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Eric Swalwell was born in Sac City, Iowa, and raised in Dublin, Calif., where he now resides. He attended the University of Maryland, where he earned a bachelor's in government politics and a law degree.
Since 2006, Swalwell has worked as a deputy district attorney for Alameda County. He has served as a Dublin City Council member since November 2010.
Swalwell was also a member of Dublin's planning, heritage and cultural arts commissions. He also served as a student member with the College Park City Council in Maryland.
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Eric Swalwell, a young county prosecutor, is a Democrat challenging 20-term Democratic Rep. Pete Stark in Northern California's newly drawn 15th District.
The 31-year-old Alameda County deputy district attorney came in second in California's first top-two primary. Stark came in just 7 points ahead of Swalwell, who had never run for state or federal office.
In a debate against Swalwell, Stark _ who is known as a volatile politician _ accused his young opponent of accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes" from land developers in exchange for zoning privileges. Stark later retracted the charge and apologized.
Swalwell has been a Dublin City Council member since November 2010 and is a former Dublin planning commissioner. He has taken unpaid leave from his job as county prosecutor to conduct the campaign.
Swalwell has criticized Stark and other members of Congress for spending the majority of their time in Washington, D.C., instead of in their district with constituents. He has proposed the idea of a "mobile Congress," where members would participate remotely in hearings and cast votes remotely, while spending most of their time at home in the district.
He wants to abolish the No Child Left Behind Act and increase funding for education, while decreasing funding for defense. He also advocates creating new jobs in renewable energy with the help of federal stimulus money. And, he says he would work to raise the Social Security cap, so that wealthier Americans also pay into the program.
Swalwell played NCAA Division I college soccer on an athletic scholarship. After he was injured, he lost the scholarship and got interested in a career in politics. After college, he coached youth soccer in the Tri-Valley area.
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Investors save Kokomo building from tax sale
Posted: 2:32 PM, Oct 12, 2017
By: Kara Kenney
KOKOMO, Ind. -- Investors of Kokomo's Firestone Plaza have stepped in to save the building from the county's tax sale.
A representative from Kipcor 219 LLC paid the $15,635.54 Thursday to remove the Firestone building from the tax sale scheduled for Friday, according to County Treasurer Weston Reed.
Kipcor 219 LLC is the company formed to get the property financed, and they currently have a mortgage on Firestone Plaza.
The deeded owner of the Firestone building is Home Banc Center, a Jeff Broughton company.
Broughton has not paid taxes on the Firestone building in more than two years, according to the Howard County Treasurer Weston Reed.
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Call 6 Investigates reached out to Broughton's attorney for comment Thursday and an investor with Kipcor 219 LLC declined to comment.
Reed said the individual who paid the $15,635.54 tax bill did not want to be identified by name.
In 2014, then Governor Mike Pence and mayors from Kokomo and Carmel gathered in front of Firestone Plaza to tout the expansion of California tech company Systems in Motion, now known as Nexient.
Job creation in Kokomo and Carmel was the hot topic of the 2014 news conference, and a state news release announced the tech company would create "up to 400 new high-wage jobs by 2017" and lease "up to 25,000 additional square feet of office space in the Firestone Building in downtown Kokomo."
Instead, Nexient moved out of the Firestone Plaza in 2016, citing "maintenance and safety issues," and relocated to North Washington Street in Kokomo.
Nexient was unable to tell Call 6 Investigates how many jobs they've created since the 2014 announcement.
"I apologize that I don't have exact figures for you, but it's not a massive number," said Cristin Balog, Chief Marketing Officer for Nexient, on Friday. "I can see that we are currently recruiting for an open position in Kokomo on our website now."
Call 6 Investigates raised questions about the developer's past back in 2014, including that Broughton settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission and is banned from providing mortgage loan modification and foreclosure relief services, although Broughton is not barred from doing real estate activity
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The Firestone Plaza sign advertises coffee and lunch, but you can't find those inside, more than three years after the announcement.
When Call 6 Investigates stopped by the Firestone building last week, we found missing glass, the elevator not working, construction debris and vacant offices.
Home Banc Center Inc, the deeded owner of Firestone building, is listed as "delinquent" status by the Nevada Secretary of State's office.
The company has not filed required annual reports in several years, according to the Nevada Secretary of State's office.
As Call 6 Investigates reported in 2014, Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight sold two of her personal properties to Broughton for $100,000.
As of October 2017, Broughton has not received any city tax dollars for any of his projects including Firestone, according to deputy mayor David Tharp.
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The Firestone building has several tenants, including a counseling office, a radio station and an IU Kokomo Art Gallery.
Howard County Commissioner Paul Wyman said he's hopeful someone can improve the Firestone Plaza.
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Glastonbury festival's founder and organizer Michael Eavis has defended his decision to book METALLICA as one of the headliners of this year's event, claiming that no other band has been as "keen" to play the festival as the San Francisco-based heavy metal giants.
METALLICA is the first metal act to headline Glastonbury in its 44-year history.
"We have been going for so long that people don't expect us to put on a heavy metal band," Eavis said, reports Sky News.
"We had RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and we have had lots of fairly heavy metal bands in the past but this is not a typical headline.
"We usually have bands like RADIOHEAD, COLDPLAY and U2, THE ROLLING STONES, but I am really looking forward to them.
"There's no other band in the whole history of the festival that has been so keen to play. They will do the best set of their lives here."
Eavis also briefly touched upon the petition that was launched online last month calling for the removal of METALLICA as Glastonbury headliners after it was announced that frontman James Hetfield was hosting a new series about bear hunting on the History channel. Eavis explained Hetfield "said they were only killing bears that were dangerous to life."
He added: "I don't know the truth behind that whole saga."
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Glastonbury is a very laid-back type of festival, with more of a hippie/indie vibe than most, which is why there has been so much controversy over METALLICA playing the show in the first place.
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If people can work, relax and even hold meetings in self-driving cars, they may drive more. That has the potential to erode promised energy and environmental benefits, a study co-authored by a UW civil and environmental engineering professor has found.Google
Driverless vehicles could intensify car use — reducing or even eliminating promised energy savings and environmental benefits, a new study co-authored by a University of Washington engineer finds.
Development of autonomous driving systems has accelerated rapidly since the unveiling of Google's driverless car in 2012, and energy efficiency due to improved traffic flow has been touted as one of the technology's key advantages.
However, new research from the University of Leeds, the UW and Oak Ridge National Laboratory published in the journal Transportation Research Part A says the actual impact may be complicated by how the technology changes our relationship with our cars.
While vehicle automation undoubtedly offers some efficiency benefits, if people can work, relax and even hold meetings in their cars, they may drive more. That has the potential to erode the energy and environmental benefits of self-driving cars, the researchers found.
"There is a lot of hype around self-driving cars, much of it somewhat utopian in nature. But there are likely to be positives and negatives," said co-author Don MacKenzie, a UW assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. "By taking a clear-eyed view, we can design and implement policies to maximize the benefits and minimize the downsides of automated vehicles."
The study analyzes self-driving technology combined with data on car and truck use, driver licenses and vehicle running costs to model the impact on energy demand of various levels of automation on U.S. roads by 2050.
The analysis identifies several efficiency benefits from self-driving cars and predicts ranges of likely energy impacts, depending on the extent of adoption of the technology and other factors:
More efficient computer-directed driving styles (0 to 20 percent reduction in energy use)
Improved traffic flow and reduced jams because of coordination between vehicles (0 to 4 percent reduction)
"Platooning" of automated vehicles driving very close together to create aerodynamic savings (4 to 25 percent reduction)
Reduced crash risks mean that cars can be lighter (5 to 23 percent reduction)
Less emphasis from car buyers on high performance (5 to 23 percent reduction)
"There is a lot of hype around self-driving cars, much of it somewhat utopian in nature. …By taking a clear-eyed view, we can design and implement policies to maximize the benefits and minimize the downsides of automated vehicles." — Don MacKenzie, UW assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering
But the study also predicts that the very attractiveness of self-driving technology could reduce or even outweigh the efficiency gains.
It estimates a 5 to 60 percent increase in car energy consumption due to people choosing to use highly automated cars in situations where they would have previously taken alternative transport (e.g., trains or planes).
"When you make a decision about transport, you don't just think about the out-of-pocket costs of the train ticket or the car's petrol; you also take into account non-financial costs," said lead author Zia Wadud, associate professor in the University of Leeds' Faculty of Engineering and a research group leader in the University's Institute for Transport Studies.
"Car owners might choose to travel by train to relatively distant business meetings because the train allows them to work and relax. The need to drive is part of the cost of choosing the car, just as standing on a cold platform is part of the cost of the train. If you can relax in your car as it safely drives itself to a meeting in another city, that changes the whole equation," Wadud said
The study also predicts that people who currently find it difficult or impossible to drive, such as the elderly or some people with disabilities, will have increased access to road transport with the advent of the new systems, resulting in an estimated 2 to 10 percent increase in road energy use for personal travel.
Possible higher speed limits because of the improved safety of autonomous cars (7 to 22 percent) and demand for heavy extra equipment in driverless cars such as TV screens and computers (0 to 11 percent) might also tend to reduce efficiency savings.
A major uncertainty is the effect of autonomous driving technology on car-sharing. The technology could allow vehicles to move independently between different users and therefore not only increase sharing, but possibly also make it easier for users to match trip types to car types. Instead of using one car for all journeys, users might be able to use a shared, smaller car for a commute and a larger one for family leisure trips, for example. The authors say these factors could reduce energy consumption by 21 to 45 percent.
The study says many of the energy benefits of self-driving technology could be delivered by systems that still require the human driver to pay attention to the road and therefore do not radically alter transport decision-making.
The authors suggest that policymakers could focus less on accelerating the introduction of complete automation and more on promoting aspects of automation with positive environmental outcomes. For instance, regulators could encourage standardisation of car networking protocols to allow vehicles to communicate with each other on the road and therefore deliver benefits such as "platooning."
The researchers warn that, if a high level of automation becomes the norm, it may be necessary to financially intervene in transport decisions. For example, self-driving cars' navigation and communication systems could be used as a basis for road pricing schemes to control congestion and reduce overall travel demand.
"Vehicle automation presents a paradox: it may encourage people to travel much more, but at the same time it makes it practical to implement tools such as road pricing that can offset those effects," MacKenzie said. "Ultimately, however, it's up to government to set appropriate policies to manage these impacts."
Co-authors include Paul Leiby, distinguished research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
For more information, contact MacKenzie at dwhm@uw.edu or 206-685-7198 or Wadud through Montana Wright, Press Office, University of Leeds; +44 113 343 8373 or M.wright1@leeds.ac.uk.
This article was adapted from a University of Leeds press release.
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In Scripture the church is also described as "Saints". In some religions the "saints" are special people who have done some great things. The Bible describes all God's people as saints and it also describes what they do. "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." (Rev. 14:12.) God's saints "His Church" keep His commandments and they have His faith. It would be well to notice that these are not merely saying one should keep the commandments or believing that one should keep the commandments, but these saints are keeping the commandments and they are doing this continually. These also have the faith that Jesus had. This is God's church and there is no other church of the Lord than this one.
There is our key. But what is it that the world does that Satan's church also does? All one need do is look at the world and see. The world is clear to define. It is the simple life of the carnal or fleshly man. The world judges only by what it can feel, see or taste. The world makes no claim to be able to live as God lives. The world knows no such doctrine. The world cannot be faithful. Of course, the carnal ones profess loyalty and honesty. In government the politicians say all the right things and believe all the right beliefs, but in the end they cannot live up to them. When the church of Satan presents its religious dogma, if one will look honestly, he must confess it looks just like the world. One of the great foundations of the synagogue of Satan is that the law cannot truly be kept. Satan and his children will say that you should keep it and that you will keep it, but he always interjects that you cannot really keep it and if anyone says they are keeping it, he heaps upon them contempt and hatred. His is the doctrine of "getting better." This is the basis of spiritualism. In many spiritualistic religions one is even given many lifetimes to get better. Other religions, who don't believe you have many lifetimes to get better, still hold you have this lifetime to get better. The whole basis of thought is that when you become a Christian, you sin less and less until one day you are perfected and you don't sin anymore. Of course, that day will be when Jesus comes. Spiritualism states that "sanctification is the work of a lifetime." While that statement is true, the devil means by that statement that it takes a lifetime to stop sinning. His ministers openly say that they sin and everyone does. This is the message of the world.
You have heard the maxim of the world, "Nobody's perfect" have you not? When those who claim they are the church and commit fornication with the kings of the earth, they are heard using the maxims of those kings. This makes them Babylon. This brings confusion into the ranks of the people.
Look at the world. Worldly men go through a period of attainment. After they attain, they are given a "degree" which testifies to their status in society. They are praised and honored for their attainments. This is the world. When those who claim to be the church of Christ fornicate with the world they use the same means. They, too, use the process of the world. These honor and flatter and give degrees, but they little know that using the world's methods of government is only to adopt the methods of the synagogue of Satan.
Notice that Jesus is dealing with attitudes. The attitude of these who belong to this synagogue is the attitude of being noticed and being in authority. These have the last word in board meeting or in religious discussions. These ministers rule over the church. These are the "great men of the earth."
The church of the Lord sees itself as brethren. The minister is the humble servant of all. His work is to bring souls to obedience to the master and not aggrandize himself. These strive that their congregations receive the new heart which Christ offers. The false shepherd is characterized by his rule over the church. He administrates and controls. He is not concerned so much with the salvation of souls but, rather, with numbers and money. He wants an impressive record for those looking on. This hireling who poses as a shepherd will be found comparing his church growth with someone else or comparing the offerings with some other church. These will boast of the church and its exploits and make great flattering statements of the work of God's church on earth. Another way to detect the counterfeit is to notice how this church gets her way. The false church will go to the world to get its will fulfilled. "In order for the United States to form an image of the beast, the religious power must so control the civil government that the authority of the state will also be employed by the church to accomplish her own ends." (GC 443.) You can tell when an image to the beast has been formed. It is when a church uses secular power to get what she wants. This can be seen if a church takes another to court to get what she wants. Other ways this image is formed is if she uses her power to get laws passed in her favor, then uses the secular police authorities to enforce this law in her favor. She may force dissenters by having their church locked up and the congregation removed by secular authorities. This is forming an image to the great apostate of all time Rome. The great Roman church has for centuries held that the law of God is subject to the will of the church. She has punished dissenters with secular authority. She has boasted of her greatness. So it is with all the daughters of the synagogue of Satan. Babylon is fallen is fallen. The churches of the land are full of the wine of Babylon: "How much she hath glorified herself...." (Rev 18:7.) It is a popular thing to be a "Christian" today because men know little of what it means to be one.
It can be seen how one fornicates with the world. It is when one claims to be a child of God but uses worldly methods to attain his ends. The world simply does what the world does. God is not making accusation against them here. It is when men are in the world, yet claim to be His children, that they bring Babylon (confusion) into the church. No man is deceived that the world is Christian. Even the world does not claim to be Christian. It is when the world dresses up in the clothing of religion, it is when wolves put on sheep's clothing that the term Babylon applies. Indeed, in these last days the churches of Satan everywhere are full of the corruption of man. The law of God has been set aside except in lip service. The honor of the world in the use of degrees and status has well nigh taken over every element of religious experience. The pride of man and the pride of life is forever extolled. "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen and has become the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.".
All throughout the land God's people are found. They may be found in a desolate wilderness. They may be found in a humble setting. These may also be found in kings' courts but they know and understand the basis of God's kingdom. These are born again. They have the life of Jesus and they do not have respect for persons. That is, all men are regarded the same to them. These do not attach to themselves titles and degrees to be seen of all men. They do not extend their names with letters or other honor descriptions. These do not take pleasure in being called "doctor" or "reverend." They simply do their job faithfully and regard all men as beloved of the Father.
These men cannot be brought under the authority of any man, for they are under the authority of God, but where man's laws do not conflict with God's laws, these will obey them. These souls do not lose their temper or quarrel because they do not get their way. This is God's church. This is the only church there is. The greatest goal of the church of the Lord is not the goal of causing the institution to survive. That is Babylon. The greatest goal of the church is to find those who are God's people anywhere on earth and showing them that God has redeemed them and given them His life. The church may be seen going door to door with their faces lighted up in perfect obedience to the law of God. These are obedient subjects. These are not in competition for prizes and honors. These seek no glory but the glory of Him who sent them. This is God's only church.
The Lord says, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Notice the cause and effect relationship. If one does not come out of the synagogue of Satan these will receive the same plagues that the synagogue receives. When one supports apostasy, then they receive the judgments that apostasy receives. The Lord is not here calling men out of the church. He is here calling men into the church. "Come out of her my people" is saying, "come into my church, my people." He says, "No longer follow the traditions of men but, rather, follow after the commandments of God."


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The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day-Part 1
August 10, 2010 by teamineka
In 1925, the population of Nome, Alaska was just two thousand. Most of the miners, prospectors and adventurers of the gold rush had moved on. The city was the site of a potential catastrophe, an epidemic of diphtheria. Diphtheria is a "specific, localized, and superficial bacterial infection." It produces a powerful and deadly toxin that in the first quarter of the twentieth century claimed over half the lives of anyone unlucky enough to contract it. The residents of Nome were in dire danger, without an adequate supply of antitoxin the city's prognosis was at best poor.
The challenges of delivering the twenty-five pound package of life-saving antitoxin were many. It would have to be picked up from the railhead in Nenana and transported to Nome over six hundred seventy four miles of the "roughest and most desolate" terrain found anywhere on the planet. The trip, which normally took twenty-five days, would have to be undertaken in just fifteen; in the middle of an arctic winter where the bone-chilling temperatures ranged from -19ºF to -64ºF. To complicate matters it was dark most of the time in late January and early February.
Richard Byrd said, "The Eskimo husky still is, as he always has been, the one absolutely reliable means of polar advance." Rest assured it was this reliability that spared the lives of the citizenry of Nome. Twenty or so brave mushers: natives, mail carriers and white men put their lives, and the lives of their dogs, on the line for the isolated city. They did not risk it all for money, or for glory, but simply because it was the right thing to do.
Gunnar Kasson and Leonhard Seppala received most of the credit and glory associated with the Nome Serum Run; however, they were just a small part in a much larger, history-making adventure. It was primarily Native Alaskans and mail drivers who weathered the biting cold and the blinding storms who conquered the brutal trail. Those drivers were thanked by President Coolidge and even received a medal for their efforts, but they were mostly over-looked by the media.
The tale begins in January of 1925, in Nome, Alaska. The only physician in Nome, Dr. Curtis Welch, discovered a case of the dreaded "Black Death" disease, diphtheria. The doctor's supply of antitoxin was very small, and Nome was the medical center for a district of some eleven thousand extremely vulnerable natives.
There was a supply of antitoxin in Anchorage, Alaska. As previously alluded to, the difficulty was in transporting the serum to Nome. There were two biplanes at that time in Alaska, the problem with using them was that not only were they disassembled for the winter, they were also both open-cockpit. The days were short, and the weather was horribly cold. The pilots were willing to give it a go, but it was decided that the risk to the only serum in Alaska was too high for such a reckless endeavor. So just as the natives had done for centuries, the residents of Nome pinned their hope of survival on sled dogs.
Tomorrow: Part 2 of The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day
Dr. Robert Forto is the Dog Sledding Examiner, a musher training for his first Iditarod under the Team Ineka banner and the host of the popular, Mush! You Huskies Radio Show
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Should You Spay Your Dog? By Al Magaw
August 1, 2010 by teamineka
Should you Spay Your Dog?
By Al Magaw
There are problems associated with spaying your female that every dog owner should be aware of – there is no apparent or well known harmful effect involved in neutering male dogs, but there is a potential and common serious harm associated with spaying the females. The lack of estrogen production brought about by spaying FREQUENTLY ("commonly" is the word used in the veterinarian community) brings on the loss of bladder control in older females and frequently, uncomfortable skin problems. Earlier than normal death can also occur. It is such a simple thing to confine a female twice a year to prevent pregnancy that the risky alternative of spaying is not one I would recommend – one of the reasons given for spaying, beyond birth control, is the prevention of breast cancer. Breast cancer in un-spayed dogs is a rarity compared to the commonality of problems caused by spaying and the resulting hormonal imbalance. There are drugs that Veterinarians will prescribe to treat the hormone imbalance, but the drugs pass into the environment and are environmentally damaging, staying in the environment for many years, ( DES (diethylstilbestrol) exposure is often viewed as a health issue unique to those exposed to the drug and an issue that is no longer relevant. This is far from the truth. DES exposure and long-term exposure to any synthetic hormone concerns a much broader population than those directly exposed to DES. In fact, the entire population is exposed to synthetic hormones like DES from sources such as chemical pollution, medicines, plastics, paints and pesticides on food. Many synthetic chemicals in the environment are harmful to our health. Some are so-called "hormone disrupters" like DES") ( "There is some evidence that DES-exposed sons may have testicular abnormalities, such as undescended testicles or abnormally small testicles." "Professor Niels Skakkeback, a Danish scientist, first alerted the world to the possibility of a substantial fall in male fertility levels in 1992. He did this by showing that sperm counts in healthy men appeared to have dropped by more than half in 50 years" "Subsequent studies have confirmed and strengthened Skakkebaek's findings) These hormones can and do upset and delay the development of prepubescent males and bring on early sexual development in females – be responsible with your dogs, don't bring unwanted puppies into the world and don't be so foolish to believe that having "just one" litter will improve your dog – think twice about the long term health of your female and the long term effect to the environment. You can be a responsible dog owner without resorting to spaying and the use of environmentally damaging drugs.
Al Magaw is a musher from Salmo, BC. Al keeps a medium sized kennel of 20 – 45 alaskan huskies as well as several pet dogs of various breeds. Al has been training and racing for the last 33 years. Before becoming involved with sled dogs, Al, along with his family, kept and competed with horses for many years. Al can be reached through his website athttp://www.spiritofthenorthkennels.com Al is a guest blogger for Denver Dog Works and can be reached through our website athttp://www.denverdogworks.com
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Quest for the South Pole
July 29, 2010 by teamineka
Discovered in 1840, Antarctica lies almost concentrically about the South Pole. Fittingly enough its name means "opposite to the arctic", and this fifth largest continent would be essentially circular except for the Antarctica Peninsula. It was here, in this unforgiving environment that two different men chose two different paths, and two different aides in their quests to reach the South Pole. Both made it to their destinations, only one however made it back. There is not any doubt that the difference was the dogs, or lack thereof.
Robert F. Scott (1868-1912) was a British explorer who made several attempts to reach the South Pole. From their base camp on Ross Island, Scott, accompanied by Earnest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), and E.A. Wilson penetrated as close as 82º 17' S. to the pole at the Ross Ice Shelf on December 30, 1902. Scott believed that the use of sled dogs was somehow disreputable. "No journey made with dogs," Captain Scott wrote, "can approach the height of that fine conception which is realized when a party of men go forth to face hardships, dangers, and difficulties by their own unaided efforts."
Later, Shackleton and another party of five men reached 88º 23' S. on January 9, 1909, a point a mere 97-miles from the pole. "The successful experimental use of hardy Manchurian ponies, and the pioneering of a route up the great Beardmore Glacier to the polar plateau by Shackleton, paved the way for the epic trip of Scott in 1911-12 to the South Pole."
The second participant in the epic race was Roald Amundsen (1872-1928). Amundsen was the Norwegian explorer that ultimately discovered the South Pole, but just as with Peary on the other side of the world, his triumph came with a price.
Amundsen began his history-making journey by first studying medicine. In 1897, he joined a Belgian Antarctica expedition as a mate, and was assigned to the "Belgica". The "Belgica", under the command of Captain Adrien de Gerlache, became trapped in the pack ice in March of 1898. The ship drifted with the ice of the Bellingshausen Sea until the following March; proving conclusively that one could winter the Antarctic.
It is noteworthy to mention that Amundsen was accompanied to Antarctica by the American physician-explorer F.A. Cook. Amundsen and Cook were largely responsible for bringing the "Belgica's" crew through severe attacks of scurvy.
A few years later Amundsen made plans to conquer the Northwest Passage. With a crew of only six he sailed secretly on the "Gjöa", a forty seven-ton sloop, in order to avoid creditors. He was the first man to take a ship through the fabled passage. He then began to focus his attention on accomplishing spectacular polar achievements.
Amundsen planned to drift across the North Pole in a ship called the "Fram". This plan was secretly altered when the news that Robert E. Peary had reached the North Pole assaulted the wires. He continued his preparations and in June of 1910 Amundsen left Norway; no one save his brother knew that he sailed for the South Pole instead of the already conquered North Pole. Amundsen sailed to the Ross Sea and set up a base camp some sixty-miles closer to the pole than his adversary Captain Scott. As a matter of personal, and nationalistic pride it was vital to him that he reach the pole first.
Unlike Scott's party who chose to rely primarily on horses and the Beardmore Glacier route, Amundsen and his party chose to travel with sledges pulled by dogs and to take the Axel Heiberg Glacier route. He reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, beating Captain Scott by thirty-four days. Appley Cherry-Garrard was a member of Scott's previous excursions, he described the vast differences between the canines' and ponies' ability to adapt to the polar environment in the following account:
"The animals suffer the most, and during the this first blizzard all our ponies were weakened, and two of them became practically useless…Nothing was left undone for them which we could manage, but necessarily the Antarctic is a grim place for ponies. I think Scott felt the sufferings of the ponies more than the animals themselves. It was different with the dogs. These fairly warm blizzards were only a rest for them. Snugly curled up in [a] hole in the snow they allowed themselves to be drifted over. Bieleglas and Vaida, two half-brothers who pulled side by side, always insisted upon sharing one hole, and for greater warmth one would lie on top of the other. At intervals of two hours or so they fraternally changed places."
Amundsen's team arrived safely back at Franheim Station at the Bay of Whales with very little difficulty. On January 17, 1912, seventy-eight days after leaving camp, Captain Scott's final assault team achieved the South Pole. The despair of coming so far just to find the Norwegian flag must have been nearly overwhelming. Their return trek was aggravatingly slow as men succumbed to the environment. Scott's party was caught in a blizzard on the Ross Ice Shelf. There they pitched their tents, and their food and fuel dwindled, then finally ran out. Only eleven-miles from their One Ton Camp, Scott and his companions perished.
Dr. Robert Forto is the Dog Sledding Examiner, a musher training for his first Iditarod under the Team Ineka banner and the host of the popular, Mush! You Huskies radio show.
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Voyages to the Ends of the Earth
An explorer's work is vastly routine, and at times mundane. Raymond Coppinger stated it as an "unglamorous collecting of data, and charting of land and water." But every once and a while a mission comes along that captivates the imagination of man; explorers and the public alike. Man's insatiable quest for the North and South Poles were such missions, they produced both triumphs and disasters.
Quest for the North Pole
From the beginning the men who braved the Polar Regions have depended on dog teams. In the 1870's and 1880's Nares and Greely used dog teams in their attempts to reach the North Pole. In 1895, Nansen was to become the white man that had reached the furthest north, he accomplished this feat with the aide of native Eskimo dogs. Nansen's record was broken by a mere twenty-two miles in 1901 by Italian Naval officer, Lt. Cagni.
Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) is widely credited with reaching the North Pole first, a feat that he accomplished in April of 1909. For Peary this victory was only achieved after a hard fought battle that began in 1886 with a trip that started at Disco Bay, and proceeded one-hundred miles over the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Peary returned to the Arctic in 1891 with seven companions that included his wife, and F.A. Cook. Leaving from Hvalsund in the spring, Peary and his party sledged an impressive twelve hundred miles to the northeast of Greenland, and discovered Independence Fjord in the process. It is important to note Peary's befriending of an isolated tribe of Eskimo referred to as the "Arctic Highlanders". These natives, according to Peary, were of the "greatest assistance" on his later expeditions. Peary made additional excursions into the arctic regions in 1893, 1894, 1896, and 1897.
In 1898, Peary announced his intentions of reaching the North Pole. Because of his single-mindedness, over the next four years Peary relentlessly reconnoitered possible routes from bases at Etah in Inglefield Land and Fort Conger on Ellesmere Island. He adopted Eskimo techniques of travel, shelter and clothing. The "Arctic Highlanders" were his drivers, and his igloo builders. Following the prescribed methods of McClintock, food and supplies were cached, and a trail was laid.
In 1905, Peary made a valiant attempt at reaching the North Pole. His group traveled with over two hundred sled dogs and reached latitude 87º 6' N. eclipsing Lt. Cagni's closet approach. Severe ice conditions conspired with a run of bad weather, and forced the party to make a premature return.
In February of 1909, Peary departed Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island with twenty-four men, nineteen sleds, and one hundred and thirty-three Eskimo sled dogs. In the final leg of the trip Matthew Henson, and four Eskimos accompanied Peary. The men with their courageous dogs "covered the last 133-miles in five forced marches, arriving at that magic spot where there is no North, East, or West on April 6, 1909."
The group then made the 485-mile return trip in a nearly unbelievable sixteen days. His once friend, F.A. Cook, claimed to have superseded Peary's accomplishment by reaching the North Pole during the previous season. Cook's claims have been widely discredited, yet they continued to mar the enjoyment of Peary's triumph. That the dispute was even taken seriously at all was owed to the fact that Peary's return trip was so astonishingly quick. However, most experienced mushers agree that one's return trip on a marked trail is generally almost twice as fast. Peary died on February 20, 1920 in Washington D.C. His contributions to the sled dog and scientific communities however live on.
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Charlie Belford on Mush! You Huskies Radio Show
Dog Sledding Legends-Charlie Belford on Mush! You Huskies
On the radio program, Mush! You Huskies we are continuing our summer series on the Dog Sledding Legends that made this sport what it is. This week we talk about Charlie Belford.
Listen to Mush! You Huskies Radio Show: Charlie Belford
Doc Belford was one of the most influential of Siberian breeders and racers. He was a close friend of that OTHER racing vet, Doc Lombard. With Dick Moulton making a threesome, these men undertook to found SEPP– a move within the ranks of SHCA to retain the racing qualities of the Siberian Husky. Doc Belford lived much of the important racing history that we read about in books. He was a World Champion and raced Alaska shortly after Lombard initially went there from New England and came back with many tales of the tough trails, tough drivers, and tougher dogs. He started in Siberians when his father bought dogs from Seppala. He was a member of the newly formed NESDC Juniors. And he loved the sport. Dr. Belford was recognized for his authoritative knowledge of the racing Siberian and was asked abroad to speak and lecture in the Scandinavian countries.
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Dr. Robert Forto is the Dog Sledding Examiner, a musher training for his first Iditarod under the Team Ineka banner, and the host of the popular, Mush! You Huskies radio show.
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Елизабет Дж. Бразуел () е американска писателка на произведения в жанра фентъзи, приключенски роман, детска литература, любовен роман и научна фантастика. Пише под псевдонимите Лиз Бразуел (), Трейси Лин (Tracy Lynn), Силия Томпсън (Celia Thomson), Дж. Б. Стивънс (J. B. Stephens) и под съвместния псевдоним на "Дисни Прес" – Роб Кид (Rob Kidd).

Биография и творчество
Елизабет "Лиз" Дж. Бразуел е родена през 1950 г. в Бирмингам, Англия. Израства в малък град в Нова Англия. Завършва с отличие университета "Браун" с бакалавърска степен по египтология.

След дипломирането си в продължение на почти десетилетие работи като продуцент на видеоигри по филмовата поредица "Междузвездни войни" към "Farscape: The Game" и "Darkened Skye".

Първият ѝ роман "Snow" (Сняг) от поредицата "Имало едно време" на Дисни е издаден през 2003 г. под псевдонима Трейси Лин. Той е въображаем преразказ на класическата приказка за Снежанка.

През 2004 г. е издаден романа ѝ "The Fallen" (Падналата) от поредицата "Деветте живота на Клоуи Кинг" под псевдонима Силия Томпсън. Шестнадесетгодишната Клоуи Кинг получава необикновени умения, които я правят интересна и желана, но и едновременно цел на Ордена на десетото острие. През 2011 г. поредицата е екранизирана в едноименния телевизионен минисерал.

Под псевдонима Дж. Б. Стивънс през 2004 г. е издаден романа ѝ "The Big Empty" (Голямата празнота) от едноименната поредица за юноши. Неговото действие се развива в Америка в близко бъдеще, която е опустошена от пандемия. Група оцелели, в които е главния герой, се опитва да открие тайно място и лечение в празната вътрешност на страната.

През 2015 г. е издаден първият ѝ роман "Един нов свят" от поредицата "Сбъркани истории". Разказът в него е алтернативна история на приказката за Аладин от "Хиляда и една нощ". В романа древната магическа лампа попада в ръцете на Джафар, подлия съветник на султана, който иска най-вече могъщество. А бедния Аладин и принцеса Жасмин обединяват усилията си за да обединят народа и да го поведат на бунт.

Елизабет Бразуел живее със семейството си в Бруклин.

Произведения

Като Лиз Бразуел

Серия "Плюшените" (Stuffed)
 Stuffed (2019)
 Into Darkness (2021)

Участие в общи серии с други писатели

Серия "Сбъркани истории" (Twisted Tales)
 1. A Whole New World (2015) Един нов свят, изд.: "Егмонт България", София (2019), прев. Красимира Абаджиева
 2. Once upon a Dream (2016) В моя сън, изд.: "Егмонт България", София (2019), прев. Людмила Русева
 3. As Old as Time (2016)
 5. Part of Your World (2018)
 8. Straight On Till Morning (2020)
 10. Unbirthday (2020)
 12. What Once Was Mine (2021)
 от серията има още 5 романа от различни автори

Като Трейси Лин

Самостоятелни романи
 Rx (2005)

Участие в общи серии с други писатели

Серия "Имало едно време" (Once Upon a Time)
 Snow (2003)
 от серията има още 21 романа от различни автори

Като Силия Томпсън

Серия "Деветте живота на Клоуи Кинг" (Nine Lives of Chloe King)
 The Fallen (2004)
 The Stolen (2004)
 The Chosen (2005)

Като Роб Кид

Серия "Карибски пирати: Джак Спароу" (Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow)
 детска поредица истории за периода 13 години преди първия филм
 1. The Coming Storm (2006)
 5. The Age of Bronze (2006)
 6. Silver (2007)
 7. City of Gold (2007)
 9. Dance of The Hours (2007)
 от серията има още 7 книги от различни автори

Като Дж. Б. Стивънс

Серия "Голямата празнота" (The Big Empty)
 The Big Empty (2004)
 Paradise City (2004)
 Desolation Angels (2005)
 No Exit (2005)

Екранизации
 2011 Деветте живота на Клоуи Кинг, The Nine Lives of Chloe King – тв минисериал, 10 епизода

Източници

Външни препратки

Американски писателки
Американски фентъзи писатели
Автори на приключенски романи
Родени в Бирмингам


The Applied Urban Communication Research Grant is an annually endowed prize given to foster and promote significant inter-disciplinary communication research contributions that extend the boundaries of "applied research" by investigating real-life communication phenomena affecting urban communities. The prize is to be awarded to fund the development of original research that meaningfully centralizes the concerns of everyday citizens and their struggle to define, identify with, and/or construct "spaces" for discourse and/or engagement within cities.
The recipient of the prize will receive a medal and a $2,500 grant-in-aid to be awarded to fund communication research related to urban communication. Nominees will be evaluated based on the potential impact of their work as well as the quality and rigor of their contribution. Nominees must be members of ECA. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association.
Rebecca Townsend is the recipient of the 2016 UCF Eastern Communication Association Applied Urban Communication Research Grant for her proposed study of Social Networks and Pedestrian Safety. Professor Townsend is a Professor at Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT.
This interdisciplinary work seeks to explore what people say they will do when they engage in a common practice in cities across the globe: cross the street. There is no communication scholarship that explores pedestrian safety messages, nor pedestrian activity, nor how social networks or expert messages about safety affect pedestrian behavior.


I've got branches, the kind that should be firmly on trees, growing left and right inside me—it's like always sleeping with the light on, Earth seen from the air at night in there, flesh and blood and young, softly-spoken green leaves. I wonder whether they will know what to do when October arrives, if they will turn to paper and fall at my feet.
I don't remember who, but I was talking to somebody about the hardness of water, the softness of it, the way it can take things over with just atoms in space, in time. Watching them peel back the thin metallic paper that wrapped around the butter, thinking that must hurt, thinking of how awfully cold everything in the fridge must be. I rest my head, heavy from the dense leaves and ripening fruit inside it, on the warm wooden countertop, feeling small crumbs and other fractions of breakfast press their sharp edges into my face. The discomfort is comfortable, and I stay there while the world rotates, while people drift in and out of the room, picking up knives and plates and feelings.
Someone has washed strawberries, and they lie in a red heap, water collecting underneath and running towards the edge of what must feel like the end of everything. I select five, the slightly bruised ones that will otherwise be left behind, and eat them slowly over the sink; it is hard to get the permanent taste of sap off my tongue, but their late summer sweetness manages to linger for a moment, and it stains the tips of my fingers vermillion.
I was still sitting in the kitchen with my back pressed against the fridge handle when the streetlights went on outside. They wait all day, I suppose, to be told what to do. You perhaps know that time passes very differently for all of us, and because I'm full of root and branch and budding things, hours can often seem like small minutes; I will not notice the sun going down, although the greenery inside me does, and quite without explanation I will sometimes find myself standing next to a window, as everything in me strains to catch the last of the daylight. But it is not so beautiful as it sounds, we argue all the time, and I'm beginning to see the dark outlines of flowers underneath my skin as a chlorophyll-rich foliage gradually replaces whatever was there before.
At the beginning of the year, when I was too often finding myself tired, forgetting to return phone calls, they told me that whatever it was would pass as surely as a season, and then when those came and went and my hair grew longer, they looked inside and found saplings, shoots. A determined and widespread greenness, from ankle to hip, reaching for lungs and for the light. For months I had been growing gardens instead of growing up, arms full of apple trees and pines to keep my knees company. Heads were shaken in bewilderment, hands clasped and then unclasped again in attempts to understand, checking and double-checking and wondering at what point I had started to go quite this wrong.
It became apparent very quickly that there was no getting rid of any of it, deciduous or not. Instead they adopted softer voices when speaking to me, patted me on the arm, put their hands on their knees and leaned forwards into the bright fluorescent lights to explain a decision they had made, as you might when addressing a small child or an animal that you think unlikely to fully understand.
But on the Tuesday I step outside, body frantically reaching outwards and upwards as it tries to absorb all of this excess afternoon sun, and then I walk—first to the right, then over the bridge that crosses the sad-looking river before turning to follow the water for as long as my legs want to. Heron, circling above terraced houses, the sting of green whenever I inhale through my nose.
Back from walking and fed up with oxygen, I soak my limbs and my leaves in the bathtub in the half-dark, eating clementines. Lately I've been dreaming of deserts, desolate and harshly-carved landscapes devoid of water and life, ears covered in dust, in them the sound of strong heartbeats and locusts. I wonder if anyone is going to come and stop me from losing my mind, but the house sings with a honey-like emptiness, and so I count off the names of twenty-eight different train stops, the route that runs like a panicked creature, middle of the city out to edge of the island.
In between water and air, somewhere in between the person they say you are and the person reflected in the chrome taps. How can you keep one eye on the clock face and the other on the Jacaranda trees in your left forearm?


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Good Choices – A Good Omens Fanfic
July 18, 2019	 Personal
My first fic in something like 15 years, inspired by Good Omens. Be gentle. I was mostly just speculating about themes and feelings and somehow this came together. In the wake of the Kyoto Animation tragedy it seemed like a good day to put a little more love into the world and this fic is basically a love letter to love. Crossposted to AO3.
To answer a long-standing and important question: yes, God is omniscient– most religions have got that bit right, more or less. There is, of course, a catch: She hasn't always been omniscient.
Crowley and Aziraphale and a lesson for us all.
(Can be ship or not as reader prefers; canon compliant but primarily TV series-inspired (specifically ep3). Not subtle at all.)
Eastern Gate, Garden of Eden, 4004 BC
The first thunder booms; a demon instinctively leans into an angel, who extends a protective wing. They stand together, side by side for the first time, and watch humans begin their great journey, unaware that they stand on the precipice of their own.
In the Time Before There Was Time, She lacked just one key learning, one vital piece of information, which in fairness left Her still pretty brilliant as all-encompassing deities go.
Noah's Ark, Mesopotamia, 3004 BC
Left to his own devices, as he usually is, Crawley rationalizes. His interest in his angelic counterpart on Earth can easily be explained by two facts:
One, the existence of a fallen angel consists of nothing so much as being outside of God's love. But there's a warmth in Aziraphale's presence that Crawley feels is vaguely reminiscent of that divine passion; it's only natural he should be drawn to it. On some level he can even find his way to thinking that he's found a clever loophole, exploited a bug in the system.
Two, no one else lives very long anyway.*
[* And this was during the era of Methuselah, who was in fact 313 years old around this time.]
Oh, God knew the Fundamental Truth of Life well enough, and She knew if there was to be a universe— and She knew there was —She knew she had to build it around this truth.
Crucifixion of Jesus, Golgotha, 33 AD
Left to his own devices, as he usually is, Aziraphale rationalizes. He hoped he'd never have to admit it to anyone else, but this Crawley— now Crowley —speaks plainly the same doubts that Aziraphale hides deep in the most secret pockets of his metaphorical heart. Every act of hatred the angel witnesses chips away, just a bit, at Aziraphale's confidence in the Great Plan, and it is some small comfort, hearing another immortal express his own secret feelings.
Besides which, Aziraphale thought it was short-sighted and perhaps even rude to disregard the death of God's only son on Earth, and Crowley was the only other non-human with the decency to show up, demon or not.*
[* They were also both present at the birth, though each was too caught up by the pleasure-or-pain of the event's massive holiness to notice the other at the time, rendering this fact completely immaterial to you, the reader. But it is nonetheless true.]
The Fundamental Truth of Life, She knew, is love.
Titus' Tavern, Rome, 41 AD
The ease with which they begin to slip into camaraderie makes them both uneasy, ironically, though only Crowley tries to hide it with his usual insouciance. Having finished their drink at the tavern and allowed the alcohol to carry out its pleasantly relaxing effects, the pair make their way to Petronius' restaurant and do, in fact, try out the oysters, along with several more rounds of drinks.
It is the first time in four thousand years on Earth that the pair loosen up enough to really talk, and not just about work— which of course they do discuss, as members of the same industry as it were —but mostly sharing stories of their interactions with humans and bonding over the other species' propensity for trouble.*
When Crowley proposes a toast "to the first supper," Aziraphale quips a hope that it "won't be the last supper," and Crowley bursts into a fit of intoxicating laughter, throwing his head back and with such open delight that it quashes any shame Aziraphale might have felt about the not-all-THAT-blasphemous joke.**
It is not their last supper.
[* These are the sorts of stories that don't make their way into histories or epics; like the time Aziraphale got caught in a compromising position with a drunk monk who wanted to wrestle, or when Crowley inadvertently inspired the placement of series of enormous stones in a field of what would one day be England which caused much trouble then and ever since, or the time they both scurried around Hammurabi's palace influencing his new system of Law, each completely unaware of the other until the laws had already been formally codified.
And that's how you get such a brilliant idea as telling people what is expected of them but also ongoing stupidity about treating people differently based on their gender or wealth, which to be fair has never not been a problem for these ridiculous humans, Aziraphale and Crowley agree.] [** Aziraphale almost invents a joke 1,950 years too early by following up with "Too soon?" but wisely refrains.]
So She created beings whose fundamental core was love: angels, in several different varieties because just one would be dull and She's going to have them for all eternity.
A Battlefield, Kingdom of Wessex, 537 AD
For six hundred years they've enjoyed meeting socially often but haphazardly, but it is on a battlefield that Crowley first has an Idea that eventually becomes an Arrangement.
He thinks the inspiration comes to him of necessity, because the armor is pinching him in the armpit, the chain mail is heavy, he's utterly stifled wearing all that in the damp air of Wessex, and to top it all off all his efforts are just being countered by his heavenly adversary.
But in fact, some part of him that he doesn't acknowledge just wants to meet Aziraphale more regularly, and if they start to share duties, well, they'd have to meet more regularly, wouldn't they?
He is disappointed but not surprised when Aziraphale rejects his offer out of hand, he knows the angel will take some convincing, and besides, silver armor must not get as hot as black armor.
But it became clear rather quickly— after the equivalent of a hundred million Earth years, roughly —that these creatures, lovely as they were, rather missed the point.
The Globe Theatre, London, 1601 AD
"Yeah, all right. I'll do that one. My treat."
It's not the first time Crowley has done something nice for Aziraphale*, but it might be the first time Aziraphale had thought to hope, or even expect, for him to do so. Who would have guessed that "puppy eyes" could be effective on a demon?
For Crowley, though, it was definitely a bartered exchange; not for the puppy eyes, but for the frisson of pleasure he had felt when Aziraphale expressed concern for Crowley should their arrangement be discovered. No one else ever bothered being concerned for him.
Though he couldn't help but wonder…
[* The very first time that Crowley did something nice for Aziraphale— intentionally —was in fact shortly after the humans were expelled from the Garden, but what it was, he has never told anyone, even Aziraphale himself, leaving us unable to share it with you, dear reader. But we are given to understand that this secret act of kindness was both "epic" and "badass".]
It was at this point that God had Her own Epiphany, becoming well and truly omniscient. Then Her work really began.
The Bastille, Paris, 1793 AD
Aziraphale was not, by nature, a suspicious person, but when Crowley came to his rescue at the Bastille he wondered whether there was more going on than he knew.
There absolutely was, but not in the way Aziraphale imagines.**
It had taken Aziraphale over 5,000 years to consider the idea that Crowley might be a bad influence on him on purpose rather than on accident— that perhaps he was running a "long con" in an effort to drag another angel to Hell, though there had been no more Falling since God made the Earth.
On the other hand, maybe the demon just didn't want to lose someone who covered for him at work.
It was neither of these things, of course; it simply never occurred to Crowley not to help his one and only friend out of a jam when he could.
Just as well; if it had occurred to him Crowley would have had to admit that he was rubbish as a demon, really.
[* To be fair, there being more going on than he knew about is a normal state of affairs for Aziraphale. Not that the angel is stupid; in fact, he's quite smart when he puts his mind to it. He just gets so distracted.]
She created the universe, putting Her loving angels to work crafting galaxies and animals and magic (an iffy idea) and physics (a worse one) while She Herself put the finishing touches on humanity.
St. James' Park, London, 1862 AD
"Out of the question." Aziraphale's clipped tones cuts Crowley to the quick. Wasn't Aziraphale himself the one who had brought up the possibility of getting caught a couple of centuries ago? And aren't they friends? What's a little holy water between friends?
If giving pain were a sport, Aziraphale might have won some kind of award for this particular act, because in addition to Crowley's hurt there is the angel's own. Here it is, he thinks, exactly as he dreaded: Crowley has been buttering him up for this, none of his previous kindness towards Aziraphale was real, the demon probably didn't even really like him, probably thinks he's a big fat joke and laughs about him in secret.*
The pair parts on the worst terms they'd been on for ages, or perhaps ever. Crowley elects to spend the rest of the century sleeping, which doesn't help his relationship with the home office one bit.
[* Aziraphale agonizes over this failed interaction for decades**, eventually realizing that it's not like Crowley could have some truly nefarious purpose for the holy water— it can't be used against angels or humans. And furthermore, that nearly 6,000 years is a long time to set up a scheme and Crowley doesn't really do that kind of slow roll, moves too fast if anything. It's quite wrong of him to assume the worst of Crowley just because he's a demon, especially when said demon has honestly given him no cause for that kind of doubt. And in any case…and so on and so on. In short, the angel talks himself out of his fit of self-doubt.] [** Crowley just sleeps through all the agonizing.]
Then she gave it all a gentle push .
St. Luke's Church, London, 1941 AD
Aziraphale holds the hefty satchel full of books aloft and stares after Crowley. It feels like a lightbulb has turned on inside his head, and it won't be turned back off no matter how many times he pulls at the metaphorical string.
He'd missed Crowley.
He'd missed the demon's humor and style and random acts of kindness. Or not so random, since they are often directed at Aziraphale himself. The angel knows an apology when he sees one, recognizes it implicit in Crowley's appearance at the church, is deeply touched that Crowley went through all that physical and spiritual discomfort to save Aziraphale's stupid face.
But the books…the books aren't apology. They are gift. They are thoughtful, in the very literal sense that Crowley had spent what could have been his last moment before a painful discorporation thinking about what Aziraphale cared about and going to extra trouble making it happen.
Oh, thinks Aziraphale.
Most humans understand that their species is taking a crash course to learn to choose Good of their own free will, whether they believe it to be divine ordinance or simple moral imperative.
A Bentley outside the Drinking Donkey Pub, 1967 AD
Crowley knows an apology when he sees one, and the thermos he gingerly takes from Aziraphale is certainly that. It's the trust that really gets him, though. Aziraphale isn't just giving him a deadly weapon, he's saying as blatantly as if he'd written the words on a poster board and hung it in the window of his stupid bookshop: I TRUST YOU, CROWLEY.
An angel, trusting a demon?
Must be a sign of the apocalypse.
He's not surprised when the angel rejects his offer of a ride, but he is surprised that it still stings, even breaking through the rush of warmth Crowley feels at Aziraphale's gesture with the holy water. The pain ebbs slightly as Aziraphale offers consolation in the form of a picnic, or perhaps in dining at the Ritz. (The Ritz? he wonders. Why The Ritz?)
It isn't until many years later that he hears a cover of a cover of a cover of a romantic old jazz standard and thinks: Oh.*
[* "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was written and performed in 1939, then performed again and again for almost the entire rest of forever. The version Crowley first hears used on a science fiction TV programme in 2007— one year before the birth of the Anti-Christ —is heavily inspired by the Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, and of course Vera Lynn versions of the song, all of which the demon consumes non-stop for nearly a week.]
No humans, and very few non-humans, know that the angel species is auditing the same course.
A.Z. Fell Booksellers, London, 2019 AD
"Don't dawdle," booms Metatron, the Voice of God, and Aziraphale doesn't.
He's made a decision, and has made it so swiftly and instinctively that he hardly realizes it yet, let alone understands the importance of it.
If God and/or the angelic host won't hear him out, there's only one being in the entire universe that he knows will, and he wishes he'd trusted Crowley with this from the start and saved them all a lot of time, but he didn't, and now he has to hurry.
Aziraphale dials a number he knows by heart.
"Hello. I know where the Anti—"
"This is Anthony Crowley."
"I know who you are, you idiot, I telephoned you! Listen—"
"You know what to do. Do it with style."
Voicemail. Lord, he hoped Crowley wasn't already on his way to Alpha Centauri.
Most angels— or former angels —would never even consider this possibility. In fact, exactly two angels have ever suspected that God slipped them a dose of free will, perhaps eons ago.
The Enterprise Pub, London, 2019 AD
"TADFIELD. Air base!"
"I heard that, it was the 'wiggle on'…" but Aziraphale's ghostly presence was gone.
Crowley had said he wasn't going to go there, had even considered whether the vision was some hellish trick, until the "wiggle on".
But really, he knew he'd been lying, knew he'd go wherever Aziraphale said to, as long as the angel promised to be there too, which he had.
You see, Crowley had made a decision too, though longer ago, perhaps at the bandstand the day before, or when he'd stopped at a phone booth to make a call in 2008, or when he'd heard a sappy love song a year before that, or maybe it was at the Globe Theatre in 1601 or the fields of Wessex in 537 or at the Eastern Gate of the Garden of Eden in four-thousand-fucking-four BC.
Like Aziraphale, he doesn't fully realize he'd made a decision, which is why he rather doesn't know when he'd made it.
Crowley gets in the Bentley and drives to Aziraphale, as fast as he can.
Because the epiphany that God had all those eons ago, in the World Before There Was a World, was that love is a choice.
A Bench at Berkeley Square, London, 2019 AD
"For my money, the really big one will be all of us against all of them."
"What? You mean heaven and hell against…humanity?"
Neither of them says it out loud; there are no gestures, no glances up or down or askew, but as they lock eyes they both feel the weight of the decision they've made, deep inside, to change their definition of "us".
And despite all the doubts and questions of their long lives, they both know that they've made the right choice.
In the Time Before There Was Time, She lacked just one key piece of information, which in fairness left Her still pretty brilliant as all-encompassing deities go.
The Fundamental Truth of Life as she knew it, is love.
So She created beings whose fundamental core was love: angels, in several different flavors because one would be dull.
It was at this point that God had Her own Epiphany, becoming truly omniscient. Then Her work really began.
She created the universe, putting Her loving angels to work crafting galaxies and animals and magic (likely a bad idea) and physics (definitely a bad idea) while She Herself put the finishing touches on humanity.
Then she gave it all a gentle push.
Most humans understand that humans as a species are taking a crash course to learn to choose Good of their own free will, whether they believe it to be the command of a deity or pantheon, or a simple moral imperative.
Most angels would never even consider this possibility; exactly two— or rather, one angel and one fallen angel —have begun to even suspect that God secretly slipped them free will absolute eons ago.
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This shop sells traditional Japanese crafts in a commercialcomplex in Kuala Lumpur. When viewed from the outside passage, the sales floor fixtures are illuminated with spot lighting to create a sharp contrast between light and shadow.
Towards the rear, there is a café separated from the sales floor by a grid screen. The rearmost wall behind the café bar is covered in reflective tin leaf and is uniformly illuminated.
When viewed from outside, the screen creates a silhouette resembling a Japanese shoji door caught the light, giving the space a sense of depth.
As these elements come together, a uniquely Japanese light and shadow aesthetic exemplified in Kyoto's Katsura Imperial Villa is recreated within the context of a commercial facility.
The tin leaf wall covering, meticulously handmade by Japanese craftsmen, imparts the high degree of Japanese spatial expression to the local workers who applied it.