Everything has changed. My body, my desires, my appetite.
In seventeen short years, I've born witness to more tragedy than anyone should—and been the cause of far too much of it. With me I carry the memory of my death and that of my brother. I'm haunted by the sound of our last breaths in the mossy woods of Mystic Falls, Virginia, and the image of my father's lifeless body on the floor of his study in our magnificent Veritas Estate. I still smell the charred church where the town's vampires burned. And I can almost taste the blood I took and the lives I stole out of sheer hunger and indifference after my transformation. Most clearly I see the curious dreamer of a boy I once was, and if my heart could beat, it would break for the vile creature I've become.
But though the very molecules of my being have morphed beyond recognition, the world continues to turn. Children grow older, their plump faces thinning with the passage of time. Young lovers exchange secret smiles as they discuss the weather. Parents sleep while the moon keeps watch, wake when the sun's rays nudge them from slumber. They eat, labor, and love. And always, their hearts pump with rhythmic thuds, the blood as alluring to me as a snake charmer's tune is to a cobra.
I once scoffed at the tediousness of human life, believing the Power I had made me more. Through her example, Katherine taught me that time holds no sway over vampires, so I could become divorced from it, living from moment to moment, moving from one carnal pleasure to the next with no fear of consequences. During my time in New Orleans I was heady with my new Power, my limitless strength and speed. I tore through humans as if their lives were meaningless. Every warm drop of blood made me feel alive, strong, fearless, and powerful.
It was a haze of bloodlust. I killed so many, so casually. I can't even remember the faces of my victims. Except for one.
Her flame-red hair, her clear green eyes, the softness of her cheeks, the way she stood with her hands on her h*ps . . . every detail stands out in my memory with painful clarity.
It was Damon, my brother and former best friend, who dealt Callie her final blow.
In turning him into a vampire, I had taken Damon's life, so he took from me the only thing he could—my new love.
Callie made me remember what it was to be human, and what it meant to value life. Her death weighs heavily on my conscience.
Now my strength is a burden, the constant thirst for blood a curse, the promise of immortality a terrible cross to bear. Vampires are monsters, killers. I must never, ever forget that again. I must never let the monster take over. While I will forever bear the guilt of what I did to my brother—the choice I made for him—I must also avoid the dark path he is so hell-bent on following. He revels in the violence and freedom of his new life, while I can only regret it.
Before I left New Orleans, I battled the demon my brother, Damon, had become. Now, as I remake myself up North, far from anyone who's ever known me as either a human or a vampire, the only demon I have to battle is my own hunger.
I picked out a heartbeat, a single life, in the near distance.
The other noises of the city faded into the background as this one called to me. She had wandered away from her friends and left the well-worn paths.
The sun had just set over Central Park, where I'd exiled myself since arriving in New York City fourteen long days ago. The colors in this expanse of wilderness were softening, sliding toward one another, shadows blurring with the things that made them. The oranges and deep blues of the sky morphed into an inky black, while the muddy ground dimmed to a velvety sienna.
Around me, most of the world was still, paused in the breath that comes at the end of day when the guards change: Humans and their daylight companions lock their doors and creatures of the night like myself come out to hunt.
With the ring Katherine gave me I can walk in the daylight like any normal, living human. But as it's been since the beginning of time, it's easier for vampires to hunt during the uncertain hours when day slowly becomes night. Dusk confuses those who aren't equipped with the eyes and ears of a nocturnal predator.
The heartbeat I now pursued began to sound quieter . . . its owner was getting away. Desperate, I took off, forcing my body to move quickly, my feet to push off from the ground. I was weak from lack of feeding, and it was affecting my ability to hunt. Added to that, these woods weren't familiar to me. The plants and vines were as alien as the people on the cobbled streets a quarter mile away.
But a hunter transplanted is still a hunter. I leaped over a twiggy, stunted bush and avoided an icy stream, devoid of the lazy catfish I used to watch as a child, until my foot slipped on mossy stone and I crashed through the underbrush, my chase growing far louder than I intended.
The bearer of the heart I followed heard and knew her death was close. Now that she was alone and aware of her plight, she began to run in earnest.
What a spectacle I must have made: dark hair askew, skin as pale as a corpse, eyes starting to redden as the vampire in me came out. Running and leaping through the woods like a wild man, dressed in the finery Lexi, my friend in New Orleans, had given me, the white silk shirt now torn at the sleeves.
She picked up speed. But I wasn't going to lose her.
My need for blood became an ache so strong that I couldn't contain myself any longer. A sweet pain bloomed along my jaw and my fangs came out. The blood in my face grew hot as I underwent the change. My senses expanded as my Power took over, sapping my last bit of vampiric strength.
I leaped, moving at a speed beyond human and animal. With that instinct all living creatures have, the poor thing felt death closing in and began to panic, scrambling for safety under the trees. Her heart pounded out of control: thump thump thump thump thump thump.
The tiny human part of me might have regretted what I was about to do, but the vampire in me needed the blood.
With a final jump, I caught my prey—a large, greedy squirrel who'd left her pack to scavenge for extra food. Time slowed as I descended, ripped her neck aside, and sank my teeth into her flesh, draining her life into me one drop at a time.
I'd eaten squirrels as a human, which lessened my guilt marginally. Back home in Mystic Falls, my brother and I would hunt in the tangled woods that surrounded our estate. Though squirrels were poor eating for most of the year, they were fat and tasted like nuts in the fall. Squirrel blood, however, was no such feast; it was rank and unpleasant. It was nourishment, nothing more—and barely that. I forced myself to keep drinking. It was a tease, a reminder of the intoxicating liquid that runs in a human's veins.
But from the moment Damon ended Callie's life, I had sworn off humans forever. I would never kill, never feed from, and never love another human. I could only bring them pain and death, even if I didn't mean to. That's what life as a vampire meant. That's what life with this new, vengeful Damon as my brother meant.
An owl hooted in the elm that towered over my head. A chipmunk skittered past my feet. My shoulders slumped as I laid the poor squirrel down on the ground. So little blood remained in its body that the wound didn't leak, the animal's legs already growing stiff with rigor mortis. I wiped the traces of blood and fur from my face and headed deeper into the park, alone with my thoughts while a city of nearly a million people buzzed around me.
Since I'd sneaked off the train two weeks earlier, I'd been sleeping in the middle of the park in what was essentially a cave. I'd taken to marking a concrete slab with the passing of each day. Otherwise moments blended together, meaningless, and empty. Next to the cave was a fenced-in area where construction men had gathered the "useful" remains of a village they had razed to make Central Park, as well as the architectural bric-a-brac they intended to install—carved fountains, baseless statues, lintels, thresholds, and even gravestones.
I pushed past a barren branch—November's chill had robbed nearly every tree of its leaves—and sniffed the air. It would rain soon. I knew that both from living in plantation country and from the monster senses that constantly gave me a thousand different pieces of information about the world around me.
And then the breeze changed direction, and brought with it the teasing, cloying scent of rust. There it was again. A painful, metallic tang.
The smell of blood. Human blood.
I stepped into the clearing, my breath coming rapidly. The thick stench of iron was everywhere, filling the hollow with an almost palpable fog. I scanned the area.
There was the cave where I spent my tortured nights, tossing and turning and waiting for dawn. Just outside it was a jumble of beams and doors stolen from knocked-down houses and desecrated graves. Farther in the distance there were the glowing white statues and fountains installed around the park.
And then I saw it. At the base of a statue of a regal prince was the body of a young woman, her white ball gown slowly turning a bloody red.
I felt the veins in my face crackle with Power. My fangs came out quickly and violently, painfully ripping through my gums. Instantly I became the hunter again: balanced on my toes, fingers flexed, ready to claw. As I made my way closer to her, all my senses became even more aroused—eyes widened to capture every shadow, nostrils flared to gather in the smells. Even my skin prickled, ready to detect the slightest change in air movement, in heat, in the minute pulses that indicated life. Despite my vow, my body was more than ready to slice into the soft, dying flesh and lap up her essence.
The girl was small, but not sickly or dainty. She looked to be about sixteen. Her bosom jerked as she stuggled for breath. Her hair was dark, with curls highlighted gold in the light of the rising moon. She had been wearing silk flowers and ribbons in her hair, but these, along with her tresses, had come undone, trailing out behind her head like sea foam.
Her dress had a dark red slip buoyed by frothy white cotton tulle. Where her petticoats were torn, slashes of scarlet silk showed through, matching the blood that was seeping from her chest and down her bodice. One of her doeskin gloves was white, while the other was nearly black with soaked blood, as if she had tried to stanch her wound before she'd passed out.
Thick, curly lashes fluttered as her eyes rolled beneath their lids. This was a girl who clung to life, who was fighting as hard as she could to stay awake and survive the violence that had befallen her.
My ears could easily make out her heartbeat. Despite the girl's strength and will, it was slowing, and I could count seconds between each beat.
The rest of the world was silent. It was just me, the moon, and this dying girl. Her breath was coming slower now. She would most likely be dead in mere moments, and not by my hands.
I ran my tongue over my teeth. I had done my best. I had hunted down a squirrel—a squirrel—to sate my appetite. I was doing everything I could to resist the lure of my dark side, the hunger that had been slowly destroying me from within. I had refrained from using my Power.
But the smell . . .
Spicy, rusty, sweet. It made my head spin. It wasn't my fault she had been attacked. It wasn't I who had caused the pool of blood to form around her prone body. Just one little sip couldn't hurt. . . . I couldn't hurt her more than someone already had. . . .
I shivered, a delicious pain fluttering up my spine and down my body. My muscles flexed and relaxed of their own accord. I took a step closer, so close that I could reach out and touch the red substance.
Human blood would do far more than sustain me. It would fill me with warmth and Power. Nothing tasted like human blood, and nothing felt like it. Just a mouthful and I would be back to the vampire I'd been in New Orleans: invincible, lightning fast, strong. I'd be able to compel humans to do my bidding, I'd be able to drink away my guilt and embrace my darkness. I'd be a real vampire again.
In that moment, I forgot everything: why I was in New York, what happened in New Orleans, why I left Mystic Falls. Callie, Katherine, Damon . . . All were lost, and I was drawn mindlessly to the source of my agony and ectasy.
I knelt down in the grass. My parched lips drew back from my mouth, fangs fully exposed.
One lick. One drop. One taste. I needed it so badly. And technically, I wouldn't be killing her. Technically, she would die because of someone else.
Narrow streams of blood ebbed and flowed down her chest, pulsing with her heart. I leaned over, my tongue reaching forward. . . . One of her eyes fluttered open weakly, her thick lashes parting to reveal clear green eyes, eyes the color of clover and grass.
The same color eyes Callie had.
In my last memory of her, Callie was lying on the ground, dying, in a similar helpless pose. Callie had died of a knife wound in her back. Damon didn't even have the decency to let her defend herself. He stabbed her while she was distracted, telling me how much she loved me. And then, before I could feed her my own blood and save her, Damon threw me aside and drained her completely. He left her a dry, dead husk and then tried to kill me, too. Had it not been for Lexi, he would have succeeded.
With a tortured scream, I pulled my hands back from the girl and pounded the ground. I forced the bloodlust that was in my eyes and cheeks back down to the dark place from which they came.
I took a moment longer to compose myself, then pulled the girl's bodice aside to view her wound. She had been stabbed with a knife, or some other small and sharp blade. It had been shoved with near perfect precision between her br**sts and into her rib cage—but had missed her heart. It was as though the attacker had wanted her to suffer, had wanted her to slowly bleed out rather than die immediately.
The attacker had not left the blade behind, so I placed my teeth against my wrist and tore open the skin there. The pain helped me to focus, a good, clean pain compared to that of my fangs coming out.


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Fire Emblem Fates
Nohr or Hoshido?
By Murrdogg93, February 2, 2017 in Fire Emblem Fates
1. Which side would you choose?
Nohr
Hoshido
Abandon both sides
Fire Emblem Fan
Pronouns: He/Him
Favorite FE: Blazing Sword
I'd likely go the Revelation route. There is absolutely NO reason to go back to Nohr aside from your four siblings. Garon literally tried to turn you into an unwilling suicide bomber, and it's so painfully and ridiculously clear that he's insane and most definitely in the wrong. I couldn't bring myself to side with Nohr. However, at the same time, I couldn't bring myself to side with Hoshido, either. I probably wouldn't be able to face my Nohr siblings if I did. Now if they were just random soldiers and there was next to no chance of encountering them during the war...maybe. But they're royals, it's all but guaranteed I'd encounter them, so...I couldn't side with Hoshido, either. I'd go with neither.
Avarice Shadow
Fight your fate!
Location: Canadaland
Favorite FE: Three Houses
To everyone saying that Garon was behind Mikoto's death, didn't Corrin ask Garon if he knew about the sword and the explosion? Garon stated that he knew nothing of it. I don't remember this being proven false. As far as I'm concerned, Corrin (you) should only be under the impression that it was him and not stating that as fact in those arguments.
On topic, I honestly think that I would return to neither. I say neither because I'd have conflicted feelings about the whole thing. I wouldn't join Nohr because, my Hoshisibs exist and they care for me. Even if I don't know them too well, my mother lived with them and I could see that they treated her well. Let's not forget that she sacrificed herself to protect me.
As for the other side, I would have a ton of trust issues. My father presumably attempted to have me killed while I was in Hoshido. I would also be upset towards the Nohrsibs, specifically Xander and Camilla because they told me nothing about the Hoshidans. But at the same time they are also the ones(along with Leon and Elise) who visited me when I was locked up in that tower by myself for the majority of my life. So even if I hate Garon, I couldn't turn my weapon against any of my Nohrsibs and I wouldn't just stand by and allow them to get hurt.
Neither is the only option I can really pick since picking one side will most likely end up with me having to slaughter the opposition.
Edited February 4, 2017 by Avarice_Shadow
Jotari
Bring back Chameleons!
Favorite FE: N/A
1 hour ago, Avarice_Shadow said:
Well looking at it from the angle of what Corrin knows, Corrin only gets the chance to ask Garon that by choosing Conquest. In an absolute sense Garon does say Corrin was nothing but a pawn to be used against Mikoto in Birthright so that's pretty high evidence that he was behind the plan. Of course that's looking at it from the perspective that Garon actually has any sentience of his own at this point.
Edited February 4, 2017 by Jotari
Nanima
Kumirova
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Favorite FE: Radiant Dawn
Both Garon and Sumeragi (you know, the one who actually made the sword explode) are servants of Anankos. The entire plan was set up by Anankos and Garon acted on his orders. So yes, it is proven fact that Garon had a hand in Mikoto's death whether he was filled in on all the details by his master or not. I doubt Garon thought (if he has thoughts that is) that the evil pulsing sword he was meant to give to Corrin would bring sunshine and rainbows to Hoshido.
6 minutes ago, Jotari said:
If Garon was behind the plan, then why lie and say he has no idea about the attack when Corrin confronts him in Conquest? But in Birthright he says something different? He doesn't fear or respect Corrin either so it seems very odd for him to lie.
14 minutes ago, Nanima² said:
Fair enough. I can't deny that he did have a hand.
1 minute ago, Avarice_Shadow said:
Might not be for Corrin's benefit and instead its for the other people in the court at the time. Nohr is a pretty totalitarian place but still, confessing to a covert assassination using otherworldly magical means in an attack that killed dozens of innocent civilians, might not be the best public relations option.
1 minute ago, Jotari said:
Yeah that does make more sense when I think about it like that.
Favorite FE: Awakening
18 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Or it's just for the simple fact that Garon wouldn't be able to manipulate Corrin as easily if he went "yeah I killed your mother, what are you going to do about it?".
35 minutes ago, Thane said:
I don't think Garon actually wanted to manipulate Corrin any further at that point. He just wanted him/her dead. Only Anankos was staying his hand (which coming to think of it does imply Garon has some free will of his own and isn't just a talking piece for Ananakos. Why Anankos wouldn't allow Garon to kill Corrin is never really explained. I guess we can only assume it's due to some lingering fatherly affection towards her? Even though his good half was apparently destroyed entirely and Corrin was conceived after the split). But saying "Oh yeah I totally used you as a sleeper agent to kill your mother, by the way I'm going to execute you now" would cause him to lose quite a lot of Xander's unreasonable loyalty.
B.Leu
I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa~~
Favorite FE: Path of Radiance
By the Choice Chapter, Garon already tried to kill me, three times. Not once, not twice, three.
Hoshido ? Who are these people ? I meet them in what, three chapters, and they expect me to be their perfect... thing.
Oh and they all like to BS their way Marxander knew Kamui was kidnapped, and Ryouma knew he/she wasn't connected to his family.
All of those things are obviously never expanded upon, of course. (bad writing)
On 02/02/2017 at 5:57 PM, Res said:
Screw all of them!
Squabbling over Corrin as if Corrin's a piece of meat.
And this too. This makes everything creepier when you think about it.
I mean, if you think about it as if the plot made any kind of sense yeah, but still. Creepy as hell. Corrin is even more like an object than Azura.
Where do I sign up a pact with Lucifer to massacre them all ? At this point, joining Anankos sounds like the best piece of writing ever.
I'll do either that, or something like:' Okay, you guys are the kind of people no one want to know, so I'm getting the hell out of here. you can continue to do your things. Hopefully, I'll be able to forget about you people.'
Edited February 4, 2017 by B.Leu
astrophys
Hoshido, obviously. Garon, Nohr's King, just attempted to murder me, not once but twice [orders to Hans, Ganglari]. Going back to him is sheer insanity. And if the Nohrian "siblings" are still going to fight for him even after this, then clearly they've chosen Garon's side over my side and thus they've betrayed me to when I needed them the most.
On 2/3/2017 at 1:02 AM, Tolvir said:
So removing ALL game mechanics, Corrin is not a push over in terms of his actual power. If he can kill a deity like Anankos, he could kill Garon.
Going by the game's own story cutscenes, he can't even HURT Garon until he achieves Noble Yato/Shadow Yato. Anankos is killed with the even more powerful Omega Yato.
DKlein89
Favorite FE: Sacred Stones
I'd choose the neither path because, like Corrin tries to do at the beginning of Revelation, I'd be wanting them to reconcile and not fight at all in the first place.
MeddlingMage
Favorite FE: Fates: Birthright
Even though I like some of the characters in Hoshido (mainly Ryoma, Sakura, Asugi, Rhajat, Caeldori), I chose Nohr over Hoshido. Nohr has all my favorite units in the game. It has Selena, Xander, Soliel, Laslow, Odin, Ophelia, and Peri. Plus I really do love Elise over Sakura.
Done with everyone's shit
Location: Garreg Mach Monastery
My heart would say Nohr because the people i love would be on that side. But my morality would say Hoshido because those guys are in the right when it comes to the actual conflict. It would be a hard choice
leetic
¡Prepárate a morir!
Pronouns: Any/All
Location: Pennsylvania Coal Region
I would go with the side that didn't try to just kill me (Hoshido). I'd personally want revenge after Hans "killed" my father figure, and my adoptive father giving me something that could've killed me. Joining Nohr would be equivalent to suicide. I'd try hard to get the Nohr siblings to see my side, though.
Edited February 14, 2017 by Bandido Banderas
Murrdogg93
Favorite FE: Fates
On 2/10/2017 at 5:56 PM, Loki Laufeyson said:
That's what I like about this game. It's a choice that is legitimately challenging for people to make.
The Internets
Location: The Fifth Dimension
Hoshido. In a heartbeat.
Well, for one, it's already obvious to me that Garon is a one-dimensional asshole with no redeeming traits that cares so little about his own children that he would order one executed by his or her sibling, but Nohr in general is the bad guy who clearly needs to be defeated. Not to mention, after learning that I was kidnapped by said madman and my not really biological father was murdered, I think I'd have something of a bone to pick with that guy,
Considering that Hoshido is just trying to defend its way of life and people from a crazy maniac, Hoshido is the clear, non-selfish path to choose. Granted, it would be painful fighting the siblings I grew up with, but I like to consider myself a morally decent person, and if they're siding with a conquering madman, then I'm afraid we don't have much in common anymore.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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TV ReviewsLegionSeason 3
A trip into fairy tales helps a hero return to the world of Legion
Alex McLevy
Photo: Suzanne Tenner (FX)
The rap battle between Oliver and Jerome is maybe the single silliest thing Legion has ever done. Sillier than a lip-synching mouse, sillier than any droll witticism or stomping on a previously enormous delusion creature or any of it. On an episode already experimenting with a far lighter and more playful tone than just about every episode that's preceded it, it pushed the series into a downright goofy realm. But circumstances aside, if you can't enjoy a ridiculous rap battle between Jemaine Clement and Jason Mantzoukas, I'm not sure I want to know you.
LegionSeason 3
"Chapter 25"
Every season of the show has featured an episode that revolves around Sydney. Season one had "Chapter 4," essentially told from Syd's point of view, and the second season had "Chapter 12," which functioned basically as a mental boot camp constructed by the touch-averse mutant. But whereas those installments used Sydney as a vehicle to talk about David, this allowed Clement and Jean Smart to return as Oliver and Melanie Bird, in order to take center stage in a tale (and it was a "tale," in the classically fantastical sense of the word) that was all about Syd. More specifically, about how to raise someone to be a good person in a world that has more than its fair share of evil, danger, and corruption lurking around every corner. And like all good fables, it's deceptively simple: A basic lesson about morality and growing up hides a teeming morass of questions and complications regarding the values we try to instill in one another, and what the circumstances of our lives ultimately do to our innermost selves.
Most importantly, it's about failure. Having been essentially psychically consumed by David, Syd's consciousness travels to the astral plane, the place where lost dreams and minds wind up, often being scavenged by the enterprising Oliver. After an entire childhood and adolescence growing up under the loving and watchful eye of her astral-plane parents, Teenage Syd decides the right thing to do is rescue her adopted sister Cynthia from the Wolf, a.k.a. Jerome (Mantzoukas, bringing his signature heightened intensity to the role—he's a perfect fit for a fairy tale villain, someone alert Disney). And after they knock out her malevolent kids, kidnap her back to their loving arms, and Olvier is about to deliver the knockout blow against Jerome in the aforementioned rap battle, Cynthia steps in...and chooses the wrong side. She doesn't want to be saved. She's decided on her place in the world, and no matter how convinced everyone else may be that she's making the self-destructive choice, it's hers to make. You can't rescue someone who doesn't think they need rescuing. Sometimes, the good guys lose.
I mean, how can you be mad at this, come on now
But the difference between outcome and action, between reality and desire, has always been central to Legion's warped narrative. Since the beginning we've been questioning what's real, relying instead on the people trapped inside these varying planes of existence to stabilize our perspective and ground the story. But with David's pivot into villainy comes an unmooring of the reliance on identity—now, it's almost the reverse: We look to the individual and idiosyncratic situations to help determine what to make of the people trapped inside them. Last week, I mentioned that David had forgotten a core tenet of being a hero, that the removal of any higher purpose or structure to the universe means the only guiding light we have to become our better selves is our actions, no matter how seemingly meaningless. And this is the ultimate lesson Melanie and Oliver impart to Sydney: You don't do something because it will succeed or fail, you do it because it's the right thing to do.
It's a lesson that Syd's own family was never able to deliver. In fact, it's a whole childhood that she receives from the former proprietors of Summerland, almost from birth. Legion is coming down hard here in the nurture-over-nature camp, arguing that people need the right childhood to shape them into the right kind of people. "It's about the order of things," Oliver explains to teenage Syd, 16 and eager to cast off the shackles of protection her parents have maintained. The idea of feeling safe is central to his worldview, and by extension the show's; stability and security from the cold wider world is imperative to not making decision based in fear. You have to learn love before you learn hate, he says, "Otherwise everything goes to hell." Cynthia is presented as evidence for the latter outcome, someone who should know better but is scared to make the decision, because she learned hate before love—she doesn't think she deserves love as a result.
On the surface, this could come across as facile, and to a degree it does. But it's an intentional simplicity, a reductiveness required to highlight just how messy all the complicating factors of life have made Sydney's inner world, and how hard it is to find your way back to the fundamental intentionality that should drive us. Just as fairy tales lend their basic morals to kids as a key to crack open the thorny matters of everyday behavior, so too does the tale of The Astral Plane And The Wolf illuminate the difficulty in pushing yourself to action when inaction is so much easier. And crucially, the key element in Syd's development is empathy. It's the point of the bedtime story Melanie tells her as a girl, that only when you can feel so strongly the pain or sadness another is experiencing—when you have empathy—that you can understand the importance of trying to do good and help others, irrespective of outcome, and especially irrespective of whether it makes you personally feel better. "Remember, it's not us or them, Melanie tells the reawakened Sydney for her final lesson, before the gifted woman transfers herself back to the real world. "It's us and them."
So Sydney returns, and gathers Cary and Kerry in her attempt to enter the time stream and stop David, with the Time Eaters hot on their heels. Which leads us to maybe the most moving moment of the entire episode, so powerful precisely because it shows instead of telling, discarding the entire fairy-tale apparatus that preceded it and just demonstrating everything Oliver and Melanie were talking about. Cary takes on Kerry's pain, knowing full well it might cripple him, because it's the right thing to do. He takes on another's pain, because love drives him to do so. It's great that Syd had the help of an entire other lifetime to give her the emotional resources necessary to press on. But she had a perfect example of empathy right there on the ship, all along.
Stray observations
Cary: "Stop fighting." Kerry: "That's like me saying, 'Stop worrying.'"
Tonally, it was jarring at first to adjust to the rhythms of this episode. But I think it soon found itself, right around the time they pull Cynthia into the straw house to save her from the Wolf.
Congratulations, Flight Of The Conchords fans, your patience with watching this series for Clement must've really paid off tonight.
It was interesting to see how the show portrayed Oliver and Melanie as avoiding the real world, only for their "true" selves to reappear at the celebration, much to Melanie's happiness. We've already seen the time-jump from last season with them living in the ice cube, but time is obviously a little flexible when it comes to the Birds.
"Don't forget chlamydia!"
Alex McLevy is a writer and editor at The A.V. Club, and would kindly appreciate additional videos of robots failing to accomplish basic tasks.


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The company, which is valued at $314.99M, last published its earnings results on Thursday, 11/08/2018 for the quarter that ended in Sep-18. The business posted revenue of $55.30 million for the three-month period, above $4.84 million, compared to analysts' forecasts of $50.46 million with a surprise factor of 9.58%. The organization posted -$0.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the three-month period, missing the Thomson Reuter's analyst consensus estimate of -$0.08 by $0.01– amounting to a surprise factor of -16.47%.
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Now let's examine some potential support and resistance levels for this particular stock. Following a recent spotcheck, the public organization Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG) has been observed as trading -30.57% away from its 90-day high price. Taking a look at the other side of things, this stock has been trading +35.35% away from its 90-day low. Moving to a broader perspective, this stock has recently been trading -40.97% away from its 52-week high and +35.35% away from its 52-week low price.
Regular shareholders want to find out how lucrative the capital that they've invested into a business has become. This particular public company has given a ROE of -198.30% . The lower the ROE, the worse a business is at generating profits. The Return on Assets (ROA) ratio, on the other hand, shows how profitable an organization is relative to its total assets owned. This company's ROA is currently -27.90%. A business that is good at managing their assets will show a higher return, whereas if they poorly manage their assets the return will be low. This public organizations Return on Investment (ROI) is -57.40% . A percentage that's positive means that profits exceed costs – so analysts consider the investment as a net gain. A negative result, however, indicates that costs outweigh profits – wo analysts would view it as a net loss.
Now let's look at this public company's trading volatility. Its 1-Week Volatility currently stands at 2.53%, while its Month Volatility is 4.52%. This stock's ATR (Average True Range) is currently 0.07, and its beta factor is currently 1.97. Volatility demonstrates how much the stock will dive or rise if the wider market suffers or surges. A stock that has a beta score higher than 1 means that volatility is high, while less than 1 means that volatility is low.
This organization's stock showed a trading volume of 1.27 million shares, compared to its average daily volume of 2.89M shares.


How Should the Dollar Affect Your Portfolio?
A key psychological principle that often features in investing is what's called the "recency effect" — when the most recently presented items or experiences are the most likely to be remembered.
We believe this principle is a big part of what's driving financial markets lately. Specifically, memories of last year's dramatic, rapid rise in the U.S. dollar and its impact on U.S. manufacturers, exporters, emerging markets, and commodity prices are currently fueling fears that the potential U.S. interest-rate hike could trigger a sequel.
We believe that the dollar's likely path from here is still higher, but that the pace of this dollar appreciation will be much, much slower. That in turn means that any headwind for dollar-sensitive companies or financial instruments should be at least relatively limited. In contrast to the summer of 2015, investors are already discounting a modest, further dollar headwind across a number of financial markets and securities; in other words, at least some bad news is already reflected in financial-instrument pricing.
As we have noted previously, longer-term currency values are driven by two overarching factors: valuation and balance of payments' shifts. Back in mid-2011, the trade-weighted dollar (the dollar against a basket of the largest trading partners of the U.S.) was near its lowest level since becoming a freely floating currency in the early 1970s. At that point, it was easy to say that the dollar was drastically undervalued and therefore biased higher. Starting in the middle of 2011, the dollar stopped declining and began to recover, slowly. The trade-weighted dollar then followed a bumpy road higher, appreciating by 11% during the subsequent 38 months.
In late summer 2014, this gradual trend abruptly shifted to a dramatic surge. Between early July 2014 and March 2015, the trade-weighted dollar climbed by more than 23%. The importance of this trend change cannot be overstated. For about three years, the dollar was rising by about three-tenths of a percent each month. Then, for nine consecutive months, the dollar gained an average 2.6% per month.
The speed of the dollar rally was more problematic, in our view, than the exchange-rate levels that resulted. By moving quickly, global corporations could not easily change their currency hedges or thoughtfully plan how to stay profitable and competitive in overseas markets. Not surprisingly, such companies (often large U.S. multinational firms and/or exporters) saw hits to their quarterly earnings. During the third quarter of 2015, year-over-year earnings growth for the least dollar-exposed companies in the S&P 500 index outperformed the most dollar-sensitive companies by more than 6% (excluding energy companies). Translating the corporate level to the macro economy, U.S. exports hit a brick wall: year-on-year export growth slid from a roughly 4.0% pace to -3.7% as of September 2015 (levels last seen in 2009).
What drove that dollar rally, and could it occur again as we head into 2016? Is it a risk for certain U.S. firms, the equity market broadly, or even the whole U.S. economy?
When we look back at 2014 to early 2015, we believe the dollar's rise was driven primarily by two related factors: a sudden collapse in commodity prices (mainly crude oil) and diverging expectations for interest-rate policy and net capital flows (favoring the U.S.). Understanding each of these can help us predict what may lie ahead.
Commodity collapse. During the same nine-month period when the dollar skyrocketed, commodity prices hit an air pocket. The Bloomberg Commodity Index fell around 28%. Brent crude led that decline, losing more than 50% during those nine months. The degree of the oil-price fall, largely unprecedented outside of recessions, was driven primarily by a policy shift in Saudi Arabia (focusing on market share instead of a certain price), and a buildup of supply, particularly in the U.S. where technology had materially supported production. A slower Chinese growth trend — with less commodity demand — also contributed.
The relationship between the dollar and commodities is not consistent or always straightforward (it depends what factors are driving commodity prices). However, there is often an inverse relationship where lower commodities lift the dollar and vice versa. For instance, a weaker dollar can fuel inflation worries and commodities might be purchased as an inflation hedge.
Also, as commodities are usually priced and traded in U.S. dollar terms, a weaker dollar could lead producers to increase prices so that revenues, when translated into local currencies, hold steady.
Diverging monetary policy and net capital flows. Two-year U.S. Treasury yields were rising during 2014, with many investors (and the U.S. Federal Reserve) anticipating the start of U.S. monetary policy tightening at some point in the not-distant future. The big policy news in 2014 that lifted the dollar, though, came from overseas. Specifically, Japan shocked investors when it expanded its Quantitative Easing program in October (increasing annual asset purchases by 30 trillion yen). Shortly after, European Central Bank (ECB) officials started hinting at possible Quantitative Easing. Hints became reality on January 22, 2015, when a new, large-scale program was announced that was set to run though September 2016. Japanese and euro-area bond yields fell sharply into and after these policy announcements, making U.S. yields (and in turn the U.S. dollar) relatively more attractive. The German 10-year government bond yield touched a low of seven basis points in April this year. Net capital flows (particularly into U.S. bonds) were a notable dollar support.
Before discussing what will drive the dollar in the year ahead, we should acknowledge that the impact of the 2014-2015 dollar surge is still working its way through the economy. As Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer recently noted, a 10% trade-weighted dollar rise historically has pulled real U.S. exports lower by 3% in the first year and more than 7% after three years. As we think about U.S. growth in the year ahead, we are already expecting exports to be a drag, all else equal (as are consensus estimates for growth).
That's the economy. What is discounted in market values? Data suggest that U.S. equity earnings estimates have yet to materially diverge between internationally-sensitive and domestic-oriented companies. That points to potential risk in 2016 if the dollar has another robust rally.
What about the currencies themselves? Using Bloomberg-published forecasts as of November 13, investors are already expecting modest further dollar strength, specifically against the Japanese yen and the Chinese renminbi.
From our perspective, if the dollar only gains a few percentage points in the year ahead on a broad basis, and especially if such gains come slowly, it will be a nonevent for investors, as it is increasingly expected through a number of channels. Indeed, a slower trend, even if it is still a strengthening one, could be seen by some as a relief and a signal to consider adding exposure to U.S. dollar-sensitive companies.
Central bank divergence is greater than expected. While further Bank of Japan (BOJ) easing is not a consensus view, it is frequently discussed and at least partially discounted. More ECB action, as soon as this December, is much more priced in at this point and should only result in modest euro selling, in our view.
The bigger wild card overseas is probably China. As we noted in our October 2015 Quarterly Investment Perspective, we think China is unlikely to materially devalue the renminbi anytime soon barring a sudden, negative shock for its economy. Even then, it would not be an easy call, as other regional central banks would likely weaken their currencies as well to stay competitive. The net boost for China would thus be dampened. Further, a sudden China devaluation would likely trigger some negative political repercussions. China is leading the Group of 20 country meetings in 2016; this could threaten the success of its leadership in that forum.
In the U.S., financial markets are currently discounting one hike in December and another two 25-basis-point rate hikes in 2016. The upside risk for the dollar would be if the Fed gets more aggressive than expected. We do not rule out such a risk, but think it is pretty limited given the Fed's desire to not appear politically biased ahead of the November 2016 election as well as views among the central bank that the U.S. economy continues to exhibit a fair amount of slack.
Another commodity price collapse. The Bloomberg Commodity Index currently trades at its lowest level since mid-1999; it is more than 30% below long-term averages. Brent crude, meanwhile, trading around $44/barrel, is also below long-term averages and at the lowest level since early 2005.
We find it highly unlikely that crude oil prices fall meaningfully and/or sustainably from current levels. Demand appears likely to prove at least moderately stronger in the year ahead, driven mainly by developed-economy consumers but also by a somewhat less challenged Chinese economy (the latter still structurally slowing but helped shorter-term by a variety of stimulus efforts).
Supply, meanwhile, is more complicated. U.S. supply is set to decline in the year ahead, as reduced production finally has an impact. Non-U.S. supply is still being supported and could rise further in the year ahead as Iran sanctions are lifted (though some of this supply expectation is already discounted into oil prices).
One question mark (and perhaps the most critical one) on supply, in our minds, is Saudi Arabia. The oil shock has resulted in the kingdom being unable to meet social spending needs without issuing government debt for the first time in years. Indeed, the kingdom is now running a budget deficit equal to about 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) while growth rates have slowed. Saudi Arabia continues to have low debt ratios and large foreign-exchange reserves; it may be willing to tolerate deficits for some time; however, we do not think the kingdom has tolerance for significantly lower prices from here and/or for a prolonged period.
As of mid-November 2015, Bloomberg consensus estimates expected Brent crude prices to stage a very modest recovery during the next several quarters — from levels around $44 to $65 per barrel by end-2016. (Note that the year-end targets ranged between $45 and $76 per barrel). The oil market by year-end 2016 was discounting prices around $53 per barrel, below the consensus median but still 20% above current levels.
• Dollar strength should be more limited simply by valuations. The trade-weighted dollar today is close to its absolute historical average and has climbed above its 10-year moving average. It also appears notably overvalued against a number of specific currencies around the world (including the euro, where we see longer-term fair value against the dollar closer to 1.15-1.20).
Overall, we do see the dollar appreciating further in 2016, and possibly a bit more than consensus estimates expect (especially against the euro). Our portfolios have been overweight the U.S. dollar relative to benchmark for the last few years via our choice of securities as well as outright currency positions.
We expect to hold that tilt into 2016. Partly, but certainly not only, because of our dollar view, we have also been underweight commodity and commodity-related equities. While we do not see a large, imminent bounce for commodities (especially base metals), a stabilization of crude oil prices in the year ahead could lead our portfolio managers to consider greater exposure in these and related areas.
Taking a step back and looking at markets more broadly, a more gradual dollar rise from here would be a plus on the ledger for investor sentiment. We head into 2016 overweight equities, knowing that the later stages of the economic cycle usually mean more frequent bouts of volatility. However, we are skeptical that 2016 will see this heightened volatility, again, from the U.S. dollar.
Patterson is chief investment officer with Bessemer Trust.


Purposes stated in the Rural Development Bill are "to narrow the socioeconomic divide between rural and urban regions", "to ensure effective utilization of human resources and funds", "to promote cooperation and participation of rural people in implementing rural development undertakings for their better living standards", and "to realize the development of socioeconomic life of rural population". The bill mainly focuses on "rural water supply, personal and environmental hygiene, electrification and rural housing".
A Union-level supervisory committee formed with heads of government agencies under the leadership of minister and deputy minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation will enforce the bill. The committee will help each village set up their own capital guarantee funds.
The Department of Rural Development will spearhead the rural development projects through procurement, coordination and supervision.
According to the bill, rural communities will have the right to offer their inputs and make suggestions in rural development projects. No detailed information about how these comments will be taken and processed and how the village-level working committees will be formed.
A capital guarantee fund will be set up with contributions of the State budget, local donors, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and private donors. Working committees in each village will have to take care of the fund with the bookkeeping assistance from the Department of Rural Development. Villagers are allowed to take loans from the fund, and they will have the right to spend the interests on the loans on the village projects.
The bill text [in Burmese language] is available here.Write to us if you would like to share your opinions!


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I'm not a reviewer. Don't really know how to review. I'm lazy that way. For me to write a review, the story has to be good. That means that the material should be a four or even five stars. Three stars is okay, but I won't write a review for that, and anything below three I won't bother, unless the book is unforgivably that bad and should be torched.
Haven't come across one of those… yet.
So I'm a horror fan and I'm a zombie fan. I really enjoy the apocalyptic possibilities of a world infected with some whacked out contagion that turns granny and her bingo buddies into a mass of munchers hungry for still quivering flesh. There are quite a few stories out there, in film and book, and it's hard to find something that's been done well. It doesn't have to be 100% original for me, just done well. Quality will draw attention to itself moreso than quantity and will trump every time.
So for you, if you are thinking about picking up this book, I have good news, and then better news.
Knight has written a quality book. How good is the "The Gathering Dead?" It's damn good. It's good enough for me to overlook the typos and nitpicks found, and just be swept up in the story. It's good enough that I stopped reading while halfway through the book, just to start writing this while some of the action sequences are still playing out in my mind… and I swear you'll be sizing up stairwells and congested avenues with a different eye next time you're in one (I know I will). Where I've thrown down unfinished paperbacks that cost four times as much, I ate this one up. And for only $2.99.
I won't go on about what I think makes a good zombie tale, and I've suffered through enough bad zombie tales to know that Knight has his game on in this. His life in the military comes through here, and his characters all know their business. There is a lot of tension, explosions, and a lot of shooting. There are casualties, as to be expected when a small force is up against a city of the dead. I don't want to give anything more away. Read the description, and that's what you can expect.
I'm not sure exactly why some other posters didn't like the story, but I just checked the ratings for this one, and I see four folks didn't care for it, while the majority of readers that bought the book did. Can't guarantee that you will, but I know I did enjoy it. Gobs n gobs.
Oh yes, the better news I mentioned.
Knight has other stories out there. Ones with vampires in 'em. For this reader, that's potentially great news.


For those of you booked with us on one of our Alternative Treks, we have now added Telescopes to our campsites (one campsite on each trek). See how the Peruvian skies differ from your sky at home. Learn about our constellations and why the Incas relied on them so much for weather and farming conditions.
For those of you coming from the northern hemisphere, this will be eespecially interesting. With the South Pole facing the galactic center of the Milky Way, the southern skies provide a much brighter white stripe of the Milky Way – and the majestic Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (our Milky Way's satellite galaxies).A northern observer will see things topsy-turvy when looking at the southern skies – familiar constellations seem upside down – but getting a glimpse of Crux, the Southern Cross, which is the smallest and the most famous constellation in the southern hemisphere (it is displayed on the New Zealand, Australian, and Brazilian flags) is a thrill that reminds you how dependent we used to be on the stars to navigate our way across the world. Equally impressive is the glowing band of our own galaxy – the Milky Way – with its patches of light and dark stretching across the sky. The non-luminous part of the Milky Way is called the Great Rift (or more poetically "the Dark River"); it is made of overlapping dust clouds containing about 1 million solar masses of plasma and dust situated in the Sagittarius Arm of our galaxy Differences For Northern and at a distance of about 300 light years from Earth.
For the Incas, "Mayu," (the Milky Way) was a life-giving river in the heavens with its earthly counterpart – the Urubamba River in the Sacred Valley, high up in the Andes Mountains. The Incas grouped constellations into two different types – luminous and dark. The first was made up of sparkling stars that depicted geometric forms in the sky. These luminous constellations were seen as inanimate. The other kind – the dark cloud constellations – were contained within the dark blotches of the Milky Way, and were considered living forms, representing animals the Incas knew. These dark patches represented the silhouettes of animals that came to drink from the waters of celestial river, obscuring the heavenly glow of Mayu.
One of the most important dark cloud constellations was Yacana –the llama, which rises above Cuzco, the ancient capital city of the Incas, in November. It consists of two llamas – the Mother Llama, seen between the Southern Cross and Scorpio, and the Baby Llama, suckling at her mother's breast. Although The Llama is a dark cloud constellation, the eyes of the Mother Llama are the two bright stars from the constellation Centaurus. One is Alpha Centauri, which is the third brightest star in the night sky (to the naked eye it appears as one star, but is in fact a binary star system), and the other – Beta Centauri, is a trinary star system.
Another dark constellation is the Serpent – Mach'acuay –a wavy black ribbon between the star Adhara, in Canis Major, and the Southern Cross. It appears above Cuzco in August and sets in February, when its earthly counterparts become visible and more active in the area. Mach'acuay was in charge of all snakes and vipers on Earth, and offerings were made by the Incas to protect themselves from snake bites.
The reason why the Incas revered the skies and celestial events was two-fold. First, their observations of stars, of constellations (dark and stellar), and of the movements of the sun and moon, provided them with units of time, and a calendar system which helped them plan agricultural and herding activities.
Second, although the Incas worshipped dark constellations, they thought of themselves as descendents of the sun god – Inti. The Festival of the Sun "Inti Raymi " is still celebrated in indigenous cultures throughout the Andes. "Inti Raymi" was celebrated by the Incas on the shortest day of the year during the winter solstice, and was the most important event in their lives. Little did they know that the object of their worship was a gigantic ball of hot plasma with an internal temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius, and racing inside their celestial river "Mayu" at the speed of 225km per second.


It should have been my priority to get this commentary on Red Tails up much sooner - considering it took George Lucas 20 years to get this film made, with a major obstacle being, Hollywood not wanting to spend big bucks on a movie featuring a black cast. Plus, when I see a preview screening, I'd prefer to get my post up by opening weekend. Well, you know the old cliche - better late than never.
The Red Tails preview screening was sponsored by The Ben Franklin Global Forum, The Union League of Philadelphia and The Tuskegee Airman Greater Philadelphia Chapter. The pre-screening presentation was in honor of these men of such historic significance. In attendance were real life Tuskegee Airmen: Bertram Levy, Eugene Richardson, Henry Moore, John Harrison, Cornelius Gaither and Roscoe Draper. With the audience primarily made up of members of the Military and students in military schools.
The film begins more than halfway into World War II with the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen) already trained, capable, ready and stationed in Italy. They are eager to encounter the "Jerrys" and are looking for an opportunity to do some real combat missions, but this glory goes only to white military pilots.
The Tuskegee pilots are stationed outside of the main action of the war. A fact that disheartens, but does not deter these ever vigilant fly boys. They happen to come upon an enemy train and blow it to smithereens in the first scene. This group of pilots is lead by Marty "Easy" Julian, (Nate Parker) but it's really the dare devil of the group, Joe "Lightening" Litte (David Oyelowo) that the others are inspired by.
I really liked this actor, David Oyelowo, he had real presence, truly the breakout performer of the film. His IMDB profile says he was in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, playing a character named Steven Jacobs - Who? At any rate, I'll be looking out for him in films from this point on.
When I first heard Terrance Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr were in Red Tails, I pictured both of them as pilots. But that's because I didn't realize how young these airmen were; neither Howard or Gooding would be age appropriate. Instead, they play higher ranking officials. Howard's role as Colonel A.J. Bullard plays politics with The US Army and wages war against prejudice and injustice, an ever present threat to the Airmen, which in many ways was more damaging then the whole German Army.
Gooding plays Major Emanuelle Stance, he's the commanding officer of the Unit, doling out advice and motivating speeches in a laid back, much less military manner than Colonel Bullard.
The film does a magnificent job in portraying the skills, patriotism, bravery and honor of these men, and I'm glad the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen lived to see Lucas's version and vision of the film.
However, George Lucas is a real geek - consumed with toys, cool shots, bringing you inside the plane, making you experience the battle, the action - excellent special effects! What he lacks is the ability to bring you inside the characters or to find the heart of the piece. Oh, the elements are there: each character has a foible, Joe has a love interest, the pilots band together as brothers, but the elements don't blend together to become one really good, engrossing picture.
Still, it's an important movie to go see in terms of history and in a show of support to let Hollywood know black casts can create box office revenue. So don't illegally down load or buy a bootleg copy for this one, PLEASE!


OPPO Find 7, under the Find series is an amalgamation of variety of features.
OPPO India, a leading global technology brand has unveiled OPPO Find 7, under the Find series. This unique smart phone is an amalgamation of variety of features.
The 4G/ LTE compatible OPPO Find 7, comes a 5.5 inch Quad HD screen with a 2560 x 1440 resolution, and 538 PPI display.
Recently, OPPO has disclosed plans of an aggressive sales and service network expansion in India with a target of over 200 service centers in the next one year.
Besides, Find 7 comes with the VOOC fast charging technology. The smartphone has a proprietary OS called ColorOS that is powered by Qualcomm's 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 Quad Core (MSM8974AC) processor, and has an expandable storage up to 128 GB.
With the 13-MP camera, you can capture professional photos with ease. What's more, it comes with a skyline notification on the phone which produces an aesthetically pleasing blue oscillating light so that you never miss an important message or call.
Also, it gives video experience at 4K resolution with HDR and slow motion capabilities. It also boasts of MaxxAudio from Waves, recipient of Technical GRAMMY Award that overcomes hardware limitation of portable devices and ensures a solid and vigorous bass effect.


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Kristina Jørgensen (født 17. januar 1998 i Horsens) er en kvindelig dansk håndboldspiller som til daglig spiller for franske Metz Handball og Danmarks kvindehåndboldlandshold.

Karriere
Hun startede sin karriere som ligaspiller i 2016, efter at oprykkerne fra Skanderborg Håndbold, hvor hun spillede, rykkede op i landets bedste række. Efter en overraskende og imponerende første sæson i ligaen, skrev hun i april 2017 under med topklubben Viborg HK. Hun blev desuden Skanderborg Håndbolds mest scorende spiller i sæsonen 2016-17 med 113 mål i ligaens grundspil.

I november 2019 forlængede hun sin kontrakt med Viborg HK til 2022, efter ellers at have fået tilbud fra andre topklubber i Danmark.

Hendes første deltagelse ved en U-slutrunde var i U/17-EM 2015 i Makedonien. Hun blev kåret til turneringens bedste forsvarsspiller. Det danske hold vandt guld ved slutrunden. Året efter var hun også med til at vinde sølv ved U/17-VM 2016 i Slovakiet. Ved U/19-EM 2017 i Slovenien, vandt hun bronze med U/19-landsholdet efter sejr over  i bronzekampen. Hun blev kåret til turneringens bedste spiller, hvor hun også blev U/19-landsholdets topscorer med 29 mål.

Hun fik officielt debut på det danske A-landshold den 27. november 2017 mod  syv dage før VM 2017 i Tyskland. Inden VM-slutrunden i Tyskland havde hun endnu ikke spiller på A-landsholdet, men blev udtaget af den daværende landstræner Klavs Bruun Jørgensen til hans bruttotrup til slutrunden. 9 dage senere, blev hun udtaget til den endelig trup.

Hun har ligeledes siden deltaget ved EM 2018 i Frankrig og VM 2019 i Japan. Hun var med til at vinde bronzemedaljer med , ved VM i kvindehåndbold 2021 i Spanien. I januar 2022 skrev hun under på en to-årig kontrakt med den franske storklub Metz Handball.

Meritter

Klubhold
Viborg HK
Damehåndboldligaen
Sølv: 2021
Bronze: 2018
Bronze: 2020

Landshold
A-landshold
VM i håndbold
Bronze: 2021
U-landshold
Ungdom-VM i håndbold
Sølv: 2016
U/17-EM i håndbold
Guld: 2015
U/19-EM i håndbold
Bronze: 2017

Udmærkelser
Bedste spiller ved U/19-EM i 2017
Bedste forsvarsspiller ved U/17-EM i 2015

Kilder

Eksterne henvisninger

Håndboldspillere fra Danmark
Håndboldspillere fra Viborg HK
Håndboldspillere fra Skanderborg Håndbold
Håndboldspillere fra Metz Handball
Personer fra Horsens

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Sunday April, 7- 12:00PM at the Roundhouse Community Centre
Wednesday April, 10- 10:00AM & 11:45AM at the Roundhouse Community Centre
These shorts highlight how things correlate. Representing the finest animation of the year, they are best suited for the youngest among us, including the inner child of any adults.
Themes: connection, comedy, family, friendship
This short film program is recommended for grades 4-5
Please look at the advisory for One Small Step and The Fox.
The heads of characters are linked by their hair. They influence each other with every move they make, and the result is captivating, profound, and comical.
With the unconditional support of her humble Japanese-American father, an ambitious young girl chases her lifelong dream to be an astronaut. With heaps of tenderness, and impressive animation, we are reminded that the road to achieving our biggest aspirations can be long and challenging. We are lucky to be loved along the way. One Small Step is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
In a plausible dystopian future, humans are training for an important mission. Floreana takes us on a vividly animated journey to witness the inner mechanics of a training facility on a remote island, and meet the creatures living there.
In luminous black and white, and using an array of animation techniques, filmmaker Parissa Mohit patiently examines the interactions of a woman and child amidst a bustling cityscape under construction. Lulled from a high-rise apartment building, the world becomes a fantastical and dreamlike realm where buildings shift and topple, and fabric flows freely in the breeze.
A hunter entraps a young fox, ties a dog's bell to its neck, and leaves it to fend for itself in the woods. The fox, growing desperate and hungry, is delirious with rage. Yet the instinct to survive is fierce. An allegory of survival, revenge, and love, this provoking and erratically animated short is based on a Persian story by French writer Jean Guèvre.
Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)
Accompanied by a 10,000-year-old shapeshifter and friend known as Sabe, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial Anishinabe harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighbourhood of Ontario.
Reel 2 Real
International Film Festival for Youth
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Left to right: Eric Fay, of Jones College Prep; Lisa Dallacqua, of Inter-American Magnet School, and Beth Bazer, of Hawthorne Scholastic Academy, all finalists for the position of principal at Ray Elementary School, during Tuesday night's forum.
Parents and community members were disheartened to see that Ray Elementary School interim principal Antonia "Toni" Hill was not one of the final candidates at the principal screening forum Tuesday evening. The lack of diversity among the panel of candidates was also a concern.
The local school council (LCS) principal screening committee at Ray, 5631 S. Kimbark Ave., selected Beth Bazer, currently an assistant principal (AP) at Hawthorne Elementary School, Lisa Dallacqua, currently AP at InterAmerican Elementary School and Jones High School AP Eric Fay, who if selected would be the first male principal at Ray since the late 1970s, as its three finalists for the principal position.
During the question and answer section for the LSC, which consisted of the council answering questions that were written on note cards, many of the questions related to the lack of diversity in the final candidates roster.
Terri Roback, member of the principal screening committee, said the committee was not allowed to consider raced based on the equal employment opportunity act.
"Going into the process, we didn't know anyone's race aside from Dr. Hill," Roback said.
Another question from the community forum asked if the LSC was going to have a celebration of some kind to thank Hill for her work as interim principal.
"We don't have anything planned yet but we will do something that honors her good work," said Gordon Mayer, chairman of the Ray LSC.
The next steps for the principal screening committee include reference checks for each finalist, site visits at their current schools and choosing a candidate to recommend to the LSC for approval.
The LSC has until the end of June to choose a new principal or Chicago Public Schools officials will appoint one to the school.
Ray School has gone and done it again! After the LSC's epic fail by hiring Tatia Beckwith and Assistant Principal Jeffrey Alstadt, who they later had to remove due to an unstated misconduct, they are up to their old tricks with the selection of their new principal.
For those who don't know, last year Ray School was assigned an interim principal, Dr. Antonia Hill. Dr. Hill hailed from the now revamped Pershing East Elementary School (two underutilized schools were combined) where her administration was officially recognized as 1 of a small handful of high growth schools. Under Dr. Hill's tutelage, Pershing East was able to climb the ranks and maintain status as a level 1 school (just so we're clear, Ray has dropped to the dreaded level 2 position under Tatia Beckwith). The addition of Dr. Hill to Ray's shattered administration was a breath of fresh air. No longer were parents not getting answers they needed in terms of their child's academic performance. No longer were parents being spoken to like second class citizens. No longer was Ray's beautiful campus on guard and under lock and inaccessible to families who wanted to be involved in their child's academic experience. Finally, we could get back to what was important, THE BUSINESS OF LEARNING!
I was more than thrilled to hear that Dr. Hill was being looked at as the permanent replacement as the principal at Ray School. I was excited to see her test scores and the improvements that were being made due to having an administration that "finally got it right." So, imagine my surprise to find out Tuesday that not only was the LSC looking for new principals, but that OUR PRINCIPAL, Dr. Hill was no longer being considered. How surprised it was for me to hear that a school who "is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural elementary school located in the heart of the Hyde Park community" doesn't have any black candidates as principal or any other race, for that matter, save white. How shocked I was to find that the LSC demographics represent almost exactly that of the chosen candidates as did the Principal Selection Committee (though a mere 20% of the student body is white).
How is it that Dr. Hill, who worked as a scientist at Abbott Labs before starting her second career as an educator and then an administrator at Chicago Public Schools, who was the principal at Pershing East Elementary School for eight years, who completed her New Leaders for New Schools principal residency at Spry Community School, who was the Area Instructional technology coordinator for CPS and a career specialist for Jobs for Illinois graduates at Julian High School is not being considered as a finalist?
Why is Dr. Hill not being considered as a qualified candidate, but the finalist who have never been principals, who had to read a pre-written statement because they weren't connected and prepared enough to address the Ray community, good enough to be the new principal of Ray School. At some point the LSC needs to stop pushing its own agenda and look at the needs of the children involved, because in the end they are the ones that truly suffer!
They will say that they followed a process, but at the point that the process reveals three candidates who are ALL blatantly and insultingly inferior to Dr. Hill, shouldn't we choose what is best for students as opposed to what is most convenient for adults.
Correction: While the principal screening committee will conduct reference checks and conduct site visits, we have completed our duty in so much as we were required to provide three finalists to the LSC. It is now up to the LSC members (by majority vote) to select a principal from the candidates we submitted. If they unable to do so by the deadline the Network will assign a principal to Ray.
In my last comment I stated that the a majority vote of the Ray LSC will suffice to select a principal from among the finalists presented by the principal screening committee. I was mistaken.
As the customary number of LSC members is twelve, and the number of votes required to offer a contract is seven, this would normally be the case. However, the Ray LSC consists of eleven members as the staff representative is no longer at the school.
Seven votes are always required to offer a principal contract, so in our case a simple majority will not suffice.


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PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY KICKS OFF 44th SEASON WITH PENNSYLVANIA PREMIERE OF LYNN NOTTAGE'S SWEAT
Pulitzer Prize Winner Set to Run October 12-November 4
Philadelphia Theatre Company kicks off the 2018-2019 season with the Pennsylvania premiere of Lynn Nottage's Sweat. This Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner explores Reading, Pennsylvania's shrinking industrial economy and shares the fear, tragedy and hopefulness of a community on the verge of inevitable change. The production will kick-off the first produced season under new Producing Artistic Director Paige Price. Justin Emeka makes his Philadelphia debut directing a cast filled with local stars and Barrymore Award winners who have extensive theatre, film and television credits. Sweat will run from October 12 to November 4, 2018 at Philadelphia Theatre Company's stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad Street. Opening Night is Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00pm. Tickets range from $25-$69 and are available in person at the box office, online at philatheatreco.org or by phone at 215-985-0420. Season subscriptions are also now available starting at $38.
Based on Lynn Nottage's extensive research in Reading, Sweat is both a Pennsylvania story and a national story. The play highlights a valley town filled with fiercely proud families who have worked for generations in the plants and factories of a thriving county seat. Unions rule, well-paying jobs are coveted and politics are personal. As industries disappear, the men and women of Reading are rendered powerless as they watch their income, legacy and relationships follow suit. Follow their journey as Sweat unearths brutally honest consequences but also dares to ask how a community can heal and resurrect itself.
"Theatre is universal and politics are local," said Price about her first produced show at PTC. "The themes in Sweat are so relevant to everything happening right now across the nation. The struggles of Reading are the very struggles that the working classes across America face. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share that story and also spotlight a community so close to home that is going through its own healing and resurrection."
Lynn Nottage began work on Sweat in 2011 when she interviewed residents of Reading, Pennsylvania. At the time, Reading was officially deemed the poorest city in America with a poverty rate of over 40%. Nottage was influenced by an article in the New York Times and by the Occupy Wall Street grassroots movement. Her examination into the city's working class focused heavily on the loss of industry and the city's changing ethnic composition. She noted similarities to her time talking to the steelworkers with her experience in Mansfield during the 1984 miner's strike.
Sweat made its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2015, before being produced Off-Broadway in 2016. The show went on to Broadway in 2017 and won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was also nominated for two 2017 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Fight Choreography. Sweat received three 2017 Tony Award nominations: Best Play and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for both Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson.
"The award-winning script is an exemplary example of storytelling that is timely, relevant and unabashedly truthful," added Price. "I want audiences to be as moved and energized by Sweat as I was. It is the perfect show to not only kick-off our first produced season, but to also ignite the next chapter for the company. From the moment you walk in the door, to the curtain call, I want the audience to have an experience that is energizing and where they feel like we have thought about how to make their time at PTC truly special. We hope all three shows are conversation starters that are both full and surprising."
For her first produced work at Philadelphia Theatre Company, Price tapped Justin Emeka, who makes his PTC debut directing Sweat. Off-Broadway he has directed Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Emeka is known for incorporating cultural and artistic innovation into high quality, thoughtful, and entertaining theatre, with new approaches to "classic" works and imaginative staging of popular and emerging playwrights.
"A well-written play like Sweat demands actors to dig deep into their own emotional reservoir and share pieces of themselves that they normally keep to themselves," said Emeka. "Because of the demands of the script, I looked for actors that were the most fearless, lovable, and willing to be vulnerable with each other. All of the actors in the cast stood out to me in this regard. The play does not really have one or two lead actors. All nine roles play a significant part in moving the story forward, so it really requires a strong ensemble who knows how to listen to each other, and makes creative decisions in response to what they get from each other in the moment. I am very excited to work with Paige and to be in the room with this cast and watch them build their relationships with one another."
The cast selected for Sweat features a who's who of local and regional stage, and film and television stars that will take on the roles of these everyday Pennsylvanians.
Celebrated local director, actress, and Barrymore nominee Kittson O'Neill will play "Tracey." O'Neill also has a role in the film Glass and she recently appeared on Law & Order SVU. She will also appear in the film Creed 2.
Kimberly S. Fairbanks, who recently appeared back-to-back in Passing Strange at The Wilma Theater, Human Remains at InterAct Theatre Company, and Sing the Body Electric at Theatre Exile, will play "Cynthia."
Suli Holum, recently Barrymore nominated for her performance in Cabaret at Arden Theatre Company, will play "Jessie."
Barrymore Award-Winner Matteo Scammell, who was recently in Hand to God and Detroit at PTC, returns to play "Jason." Scammell, a Wilma Theater HotHouse member, has appeared on many local stages and is a company member at New Paradise Laboratories.
Making his PTC debut as "Chris" is local theatre, film, and television actor Walter DeShields. He recently appeared in The Swallowing Dark at Inis Nua Theatre. DeShields is the co-Artistic Director of Theatre in the X.
Barrymore nominee J. Hernandez, recently staged his one-man show, The Best of Me. He is Barrymore nominated for his performance as "Lucky" in Waiting for Godot at Quintessence Theatre will appear in a pivotal role as the outsider "Oscar."
Playing "Brucie" is noted local actor Damien J. Wallace, whose recent appearances include The Bluest Eye, Two Trains Running and The Legend of Georgia McBride at Arden Theatre Company.
Brian Anthony Wilson plays "Evan". Wilson has an extensive theatre, film, and TV background. He was seen recently in the Irish Heritage Theatre's production of Lay Me Down Softly. Television appearances include Siren and this summer was featured in Oceans 8 starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson and others. He will also make an appearance on the big screen in Glass, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Rounding out the cast is actor Rich Hebert as "Stan." Hebert has several screen credits including a recurring role on the soap opera The Young and the Restless as Fred Logan. He also has extensive Broadway and national tour credits including The Last Ship, Saturday Night Fever, Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Les Misérables, among others.
"I have not worked with any of the actors before which makes the process a lot more exciting for me," added Emeka. "I love getting to know artists through the process of collaboration."
For the creative team, Emeka enlisted Christopher Ash to bring the town of Reading to life on stage as the scenic designer. Levonne Lindsay is creating the costumes. Alyssandra Docherty is designing the lighting. Christopher Colucci is the Sound Designer. Rick Sordelet is the Fight Director.
"Although the play is largely set in a bar that serves as a home of sorts for the characters, I also love how the story of the play does not happen in a straight line and moves fluidly between time and location," said Emeka. "In this way it invites our design team to really be innovative in how we move from scene to scene and create an aesthetic that is unique to our collective artistry."
Emeka added, "The play moves like a runaway train and creatively incorporates elements of realism as well as an unapologetic sense of theatricality. I am excited to create our own unique transitions that use multi-media to weave the scenes together. I want to use iconic music, projections of political events, sports highlights, pop-culture and news stories from around the turn of the millennium to help create the context for the world of the play."
Photo by Anthony Werhun
Sweat marks a number of exciting firsts for Emeka. It will be his first time working with PTC and Price, his first time working with any of the cast and crew, and his first time directing Lynn Nottage's work. "Lynn Nottage is one of my favorite playwrights, yet this is my first opportunity directing her work. I think she is one of our greatest storytellers in the American theatre. In her writing, she has an incredible ability to craft a very specific moment in history and shine a light on voices that are often overlooked within that period. Sweat documents the transformation of the lives of a community as a result of a dissolving economy between the years 2000 and 2008. As the local industries of Reading, PA shut down and move overseas, Nottage examines the impact on lives and attitudes of the people being shut out and left behind. Without knowing it, the play in many ways predicts our current political landscape. As families and friendships fall apart the play forces the audience to address the complexity of what it means to be an American."
The New Yorker named Sweat, "The first theatrical landmark of the Trump era." Lancaster Online called Sweat, "a powerful and emotional look at identity, race, economy and humanity."
Single tickets for Sweat are on sale now for $25-$69 with discounts available for groups, seniors, students, industry, and the military, as well as $10Tix sponsored by PNC ArtsAlive. Subscriptions for the 2018-2019 season are also currently on sale and packages are 50% off, starting at $38. In addition to Sweat, PTC's season will include the Philadelphia premiere of The Bridges of Madison County and the Rolling World Premiere of Christina Anderson's How To Catch Creation.
For additional information, tickets, and subscriptions please visit philatheatreco.org or call 215-985-0420. Follow Sweat's journey from Reading to Philadelphia on Facebook by liking Philadelphia Theatre Company, following @philatheatreco on Twitter and following @philatheatreco on Instagram and Instagram Stories.
Honorary Producers for Sweat are Linda and David Glickstein. Additional support for Sweat is provided by the Charlotte Cushman Foundation.
PTC's 2018-2019 season is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, Independence Blue Cross, Center City Film & Video, PNC Arts Alive, and American Airlines, the official airline of Philadelphia Theatre Company.
ABOUT PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY
Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) is a leading regional theater company that produces, develops, and presents entertaining and imaginative contemporary theater focused on the American experience. PTC balances its Philadelphia roots with a national point of view that combines a taste for adventure with a dedication to new American plays and musicals.
Founded in 1974, PTC has presented 140 world and Philadelphia premieres. More than 50 percent of PTC's world premieres have moved on to New York and other major cities, helping to earn Philadelphia a national reputation as a hub for new play development. PTC has received more than 180 nominations and 53 awards from the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. In 2007, PTC was instrumental in expanding Philadelphia's thriving cultural corridor by opening the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts.
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Everything was just where it should be. Santa had gotten me some underwear. June had gotten me a Superman lunch bucket - a really neat present. Janice had asked me a few days earlier if I wanted a pencil box, and I'd told her I didn't use a pencil box, didn't want a pencil box, and wouldn't be caught dead with a pencil box. Janice had gotten me a pencil box. Joanne had gotten me something wrapped so well I couldn't tell what was inside. (It turned out to be a real camera - with flashbulbs!) Then I saw a big present leaning against the wall and realized, with a kind of dull thrill, that the Christmas-gift lobbying of my mother had worked: I knew from its size and shape that my elaborate toy-gun set was inside, and I knew, even without opening the box, that the gun set would never be as shiny and bright as it had been in Penny's toy section; the rifle would be made of plastic, the twirling ducks wouldn't twirl, the target would eventually dent.
But I couldn't find whatever it was that John had gotten me, and I was beginning to wonder if he'd gotten me anything at all.
It wasn't quite dark outside anymore. Our windows had lightened to the color of tin, and the rest of the living room began to take shape: the big buffet over by the door, Dad's La-Z-Boy, the sofa, the swivel-base TV, and something propped up in the corner that hadn't been there before, something tall and thin and dark and - I could just now make out - with a red bow tied around it.
I hadn't expected to see anything in the corner, and therefore didn't quite believe it. I thought I must be seeing things wrong, or that maybe there wasn't enough light yet, or that maybe I was dreaming I was awake, because John always kept his .22 rifle in one corner of our bedroom, but now it was in the corner by the Christmas tree. I took a few steps toward it. From the red bow tied around the walnut stock there hung a small card.
For a few minutes I just stood there - I didn't even touch it. I'd been hoping for a crappy toy gun and twirling duck targets. I hadn't even bothered hoping for a BB gun. But this - this was a real gun, a rifle, a Remington; it had been my father's, then my brother's, and now it was mine. I picked up the rifle, slung its leather strap across my shoulder. The walnut stock was cool and smooth, and the rifle felt even heavier than I remembered - the weight of authority, responsibility. The weight of the whole grown-up world. I stood tall, as if ready to have a war medal pinned on my chest.
Then I ran back into the bedroom with the rifle and scream-whispered, "Hey, John!"
John, about to be drafted into the Army and shipped off to Vietnam, must have also thought he was dreaming, seeing his little brother suddenly standing there in the early morning light beside his bed, holding a rifle in a soldier's pose. He sat up fast and there was a sound like a bat on a softball as his head hit the boards on the underside of the top bunk. The covers on the top mattress lifted slightly, then settled.
"Thanks for the rifle," I said, wincing.
John nodded and, with his hand pressed against his forehead, said, "Merry Christmas."
J.D. Dolan's work has appeared in Esquire, The Nation, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review, The Mississippi Review, New Stories from the South, and Best American Sports Writing. His memoir, Phoenix: A Brother's Life, was published in 2000 by Alfred A. Knopf, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, and one of the top ten memoirs of the year by the Detroit Free Press. Dolan teaches in the MFA/PhD program in creative writing at Western Michigan University. He is at work on a screenplay based on the life of the 1920s and 1930s pool champion Ralph Greenleaf.


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Manteca Council sees no changes
By Paul Burgarino | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 9, 2006 at 3:59 a.m. | UPDATED: August 17, 2016 at 6:54 a.m.
MANTECA — The make-up of the next City Council will look exactly like the last one, as incumbents John Harris and Vincent Hernandez retained their seats over challenger Samuel Anderson.
With all precincts reporting, Hernandez received
5,766 votes, or 39.2 percent, while Harris received
5,444 votes, or 37.0 percent. Challenger Samuel Anderson garnered 3,396 votes, or
23.1 percent.
Running unopposed in Tuesday's election, Mayor Willie Weatherford received 8,444 votes, or 95.7 percent.
Public safety and rampant growth and development dominated the campaign — with all three identifying the issue as vital to Manteca's future.
"It shows that the voters of Manteca feel we've done a good job over the past four years," said Hernandez, 44. "It's important that we continue to build a sound economic base, and then we can work towards other amenities. We have to be able to manage our city's growth by taking of things like water and sewers; those all come into play."
Harris, 66, won his ninth election, including fourth for City Council.
"I'm retired, so looking out for the people of Manteca is my full-time job," he said.
As a chair of the board of San Joaquin Council of Governments, he cited continued trans-portation improvements and one-shop permitting as key issues in the next term.
"We need to continue to move people and move goods; the 120 corridor is ready to explode with retail as well," he said. "One stop for permitting is also coming to fruition."
Anderson, 40, owner of technology company Tekbrokers Ventures, ran on a campaign where he did not spend money or take endorsements, instead going door-to-door to speak with the people.
"I didn't just go to where there were registered voters, but I talked with anyone who is a citizen of Manteca," he said. "It's important to know what concerns are out there, like the 82-year-old woman who has lived here for 60 years and is paranoid her house will be taken over, the illegal alien doing everything he can for his family. There are a lot of issues out there and people that need to be listened to."
Anderson said that he was encouraged by his showing and would seek election again in four years.
Weatherford, a former Manteca police chief, has served on the Council for the past 10 years, the past four as mayor. He says he is looking forward to seeing the growth of retail development along the Highway 120.
and continuing to move the city forward.
Paul Burgarino covers Manteca. Reach him at (209) 832-6143 or pburgarino@trivalleyherald.com.
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