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Pedestrian Hit-And-Run Kills One, Leaves Boy In Critical Condition
Doug Zanes
A hit-and-run crash in Chandler has left one person dead and a 12-year-old boy in extremely critical condition.
The AZ Family reported on its website that the accident happened on at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Monday, October 21st, at the intersection of Alma School Road and Erie Street. An SUV struck the man and boy while they were in the crosswalk and did not stop at the scene.
Brian Merrion, one of the witnesses to the incident, said he heard the thump of a car hitting something and then a scream. "I came out a few minutes later to look, and I just saw a couple people in the street," Merrion told reporters.
There were several Good Samaritans at the scene, attempting to help the two victims. One was performing CPR on the man while others tried to help the boy.
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According to a statement issued by the Chandler Police Department, the man was pronounced dead at the scene while the boy was rushed to an area hospital in extremely critical condition.
The names of the victims have not yet been released by the authorities pending notification of family.
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Police investigators said that the driver of the SUV continued to head northbound on Alma School Road. The only description of the vehicle is that it was a dark SUV and would likely have significant front end damage consistent to such a collision.
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Understandably, the authorities want to find the hit-and-run driver in the case as soon as possible. Seth Tyler, with the Chandler Police Department, told AZ Family that the damage to the vehicle would have likely prevented it from being much further after the crash. "There could be radiator damage, or there could be other damage where the vehicle lost fluids," Tyler said.
Anyone with any further information is asked to contact the Chandler Police Department at (480) 782-4440.
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My first ever Star Wars fanfic (which I wrote in 2002) circles around the fact that Padmé dies of a broken heart. I'm not a fan of theories that the "Force-bond" or what-not between Anakin and Padmé was so strong that to survive his injuries he sucked the life out of her while she was giving birth or some sort of crap like that. Call me a Romantic, but I like the idea of her just dying of a broken heart better than anything else.
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Sigh the one thing I have against that theory is that they didn't say "She died of stress cardiomyopathy" but "We don't know what's wrong. She seems to have lost the will to live." I guess I can see that their medical culture doesn't focus on mentally induced conditions, but still...it makes Padme seem so wimpy. That, or that Lucas thinks the populas isn't smart enough to show a more specific diagnosis.


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Discussion: Do You Track XP?
How much XP does your current character have in them? If the GM wanted to bring someone new in at 75% of your XP could you tell them an amount? Is it written down somewhere, or would you have to re-work your character's build out to figure it out?
As a GM, how strong as your PCs? How much XP do they have? How much XP have you given out? Where will they be in three sessions? Five sessions? If someone new joined the game and you wanted them to be equal to the weakest PC, could you do it or would you need ot check with the PCs and rebuild characters?
Do you track XP? If so, why, and has it helped?
I started tracking XP a short while ago (with the start of my Star Wars game iirc.) Now on every new character, and in every new game, I keep track of how much XP I've given out to my PCs or earned as a player. it lets me double check my own math, and helps us catch errors when people have under or over spent on something.
At present, two of the three characters I play have fully tracked XP, and one does not because that game started before I kept track. I find myself regularly wishing I did track the XP that character had earned, because I use the totals so much in my other games.
In Esteren it helps me track how much XP I've lost buying back survival points from fighting (a lot...has to be near 40 XP at this point.) In L5R it lets me double and triple check my math. In my games I run it lets me catch when a player under or over spends, and also to plan accordingly for what I can expect my PCs to face because I know how much XP they have on them.
It works for me. How about you?
I should, but I usually don't unless the GM asks me to.


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Donald was born in Boston to Mary E. Bourget and Raymond Clark. He graduated from Weymouth High School and enlisted in the army at age 18. After his first enlistment in the army, he attended Newbury College and Wentworth Institute of Technology which prepared him to start his carpentry company, Busy Bee Carpentry. Later on, he reenlisted in the Army and had a long career as an Army Nurse Recruiter for which he received many recognitions and awards. Donald retired with the rank of Sergeant First Class after 20+ years of service. In addition to his military service, Donald was an active member in his community volunteering with local politics, his church, and the Andrew House in Boston. He had a passion for projects and spent many hours in his workshop in the garage.
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Home Asia Suicide bombing outside Pakistan shrine kills 8
Suicide bombing outside Pakistan shrine kills 8
International desk, May 08: A suicide bomber attacked security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 23 others, police said.
Officials said it was not clear if the target was the shrine itself, known as Data Darbar, or police outside guarding it. Hundreds of pilgrims were inside and outside the shrine, where a local Sufi saint is buried, when the blast took place.
Sufism refers to a mystical strain of Islam that often involves reverence for local holy figures and shrines. Sunni extremists view Sufism with hostility and have carried out attacks on Sufi celebrations and shrines across the Muslim world. In Pakistan, militants carry out near-daily attacks targeting security forces.
Lahore police chief Ghazanfar Ali said five police and three passers-by were killed in the attack, adding that the toll could rise as some of the wounded were in critical condition.
Raja Basharat, a senior provincial minister in the Punjab government, said the bomber might have caused more casualties if he had managed to enter the shrine. "Our police officers sacrificed their lives to save innocent people," he said.
"The fasting month of Ramadan began yesterday and this act of terrorism shows terrorists have no religion," he added.
Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, the governor of Punjab province, told reporters that those who carried out Wednesday's attack were the "enemy of Islam and humanity."
"God willing, the security forces with the cooperation of whole nation will defeat these terrorists," he added.
Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned the bombing.
Pakistanis in large numbers visit the shrine, where a pair of suicide attacks in 2010 killed and wounded dozens of people.
Lahore is the capital of eastern Punjab province, which has seen similar attacks in recent years.
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Home » Games » Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is the first release in the Super Mario series and is the successor to the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as part of Nintendo R&D4 which was later renamed to Nintendo EAD at the end of the Nintendo Entertainment System lifecycle and development started on the Super Nintendo.
Super Mario Bros. is a side scrolling platform game that was the first of it's kind. With that in mind Nintendo designed the first level, World 1-1 to serve as a tutorial for first-time video gamers on the basic mechanics of platform gameplay. The game is praised on its precise controls and is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time.
Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they travel the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser. They must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman.
It would go on to become one of the bestselling games of all time, with more than 40 million physical copies sold. It is credited alongside the Nintendo Entertainment System as one of the key factors in reviving the video game industry after the video game crash of 1983 and helped popularize the side-scrolling platform game genre. Koji Kondo's soundtrack is one of the earliest and most popular in video games, making music into a centerpiece of game design. The game inspired an expansive franchise including a long-running game series, an animated television series, and a feature film.
Developer(s) Nintendo R&D4
Series Super Mario
Predecessor Mario Bros.
Successor Super Mario Bros. 2
Platform(s) Nintendo Entertainment System
Release JP: September 13, 1985
NA: October 18, 1985
EU: May 15, 1987
Genre(s) Platformer
Sales 40.24m
Rating CERO: A
ESRB: E
PEGI: 3
Rereleased Platform(s) Ports
Super Nintendo (Mario All-Stars Compilation) –1993
Game Boy Color -1999
Game Boy Advance -2004
Wii -2006
Nintendo 3DS -2012
Wii U -2013
Nintendo Switch (Online Service) -2018
NES Works - Super Mario World
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Union Trust Co. v. Hill , 283 Mo. 278 ( 1920 )
The plaintiff brought suit, under the provisions of Section 2535, Revised Statutes 1909, to ascertain and determine the title to certain lands in Pemiscot County, asserting in its petition that the defendant claimed some interest adverse to plaintiff's title, *Page 281 and praying that the court ascertain and determine the estates of plaintiff and defendant, respectively, therein. To this petition the defendant filed an answer, in which he disclaimed title to all of the lands described in the petition, except the following portions:
"Beginning at the center of fractional Sections 17 and 18, Township 20, north, Range 12, east, on the left and east banks of Little River and meander south on the left bank as follows: South 28 degrees west 1060 feet to the corner of fractional Sections 18 and 19 of Township 20, north, of Range 12, east; thence south 521 feet; thence south 15 degrees west 602 feet; thence south 27 degrees east 251 feet; thence east 535 feet to the section line between Sections 19 and 20 of Township 20, north, Range 12 east; thence north 2244 feet to the point of beginning of this survey and containing 21.85 acres, being 3.20 acres of the land sued for herein."
As to the lands above described, defendant asserted title in himself, and joined in the prayer of the petition that the court ascertain and determine the title of the parties. A reply was filed, and upon a hearing of the cause the court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant has duly appealed.
The plaintiff's evidence consisted of the usual documents divesting title from the United States, first to the State of Missouri, thence to the County of Pemiscot, and thence to the plaintiff. Defendant's evidence consisted of a deed from one Story and wife to William J. Hill and the defendant, and from William J. Hill to the defendant, and defendant also introduced parol evidence tending to show title in himself under the Statute of Limitations. What title Story had to the lands in question, or how, when or from whom he obtained his title, if any, does not appear.
Upon the conclusion of the evidence, the cause was submitted to the court for judgment. The defendant did not ask for any declarations of law or findings of fact, and none were given. The case was tried without the intervention of a jury. A motion for new trial was filed *Page 282 and overruled, and the case is now before us upon the record above indicated. No further facts need be stated.
It will be observed from the statement of facts that appellant relied in part upon the Statute of Limitations to sustain his claim to the lands in question, and that he introduced evidence tending to show that he had been in possession of the lands above described a sufficient length of time for possession to have ripened into title. It will also be observed that respondent introduced no evidence to the contrary. The case was a law case, tried to the court without the aid of a jury, as stated, no declarations of law or findings of fact were asked by appellant, and none were given.
Respondent now contends that the finding of the trial court upon the questions of fact involved precludes a review of the evidence by this court, and that the judgment must for that reason be affirmed. This contention must be sustained upon the authority of a long line of cases beginning with Bryan v. Wear,4 Mo. 106, and continuing down to the case of State ex rel. v. Sturgis, 276 Mo. 559, l.c. 570. Among many cases maintaining this doctrine, the following may be cited: Gannon v. Gas Co.,145 Mo. 502, l.c. 515; Johnson v. Grayson, 230 Mo. 380, l.c. 394; Printz v. Miller, 233 Mo. 47, l.c. 49; St. Louis v. Railroad,248 Mo. 10, l.c. 25; State v. Frederici, 269 Mo. 689, l.c. 695, and Jordan v. Davis, 172 Mo. 599, l.c. 608. The reasons for this rule are set forth at length in the opinions in these cases, particularly in the Gannon case, and need not be repeated here.
A contrary doctrine was announced in Reichenbach v. Ellerbe,115 Mo. 588, and in a few earlier cases, but the Reichenbach case seems not to have been followed since the decision in the Gannon case, and is no longer entitled to be considered as an authority in this State upon the point here involved. Since it does not seem, however, that Reichenbach v. Ellerbe has ever been expressly overruled, we now declare it overruled upon this question, to the end that it may no longer serve as a false light to the legal wayfarer. *Page 283
With reference to the deed from Story and wife which appellant offered in evidence, it suffices to say that no showing is made that any title to the lands here involved was ever vested in Story, nor is this particular tract embraced, except possibly by inference, in the lands described in the Story deed.
Appellant relies upon the theory that this is a proceeding in equity and that, therefore, this court may review the facts. We have repeatedly held that cases of this character are cases at law when law issues only are tendered, and are in equity when equitable issues are tendered. [Lee v. Conran, 213 Mo. 404, l.c. 413; Hauser v. Murray, 256 Mo. 58, l.c. 84; Minor v. Burton,228 Mo. 558, l.c. 562.] The issues in the case at bar are legal and not equitable in their nature, and hence the rules applicable to ordinary actions at law apply. In actions at law the weight even of undisputed parol evidence is for the triers of fact and their finding is conclusive on appeal. In this instance the trial judge was the trier of the facts, and his decision is to be treated, under the circumstances here shown, as the verdict of a properly instructed jury.
The rule above announced makes it necessary that the judgment of the trial court in this case should be affirmed, which is accordingly done. All concur except Woodson, J., absent.
Combined Opinion from our Backup
Citation Numbers: 283 Mo. 278, 223 S.W. 434
Judges: WILLIAMSON, J.
Modified Date: 4/15/2017
Hunt v. Hunt , 307 Mo. 375 ( 1925 )
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Dillard , 328 Mo. 1154 ( 1931 )
Williamson v. Frazee , 294 Mo. 320 ( 1922 )
Kirkwood Realty, Ins. Adjustment Co. v. Henry , 349 Mo. 522 ( 1942 )
Clark v. Atchison Eastern Bridge Co. , 324 Mo. 544 ( 1930 )
State Ex Rel. Brewing Co. v. Ellison , 286 Mo. 225 ( 1921 )
Wrightsman v. Glidewell , 210 Mo. App. 367 ( 1922 )
Young v. Wheelock , 333 Mo. 992 ( 1933 )
Huttig v. Brennan , 328 Mo. 471 ( 1931 )
School District No. 52 v. School District No. 54 , 221 Mo. App. 393 ( 1925 )
High v. Railroad Co. , 318 Mo. 444 ( 1927 )
Morris v. Atlas Portland Cement Co. , 323 Mo. 307 ( 1929 )
Bank of Malden v. Stokes , 220 Mo. App. 131 ( 1926 )
Ford v. Transfer Co. , 318 Mo. 723 ( 1927 )
State Ex Rel. v. McKay , 330 Mo. 33 ( 1932 )
Sexton v. Sexton , 295 Mo. 134 ( 1922 )
Lafferty v. Casualty Co. , 287 Mo. 555 ( 1921 )
Conley v. Crown Coach Company , 348 Mo. 1243 ( 1942 )
Friedman v. United Railways Co. , 293 Mo. 235 ( 1922 )
Rusk v. West , 290 Mo. 433 ( 1921 )


What is the Girls Central/West Festival?
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*HNIB will be pre-selecting several players who will receive automatic spots in the August showcase based on their play this past season. During the round-robin series in the Girls Central/West Festival, players will be evaluated by two coaches on the bench and two observing off the ice to determine the 35-40 players who will move onto the Girls Major Showcase.
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In the wake of the death of a loved one, the family will need to hire an experienced Staten Island probate lawyer to make sure the probate process goes smoothly. It could wind up being that each family member winds up hiring their own Staten Island probate lawyer, but it all has to start with one legal point of reference. The DDC Law Firm has plenty of experience in estate administration and probate law, and we can help you and your family see the process through smoothly.
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DDC has a staff of attorneys who have experience in handling every aspect of estate administration and the probate process. We understand how confusing it all can be, and we also understand how emotionally draining it can be as well. Our approach is to treat everyone with respect and care enough to hear everyone's concerns about the process. Then we get down to the business of giving your family closure during a very difficult time.
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It started as a coffee shop conversation, and is now the UK's biggest schools' enterprise education competition.
In the summer of 2012, cousins Ben and Michael Dyer were sat in a coffee shop in Staffordshire University. Sitting opposite them were two well-dressed professionals talking about how young people didn't have the skills needed for the world of work.
The lads shared their exciting ideas with industry contacts and started the hunt for a high profile ambassador. With little money to finance the project and no proof that the concept would work, the chances were slim.
The summer came and went, and project plans were moving too slowly for anyone to be optimistic. Then a text message changed everything.
"I was lying in bed," remembers Ben, "when a message came though from Claire Young from BBC's The Apprentice, to say that Lord Sugar would front The Challenge." It took a few months to get contracts signed but finally the challenge had gathered momentum ready for a start in the New Year.
The Youth Enterprise Community Interest Company (CIC) was then formed, with its flagship being The National Enterprise Challenge, and Lord Sugar as the face of the inaugural competition in 2013.
#TNEC needed to hit the ground running. This was to be a huge undertaking. Big names, big challenges, big excitement, big hopes. From their first little office in a Stoke-on-Trent community centre, Ben and Michael Dyer, Oli Docksey, Simon Dyer and Ben Cooper started to talk to UK schools to let them know about this amazing, new enterprise opportunity that would help pupils understand the skills needed for the world of work.
In that first year, with only a few months' preparation time, The National Enterprise Challenge delivered its innovative fresh new education programme to 11,000 young people from 58 schools and welcomed both Staffordshire University and OCR as main sponsors of the Challenge.
The first ever #TNEC Finals Day was held at the Troxy Theatre, East London, and was attended by 600 people, including Lord Sugar. It was a huge success and schools wanted more.
Ben and Michael knew their idea worked, so started planning the second #TNEC and set out to acquire the perfect Ambassador to take the challenge onwards. Ben and Michael knew that the #TNEC Ambassador had to be someone who was passionate about young people and shared their long-term goal of bringing enterprise into mainstream education.
That person was Theo Paphitis, with his successful high street brand loved by schoolchildren across the country (Ryman), who became the challenges lead sponsor.
With these perfect partnerships in place, the 2014 Challenge saw the introduction of 'real-life' business challenges set by Ryman and the inspiring social enterprise fashion company, Gandys.
In just the challenges second year, it was delivered to 21,000 young people from 103 schools across the UK. "With Theo's endorsement and those exciting challenges, the Challenge doubled in size," reflected Michael Dyer.
Held in the Dyer's home county of Staffordshire in the Trentham Estate, the 2014 finals had 900 people in attendance.
Following the continued success of year 2, challenge number 3 had a lot to live up to… and it didn't fail in doing so!
The 2015 challenge was proudly fronted by Theo once again. Joining us was also The Alton Towers Resort, who set the KS4 challenge and The Leather Satchel Company, who set the KS3 challenge in collaboration with Ryman.
Over 30,000 pupils took part in our 2015 challenge and our finals day was held at The Alton Towers Resort with a turnout of well over 1,000. The day was hosted by ITV's Ben Hanlin and the entertainment was provided by X Factor finalists Only the Young. There was also the opportunity for the students to go on some of the resorts attractions to really top off a great day.
Then we had #TNEC Year 4. We were extremely proud to have Ryman, Theo, Staffordshire University and OCR to continue on this ambitious, shared aim with us.
With us last year for the KS3 challenge we had 'Kingswood' and 'Inspiring Learning' who set a fantastic, real-life business challenge. Our KS4 challenge was set by Ryman and was actually inspired by Theo himself.
Around 32,000 students took part in #TNEC last year, taking the figure to just over 100,000 since that coffee shop chat in 2012.
During #TNEC Year 4, Ben and Michael also agreed a deal to form The Inspirational Learning Group with the aim of becoming the largest off-timetable provider in the UK along with Jenny and Graham Wynn, Co-Founders of The TTC Group based in Telford.
The aim of doing this was to further the work of the challenge and move into other areas including careers, employability and teambuilding.
In our 5th year the aim was to achieve our biggest and best finals to date. During 2017 we worked with more than 40,000 students in 43 counties across the UK. With Challenges set by The Alton Towers Resort and Ryman we saw some truly great ideas and more importantly, lots of enthusiasm and passion for the challenges.
For our directors Michael and Ben it was an important year which saw them collect the Social Enterprise Entrepreneurs of the Year Award at The Great British Entrepreneur Awards in November. Shortly after our 1st Birthday in Telford, The Inspirational Learning Group was also announced as the Best New Business by the Shropshire Chamber of Commerce at their annual awards, a fitting accolade for the incredible achievements of 2017.
So what's on the cards for 2018? Michael and Ben have started to put plans in place for a college/sixth form version of the challenge which will have it's first finals in 2018. As for The National Enterprise Challenge, 2018 promises to see yet more innovation, creativity and excitement as we already have a record number of schools signed up.
Will your school be part of the story?
As you can see from Michael and Ben's own humble story that began in a coffee shop, anything is possible.


For many businesses fuel and fleet spend can be the second highest expense they incur, however with a few simple steps fuel costs can be controlled and reduced.
We believe businesses of all sizes, from sole traders to major haulage groups, have the chance to put money back into their pockets by taking action on the management of their fleet. Of course the simplest way to lower fuel costs is to invest in electric cars, some of the Nissan Leafs on our fleet have cost as little as £300 to cover 30,000 miles, £300 would barely cover 2,000 miles in a traditional car but electric cars with significant range are still in their relative infancy and likely to continue to be until 2020 so what can you do now?
Our top ten tips are recommended by the Energy Savings Trust. Making small changes to the way you drive can really help to improve fuel economy. What's more, Transport accounts for 25% of the UK's CO2 emissions, at just over 130 million tonnes of CO2 a year. These practical steps could help lower fuel emissions.
1. Drive off from cold: Modern cars are designed to travel straightaway. Warming up the engine just wastes fuel and actually causes engine wear.
2. Check your revs: Drivers should change up a gear before they reach 2,500 rpm (petrol) or 2,000 rpm (diesel).
3. Drive smoothly: Anticipate the road conditions; avoid accelerating sharply and braking heavily, in order to cut your fuel usage and reduce the likelihood of accidents.
4. Step off the accelerator: When slowing down or driving downhill, remain in gear but take your foot off the accelerator early. This will reduce the fuel flow to the engine to virtually zero.
5. Slow down: Drive within the speed limit. As well as being within the law, this is also safer and reduces fuel consumption.
6. Turn it off: Stuck in traffic? Turn your engine off. Modern cars use virtually no extra fuel when they are restarted.
7. Plan ahead: By planning your journey, drivers can avoid congestion and roadworks, and ensure they don't waste fuel or time by getting lost.
8. Make it long: Cold engines use almost twice as much fuel as catalytic converters can take five miles to become effective. In the case of short journeys, consider an alternative form of transport, if possible.
9. Reduce drag: Accessories, such as roof racks and bike carriers should be removed when not in use. They affect a vehicle's aerodynamics and reduce fuel efficiency.
10. Check tyre pressure: Under-inflated tyres are dangerous and increase fuel consumption.
If you'd like to find out more about how we can help you manage fuel consumption and your fleet, read more here or get in touch on 0300 302 0626.
You can also register for one of our FREE Fleet Management Seminars Here!


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Securitas concludes the acquisition of Proteg
By this resolution the Company's registered share capital is increased with SEK 16,989,644 through issuance of 16,989,644 new Series B shares, each share having a par value of SEK 1. The shareholders of the French company Proteg SA will be entitled to subscribe for the new shares at a subscription price of SEK 77.50 per share. Payment for the new shares is made in kind through issuance of shares in Proteg SA. Besides the new shares, the shareholders of Proteg SA will receive a total amount of SEK 1,017,000,000 in cash for the shares outstanding in Proteg SA. The new shares will carry the same rights as the existing series B shares, including without limitation dividend rights. The new shares will entitle the holder to receive dividends starting from the 1998 financial year.
The competition authority in France has reserved the right to evaluate, during another four months, Protectas' and Proteg's combined market shares in certain segments on the French market.


In Part 1 of this blog topic, I described the panel I'm on at the Left Forum at Pace University in NYC, on Saturday, March 20th at 3PM, entitled, "Exonerate the Rosenbergs?
The subject of treason came up in a rerun of the television series I was watching last week. Naturally, the heroes got involved in foiling a terrorism plot. While being given classified government information during a briefing they were told that if they divulge anything about it they would be committing treason. I didn't think anything of this at the time, perhaps because recently I've heard similar statements on several other TV shows.


The guiding lines of, "If it was easy, everybody would do it" has been with me since my childhood. Never did I fully understand what that phrase meant until I embarked on the pride swallowing (ego suspending/shattering) journey that is the Uniform CPA Exam.
Regardless of if you are someone who is in the thick of test taking, or even just one that is still dabbling with the idea of sitting for the exams, you probably have at least some fundamental knowledge of as to what makes up the components of the CPA exam sections. Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR), Business Environment and Concepts (BEC), Regulation, and Audit and Attestation, make up the exam's four sections.
I have sat and passed all four sections of the exam myself, and have been a CPA tutor for quite some time. After spending much time teaching CPA, and sitting for the exam, I always get asked the same question: "which exam should I take first?" The truth is, there is no magical formula to passing these exams, and each exam requires dedication and significant study time. Receiving a 75% is not about putting in "X" amount of study time or purchasing "Y" review course. Receiving a 75 % is about relentlessly reading material, relentlessly doing nonstop multiple-choice practice questions, and writing down all the acronyms and concepts that aren't always so simple to commit to memory. Receiving a 75% is about having down cold 80% of the required concepts, and giving yourself a 5% room buffer for fatigue and error. Personally, I seem to continually carry with me the, incessant paranoia of failure. The little voice that's telling me on test day that I still don't know enough. At the end of the day I'd rather not have it, but that little voice keeps me humming.
There is a reason that the majority of people who study hard sit right between a 70% and 80%, and that's because the exam is designed this way. It doesn't test your ability to memorize concepts, or cater to those who are "good test takers." It tests the candidate's ability to absorb and understand concepts, and subsequently apply them to real life simulations, and complex multiple-choice questions. In addition to helping you pass your CPA exams, our team's goal is to shell out weekly-ish blog posts of common questions, and an overview of things to keep in mind. We also intend for them to not be as dry as the material you are studying.
The answer is that every candidate is different. That being said, the exam is passable for any student. This is accounting, not biomedical engineering, or mastering Mandarin Chinese. Yes It it is hard, but it is doable — and far from impossible.
Can you pursue this designation while working through busy seasons? What about your social life?
From my experience, I have realized that in order to get it done, the majority of people, that means you, will only be able to sustain two of the three items listed above. Thus, you're going to have to sacrifice one of them. Assuming that studying will remain a priority, (and assuming getting the CPA designation is what you actually want for your career), this obviously is not going to be the sacrificial component.
So, therefore, you're left with either taking time off work, or going entirely MIA from your friend group. I think you know where this is heading. In addition, presuming that the majority of us have to earn a living, sacrificing number two is often times, not feasible, making eliminating number three the easy answer.
It is paramount to your success, that you don't delude yourself into thinking that you can manage all three of the above listed items, nor that you can cram for the five days prior to the test like you did before college exams. The harsh reality is that the CPA exams are designed to slap you right across the face with a 72%.
If you are serious about passing these sections, I am sorry to say, but sorry everybody, the fun is over — (for now).


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Recado rojo or achiote paste is a popular blend of spices. It is now strongly associated with Mexican and Belizean cuisines, especially of Yucatán and Oaxaca. The spice mixture usually includes annatto, oregano, cumin, clove, cinnamon, black pepper, allspice, garlic, and salt. The annatto seeds dye the mixture red, and impart a distinctive red-orange color to the food.

The paste is dissolved in either lemon juice, water, oil, or vinegar, used as a marinade for meat, or rubbed directly upon it. The meat is then grilled, baked, barbecued, or broiled. Sometimes, it is added to corn dough to create a zesty flavor and color in empanadas and red tamales. It may also be an ingredient when making tacos al pastor or chorizo.

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Atlanta brewery Sweetwater launched "Give of your liver to save the River" campaign benefiting Charleston charity.
Although water is one of the most vital resources on the planet, waterways continue to decline in quality and quantity in virtually every part of the world. Earth is home to one billion cubic kilometers of water, yet only 2.5 percent is fresh water. Of that, less than one percent is clean and accessible, leaving more than one billion people living without safe drinking water.
SweetWater Brewing Company realizes the importance of protecting these vital water sources and has once again teamed up with the Waterkeeper Alliance, and Charleston Waterkeeper—a local non-profit working to protect the community's right to clean water—for its Save Our Water campaign, supporting the conservation of the Southeast's most threatened rivers, streams and coastlines. The cause is near and dear to the brewery as clean water is also vital to the creation of their tasty brews.
Kicking off July 4 and running through Labor Day, SweetWater's Save Our Water campaign encourages patrons to "give of your liver to save the river" by enjoying SweetWater's seasonal Waterkeeper Hefeweizen ale, purchasing campaign t-shirts, and making paper fish donations at participating restaurants, bars and retail accounts where the beer is sold across the Southeast.
Locally, patrons can find the ale at Triangle Char + Bar, Bohemian Bull, Crafty Draught, Sesame Burgers & Brew, Closed for Business, Molly Darcy's, Taps Brew, Obrion's Irish Pub, Smoky Oak Taproom and Bay Street Bier Garten. Additionally, supporters can visit waterkeeperbrew.org to donate online, or purchase co-branded merchandise.
In 2011 SweetWater launched Waterkeeper Hefeweizen, a beer with a cause, helping to spread the campaign's crusade right on the beer label. Now, as part of their seasonal Catch & Release line-up, the unfiltered brew made its return to shelves and draft taps earlier this June.
SweetWater founded the Save Our Water program in 2006 with its local Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in Atlanta, and efforts grew larger as the brewery did.
Since the inception of the program eight years ago, SweetWater has raised more than $700,000 for the cause, with a whopping $150,000 raised in 2013 alone.
Today, the Save Our Water campaign supports more than 35 Waterkeeper members in Southeastern cities where the brewery distributes beer including Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana and Virginia.
"Waterkeeper Alliance is excited to partner with SweetWater for the Save Our Water campaign," said Pete Nichols, National Director of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
For more information on the Save Our Water campaign, upcoming events or to donate online, visit www.waterkeeperbrew.org.


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March 6, 2019 / KGNU News / Featured
Information for Foreigners is a play written by Griselda Gambaro in 1971. It takes a look at Argentina in the 1970's when the abuse of human rights was rampant and many people began to disappear. The play presents several examples of how authority can get out of control on the search for complete and total power. The play reminds viewers that this happens all over the world at different times.
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Maru Garcia, the director of a performance of the play, says that the message of the play is still relevant today, 48 years after the first time that it was performed. In the 1970's in Argentina, there was a dictator who would erase all opposition. This resulted in many scholars, students, and advocates for human rights would disappear.
Information for Foreigners will be an interactive play at the Red Rocks Community College. "The audience travels through different things watching different things in a different order. So the audience is divided into four different groups, and they see all the play, but everyone in a different order. There are also some characters that are interacting with the audience, just so the audience can also feel what is happening. So you are not only a spectator, you are also a participant in this aggressive way of doing things from the authorities. So it's a little bit of feeling the repression in their own self without attacking the audience. It's this transformation, this traveling from scene to scene that creates this environment for the audience to feel it in real life."
Performances of Information for Foreigners are March 7th, 8th and 9th at 7pm at the Red Rocks Community College Lakewood Campus.
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2019 Boulder City Council Candidates Join "Raucous Caucus"


Almost one million of Harris County's registered voters will be eligible to vote in the May 9 elections, according to Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart, the chief elections officer of the county. Early Voting begins Monday, April 27, and ends Tuesday, May 5.
The County Clerk's Office is conducting three of the May 9 elections: the Klein ISD Bond election along with the joint election for Humble ISD and the City of Humble. Voters residing in these three jurisdictions can find Early Voting, Election Day voting locations, and view a sample ballot at www.HarrisVotes.com.
Forty-seven political entities are conducting their own election.
"Voters should know that during the May Election cycle, sovereign political jurisdictions within the county can order an election and can conduct an election without the involvement of the County Clerk's Office," Stanart said.
The cities include Missouri City, Deer Park, Friendswood, Galena Park, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village, Hunters Creek Village, Jersey Village, Morgan's Point, Pasadena, Pearland, Piney Point Village, Seabrook, Shoreacres, South Houston, Southside Place, Stafford, West University Place, Waller and Webster.
The Independent School Districts include Alief, Clear Creek, Deer Park, Goose Creek, La Porte, New Caney, Pasadena, Pearland and Spring Branch. The only college district conducting an election is Lee College.


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Tomas Uresti is a Democratic former member of the Texas House of Representatives who represented District 118. He won the November 2016 general election and was sworn into office on January 10, 2017. Uresti was defeated in the Democratic primary on March 6, 2018.

Biography
Uresti served 13 years on the Harlandale ISD Board of Trustees and four years on the board of directors for the Bexar County Appraisal District before winning election as a state Representative in 2016. He lost his bid for re-election in the March 6, 2018 Democratic primary to Leo Pacheco, an adjunct professor at San Antonio College and former chair of the Bexar County Democratic Party. Uresti's loss was attributed in part to blowback from the conviction of his younger brother, former State Senator Carlos Uresti, on multiple counts of fraud and money laundering shortly before the primary.

In 2021, Uresti ran for the San Antonio City Council, but was defeated in the June 5 primary by Phyllis Viagran.

Legislative career
During the 2017 legislative session, Uresti was the House sponsor of Senate Bill 436, requiring Texas's Special Education Continuing Advisory Committee to comply with the Texas Open Meetings Act. The bill became law on September 1, 2017. Later that year, Uresti helped facilitate the sale of the notorious "Safe Tire" dump in San Antonio, a long-standing hazardous waste site, to Copart, Inc., an international, online vehicle-auction company, which committed to cleaning up the site as part of the deal.

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John Legend's wife Chrissy Teigen shares first pic of their baby daughter
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen.
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Grammy winning musician John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen are introducing their baby girl. Chrissy Teigen - the cookbook author, took to Instagram to introduce the world to the couple's baby girl, daughter Esti Maxine Stephens, born on January 13, reports 'People' magazine.
Sharing a photo of son Miles Theodore, and daughter Luna Simone holding their baby sister, Teigen wrote, "She's here! Esti Maxine Stephens - the house is bustling and our family could not be happier."
"Daddy sheds nightly tears of joy seeing Luna and Miles so full of love, and I am learning you still need diapers with a c-section!? We are in bliss," she continued, quoted by 'People'. "Thank you for all the love and well wishes - we feel it all!"
The proud father confirmed the news of their baby's birth on January 13 hours after his child's arrival while chatting with the crowd during a private concert. Shortly after, a source told 'People' that Teigen, 37, and Legend, 44, are both ecstatic about welcoming another baby, according to IANS.
"They both really wanted to add another baby to the family. It's been a long road," the source said. "Chrissy and the baby are doing well."
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Chrissy Teigen opens up about 'tough' recovery from endometriosis surgery
Chrissy Teigen has opened up about having endometriosis surgery this week, which she described as "tough" but better "than the pain from endo".
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid welcome their daughter
Singer Zayn Malik and model Gigi Hadid are officially new parents. The pair have welcomed a daughter, Malik announced on his social media accounts.
Gigi Hadid expecting first baby with Zayn Malik
Supermodel Gigi Hadid is reportedly expecting her first child with boyfriend Zayn Malik, as per several foreign media reports.
VIDEO: Dua Lipa captivates Dubai with spectacular gig
"Thank you Dubai for your energy... thank you for making my first trip out here so much fun," tweets English singer, songwriter and model.


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Ruggles River är ett vattendrag i Kanada.   Det ligger i territoriet Nunavut, i den nordöstra delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden Ottawa.

Trakten runt Ruggles River är permanent täckt av is och snö. Trakten runt Ruggles River är nära nog obefolkad, med mindre än två invånare per kvadratkilometer.

Källor

Vattendrag i Nunavut


Caring for a red ear slider turtle involves setting up a correct-sized aquarium or garden pond, providing ideal housing requirements, a proper diet, and regular tank cleaning.
The red-eared slider turtle, scientific nameTrachemys scripta elegans, is a subspecies of the semi-aquatic pond slider. Belonging to the family Emydidae, it is an aquatic turtle species which prefers to spend most of its life in water.
Its top oval shell (carapace) is green in color with irregular light and dark markings. Its name is given with respect to the red stripe present around the ears (on each side of the head) and its ability to quickly move sideways underwater, whenever necessary.
This turtle is native to the southern parts of the United States. However, with the increased interest in pet trade today, it is popularly reared as a pet in many parts of the world. If you are among those who love to have pets with a long lifespan, the red-eared slider and other turtle species are an ideal choice.
Although it is said that aquatic turtles require minimal maintenance and grooming, the care for these turtles involves more than just providing an aquatic habitat and regular feeding.
For every pet owner, this turtle is a great addition to home ponds and aquariums. Being an active reptile with excellent sliding abilities, it is very interesting to watch it swimming and feeding in aquariums. You will never get bored of caring for it.
Never consider rearing a wild turtle. You can instead purchase a healthy, disease-free animal whose carapace measures more than 4 inches (keeping very small turtles is illegal in the United States). Or you can adopt one from a turtle rescuer.
Look out for signs of sickness like a soft shell, sluggish nature, less appetite, or mucous secretion from the nose and mouth.
The size of the tank is not an issue for rearing juvenile sliders. If you are keeping a mature one, it usually grows to more than 10-12 inches, thus requiring an aquarium of about 100 gallon size. In case maintaining a large-sized aquarium is a concern for you, consider keeping your pet in an outdoor pond and erect a secured fence to protect it.
Fill the aquarium or garden pond with enough water so that your turtle can swim freely. Also introduce river rocks to set up a basking area for it. To be more precise, the water quantity should be about 10 gallons per inch of your pet size, while the basking area should be about one-third of the tank size.
The most crucial step in caring for this turtle is providing the correct habitat requirements in terms of lighting, temperature, and water quality maintenance. As this reptile requires ultraviolet ray exposure, you can install a 5 percent or higher UVB lamp.
The ideal water temperature range is 78-80 °F for hatchlings and juveniles, and 72-76 °F for adults. The air and basking temperature should be 70-80 °F and 80-90 °F respectively. Installing a good filter system is imperative to keep the aquarium water clean.
As this turtle breed is omnivorous, make sure you feed it a correct blend of natural and commercially-sold foods. As per experts, the proper diet is 50 percent vegetables (carrots, lettuce, water hyacinth, duckweed, etc.), 25 percent live foods (earthworms, crickets, shrimp, etc.), and 25 percent commercial foods.
It is best to feed your turtle in a separate tank to maintain cleanliness in the original enclosure.
Although this reptile is a voracious eater, strictly avoid feeding it in excess amounts or more frequently. Uneaten food will rot and soil the aquarium water, making your pet prone to illnesses. Whenever possible, remove the unused food and excretion from the enclosure. A 25 percent water change on a weekly basis is advisable to keep the water clean.
While keeping this wonderful turtle as a pet along with other inhabitants, make sure you keep a keen eye over it. It tends to be very aggressive at times, thus affecting those sharing the same tank. With proper care, you can enjoy the company of your pet for as long as 35 years.


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Every marketer is always after a different and unique marketing campaign when Christmas is looming. OK, so we have done our Advent Calendar for the last 3 years now, but it seems to work and it's Christmas, so giving out presents only seems right!
The idea first loomed around 4 years ago, long before my time at Conscious. David and the team decided to give it a go & we haven't looked back.
The idea is there's 24 days, 24 doors and of course 24 prizes (or in our case more). Luckily we have many friends in the industry who kindly donated prizes and even people offering us prizes half way through the month, so our doors filled up quickly.
We had £17,029 worth of prizes from various suppliers and ourselves, with 32 winners in total. There were tickets to shows, training sessions, food and copious amounts of champagne, including a Balthazar of Veuve Clicquot!
Now yes, the concept is simple, but in your eyes it may look like a lot of work. However, the real questions are, was it successful and should you think about maybe doing a 2018 Advent Calendar yourself?
We had a database of 5,052 business contacts that were already on our 'Santa's Nice List', made up of clients, prospects and partners from our email marketing lists. These people could unsubscribe on a daily basis, with an average of 16 people a day unsubscribing, meaning we had close to 5,000 people stick with us throughout the whole month.
Each day we would send them an email reminding them to go to our website and open that day's door. In the email we would state who won the previous day's prize, what the current day's prize was and information about the supplier of our prize, including their logo and pictures of the prize. With 32 prizes to give away, there were sometimes multiple prizes on any given day.
We were also active on social media and posted to our 2,594 followers on Twitter and the 940 followers of our LinkedIn company page about the prizes. We had tweets back from prize-winners including Lesley Davies from Stephensons, who sent us a picture of her and her wine, donated by Quill, next to her Christmas tree!
So what impact did this have? This campaign increased the sessions on our website, compared to the month before, by as much as 88% on some days. One day saw our page views increase by 109.51% compared to the same day in November! We also had users increase by 66% on some days compared to the previous month! On average users were up by 40%. So the stats look good and have increased traffic to our site.
Take a look at our entries per day and some of the findings.
£500 vouchers for eLearning courses from business protection pack on 123 courses plus Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi) from Sleepy Head Clinic.
9x golfers @ Collingtree Golf Club + dinner after from Law Firm Services.
1x website and phone call tracking from Shopper Anonymous plus 1 day free consultancy from Symphony Legal.
Year's subscription to Crosselerator for 5 seats.
One Month FREE Telephone Answering from Your Law Firm reception.
One day's free consultancy and a set of project management mini-guides from Nine Feet Tall.
Taste of Yorkshire' hamper from the famous Betty's of York from CBT Clinics plus tea boy for the day from Quiss.
Bottle of champagne and a divorce legal resource centre for 12 months from Atom.
Bombay Sapphire Hamper from Insight Legal.
10 free account and entity screen searches from Lawyer Checker.
1 x free delegate pass to LPM Conference in London, Birmingham or Manchester in 2018.
Two bottles of wine from Quill plus Apple iPad mini from ILFM.
Pricing 'Taster' presentation of up to 90 minutes duration in your office from Burcher Jennings.
London Theatre show for 2 plus, overnight hotel stay including breakfast in a 4 star hotel and a copy of the LMS Financial Benchmarking Survey from Lloyds Banking Group.
Lexpo'18 ticket (€395) plus one hotel night at hotel venue (€195) including £100 spending money.
12 bottle case of wine plus 2x ticket to Future Lawyer Summit.
A bottle of champagne from Booth Ainsworth.
So from our results you can see that anything you can eat, drink or play with had a higher uptake then any soft/services prize. Clearly you all enjoy a tipple or two.
Strangely though a Balthazar of Champagne costing £1,000 only had 309 entries less than two Gin Advent Calendars, valued at £125 each, that received 320 entries.
From the results you can see that any drinkable prize often had entry numbers in the hundreds apart from the 23-Dec (a Saturday) when a bottle of champagne only got 41 entries. Another observation made is that entries whatever the prize value, are significantly lower on the weekends, for example a prize valuing at £240 only received 20 entries on a Sunday.
Throughout the results you can see the dips in entries where the weekends occur, we still sent out daily emails but many people would not be checking these over the weekend, so would have simply forgotten to enter.
So was it worth it? Take a look at the stats below and let us know what you think in the comments below!
£17,029 worth of prizes given away to our lucky winners!


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Кирило (Митровић, Будва 6/19. март 1867 — Котор, 24. јул 1931) је био епископ Српске православне цркве.

Световни живот
Епископ Кирило (Митровић) рођен је 19. марта 1867. у Будви. Основну школу је завршио у Будви, гимназију у Котору, богословију у Задру, а потомје студирао теологију у Черновцима.

Монашки живот
Замонашен је 31. августа 1892. Рукоположен у чин ђакона 17. септембра 1892, а у чин јеромонаха 11. маја 1894.

Именован је за епископа захумско-рашког 27. маја 1908, декретом краља Николе.
Хиротонисан је за епископа 31. маја 1909. у Александро-невској лаври у Петрограду. За епископа бококоторског и дубровачког изабран је 7. новембра 1920.

Умро је у Котору 24. јула 1931. и сахрањен у манастиру Савини.

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Рођени 1867.
Умрли 1931.
Будвани
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SCHLUESSEL BLOG
There is a lot about The Rise Of Skywalker that is fun. It's a Star Wars film, it's worth seeing. BUT, I have some criticisms--I think Abrams has made a major mistake in shifting what the story is about.
The whole opening act is rushed. It's Star Wars, there's a tradition of beginning the films _in media res_, but this film chops off too much establishment. It's also edited badly...for the first half of the movie every shot is trimmed a half-second too short, not giving time for it to sink ink.
Someone on Facebook made the point that Poe & Finn are given color-matched love interests out of nowhere. This was particularly glaring since right before the film there was a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 that featured Chris Pine heavily...the whole point of Chris Pine's character existing in the first WW film was to prove that WW isn't a lesbian, and introducing Zorii and Janah as love interests who get to do fairly little except make sacrifices for men they've only seen for 30 seconds serves the same purpose here, steering these characters back onto a track of non-controversial, normative heterosexuality.
There are way too many nods to Lost, not just Dominic Monaghan in a minor role made more annoying by his conspicuousness but also a shot right at the end with a dying Rey looking up at ships flying overhead, mirroring one of the last shots of Jack Shephard in the finale of that show.
The whole prequel trilogy seems to get erased, which is weird for a conclusion to a nine-film story...no Hayden Christiansen force ghost, no visit to Naboo or any other planet from the prequels (there's a one-line Ewan MacGregor offscreen cameo). The AV Club's review talks about how the biggest problem with the film is that it walks back The Last Jedi but it's more than that.
Something I've talked about before is how expanding Star Wars beyond the original trilogy has shifted who the series is about. If you only watch A New Hope through Return of the Jedi, which is what I grew up with, the films are the story of Luke Skywalker, farmboy with a destiny. If you watch episodes 1 through 6, then they're the story of Anakin Skywalker's rise, hubris, fall and redemption.
I speculated once that the idea behind the new trilogy was to make the whole thing the story of the Skywalker family, and I think that's what it sort of tries to do...obviously the death of Carrie Fisher was worked around as best as could be done, and some lines and actions in the film were pretty clearly originally intended for Leia but then had to be redistributed or rewritten. That is life.
But by retconning Rey's origin -- she's not "nobody" anymore but Palpatine's granddaughter -- the emphasis of the tri-trilogy gets completely upturned. Remember, it's strongly implied in Revenge of the Sith that Anakin was a creation of the Sith in the first place. Therefore Rey and Ben's "dyad" starts with Palpatine. By ignoring the prequel trilogies, the only characters who appear in both Episodes I and IX are Artoo, Threepio and Palpatine.
Through the course of the films, who changes more, the Jedi or the Sith? The Sith, throughout, sustain themselves as a dyad of master and apprentice. The Jedi begin the series as a mighty, numerous order but by the end embrace the way of the Sith: a master and an apprentice. Are the Sith defeated? As much as they ever are. Are the Jedi defeated? Yes, they're reduced to one person, their history is lost, they've become the stuff of legend.
All nine films, taken together, become the story of the tyrant Sheev Palpatine. His machinations, his power, his hubris and fall. I don't want to say that that's an unworkable idea but Palpatine is a) the bad guy and b) never really fleshed out enough to be the center of the story. His first name is only ever stated, if I remember, in the Expanded Universe. In a film and series exploring the interplay between individual and family, volition and duty, he is only a last name.
Autocorrect wants me to write that as "Steve Palpatine." Somehow that's fitting.
#SFWApro
Here is what I understand is eligible for an award this year:
"Security Theatre" in The Fantasticon 2019 Program Book, Knud Larsen ed. (free to read on Curious Fictions here)
"A Funeral for Massachusetts," May 2019 [SFWA members: story available on the forums]
Infinite Metropolis (2019, Radiant Crown Audio, ongoing, with Mikko Rauhala)
"The Peter Principle" (February 2019)
So I just saw Joker. And I have a theory. Here's a deep dive.
Obviously, spoilers below.
I mean, Batman's like an 80-year-old IP, but still.
Okay. A major plot point in Joker is how Arthur's mother Penny says billionaire Thomas Wayne is Arthur's actual father but made her sign papers agreeing to cover everything up. Traveling to Arkham Asylum, Arthur reads a record of Penny's commitment and a diagnosis of delusions and narcissistic personality disorder.
The official story, then, which we also hear from Alfred Pennyworth and from Thomas himself, is that Penny worked for the Waynes but confabulated the whole affair as well as Arthur's parentage.
Penny wasn't lying.
Throughout the film Wayne is surrounded by fascist imagery, about as much as a contemporary audience will bear to see around a rich character -- always wearing black, targeted with a sign calling him a fascist, and of course he's a demagogue with contempt for ordinary people ("clowns") on an inexplicable rise to power. We even see him laughing along with other tuxedoed guests at a screening of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times -- Modern Times is of course a highly political, openly left-wing film where a clown character illustrates the plight of poor industrial workers.
This is maybe a bit tenuous on its own -- as I say, there's a limit to how much the contemporary US audience will tolerate a rich person being treated with anything but deference. But here's the other thing.
Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy, had a secret first wife. Her name was Ida Dalser. He had a son by Dalser, Benito Albino Mussolini. The elder Mussolini quickly grew bored with Dalser and took up with Rachele Guidi.
So, he abandoned Dalser.
Upon becoming dictator of Italy he used his position to destroy records of his marriage and publicly held that his marriage to Guidi was his first.
He had Ida Dalser and their son Benito thrown in separate asylums, where they both died: Ida in 1937, Benito Albino Mussolini in 1942. Throughout the rest of their lives, Dalser and the young Benito maintained they were wife and son to the Duce. Ida Dalser also claimed the dictator had been funded by the British and French early in his political career -- and she was finally vindicated on this point a few years ago.
The parallel: Penny and Ida both discarded by powerful men on the rise who used their power to not just silence but annihilate these women, with sons from these unions similarly denied--as the film closes we see Arthur, now the Joker, in Arkham Asylum. If we take the Thomas Wayne-as-Mussolini reading to its conclusion we also see both died violently in situations of social chaos.
Now, is Todd Phillips inclined to put this deep a reference into a film about, let's be honest, a comic book villain? Ehhhh... But co-writer Scott Silver (8 Mile, The House of Yes) might well be.
Moreover, I hope this theory is true because it undermines Joker's, and comic books' in general, biggest problem: the axiom mentally ill = villain.
This is not a bold statement: a person might have hallucinations or delusions, might have narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality, or any of a host of other mental health problems and still get taken advantage of or abused by someone else. A person might have any number of mental health problems and still tell the truth about their life.
We don't get a resolution to this question in the film. The closest we get is Arthur finding a black-and-white photo of his mother with a handwritten compliment from Thomas Wayne on the back. The audience is supposed to doubt without real proof--while at the same time taking in stride that the elements of Arthur's mental illness that disrupt his affect, hurt his ability to communicate and interact with others, magically wash away when he becomes the Joker.
In a certain sense this whole problem comes because the movie is strictly unnecessary: The Joker does not need an origin story because he's an expression of primal chaos (or, in the film's shorthand, he kills people). But if a screenwriter sets out to answer this question, they must formulate a world which makes the character plausible (or, better, necessary).
And that world, one like our own where the rich pay lip-service to caring about the people who create their wealth while seeking new ways to exploit those people, the one where Arthur's punchline is to "get what you fucking deserve," is also the world where women are abused and abandoned, where people with mental health problems are dehumanized, and where as long as all of us are atomized, divided up by identity and codes of behavior which serve only the powerful, we will get riots and chaos and not the transformation of society we need.
Last night I returned from Fantasticon 2019. I want to be careful to underscore I'm referring here to the Fantasticon in Copenhagen, Denmark, and not the events in the US or UK.
First things first, here's the story I contributed to the event's program guide.
I attended Fantasticon last year and had a really good time. I'd go so far as to call last year's con a formative experience for me as an author. I'd attended plenty of conventions in the past but Fantasticon 2018 was the first one where I felt like part of the writing community.
And getting to see friends again is always amazing. Getting to meet Nisi Shawl was both a pleasure and an honor. I was particularly struck by a comment they made during an interview on their pamphlet Writing the Other: in writing that piece on modes of oppression, there were some modes--namely, class--which were considered so taboo to talk about that they and their co-author felt compelled to avoid them. (It would have been nice to have met Tade Thompson too, but he withdrew. I don't know why.)
It was also an honor to have been welcomed to the convention as a Special Guest. My name was on the poster!
My name was on the poster!
The Fantasticon 2019 poster
Oh, god, the poster.
This blog post has been a long time coming since sometimes I'm too optimistic. Enlarge that image, look into that central figure's eyes and tell him how he's being presented here is all right. That figure has been staring at me since I first became aware of the poster in February.
The topic of the convention was Afrofuturism, The Con's poster portrays the very African-as-savage stereotype Afrofuturist writers are trying to overcome. Afrofuturism integrates the perspectives of people from marginalized cultures into a vision of the future those people have usually, whether through assimilation or extermination, been excluded from. This poster wraps a Hollywood-prop-department idea of Africa in a gauze of Hollywood-prop-department future. There were a few revisions to the poster too, after prompting. The original version still watches over the Facebook group, while a version with small changes was circulated a while after the original and turned into the event's printed poster.
The March revision
Months before Fantasticon 2019 I had a conversation with the organizer about the poster. I wasn't the only one who did and I was not the only person to say, this poster is not a suitable public face for a science fiction convention. Before the convention and at the convention itself I spoke to a lot of people, including some people who the convention especially should have been listening to, who told me that they were uncomfortable with the poster or that they'd raised concerns as well.
The only person I've heard enthusiastically endorse the poster was the Convention Chair. And how he did it lets me know the problem isn't just the poster.
Fantasticon always has a banquet dinner with a keynote speech from the featured guest. Nisi Shawl gave theirs, bookending it with quotes from a Joni Mitchell song:
I slept last night in a good hotel
I went shopping today for jewels
The wind rushed around in the dirty town
And the children let tout from the schools
I was standing on a noisy corner
Waiting for the walking green
Across the street he stood
And he played real good
On his clarinet for free
And I play if you have the money
Or if you're a friend to me
But the one man band
By the quick lunch stand
He was playing real good for free
Nisi was talking about altruism. They talked about being a saint. They talked about sacrifice, even putting yourself in harm's way to protect someone who would do harm to you.
The Chair gave an impromptu speech just afterward. The poster was excellent, he told us all, and complaints about it all came from "people who do not think like us."
A page from the program book
Then started the filk sing-a-long. Only quick action by an observant program participant kept the projector screen from telling the whole banquet room that we'd be singing along to the tune of "The Darkies' Sunday School." That quick action did not prevent the flippant reference to rape in the lyrics. "It was like something from the '70s," that quick intervenor said later.
Why am I amped up to 11 about all this? At a fundamental level, fandom is about storytelling. And something I've seen in every single fan community I've interacted with, going back something like 25 years now, is that the story fandom always tells best is when it's telling itself "we are tolerant, we are open, we accept everyone." Too often that story is a myth.
The Afrofuturist authors whose work and ideas this convention we're supposed to be celebrating -- if we won't listen to their message, are they "people who do not think like us"? The convention members who saw something wrong with the poster, whether or not they could clearly articulate it -- are they not part of "us"? Am I not part of "us"? You put my name on the damned poster!
I'm still just starting out. I've only got a few publications. In my mind it was supposed to have been a great boon for me to be a Special Guest. But I found I could not promote Fantasticon 2019 in the months running up to it because I was ashamed of the image it chose for itself and I knew that if I waved this poster around uncritically, I might be, rightfully, pilloried. I couldn't send a copy of this thing to my parents so they can hang it on their wall.
And I'll tell you, I was tempted to pull out of the whole convention, but that would have been punishing myself for the convention's mistake. I'm not going to let the convention's bad judgement separate me from my friends and I'm not going to let the convention's insensitivity take away a platform when I know I have something useful to say.
So I need to confess I was also tempted to shut up about it all. I procrastinated and hesitated before I started this post and I probably will again before clicking Publish. I'm lucky I have a secure job separate from my writing. Someone who was more dependent than me on these business partnerships the world of publishing forces us to pretend we're equal participants in might have felt far more pressure to acquiesce.
And this convention, it's 40 people fewer than it was last year. Danish organized fandom is struggling to grow and bring in new people. The little false whisper: "They're hurting enough, don't hurt them more!" The lying knife: "You're the wrong kind of oppressed, silence yourself!"
I decided a long time ago it's better for my soul if I'm not a saint. I will bring what solidarity I can. Jeannette, I owe you. We're us and you're us and they're us too, and we only grow if we all grow together.
The 2018 Fantasticon was a celebration of steampunk. Steampunk is an aesthetic. You can't oppress a gear.
The 2019 Fantasticon's topic was Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism is a movement rising up from oppressed people. Turn the world, turn the people, steal their oil, strip the gear?--let interwoven people stop, and the world stop turning.
The bleakest part of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, is its epilogue.
(Spoilers follow)
George Orwell wrote 1984 to consist for the most part of the story of Winston Smith, in the moment, following the last part of his life -- in writing terms the book uses the third-person limited perspective, meaning the reader knows only what Smith knows. The book is a depressing story of totalitarianism but Orwell uses one often-ignored device to provide a glimmer of hope: the in-universe essay "The Principles of Newspeak" at the end of the book.
This essay, presented as an explanation to some future reader about the language of Oceania, implies by its nature that at some point Oceania falls and that English-speaking is transformed. (That the essay is written in standard mid-20th century English also hints at the culturally-conservative timber that lay under Orwell's socialist bark.)
Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale uses a similar device, ending that book with a record of an academic conference convened on the topic of the Republic of Gilead. The main message of HT's epilogue was that Gilead falls and the United States is restored, and indeed Atwood comments in her author's notes to The Testaments how the questions implied by that statement led to her writing this new book.
Certainly The Testaments is a visceral novel. We get inside the head of Agnes, a woman surviving Gilead's system of indoctrination and institutionalized rape as we follow her from ages fourteen to twenty-five. We also follow Aunt Lydia, a leader of Gilead and a judge in her life before Gilead, as she speaks directly to us about her life of compromise and the reasons for it. (There are some points in Lydia's narrative that suggest to me she's meant to be read as an unreliable narrator, but that's a separate discussion.)
But the novel ends the same way HT does, with the same academics speaking at a new iteration of the same series of conferences. It's 2197, the United States is back and it has has restored Native American names to at least some places, implying a society at least superficially more progressive than today's.
But in that future professors still make sexist jokes, academics still scramble for funding and it's implied that Professor Pieixoto is getting credit for the work of his graduate student, Mia Smith. Participants in the conference engage in Gilead cosplay as a recreational event, detached from the horrors of its regime.
About two years ago a Bustle editorial talked about this exact point with regard to HT and now we have this new text from Atwood reiterating the situation. Maybe Gilead falls, and that is welcome, a great gain, but what, in the grand scheme, is the point if we don't create a society that makes a new Gilead impossible? The long scale of history makes every tactical victory part of a strategic defeat.
Atwood was not subtle in pointing the finger in HT: Commander Fred and Serena Joy are pencil sketches of 1980s televangelists Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker. The Testaments is even less discreet. We meet two colleagues of Aunt Lydia from her former life: a woman named Anita who prefers death to accommodating the new system, and a woman named Elizabeth who makes every possible concession to Gilead and ends up as a high-ranking but ineffectual schemer. I wonder how many of The Testaments' younger reader will recognize the namesake of the Schlafly Café (younger than me...I'm 40 and I barely get it).
But what is the message here? Resist and maybe we can restore a sympathetic, humanistic "normal," represented in The Testaments by Canada? We can reject that idea out of hand. Atwood has been absolutely clear that every terror inflicted on women in these novels comes from some historical precedent. HT was a warning about the America of the 1980s, of televangelists and of Reagan.
That age has faded to be replaced with something worse. The last gasp of the religious right in high positions of power in the US was probably John Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General, 2001 to 2005. Instead, we have neo-fascists on the rise outside the government, an outspoken proponent of sexual assault as President, and the loudest people singing the praises of Ronald Reagan are the so-called opposition, the Democrats.
The answer can't possibly be "resist, bring down the system from outside and we'll turn the clock back to 2016." The world we're in now isn't some accidental "darkest" timeline, it is the default timeline: every speck of 2019 was implied by the conditions of three years ago, of ten years ago, of thirty-five years ago, because the vast majority of people heard all those warnings and didn't do one substantial thing.
The Handmaid's Tale the TV show -- Atwood isn't writing it but embraces everything that's happened on the show in the text of The Testaments -- has struggled with one central problem for the past two seasons. June in the show is bending to Gilead as necessary in order to try to change it and save who she can. This past season was sold as one of "resistance." Yet HT the book and TV show are both tales of nearly-disconnected individuals, while no effective resistance to totalitarianism in history has ever come from a small number of isolated, disorganized people.
Between HT and Testaments Atwood has given us four connected, intimate narratives of resistance. As stories of oppression and suffering, of the psychological horror inflicted upon the women of the world by our sexist society, they are masterful. But for the overall plot to work, everything has to go right. At the end of The Testaments, too much goes too well for the protagonists, and Gilead's fall is handwaved to inevitability, yet the only barrier against its return is the fading good will of those who remember it.
I know what solution I believe in to this problem. If we want to make Gilead impossible we need to rebuild society as fundamentally as the transformation from feudalism to the present day rebuilt society. To do that, we need international mass organization of ordinary working people, and the people in those organizations must be willing and able to analyze society and take whatever steps necessary to change it. Even to do this is not sufficient to eliminate sexism, but the mobilization of all genders and the total annihilation of the world's class system is the minimum necessary to begin such a process.
That's what's hinted at in how the Mayday resistance to Gilead works: Marthas and Economen inside and outside Gilead exchange information, coordinate action and...
Our job is to fill in that ellipsis.
Otherwise the fullness of time makes Gilead's return in the world of the books, or its coming in real life, inevitable -- unless war or climate catastrophe get us all first.
Hey all. I'll be on five items for this year's Worldcon in Dublin:
Thursday 15 August 15:30 -- William R. Hamilton and the quaternions Talk, 50 minutes, Odeon 4 The invention of zero and negative and imaginary numbers required not just mathematical but psychological leaps. Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton went even further, inventing the 'quaternions': numbers which exist as four-dimensional objects. We'll see how the quaternions aren't just mathematical trivia but have applications both in relativity and in cutting-edge theories of particle physics.
Thursday 15 August 21:00 -- Making the asexual textual Panel, 50 minutes, Wicklow Hall-1
In the past, many asexual and/or aromantic characters in science fiction and fantasy stories have not been overtly identified this way. Should writers be more explicit in stating asexual and aromantic characters' identity? How do asexuality and aromanticness shape and change the way characters and their relationships with others are perceived or written?
Saturday 17 August 10:00 -- How astronomy might break physics
Panel, 50 minutes, Wicklow Hall-1
Astronomy and physics don't always have an easy relationship, for example regarding the singularity. Panellists consider how astronomy might break physics with phenomena like resolution of the black hole information paradox, time travel, multiverses, and quantum space engines.
Saturday 17 August 12:30 -- The mathematics of music
Panel, 50 minutes, Alhambra
Music and mathematics have often been associated with each other, whether in the relationship of elements of music to measurements of time and frequency, the notation used in composition, or the use of maths in the composition of music. Is maths a universal language that can cross musical styles?
Monday 19 August 12:30 -- Knot TheoryWorkshop, 50 minutes, Odeon 4
How do we know if a knot can be untied? How can we tell if two knots are the same? Everyday questions like these launched a new and growing area in discrete mathematics. From the most basic elements – loops of string – we will build up the essential ideas of knot theory and discuss its possible links with modern physics.
In addition to these, I'm helping organize a Larry Niven fan meetup and I'll also be volunteering at the SFWA presence and the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon bid table. Come say hi!
I just came back from the largely-empty opening night of Midsommar in Helsinki.
I think the smaller crowd might be related to parallax between the US and Finland. While the US doesn't really have any functioning religions anymore other than money and RuPaul's Drag Race, in Finland and the other Nordic countries pre-Christian seasonal traditions, including Midsummer's Eve, are still strong, celebrated with bonfires and flower crowns.
Hereditary writer-director Ari Aster draws on eclectic elements to build a kind of half-Viking/half-Aztec nature cult splashed with flowers and boldly-painted houses in a remote village. The whole effect visually is, and I say this without actual sarcasm, what you'd get if Wes Anderson directed The Wicker Man.
This is only Aster's second feature-length film and it's clear he's still maturing. I liked Hereditary and in Midsommar Aster doesn't just borrow but outright steals a lot of the elements that made that film work. In particular, horrific familial tragedy and the trauma therefrom setting the stage for a psychologically vulnerable protagonist to be drawn into the local shenanigans. (There's also the old trope of "mentally challenged = mystic powers" again -- he should be more aware.) The sheer number of self-quotations broke the immersion...watching what was, like in any decent country-horror film, a deeply silly plot demanding mental letting go, I kept finding myself analyzing the film, referring back to Hereditary again and again.
We don't have the star power of Toni Collette here, so the development of the characters is not as good as it could be. Florence Pugh does all right with the script but her character is given very little agency--even when she's finally given an important choice right at the end of the film, it is in every way a railroaded decision. This is because her boyfriend, played by Jack Raynor, is portrayed as uncaring and unsympathetic at genuinely every opportunity possible.
While this choice isn't invalid, there was space here for a bit more work. The boyfriend and the other anthropology graduate students rounding out the supporting cast of outsiders act like no anthro grads I've ever met, good or bad. They're just amoral and kinda dumb, missing major clues about the society they find themselves in even when those clues are literally waved in front of their, and the audience's, faces.
All this is balanced out, though, by the portrayal of Hårga, the remote village where the film takes place. In this respect, Midsommar presents a portrayal of Swedish countryside life that looks exactly like I always imagined, right down to the frankly quite restrained level of human sacrifice. The AV Club chooses to read Midsommar as a comedy and while I wouldn't portray the film that wat I can't deny how, especially in the final third of the film, there are some well-placed jokes and moments of absurdity to break up the bleakness that could make a film like this too heavy.
Is Midsommar a masterpiece? No -- it's too intellectualized, too much a work of craft rather than art. Is it worth seeing? Yeah, it was all right. I just hope the director gets the impetus to keep developing.
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