, everything in the article is true. There was nobody like Juice.
I PEEPED PUERTO RICAN FLAG AGAINST THE WALL DOES HE HAVE PUERTO RICAN ROOTS.
Well, thank you, and if you really want facts, let's sit a spell and rap a taste. Oran "Juice" Jones.
The song The Rain is still a classic. I got a question; what ever happened to that cup of hot chocolate you promised the girl in the song and video? Im wondering if she ever drank it? Lol!
Love it.. reminds me of my then girlfriend who did a dirty… on.me so I just said ok you are dismissed now get out of my house.


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Venice has come up with a new way to raise funds for landmark repairs
Rachel Graham
The city of Venice has struck a deal with card provider Visa to raise funds for vital restorations to treasured landmarks.
Through a three-year programme, Visa has agreed to donate €100,000 to the city for the refurbishment and protection of its historical attractions.
The scheme is the first of its type in the world, according to Visa Europe's managing director, Antony Cahill. If successful, he said Visa would consider rolling out similar initiatives in other areas.
It works by urging both locals and visitors to pay with Visa, with signs going on display in local businesses, like restaurants and travel agents. Some of the extra revenue Visa makes would then go towards the restoration fund.
There are also donation points around the city where those with a card or contactless can make a direct contribution to the fund.
It came after research showed travellers believed they had more of an impact on their destinations than five years ago. Many wanted to lessen that impact by supporting local businesses – eateries and artists in particular.
More than 80% said they would be happy to forgo an activity that had a negative impact on the local community, while two-thirds reported they would be willing to volunteer during their travels.
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The Auxiliary Barbell Club is finally starting!
You've seen the logo at the front of the gym when you walk in. You've been curious as to what it was, and you may be wondering if it was for you.
Some may be interested in getting into one of these two sports on their own and eventually competing, others may want to use the club as an opportunity to focus on the Olympic lifts in order to improve at Crossfit. Either way I welcome the chance to help you along with whatever your goal is.
(Editor's Note: There will be no Open-Gym during these times).
All members will be given their own program (either 2x or 3x per week) to stick to for a minimum of 12 weeks.
The cyclical structure of the program will ensure that the important part of lifts are performed on a regular basis. Many of the exercises may start out as being quite foreign, but the athletes will become very familiar with them as they will be performed regularly.
In CrossFit, the programming is structured with three general areas (monostructural, weightlifting/strength, and gymnastics) while with the barbell club things will be structured differently, allowing us to really focus on the lifts.
As well, with CrossFit the members are always led by different coaches, while with the club, I will be able to work with the members more directly on a longer-term basis. This will allow me to become very familiar with all the athletes and really be able to work on individual weaknesses.
The most significant difference with a typical barbell club training session and a CrossFit class is that with the club, all athletes will be working on what they have in their program for that given day. I will not be leading a group class, but rather supervising and coaching the athletes on a more one-on-one basis.
If anyone has any specific questions about the general program or the club, feel free to ask anytime! Also feel free to speak to some of the athletes that I've been helping for the past several months. They've all shown great commitment and have really enjoyed the process (at least that's what they've told me.. :) ).
Weightlifting - Adolfo, Emily H. & Irim S. Powerlifting - Lisa Y. & Joyce W.


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The SSD or hard drive you can use is any 2.5" SATA drive with a maximum height of 9.5mm. STEP 8 Secure hard drive or SSD to the bottom of the caddy with the four screws provided.
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Install an old 40GB HDD that I have laying around as the second drive. Pull out the 200GB drive and replace it with the 400GB drive. Follow the steps that you outlined in your post.
If you replace the normal mechanical hard drive with SSD hard drive the Intel RST technology feature would be nullified. It would be better if you replace the 32GB mSATA drive with 128 GB or 256 GB mSATA drive on the system instead of going for SSD by using caddy device. mSATA drive is cheaper than the SSD drive.


Grasslands can help fight climate change. This farm couple hopes it's not too late.
Cedar chips spill from the walls of Kristen Martin's and Jared Clarke's newly bought bungalow. Family and friends are busy prying off wooden siding flecked with peeling paint. The home's only insulation, the chips had been packed between the two-by-fours and, after 60 years, had settled to the bottom of the frame. Scattered on the ground, they join glass windowpanes that have tumbled into the grass after a simple push from the inside. The doors, windows and siding are all being replaced to make their new home livable in the winter. The wallpaper and green carpet that covers the floors, even the bathroom, will come out later.
For $171,000, Martin and Clarke bought 160 acres of land just northwest of Edenwold, Saskatchewan. The 115 acres of wheat and canola waving in the wind would soon be harvested, the soil hosting their roots for one final winter. Come spring, the crops, which have been a mainstay since German-speaking immigrants settled the area in the 1880s, would be reseeded with the help of the neighbours, many of whom had been farming those grains for decades. But Martin and Clarke wanted them gone. They had moved here, 40 kilometres northeast of their hometown, Regina, for one reason: to nurture what many have forgotten and few value. It was time to return the land to grass.
While "prairie" is an official descriptor for the province of Saskatchewan (used by the Canadian Encyclopedia, for example), it is, in fact, a complete misnomer. Eighty per cent of native prairie in the province, a landscape denoted by grassland and aspen parkland, is gone. The remainder exists in large federal pastures and Grasslands National Park in the province's southwest corner, or in tiny islands dotting the bottom third of the province, where smaller pastures and marginal areas between fences and roads have escaped cultivation. The majority of the habitat loss happened in the early 1900s, when the province's population and cropland dramatically increased. Between 1906 and 1916, in the southwest corner alone, the number of people quadrupled and cropland increased ninefold. The majority of prairie residents living now wouldn't remember a time when yellow fields of canola didn't outnumber wheatgrass and golden gaillardia, plants that have blown in the wind each summer for millennia.
It's a pattern across the world. According to the International Union for Conservation Network, temperate grasslands are the most endangered and least protected ecosystem on the planet. Five per cent of the Northern Great Plains are located in the Canada's prairie provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, totalling 16 per cent of the provinces' land area. Five per cent of a country doesn't sound like much, but in Canada it means 114 million acres and, in Saskatchewan alone, 60 million acres. And of that five per cent of native prairie, only 3.5 per cent is protected.
It's not hard to speculate why southern Saskatchewan's natural landscape—rolling plains of mixed and moist mixed grasses with occasional groves of small trees or bush—doesn't garner the protection or fervour of, say, rainforests. The ecological drama of prairie land is by its very nature harder to see because most of it unfolds in the grasses themselves. One quarter-section (160 acres) of native prairie contains up to 100 different plants, which provide nesting grounds for dozens of migrating bird species.
Knowing exactly how much native prairie remains is like chasing the wind. Twenty per cent, a figure quoted regularly by the conservation community, comes from a 2001 study by the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan, and is based on 24-year-old satellite imagery.
While data from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada shows that grassland land cover has decreased by 12 per cent between 1990 and 2010, no provincial government report specifying the amount of native prairie has ever been released. In 2015, Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment began working on the Prairie Landscape Inventory, in response to the lack of data about the ecozone, but the project, which has so far only tested different ways of monitoring the endangered landscape, won't be completed for five to ten years. In the meantime, Ben Sawa, a landscape ecologist for the landscape and habitat assessment section with the ministry, says the province doesn't know how much native prairie is left.
The only way to know is to invest in field work that validates satellite imagery and is analyzed regularly. In other words, people need to be out on the landscape itself, which takes time and resources. It has been done, however. Alberta Environment and Parks completed a native prairie inventory in 1993 and updated it in 2006. The geospatial Grassland Vegetation Inventory provides "biophysical, anthropogenic and land-use inventory" of the southernmost part of the province. Likewise, the independent Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute has been keeping track of habitat loss for two decades and compiles annual reports on the human footprint in each of its ecoregions.
But in Saskatchewan, "Nobody's doing it," says Chet Neufeld, the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan's executive director in Saskatoon.
Neufeld says most people in Saskatchewan's conservation community guess that if newer images and data are released, more native prairie will be gone. He says the loss won't come from huge tracts of bulldozed land but smaller conversions: a quarter-section here, a road or two, there.
"Almost a death of a thousand cuts," he says.
The other threat is the destruction of habitat caused by invasive plant species. Kentucky Bluegrass, for example, the grass in conventional lawns, often makes its way from yard sites to prairie patches in the country. Once it takes root it becomes the dominant grass in the area, affecting the species that depend on the native grasses.
Agricultural cultivation still remains a threat, however. According to a 2016 report from the World Wildlife Fund, Saskatchewan and Alberta had the highest rates of prairie conversion to cropland in the Northern Great Plains.
While the prairie quietly erodes, another threat now looms. Saskatchewan has entrenched itself as the world's second highest per-capita contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accelerating the damage done by climate change, a reality that on the prairies means more intense storms and droughts that threaten native grasslands and other prairie ecosystems.
The small audience gathered at the Fort Qu'Appelle Senior Citizen's Recreation Hall gasps as water from a storm cell falls like a nuclear bomb on houses in Tucson, Arizona. It's as if the divine commitment to never again flood the earth was revoked for fun, just to see what would happen. Described as a "wet microburst" by local papers, for Tucson residents there would have been nothing micro about it.
Jared Clarke, standing to the left of the screen, pauses for the reaction and then moves on to the next slide.
His neat appearance—blue suit jacket, white collared shirt, jeans and suede shoes—cuts a contrast with footage of chaos: trucks and cars floating in muddy water down a street in Spain; blue-white glaciers, like the icy walls of Superman's Fortress of Solitude, exploding and crumbling into nothingness; a global warming time-lapse spreading graphic orange over black.
Since January, Clarke has been giving Al Gore's Climate Reality Project presentation on weekends and evenings at community centres and libraries in small towns in southern Saskatchewan. He attended Gore's climate leadership conference in Pittsburgh last October and, like a revival preacher, with a small emblematic green circle pinned to his left lapel, now spreads climate awareness like the gospel truth.
This being his eighth talk, Clarke knows the material well and speaks with conviction.
Despite his grey-flecked hair, at 32, Clarke is easily one of the youngest people in the room. The average age of the small crowd looks to be 60. People sit comfortably with Tim Horton's coffee cups in their hands or notebooks on their laps.
The presentation itself is made to convince people beyond a doubt that the effects of climate change are happening on a global scale, but also on a local one. While Regina, Saskatchewan's capital city, doesn't have cars floating along its streets, Clarke emphasizes that 2017 was the second driest year on record for the city and the driest ever for Moose Jaw and Assiniboia. Because of dry ground that shifted, Regina spent $4 million on water-main breaks the same year.
"We're doomed," one man whispers loudly.
When Clarke is done some press forward to talk with him at the front, while others visit in the red vinyl chairs or drift toward the coffee and cookies on the back table. If Clarke is craving a cup of coffee, he never makes it past the seats.
After the last thankful group says good-bye—all women, like 93-year-old Doreen who pushes a walker and worries about the polar bears and is getting hearing aids in a few days—Clarke sits down with a sigh.
"Are you tired of hearing me talk?" he says, grinning, before drinking from his glass of water.
It seems like he's preached to the choir. These aren't people who need convincing; many are already concerned. Clarke even knows some of them. And, for today, he's okay with that. "The big piece of these talks is just to have the conversation, especially in Saskatchewan where, you know, climate change is kind of a dirty word," he says. He hopes the conversation will spread.
Clarke teaches Grades 6 and 7 at Regina's Lakeview Elementary School. His students helped him present his first talk. Since then he figured he'd presented to 500 people by the time he brought his slide show to Fort Qu'Appelle. He wonders if he has made any impacts. Making climate change reality a palatable prairie message is nothing short of a challenge, but he has seen at least some opinions change. He says his father wasn't sure about humans causing climate change but is now convinced after seeing the climate talk. Such small gains are the reality of conservation work, something to which Clarke has resigned himself. Host of The Prairie Naturalist on CJTR, Regina Community Radio, he's a well-known voice in the province's conservation community but is unsure how many others outside that small community are listening.
Recent political moves in Saskatchewan don't encourage him either. Saskatchewan is the only province that refused to sign on to the federal Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change on Feb. 28, 2018. And now the provincial government is set to file a lawsuit against Ottawa over the plan's imposed national carbon tax. Saskatchewan misses out on $62 million as a result, funding offered to the provinces to kickstart clean energy programs.
Back on the farm near Edenwold, all didn't go as planned. Clarke and Martin's dream was to plant mostly native grass, but they soon realized they didn't have the pocketbook. Native plant seeds are expensive because of the time it takes to harvest them, and even with a rebate offered by Ducks Unlimited Canada, the couple's seed mix included cheaper, non-native species like Meadow Brome and Green Pubescent Wheatgrass.
Martin and Clarke's neighbours helped them reseed half of their cropland in 2010, the spring after the couple moved in. The tractor pulled the seed drill along, cutting rows into the soil with rotating discs, seeds falling among the wheat stalks already in the field. The wheat would keep the weeds under control while the grasses established. That spring was the wettest on record for southern Saskatchewan and while 40 rural communities claimed agricultural disaster across the Prairies due to the rain, the moisture helped Martin and Clarke's embryonic pasture to establish.
It's in the process of trying to rebuild native prairie that Joni Mitchell's line—"you don't know what you've got till it's gone"—rings true. Pulling up prairie destroys a complex web of interconnected plant species, ranging from tall grasses to millennia-old lichens and mosses on the ground.
Martin says the big hurdle is overcoming the weeds. They inevitably take over once the native cover is gone because native species take longer to establish. "It's almost impossible to get it back the way that it should be," she says.
Settling for non-invasive, non-native species was a compromise Martin and Clarke were both willing and forced to make. They added native Blue Grama Grass and Green Needlegrass to their mix, which also included native Slender and Western Wheatgrasses. Over the years, they've harvested seeds from the native wildflower garden in their front yard. When there's a wet day, they drop the seeds on the ground in the pasture and push them into the soil with their feet. Now when they look out on the field, the purple heads of Prairie Clover, Wild Western Bergamot, Giant Hyssop, and yellow stalks of Goldenrods dot the horizon.
"You'll have an approximation of a prairie but you just won't have the same thing," says Neufeld. "Anybody who practices restoration will agree that conservation is best because once it's gone, it's gone. You cannot replace that. That took ten, fifteen thousand years of evolution to happen."
Martin and Clarke originally wanted to put their grassland back to its prehistoric use and raise bison on the land, but their neighbours politely shook their heads.
"They were like, 'Oh boy, there's no way,'" laughs Martin, who recalls being told they didn't have the infrastructure to raise the massive creatures. After deciding they couldn't make cows work either, they settled on goats, a smaller and more manageable ruminant. Since 2010, they've averaged 35 goats a year, but are down to 11 now. The goats keep the weeds down in the grassland in the summer. In the fall some of the animals are sold for meat in Regina.
It's kidding season and, every two hours, Martin walks on the snowy path through the grove of spruce and ash lining the western side of the house. Her brown snow pants and orange toque stand out against the snow, which in March, stubbornly sticks around. Six-year-old twins Teal and Rowan amble along, underneath the branches where chickadees sing. Past the trees and through the wooden gate is the small red barn, where goats and their kids keep warm under heat lamps, snuggled in hay. The first kids were born in the small field behind the barn five days ago, at the end of a bitter cold snap in the middle of the month. Martin regularly checks the field and brings any new kids into the barn so that their wet fur doesn't freeze in the wind. Rowan and Teal feed grass to their favourite goat, Cutie, a white doe, and her new kid, Cockapoo.
Martin stays at home with the twins and the goats and works as a server at Bronco's Pub and Grill in a nearby town, Pilot Butte, in the evenings. She had the twins right after she finished her master's degree. Before that she worked as field technician for Environment Canada and Ducks Unlimited. She hopes to work in biology again, when the kids are in full-time school, but the scarcity of daycare near Edenwold makes it challenging. Her days are full, including acting as the secretary for Public Pastures-Public Interest, a small organization that raises awareness about native prairie in community pastures and public land.
The Public Pastures group holds its monthly meetings in Regina. While the conservation community in Saskatchewan is small, the farmers among them are even harder to find.
For Martin, living in the country with the twins can be isolating, but the land makes up for it. When they step outside their door, she says her kids see garter snakes, lots of different birds and wildflowers growing in the pasture.
The second half of Clarke and Martin's cropland was seeded last summer, a field they plan to use for hay once the grass establishes, which could take a couple years. Conscious of their carbon emissions from driving so much, they used their wedding money to put solar panels on their roof in 2016 and bought a hybrid vehicle at the end of 2017. For Clarke, their lifestyle choices are a result of looking the future of the prairie in the face and realizing what's at stake. The fact that 50 per cent of land-based species will be gone by the end of the century is the projection he wrestles with the most.
For Martin, their decision to restore prairie and live away from the city has meant they understand how their land supports them. The danger of intense droughts hit home last summer, when their dugout went dry.
Martin's words have even more import with the threat of climate change. While grassland has a myriad of ecological benefits like water and air filtration and soil stability, research from Diego Steinaker at the University of Regina in 2013 suggests that grasslands sequester more than double the amount of carbon in the ground per hectare, per year, than the Weyburn-Midale carbon storage project. So if prairie residents want climate solutions, all they have to do is look at the grass underneath their feet and make sure it stays there. When prairie is plowed, some studies show it loses around 50 per cent of the carbon stored in the soil through its plant matter.
After encouraging the group to pressure governments to pursue renewable energy and join initiatives like solar co-ops, Clarke ended his presentation in Fort Qu'Appelle by asking everyone what they would tell their grandkids, when, in 20 years, they ask, "What did you do to solve the climate crisis?" It was a bold question to pose to a room full of prairie people, who, at best, are conflicted about climate change and can see few alternatives to their current way of life. Weather variability is a natural part of the prairies and floods in Spain have little relevance in a larger province with a fraction of the population. But with wetter springs and drier summers projected for the rest of the century, the fate of Saskatchewan's already threatened landscape is unclear. The patch of prairie Martin and Clarke restored is now safe, but much more remains unprotected.
"Can we call ourselves prairie people if there's no more prairie left?" asks Clarke.
Forthcoming in The Crow magazine, Fall 2018.


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Iran: A Larger Threat Than Nukes
October 22, 2007: Many of Iran's neighbors are not as worried about Iranian nukes as they are concerned about a more aggressive Iran attempting to seize bits of disputed terrain throughout the region (as it has already been doing with small islands in the Persian Gulf), and asserting its traditional role as the regional superpower. Iran already has weapons of mass destruction (chemical weapons developed during the 1980s war with Iraq), but has never put them in play. Iran has never let terrorist groups have any of their chemical weapons, nor has it openly threatened to use this stuff against its neighbors. This is consistent with past behavior of Iranian leaders, who are not known for rashness. Iranian extremists, especially the Islamic militants, are another matter. They are kept under control, just barely. They are the wildcard that makes everyone, including many Iranians, nervous.
October 21, 2007: Western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a more aggressive stance against Iranian efforts to supply Islamic extremists in both countries with weapons. These included the deadlier armor piercing roadside bombs and portable anti-aircraft weapons. American and British commandoes have been tracking and attacking the smugglers right on the border, and often inside Iran itself. Not only has this left over a hundred smugglers dead, but it has resulted in many of these weapons being brought back and displayed for journalists. The major objective of these attacks is to terrorize the smugglers, and cut back on the number of weapons shipments.
October 20, 2007: Iran's top nuclear weapons negotiator, seen as a moderate, has resigned. This is an indication that the Iranians are done with negotiations, and are just going to stonewall the UN while they proceed with nuclear weapons development. Western efforts to impose sanctions on Iran have not worked well because the Iranians have, over the past two decades, developed an efficient smuggling network. This costs them more money, but with the rising price of oil, they can afford it.
October 18, 2007: Russia openly defended Iran's right to do whatever it wanted with nuclear technology (which Russia is selling to Iran.) This made it clear that Russia would veto any UN attempts to punish Iran further.
October 17, 2007: In the southwest, police arrested three members of Arab separatist groups and accused them of participating in terror attacks involving bombs.
October 15, 2007: In southeast Iran, rebellious Baluchi tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese graduate student and demanded ransom, the release of a fellow tribesmen from jail. The government has refused this, but has been unable to track down and free the foreign captive. That pretty much sums up the situation in this part of the country.
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What is an I-829 Investor Petition?
In order for an investor to complete the EB-5 process, he or she must file Form I-829 with the USCIS.
Free EB-5 Evaluation What is an I-829 Petition?
Two years after a foreign national's Form I-526 has been approved by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), he or she must submit Form I-829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions. Specifically, this form must be filed within the last 90 days of the investor's two-year conditional residency period. Failure to submit this form within this timeframe may jeopardize a foreign investor's ability to gain lawful permanent resident status.
An I-829 Petition must prove to USCIS that the investor has met all the requirements of the EB-5 Program. Once the I-829 Petition is approved by USCIS, an investor and his or her qualified family members will be awarded lawful permanent resident status.
Since Form I-829 is a petition to remove the conditions from the investor's permanent resident status, the investor must demonstrate he or she possesses conditional permanent resident status. This can be accomplished by providing a photocopy of the investor's Green Card.
Also, because removing the conditions from the investor's resident status is contingent upon successfully completing all the requirements of the EB-5 program, the investor must provide accompanying documentation that demonstrates he or she has met all the criteria of the EB-5 Program.
To demonstrate that a new commercial enterprise was established, the investor will need to provide federal tax returns that document the enterprise's existence.
In addition to proof that the enterprise was created, the I-829 and accompanying documentation must show that the enterprise existed through the duration of the investor's two-year conditional residence. Acceptable evidence may include state and federal tax returns, quarterly tax statements, bank statements, contracts, licenses and certifications, receipts, and invoices.
The investor will also need to provide proof that the requisite capital was invested. Such proof may include bank statements, audited financial statements, or some other form of evidence that demonstrates the investor's capital was received by the new commercial enterprise.
Additionally, the EB-5 Program requires that the investor's capital investment result in the creation of 10 full-time jobs. Certain tax documents and payroll records can be used to demonstrate this requirement was met.
For an applicant with a criminal history, certain legal documents must also be provided, such as related court records, law enforcement statements, or any records of arrest, sentencing, probation, or parole.
Typically, Form I-829 is prepared and filed by immigration attorneys on behalf of their EB-5 investor clients. The USCIS fee for filing Form I-829 is $3,750; if required, the biometrics services fee is $85.
This petition is sent to the USCIS California Service Center. Generally, it takes six months or more for USCIS to process Form I-829, and once processed, USCIS may request more information or schedule an in-office interview.
When an investor's I-829 is approved by USCIS, his or her conditional status is replaced by lawful permanent resident status, and he or she will be issued a new Green Card to reflect this status change. If desired, the investor may apply for citizenship five years after initially being granted conditional permanent resident status.


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4 Ways In Which Kalyana Vaibhogam's Manga Won Over Her Haters
From a village belle to a sassy girl, Meghana Lokesh's character has come a long way. We tell you why.
Updated on May 15, 2019 13:30:26 IST | By Sneha Bale
1. Talk! Talk! Talk!
Meghana Lokesh in Kalyana Vaibhogam (Source: ZEE5)
Meghana Lokesh has impressed us all with her performance as Nithya in the hit Telugu TV show Kalyana Vaibhogam. She also plays the role of Mangatayaru, also called Manga, who is starkly different from Nithya. While everyone thought Manga is a stereotypical village girl, she has slowly but surely surprised us with the changes in her character. After a long struggle, her husband Jai has finally accepted her, and despite Nithya's many machinations to kill her, Manga is still going strong. We list down four ways in which she managed to win over her haters.
Initially, Manga would only nod her head for everything and would rarely ever speak. This was because she was constantly afraid of people and their judgements. She took everything that came her way, without giving them much thought. Slowly, she started speaking out about what was right.
2. Adapting some sass
Meghana Lokesh in a scene from Kalyana Vaibhogam (Source: ZEE5)
Nithya gave crisp answers instantly to anyone who tried to put her down. While this seemed to be a far-fetched idea for Manga, she didn't fail to surprise us with her newly-adapted sass. Now we wonder who would win in the war of words between Manga and Nithya.
3. Creating drama
Meghana Lokesh as Manga in Kalyana Vaibhogam (Source: ZEE5)
The Manga that people initially knew was someone who hid behind curtains and walls when asked to face people. But now she can make people do things they wouldn't have imagined doing. From making people suspicious about her to getting her work done by them without them realising it, Manga has come a long way.
4. Giving them what they want
A still from Kalyana Vaibhogam (Source: ZEE5)
Manga never managed to say no to things she didn't want to do. People took advantage of her weakness and dominated her in order to get things done. Now, Manga can do what they want and take them by surprise. Her answers to people's questions are what they wanted but did not see coming.
Manga was once called weak and naïve and now she is leading the way while demolishing plans of the people she hates. Go check out how she does what she does in Kalyana Vaibhogam on ZEE5. Want to see more of her? Try watching Raktha Sambandham on ZEE5.
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Q: Log4j2 Grails RollingFileAppender I'm trying to implement log4j2 with grails 2.5.3 and I'm having problems with the configuration properties.
I my older projects with log4j 1.x I used to have in the config.groovy file something like this:
import org.apache.log4j.*
...
log4j={
environments{
        production{
            appenders{
                def rollingAppender = new RollingFileAppender(
                name: "rollingAppender",
                layout: pattern(conversionPattern:"[%p] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} (%t) %c{2} %X - %ms : %m%n"),
                file: "/tmp/logs/catalina.out",
                bufferedIO: false,
                maxFileSize: "300MB"
                )

            appender rollingAppender
            }
        }
        development{
            appenders {
                def rollingAppender = new RollingFileAppender(
                name: "rollingAppender",
                layout: pattern(conversionPattern:"[%p] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} (%t) %c{2} %X - %ms : %m%n"),
                file: "/tmp/logs/catalina.out",
                bufferedIO: false,
                maxFileSize: "15MB"
                )
            appender rollingAppender
            }

        }
    }
info aditivity:false, rollingAppender:"grails.app.services"
info aditivity:false, rollingAppender:"grails.app.controllers"

}

Now, I have seen XML configuration files everywhere but I can't find the way to do it like I used to. I mean, I want to load different configs depending on the enviroment the application is running. Is it a possibility with log4j2?
I have something like this now:
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DefaultRolloverStrategy
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout
...
enviroments{
            development{
            appenders {
                def rollingAppender = new RollingFileAppender(
                    name: "rollingAppender",
                    filePattern: "/tmp/logs_bkp/catalina.%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}.log.gz",
                    layout: new PatternLayout("[%p] %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} (%t) %c{2} %X - %ms : %m%n")
                    fileName: "/tmp/logs/catalina.out",
                    bufferedIO: false,
                    policy: new SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy(1024),
                    strategy: new DefaultRolloverStrategy(2,1,"min",false,5)
                    )
            appender rollingAppender
            }

        }
}

I know it has some errors, but I can't figure it out how to make it work without using the XML config file. Any ideas?