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Why Can't We Accept Good Spiritual Advice Unless It Comes From Superman?
Brad is at Tassajara Zen Monastery where there's no Internet access. Here is an oldie but goodie written for SuicideGirls to tide you over till he gets back.
My new book, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate is out now.
I want to talk a little about the book. Not just to promote it (though I won't deny I'm doing that), but because I wrote it to address a topic I think is really important. And that is, why we can't seem to accept good spiritual advice unless it comes from Superman. I already ranted in my last column about how Buddhism isn't spirituality. But here I'm using the word "spiritual" just to refer to that area of life that addresses the deep questions about the nature of things. It's convenient shorthand. But everything I said last time still stands.
ANYWAY, there's a long-standing notion that runs through a wide variety of religious traditions that people won't listen to good spiritual advice unless the source of that advice possesses powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary men (and women, of course, but I'm quoting the intro to the old Superman TV show, which was very sexist). Thus it is not enough that Jesus said to love your enemies and advised that he who is without sin should cast the first stone. In order for anyone to accept that good stuff, the folks who spread his message thought we also needed to believe that Jesus had magic powers. I mean, why should we bother treating others the way we want to be treated ourselves unless the guy who said we should could change water into wine? D'uh.
This line of thinking runs through all the world's great and not-so-great spiritual traditions. Buddhists are not any more immune to it than anybody else. There are hordes of stories of Buddha's miracles and even of his virgin birth. The only real difference with Buddhists is that, by and large, they don't tend to give a whole lot of importance to whether or not you believe those stories. In fact several major Buddhist lineages discount them entirely. But that doesn't mean a lot of other Buddhists don't believe them or even that for plenty of Buddhists those stories aren't crucial.
The notion that for a spiritual teacher to be believed he or she must appear to be superhuman still carries a lot of weight even today. Of course, nowadays we're less likely to believe our contemporary spiritual teachers can really do magic tricks -- though lots of people still fall for the sleight of hand of Eastern fakirs and Western faith healers. Sophisticated, worldly urban types tend to expect their miracles to be a bit more subtle than walking on water or turning into fire-spitting whirly-gigs as the Buddha is reported to have done. But we still expect miracles.
Sometimes we like our guys to have been great ancient teachers reincarnated or possess psychic abilities and beatific vision. And even when we're not after those sorts of blatant conjuring acts we still look for people who conform to our image of spiritual purity. Those who are spiritually pure shouldn't be like ordinary people. They need to be perpetually serene and unaffected, liberated from bodily desires and distress. When we find out that they're people just like the rest of us we're liable to rebel and turn upon them viciously. The mechanism by which this happens in Zen is well documented in books like Shoes Outside the Door and The Great Failure Neither Richard Baker, subject of Shoes Outside the Door nor Dainin Karagiri, the subject of The Great Failure, ever claimed to be spiritual Supermen, but that didn't stop certain of their followers from reacting with anger, distress and even grief when it was revealed they were not.
Of course someone who advocates a meditative practice ought to show signs of that meditative practice having had some good effects on their own lives. That's perfectly reasonable to expect. What's not perfectly reasonable to expect is that those good effects should manifest in precisely the manner we imagine they ought to. We can never know what these people would have been like if they hadn't done their practice. Furthermore it's not how meditative practice has affected your teacher that's important. It's only how meditative practice affects you that matters. And you are the only one who will ever see the full extent of that.
ANYWAY, the reason I wrote Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate was, in part, to try and kill the notion of the spiritual Superman for good and all. The only way I felt I could do that effectively was to assassinate a specific Eastern spiritual teacher. Since I come from a tradition that believes you don't find the really important truths by looking outward but by looking inward, it wasn't good enough for me to do what the authors of the books I mentioned above did and pick out someone else as my target. The teacher whose reputation I was to trash had to be me. Admittedly, I'm not a really good example because so few people actually believe that I am any kind of Great Enlightened Being. Those few that do are mostly a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
Still, since I've started becoming more popular I've seen people react to me in ways that are a little scary. I've only been recognized on the street by random strangers a couple of times. But these days when I walk into a meditation center where they know my work, people's eyes light up in a freaky way and some even seem to cower when I try to speak to them. To these folks I am no ordinary person. I find that kind of reaction difficult to deal with. Some people are starting to make react to me in ways that only make sense if they have begun to project something ethereal upon the image they carry of me in their minds. They expect things of me that they would never expect of each other. And that's unfair.
I didn't really want to write this book. It's hard work exposing your worst side to public scorn and ridicule. This book was physically painful to write. I had at least half dozen other ideas for a third book that would have been a breeze to write and would have been more commercially bankable. But this book screamed at me to get it done until I had no choice but to obey.
There was something very deep that could only be got to by digging around in my own guts. In doing so I discovered that even the tawdriest portions of my life are not all ugliness and horror. In fact, much to my surprise I found very little of that. There's a kind of beauty to the truth that transcends whether or not you find that truth to be pleasant or objectionable. Plus there's some jokes in the book too.
I wanted to write a book that told the truth about teachers in Eastern spiritual traditions. Because there are still a lot of illusions out there about those of us in this game. The public has been conditioned by the media to believe that teachers in Eastern traditions aren't like our garden-variety preachers, priests, imams and rabbis. Yogis, Gurus and Zen Masters, we're told, have this special something called "Enlightenment" that makes them transcend the world of ordinary humans. You can make very good money exploiting that twaddle. There's even one so-called "Roshi" (i.e. Zen Master) who sells gullible rich people five days in his godlike presence for $5,000 on the grounds that by being in proximity to him they just might get some of this Enlightenment thing for themselves. It won't happen, so you might as well give the money to me instead!
But just because no spiritual teacher is Superman doesn't mean you can't learn a lot through the practice of meditation. I happen to believe zazen is the only way humanity has to get out of the mess it's in. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't bother shouting about it.
In this media saturated age where every person's sleeziest action is captured on digital video and put up on YouTube for all to see two hours later, there is nowhere left for spiritual Supermen to hide the pulleys and wires that enable them to do their magic tricks. It has become urgent that we kill the idea of the spiritual Superman and start looking at how we can accept good spiritual advice even from people who burp and fart and -- oh my god! -- fuck just like we do. If we can't do that there won't be any way we can accept good spiritual advice from anybody.


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Andy Hill of Missoula and his wife were floating under a bridge on the Clark Fork River near East Missoula Sunday when the man landed on him, KECI-TV (http://bit.ly/134R6nD) reported.
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After a quick workshop last Friday, one of them suggested I make a tutorial so that more teachers would learn how to use it. Well, windows movie maker can be found at most windows based computers, if you don´t have one it can be downloaded from the internet.
This is a simple tutorial I`ve made showing how to add images, audio, titles, etc. http://www.utipu.com/app/tip/id/25122
Just below you´ll find some example videos I´ve created to use with my students.
Example videos:
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- Video Quiz: films based on novels
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- Daily routine: students mime actions. We used the video for practice.
- Past Grammar Tenses: students created sentences and drawing.
- Phrasal Verbs: students created pictures for sentences from an exercise and were recorded reading the sentences.


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EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs has been conducting a review of the risks and benefits of MSMA and of other pesticides under a 1996 law that required the re-registration of all pesticide tolerances.
The original deadline for comments on the proposed MSMA re-registration was Nov. 13, but the Office of Pesticide Programs extended the deadline to allow more stakeholders to comment on the herbicide's risks and benefits.
Comments filed to date indicate that cotton producers support re-registration of MSMA because it is an effective alternative chemistry and important component as a post-directed herbicide in integrated resistance management programs for weeds such as Palmer amaranth.
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The National Cotton Council has assembled background material on MSMA that can be found on its Web site at http://www.cotton.org/issues/members/2006/msma.cfm.
NCC representatives have participated in meetings with EPA officials to respond to questions about MSMA use and to convey support for re-registration.
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Plot Summary: Chemical Elements had disappeared from the planet, causing forests, buildings and life itself to disappear. Research reveals that the elements have been flowing into another Earth on the another side of a dimensional wall that can only be accessed by those with flexible minds. A team of Element Hunters is formed to return the elements to Earth.
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KerriganLowdermilk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
NewMusicalTheatre.com is dedicated to the distribution and
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|2012-03-12, 02:18
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How did Chifuyu not catch them?
Uh.....Yamada's was on purpose. Mikuru from Haruhi abridged also got an annoying high voice. Besides, these guys are speaking english for a Japanese anime, so cut them some slack if the sync is off. At least the dialogue is funnier than the original. All the voices are on purpose.
|2012-03-12, 02:23
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Chifuyu does catch them during that panic scene.
No, not the high voice, but the buzzy sound. Ichika and Chifuyu get the best, cleanest, Cecilia and Houki is moderate, some buzz but otherwise fiine, but Yamada and side characters get it the worst. The BGM and sound effect is nice though
Cecilia scene and swearing Ichika is funny.
|2012-03-12, 02:33
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
The usual steam censor and silhouette for the naughtier part
I told you Rin started in, then HONNE of all people instal a robotic camera due to her friend's pressure.
No, I don't watch abridged if I don't know the fandom.
|2012-03-12, 02:42
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Yes, it was lampshaded. The actual problem is that the steam also made the lens wet and blurry (hence transparent steam looks like tick fog), and even lens-wiper isn't that effective, the sillhouette itself is explained as the effect of lightning and refraction.
Honne is testing arobot camera for the lulz (She already established as resident gadgeteer by this point), but her friends realize the "perversion potential" with that.
No, I don't watch Higurashi, just knew the overall story.
|2012-03-12, 03:09
|Link #25473
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Laura's change is less drastic than Canon, though sometimes she's just as forceful. Charles was genre savvy enough and said that if Laura barges in, he will ignore her for a while
Laura does not understand nudity, and wonder why is that her friends is very excited about seeing two guys naked in hot bath. Then someone joked about Ichika and Charles looks like a couple and.... well, you could guess.
|2012-03-12, 03:14
|Link #25475
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Can you blame them? It's summer and they're confined with two guys, and only two guys.
When Charles asked if Ichika wanted to peek the girls, Ichika replied with a joke about the lack of manpower. The girls (bar some that still sane enough, like Takatsuki and others) is disappointed...
|2012-03-12, 03:34
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Wait, are you basically saying they're in heat? Uh........they better lock their doors with a barricade.
I was surprised because of how shy everybody is in canon. Sitting together on the same bed or holding hands is apparently a huge step up from them. Heck, physical contact causes them to get blushy.
|2012-03-12, 03:40
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
There's a good reason Charles is evacuated to Chifuyu's room.
In shonen anime, there's a distinct, blurred boundary between romance and sexuality. A guy being sexual deviant doesn't mean he will focus on romance, and vice versa, a romantic guy with a crush doesn't mean he was actively chasing the girl for pleasure. Ichika in ST is normal guy with hormone, but still not eager about romance and stuff because he's not ready.
In more explicit series, this boundary often does not exist
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The rise and consolidation of Agile methodologies has introduced a new vision and spirit in software development. Concepts such as refactoring, pair programming, and collective code ownership are common for developers worldwide.
But Agile has not only influenced the way software is analyzed, designed, and written. It also has changed the way it is assembled. Today almost everyone in the software industry has at least heard about continuous integration tools and techniques.
In this article, I analyze the pros and cons of continuous integration, and examine whether there are still opportunities to look for even more agile processes supported by Software Configuration Management (SCM) Best Practices.
Freeride Software Development
So what are the most relevant features that Agile software development brings to scene? Well, the answer to this question depends heavily on who is answering. Here I highlight some features that as a subset of agile that I call "freeride" -- trying to capture part of the spirit of agile software development:
- Enforce change. Ranging from refactor to collective code ownership, the message is clear -- change whatever needs to be changed to create better code and give the right answers to customer requests.
- Create a real team. Agile methods put people first, opposite the traditional project management and software engineering techniques which fiercely look for reducing staff dependency. And just as each time I mention the word "team", Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister's Peopleware chapter on making teams jell comes to my mind, "team" being defined as a group of people working together towards a common goal, not just a bunch of programmers sitting together.
- Fun. This won't ever fit in every organization, but some of them will need to compete in a global market. So getting the best out of talented individuals will be a key point. Achieving such a goal usually involves taking care of motivation, and fun is then important.
Not all organizations or projects will benefit from or be able to adopt agile techniques. Big projects with hundreds of developers and high personnel rotation aren't normally good agile candidates. In fact, the standard way to achieve agility on such environments is by splitting teams into smaller ones. And when this isn't possible, a tall hierarchy chain is required, which is incompatible with agile techniques.
But even on those environments there are certain techniques which help introduce more agile working methods. And the same techniques can benefit small agile teams to overcome many of the problems derived from some extended SCM practices.
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What is the role of software configuration management in agile processes? Normally SCM is just perceived as a commodity, as a service to be used by developers. But SCM can play a key role contributing in the creation of the right environment to achieve the desired agile goals. The problem is that basically not every version control or SCM tool fits reaching those goals. Most of them fail, giving developers enough freedom to choose the best suitable process and instead force to follow the one which is closer to the tool's capabilities.
Agile is all about changing code safer, adapting to requirements faster, and listening to the customer better. And some of the most extended SCM agile practices fail giving developers the freedom to perform changes without being concerned about project's stability.


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Coconut curry is quite possibly my favorite flavor, so the winning recipe for the yumPower Good For You Recipe Challenge on KMSP-FOX 9 News sounded right up my alley.
Watch the segment for information about the contest and our winner, Steph MacPhail, who gets $1500 from Warners' Stellian to trick out her kitchen appliances (or get an awesome pet hair vacuum for her yellow lab).
Steph's recipe includes lean protein, more than two servings of fruits and veggies and reduced fat and reduced sodium ingredients. I can't wait to try it!
Thai-licious rice, veggie and tofu stir fry
For the baked tofu:
3 lbs tofu
1/2 cup low-fat coconut milk (get one 15 oz or so can of it, the rest will be used below)
2 Tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
1 Teaspoon curry powder
1 Teaspoon freshly grated ginger
For the rice and veggie mix:
1 1/2 cups brown rice
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 Cups sliced yellow onion
1 Cup chopped carrots
2 Cups broccoli florets
2 Cups sliced peppers (use green, yellow, or red, or a little of each)
1 Can (16 oz) pineapple, no sugar added, drained and juice reserved
1 Cup (approx) low-fat coconut milk
2 Tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
2 Teaspoon curry powder
2 Teaspoons freshly grated ginger
2 Tablespoons unsalted, chunky peanut butter
Optional: peanuts
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Line a 13×9 baking sheet with parchment paper.
Drain and press tofu to remove some of the moisture, then cube.
In a medium bowl, combine tofu with coconut milk, soy sauce, curry, and ginger.
Let sit for a few minutes, then pour bowl contents onto prepared baking sheet.
Bake in oven for 30-45 minutes, or until slightly crispy and brown.
Meanwhile, mix rice with 3 cups water in a soup pot.
Bring to a simmer; cover, then simmer until the water is absorbed, about 30 minutes.
Heat the olive oil in a large stir-fry pan or large skillet.
Add the onion and carrots and saute over medium heat until lightly browned.
Add the broccoli, bell pepper and pineapple and saute for 5-10 minutes.
When rice is cooked, add the stir fry mixture to the soup pot.
Add the remaining coconut milk, reserved pineapple juice, curry powder, soy sauce, peanut butter and ginger.
Stir gently, cooking for 5-10 minutes. Remove pot from burner. Remove tofu from oven and add promptly to the stir fry. Serve garnished with peanuts.
Serves 8 to 10.


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PointOne needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Point One Media Inc. helps businesses harness the power of the new media. We are a boutique open source cloud based technology company. We help our clients reach their networks of customers, members, suppliers, and staff through high-impact web-based and in-print communication services we provide. We are from the west coast of BC on Vancouver Island.
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Grace Ella Smith was born Nov 2, 1921 to Clyde Oliver and Florence Jeppson Smith in American Fork, UT. She was their first baby and only daughter. Later, three brothers were born into this family: Merlin, Keith and Kayle.
She had many fond memories of life as a young girl. She was raised on a farm in American Fork and enjoyed taking care of all of the animals and spent a lot of time with family. Her mother had 11 siblings and they gathered together often to eat, sing, and play musical instruments.
She met Garth L Bradford, who at the time was living in American Fork, and their relationship flourished. They were married in Provo, UT. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They made their home in Pleasant Grove, UT for about 16 years and later moved to Blanding where they remained to finish raising their family.
Grace was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and served in the Relief Society, Young Women's Program, and served for 30 + years in the primary. She also enjoyed singing in the choir.
Her greatest joy was her family. She spent a lot of her time doing various things with the family.
It would not be unusual to see her on the back of a jet ski with one of her grandsons at Lake Powell. She loved to be wherever her children / grandchildren were.
Every grandchild and every great-grandchild has a quilt sewn with love from their grandmother.
Her legacy will live on with her family forever. Kindness, gentleness, meekness, holiness, patience were all taught by her example.
In the Lord's tender mercies she passed from this mortal existence on September 28, 2009, in her home of natural causes.
She is survived by her children Lynn (Karen), Tim (Georgene), Dennis (Lisa) and Julie (Calvin) Black. She has 15 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband Garth, her mother and father, and her brother Merlin.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in the Blanding West LDS Stake Center. Interment is at the Blanding City Cemetery.
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The family of Grace Bradford would like to express their appreciation for the out pouring of love that was demonstrated at the passing of their mother. Thank you for the food, flowers, visits, cards and words of encouragement. For the ward family who took care of food and childcare. A special thank you to Danny Palmer, for the atmosphere that was provided to say our last good- byes. He took such great care and helped us so much.
For all of the dear sweet neighbors Grace had. We appreciate so much the kind acts of service that were offered in our behalf.


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On the Edge with Charles Hugh Smith!
Do you remember "McCarthyism"? It describes reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as dangerous, inflammatory, provocative, demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries. Citizens of USA were so thoroughly traumatized by McCarthyism, fables became facts, propaganda replaced reality, fear became normal.
There are those who believe Ayn Rand and her ideas about individualism, ethical egoism (rational self-interest), individual rights, and laissez-faire capitalism, i.e. Alan Greenspan, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Mark Sanford, and others.
There are those who believe each and every individual has certain rights, according to the Declaration, and Jefferson added:
"Government should restrain men from injuring one another."
What strategy is necessary to overcome the power of corporations-as-persons?
1. Don't go into debt
2. Invest in concrete assets (productive land, precious metals, local goods and services, not promises on paper.
3. Stop voting for puppets of corporations, not state currencies.
4. Buy locally.
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Joan, I love your topics. Have your read "End the Fed" by Ron Paul?
BTW, a couple of years ago I read "One Nation Under Debt" by Robert E. Wright. I am going to re-read it as a refresher course on what is going on today.
Joan, are you familiar with Agenda 21? I found out about it over the weekend on Coast to Coast.
I think ultimately we'll have to reinvent economics and money far more drastically in order to achieve sustainability. We need a second independent currency that counters the effect of profit-making to externalize costs to others such as workers and consumers and to nature. My suggestion is reproduction rights, automatically granted equally to every world citizen, but in a fraction which represents the number of offspring the planet could support. So the more we destroy the Earth and the more people there are to share the rights, the smaller fraction each individual gets. This currency would have to be managed by a universal information system, every person on Earth would have to have access. People could join together in whatever way they choose to get a whole right to produce one child. Balance must be built in by having an economics with checks and balances.
Some groups here have invented their own local currency - called NOPPES, a word for nothing, but it is not the only local currency. It works within groups: e.g. you help or teach someone, clean a car, cut someone's hair or work in someone's garden and you earn Noppes and then you have the right to ask the group for things you need, help or lessons. It works very well in small communities, but it also shows what we have lost in the 20th century: al this came without thinking some decennia ago and it makes me feel uncomfortable that this had to be re-invented.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
JRCS (Julie-Rene's Cleaning Service)
JRCS started as a domestic maid service, then grew to encompass commercial building and custodial services. Future options for expansion and growth include green cleaning, bio/body fluid/crime scene/disaster clean-ups, other environmental cleaning options, as well as increased growth in the commercial janitorial market.
Logo should reflect who we are and what we do, as well as who we want to become. The benefit of what we provide to clients is a combination of personal touch, responsiveness, cleanliness, and customer service. Like a precious gem, our essence can be measured in 4 C's. Our touchstone 4-carat approach includes cleanliness, comfort, care, and cost efficiency. These traits represent the C in JRCS.
We want to be seen as our client's "commercial cleaning solution," providing top of the line service to a variety of properties, including commercial office buildings, manufacturing space, healthcare facilities, amusement, entertainment and event venues, transportation centers, retail outlets, hotels, and government properties. Our frontline audience would be procurement specialists and buyers, corporate facilities managers, property managers and other executives.
• Must translate to a variety of formats: eg., 4 color and monochrome for use on business cards, stationery, faxes, t-shirts, internet icons, etc. Can be scaled large enough to be emblazoned across a utility van, or small enough to be effective on a promotional piece such as a ballpoint pen, flash drive or post-it notepad.
• We prefer minimalistic designs that use simple geometry, and san serif typefaces. We'd rather see abstracted concepts of "clean," rather than literal representations of cleaning products or implements. No brushes, brooms, mops, rags, vacuum cleaners, water bottles, push carts, etc., although stylized water drops, molecules, sparkles, bubbles, or even mop heads could be interesting.
• No cartoons - we want it to be accessible, but not cheap, childlike or literal.
• Nothing too elegant - we do not want to come across as stuffy or pretentious.
• We want to be seen as warm and accessible, but also professional, friendly, trustworthy, and experienced.
• We're leaning toward a color palette of greens and blues, with maybe one or two accent colors from the opposite side of the color wheel. But if you have something better...
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When Frank was 10 years old, he "borrowed" a French cookbook from the Livingston Public Library. (He still has that book. And he still uses it.) In it he found a recipe for an easy French onion soup that he loved to make for his family. It seemed foreign to him–and fancy. His mom was so pleased with his initiative that she went out and bought proper crocks for him to serve the soup in, and his dad would come home from grocery-shopping trips to New York City with big chunks of Gruyère cheese, even though, being Italian, this was not something he would ever have bought if it weren't for Frank and his soup thing.–Frank Mentesana and Jerome Audureau
LC Gooey, Stringy, Clingy Goodness Note
Many an old-fashioned French onion soup demands a gooey, stringy, clingy cheese that clamps down on the soup dish as it melts to create a taut, trampoline-like surface. Not this recipe, which calls for a simple sprinkling of cheese on the bread and not over the entire bowl. This reliance on croutons not only makes for easier eating in polite company, but it also means you can indulge your whim for virtually any cheese that melts readily, not just those that have a Super Glue-like stick-to-it-iveness. Comté tends to be a quite traditional and common topper for French onion soups, although Emmentaler, mozzarella, Manchego, or any of countless others will also work, as would Gruyère.
Gooey, Cheesy Baked French Onion Soup
- Quick Glance
- Makes 6 servings
- 2 big yellow onions, quartered and thinly sliced
- 2 red onions, quartered and thinly sliced
- 4 leeks, root ends and dark-green tops lopped off, leeks sliced 1/4-inch thin, and washed
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
- 8 cups vegetable or chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, [Editor's Note: or a splash of fortified wine]
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 day-old baguette
- 1/2 cup grated Parmiggiano-Reggiano cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Gruyère cheese, plus more as needed
- 1. Sauté the yellow and red onions and the leeks in the butter and olive oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally to keep the onions from sticking to the bottom of the pot and scorching, until they've begun to soften slightly and shrink in volume, 5 to 10 minutes.
- 2. Reduce the heat to medium or medium-low and continue to cook the onions for about an hour, until they're caramel in color and seem practically melted. Keep a careful eye on them, as you don't want the onions to burn. If it looks like they're heading in that direction, lower the flame even more, or splash a little bit of water over them to buy you some cooking time.
- 3. Sprinkle the properly caramelized onions with the flour, stirring constantly so the flour doesn't clump. Sauté for another 5 minutes to cook off the floury taste.
- 4. Pour the stock over the onions and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Stir in the Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. Taste and adjust the seasonings accordingly.
- 5. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Thickly slice the baguette, brush both sides with olive oil, scatter them on a baking sheet, and bake until the bread dries out and the edges are golden brown. Preheat the broiler.
- 6. Just before you're ready to serve the soup, whisk in the Parmiggiano-Reggiano. It's important to whisk in the cheese at the last minute or it will sink to the bottom of the pot and burn. Ladle the warm soup into heatproof bowls or crocks and float a slice of the baked bread in each bowl. Sprinkle some Gruyère over each slice of bread and slide the crocks under the broiler until the cheese bubbles and browns.
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RUTLAND, MA--(Marketwire - Jun 1, 2012) - Did you know that lactose free milk also comes from cows? Deion Branch of the New England Patriots finds this out firsthand at the Jordan Dairy Farm in this hilarious behind-the-scenes video. As part of the National Dairy Council's partnership with the National Football League for the Fuel Up to Play 60 initiative, this video was shot to teach people that even if you suffer from lactose intolerances there are still ways to take in the valuable nutrition that dairy products have to offer. Deion spent a day on the farm, making some udder-ly cool new bovine friends and learning about how the dairy industry produces lactose free products, like Lactaid, that are nutrient packed for a healthy, balanced diet.
Deion spends his life staying in shape for peak physical performance and knows what well-rounded nutrition and physical activity means for a healthy life. That's why he teamed up for the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program and headed down to the farm to spend the day learning about dairy nutrition and hanging out with some of the farm's larger inhabitants, the dairy cows!
Americans are recommended to build a healthy diet based on MyPlate (MyPlate.gov) which includes nutrient-rich foods from the five basic food groups, including three daily servings from the Dairy Group. However, most Americans are not taking in their recommended three servings of dairy daily. Lactose Intolerance affects some 25 million Americans, leading many to believe the intake of low-fat milk, cheese and/or yogurt is difficult or impossible. But even those who suffer from lactose intolerance don't have to miss out on the essential calcium, protein, potassium and vitamins A and D that dairy products have to offer. As Deion learned firsthand, there are great tools and tips help continue enjoying dairy and its benefits for your health and wellbeing.
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ROA was briefed on the Veteran Crisis Line and the Department of Veterans Affairs's (VA) Suicide Prevention Outreach Campaign led by Reingold, a communications and marketing firm.
The Crisis Line, formerly known as the Veterans Suicide Hotline, was established in 2007. The name was changed to "Crisis Line" to encourage wider utilization. The Crisis Line is open 24/7/365, providing confidential counseling and referrals for veterans and families, and is available to all veterans, regardless of status and whether or not they are registered with the VA.
The VA's outreach campaign goals are to increase awareness and use of the hotline (1-800-273-8255) and the online chat service, support broader suicide prevention efforts, and promote help-seeking behaviors. There is not a smart phone app at this time, but that may be added in the future. This campaign has been branded with a new logo and identity, has a partnership outreach network, a campaign website, and leverages PSAs and media to raise the profile of the campaign.
The campaign messaging tries to avoid normalizing or glorifying suicide, showcases help-seeking behaviors, promotes individual family and community "connectedness," stresses confidentiality, and highlights VA leadership.
The target audience includes veterans, specifically OEF/OIF, National Guard and Reserve, and Vietnam-era veterans who have seen an increase in suicides post-9/11; families, friends, and caregivers who can identify the first signs of the need for help; and health care providers. According to Reingold, providers tend to be reluctant to get involved.
Messages include "It's your call," "Treatment works," "Veterans get treatment everyday," "Take charge," and "We need you."
The latest numbers from the National Institute of Mental Health show that suicide has surpassed combat death as a cause of mortality in the military.


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The secret to having a closet that inspires you doesn't necessarily have to lie in owning more clothes. It's about filling it with fewer pieces that go with more things, and can be worn more often — but don't think that you've got to stick with a stable of boring, "classic" pieces in shades of gray. No, some of the most touted pieces this season are also the most versatile. And when you start thinking out of the box, you'll find that there's a near-infinite number of outfits you can make. Dress, meet pants. Top, meet other top. You, meet 14 head-to-toe outfits created with just 10 items.


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What's the general consensus on this? Already have an offer from the firm I did summer associateships at (120 some attys, $120K first year associate salary). I understand that a clerkship (especially federal) is prestigious and great training ... but is there really much of a point if I already have an offer at a big (for my area) firm? Just curious as to what your opinions were.
Many prestigious firms require their associates to clerk.
Quote from: john4040 on August 25, 2010, 08:10:13 AMMany prestigious firms require their associates to clerk. This is a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it? I mean, who can you think of besides Williams & Connolly?
Do you want to be a litigator? If so, I think you should go for it. Otherwise, not so much.


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|Here's the thing, kid: We don't get to choose how we start in this life. Real 'greatness' is what you do with the hand you're dealt.
— Victor Sullivan to Nathan Drake
|Victor Sullivan
Victor Sullivan, as he appears in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
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Victor "Sully" Sullivan is an American treasure hunter, fortune seeker, and businessman, as well as a friend, one-time mentor and father figure of fellow treasure hunter Nathan Drake.
Throughout the Uncharted series, Sully appears as a major character and ally to Nathan Drake and his friends, often joining him in his various adventures.
In all of his appearances, Sullivan is voiced and motion captured by Richard McGonagle.
|Possessed of a silver tongue and a seemingly limitless supply of cigars, Victor "Goddamn" Sullivan has been in the treasure hunting game longer than most. Dishonorably discharged from the Navy for running scams, Sullivan found his true calling as a smuggler and purveyor of stolen goods. Might be getting too old for this shit, but shows no signs of slowing down.
— Official Uncharted 4: A Thief's End multiplayer bio.
Background & Early Life
Victor Sullivan was born in 1951, as a child he shared a difficult relationship with his lousy father, and as a result he never developed a desire to raise a family of his own. As a young adult, Victor served in the US Navy,[1] although he was later dishonourably discharged for running illegal scams.[2]
Victor entered the criminal business, where he operated as both a smuggler and free-lance thief, accepting contracts from clients without asking too many questions, although he bared a tendency of double-crossing them.[3] Victor once even dealt with the infamous drug lord Hector Alcázar where he sold his boss a few woodcut prints which had managed to smuggle out from Japan. [4] At some later, he eventually came under the patronage of Katherine Marlowe, and the two developed a romantic relationship.[5]
In 1991, while assigned to steal Sir Francis Drake's ring and astrolabe in Colombia, he encountered teenage runaway and street urchin Nathan Drake, who had designs on them as well. After saving the boy from Marlowe's thugs, he offers to look after him and teach him, beginning a decades-long friendship between them.[6] Victor later befriended his elder brother Samuel, although the two maintained an uneasy alliance as they often did not meet eye-to-eye on several occasions, according to Samuel it is suggested that Victor may have double-crossed him in the past.[7]
Throughout the following years, Nate and Sullivan often got into dangerous situations, even jail time. Despite these hitches, Sullivan raised and protected Nate like his own son, and stood by him even when his actions got them into trouble. Nate grew to love Sullivan as his father, and became very protective of him as time went on. He later showed great concern for Nathan's well-being when the latter began displaying a dangerous amount of "recklessness" during his search for Iram of the Pillars.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Nate and Sully soon reach a crevice that Nate successfully jumps across, though Sully doesn't. He instead falls and injures his leg, resulting in Nate continuing on his own to Quivira while Sully stays behind to hijack one of Dante's helicopters as an escape vehicle. Later, Sully arrives in Quivira to rescue Nate and Chase as the cavern collapses. Nate, Chase, and Sully take the helicopter Sully stole to fly back home.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007)
Sullivan is Nathan's partner for the early part of the game, and is trusted by Nate with the secret of Francis Drake's diary containing the whereabouts of El Dorado. The two travel to the treasure's location on Sully's yacht alone, leaving behind Elena Fisher since she, as a reporter, threatened to let others know of what they were after.
Nate and Sully find the temple of El Dorado picked clean; Sully complains, stating that he "was really counting on this one" and was "up to his eyeballs in debt." They follow the trail to a German U-Boat, where Sully stays behind because he was spooked by the decrepit submarine. When Drake returns, he discovers that Sully has let Gabriel Roman know about their expedition in order to reassure him the debt would be paid. Roman takes the map from Drake and shoots Sully in the chest.
The Monastery
Sully is discovered to be alive when Elena captures footage of him entering a helicopter with Roman and Navarro. Suspicious that he may have been working for them all along, Elena and Nate chase after him to the monastery. When Nate and Elena find Sully in the library, he explains that he has been preoccupying the mercenaries this whole time, trying to keep them from finding the treasure vault.
He earned their trust in order to stay alive long enough to be rescued, while continuing the search for the treasure on his own. When asked how he survived the gunshot, he reveals that Francis Drake's journal — which Nate gave him earlier — blocked the bullet.
Sully stays with Elena while Nate searches for the Treasure Vault; he later diverts the mercenaries away from the vault and meets Drake there, only to be separated again shortly after by a booby trap.
El Dorado
Sully attempts to contact Drake over the radio but his messages are frequently broken up; by the time Drake reestablishes contact, he is under enemy gunfire and needs Drake's help. After dispatching the enemies in the courtyard, Nate urges him that they find El Dorado before its curse can be unleashed. Sully is sceptical at first, until he and Drake see Roman transformed by the idol.
In further shock by the sudden appearance of the mutants, Sully helps Drake reach the treasure before it is airlifted out of the cave. He stays behind in the cave fighting the mutants, and doesn't reappear until the very end, dirty and worn down by his encounter. While Nate and Elena are disappointed that they're leaving the island empty-handed, Sully reveals that his yacht contains a large quantity of treasure stolen from Eddy Raja's dead pirate gang.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)
Sullivan plays a much smaller role in Among Thieves compared to his role in Drake's Fortune. In Among Thieves, after Nathan Drake is put in jail in Turkey, Sullivan arrives and bails him out using both his and Drake's money — it is assumed to be the treasure they stole from the pirates in the first Uncharted.
Chloe Frazer had helped him find Drake, and comes with Sullivan to Drake's cell. Sullivan tells Drake that Harry Flynn has found Marco Polo's ships in Borneo, but that he has not yet found the Cintamani Stone. Sully then tells him that Flynn's client is Zoran Lazarević, and that the two have been working together all along. They soon make a plan where Chloe will distract Lazarević's camp with explosives so that Drake and Sullivan can sneak into the camp and look at Lazarević's files to see if they can find where the Stone is.
In Borneo, Drake and Sullivan arm explosive charges around Lazarević's camp. When they are all armed, they detonate the explosives, resulting in Lazarević leaving the camp to find out what happened. Sullivan and Drake then sneak into the camp, with Drake going into Lazarević's tent while Sullivan watches for soldiers. From the files, Drake learns that the Stone is not in Borneo, and that Marco Polo never had it. What Lazarević is looking for is Shambhala, and is trying to pick up Marco Polo's trail back to Shambhala because the Stone is still there. They decide to head to a nearby mountain to see if the bodies of Marco Polo's crew are there. After a gunfight with Lazarević's men, Drake and Sully head to the mountain and meet up with Chloe.
The Tomb
At the mountain, they find a tomb with hundreds of dead bodies, the resting place of Marco Polo's crew. Inside, they find a Phurba and a map that says that a temple in Nepal has a secret path to Shambhala, which would only be revealed to the person with the 'golden passport' — the Phurba. They then leave the tomb, though Chloe betrays them to Flynn and Lazarević's men. Flynn learns about the temple in Nepal and tells Chloe to take Drake and Sullivan to Lazarević.
Along the way, Chloe shoots and kills the two soldiers who were escorting Drake and Sullivan. Drake and Sullivan try to escape from Flynn and Lazarević s men as they chase them. They finally escape them by jumping off a cliff into a river. After escaping, Sullivan states to Drake that the stakes this time are too high for a man his age, so he's going to go somewhere warm while Drake meets with Chloe in Nepal, although where he briefly vacations is unknown.
Sullivan doesn't appear again until the last chapter in Tibet, where he helps carry an injured Elena Fisher outside to Drake. Sullivan expresses his disappointment over Drake not obtaining the Cintamani Stone and then leaves him and Elena alone as he chases after Chloe.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011)
Sullivan returns in Uncharted 3, and has a very major role in the game as usual. A principal part of the game's plotline is the close relationship that he and Nate share. He is first seen with Nate walking to a local bar in London, where the two make an exchange with Talbot and Charlie Cutter. The deal goes well until Nate catches Talbot trying to trade Nate and Sully counterfeit bills in exchange for Nate's ring. The two get into a brawl with Cutter and several other men. After the fight, they try to escape the bar by going through the back door, only to encounter Cutter and more men. The two are dumped into trash and are encountered by Katherine Marlowe. She steals the ring, and then Cutter shoots both Victor and Nate.
CartagenaA flashback to 20 years earlier expands on how Nate's and Sully's long friendship began. Sully is seen at the Francis Drake museum in Cartagena, using a key mold to copy the indentations of a lock on a display case which houses an astrolabe and Francis Drake's ring. Nathan watches Sully tuck the copy into his wallet and follows, as he has plans to steal the astrolabe and ring as well.
Sullivan is aware that Nate's following, but assumes that he's merely a street urchin thinking Sully to be an easy mark. Nate steals his wallet, presuming he's gotten away clean, but Sullivan quickly catches up to him and demands it back. In their brief encounter, Sullivan treats the boy with a fatherly concern, asking him where his parents are, which solicits a cold response from Drake. Ultimately, Victor regains his wallet, unaware that Nate neatly pilfered the key from it.
Key in hand, Nate makes his way back to the museum to try to steal the ring before Sullivan. However, he os soon cornered by Marlowe, Sullivan, and her guards. Drake surrenders the astrolabe to Marlowe, but insists that he doesn't know anything about a ring. Marlowe slaps Drake, shocking Sullivan. He attempts to restrain her, and Drake flees.
Upon realizing that Marlowe's men are prepared to kill the boy if necessary, Sullivan intervenes on his behalf several times during the furious chase that follows, and eventually guns down an agent who corners Drake. Sullivan brings Drake to a tavern and buys him a meal. The two discuss Sir Francis Drake and his astrolabe. Drake believes Sir Francis was charged with a secret mission from Queen Elizabeth, and the astrolabe hid whatever he found. Without the ring, the astrolabe could not be opened, so the situation reached a stalemate.
Nate, made extremely distrustful from his life on the streets, refused to give Sullivan his name, not certain of what Sullivan wanted from him. Sullivan explains that Nate's free running abilities and interest in history shows genuine talent, but he lacks experience. He offers to take the boy under his wing in order to get him off the streets. Nate agrees, and finally introduces himself as Nathan Drake.
The Underground
Upon returning back to the present, it is revealed that Nate and Sully were wearing bulletproof vests and Cutter has been in league with them the whole time. The three escape the alley and meet up with Chloe, who is searching for a car that belonged to Marlowe. When they reach the garage where it was last seen, the car is missing, with clues leading into an underground tunnel. Several scenes later, Cutter, Nate, and Sully eavesdrop on Talbot and Marlowe trying to solve the cipher with the forged ring, only to discover it's fake. After the two leave, Nate finds the Golden Hind — a figurehead related to the galleon Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world with — and uncovers a map inside. The three then escape with Chloe in their van.
The four meet back at Cutter's apartment and make a plan, spliting up Sully and Nate to France, while Cutter and Chloe head to Syria. In France, Nate and Sully find a castle, and underground the two unlock a tomb. Inside they find an amulet, leading to the Atlantis of the Sands. While the two try to escape, they encounter Talbot, who then takes the amulet and escapes while Sully and Nate are trapped by a swarm of spiders, but eventually make it out.
As they try to leave the mansion, Talbot's men attempt to burn the building down, but the two manage to escape. Sully then starts asking Nate if the whole hunt for treasure is worth all the trouble they've been through, saying that it's just Drake's pride they're doing this for, but they both agree to continue. Nate suddenly realizes that since they were followed, Cutter and Chloe may have been too.
They make it to Syria only to find Talbot's men already there. They eventually run into Chloe and Cutter, warning them about Talbot's men, and so the four search on for the other amulet. Nate and Cutter get separated from Chloe and Sully while running away during a gunfight but are eventually reunited. While Chloe, Nate, and Sully try to unlock a secert stone passage, Talbot drugs Cutter by shooting him with a dart, telling him to not trust Drake.
As soon as they enter the tomb, Cutter, being claustrophobic and drugged, panics and gets into a fist-fight with Nate and attempts to strangle him.
Sully and Chloe try to pull Cutter off, but Cutter is too strong. Sully resorts to pulling his gun on Cutter, but Chloe then convinces Cutter that he's killing Nate, causing him to revert to normal. As they continue on, Cutter questions if Sully actually would've shot him. Sully answers yes without hesitation. The four encounter less aggressive spiders, uncover the last tomb, and attempt to make it out but are stopped by Talbot and Marlowe.
They are shot at by several guards but make it out alive, yet Cutter breaks his leg from a far jump on a burning tower. The four leave the area, using a tour bus. Chloe questions Nate on whether or not it's really worth all the trouble and what he's trying to prove. With Cutter and his broken leg, Chloe decides to take him home while Nate and Sully continue on with the hunt. They start making their way to Yemen where they hope to find the next clue to finding Iram of the Pillars.
Sully and Nate then meet up with Elena Fisher, where they search the old part of the city and through a tower where they head underground. The three are about to use the constellations to find Iram of the Pillars when they are attacked by another swarm of spiders, who seem to tolerate the light more than the ones in France and Syria.
They make it out alive, and as soon as they leave the tower, Nate is drugged by a dart, the same way Cutter was by Talbot. Sully tries to comfort Nate but Nate becomes aggressive and runs away, where he hears Talbot in his head, telling him not to trust Sully. After knocking Nate out, Rameses, a Yemeni pirate hired by Marlowe who has taken Nate onto his converted cruise ship, tells Nate that he has Sully hostage. When Nate reaches the lower quarters of the ship, he finds a decoy of Sully, ultimately falling for Rameses' trap. The Convoy
Sully is next seen being held in a convoy lead by Marlowe's men. He kicks the lead driver out of the car he is driving when he attempts to shoot Nate. Eventually, he is saved by Salim, and joins Nate and Salim's Bedouin tribe in trying to find the Atlantis of the Sands. When they ride into the desert, a sand storm hits them, separating Sully and Nate from Salim and his men. They attempt to find the city on their own and come across a temple, which leads into Iram of the Pillars.
Nate and Sully find a fountain of water that supplies the whole temple with water. Nate drinks some of it, and Sully uses some to wash his face. Several seconds later, Sully is shot in the back by Talbot and Marlowe, and then dies with Nate slowly letting his body down, grieving for him. Angered, Nate then runs after the two, trying to kill them.
Iram of the Pillars
As Nate progresses through the temple, he hears Sully's voice and hallucinates, seeing Sully several times. He makes it to a room where he sees Sully and immediately holds him at gunpoint, tremulously asking if he is real. Sully takes his gun and flicks him in the face, telling him never to point a gun at him again. Sully explains that when Nate drank the water, it made him hallucinate, causing him to believe that Sully died. They conclude that Talbot and Marlowe want the water of the city to control their enemies with fear.
The two encounter Talbot and Marlowe and watch them lift up the Urn. The two split up trying to flank them, but Talbot sees Nate and attempts to shoot him — Sully shoves his hand away, making him miss. Talbot then knocks Sully out and pushes him into the water. Nate dives in to try to save Sully, and then takes his flare gun and shoots the chain with which the Urn was being lifted. Nate fires two times into the structure behind Marlowe, making the whole temple crumble.
As Nate and Sully get out of the water, they attempt to make it out of the city but run into Talbot and Marlowe again. As soon as they are about to shoot Nate and Sully, the room starts to crumble and the floor collapses. Nate, Marlowe, and Talbot fall. Talbot and Nate manage to get to higher ground, but Marlowe gets caught in quicksand and begins sinking. She begs for Nate's help, while Sully discourages him. Nate ultimately makes the decision to save her, but it proves too late, causing her to sink along with Francis Drake's ring.
Talbot is left furious and chases down Nate and Sully. When they get to higher ground, Talbot sneaks up on them and tackles Nate. The two fall off a cliff and onto a short platform where they get into a knife fight. Talbot eventually gains the advantage and tries to stab Nate to death, but Sully assists Nate by shooting Talbot in the arm. As soon as Sully is about to finish him off, the platform starts shaking.
Sully loses his grip on the gun and it falls. Nate starts to fall as well, but catches a ledge as well as the gun. Sully is left on the platform fighting Talbot. As Nate climbs closer to them, Talbot is about to kill a weakened Sully with a rock, but before he can, he is shot several times by Nate. Talbot dies and his body drops off the platform. Sully and Nate run into Salim with two other horses and leave the crumbling city just before it sinks back into the sands. Sully reveals he managed to get a few coins from the city while he was there and tells Nate it was "enough". The Airport
Arriving back at the airport, Sully talks to Nate about his difficult childhood, and that he never wanted a son of his own, nor did he believe himself able to raise one. And then, Nate came "barreling into [his] life". He states that he's made a lot of mistakes, and is far from perfect, then leaves the rest unsaid. Sully gives Nate his wedding ring and Nate asks him how long he'd had it. Sully simply says, "too long."
Following a reunion between Nate and Elena, Sully leads the three of them to his "new" plane — a cheaper version of the one Nate and Elena had crashed four years earlier. The trio discuss the plane's parachute quantity — a joke from the first game between Elena and Nate — while boarding the plane for home.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016)
Rossi Estate
Nathan and Sam head to the Rossi Estate in Italy in order to steal a cross that could point to the location of Captain Henry Avery's lost treasure amounting to $400 million. Nate asked Sully, who knows a lot of people in the auction that will take place in the estate, to get them invites in order to cleanly infiltrate the place. After Nate and Sam scale the ravine and enter a backroom of the estate, Sully greets them while smoking on his cigar and embraces Nate. after that they brief on how to get the cross. As Sam and Nathan attempt to steal the cross, Sully meets up with Rafe Adler and Nadine Ross, with the former knowing that Sully wouldn't be just sightseeing. Despite them running out of time, Sully asks Nate to wait before shutting off the power to let Rafe feel like he's won, only to have the cross snatched from right in front of him. and secures a Limo as an escape vehicle.
As the adventure draws them to Scotland, Sully chooses to stay behind and wait by his plane. The trio have to leave quickly after finding another clue to the location of Avery's treasure, as Sam and Nate are discovered by Rafe, Nadine, and Nadine's paramilitary organization Shoreline. After a close call, they link up with Sullivan in his plane and fly off. According to a coin Nate and Sam picked up, and a light map of Madagascar pointing to King's Bay, they immediately head to their next destination and start to question Avery's intentions.
King's Bay
Sully remains with the brothers as they travel around King's Bay in hopes of finding another clue. He pays for the jeep the trio use during the search. They eventually arrive at a large tower with a map that points to eleven other towers in the region. Using the coin they picked up from Scotland, they manage to narrow down the location of Avery's treasure to two towers. Sam heads for one while Nate and Sully head for the other.
Nate and Sully arrive at their tower, which was an abandoned clock tower in the middle of a market. They discreetly enter the tower and solve the tower's bell puzzles and realize they are at the right tower. After solving a second puzzle involving twelve other pirate captains who were dubbed by the puzzle as 'Founders', they realize what Avery's intentions for the puzzles were.
Before they can get word to Sam, Rafe hacks their phones and the trio are ambushed in their respective towers by Shoreline mercenaries. After a shootout in the market, Nate and Sully bail in their jeep while being chased (and shot at) by a Shoreline armored personnel carrier throughout King's Bay. They arrive at Sam's tower but leave after seeing him being chased by a Shoreline convoy. Realizing they cannot drive any further to follow the convoy, Nate grapples onto one of the convoy's trucks and leaves Sully behind.
Sully makes it back to their motel, and the Drake brothers arrive shortly. Outside, Nate and Sam conclude that Avery was recruiting to establish Libertalia. As Sam explains to a confused Sully, Nate narrows down the possible location to an island northeast of King's Bay. At the moment they enter their motel room, Elena confronts Nate and realizes he's been lying to her for the past few weeks about his whereabouts and storms out of the room. Sully tries to convince Nate to run after her and leave the task of finding Libertalia to him and Sam, but Nate drives him away. Sully also walks out and watches over Elena.
Later, after Rafe catches up to the Drake brothers, Elena finds and nurses Nathan back to health. When he asks how she found him, she radios in to Sully. Nate explains to him that Sam lied, and now they're focused on rescuing him.
Sully's last appearance is at the end of Chapter 20, when he reunites with Nate, Sam, and Elena after helping Nate take care of a heavily armored vehicle. He explains he had traversed through a port town from where he landed his sea plane. After they make it to a crude skycar-like transportation system, the platform breaks apart when Sam tries to help Nathan up.
Sam, separated from the rest but near the mountain where Avery's ship is, goes off in search of the treasure. Sully and Elena go with Nate as far as they can in order to get Sam, but are soon impeded by a high wall. After pushing a wagon and helping Nathan up, the wagon falls away and irreparably breaks. Sully and Elena are forced to let Nathan go on ahead alone.
After Elena rescues Nate and Sam, she radioes Sully and fires a flare gun. The four then fly back home. Sully tells Nate that there will be no phone calls about "One Last Time" and then tells him don't be a stranger and next time he is in town beers are on him. When Nate and Elena head home. Sam asks Sully what's next for him. He told he is working on a business deal of sorts and specially, Sam speaks Portuguese and Sully accepts him. The two then become partners.
Single-player skins and variants
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Victor Sullivan (Auction)
- Victor Sullivan (Hotel)
- Victor Sullivan (Scotland)
- Victor Sullivan (Madagascar)
- Victor Sullivan (Island)
Multiplayer skins and variants
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Victor Sullivan
- Winter Sully
- UDF Sully
- Borneo Sully
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Victor Sullivan
- Suited Sully
- Young Sully
- Doughnut Sully
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Victor Sullivan
- Tuxedo Sullivan
- Young Sullivan
- Tibet Sullivan
- Heist Sullivan
- Casual Sullivan
- Winter Sullivan
- Pirate Sullivan
- Prison Sullivan
- Sailor Sullivan
- Sheriff Sullivan
- Apocalypse Sullivan
- Warrior Sully
- Biker Sully
Pre-Set Outfits
- Sabbatical Sullivan
- Sergeant Sullivan
- Scrupulous Sullivan
- Scientist Sullivan
- Smoky Sullivan
- Pirate Lord Sullivan
- Scoundrel Sullivan
Character design
Sully is a tall man with slicked back gray hair, gray eyes, and a moustache which is constantly mocked by Nate. He has a deep voice. While it is clear he is aging, he only really starts to show the visual signs of it in Uncharted 3, where the fact he's hitting sixty is very true.
He usually wears cargo pants and Havana shirts, but in Uncharted 3 he switches to button up shirts with the sleeves rolled up. Though fit in his youth, his figure waned as the years went on, becoming more wiry. Despite this, Drake still claims Sully to be "strong as an ox," though this might just have been Nate trying to spur Sully on, or perhaps Nate being in denial.
He used to have dark brown hair. His moustache was given an entirely new revamp to give it a more realistic feel, as explained by the developers.
For the most part, Sully is a kind man who cares deeply for Nate, the man he raised as his own son. The pair constantly mock one another, albeit lightheartedly. Like Nate, is very quick to make jokes, sometimes even expanding on Nate's, even when the pair are in somewhat dire situations, such as when they had been captured by Flynn and Lazarević's men in Borneo. He always advises Nate to take more prudent action instead of thinking with his pride. He is very protective of those he is fond of, constantly risking his life for his friends.
Despite this he was, in his earlier years, more than willing to betray his acquaintances if the consequences were not servere. Nate argued with Elena over him not being a "back-stabber" but his actions showed otherwise at the start of Uncharted 1. This streak seems to have largely diminished, at least around those he loves.
Sully can be prone to bouts of mean-spiritedness in his earlier scenes of Uncharted 1, as he seems to only have an interest in the treasure of El Dorado. This is due to his own frustration regarding his massive debts, as he is much friendlier in the later sections of the game.
Sully is very sarcastic. After Nate says that he has to have faith he says, "That and a quarter will get you twenty-five cents."
Sully's most prominent character trait is his womanising habits. He often speaks of prior conquests, to humorous effect throughout the games, leading Nate to call him "a dirty old man." Nate also informs Sully at one point that he makes everything sound "dirty" to which Sully seems to be completely oblivious.
- Nathan Drake
- He is often seen as both the best friend and father figure of Nate. He cares about Nate, but his loyalty has been tested multiple times throughout the series, and not always in his favor. He and Nate share banter regularly, and having known each other for many years, they regularly exchange stories of the past, usually in context to what they are doing at the time. He had been the best man for Nate and Elena's wedding, and had shed a few tears during the proceedings.
- Samuel Drake
- Despite Sam's blatant distrust of him, Sully never acts as standoffish. It is implied by Sam, however, that Sully has double crossed him in the past. Sully does care for Sam, as he is earnest about saving him, but does suggest more legitimate means rather than searching for Avery's treasure. By the end of Uncharted 4, they've teamed up. In the Epilogue, he sends a letter to Nate saying both he and Sam are retired, and attaches a photo of the two of them at a cafe in Havana.
- Elena Fisher
- While at first regarding her as little more than one of Drake's flings, calling her 'the girl', he does flirt with her, showing off his 'womanizing' skills he claims to have. As the series progresses, he adopts a more caring side when he sees Elena is there to stay, helping her to walk when she's wounded (though it can be seen in the background Elena tries to push him off) and they still share banter, Sully teasing her. By the third game, he is her unofficial father-in-law, what with her marriage to his 'son', and he shows this is an attempted hug (though the laws of Yemen frown upon this) and he tries to keep Nate and Elena together, even keeping Nate's wedding ring, so it's fair to say he has become fond of her, even telling Drake to stop making his 'mistakes' and alluding her to greatness, inclining his head to her after he makes his speech at the airport.
- Cassie Drake
- Though they're not seen on screen together, there is a photo of Sully holding a baby Cassie and looking out of his element. In his letter to Nate, he tells him to "warm the backgammon board" for a rematch between him and Cassie. Regarding his own father-like tendencies towards Nate, it's entirely possible he's adopted a grandfatherly role for Cassie.
- Chloe Frazer
- Sully and Chloe appear to be good friends, and are shown several times to work well together. In the second game, despite Sully's minimal screen time, he is shown to find her attractive and to appreciate her treasure-hunting skills. In the third game, Sully and Chloe interact much more and are shown to be very close, joking around with each other and even fist-bumping each other after Sully guessed what Nate was going to say at one point.
- Charlie Cutter
- Sully and Cutter are shown to be friends and it is hinted that they have worked together in the past, but Sully begins to doubt his trust in Cutter when Cutter, under the influence of Talbot's drugs, tried to kill Nate. Sully was prepared to kill Cutter to save Nate, which created tension between the two. Despite this, Sully still cares about Cutter when he breaks his leg and is prepared to help him walk to escape Talbot's men. Charlie was a very clear example of Sully's love for Nate; willing to kill a friend for him without blinking an eye.
- Jadranka Hzujak
- He is her godfather, as she is the daughter of his friend, Luka.
Appears in
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
- Chapter 20: "Sticking Out Your Neck"
- Chapter 21: "Without a Paddle"
- Chapter 22: "Chew the Hide Off a Rhino"
- Chapter 23: "Keep Your Head Down"
- Chapter 24: "Ride of the Valkyries"
- Chapter 25: "I Forgot to Mention"
- Chapter 26: "Farther Than It Looks"
- Chapter 34: "The Revolution Ends" (ending cutscene)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Chapter 1 - Ambushed
- Chapter 2 - The Search for El Dorado
- Chapter 3 - A Surprising Find ("death")
- Chapter 11 - Trapped (revealed to be alive)
- Chapter 13 - Sanctuary?
- Chapter 14 - Going Underground
- Chapter 15 - On the Trail of the Treasure
- Chapter 18 - The Bunker (voice)
- Chapter 20 - Race to the Rescue
- Chapter 21 - Gold and Bones
- Chapter 22 - Showdown
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Chapter 2 - Breaking and Entering (ending cutscene)
- Chapter 3 - Borneo
- Chapter 4 - The Dig
- Chapter 23 - Reunion (mentioned)
- Chapter 26 - Tree of Life (ending cutscene)
- Multiplayer
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Chapter 1 - Another Round ("death")
- Chapter 2 - Greatness from Small Beginnings
- Chapter 3 - Second-Story Work
- Chapter 4 - Run to Ground
- Chapter 5 - London Underground
- Chapter 6 - The Chateau
- Chapter 7 - Stay in the Light
- Chapter 8 - The Citadel
- Chapter 9 - The Middle Way
- Chapter 10 - Historical Research
- Chapter 11 - As Above, So Below
- Chapter 18 - The Rub' al Khali (hallucination)
- Chapter 20 - Caravan
- Chapter 21 - The Atlantis of the Sands ("death")
- Chapter 22 - The Dreamers of the Day
- Multiplayer
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Chapter 6 - Once a Thief...
- Chapter 7 - Lights Out (ending cutscene)
- Chapter 8 - The Grave of Henry Avery (opening cutscene)
- Chapter 9 - Those Who Prove Worthy (ending cutscene)
- Chapter 10 - The Twelve Towers
- Chapter 11 - Hidden in Plain Sight
- Chapter 17 - For Better or Worse (opening cutscene)
- Chapter 20 - No Escape
- Chapter 21 - Brother's Keeper (opening cutscene)
- Chapter 22 - A Thief's End (ending cutscene)
- Epilogue (photographs)
- Multiplayer
- During the events of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Sully reminds Nate that he has "25 years on him". At that time, Nate's age is 35 years old [1], placing Sully's age at 60 during the events of Drake's Deception.
- Sully never walks away empty-handed in any of his adventures with Drake, as he manages to keep all kinds of treasure from gold, ancient coins, or even a military helicopter in Golden Abyss. With the exception of Uncharted 4, Drake always escapes his adventures with empty pockets.
- Sully, along with Elena, is the most prevalent character in Uncharted media, after Nate. He is only not present in Drake's Trail, the Toyota Car Adverts, the 'Long Live Play' PlayStation advert and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The reason of his prominence is due to him knowing Drake far before the events of Drake's Fortune, where Elena makes her appearance, and the ease with which his character can be used without interrupting the main plotline told in the games.
- Sully's e-mail address, as seen in Uncharted: Drake's Trail, is firstname.lastname@example.com
- While he may often seem strapped for cash, Sully is a licensed pilot, and avid boater. He owns a Grumann Goose and a private yacht, which survives his and Drake's adventures, unlike his bush plane.
- On PlayStation Home, a now defunct community-service for PlayStation 3 owners, there was an "Uncharted" area that had Sully's Bar in it.
- In Uncharted 2, Sully is referred to as Victor "Goddamn" Sullivan by Harry Flynn. Later in the game in Nepal, if you look in Drake's journal and flip through the pages, you'll come across a page which has four mug shots of Sullivan with different facial expressions. Comically, all four of the mugshots are actually the same exact photo, but with marker sketchings over the top of three of the photos to indicate the described emotional state. At the top of the page it will read 'Victor Goddamn Sullivan', with 'Goddamn' written in smaller letters below 'Victor Sullivan', indicating that Nate wrote it in as an afterthought.
- His weapon of choice in both games is the .44 Smith & Wesson Model 29. He is seen using the weapon again in the gameplay for Uncharted 3. However, he loses his revolver in every game. In UC1, Gabriel Roman tells him to drop it down a water hole. In U2, it is taken from him by Harry Flynn and Lazarević's men. In U3, he obeys Talbot's orders and drops it off of a tower.
- Sully has graying temples in Golden Abyss, then more of a salt and pepper look in Uncharted 2, and finally has a full head of gray hair in Uncharted 3 and Uncharted 4.* In Uncharted 2 multiplayer, in the Fort, during the middle of the game you may notice a plane fly past. This refers to Sully's Grumman Goose.
- Sully, along with Elena and Nate, appeared in Gamers Heart Japan for a few seconds of footage. He wore his Uncharted 3 clothes. This could be referenced to them being the three leads in Uncharted.* Sully, Nate, Lazarević, Eddy, Cutter, Rameses, Salim, and Talbot are the only characters to have Doughnut character skins.
- Almost all of Sully's outfits are Havana shirts in different colors (blue, red, brown, dark blue). Only his winter outfit is not a Havana shirt. In Uncharted 3, Sully has a suit and an open Havana shirt with a tank top. Sully's main outfit in Uncharted 3 is a tangerine colored shirt. In Syria, Sully wears the same style shirt but in emerald green. The Fourth Labyrinth identifies these shirts as guayaberas which are linen shirts popular in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Sully has been "killed" three times by getting shot during his and Nathan's adventures. The first being in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (saved by Francis Drake's diary which took the bullet), and twice during Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. One is a blank meant to fool Talbot and Marlowe, and the other is when he gets shot by Talbot at Ubar; This is later revealed to have been an hallucination that Nate had.
- Sully appears as a playable character in just about every chapter in the Co-op Adventure for Uncharted 3, but barely in any of the 'Adventure' equivalents in Uncharted 2.
- Sully's weapon has always been the Wes-44. In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception he still uses the weapon, but later switches to a Para 9 he steals from an enemy.
- The Scare-O-Meter, found in Nate's journal, has 3 levels of fright, the bottom being Sully's moustache.
- Sully has his own holster in which he usually carries a Wes-44. In multiplayer, Sully is given a custom black holster just like every other character who don't necessarily have a holster.
- Sully is playable in the side game developed by Sony Bend, Golden Abyss. The player controls his aiming for a small section, much like that of the jetski section with Elena Fisher in Drake's Fortune, developed by Naughty Dog.
- Sully is one of two people that calls Chase her first name, Marisa.
- The Fourth Labyrinth reveals that Sully has an ex named Margaret "Maggie" Xin, with whom things "ended messy".
- Sully apparently felt some attraction for Chloe, as seen in Uncharted 2. However, in Uncharted 3, he shows no attraction towards her.
- He appears to have a fondness for redheads, as he approves of red-haired Anne Bonny's portrait in Uncharted 4.
- He is very annoyed by mosquitos, as seen in Golden Abyss.
- Victor's "goddamn" has become a trademark catchphrase for the character.
- He is shown in Uncharted 3 to have an extremely good and detailed memory, as he was shown to be able to remember the entire star chart that led to the "Atlantis of the Sands".
- The Drake family dog in the Epilogue is named Vicky, as Nate promised Sully that if he ever gets a dog he will name it Victor.
- Victor eventually gave up smoking after A Thief's End. By the time of the Epilogue, he has not smoked for 12 months, and taunted Nathan for losing their bet through a letter.
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