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Temporary (4 of 4) by Fred Michaux
This content is part of a series.Temporary (4 of 4)
Series: Pushing Play on Heaven
Fred Michaux
(a brief statement about Pushing Play on Heaven)
What are some times in your life when you have embraced the importance of something temporary, something that was necessary in the moment while you were waiting for something permanent? (ex - part-time job in college but not in the field of your career)
We are going to unpack a big idea tonight…
I want to suggest to you that Genesis 1-2 were always temporary in God's plan for the universe, a plan that always looked to Revelation 21 as the true beginning of something permanent, forever!
Genesis 1:1; 2:1-3
Isaiah 65:17
Revelation 21:1-6a
Revelation 22:17
"Why did God give so much of Scripture to teaching about future event, I could have used a little more help on parenting, relationships, why bad things happen to seemingly good people?"
…because this understanding soundly establishes for us a belief in the Sovereignty of God, He is not reactionary, He is never surprised, He is never in crisis…He is in control, He is all powerful, all knowing, ever-present!
Talk about various scenarios in life where we need a revelation of the sovereignty of God…marriage, untimely death, finances, illness… He knows, He's with you, He's going to guide you…idea that we are children incapable of understanding the enormous complexities of His reasons…so as children, trust!
…because we have a "Come!" calling on our lives, a divine mandate to see that scores of people around us every day have no vision for their eternity, no grasp of finality…our commission, our decree, our edict from God is to tell our world that God is renovating the Universe and we've been invited to the reveal! (talk about reach cards, initiating…yes it feels awkward, everything new does, Stasburg the phenom pitcher at some point was a tee ball player who could looked just as awkward as the rest!)
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text: Hey all, I have finally given up trying to work out how to push the xf forum route to /forums/ (Like how Xenporta does it) so i decided to attempt a previous method that brogan pointed out to me a while back and that was to use a 3rd party script called Kotomi found: here Now somewhere since 1.2 the script seems to have broken somehow.. I can't suss this out myself as i am only just learning XF from scratch.. but have had this working like such beforehand: mysite.com/kotomi-index.php <--- Custom page within the xf wrapper mysite.com/community/ <-- XF being installed here here is the code i believe to be causing the issues.. (the actually issue now is that the wrapper "header and footer" is not being displayed nor is the stylesheet being loaded).. PHP: <?php $startTime = microtime(true);$kotomi_indexFile = "community";$kotomi_container = true;$fileDir = dirname(__FILE__)."/{$kotomi_indexFile}";require "{$fileDir}/library/Dark/Kotomi/KotomiHeader.php";echo "<title>kotomi test</title>Hello world!";require "{$fileDir}/library/Dark/Kotomi/KotomiFooter.php"; Thanks in advance for any asistance on this topic.. I am watching / waiting with great interest in this, Cheers. Regards, Darren

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Hey, you ever wanted to talk to me? if you do, well i'll be on a TS3 server i use often! for a surefire way to get to the TS3 server, go to myfu.net and use their ts3 link. i'm in the "Death Succibus" category!
i forgot to add this but i also have a skype. it's Kingemocut, go figure :P


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The PhD can vary depending on the institution and country in which it is awarded. Most scholars pursue a PhD because of strong motivation to contribute to the academic community as well as true curiosity about their chosen field of study.
One of the Post Graduate academic degrees that are awarded by the Universities is the Doctor of Philosophy; abbreviated as PhD. Depending on the time periods for entry-level degrees and other factors, PhD programs vary from one country to another as well as from institution to the other. With the attainment of the degree, you earn the academic title of a Doctor. The courses are available to all students who meet minimum requirements worldwide.
Officially known as the Italian Republic, the country is found in southern Europe. The official language is Italian and the cultural rich capital is Rome. Many of the world's oldest universities are located in Italy, in particular the University of Bologna (founded in 1088). There are three Superior Graduate Schools with "university status", three institutes with the status of Doctoral Colleges, which function at graduate and post-graduate level.
For all those who are interested in studying rich Italian culture and heritage, Trieste is the best place to visit. It has distinctive training institutions that provide quality education at a reasonable cost. Università degli Studi di Trieste is well known for good education system and support for students.
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SISSA has just launched a new program for faster access to a PhD in condensed matter physics. The best students will be able to attend lectures at SISSA while still attending their last year of the Master course in Physics at the University of Trieste. [+]
The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), the International Center for Genetic Engineering Biotechnology (ICGEB), the University of Trieste and the University of Udine offer a new Joint PhD Program in Molecular Biology (JuMBO). [+]
The PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA aims at providing students with the fundamental knowledge and skills for conducting cutting-edge research in the field, covering topics as diverse as perception, language, memory, action, and social behaviour. [+]
The PhD Course in Structural and Functional Genomics main mission is the training of enthusiastic young scientists focusing their interests in a broad spectrum of biological research disciplines. [+]
The PhD program in Geometry and Mathematical Physics focuses on the study of analytic and geometric aspects of physical phenomena that are of fundamental interest in both pure and applied sciences and covers wide spectrum of topics [+]
The aim of the PhD Course in Mathematical Analysis, Modelling, and Applications is to educate graduate students in the fields of mathematical analysis and mathematical modelling, and in the applications of mathematical and numerical analysis to science and technology. [+]
The aim of the Lectures of the PhD program in Neurobiology is to provide students with a common framework starting from different backgrounds. [+]
The PhD curriculum in Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter is suited to highly motivated students interested in learning how the microscopic constituents of matters self- assemble to bring about the whole complexity of the states of matter, from molecules to complex solids, [+]
The PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics has always been part of the postgraduate programmes on offer at SISSA. More than a hundred students have obtained a PhD qualification in Theoretical Particle Physics since SISSA started offering the course. [+]
Statistical Physics, together with Quantum Mechanics, is the pillar of our understanding of many physical phenomena, from the simplest to the most sophisticated. The field has recently witnessed a significant and impressive outpouring of experimental and theoretical results, [+]
Understanding the working principles of living organisms and soft matter systems from the basic equations ruling the dynamics of atoms and molecules was considered science fiction until a few years ago, and biophysics was almost unanimously considered a battlefield for phenomenologists. [+]
There has never been a better time to work in Astrophysics, a vibrant and competitive discipline in frontier research. Applicants to the PhD program in Astrophysics will first be assessed on the basis of their CV and reference letters. [+]
Astroparticle Physics represents one of the preeminent interests of SISSA and has been singled out as one of the areas that SISSA will further strengthen in the near future. It is a young and interdisciplinary field, [+]


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A modified tiltrotor aircraft was utilized by the PMC Desperado Enforcement LLC. Its onboard weapons and defensive systems included flares as well as a machine gun mounted on the fuselage of the vehicle. It also possessed cables and hooks as a means to extract personnel directly from the battlefield.
World Marshal Incidents
- See also: Raid at World Marshal, Ambush in Africa, Abkhazian Coup, Investigation in Guadalajara, Raid in Denver, and Operation Tecumseh
In 2018, the tiltrotor was utilized in Africa to retrieve Desperado commander Sundowner from a moving train, after he had killed African prime minister N'mani. The tiltrotor reappeared a short time later to extract Desperado-aligned cyborg Samuel Rodrigues, following his duel with Sundowner's initial pursuer, Raiden. Raiden's commander, Boris of Maverick Security Consulting, Inc., attempted to shoot down the aircraft with a modified FIM-92 Stinger as it was escaping, but the aircraft deployed flares and flew behind a cliff causing the missiles to miss, in large part because the missile system was outdated.[1] Maverick member Courtney Collins later discovered that the aircraft had been registered as a mail carrier for Somalia, although Raiden deduced that it was a fake registration due to it being the incorrect helicopter type, and implied that it was typical of Desperado.[2]
Two tiltrotor aircraft were later present in a hangar at the Shabhazabad Air Base, Pakistan.
Behind the scenes
The tiltrotor was first seen in the TGS Game Show trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The aircraft bears a resemblance to the real life V-22 Osprey, albeit with a futuristic modified look to it.
The front section of the aircraft resembles The Hammerhead and the AH-64 Apache but without canards.
Notes and references
- ^ The reason the missile was fooled by flares was stated in an optional Codec conversation with Boris during the Abkhazian Coup.
- ^ Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Kojima Productions/PlatinumGames Inc. (2013)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance radio conversations#Desperado's tiltrotor
Courtney: By the way, I picked up something interesting on that tiltrotor back in Africa. // Raiden: Desperado's getaway vehicle? What do you got? // Courtney: I traced its registration. It comes up as a -- get this -- mail transport. A Somali civilian helicopter. // Raiden: Not even the right type of aircraft. So the registraion is fake. Well, par for the course for Desperado, I guess.


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We are seeking one or two new PhD students specifically for the mutable replay project. We are also seeking new undergraduate and MS students for all the active projects, see the advertisements.


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- Mr. Matthews,
I looking for information on the family of Hugh Leonidas (Rob) Cameron and
Rachel Margaret Elizabeth (Mag) Potts. These individuals are my great-great
My information indicates that Rob Cameron was born in Jackson County, Alabama
on March 16, 1844 and married Mag Potts, born April 13, 1848 somewhere in
Mississippi, April 16, 1865, in Jackson County. At some point they moved to
Austin, Texas and set up a farm in the Del Valley area (southeast of town
near the new airport). In 1901 they moved to Hondo, Texas. Rob Cameron died
June 6, 1909, Mag Cameron died September 28, 1930. Both are buried in Hondo.
Additional information, unconfirmed, indicates that Rob Cameron served in the
Confederate Army. I am interested in this area because with a lot of people
I have relatives that fought on both sides.
Addition information says that Mag Potts was related to Rev. Isaac Potts, a
chaplain in George Washington's army. Naturally, I would like to confirm or
deny this.
Rob and Mag Cameron had ten children. They are listed below.
George Williams, born January 29, 1866, place unknown. He died in 1928 in
Hondo, Texas. He married Mary (Molly) Mason in Travis County, Texas
John Marion was born February 2, 1868 and died April 26, 1902 somewhere in
Mexico. It is said that he was a Texas Ranger and died on duty of ate pox.
However, the Texas Ranger Museum has no record of him. It is a good family
story anyway. He is to have a wife, name unknown and a daughter named Fannie.
Hugh Foster was born July 6, 1870 and died on October 4, 1945 and his buried
somewhere in Austin. He was married to Ruth York and they had no children
and lived awhile in Louisiana.
Marie Maud was born January 19, 1872 and died March 30, 1964 and is buried in
Austin. She married John Wise of New Mexico in 1935.
Walter Nat was born January 21,1874 and died of Typhoid on September 11, 1902
and is buried in Austin. He was married and had one daughter, Eunice.
James Thomas Oscar was born April 25, 1876 and died November 29, 1930 in
Luling, Texas. He had two wives, names unknown. He had one son by the first
and five children by the second.
Elizabeth Anna was born April 5, 1878 and died July 19, 1966 in Austin,
Texas. She was married to Jesse McWilliams. They had no children.
Issac Leonidas (Hood) was born April 28, 1882 and died January 27, 1964 in
Orange, Texas. He was married to Gertrude Collier and had five children:
Mildred, Walter, Jarrett, Judith and Elizabeth.
Eddie Carlye was born November 10.1884 and died September 30, 1930 in Hondo,
Texas. He was married to Caroline Wood and lived in Hondo and had three
children: Wood, Bonnie Jack and Charles (Bobby).
Emmett Taylor was born November 10.1884 and died March 27, 1951 in Hondo,
Texas. He married Laura Augusta Whaley (Gussie) and they had six children:
Hugh D., Mary Ruth, John Whaley, Emmett Meyer, Guss Taylor and Sarah Maude
George William Cameron was my great grandfather. He and Molly Mason had six
children: Theodore, Clara, Margaret, Eula Maude (my grandmother), Blanche and
Eula Maude, born 1894 died 1939, married, 1917 Henry Valentine Haass,
Jr.(Sonny), born 1894 died 1979 in Medina, County, Texas. They had two sons,
Ralph Palmer and Howard Leroy (my father). Ralph Palmer was born October 9,
1919 in Medina, County, Texas and died January 27, 1945 in Luzon, Philippines.
Howard Leroy was born April 23, 1921 and died March 21, 1976 in Pasadena,
Texas. He married Constance (Connie) Corrie, born June 29, 1923 in Abilene,
Texas, died March 9, 1989 in Pasadena, Texas. The marriage took place May
28, 1943 in Tampa, Florida.
They had three children: Russell Corrie, Catherine Denison and Judith Ann.
I would appreciate any and all information concerning the Cameron and Potts
family. I have more information, but to cut this short, that I will glad
share with anyone.
Thank you for the opportunity to share this information.
Russell Haas
512 Cap Rock Drive.
Richardson, Texas 75080
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How rich is Aditya Chopra?
Aditya Chopra Net Worth:
$30 Million
Aditya Chopra net worth, wiki & biography:
Aditya Chopra Net Worth $30 Million
Bollywood is well known for the sappy romantic love stories that transcend the borders of common sense, but Aditya Chopra is one of the industry's premier director, producer, and screen writers who has gained acclaim for his work like the entire world renowned Dilwale Dulhania Le Jeyenge, Mohabbatein, the Dhoom trilogy and many more. And it is no secret which he has brought in a significant amount from his enterprises in the pursuance of filming, so what does he enjoy spending hi vast fortune on and when it all comes down what's his actual net worth. Now his private Net Worth is close to $30 million. The Chopra family lead by Aditya formed the "Yash Raj Films" studio that is credited to have released many unbelievable blockbusters year after year. Aditya also took on the role as provider and catered his pictures to worldwide audience and network it across the continents, and having many of his movies being a commercial success his company is estimated to be worth $670 million.
Aditya Chopra considers himself to me a minimalist and doesn't believe in superb lavish spending but in 2012 he did something uncharacteristic of himself. He purchased his ladylove Rani Mukerji an Audi A8 W12 which stands as a lovely Luxury sedan that has a price tag of a whooping Rs.1.25 crore. As Aditya Chopra is a rather simple and private man there is not a lot known about his personal life, his divorce earlier in 2009 was not headlining gossip columns because little was known about that issue and in 2014 the trend continues. Aditya got married to Rani Mukerji in Italy in a tiny ceremony devoid of the paparazzi and news channels, the union was a impulsive choice and only family and close friends were encouraged. It was a miniature celebration considerably to the preference of the couple.
While it is obvious that Aditya Chopra is a very affluent man it is also apparent that cash is not a factor he lets his life ride on. His is a commercially successful manager and primary owner of Yash Raj Films yet he prefers being extremely simple, that's what transcends his entire net worth.


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Early voting begins Saturday for the Dec. 6 elections featuring the U.S. Senate race at the top of the ballot.
Early voting runs through Nov. 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, excluding Sunday as well as Thursday and Friday, which are holidays.
Secretary of State Tom Schedler on Wednesday encouraged eligible voters to consider voting early.
"Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, early voting is shortened by two days for this election," Schedler said in a news release. "This is always a busy time of year with families traveling and time off of work, but it's important not to forget about the Dec. 6 election, especially with the congressional runoffs as well as many important local races. By casting your ballot early, you can vote on your own schedule when it's most convenient. Don't make excuses. Go vote!"
Besides the statewide race between veteran Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, there are runoffs for congressional seats in the Baton Rouge-based 6th District and the meandering 5th District that runs from northeast Louisiana into the Baton Rouge area.
Voters can use the elections office's smartphone app, GeauxVote Mobile, to find out where to vote, what's on their ballot and their voting districts.
Those who want to vote early may do so in person at their parish Registrar of Voters' Office or at other designated locations. For a complete listing of early voting locations, visit www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAnd Voting/Pages/EarlyVotingLocations.aspx.
For more information about the Secretary of State's Elections Division, visit www.GeauxVote.com or call (225) 922-0900.


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Matthew Rush is one porn god that really needs no introduction. He is probably one of, if not the most recognizable faces, in gay porn. (He's also got a pretty recognizable cock and ass!) He's been in the porn biz for over 10 years, signing a "Lifetime Exclusive" deal with Falcon studios that made him quite the legend in the industry. In 2009 he left Falcon to work for various studios and he has not stopped since.
Well, it seems as though Matthew has found love and announced via twitter (where else?) that his porn star persona is "dead." He tweeted: "I've told myself when I meet the man of my dreams, "Matthew Rush" dies. I'm sorry but "Matthew" died @ 11:45 PM last night...Hi, I'm Greg," So, does this now mean that Matthew (real name, Greg) is done with porn forever? It looks that way. But every cloud has a sliver lining and it's quite heartwarming to know that he's left porn for the man of his dreams. Quite sweet, wouldn't you say?
So there's nothing left to say but au revoir to Matthew Rush (or Greg) and wish him nothing but the best with his new man in his life! You will be missed, you big hunk of spunk!


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Oasys Design Systems announced that it has added support for SystemVerilog to RealTime Designer[tm], its revolutionary new Chip Synthesis[tm] platform used in production flows at leading-edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide. "We are pleased and proud to have added System Verilog support within one year of delivering VHDL," states Paul van Besouw, Oasys' president and chief executive officer. "Design teams employing RealTime Designer are at the cutting edge of design and are increasingly using System Verilog."
Support for SystemVerilog comes standard with RealTime Designer and is available immediately. In addition to SystemVerilog, RealTime Designer accepts Verilog and VHDL input, along with standard timing and physical libraries, SDC timing constraints and floorplans.
Chip Synthesis is a fundamental shift in how synthesis is applied to the design and implementation of integrated circuits (ICs). RealTime Designer is the first design tool for physical register transfer level (RTL) synthesis of 100-million gate designs. It features a unique RTL code placement approach that eliminates unending design closure and iterations between synthesis and layout.
RealTime Designer follows a "Place First" methodology that takes RTL code, partitions it into blocks, places the RTL code in the context of a floorplan and implements each block all the way to placement. Chip-level constraints are automatically propagated across the blocks and the design is optimized for the best possible quality of results. During the optimization phase, RealTime Designer will repartition the design at the RTL and re-implement it until chip-level constraints are met.
About Oasys Design Systems
Oasys Design Systems is a privately funded electronic design automation (EDA) software supplier with a revolutionary new platform called Chip Synthesis[tm], a fundamental shift in how synthesis is used to design and implement ICs larger than 20-million gates. It has attracted the support of legendary EDA leaders and its RealTime Designer[tm] is in use at leading-edge semiconductor and systems companies worldwide. Follow Oasys on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/OasysDS. Corporate Headquarters is located at 3250 Olcott Street, Suite 120, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Telephone: (408) 855-8531. Facsimile: (408) 855- 8537. Email: email@example.com.
RealTime Designer and Chip Synthesis are trademarks of Oasys Design Systems.


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KH 3D Countdown Celebration – Week 5
It's Week 5 on our Countdown and we've only got 3 more until Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is released in North America! To celebrate this week, we've just added 19 brand new renders of super rare Nightmare Dream Eaters to our Official Artwork Page! You can head on over and check them out. These new Nightmares are rare forms of the common enemies you'll be finding in the game, and they drop some extra awesome prizes when they're defeated. You should be on the lookout for these special Nightmares as you play the game!
And if that wasn't enough, Square-Enix has released another gameplay trailer for KH 3D that you can view below! This new trailer features some of the extra stuff you can do in Dream Drop Distance, like the Dive Mode and Flick Rush minigames! Special thanks to our good friends over at KH13.com for uploading this new trailer!


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USA TODAY blogged the NBA Draft.
The first round began with Cleveland taking Kyrie Irving of Duke and ended with Chicago grabbing Marquette's Jimmy Butler.
You can go to nba.usatoday.com for all your news and picks for both rounds of the draft.
Let us know what you thought of the picks.
The first round: No. 1 Kyrie Irving, Cleveland; No.2 Derrick Williams, Minnesota; No. 3 Enes Kanter, Utah; No. 4 Tristan Thompson, Cleveland; No. 5 Jonas Valanciunas, Toronto;
No. 6 Jan Vesely, Washington; No. 7 Bismack Biyombo, Sacramento (for Charlotte); No. 8 Brandon Knight, Detroit; No. 9 Kemba Walker, Charlotte; No. 10 Jimmer Fredette, Milwaukee (for Sacramento);
No. 11 Klay Thompson, Golden State; No. 12: Alec Burks, Utah; No. 13: Markieff Morris, Phoenix; No. 14: Marcus Morris, Houston; No. 15: Kawhi Leonard, Indiana;
No. 16: Nikola Vucevic, Philadelphia; No. 17: Iman Shumpert, New York; No. 18, Chris Singleton, Washington; No. 19: Tobias Harris, Charlotte (picking for Milwaukee); No. 20: Donatas Motiejunas, Minnesota;
No. 21: Nolan Smith, Portland; No. 22: Kenneth Faried, Denver; No. 23: Nikola Mirotic, Montenegro; No. 24: Reggie Jackson, Oklahoma City; No. 25: Marshon Brooks, Boston;
No. 26: Jordan Hamilton, Dallas; No. 27: JuJuan Johnson, New Jersey; No. 28: Norris Cole, Chicago (expected to trade him to Minnesota for Motiejunas; Minnesota is then expected to ship him to Miami for Bojan Bogdanovic); No. 29: Cory Joseph, San Antonio; No. 30: Jimmy Butler, Chicago.
11:03: We leave you now but ask that you tell us whether your team filled their needs and whether this was a weak draft like all the experts told us it would be. Of course we might just want to watch these guys play before we make a decision.
10:58: Kobe Bryant has gotten a new point guard as the Lakers take Michigan's Darius Morris who is 6-5. Not a great shooter but that is not what the Lakers needed is it? He's an LA product so there is that.
10:51: Jeremy Tyler, who skipped his senior year of high school to go overseas, is picked No. 39 by Charlotte. He had a disastrous year in Israel but most recently played in Tokyo. He is 6-11, 262 pounds, however. Now we learn he's going to Golden State.
10:38: The Wizards take Shelvin Mack. We were wondering when the Butler star would go and it was 34th (second round) to Washington. Bravo. Now if we can just get Matt Howard taken.
10:32: The Cavaliers take 6-9 Justin Harper of Richmond in the second round. We are mentioning that because not only is he from a non-BCS school but is a senior. That combination is almost unheard of in this draft. The Pistons with the 33rd pick take Kyle Singler from Duke. He follows teammates Kyrie Irving and Nolan Smith who were first round picks.
10:26: Norris Cole, the 28th overall pick is going to Miami for the 31st pick and a second round pick to Minnesota. The Heat get a point guard and pick Bojan Bogdanovic.
10:22: The Bulls end the first round by picking forward Jimmy Butler, Marquette at No. 30.
10:17: San Antonio takes Cory Joseph of Texas with the No. 29 pick. He may now be the heir apparent to Tony Parker or Manu Ginobili if George Hill is traded as rumored.
10:12: The Bulls select guard Norris Cole of Cleveland State at No. 28. They will trade the pick to Minnesota for Motiejunas according to Andy Katz of ESPN. Is there a team with more guards than the Timberwolves. Interesting.
10:07: The Nets do indeed pick JuJuan Johnson. Now we'll see if the 6-10 forward is headed to Boston for Marshon Brooks and a second round pick.
10:05: ESPN's Andy Katz has New Jersey picking Purdue's JaJuan Johnson and trading him to Boston for the just picked Marshon Brooks.
10:04: With the 26th pick the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks select Jordan Hamilton of Texas. At 6-7 could play small forward or shooting guard. Some thought he would go much higher than this.
9:58: The Boston Celtics grab Marshon Brooks of Providence with the 25th pick. A little bit of surprise because the Celtics seemed to need a big man. However, he's a great scorer, maybe the best scorer in the draft after Fredette. And who can't use a 6-5 guard who can shoot the lights out?
9:53: Oklahoma City takes Reggie Jackson of Boston College with the No. 24 pick. A scoring guard with a 7-foot wing span. He seemed to get promised to Oklahoma City and refused to workout with a lot of teams. He brings the dreaded label of a tough guy to coach.
9:47: The Rockets take Nikola Mirotic of Montenegro with the No. 23 pick. He'll probably stay out of the USA for at least a few years according to ESPN's Fran Fraschilla.
9:41: With the No. 22 pick, Denver drafts Kenneth Faried from Morehead State. He is the best pure rebounder in the draft. He just goes and gets the ball. Coach George Karl has to feel like its his birthday and he might be sending thank you notes to all the teams that didn't take this guy and let him fall down to the Nuggets.
9:33: Portland takes Nolan Smith at No. 21. So much for my prediction of San Antonio later in the draft. But I'm putting him down as a steal at No. 21. He's smart, he's a two-way player and he's more talented than most people believe. He's also got the bloodlines with his late father Derrick, a star at Louisville. Portland fans can only hope that this time the draft pick stays healthy. The ghosts of Sam Bowie, Brandon Roy, Greg Oden and Bill Walton are still haunting fans.
9:28: Minnesota selects Donatas Motiejunas, a 7-footer from Lithuania No. 20. The 'Wolves, a young team last year, getting even younger with Ricky Rubio, Derrick Williams and Motiejunas. It also appears that the Kawhi Leonard is moving from Indiana to San Antonio for guard George Hill. How about Duke's Nolan Smith going to Spurs later (No. 29) as the backup to Tony Parker now that Hill is gone?
9:24: At No. 19 Charlotte takes Tennessee's Tobias Harris. They were picking for Milwaukee after the trade.
9:18: The Wizards take 6-9 Chris Singleton of Florida State at No. 18. A defender. Sometime Washington needed. Not a scorer. There seems to be a run on guys who can rebound and defend but can't put the ball in the basket. Nice to see the other side getting some love. Florida State was one of the best defensive teams in the nation last year. Singleton's selection also cleared the green room. The ghost of Rashard Lewis is gone.
9:10: The Knicks select at No.17 and take Iman Shumpert of Georgia Tech. The crowd in New Jersey does not take it well. Bilas likes him as a defender and his 40 inch vertical jump. That still probably won't excite the fans at the Garden. Perhaps that will change when they see him play. Bilas calls it "an interesting pick." Said Spike Lee: "I never heard of Landry Fields either until we picked him."
9:05: With the No. 16 pick the Philadelphia 7ers take Nikola Vucevic, from USC.
9:00: The Indiana Pacers take Kawhi Leonard from San Diego State at No. 15. Wingspan of a guy 7-3 even though he's 6-7. He'll give you great defense and rebounding. Scoring will have to improve. The size of his hands are freakish. It is nice to have X-Men features when you are a rebounder.8:54: Brother to brother. The Rockets take Kansas' Marcus Morris at No. 14. He looks an awful like the guy the Suns just took. Twins that are five minutes apart (in the draft anyway). Rock, chalk, Jayhawk my friends. Markieff's turn to cry. It is nice when you are a forward and your coach (Kevin McHale) was one of the greatest forwards of all-time.8:46: At No. 13 the Suns select Markieff Morris of Kansas. His twin brother Marcus was projected ahead of him but of course that is the beauty of the draft. Marcus sheds some tears of joy after his brother was named. Markieff will be a guy that gives the Suns some muscle under the boards. The sound you hear is Steve Nash clapping. The Suns like twins since they took Robin Lopez a few years ago.
8:41: With the 12th pick the Jazz select Alec Burks from Colorado.
8:35: Golden State takes Klay Thompson. His dad Mychal was the No. 1 pick in the 1978 draft.
8:30: The Bucks take Jimmer Fredette with the No. 10 pick. Let the Jimmermania begin in Sacramento who Milwaukee picked for after the trade. Everybody will talk about him not being able to play defense. But this guy is a flat out scorer and that is nothing to sneeze at. And for a guy who use to visit prisons to play I don't want to hear about how they might try to rough him up in the NBA. Guys who are serving 10-20 are tougher than guys with five-year contracts.
8:21: With the No. 9 pick the Bobcats take Kemba Walker from UConn. Okay, it turns out MJ likes guys who are winners.
8:17: The Pistons, hoping to start a rebuilding project, take Brandon Knight of Kentucky. Finally a guy we've seen play. Detroit is planning to build from the guard up. Worked with Isiah Thomas. Played one season with the Wildcats proving that the NBA loves guys who play as little in college as possible. If you combine the first eight picks they barely played two seasons combined in college. Kentucky coach John Calipari believes the longer a player stays the more holes scouts find in their game. That seems to be proven out year after year.
8:10: The Kings (picking for Charlotte after the trade) take with the seventh pick 6-foot-9 Bismack Biyombo of the Congo. That makes four of the 7 picks in the draft being foreign players. I speak for ESPN's Dick Vitale who asks every year whether NBA scouts have ever seen a college game? Biyombo speaks for himself since he's fluent in six languages. Fraschilla says "he can not score" but he loves him as a defensive player. "High risk, high reward." Hopefully, Charlotte owner Michael Jordan feels the same way. Detroit is now on the clock.
8:07: The Wizards at No. 6 select Jan Vesely of the Czech Republic. Washington gets some height in the 6-11 Vesely who is being compared to Tom Chambers. If you saw the kiss the pick got you would understand what Fran Fraschilla meant when he said he had great taste in women. The Kings are now on the clock picking for Charlotte after the trade.
8:02: The Raptors select Jonas Valanciunas of Lithuania. The 6-11 center is 19 years old and may stay overseas for another season before coming to the NBA. He's being compared to Pau Gasol and Chris Bosh. We happen to love the Lakers and Heat forwards so we'll make no snide comments. My hometown Washington Wizards on the clock and we may get to see that suit Bilas talked about.
7:55: With the 4th pick the Cavaliers take Tristan Thompson of Texas. A bit of a shock here. The 6-8 forward was expected to go a few slots down. Thompson and Irving are now in Cleveland and hopefully can get Cavs fans off their LeBron hate bandwagon and start dreaming of wins. Owner Dan Gilbert promised a title before the Heat and so it has to start with Thompson and Irving. The Raptors are now on the clock.
7:50: The Utah Jazz select Enes Kanter from Turkey. The draftniks are now 3-for-3. Irving played 11 games for Duke which was 11 more than Kanter played for Kentucky after being ruled ineligible by the NCAA. Kanter said he's dedicating his rookie season to Kentucky. The Cavaliers are back on the clock. This is where teams could deviate from the script.
7:48: So far there have been major fashion statements made as in year's past. Both Irving and Williams wore dark suits. Very fashionable but a long way from Jalen Rose's red pinstripes. Maybe Kawhi Leonard will rise to the challenge.
7:44: With the No. 2 pick the Timberwolves take Derrick Williams of Arizona. So far the draft is going to form. Ironic though that the guy who knocked Duke out of the NCAA tournament went after the Blue Devil who came back from injury to play in the tournament. The Utah Jazz are now on the clock.
7:38: The Cleveland Cavaliers select Kyrie Irving. Nobody in the country is shocked right now. The Duke point guard played 11 games averaging 17.5 points and 4.3 assists. Previous overall No.1s in Cleveland: Austin Carr, Brad Daugherty and LeBron James. The Cavaliers also have the No. 4 pick. Minnesota is now on the clock and expected to take Arizona's Derrick Williams.
7:34: David Stern walks out to the podium to some scattered boos. But turns them into cheers by asking for a hand for New Jersey. That is why he's the smartest man in the building.
7:17: Bilas' top five on his board: Irving, Derrick Williams, Enes Kanter, Kemba Walker and Brandon Knight. He's got Jimmer Fredette at No. 13. Jon Barry hints that Minnesota is very interested in Kanter at No. 2 instead of Williams. That would throw the draft into a bit of chaos.
7:10: Analysts have been saying for two weeks that this draft doesn't have a lot of great players but does have a lot of good players. If I had that type of crystal ball I'd be buying stocks and living at the racetrack. Shouldn't we wait to see these guys play before we judge their greatness?
7:08: Ric Bucher says there is a deal with Stephen Jackson going to Milwaukee with Charlotte getting the No. 7 pick and Sacramento getting the No. 10 pick. The Bucks will get the 19th pick. Click here for all the details.
6:54: We would like to see ESPN analyst Jay Bilas at an open mike night. Here's an early draft tweet from him: Kahwi Leonard's suit is an homage to Thurston Howell III, rivaled only by Craig Sager's blue velour sport coat. Is Nixon still President?
6:15: Everyone and their mom has Duke point guard Kyrie Irving going in this spot. The draft gets fascinating quickly if they don't pick him. Minnesota choosing next wants anything but a point guard with Jonny Flynn already on the roster and Ricky Rubio having just got into town from Spain.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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- "Thanks Dr. Polanski... and great work on the bot."
"Of course, Lieutenant. Happy to be of service."
- — Lt. Anya Stroud, thanking Dr. Polanski for his upgrades to the COG's JACK units
Doctor Stanley Michael Polanski[1] was a COG engineer who researched and worked at Halvo Bay Military Academy until he was moved to Jacinto due to the Hammer of Dawn Counterattack. He was the one who figured out how to send long range video transmissions from a centralized broadcasting centers to JACK (model) units out in the field, he was also responsible for adding foldout screen's to all the JACK units.
Working in Halvo BayEdit
- "Kurt, I didn't want to bother you at home. I've identified a spectral range that could enable long distance video transmission between a centralized broadcast center and a bot unit in the field. Obviously you have a lot going on right now, but this is something I feel we could implement very quickly, given the proper resources. Please call me when you can."
- — Doctor Polanski's message for Kurt Elliot on his answering machine[2]
At some point in time after seeing his work on the chain reaction that powers the Lightmass Process, Dr. Polanski and Adam Fenix personally requested that Kurt Elliot enlist in the Defense Research Agency. At the time, Dr. Polanski was working at the Halvo Bay Military Academy, so he invited Dr. Elliot down to Halvo Bay for a tour.[1] Sometime after Kurt had moved to Halvo Bay with his family he started to help Stanley work on enhancing the JACK units. Before the Locust attack on Halvo Bay Stanley had identified a spectral range that could enable the long distance video transmissions from a centralized broadcasting centre to bot units out in the field, he left a voice message for Dr. Elliot at his lab telling him if they had the right resources they could implement it quickly. The message was found by Kilo Squad during the Destruction of Halvo Bay six weeks after Emergence Day.[2]
Upgrading the JACKsEdit
- "Same functionality as before, but we added the fold-out screen to it. Figured it'd be alot handier than the embedded screens or relying on a projector."
- — Dr. Polanski, informing Anya about the new modifications to the JACK bots
Dr. Polanski was able to survive the attack on Halvo Bay and was moved to Jacinto City like much of the population, before the Hammer of Dawn Counterattack. There, he was able to get the proper resources to finish his upgrades to the JACK (model) units by adding fold-out screens to them which would allow them to display the long range video transmissions from Coalition High Command and repairing them when need be. A couple of months after the Lightmass Offensive he showed his efforts to Lt. Anya Stroud, who approved of the upgrade, as did Cpl. Dominic Santiago when he entered the room.[3]
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- Stanley is voiced by Sam Riegel.
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After the Songhai's close brush with destruction, the Askia dynasty focused on militaristic development and territorial expansion to the West African Coast.
In 1863, the Askia Dynasty, which had ruled Songhai for so long, was deposed in a military coup d'etat, and the First Songhai Republic was established, modeled heavily after the First Hellenic Republic.
As the decades passed on, more and more European influence sweeped the country until finally, the French Colonial Empire reached the borders of Songhai. Even though the Songhai had a larger military than that of Sokoto, they were completely decimated by French forces, and were ultimately absorbed into French West Africa in 1913.
In February 1960, French West Africa was dissolved, and the Songhai became an independent state, at the cost of losing a small part of their original territory and being a part of the French Community until 1995.
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This summer I have been rummaging almost daily in my small garden, adding new elements, taking some away and tidying and tending others. I have a vision of the garden I want it to eventually be, and I've spent almost five years working toward it, knowing full well that it will never be finished.
My humble garden is an urbanized homage to the variegated and breathtaking cottage gardens that I encountered on occasion during the days and weeks accumulated over a dozen youthful years of holidays, retreats and escapes walking the coast path that rings England.
I learned that many of these cottage gardens had as much to do with bees and chickens and vegetables as with wisteria and foxgloves. In the 18th century cottagers with reduced land access (as a result of the destructive enclosure laws) were encouraged to use cottage gardens to feed their families. The ornamental elements owed much to the kitchen garden of the Elizabethan dooryard and the herbs that lived in it. At first medicinal and other functional herbs predominated but they too had ornamental value, and it was hard to tell if the tall spires of hollyhock were central because of their medicinal or ornamental utility.
Every time I came across one, I would stand in awe of the practical and aesthetic beauty of these gardens, awed by the combinations of form and colour and shade, awed by the attention to detail and the obvious toil that was involved, and most of all awed by the inspiration of those gardeners.
I found peace and knowledge in those long walks over the hills, dales and shingle shores of England, and I discovered a purpose for my life. I also, and more importantly, discovered that I was capable of experiencing deep and abiding spiritual emotions, that would give shape and context to my journey through life.
THE EXPERIENCE OF AWEIn the years since I have often wondered why we humans experience awe, and whether it's unique to our species. Is awe the ultimate collective emotion, that motivates people to do things that enhance the greater good? Through the many activities that give us that goose bumpy sensation that we associate with awe – artistic creation, collective rituals, celebration, music and dance, communing with nature, religious gatherings and worship – awe might help shift our focus from our narrow self-interest to the interests of the species to which we belong.
Awe helps bind us to others, motivating us to act in collaborative ways that enable strong groups and cohesive communities. People who experience awe, more so than those experiencing emotions like pride or amusement, cooperate more, share more resources and sacrifice more for others – all of which are behaviours necessary for our collective life.
Awe seems to imbue us with a different sense of ourselves, one that is smaller, more humble and part of something larger. Even brief experiences of awe, such as being amid beautiful tall trees, lead people to feel less narcissistic and entitled and more attuned to the common humanity people share with one another. In the great balancing act of our social lives, between the gratification of self-interest and a concern for others, fleeting experiences of awe redefine the self in terms of the collective, and orient our actions toward the needs of those around us.
THE FALTERING INTO THE LIGHTWe could make the case that our culture today is awe-deprived. Adults spend more and more time working and commuting and less time outdoors and with other people. Camping trips, picnics and midnight skies are forgone in favour of working weekends and late at night. Attendance at arts events – live music, theatre, museums and galleries – has dropped over the years.
This goes for children, too: Arts and music programs in schools are being dismantled in lieu of programs better suited to standardized testing; time outdoors and for novel, unbounded exploration are sacrificed for résumé-building activities.
Awe deprivation has had a hand in a broad societal shift that has been widely observed over the past 50 years: People have become more individualistic, more self-focused, more materialistic and less connected to others. The days of mutual aid, of working together for common good, may be coming to an end.
To reverse this trend, we all need to experience more everyday awe, to actively seek out what gives us goose bumps, be it in looking at trees, night skies, patterns of wind on water or the quotidian nobility of others – the teenage punk who gives up his seat on public transportation, the young child who explores the world in a state of wonder, the person who presses on against all odds, the selfless caregiver. All of us will be better off for it.
THE HUCKSTERS OF HAPPINESSAnyone who's ever spent a hung-over Sunday half asleep channel surfing knows how many people are out there selling us happiness: sermons from an assortment of religious clerics and motivational speakers, smile-filled ads for anti-depressants whose scientific names no one can pronounce, and a far fetched, twenty dollar bottle of miracle water capable of curing our depression and facilitating divine deposits into our back account. The message we hear is this: we are sad and it's not okay. It's a kind of weakness – admittance to the world that we are somehow unfit. In the same way we cover-up our fatness, baldness, or bad skin, we cover-up our sadness, like it is something deserving shame.
Photos, for example, once functioned to capture the poignant moments of our past. Their purpose is now more sinister: to document our happiness, not for its own sake, but as proof of our social fitness. A frown in a photo is a blemish like a thumb on a lens, closed eyes, or an exposed nipple.
The reason for this attitude towards sadness is more philosophical and less institutional than what I just wrote might imply. The western world was founded on humanist concepts that embrace the greatness of the individual and advocate individual freedom and, consequently, responsibility. With this attitude in hand, you are expected to create for yourself what you want. Therefore if you are sad, it is an inherent flaw in your character – a personality trait only you are responsible for. Well isn't that a great burden to carry? That kind of attitude, that sadness is weakness, is inherently self-perpetuating. But sadness is not a personality trait, really. It's nowhere in any contemporary taxonomy of personality traits.
Sadness is an emotion we all feel, agnostic to any conception of right or wrong, strong or weak. It is a necessary precondition to happiness. Life being fundamentally dualistic, there is no happiness without sadness, in the same way there is no object without space, no light without dark; but also physiologically true in the way our body regulates the chemicals of happiness through hedonic adaptation. Often conceptualized as a treadmill, since one must continually work to maintain a certain level of happiness, hedonic adaptation involves cognitive changes, such as shifting values, goals, attention and interpretation of a situation.
In this way, sadness is a fundamental and natural part of the human experience. But we continue to feel it's something shameful and aberrant, like a twelve year old religious boy is meant to feel about masturbation. It's ironic that when we're experiencing a bout of mania, what we think are our most clearheaded thoughts would not conventionally be considered happy, rather they are objectively both our grimmest and most optimistic ideas, like what I write now.
THE DOING OF THE WORKMaya Angelou said we find our path by walking it. And at the end of the day, for all the advice we get from anyone; from all the books we read about how to live a good life, our best life; from all the self-help seminars that we go to; from all the programs that we watch, at the end of the day, with all this information coming at us, we only find our path by walking it. We have to commit ourselves to being courageous, being committed, being consistent to those immutable principles by which we have decided we are going to live our life. There is no other way around this. We have to walk our path to find it.
Alas, we live in a world and a time where everybody is looking for a shortcut. Everybody wants the shortcut to success, the shortcut to this, the shortcut to that. In our cars we use apps to find the shortest way to get to where we're going. Everybody in life these days it seems is trying to find a shortcut to wherever they think they're trying to go. And often when we shortcut our way to getting there, we're not happy when we arrive.
Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool's errand, is that happiness isn't a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to – consciously, fully engaged in the business of living. In this respect it resembles averted vision, a phenomena familiar to backyard astronomers whereby, in order to pick out a very faint star, you have to let your gaze drift casually to the space just next to it; if you look directly at it, it vanishes. And it's also true, come to think of it, that the only stars we ever see are not the "real" stars, those cataclysms taking place in the present, but always only the light of the untouchable past.
THE HUMILITY OF WISDOMMontaigne once wrote, "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we can't be wise with other men's wisdom." That's because wisdom isn't a body of information. It's the moral quality of knowing what we don't know and figuring out a way to handle our ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.
The people we think are wise have, to some degree, overcome the biases and overconfident tendencies that are infused in our nature. In its most complete meaning, intellectual humility is accurate self-awareness from a distance. It is moving over the course of one's life from the adolescent's close-up view of oneself, in which we fill the whole canvas, to a landscape view in which we see, from a wider perspective, our strengths and weaknesses, our connections and dependencies, and the role we play in a larger story.
There's no alternative to doing the work. We have to do the work. And doing the work means that we have to walk the walk; we have to walk the path if we're going to find and discover what our life is truly all about. And quite frankly, the joy is in the walk anyway. The joy is in the journey. There is joy in the journey. There are ups and there are downs, but there is joy in the journey. We may live in a society where we are so caught up with achieving milestones that we end up missing the moments. Milestones are a beautiful and awesome thing, but it's these moments that are really awesome, and really make life worth living.
It's raining outside as I write this, and my garden is soaking the moisture up like a sponge. The peas and tarragon, the roses and the mums, the apple trees and raspberry vines, the sage, strawberries, lilacs, hostas, radishes and tomatoes are huddled in horticultural and agricultural bliss, as am I. Standing among the plants and bushes and trees, soaked to the skin, a trowel in one hand and a clump of tender shoots I grew from seed in the other, I am filled with the peace of knowing that my long journey from the rolling pathways of my youth have come full circle, and I am home.
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For about two years now, Seth Levy of MiamiSkaters.com has been working diligently with The City of Miami to assist them in the with the building of a skateboard park in the Omni CRA district (D2), working all the way up the flagpole to directly involving Commissioner Marc Sarnoff and his office. The funding and location have already been secured, however, the project is currently stalled and is threatened with termination by a few politically well-connected community members. Although Commissioner Sarnoff is still enthusiastically supporting this project, these people have already managed to stall this project for over six months and have attempted to pressure Mayor Regalado to consider intervening and canceling the project despite the fact that this project is under the authority of the Omni CRA board which is chaired by Commissioner Sarnoff.
The general public's anger ignited on the evening of June 28th when the two leaders of the anti-skate park movement, Annette Eisenberg and Stanley Tate, decided to appear live on the local ABC affiliate Channel 10 news and voice their opposition to a " …marijuana smoking…", "… boom box blasting"…, "…nuisance…" in the city. Despite having all of Seth's contact information, Channel 10 news decided not to contact Seth regarding the story. The next day, Seth was contacted by the city with this troubling news and was told to respond immediately in order to save the project and two years of hard work on both Seth's and the city's behalf.
Seth immediately sprung into action, starting a Facebook group "Save the Miami skateboard park!" and letter writing campaign. Letters came in from people of all walks of life, age and geographic location. Attached is a Powerpoint containing a sample of letters that were forwarded to Seth with permission to publish. The Facebook group exploded, initially drawing 300 new members daily and reaching over 1,500 before the weekend. Due to Seth being out of town on a prior business commitment that week, Seth was unable to meet with Sarnoff's office until the following Monday, at which point there were over 1,500 members. The Commissioner's office was extremely surprised and impressed with the group's growth, however they said that it would not be enough to sway the decision mainly because many of the groups members did not reside within the city limits and therefore equal votes. Seth began working on petitioning around The City of Miami, dropping off petitions at local businesses and petitioning in person on the streets along with other members of the group. He was surprised to find that response on the street was even greater than the response online. Obtaining over 50 signatures per hour, the estimated total signatures in just five days is now well over 1,000 and growing. As of this email, he has also launched the MiamiSkaters.com website.
Late last week, Seth was again contacted by Commissioner Sarnoff's office with their desire to hold an event with the local pro-skate park population featuring the environmental awareness of the local skateboarding population. This event, featuring the screening of a new DisneyNature film "Earth" and speakers discussing skateboarding and environmental awareness will be held on Monday, July 19th at 6:30 PM at City Hall with a pre-meeting at the One Cool World park for the pro-skatepark community at 5:30 PM. This event will clearly demonstrate to the City of Miami how organized and influential the local skateboard community is and that their voices should be heard. Attached is a poster for the event.
Seth Levy does not want to make this project nor any story about it about himself. He is in the leadership position that he is because of his unique expertise as someone who has significant experience getting skate parks built, and as a Jewish person affiliated with Temple Israel, the same synagogue from which only a few but rather vocal skateboard park detractors are coming from.
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The Secret of My Partner's Success
New York City. August, 1967.
Sigmund Freud was not the first man to ask what women want, and surely, he will not be the last. Indeed, men have been scratching their heads over that one since they began sharing their caves. It was doubtful then, that a problem of such immense magnitude would be solved in a single afternoon, despite the storehouse of accumulated worldly wisdom assembled around the barroom table that day.
There was George Dennel, our chief of computer security, and Scott Ward, his young assistant. George had been married at the beginning of the summer, while Scotty's idea of the height of romance was a trip to a drive-in in Jersey, a fresh foil of Trojans, and a six-pack of imported beer.
There was also Mark Slate, who worked with April Dancer, and John Coleman, who wouldn't have accepted a woman partner even if Waverly doubled his salary. Finally, rounding out the group, there was Wes Lerner, a surveillance man who never could seem to line up a date, and my own partner, Napoleon Solo, who often juggled two or three at a time.
And then of course, there was me. As usual at this sort of clubby gathering, I was wishing desperately that I could be somewhere else.
Laboring as a team, all of us had just spent four and one half miserable days conducting the semi-annual system-wide inspection of headquarters' security. You must understand that running a check on even a limited security procedure can be tedious and trying. To do so for an entire system was beyond drudgery — it was heart-rending travail. Still, the entire system had to be gone over with a fine-tooth comb twice a year, though my friend Napoleon, who despised detail work, dreaded the inspections with a passion he reserved for few other things in his life.
But now it was Friday afternoon and the agony was over. All the tests were finished, the final report — in triplicate — was written, signed, and sitting on the Old Man's desk, and we'd repaired to Vic's, to compensate ourselves for a job well done with a modest reward of sandwiches and beer.
The conversation began decently enough, with a general postmortem of the inspection, followed by a lively debate over what recommendations might be made for upgrading procedures in the future. Wes and George were of the opinion that the system was presently performing well above satisfactory levels, while Napoleon, who'd been acutely embarrassed by the Hemingway affair some three years earlier, was not entirely convinced. Since I'd shared Napoleon's mortification in seeing all our best security measures so easily subverted, I, too, expressed a certain degree of skepticism.
This shoptalk was short-lived, however. As the afternoon wore on and the beer continued to flow, the level of discussion deteriorated rapidly to the usual office gossip, elbow-to-the-ribs appraisals of several new female employees, and veiled references to who was — or would be — sleeping with whom. If it was not quite locker room talk, it was the next best thing.
Eventually, the focus of attention centered on Scotty and his difficulties in securing a date with the new girl in Cartography named Trisha Sterling.
"Oh man, would I like to explore her geography!" Scotty said with his usual boyish charm. He also had a rather novel facility with the English language. The remark prompted me to think about the pile of paperwork that still waited for me back at the office. I began to devise strategies to extricate myself from the group as politely as possible.
Unfortunately, no opportunities presented themselves and Scotty continued on, describing the current object of his desire in elaborate and rather uncomfortably intimate detail. Apparently, neither Mark nor John was familiar with the lady in question and they provided Scotty with an avid, interested audience.
"If you guys could just see her," Scotty marveled, "she's so —."
As he groped for the precise terminology that would truly express his bursting admiration, I realized that we'd moved beyond mere lust to serious infatuation.
"— so luscious, like a butterscotch sundae, know what I mean?"
In point of fact, although I didn't usually share Scotty's juvenile enthusiasm, I knew exactly what he meant. Trisha Sterling had an almost visceral attractiveness that could only be properly described with gastronomical imagery: creamy skin; hair like melting honey; a candy apple smile, sweet but not sugary, a natural disposition as effervescent as good champagne. When she was deep in thought, she had a habit of running the tip of her tongue along the edge of her upper lip that sent a delicious shiver up the spine and made you wonder why a woman like that would be so enamored by maps.
Although George attempted to provide a voice of experience, no one at the table (or anywhere else for that matter) considered him particularly skilled in romance — his marriage notwithstanding — and he was largely ignored. On the other hand, Mark and John, both of whom boasted respectable track records when it came to women, were only too happy to offer advice on how to win this one's heart, and — as Wes so indelicately put it — score.
Now, I should point out that ever since the conversation had shifted from professional to personal matters, my friend and partner had not uttered a single word. And even as the rest of the group proposed and argued over several courses of action for Scotty to take, Napoleon continued to eat his veal parmigiana sandwich. Occasionally, between sips of beer, he would nod and smile, but it was the smile of a Cheshire cat — bemused and knowing, and decidedly above it all.
This sort of behavior was not as uncharacteristic as you might think. Napoleon is sometimes willing to discuss the fairer sex in general terms, but never in specifics, and despite the tendency toward sexual promiscuity that is so essential to his nature, his discretion is as legendary as his libido. Whatever secrets a woman brings to bed with him, remain safely there, between the sheets.
This isn't very surprising either, when you think about it. To use again one of those baseball metaphors that American males are so fond of, when you're constantly hitting them out of the ballpark, you don't need a scoreboard.
Once in the past, when I jokingly commented about his reluctance to share his considerable expertise with those of us less fortunate fellows, Napoleon contemptuously muttered something about refusing to cast pearls before swine and the subject was dropped. Nevertheless, he was continually sought out for counseling in matters of sex and love, and the few vague answers he offered only fueled more speculation.
For example, it was rumored that Napoleon's little black book not only listed the names of every available woman worth knowing who worked for U.N.C.L.E. world-wide, but was also annotated, with detailed notes on each woman's willingness and preferences — both sexual and otherwise — and even the dates of their cycles.
Ah, the fantasies frustrated men will indulge in...
On the other hand, as his partner, I knew the rumor was true. Napoleon depended a great deal on his astonishing good luck, but when it came to romance, he left nothing to chance. I also knew that if he ever died in the line of duty and willed that book to me, I could auction it off for a tidy sum and assure myself a comfortable retirement.
Because of our close partnership, I was privy to other secrets as well. The previous spring, I'd literally stumbled upon the fact that Napoleon was sleeping rather regularly with Slate's partner, April Dancer, a situation of which no one else in U.N.C.L.E., including Mark himself, was aware. And, I also knew that no matter how carefully the current battle plans were being laid, ultimately, they were doomed to fail. Scotty was mobilizing far too late. Napoleon was already deeply involved with the aforementioned Miss Sterling, and even had a date with her that very same evening.
But I kept silent about all of these things. My penchant for discretion is legendary, too.
"Did you try asking her to join you for tea?" Mark was asking as they reviewed the strategies Scotty had previously employed.
"Coffee, Mark, not tea," John corrected.
"Uh, sorry, slipped my mind." Because he still spent so much time working in his native U.K., Mark sometimes forgot which side of the Atlantic he was on.
"Coffee, hell," Wes Lerner snorted. "Invite her to your place for dinner and nail her after dessert."
Wes, it seems, could provide a quaint turn of phrase as well.
But Scotty was shaking his head. "I did that — I mean, I asked her out to coffee, lunch, dinner. I tried it all. Her answer's always the same: too busy. Every time I come by her office, she shoos me away. Same old story: busy, busy, busy..." His voice trailed off in disgust.
Surreptitiously, I stole a sidelong glance in Napoleon's direction. If my partner was feeling enormously pleased with himself, as well he should've been, it didn't register on his face. Not even a flicker of satisfaction — his expression remained congenial but coolly neutral.
No wonder the man has risen so high in his profession, I thought.
George sighed. "Your girl doesn't want your attention. My wife complains I don't pay her enough." His voice was strained, sour. Evidentially, the honeymoon was over.
"Maybe you don't," Napoleon said softly.
Ah, finally, a few words from my partner. All the heads around the table swiveled with interest.
"My wife's Italian, remember?" George shot back. "It's kinda hard to ignore her."
That provoked sympathetic chuckling from the others, but Napoleon didn't join in. He narrowed his eyes and studied his beer glass with the same degree of serious concentration one might require when trying to decide whether to cut the red wire or the blue. He hesitated, just as he always does before saying something he regards as important.
"Women aren't like us, George," he said. "They're … wired differently. Their senses are sharper and they tend to be more perceptive — more in tune with what's really going on between people." He turned to Slate and added, "Don't you find that's so, Mark?"
Slate shifted uncomfortably. He was considered a sort of Benedict Arnold by many of the male enforcement agents who resented April's rapid advancement, Coleman among them. To a somewhat lesser degree, because of our friendship with April, Napoleon and I were implicated in the imagined conspiracy, too. I liked John: he was smart, companionable and we shared a passionate interest in jazz. But because he was also black and had battled his own share of discrimination, I found his prejudice against the tiny minority of female agents somewhat ironic.
When an answer was not immediately forthcoming, Napoleon didn't bother to wait for it and went on. "Women are more intuitive," he observed. "Probably, that makes them better spies. If they ever learn to be more aggressive, we'll all end up with nothing to do but clean their guns."
"Women's intuition couldn't save Greenwood," Coleman replied bitterly. Napoleon was taken slightly aback, but I was not. I'd been expecting some comment like that. Rick Greenwood's death earlier that month had hit the field agents hard, many of whom regarded the death as unnecessary at best and the result of gross negligence at worst. Rick had been shot on a rooftop in Kyoto, but he died from the subsequent fall. April had apparently tried to grab him before he dropped, but lost her grip.
As Chief of Enforcement, Napoleon had conducted a short inquiry and filed a report absolving April of all responsibility. He was satisfied that the incident didn't reflect upon her professional competence and after reviewing the circumstances myself, I agreed. However, many others in the section did not, and the psychic wound was far from healed.
"Oh, c'mon, John," Napoleon said. "She was in a tight spot. That could have happened to any one of us."
"Maybe," Coleman muttered grudgingly, still not persuaded.
"All right, all right," Wes Lerner cut in. Like most of the members of the lower sections, he considered field agents a pack of reckless prima donnas, and couldn't care less about an intramural feud.
"Let's get back to Scotty, here," he said. "Are we gonna help this poor guy out or what?" Wes turned pointedly to Napoleon. "So, whatta ya say, Don Juan? You seem to know something the rest of us don't, so c'mon, spill it. It's only fair. How come they're falling all over you? What's the goddamn big secret?"
Napoleon disliked Lerner even more than I did, and Wes' occasional baiting was usually met with a sarcastic retort cleverly designed to cut the man down to size. But this time, by the look on his face, I could see that my partner was preparing a serious and honest response, and even I found myself leaning forward a little.
"Women like to talk," Napoleon said simply, "so you have to talk to them."
For a long moment, there was absolute dead silence at the table, accompanied by a circle of blank stares. You'd have thought the Delphic Oracle had spoken. Then Lerner said, "That's it?"
"Ah, no," Napoleon allowed, cocking his head to one side. He took a sip of his beer for dramatic effect. "Sometimes, they like to talk to you, too. Then you have to pay attention and listen."
There was more silence and more blank stares.
"But what do you talk about?" Scotty wanted to know. Napoleon shrugged. "That depends on the individual woman." He took a last sip of his beer, draining his glass. "Oh — and humor. They like humor. They don't mind it a little risqué, but they don't like cruelty or ridicule."
John looked at Mark and asked, "Is that true? Does April want to talk a lot?"
"I suppose..." Mark said, clearly at a loss, and no wonder: his relationship with Dancer had been strictly professional right from the start. They argued and bantered like siblings, but if Mark was aware of April's sex, he was oblivious to her sexuality. Indeed, I doubt he even thought about it.
"So you talk them into bed," Lerner concluded, trying to make sense of it all.
"That's not what I said," Napoleon replied evenly.
And as he tried to explain again about the importance of maintaining communication, I began to slowly understand. All the chitchat and small talk and personal discussions; the storytelling, the trading of tidbits of gossip, the sharing of confidences. All the compliments to the secretaries; the flirtatious exchanges over Channel D with Wanda and Maggie; the seemingly aimless conversations with stray, lonely women everywhere we went — there was a reason for it all. Sometimes the talk led to other things; often it didn't. But that didn't matter — at least to the women. Napoleon was saying that for them, talking wasn't a means to an end as it was for men, but an end in itself. It wasn't part of a relationship. It was the relationship.
No wonder they trust him, I thought. It must have been difficult — like cracking the Rosetta Stone — but somehow, Napoleon had learned to speak their language. And the rest of us had no right to be envious, since we'd never bothered to make the effort.
Predictably, Wes was having none of it. "You might be able to bullshit the typing pool, Solo," he said, "but you can't bullshit us. You've got a lot of tricks up your sleeve; I just know it. I heard that your apartment has more equipment than a Mexican bordello."
"Just the usual ropes and trapezes," Napoleon murmured disdainfully. "But I never work with mirrors."
Clearly, the seminar was over. As he glanced over at me again, the expression on Napoleon's face said: Well, I tried. Then patting the empty breast pocket of his suit jacket, he rose and went off in search of a cigarette machine.
It was my turn to buy the next pitcher of beer and we met, just the two of us, over at the bar counter.
"Trish will be at my place tonight," Napoleon said. "We're cooking dinner together." He passed me a dossier folder. "Here, this will give you a good excuse to come over. Make it around nine. I know you want to get to know her better."
He was right, of course. I did want that, very much. But I protested that I didn't understand — because I didn't.
Napoleon sighed. "She's a nice kid, but frankly, she's not my type. She loves classical music, opera, the ballet. She's played the piano for years, and I've just about exhausted my limited knowledge of Mozart." He eyed me slyly. "You two should have a lot to talk about."
"That doesn't mean she'll necessarily like me," I pointed out.
Napoleon leaned in close and said, conspiratorially, "I have it on good authority from my spies in the Level Two powder room that Trish adores foreign men. She'd probably be interested in Mark, too, but he hasn't saved my life lately."
"But won't my timely arrival seem a bit — contrived?" I asked.
Napoleon agreed wholeheartedly. "Oh, no doubt. But the idea that you'd go through so much trouble just to meet her will endear you to her — take my word on it."
I did take his word, and the folder. I watched as Napoleon broke open the cellophane on a fresh pack of cigarettes and lit one.
"You know I don't need charity," I informed him, stubbornly. "I can get my own dates."
Napoleon shrugged and exhaled a long stream of smoke. "Fine," he said. "Then don't show up tonight."
And with that, he left the bar.
He knew I'd be there, and really, there was no reason to pass up such a golden opportunity. This wasn't a matter of one-upmanship. He was doing me a friendly favor, just as I might do one for him. And I knew he wasn't expecting payment of any kind in return. We'd stopped keeping accounts on each other years ago.
"Where's Napoleon off to?" Mark asked as I returned with a new pitcher of beer.
"He has an engagement this evening," I replied.
Wes Lerner snorted. "I'll bet. Probably gonna get laid by a Swedish girls' volleyball team."
"Close, but they're from California," I laughed.
Scotty shook his head ruefully. "Doesn't it drive you crazy having a guy like that for a partner?"
As I thought of Trisha, running the tip of her tongue over that luscious top lip, I could barely suppress a smile.
"Not at all," I said.


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