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Interview with Seth Fannin
Seth Fannin
Jeremy: Sad sad. How are you friend?
Seth Fannin: Hey, good man. Thanks for having me appreciate
Jeremy: that.
Uh, we were just talking about like right off the bat, right about tr uh, not necessarily trends, but where no code is going. And I was asked by, um, someone at clear bank, right. Because we deal with Clare bank and I was like, They, they asked me where I saw no code what the future, no code was.
Right. And I've started to notice a trend that I don't think, well, I just don't believe in general that people will stick with something difficult if they're not making money from it. Right. Like you're not going to like building the products. Cool. How about monetizing? It. Right. There is a
Seth Fannin: defense, um, huge difference in, uh, um, you know, no code.
It has obviously grown so much since, you know, the early days. Right. And you're seeing more makers. Um, you know, I, I feel that there's, there's a couple of different, you know, groups of, you know, these makers, you know, there's makers that are young, that don't have any work experience, uh, uh, maybe like, uh, the actual business experience or something, you know, like in the real world working.
You know, but, um, but they have, you know, this tech savvy ability to come in and, you know, just, just learn these tools and, you know, especially with Twitter, you know, you do get thrown into the, uh, the startup and the bootstrapping world, because I feel that those are kind of intertwined now. Right. We're seeing it has to be, it has to be right, so that, you know, to monetize it's one thing.
And that's one of the things I wanted to bring up actually is, um, it's one thing to like, um, To build a product, but it's another thing to build a business.
Jeremy: Yup. What would be your, what would be your, one of your biggest takeaways to, uh, helping people build a business you might be going in
Seth Fannin: going in that direction, right?
Yeah. I'm on the same path for me, you know, unfortunately for me, it's, it's, it's very, it's a little different and um, I, I've never worked in startups. I'm trying to become a product manager and work in startups, but. You know, I I've really had to, um, leverage no code, you know, to try to build that gap because I'm coming from the defense space enterprise space, you know, so it's been very, you know, it's its own challenge, you know, so I would really give to, uh, no coders the first time.
Um, especially when, you know, just entering and learning about the overwhelming amount of tools to use is, um, To really not aim for a business at the start, just, just build products and, you know, focus on those skills needed to, you know, really build these products, especially with the amount of tools there are, you know, design, marketing, building an audience and learning how to talk to people and communicate with people.
You know, online is a really big
Jeremy: key, you know? Ooh, that's a good, I think that's a great segue into my next point, which is how do you see, I think building your community is really, is really great. So like, I think a lot of times people need to pick a path, right. Are you going to build that product or are you going to build that community?
Because really only the lucky few get to blend both. Right? Like if you notice that in. No code Twitter where like I'm noticing, it seems to be dude the same people like celebrating the same people. Right? Like, I don't see like a new to note, like new code. I see the same people posting about code. It's like the same, like 12 people, you know, like what's it going to take for?
What, what would it take for someone and what would it take for someone to know code to. Uh, become the cream that rises to the top.
Seth Fannin: Well, you know, and I think that has to do with the online presence right now. That's really popular is the building public everybody's, you know, you know, there's a lot of controversial, I guess, views on it, you know?
Um, it's, it's a really great thing, you know, if you know how to leverage it. Well, I think it really does help to, you know, have those, uh, those people around you. But, uh, but, but right now, I mean, if you, you know, to get out in front of people, The things I'm seeing from other makers. And that I wish I had the time to do is, you know, you're, you're seeing those same people that are on top.
Um, and the things about, uh, that make those people stick out or, um, just, just basically taking action leverage, you know, and they're always taking action instead of things,
Jeremy: fall to action
Seth Fannin: action. Yeah. About taking action and learn by doing,
Jeremy: you know, yeah. It's constantly. It's constantly building and iterating and coming back to the point, right?
Like, do you believe people need to stick to one platform? Like, like you obviously have like the glue tools, like Zapier or integrity, right? Like, but do you believe people stay with one builder or one website builder app builder? What do you think.
Seth Fannin: Yeah. So I was going to speak on that too. It's important because I think project selection and tool selection are important because I feel that, you know, it's good to try new tools.
I mean, there's the shiny object effect w you know, it it's good, but I, I feel that with no code, it depends on your goals. If you're just building for fun. Sure. It goes to trust some tools. But if you find tools that you're really good at, or you have a leg up on something, you use those tools and try to use the minimal amount of tools to get the most output.
If you're trying to especially monetize and sell like a business, you know, um, it, it really takes some experimental practice and, and use, especially with distribution. You know, you gotta think about, especially if you're building a business. You got to think about the customer, you know, your target market, um, make it easy for them to, to obtain that product also, you know, and I
Jeremy: think that's where, you know, yeah, right.
You don't need so many tools, right? You'd need, you need more of what you were talking about. Uh, and the later piece, which is the go-to market stuff. You need to know who you're building for a lot of times, people go into any tool and that's the thing, that's the one thing at V1 I'm trying to like, dude, cause like I love building a business.
I don't love building product.
You will get to my level on the 100% sure. Like, cause I love your fucking Twitter hustle. Um, and you seem to be jamming on shit, dude. Like, and off record here. Well, Well, we'll have to get into some, some more shit. We'll have to have you come back. Um, so
Seth Fannin: yeah, I really think it's about the tools and how you actually use them.
You know, I think that, you know, a lot of people just always want to, you know, try a new shiny object effect. And I think that, that, that the people in general have that problem. That's just humans, you know?
Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. Right. No, that's what I mean. So like you got to get some buy-in as a tool. Like when we launched dude, we don't have a freemium version.
Right. So like, and we're very open and transparent with this, which is like to the point where we're like, cool, if you D you're buying to stick with us for 12 months, like this is a journey that you're on, that we're on. We'll help you as much as again, don't get fucking upset in a month or two. This is a 12 month journey.
Right. So it's like, you're going to, so I almost discouraged from people just signing up to sign up for another tool. Right. Like now at the beginning, I'm very open about that. Right. So like, we'll have a freemium version may maybe in the future, but like, how do you go about like selecting a tool, right?
Like when you started on your no-code journey, what is something that spoke to you with like a landing page builder?
Seth Fannin: It will. Yeah. And that kind of comes back to the good point. Um, like it, you know, and I did think that, you know, for, you know, using no code is one thing and then trying to build like, you know, a startup and.
Kind of what that entails, you know, like I think that, you know, um, you really got to think about what you're building and not get into the weeds because I see it, you know, that, uh, you know, some of these tools you can easily overbuild. And I actually did that with doc drove, you know, like for the school.
Um, I started, uh, it's built with Webflow. But for example, I could have actually gone simpler. I could have gone with the card landing page because I later pivoted to a Gumroad offering because I found
Jeremy: that,
Seth Fannin: wow, that is the best distribution and Airtable database with this information right there for you easily distributed through them road instead of using member stack and trying to build a login web functionality into web flow.
So I li I learned my lesson, you know, about doing that. I stuck with live flow. Yeah,
Jeremy: dude. Yeah, it is about getting a quick, the simplest version out, right? Like in my belief is you get that simple version out and you start to monetize that simple version. Like the best customer feedback ever is customer dollars, man.
You know what I mean? Like if someone is willing to give you $2, two bucks for that thing, you get that they see value in that a lot of value before they even right before the incentive. So like, what are, what's one of those tools, right? Like, uh, like the first process that you went back, how long did you actually build that first thing before?
You're like, Whoa, I overbuilt. How long were you doing it? You know
Seth Fannin: what I actually, yeah. I probably took a good two weeks because, you know, it's, it's one thing to be close to your product, but you can get too close to your product to where you're like, Oh, wow. I haven't really leveraged feedback from my inner circle.
And I'm like, you don't even realize it. It's almost like a, like, you. Like, it's crazy. It's almost like a, um, uh, it's kind of hard to say, but, um, yeah, I get it. I get
Jeremy: it because like,
Seth Fannin: I usually get so close to your product that you like wake up and you're wow. You know, like I didn't need all of this, you know, like, why am I adding tools to myself to manage more tools and the run this process, I want to do the minimal, you know, possible to be able to get there'll be effective.
Jeremy: Like the one pain point that someone, that someone is feeling right, where it's like that one thing where it's like, cool, I wish I could drop ship this thing. So you make a quick drop shipping thing, go back to that person. Say, would you be willing to spend 10 bucks a month on this? Right. Like, and dude, so many people, I mean, this is number one piece of advice for me, I guess, at this episode, at least.
So for me, it's about not listening to any random fucker. Dude, like for me, it is, everyone will tell you overly nice things and then overly mean things. Yeah. Dude, the people, the only people you should be listening to are people who buy from you or invest in you. That's it. People who have some real form of skin in the game, normally monetarily like money.
Right? So like that's the tip I give lastly here, Seth, before we close this out, is. What is, what is the biggest tip, the biggest pro tip or the second biggest? I know you gave a tip a while back, but what is a pro tip for people that are kind of starting out if you had to envelop it all into one thing, what would that be for people starting out no-code
Seth Fannin: so, um, I guess a couple little things jammed into one.
It would be, um, kind of, um, you know, it's kinda, like I said, uh, it's not about the tools, you know, use it's how you use them. Um, yeah. People just need to understand that it takes time to even build no code knowledge, no code, you know, it was meant to be easy, but you know, as more saturated, it does get harder and more overwhelming with the choices.
So, um, you know, just take your time to build that knowledge. Um, just find the best way to share information, you know, and I think I've read a maker it's going to be very different. And like you said, don't listen to just some random, like, uh, People are people out there because, and regardless, every entrepreneur's journey is different.
So just because what worked for another, it doesn't mean it's going to work for someone else. That's why it's best to always listen to your customer and the problem you're solving and that's validation, right. That's validation. One-on-one
Jeremy: absolutely. Dude, I love it. So, and again, we're going to have to have you come back on a, an update on some progress.
We'll get you to my level. That's all good. That's all. We'll do. Awesome, Seth. Thank you. So where can people find you, man? What's your Twitter name by me
Seth Fannin: on a Twitter, um, uh, Fanon underscore Seth
Jeremy: boom, or operate, especially
Seth Fannin: in no-code space.
Jeremy: Love it, dude. Seth, thank you so much for coming on. I look forward to hearing back from you.
Thanks. I appreciate you.


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Laura will continue to grow existing relationships and establish new ones with key distribution partners in the New Zealand market, built over the last six years by retiring representative Anne Radonich.
Laura has a certificate in Travel and Tourism from Crown Institute and a Certificate in Advertising and Marketing from AUT and brings to the role over 20 years of experience in the travel industry.
First starting her career as selling travel for the Flight Centre Group, Laura then moved into the wholesale environment becoming Product Manager for a niche South Pacific Wholesale company – Travel Arrangements Ltd. Laura was then employed with two major Cook Island properties as their Marketing Manager, before establishing Sunseeker Travel Marketing and Representation Ltd in 2002.
Laura will be looking after SeaLink's extensive product portfolio including Captain Cook Cruises – Sydney, Perth and Murray River, SeaLink - South Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
"I'm looking forward to working with the team at SeaLink and Captain Cook Cruises and promoting their extensive product range in the New Zealand market." Says Ms Wadsworth.
"My aim is to keep up the momentum continuing from the hard work that has already been done and to build on this to increase numbers and meet objectives set." continues Ms Wadsworth.
SeaLink Travel Group, GM Global Sales & Distribution, Richard Doyle, welcomes Laura to the team and looks forward to working with her.


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I went with internal brake cable routing as well, to compliment the integrated Di2 wiring. The dark red panel on the seat tube is set off by a thin silver pinstripe.
In this shot, you can see the exit hole for the front derailleur wiring, and the vent window in the bottom bracket where the battery wire will enter the frame.
Stainless steel bosses for battery mounting, and the bottom bracket window.
Finally, the Ellis dropouts with an added loop to keep the wiring out of the way for wheel changes.


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Q: MVVM Dynamically add fields into View I'm developing a WPF application using caliburn.micro  MVVM framework..
In-order to develop a search screen, I need to dynamically load fields into the view, based on model properties.
Consider below view and view model:

*

*SearchViewModel

*SearchView

Let's assume T is a type of Product in below example.
public class SearchViewModel<T>
{
   public T Item{get;set;}
}

public class Product
{
   public int Id{get;set;}
   public string Name{get;set;}
   public string Description{get;set;}
}

I have a user control called SearchView.xaml with no contents on it.
Whenever View is loaded new fields should be added to the view and field should be bound to the properties.
According to above code example, there are 3 public properties in the Product class, therefore 3 TextBoxes should be added to the view dynamically. When user enters data in the text field, corresponding property should be updated.
Is this possible?
Can any experts help me to achieve this by providing some examples?

A: I would propose going about this differently.  Instead of thinking about dynamically adding properties to a view / model, I would think about adding information about those properties to a list on the viewmodel.  That list would then be bound to an ItemsControl with a template that looks like a TextBox.
So your view-model would have a property on it for the "thing" you want to examine.  In the setter for this property, use reflection to enumerate the properties you are interested in, and add an instance of some kind of FieldInfo class (that you create) to the list of properties with the binding.
This has the benefit of keeping everything all MVVM compatible too, and there is no need to dynamically create controls with your own code.

The example below uses my own MVVM library (as a nuget package) rather than caliburn.micro, but it should be similar enough to follow the basic idea.  The full source code of the example can be downloaded from this BitBucket repo.
As you can see in the included screenshots, the search fields are created dynamically on the view without any code in the view.  Everything is done on the viewmodel.  This also gives you easy access to the data that the user enters.
The view-model:
namespace DynamicViewExample
{
    class MainWindowVm : ViewModel
    {
        public MainWindowVm()
        {
            Fields = new ObservableCollection<SearchFieldInfo>();
            SearchableTypes = new ObservableCollection<Type>()
                              {
                                  typeof(Models.User),
                                  typeof(Models.Widget)
                              };

            SearchType = SearchableTypes.First();
        }

        public ObservableCollection<Type> SearchableTypes { get; }
        public ObservableCollection<SearchFieldInfo> Fields { get; }

        private Type _searchType;

        public Type SearchType
        {
            get { return _searchType; }
            set
            {
                _searchType = value;
                Fields.Clear();
                foreach (PropertyInfo prop in _searchType.GetProperties())
                {
                    var searchField = new SearchFieldInfo(prop.Name);
                    Fields.Add(searchField);
                }
            }
        }

        private ICommand _searchCommand;

        public ICommand SearchCommand
        {
            get { return _searchCommand ?? (_searchCommand = new SimpleCommand((obj) =>
            {
                WindowManager.ShowMessage(String.Join(", ", Fields.Select(f => $"{f.Name}: {f.Value}")));
            })); }
        }
    }
}

The SearchFieldInfo class:
namespace DynamicViewExample
{
    public class SearchFieldInfo
    {
        public SearchFieldInfo(string name)
        {
            Name = name;
        }

        public string Name { get; }

        public string Value { get; set; } = "";
    }
}

The view:
<Window
    x:Class="DynamicViewExample.MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:DynamicViewExample"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    Title="MainWindow"
    Width="525"
    Height="350"
    d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance local:MainWindowVm}"
    mc:Ignorable="d">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
            <RowDefinition Height="*" />
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <ComboBox
            Grid.Row="0"
            ItemsSource="{Binding Path=SearchableTypes}"
            SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SearchType}" />
        <ItemsControl Grid.Row="1" ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Fields}">
            <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" />
                        <TextBox Width="300" Text="{Binding Path=Value}" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </DataTemplate>
            </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        </ItemsControl>
        <Button Grid.Row="2" Command="{Binding Path=SearchCommand}">Search</Button>
    </Grid>
</Window>

The model classes:
class User
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
    public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
    public string Id { get; set; }
}

class Widget
{
    public string ModelNumber { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

A: Here is a basic example of how you could generate a TextBox per public property of the T in the control using reflection.
SearchView.xaml:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication4.SearchView"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WpfApplication4"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        Title="SearchView" Height="300" Width="300">
    <StackPanel x:Name="rootPanel">

    </StackPanel>
</Window>

SearchView.xaml.cs:
public partial class SearchView : UserControl
{
    public SearchView()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        DataContextChanged += SearchView_DataContextChanged;
        DataContext = new SearchViewModel<Product>();
    }

    private void SearchView_DataContextChanged(object sender, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.NewValue != null)
        {
            Type genericType = e.NewValue.GetType();
            //check the DataContext was set to a SearchViewModel<T>
            if (genericType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(SearchViewModel<>))
            {
                //...and create a TextBox for each property of the type T
                Type type = genericType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
                var properties = type.GetProperties();
                foreach(var property in properties)
                {
                    TextBox textBox = new TextBox();
                    Binding binding = new Binding(property.Name);
                    if (!property.CanWrite)
                        binding.Mode = BindingMode.OneWay;
                    textBox.SetBinding(TextBox.TextProperty, binding);

                    rootPanel.Children.Add(textBox);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The other option will obviously be to create a "static" view for each type of T and define the TextBox elements in the XAML markup as usual.

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Trump's War: a Diversion from his Impeachment?
Two years ago, I warned that this president who would do anything to get re-elected would start a war if he thought he might lose his re-election. I pray that history will prove me wrong that Trump's military strike won't set off a major war in the Middle East.
Do you think he would not lie about Iran, when he has told more than 10,000 lies since his stolen election in 2016. Do you think he would not lie about how he used our foreign policy to benefit his own private agenda.
This should be clear from all the testimonies of our intelligence agencies which has forced an impeachment to save our country from being sold out to the highest bidder. In the Ukraine scandal, it is clear that Trump stopped military aid to that country until certain leaders promised to dig up dirt about his rival Joe Biden and announce it on cable news. While the aid that was needed to fight against Russian imperialism was in limbo, countless Ukrainians were killed, a move which of course favored Putin, Trumps friend. Now this strike we are to believe was to safeguard Americans who were in immediate danger.
Is that so or is the real reason Donald Trump was in immediate danger of losing his office?
History shows during wars the people unite around their president. Remember how President George W Bush declared Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9–11 attack on the USA and had weapons of mass destruction, which were never proven to be true. It was, however, a powerful political move but unfortunately it cost the lives of nearly 5,000 U.S. soldiers. More than 4,000 U.S. soldiers are on the way to the Middle East It is my hope that we are not witnessing deja vu all over again. War might just be Trump's trump card, but for the rest of us heaven only knows.
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Cost, Salt, Waste Top Food Safety Concerns in UK
By Dan Flynn on February 8, 2011
Food prices, salt, and waste all topped concerns about food safety in the periodic tracking survey conducted in the United Kingdom for the Food Standards Agency.
In a November 2010 tracking survey, the FSA found out what was on the minds of 2,105 adults in the UK.
The main food issues , according to survey respondents, were food prices (54 percent); the amount of salt in food (45 percent) and food waste (42 percent.
When asked about food safety, the top concerns were food hygiene when eating out (36 percent), food poisoning (29 percent), and the use of food additives (27 percent.)
FSA periodically placed tracking questions in an omnibus consumer survey in order to stay on top of public opinion and awareness of the agency and key food issues.
Eighty per cent of respondents were aware of the hygiene standards in the places they ate out in or buy food from. The main way people judged the hygiene standards were from the general appearance of the premises (65 percent), appearance of staff (51 percent) and its reputation (42 percent).
Among other findings in the latest survey:
Respondents aged 16-25 demonstrated a lower total concern than every other age group for the main food issues of total concern.
Amongst the sample, slightly fewer people reported being concerned about the safety of food sold in UK shops and supermarkets compared to UK restaurants, pubs, cafes and takeaways (45 percent compared to 51 percent respectively).
Males were less concerned about the safety of food sold overall than females, as were respondents who were not the principal shopper compared to respondents who were the principal shopper.
And 79 percent of respondents in the UK reported being aware of the Food Standards Agency.
Those who were aware of the FSA were asked what issues they thought the FSA was responsible for. The main issue that respondents reported to fall within the Agency's remit was ensuring food bought is safe to eat (82 percent).
Half of the respondents who reported being aware of the Food Standards Agency were asked how much they trust or distrust the FSA to do its job. 62 percent of these respondents reported that they trusted the Agency to do its job.
FSA began the tracking surveys in 2001. It now places seven questions in the face-to-face omnibus survey twice a year.
The questions cover concern about specific food issues (spontaneous and prompted), attitudes towards particular food safety issues; awareness of hygiene standards in eating establishments; awareness of the Food Standards Agency and the Agency's responsibilities (spontaneous and prompted); and trust in the FSA.
The complete results along with detailed information about the survey can be found here.
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TWICE's Jeongyeon Stuns Fans with Her New Hair Length on V Live
This is what Jeongyeon would look like in a shampoo commercial.
On February 27, TWICE attended the 2019 Global V Live Top 10 which was broadcasted on Naver's V Live, where they received the Top 10 Award and the Best Channel Award.
The TWICE members, who showed up dressed fashionably as usual, accepted the award and said, "We're honored to be placed in the top 10 again this year, which allows us to meet our fans at this award's ceremony."
During this speech what particularly drew the viewers' attention was Jeongyeon's beauty that could be attributed to her changed hairstyle.
In contrast to the bright and short hairstyles she flaunted at the beginning of her years with TWICE, she showed up with long brown hair that added to her pure and innocent look.
And when a fan asked her to give them a pose, she graciously flipped her hair, which reminded many of a shampoo commercial.
It also didn't hurt that she was wearing a checkered dress and pearl earrings that accentuated her elegant beauty. Don't you just love Jeongyeon's new look?
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Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich works on radio, podcasts, video, the blogosphere. He has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide.
Krulwich is the co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, a radio/podcast series distributed nationally by NPR that explores new developments in science for people who are curious but not usually drawn to science shows. Radiolab won a Peabody Award in 2011.
His specialty is explaining complex subjects, science, technology, economics, in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining. On television he has explored the structure of DNA using a banana; on radio he created an Italian opera, "Ratto Interesso" to explain how the Federal Reserve regulates interest rates; he has pioneered the use of new animation on ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight.
For 22 years, Krulwich was a science, economics, general assignment and foreign correspondent at ABC and CBS News.
He won Emmy awards for a cultural history of the Barbie doll, for a Frontline investigation of computers and privacy, a George Polk and Emmy for a look at the Savings & Loan bailout online advertising and the 2010 Essay Prize from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Krulwich earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Oberlin College and a law degree from Columbia University.
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2 Ways To Think About Nothing, One Mo' Time
Let's compare two kinds of nothing: an empty patch of deep space and an empty piece of paper that was once beautiful. There's nothing to see in either. Or is there?
'Murdersquishing' Them To Death: How Little Bees Take On Enormous Hornets
They are small. They are weak. They are vulnerable. But these little bees take on a humongous predator in the most ingenious way.
Howling Babies Drove Prehistoric Warriors Into Battle?
Can a colicky baby's piercing scream be militarized? As in, made (literally) into a weapon of war? Oh, absolutely, says this scholar, smiling ever so slightly.
What Makes A Star Starry? Is It Me?
Draw a planet (a circle, right?). Now draw a star (a pointy thing, yes?). Now ask yourself, aren't stars all round? Our sun is. So why do we make them pointy? Come learn the answer.
Souls Tumbling In The Light
Every fall, birds head south and, around Sept. 11, New York sends two beams into the sky. When birds and lights collide, that could mean trouble — but New York is surprisingly gentle.
Mapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot Visit
We live on a planet, next to a star that's part of a galaxy that's part of ... ah, here comes the new discovery. We are at the very tip of a giant galactic "supercluster." Take a look.
Building Me: A Puzzlement
I am made of atoms — 7,000 trillion trillion of them. How did I teach them to tie my shoes? Or did they teach me?
Glenn Gould In Rapture
You don't get to see this too often: a man (in this case, a very talented man) totally possessed by his muse. Watch pianist Glenn Gould deep in what psychologists call "a flow state."
Roadways You Can Install Like Throw Rugs
You look. You gape. You can't believe your eyes. Well, take a peek at this image and ask yourself, 'How did they do this?'


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Jeff Sykes (born 1943 in Victoria, Australian) is an Australian national champion lightweight rower and a builder of world class rowing racing shells.

Club and state rowing
Sykes commenced rowing in 1955 aged 12 as a coxswain at the Corio Bay Rowing Club. He's had a lifelong association with the club and has been club captain, committee man and Vice President.

Sykes' elite competitive rowing career spanned the period from 1960 to 1978. At the inaugural 1962 Australian Rowing Championships, Sykes became the national lightweight men's single scull champion wearing Corio Bay colours. He was then national lightweight men's single scull champion in 1964, 1968, and 1974 and placed second in 1975, 1976, and 1978.

Sykes' first state selection came in 1961 as Victoria's representative to contest the President's Cup - the Men's Interstate Sculling Championship - at the annual Interstate Regatta. He raced that event for Victoria in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973 & 1976 and won that national title in 1966 and 1973. In 1968 and 1972 he was selected in the Victorian men's lightweight four who contested the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta.

International representative rowing
Sykes' debut national representative selection came in 1966 when he was selected as a Australia's sculler to race at the 1996 World Championships, however he withdrew due to business commitments. He raced on the world stage at the West German International Championships in 1973 and represented Australia at the 1973 European Rowing Championships in Moscow where he placed tenth in the men's single scull.

Sykes was a late addition to the lightweight men's eight at the 1978 FISA Lightweight Championships in Copenhagen, replacing Stuart Wilson who had not been in Australia long enough to be eligible. The Australian eight rowed to a bronze medal.

Coaching
Before he had retired from competitive rowing, Sykes was coaching Leisa Patterson a Corio Bay Rowing Club sculler. She competed at the 1976 Australian Rowing Championships and won the Australian junior single sculls title. Then she contested the women's open single sculls title in 1977 (2nd place) and then won the lightweight single sculls title that same year. In 1978 she won both the lightweight and the open championship title. She continued to contest lightweight Australian sculls championships under Sykes' coaching for a number of year winning the lightweight single sculls title in 1979 and the lightweight double sculls title in 1991.

Sykes racing shells
Sykes was apprenticed to his father's boat-building business in Geelong. In 1966, Sykes built his own racing shell to compete in the Australian Rowing Championships and this was the genesis of his own business Sykes Racing, a Geelong-based racing shell manufacturer. Sykes Racing initially focussed on smaller boats and had success as rowers of their sculls and pairs won Australian national championships. In 1973 the Western Australian senior men's eight had King's Cup success in a Sykes boat and from 1974 Sykes boats were being used in all boat classes for Australian representative crews.

References

1943 births
Living people
World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Australian male rowers
Sportspeople from Geelong
Australian manufacturing businesspeople

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A top Navy commander joined other Pentagon brass in denouncing a former SEAL's book about the raid that killed Usama bin Laden, saying the tell-all broke a cherished tradition of respect for the chain of command.
The book, titled "No Easy Day," went on sale Tuesday. It contains blow-by-blow accounts of the raid on bin Laden's Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound, and discloses that many members of SEAL Team 6 were less than supportive of their commander-in-chief. In an open letter, Rear Admiral Sean Pybus, commander of the Navy Special Warfare Command, blasted the author for violating protocol and lamented other political forays by his fellow SEALs.
"In recent months, a number of people associated with Naval Special Warfare have violated this part of our Ethos," Pybus wrote. "As the Commander of NSW, I am disappointed, embarrassed and concerned. Most of us have always thought that the privilege of working with some of our Nation's toughest Warriors on challenging missions would be enough to be proud of, with no further compensation or celebrity required.
"Today, we find former SEALs headlining positions in a Presidential campaign; hawking details about a mission against Enemy Number 1; and generally selling other aspects of NSW training and operations," the letter continued. "For an Elite Force that should be humble and disciplined for life, we are certainly not appearing to be so. We owe our Chain of Command much better than this."
The Pentagon also blasted the book, which was sent to the publisher without the Department of Defense vetting it for classified information.
US debt tops $16 trillion: So who do we owe most of that money to?
The book is now the top seller on Amazon.com.
Little said the author, Matt Bissonnette, violated at least one non-disclosure agreement that he signed. Little declined to talk about the Pentagon's legal options but repeated that the Defense and Justice departments are working together to weigh options.
Bid Laden was killed in a May 2011 Navy SEALs raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
Little also said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been briefed on the book and is "deeply disappointed" about its release without Pentagon review.
A lawyer for Bissonnette has disputed the claim that his client was legally obliged to have the book screened before publication.


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Tag: haunted house
Posted on April 2, 2022 November 11, 2022
The Cufflinks | A Short Story
The woman had grown old in the Victorian house along the sea.
She walked with a cane now, making her way into the drawing room. They had once entertained here when the days were young. The furniture had been covered in the finest of fabric, the wood was dark and imported. A gilded gold mirror hung over the mantel. Now, her easel stood in front of the bay window, looking out over the ocean; an unfinished watercolor reflected the green of the sea.
She caught a glint of silver reflecting from the center of the oriental rug; worn and a bit threadbare. Her hands and spine were twisted with age; swollen and angry.
Slowly and with much bodily protest, Eleanore stooped to pick up the silver cufflinks, turning them in her palm.
She had given these to her first husband, Stanley, as a gift.
"Hattie!" the old woman yelled.
There was pounding on the stairs as the young girl hurried to her mistress's aide.
"Yes, Lady Eleanore?" The child was only 16, her apron crumpled and her hair falling loose about her face.
"How did these come to be here, in the middle of my drawing room floor?"
The girl stepped closer.
"Why, I don't know?" The girl looked frightened now.
"I have told you not to go through my drawers."
"I didn't, Lady Eleanore! I promise you!"
"Then why are these laying here?"
"I swear to you…"
"Do not swear, it is unladylike."
"I only meant…"
"I know what you meant. Take these up to my room and place them at my dressing table."
"Yes, Lady Eleanore."
The girl took the cufflinks and headed up the stairs.
It was only her and the girl now. A cook came in a few hours each day to prepare supper and to leave food for the following day's breakfast, dinner, and tea. There were no visitors, and the money had dwindled over time. Hattie was all the woman could afford.
Eleanore turned back to her easel, remembering her first husband.
He had been a banker, tall and handsome, with soft curling blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She was the daughter of a politician, 20 and beautiful. He had built her this home, looking out over the sea. He had Copper Beech imported from Europe and planted around the back of the home, saying the leaves, when they turned, reminded him of the copper in her hair.
Stanley/ Loscotoff 2022 – Photo taken in Polish Salt Mines 2016
Years past, and she thought they had been happy, until she found him kissing a maid. She had pretended to ignore it, to continue her life in the comfort of wealth and privilege. What was it to her that he sometimes chose to share his bed with other women? She was his wife. Until the night of the ball, when she had found him pressed up against a girl no more than 16, the daughter of an investor.
At home, they had quarreled. He told her that she was becoming tedious, that he thought she would have given him children by now. Perhaps, he said, he would take another wife.
She had these cufflinks made, a gift for her husband.
Before an opera, she had given them to him.
"I do not wish to quarrel with you, my dear husband. Please do not put me aside for a younger woman. I have had these made for you, a token of my forever faithfulness."
Stanley smiled, turning them over in his hand. Sterling silver with Roman coins as their front face.
"They are finely made. Who is the man?"
Eleanore smiled her beautiful smile, "Why this is Emperor Claudius, my love. He was the ruler of Rome and helped to reestablish the Roman finances, just as you have done here. He was an ambitious builder and began the conquest of Great Britain. He was worshiped, just as you will be worshiped, my husband. May I put them on you?"
That night, Stanley slipped from their box at the Opera, leaving Eleanore alone. He did not return at the end of the show, and while Eleanore waited patiently, the theater emptied.
There soon came a bloodcurdling scream from backstage.
Stanley had been found, blood trickling from his nose, laying on top of a young ingenue, his pants around his ankles. The girl had laid underneath him, silent, afraid to be found, afraid of the wrath of the wealthy. While she lay there, she slowly went mad.
Eleanore came from her memory and seemed to catch a glimpse of a shadow as it moved through the room.
"My eyes have become old," said the woman.
She opened her paints and dipped the brush into the water, looking out over the shapes of the ocean.
When she looked down at her canvas, the glimmer of silver caught her eye. Sitting on the lower handle, where the canvas sat, were two cufflinks, the face of Emperor Claudius looking up at her.
Eleanore gasped slightly, picking them up in her old hands. She had watched as Hattie took them from her, had heard her ascend the stairs, yet here they sat.
Eleanore turned and looked around the room. For a slight moment, she thought she saw the face of a man peering out of the gilded mirror over the mantel. She blinked and the face was gone.
He had black hair and his eyes reflected green, like her second husband, Thomas. Thomas was a politician and well liked in society. When Stanley died, Thomas swooped in and made sure that Eleanore was supported, finding lawyers to make sure she received all she was due from Stanley's estate. He also made sure that Stanley's death was covered up, paying off the members of the Opera and legally binding their secrecy. It was reported that he had fallen victim to a heart attack while leaving the theater, allowing Eleanore the discretion of staying within society without scandal.
Thomas/ Loscotoff, 2022 – Image taken in Polish Salt Mines 2016
She did not love Thomas the way she loved Stanley, but he did care for her and had kept her out of society's gossip. So, when he began to be rough in the bedroom, she thought perhaps this was what some men did. She did not want to insult him, but time came when she begged him to stop. He hit her. Bruising her legs and arms, but never her pretty face. She threatened to take him to the police, but her reminded her of how her first husband had been found, pants around his ankles, over a young girl who was now in a mental hospital. He stated that he would be happy to tear up the legal document keeping members of the Opera quiet, and that he was quite sure the local newspaper would be happy to print the story.
Eleanore withdrew, only appearing in society as was required. The household saw the change, saw the mornings when she did not seem to be able to get out of bed, saw the way she limped through the house. They were afraid of Thomas as well, and wished to keep their jobs, so they kept quiet.
Finally, the night came when Thomas was to speak at a dinner in front of his supporters.
"I have a gift for you, Thomas."
She stood in a gown of silk and brocade, her copper hair twisted and piled on her head.
He was ill mannered, trying to tie the bow at his neck.
"Let me do that for you," she said.
She fixed his collar and knotted the bowtie before giving him a little box tied with a blue ribbon.
"Just a gift. They are antiques, passed down from royalty in England, and seemed perfect for you."
He opened the box and saw the cufflinks, not knowing they had once belonged to Eleanore's first husband.
"They are made from Roman coins, of the Emperor Claudius. He was a great Emperor and sat among the men of the Roman Senate. He reminded me of you and how you have continued to rise within the world of politics."
Thomas looked at her with tenderness she had not seen in many years.
"Thank you my wife, will you do me the honor of putting them on?"
Later that night, Thomas stood in front of his donors and began to speak of their plans, to rise from the local constituency, to become a senator and perhaps even president. He spoke of their arsenal of men, of lawyers and donors and influential spokesmen, and how they would all climb to the top, no matter who got in their way.
Eleanore watched from her table and, when Thomas began to gasp through his speech, asking for water, and then spitting up blood, Eleanore cried and tried to rush to his side; the affect of a woman in terrible grief. She was held back by men, trying to protect her the sight of her dead husband, lying on the stage.
Eleanore looked at the cufflinks in the palm of her hand, and then dropped them into a tall decorative vase which sat on the mantle, imported long ago from China. She heard them clink through the narrow porcelain neck and settle at the base.
Turning back to the room, she thought she saw a shadow pass the drawing room door.
"Hattie? Is that you?" asked the old woman, walking with her cane to the door.
"Did you call me, Lady Eleanore?" The voice of Hattie drifted down from the bedroom.
Shaken, Eleanore called up, "No, child. I'm going to go walk through the garden."
"Let me help you with the stairs!" Hattie called back.
"I can do it myself, I'm not feeble."
The old woman moved slowly down the stairs, using her cane to balance while holding tightly to the banister in her left hand. She came to the landing and passed the dining room on her right, walking to the front door. She stepped out, looking at the sea in front of her. The garden was around the side and the Copper Beech, now a grove, grew tall behind the house.
Eleanore looked at the overgrown plants. There was no one to care for them now, no one to love the land except her, and she rarely stepped from the house. The herbs had become tangled bushes, the broccoli was a mass of yellow flowers going to seed. In the dirt, Eleanore caught the glint of silver reflecting in the cold light.
Careful not to fall, Eleanore slowly bent to investigate what was lying in the garden bed. She brushed back the dirt. Emperor Claudius looked back at her. Digging her nails into the ground, Eleanore grabbed the cufflinks from the soil and with a scream, threw them as hard as she could towards the ocean. Her arms were weak and she felt the protest from her shoulder. The cufflinks did not travel far, but they landed somewhere outside the fence in the tall weeds.
Eleanore no longer wanted to be outside, she felt tired as she slowly walked with her cane back to the house. She seemed to see the shadow of a man as he walked past the corner.
Eleanore thought of her third husband, Edgar. Edgar was young and thin, a bit mousy, but he made her feel beautiful.
Edgar/ Loscotoff 2022 – image taken in Muiderslot Castle, the Netherlands, 2016
Eleanor was moving into her 50's when she met Edgar. He was in his 20's and she knew he was more interested in her money that he was in her, but she didn't care. She was lonely, and very few men looked at her after being widowed twice. Edgar took her to dinner and showed no embarrassment at their age difference. Edgar gambled with the possibility that he could, should he be patient, inherit everything Eleanor had to offer. And so they married. However, in time, he not only gambled with her affection, he gambled with her money.
At first, Eleanore discovered items that seemed to be missing; jewelry and bits of cash she hid throughout the house. Edgar questioned whether perhaps a maid was stealing, or perhaps even Eleanore was confused at where she had left her items. When she went to the bank and realized her fortune was diminishing, when she saw that her husband's signature marked the transactions–small amounts, again and again–she knew he would take her to poverty.
Edgar was going out one night, he said to play cards with the fellows. Eleanore knew what that meant now, that he would continue to gamble with her fortune. And so, she gave him a gift of cufflinks.
Edgar's eyes shone with a greedy desire.
"These were my first husband's, Stanley's. I hope you will care for them, my dear."
Edgar could not take his eyes from the precious treasure, and wanted to feel their weight in his hand.
"Will you wear them tonight? For me?" Eleanore asked.
A smile spread across Edgar's face. He cared nothing for the coins or who the man looking up at him was, he cared only that he could gamble them away.
"Will you help me with them?" he asked.
Eleanore did.
Edgar died at the gambling table. He had been winning, for once, and when his body was taken to the morgue, the cufflinks were still at his sleeves. Eleanore collected the links and buried him next to her first two husbands; three men in a row.
Three men in a row/ Loscotoff 2022 – image taken in the Paris Catacombs, 2016
As Eleanore climbed the steps to her decaying home, she caught a glimpse of the face of an old man peering down at her from at upstairs window. She stumbled, caught herself, and put her hand to her heart; the beating was frantic. When she looked again, the face was gone.
She made her way into the morning room and collapsed into a deep chair. She closed her eyes and imagined the face she thought she had seen, the face of her fourth husband, Nathaniel.
"Are you okay, Lady Eleanore?"
Eleanore opened her eyes and saw Hattie in the doorway.
"I am quite tired today," Eleanore said.
"You look pale, as if you'd seen a ghost," the girl responded.
"Perhaps I have?" said the old woman. "Will supper be ready soon? I think that I would like to go to bed straight after I eat."
"It's early yet," said Hattie, "but I will go ask the cook if she can be ready more quickly."
"Thank you, dear," said the old woman, and closed her eyes.
Hattie didn't know how to respond. The old woman had never called her "dear", wasn't sure she had ever thanked her genuinely.
Eleanore thought of Nathaniel, her fourth husband. He had done nothing wrong. He was simply old and he bored her. He did not like to go out, he did not like the opera; he liked puzzles and reading before the fireplace. And so Eleanore asked him one night if they could perhaps dress for dinner as they once had, in their finest clothes.
Nathaniel/ Loscotoff 2022 – photo taken in Polish Salt Mines, 2016
"Perhaps, after we eat, we could put on a record and dance in the drawing room?" Eleanore asked.
"My dear, I would love to dance with you. There is a man of science who speaks of relativity, and how the functions of the world interact. I simply wish to be near you. It is that relativity in which he speaks."
"I have been saving these for a special occasion," said Eleanore, and she pulled the Roman coin cufflinks out.
"They are beautiful," he said, " and perhaps even an important piece of history?"
"Yes, I do believe they have been instrumental in the role of men," she responded. "Can I put them on you?"
And so they ate dinner, and that night, while they danced in the drawing room, Nathanial died in Eleanor's arms. He went quietly, with very little fuss. He simply said that he was tired and slumped into her arms.
"The cook says that we can start supper now, if you wish?" said Hattie, pulling Eleanore from her memories.
"Yes, dear, please help me to the dining room."
Eleanor sat in her accustomed place, first being served a bowl of soup. As she sipped the broth, she felt stronger. Until, that is, she came to the bottom of the bowl.
There, sitting in the curve beneath the broth, sat the cufflinks. Emperor Claudius seemed to be staring into her eyes.
"Oh!" she squawked.
"Is everything okay?" asked Hattie.
"Can you look into my bowl, and tell me if you see anything unusual?"
"Of course, Lady… oh! I swear, Lady Eleanor, I took them up to your dressing table as you told me! I did not do this. Please don't fire me!"
The old woman simply nodded her head.
"I am not going to fire you. But I do think I am full, and wonder if you would help me to bed?"
The young girl helped Eleanore, undressing her from her day's clothes, dressing her in her night gown. She brushed the woman's long grey hair and braided it, tucking it under a fine cotton nightcap. She pulled back the blanket and helped the old woman under the covers; slowly laying the woman back into her deep pillows.
Eleanore gave out a little cry once fully laying in bed.
"Are you alright?" asked Hattie.
"My bones are just old, that's all. I'm ready to sleep now."
Hattie said goodnight and closed the door.
It had not been her bones that caused her to cry out, it had been the prick of something sharp behind her left shoulder. She could feel it cutting into her, sharp into her skin. It didn't matter what she did now, her death was close at hand.
She remembered when she had had the cufflinks made for her dear Stanley. She remembered how she had asked that one of the toggles be made hollow with a sharp point that would not be noticed when it hid between the post and under the face.
When she had put the cuffs on Stanley, he had cried out as she scratched his skin with the sharp point, drawing blood. She apologized and said that she would have the cufflinks checked and fixed. But he had died, and so the cufflinks had never been returned to their maker.
Thomas had struck her with his belt the night that she helped him with his cufflinks. He had called her stupid and clumsy when she scratched him with the sharp end, and she had agreed that it was all her fault. It was the last time he hit her.
Edgar hadn't really noticed the scratch as she helped him with the cufflinks. He had sucked the blood from the wound, perhaps hastening his death. He said it was nothing, for his eyes were focused only on the uniqueness of the coins, and wondered what he could get for them. They brought him only a hole in the ground.
Nathanial had looked at her sadly when she had scratched him. His skin tore easily, like tissue paper, the aged bruises standing out against his wrinkled flesh.
Eleanore remembered dipping the hollow toggle into the poison, being sure the well was filled; knowing that the scratch would allow the poison into their bloodstream.
Now, she lay, with the hollow toggle pressed into a scratch in her shoulder. It had been many years since she had dipped the sharp point in poison and a part of her wondered if it was enough to kill her the way she killed them.
She did not wonder long, for a tall shadow with faded blonde hair and blue eyes stepped from the corner of the room and began to walk towards the bed. Then a thick shadow, black haired and green eyed, emerged from the wall and moved closer. The third figure, thin and mousy, stepped from the window. Finally, the ghost of an old man moved through the door.
They all came and stood around her bedside, looking down on their wife, looking down on their killer. Four men, four graves laid side-by-side.
She had nothing to say to them in death, and so died silently.
In the morning, when Hattie came to wake her, the woman was cold, a single trickle of blood dried around her mouth, a cufflink embedded in the flesh of her shoulder.
She had nothing to say to them in death, and so died silently/ Loscotoff, 2022 – image taken in Rüdesheim am Rhine, 2016
I wanted to leave a certain ambiguity in this story until the end. Is Eleanore murdering her husbands? Or is there a curse on the cufflinks? Perhaps there is a curse on the Roman coins. Could Eleanore be a victim in this as well, grieving for each husband despite the fact that they were all (except one) terrible husbands? Perhaps, if I had included an old, faithful maid, the maid could have actually been the murderer and the last husband died naturally in his wife's arms.
I chose to make the murderer Eleanore simply because the story was clear in my mind. I was stepping into the shower (where I do all my best thinking) and I saw the whole story laid out before me. However, should I ever rewrite this story (or publish it in a short story collection), perhaps I will give you a different ending. One of the above or perhaps something even further from the original truth.
I love antiquity and own two Roman coins myself (the ones you see in the title photo). There is something really special to me about artifacts, the idea of all the people who held that coin; how it was probably lost through time, buried, and rediscoverd by someone in a field with a metal detector. I think perhaps I was meant to be a archeologist or anthropologist.
I wanted the Roman coin to bear the face of Emperor Claudius, as history believes he was murdered by wife, Agrippina, on 13 October, 54. I worried that the idea of a cufflink being able to introduce enough poison into the human body may push the limits of reality, however Agrippina may have used a poisoned feather to kill Claudius. I wanted the use of Claudius to be an element of foreshadowing. If you know his story, you will suspect Eleanore in the murdering of her husbands.
Finally, all photos come from when my family and I had the opportunity to live in, and travel around, Germany for 6 months in 2016. The majority of the photos are statues carved from salt rock in the Polish salt mines of Wieliczka Salt Mine. I've also included photos from Castle Muiderslot in the Netherlands, the Catacombs of Paris, and one from the torture museum, Mittelalterliches Foltermuseum, in Ruedesheim am Rhein in Germany.
Thank you, dear reader, for joining me on this week's journey. I am publishing a short story every Saturday this year in my 52 week project. If you liked this story, please share it with a friend or loved one. I send out an email every Friday with any stories or blogs I have posted during the week, please sign up for it here.
Eleanore and her husbands/ Loscotoff 2022 – image taken in Polish Salt Mines, 2016
This Week's Prompt
Week 13 – A haunted house
Include: silver, relativity, watercolor, Copper Beech, limited, affect, broccoli, politician, arsenal, cufflink
Read Bridgette's Week 13 Tale here.
Some of these links may seem random, but they are all sites I visited this week to research various questions I had for this particular story. Some stories need no research, others find me searching every little thought. This was one of those weeks.
Wikipedia on the Roman Emperor Claudius
Julia Agrippina – the wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero – Wikipedia
The Roman Emperor – The most dangerous occupation in Ancient Rome
Poisons, Poisoning, and Poisoners in Rome
Victorian Homes – Part 1 – Rooms
Victorian Rugs, Interiors, and History
The Copper Beech Tree
History of the Nightcap- Victorian and Edwardian Hair Care
History of Record Players
The Parts of an Easel
The Parts of a Cufflink
Wieliczka Salt Minę
Castle Muiderslot
Catacombs of Paris
Mittelalterliches Foltermuseum, in Ruedesheim am Rhein
Week 14 Prompt
Something bad is about to happen but nobody believes the main character
Include: Andromeda, stop sign, dandelion, iceberg, spectacle, poet, candle lit, keyboard, bumble, robotic
My 52 Week Journey
What is the 52 Week Short Story Challenge?


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package WebService::Recruit::Aikento::Base;
use strict;
use base qw( XML::OverHTTP );
use vars qw( $VERSION );
$VERSION = '0.10';

use Class::Accessor::Children::Fast;

sub attr_prefix { ''; }

sub is_error {
    my $self = shift;
    my $root = $self->root();
    return $root ? 0 : 1;
}

=head1 NAME

WebService::Recruit::Aikento::Base - Base class for Aikento Web Service

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is a base class for Aikento Web Service.
L<WebService::Recruit::Aikento> uses this internally.

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008 RECRUIT Media Technology Labs

=cut
1;


Edinson Volquez of the Miami Marlins pitched a no-hitter in a 3-0 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 3, 2017. His line for the game was 9.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R. 0 ER,2 BB, 10 K in 98 pitches. Justin Bour initially provided all the necessary offensive support by knocking in Giancarlo Stanton with a single in the fourth. Insurance was provided in the eighth when Marcell Ozuna singled to allow Stanton to score again and Bour doubled to knock in Christian Yelich for the final run.
This season the RHP is 2-7, 3.79 ERA, 57 K, 1.38 WHIP, .235 BAA in 61.2 IP over 11 GS. Over 13 MLB seasons with the Marlins, Royals, Pirates, Dodgers, Padres, Reds and Rangers he is 91-86, 4.41 ERA, 1286 K, 1.41 WHIP, .256 BAA in 1494.0 IP over 270 games with 263 GS. He originally signed with the Rangers in 2001 as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic. Volquez will be 34 on July 3rd.


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Monferran-Savès (gaskognisch Montferrand de Savés) ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Gers in der Region Okzitanien. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Auch und zum Kanton L'Isle-Jourdain. Die Einwohner werden Monferranais genannt.

Geografie
Monferran-Savès liegt etwa 33 Kilometer westnordwestlich von Toulouse. Nachbargemeinden sind Razengues im Norden, Clermont-Savès im Osten und Nordosten, L'Isle-Jourdain im Osten, Marestaing im Südosten, Frégouville im Süden, Giscaro und Gimont im Westen sowie Escornebœuf im Nordwesten.

Durch die Gemeinde führt die Route nationale 124.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten

 Kirche Saint-Martin aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
 Kirche von Garbic
 Schloss Monferran aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Bordelongue aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Aubine aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Beausoleil aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Lauzin aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Embonneau aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

Weblinks

Ort in Okzitanien


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Remember Whose Music Videos Chris Young Starred in Before He Was Famous?
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Perhaps it's not too ironic. Young and Jewell were friends, although Young insists the older singer didn't know anything about his audition.
It actually wasn' Young's acting debut. He previously appeared in Reba McEntire's video for 'I'll Be,' a song from 2000.
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