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Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far
- 2007 22 Oct
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Mosaic (WaterBrook Press) by Amy Grant.
Dorothy Lee
It had been a long, exhausting day. Our new house was filled with boxes and piles of all kinds, but the movers had left, and it was quiet now. Vince was sleeping on the red sofa a few feet away from me, and I was sitting at the kitchen counter. The sun was setting. A calm stillness lay on the place.
For no reason at all I started shuffling through a messy stack of unfiled papers and letters on the kitchen counter. A letter in a scribbled blue marker caught my attention from the top of the pile. It was a request for Vince to send a birthday greeting to a woman turning eighty-nine years old. The note was written by her grown daughter.
I didn't know how old the letter was. I hadn't seen it at the old house, but it must have been there. I wondered if Vince had seen it and set it aside. What was the birth date again? I scanned the page. Today. The woman's mother turned eighty-nine today.
I stuffed the note in my back pocket. Eventually I woke Vince up, and we went to meet some friends. Later that evening, while we were driving around town with some unexpected time on our hands, I remembered the letter. I took it out of my pocket and read it aloud to Vince. It was news to him. He was as intrigued as I was by the timing of it all—that this letter, mailed to our old address, got unearthed in the move and made it to the top of a pile just in time for him to make the call.
Busy signal. So we decided to drive around. He kept calling. Still busy. We kept driving. Busy. Still driving. Still busy. This was crazy. Who doesn't have call waiting in the twenty-first century?
Finally, Vince said, "Hey where does this woman live? Let's just drive by her house." We found her address.
This was getting interesting. The birthday girl didn't even know about the letter, so the last thing she expected was for Vince to show up at her front door. Just as we were turning onto her street, Vince finally got a ringing line.
He said, "Hey, I understand somebody in this house is having a birthday. This is Vince Gill, and I just called to say hi … No really, it is me … Yes, it is … That's right. And if you're not too busy, my wife and I thought we'd stop by to say hello." He hung up with a big smile, and we were there, in front of a little white box of a house surrounded by other small houses in a neighborhood crisscrossed with chain-link fences.
Dorothy Lee was a tall woman, though slightly stooped. She was made of old stock, sturdy and angular. A wheelchair was in the middle of the front room, but she was not in it. She was greeting us like old friends at the front door.
When the initial shock of our arrival had passed, Dorothy Lee showed us around her home. The front door opened into the living room, bedroom to the left, dining room and kitchen straight shot from the front room. Pictures of Vince were everywhere—a magnet on the refrigerator, a cardboard stand-up Vince in the front room, framed clippings on a wall. Dorothy didn't act gooey or silly toward Vince, but one look at her house and you could tell that she was a true fan.
Everybody's got a story, and Dorothy Lee had a wealth of them: Stories about her early childhood lived on a farm in Kentucky, too rural to have a "proper" address. Stories about the children she had raised—hers, her grandchildren, even some great-grandchildren. Stories about the husband she had buried thirty years ago.
Dorothy was born in 1911 and had lived in this house most of her adult life. The neighborhood had seen a lot of change. She grew up in a world that was completely segregated, and she would have been in her mid-fifties during the legendary civil-rights sit-ins in Nashville.
"I'm the oldest person in this neighborhood," she said. "When I moved here, it was all white. Now I'm the last one on the block."
She told us that people had asked her if she wanted to move. Seeming tickled to talk about it, she said, "You know, I'm just an old woman. I don't care what color a person's skin is." We asked her if she was afraid to live alone.
"What would I be afraid of?" she replied.
Dorothy had a sharp mind and a quick wit. The time flew by.
The conversation turned, and she began to talk about her mother. Her love was still immediate and powerful, even though death had separated them decades before. As Dorothy spoke, I thought about her daughter, the one who had written the letter to Vince. I though about the children that I had birthed. I thought about the threads of need and love and care that tie us to our mothers, and then I listened.
Dorothy had been closer to her mother than her other siblings had been, not because she was the favorite, but because of unfortunate events that happened in her childhood. For instance, one winter day while she was playing near the hearth, she rolled too close to the coals, and her clothes caught on fire. She was in bed for months, her mother by her side.
A few years later, Dorothy Lee was playing with some children in the loft of their barn, when she lost her footing, fell to the ground, and broke her back. The long road to recovery strengthened the special closeness they shared, and as the years rolled by, the bond between them held steady.
On the day her mother died, Dorothy recalled, her world ground to a halt. She couldn't find the energy to do much of anything. Some days she could hardly eat. Most days she never got out of her nightclothes. She remembered hearing bits and pieces of one-sided conversations as her husband spoke to concerned callers from the phone in the hall: "No, this isn't a good day," he would say, or "She seems to be feeling a little better today."
Then one day, she said, she got up, put her clothes on, and went about the business of living.
"How long were you in the bed?" I asked, remembering an acquaintance of mine who once stayed in the bed over two weeks because of depression.
"Oh," she said, "I'd say two or three years, as best I can remember."
Two or three years! I was dumbfounded. Had her husband ever wondered if she had lost her mind? I asked her as much. She said, "He was a good man. You know, you cannot rush grief."
Really? I thought. You can on the surface. We do it every day. Someone dies. Friends and family gather at the graveside. Flowers are sent. Prayers are prayed. Handwritten notes or Hallmark sympathy cards are sent. But these days no one is allowed to check out of life for two years. Instead, we prod and push the bereaved to move on, to go through the motions of living. Grief has its own timetable. What a concept. The time it takes to heal is the time it takes.
My thoughts drifted away to a train station in Africa, back to a time when I was visiting my friend Jeannie, who was teaching school in the western province of Kenya. It was January of 1985, and we were standing on the platform, wishing we had time to grab a warm Coke (the only kind there was in Kenya) before our trip. No schedules were posted that we could see, and we wanted to be on the next train.
Finding an attendant, we asked, "Can you tell us when the train will be leaving the station?"
The tall African man in uniform said, "De train will come up dis track. De peoples will get off de train. You will get on. Den de train will leave."
"I understand the process. What I need to know is the time frame. My friend and I want to leave the station for a few minutes. Can you tell me approximately when the train is expected?"
Once again he explained. "See dis track? De train will come up dis track and stop at dis station. De peoples will get off de train. You will get on. Den de train will leave."
We nodded and smiled. Point taken. When it happens is when it happens. We continued to talk with Dorothy about her life now, what it was like, who comes by, how she spends her time. She told us that at night when she lays her head on her pillow, she looks back over the details of the day, and every night she asks herself the same question: "Did I live this day in a way that honored the One who gave me this day?"
Then she turned to Vince, who was kneeling on the floor beside her chair. Her face was so full of love and kindness toward him (she had told him earlier in the evening that her friends and family always called her anytime he was on television, knowing she cared about him like a son).
"You know why I pray that prayer, don't you, Vince? It's because one day every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. You know that, don't you, Vince?"
Stillness. Dorothy Lee, eight-nine years of life on her face, watched Vince intently.
"Yes, ma'am, I know that." My husband wrapped his arms around Dorothy with a strong hug. She said, "That was nice. Could we do that one more time?"
As we prepared to leave, we told her we were expecting a baby. She was, in fact, the first person who heard our news. Speaking of babies made her think of her own daughter. She explained, "Years ago, my sister, who worked at the Department of Human Services, called me on the phone and said, 'You've got to come down here. A family of children was dropped off today. You've just got to come see them.' When I walked in, I saw a little girl about seven months old. Do you know, that child just raised her arms to me, just like that. Well, I looked at my sister and I said, 'I guess this one's mine.' I brought her home and raised her."
That rescued child was the one who had written the letter that brought us there all these years later.
From Mosaic. Copyright © 2007 by Amy Grant. Used by permission of WaterBrook Press, Colorado Springs, CO. All rights reserved.
Amy Grant is the best-selling Christian music artist of all time and the first to garner the number one spot on Billboard's chart. Since beginning her career at age 17, she has earned six GRAMMY Awards and twenty-five Dove Awards, and this year she received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Grant's numerous television appearances include Oprah; Good Morning, America; and Late Night with David Letterman. In 2007 she'll tour nationwide, performing with local symphonies in Atlanta, Minneapolis, Kansas City and elsewhere.


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Painting from the series "Sensation". The cycle including abstract artworks where you can find some deep emotions, feelings or associations.
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Medusa (2010)
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The Accounting Historians Journal
Vol. 13, No. 2
Fall 1986
Harry Zvi Davis BARUCH COLLEGE, CUNY
Abstract: In this paper the capacity limits of technological devices used in ancient Egypt are used to explain the Biblical phrase that in accounting for grain the Egyptians ran out of numbers.
The Bible describes accounting for the quantity of grain that Joseph stockpiled during the seven years of plenty in anticipation of the seven years of hunger. "And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number" [Genesis 41:49].
The phrase "without number" is puzzling. How was it possible to run out of numbers? The set of numbers is unbounded. A larger number can always be created by adding one to the previous number.
A study of the ancient Egyptian numbering system [Gardiner, p. 191] confirms the impossibility of running out of numbers. The Egyptians had symbols representing the number one, ten, and all powers of ten up to a million [see Figure 1]. Symbols were repeated to show multiples of numbers. For instance, 152,123 was expressed as: and 966 was expressed as:
Furthermore, multiplication was occasionally employed to ex-press larger numbers. For instance, 10,100,000 was expressed as 100,000 x 101: and 470,000 was expressed as (100,000 X
4) + (10,000 X 7): In such a numbering system one cannot run out of numbers.
We suggest a solution based on the assumption that in Joseph's time the Egyptians used an abacus for numbering. This assumption has not been proven but there is some supporting evidence.
Herodotus [circa 450 B.C.E.] describes his experiences in Egypt and explains that "in the writing of characters and reckoning with pebbles, while the Hellenes carry the hand from the left to the right, the Egyptians do this from the right to the left" [p. 23, emphasis supplied].
*The author is grateful for the help of Y. Elman and D. Carmichael.


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One interesting announcement in yesterday's NSW state mini-budget was the introduction of "congestion tolls" on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Tunnel: the toll will vary depending on the time of day. Tolls will increase from $3 to $4 during peak travel times, stay the same during a shoulder period and drop to $2.50 at night.
Time of day tolls can be a sensible measure to reduce congestion: they encourage motorists to avoid driving at peak hour. The demand for road space varies throughout the day so a price that also varies to reflect that changing demand is likely to improve efficiency. Commuters accept variable time-of-day charges for rail in Sydney, so why not roads?
A few thoughts on the new tolls:
- The government should closely monitor traffic densities and speeds at different times of day now and after the toll comes in to see what impact the toll has.
- Time of day tolling should also be applied to other Sydney toll roads such as the M4 and M5 (the government has flagged this) - at least if the Sydney Harbour tolls are effective in reducing in congestion.
- The public is cynical about this change and sees it as a revenue grab (which it probably is). If the government genuinely sees this as a congestion measure and wants it to be embraced, they should consider making it revenue-neutral or, more simply, reducing the night toll by the same amount as the peak toll increases. Alternatively, the additional revenue could be clearly earmarked for additional peak hour public transport so that people have a decent alternative to just paying the toll and continuing to drive.
- Isn't there an issue because the toll is only collected from southbound traffic? So there's no new incentive to avoid the peak hour when you're travelling north...
What do you think of the tolls?


text: Two young women find love under difficult circumstances in this distinctive drama. Mona (Natalie Press) is a 16-year-old girl living in a small English town. There has never been much to do the neighborhood, and there's even less going on now that her older brother, Phil (Paddy Considine), who runs the local pub, has become a fanatical born-again Christian and is turning the tavern into a hall for prayer meetings. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is another teenage girl who lives nearby; her mother is a successful actress who is usually away on projects, and her businessman father is too busy with his mistress to pay his daughter much attention. When Mona and Tamsin meet, they fall instantly in love and begin an erotic involvement. However, they soon discover that it isn't easy to keep their budding romance a secret in such a small town. My Summer of Love was enthusiastically received in its premiere screenings at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival.


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The parents of a special needs student are looking for answers after their 16-year-old son with autism drowned Wednesday during a class field trip in East Los Angeles.
Lifeguards pulled Garfield High School student Erick Ortiz from the deep end of the pool at Atlantic Park. A witness said the lifeguard immediately began administering CPR.
"(Erick) went in with all of his clothes on, you know with his shoes on, this is not (how) somebody that's prepared to go swimming goes into the pool, right?" Erick's sister Leslie Ortiz said.
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Leslie Ortiz said that a teaching assistant was assigned exclusively to her brother and that it was his job to be with Erick at all times.
"That was his one job, to watch him. Where was he? My brother couldn't even go to the bathroom alone, the assistant had to go with him," Leslie Ortiz said.
The Ortiz family was also concerned about how the teaching assistant handled the situation in the minutes that followed the drowning.
"(Erick's) own TA called my mom at 1:40 p.m. and told her that they were trying to revive him in the ambulance," Leslie Ortiz said. "Why didn't he call her before? He waited until the ambulance was there to contact my mom. I don't think that's right."
Leslie Ortiz said that her mother fought with LAUSD to get her son that teaching assistant, knowing that Erick needed extra help.
"My mom went to the school every day. Took care of (Erick), dealt with every single teacher that he has," Leslie Ortiz said. "You could go to Garfield High School, everybody knows my mom, everybody knows her."
On Thursday morning, the Los Angeles Unified School District issued a statement regarding Erick's death.
"The District extends heartfelt condolences to the family on its tragic loss. The District will continue to cooperate with the ongoing law enforcement investigation. Crisis counselors are on site to help the school community. We will have no further comment at this time."
A flag outside the school was at half-staff Thursday morning, the final day of classes at Garfield High School.
Erick was one of five children – one girl and four boys. The Ortiz family says they cannot wrap their minds around how no one saw Erick enter the pool.
"Was my brother pushed, did he trip, did he fall in there? But I mean whatever the circumstance was, where was everybody around him that couldn't see what happened?" Leslie Ortiz said. "There was a lot of people there."
Investigators were uncertain whether Ortiz jumped or was pushed into the pool.
Ortiz was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Sheriff's officials said parent permission is required for any student to take part in the annual field trip, Global Bash, and teachers accompany the children.
Witnesses said the field trip was cut short as the victim's mother rushed to her son's side.
"I heard screaming and I knew it was the mother because she was screaming for her son. Why, why did this happen to her son? Who wasn't watching him?" witness Ana Serrano said.
Attorney Luis Carrillo, who is representing the victim's family, is accusing the Los Angeles Unified School District of negligence, saying the teaching assistant who was assigned full time to Ortiz since 2012 left him unattended.
"The family wants justice, an independent investigation and answers as to why their child was left alone. The family does not want condolences from the LAUSD," Carillo said.
The family is asking for donations for the teen's funeral. Anyone who wishes to donate can donate to Bank of America account number 3250-4062-9139 with routing number 121000350.
NBC4's Samia Khan contributed to this report.


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Faith-Based Weight Loss Diets: A Do or a Danger?
It is just after dusk on a Thursday night in March. Hundreds of smiling parishioners stream into the Federal style building that houses the Remnant Fellowship church in Franklin, Tennessee, 20 miles south of Nashville. With a stage in lieu of an altar, TV cameras, projection screens and theater-style chairs, the 650-seat sanctuary seems more like a television studio than a place of worship. The congregants, too, are camera-ready: Not a single participant appears to be overweight. That is not an accident. The overwhelming majority of members found their way to this church through Weigh Down, one of the most successful Christian weight loss programs in the country.
Tonight, church members are taking part in a live webcast promoting the Weigh Down plan. Ten minutes before airtime, church leaders direct members to fill in the front rows and show joy and excitement once the cameras start to roll. The video begins with messages scrolling across the screen: "There is hope." "There is an answer." "You can lose weight permanently." Next comes a taped introduction from Gwen Shamblin, the 50-ish founder of the diet and the church. "You have got to change, and you can change," she says. "The way to change is down this narrow path and this truth."
When I first heard Shamblin talk about weight loss several years ago, I found myself nodding in agreement. "If you are dieting, taking pills, counting fat grams, using exchange lists, changing the content of foods, then you believe your basic problem is the food," she says in a Weigh Down video. "Dieting keeps the person focused on what she or he should and should not eat. This focus on food only increases the magnetic pull of the refrigerator because you fall in love with what you focus on." Shamblin says the key to weight loss is learning to love God instead of food and eating only when you feel physiological hunger—literally waiting for your stomach to growl.
I consider myself more spiritual than religious, taking the parts of Christianity I like and leaving the rest. So while Weigh Down's overtly religious message wasn't for me, its practical approach got results: In 2002, I started an eight-week class through a church near my home in North Carolina and lost 10 pounds in about a month. My hectic schedule caused me to drop out midway through, but I never forgot the basic principles. When Weigh Down began offering a new online class in 2005, I plunked down $125 for the eight-week Exodus Out of Egypt: The Change Series. The name symbolizes the deliverance of God's chosen people from slavery (the bondage to food and dieting) to the promised land (being permanently thin).
This time, I noticed stark differences in the program. Weight loss advice was overshadowed by rhetoric implying that overeaters are courting eternal damnation. In class videos, Shamblin was self-righteous, her tone dictatorial. Gradually, I realized that Weigh Down had become a recruitment tool for the church Shamblin founded in 1999. My online class leader stressed the need to leave the "counterfeit" church and its false teachers. "You've been lied to all your life," she posted during one session. I stopped short of replying that she didn't know me and had no idea what I had been taught.
But Shamblin's new message is resonating: Approximately 1,200 people have heeded her call to join Remnant Fellowship. Close to 650 of them have left their home and relocated to be nearer to Shamblin's multimillion-dollar estate in Tennessee, some pulling their children out of schools and cutting ties with friends and family. These developments have prompted some religion experts to worry that Remnant has become more cult than church, a place where obedience is measured in the amount of food left on your plate and righteousness in the number of pounds lost.
"They are hierarchical, authoritarian and demand unquestioned submission," says Raphael Martinez, a minister in Cleveland, Tennessee, who runs Spiritwatch Ministries, which tracks religious and social fringe groups. Members are not pressured to give up their money, nor are they armed existence of the Trinity, one of the core tenets of the faith. The controversy prompted her publisher to cancel her third book. Christian bookstores returned The Weigh Down Diet, and churches canceled classes. Shamblin says she viewed the rebuff as religious persecution—and confirmation of her calling. "I feel like God has placed me as a go-to person, a kind of a pioneer. There are always going to be attacks on me...they killed Jesus, they killed Peter, they killed Paul. What they've tried to do is kill my reputation." Unless we repent our gluttony and never overeat again, her philosophy seems to say, we are doomed to hell. This graceless message has widened the gap between her and the mainstream Christian community, where salvation is a gift from God—not something you earn by going from a size 14 to a 4.
Over the course of my involvement with the Weigh Down Workshop and interaction with church members, I came to recognize the mind-set shared by its devotees. They are, for the most part, weary dieters who see Remnant as their last hope. Most have tried every diet under the sun; some have even undergone weight loss surgery or liposuction with little or no success. Shamblin's strict, no-nonsense message promises results and often delivers.
Amy Hartman, a 32-year-old research associate in Indianapolis, says she came to Weigh Down desperate: She had failed at every commercial diet and by the summer of 2005 had 75 pounds to lose. That July, she decided to attend a Weigh Down retreat in Franklin. When she arrived, she immediately felt like an outsider. "I felt like the only fat person there," she says. "Everyone dressed alike, they were super happy and you couldn't hold a normal conversation with anyone because they only wanted to talk about how great Gwen was. I called my mom and said, 'This is a cult.'" Still, Hartman yearned for what they had: major, long-term weight loss. Convinced she could follow the eating plan and maintain her spiritual independence, she returned home, enrolled in a Weigh Down class and followed it to the letter.
Like this magazine, Shamblin stresses moderation and the idea that there should be no good or bad foods. But she goes further, describing a diet filled almost exclusively with tiny bites of french fries, ice cream and barbecued pork; she also objects to using exercise to offset the effects of overeating. "God did not put chocolate or lasagna or real blue cheese dressing on earth to torture us, but rather for our enjoyment," she writes in The Weigh Down Diet. "Good health is more related to when you eat and how much you eat than what you eat, since most meal selections are so similar in chemical and nutrient content." But dieters following this advice too strictly may neglect nutrition even as they slim down, says Lauren Slayton, R.D., director of Foodtrainers in New York City. "All foods are acceptable, but clearly some foods are nutritionally superior," she says. "The person living on Fritos is not healthy and won't lose weight as well as someone eating a balanced diet."
The Weigh Down program also uses guilt and shame to keep dieters in line, Hartman says. "I became very anxious about overeating because it was a sin," she explains. "I ate no more than 8 to 10 bites at each meal." Hartman lost nearly 25 pounds in two months. (Most experts recommend dropping 8 pounds or less a month for healthy and sustainable weight loss, though obese people might safely lose a little more.) She heard increasing criticism of the church she was attending at the time. "The weight was coming off easily," she says. "So I started thinking, If they are right about weight loss, why can't they be right about living a life that is happy and perfect?"
As weeks went by, however, Hartman had questions: Would only those in Remnant go to heaven, as Shamblin's teachings seemed to imply? How could they be so sure that she was being led astray by her own church group and by believing in the Trinity? "Gwen called to talk to me, but she never really answered my questions," Hartman recalls. "She got really upset, and it became take it or leave it." Hartman left.
Theological debate is an unforgivable sin in Remnant, says Martinez , who runs a Remnant support group that has included several dozen former members and relatives who feel abandoned by current followers. "If someone has questions, they are referred to leadership, who make them feel they are being inappropriate and disrespectful," Martinez says. Steven Alan Hassan, a mental-health counselor in Somerville, Massachusetts, and author of two books on cults, says Remnant fits his definition of a cult because it attempts to control members' behavior, information, thoughts and emotions. "No legitimate religion tells you that you can't check things out," Hassan says. "That is the essence of Abrahamic faiths [including Islam, Judaism and Christianity], to question and have free will." Not true, says Shamblin: "If there were no questions allowed, then why have we had a 1-800 number offering information for years?"
Most Remnant members in Franklin live near one another and spend nearly all their free time together. There is a church activity almost every night—Bible study, Weigh Down classes, weddings, dances and a three-hour-long worship service every Saturday evening. According to former members, everyone who marries does so within the church.
The night after the webcast, more than 200 people gather at the church for its summer camp fund-raiser. Hebronica—the church garage band—plays Christian rock while parishioners perform the Daughters of Jerusalem dance, a combination of square dance and Soul Train line. The tune was written by Michael Shamblin; Elizabeth helped create the dance.
Trying to have a conversation about anything other than God and Gwen is virtually impossible. The Remnant script is composed of a few well-honed, insipid phrases. "How was your weekend?" I ask one member.
"I've never been so blessed in my life," she responds.
After the dance concludes, the church sets out a massive buffet that consists almost entirely of desserts. Attendees sample everything but leave the bulk of it behind. It's as if there is a competition to see who can be satisfied with the least amount of food.
Not all of Shamblin's associates have been happy with the church's evolution. When she broke ties with mainstream churches in 1999, some Weigh Down employees say they were pressured to leave their churches and worship with her. In October 2000, five people sued the Workshop, saying they were fired or forced out when they refused to join Remnant. (The case was settled a year later; details are confidential.)
At least one Remnant leader says she was demoted for failing to slim down fast enough. Laura Nichols, who began teaching for Weigh Down in 1998, decided after attending a Remnant retreat in 2001 to leave her Southern Baptist congregation and start a Remnant chapter in Houston. "The funny thing was that my husband and I only told my family what we were doing," she says. "The fact that we kept it a secret from our friends should have been a warning, but we ignored it."
When Nichols's weight plateaued at 280 pounds, she says Shamblin chastised her for not losing more and told her to "stop being a billboard to sin." She had already had a gastric band put in and was eating a saucer of food per meal; now she started eating only nine bites of food a day. She lost 13 pounds in 10 days, bringing her total weight loss to 70 pounds. Church leaders wanted more. "Gwen told me to quit eating, that I had enough fat on my body to live off for many years," Nichols recalls. (Though she does not recall this specific exchange, Shamblin says she does believe that when you are obese, "the body calls for very little food.")
In January 2002, the couple received an even stronger rebuke in the form of a phone call from Shamblin. "Laura, I'm scared," she began, according to Nichols. "I was shocked when I saw that you had not lost any more weight since this past summer. Confess your sin of greed for food to the Houston Remnant Fellowship and step down from leadership." Shamblin's recollection is different: that Nichols and her husband had both agreed she should step down to focus on her own health rather than others. "We are very sorry that she took kind and helpful advice and then confused it," she says.
Instead of stepping down, Nichols left the church. "I was suicidal after that telephone call," she recalls. "I rocketed between realizing that it was a cult and worrying that I was going to hell." Since quitting Remnant, Nichols has had her gastric band removed and lost 95 pounds on Weight Watchers.
As Nichols was departing, Remnant was growing. Weigh Down participants around the country were leaving their churches and moving to Franklin, living two or three families in one house until they got settled and sometimes severing ties with non-Remnant friends and family. "That's one of the signs of cultlike groups—isolating people from their families because they raise questions," says Rick Ross, an expert witness on cult issues in Jersey City, New Jersey, who maintains a large database on controversial groups and movements. For her part, Shamblin says that members are more likely to bring people into the fold than to become estranged from them.
"Janice," 39, (who asked SELF not to publish her real name), says her sister cut ties with her after signing up for Weigh Down shortly after moving to a new home in the Northeast. "She was vulnerable, living in a strange city, and she started trusting Gwen more and more," Janice says. "Her personality and her lingo changed. She had been lively, energetic and athletic, but she became emotionless, almost flatlined, and stopped exercising." Janice, who has been in Martinez's support group, has not spoken to her sister in four years. She says the birthday present she sent her nephew was returned with a note: "You are actively involved in a gossip and slander group that is trying to tear down the very message that has changed our lives...we are afraid for your soul." Janice's parents have now joined Remnant, sold their home and moved to Franklin. "I feel abandoned, angry and hopeless," she says. "I've lost my only sister, and now I'm losing my parents."
Former member Teri Phillips says she, too, surrendered her will to Shamblin's, until she began to fear for her health and her children's well-being. She had joined Weigh Down in 1995 and participated off and on. In 2002, needing to lose 40 pounds, she enrolled in the Weigh Down Advanced class, driving 45 minutes each way from her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In one fire-and-brimstone lesson after another, Shamblin preached that God would turn his back on her if she fell short. "That hit me hard," she says. "In the old classes, I didn't always wait for my stomach to growl and sometimes ate beyond full. I now feared that God was going to kill me if I overate." Six months later, she was 47 pounds thinner and a believer. "My husband and I weren't happy in our church because we felt the people were unchanged and the leaders wouldn't confront sin," she says. "We jumped right into Remnant. Everybody was happy and loving and praising God with so much joy."
The couple sought Shamblin's counsel for things large and small—whether to unload the family business, whether to sell their house, how to decorate to make it more sellable. She even asked whether she should put her mother in an assisted-living facility. "She said I should because my mother was not Godly," claims Phillips, an account Shamblin adamantly denies.
Phillips had been taking antidepressants for years but stopped because Remnant teachings deemed them a sin. A few months later, Phillips says, she was so depressed she could barely get out of bed and resumed taking the medication secretly. When church officials found out, "I felt like a guilty child," she says. She says two of them watched as she flushed the pills down the toilet.
Phillips also worried about the church's ideas on punishing children. She says she was urged to spank her 4-year-old girl's bare bottom for nearly an hour for acting out in church, and a church leader severely paddled her 10-year-old son. In July 2003, Phillips made the decision to leave for good. "I was convinced I was going to hell, but I didn't have a choice if I was to take care of my family," she says. The decision to leave was confirmed in her mind later that year when church members Joseph and Sonya Smith were arrested for allegedly beating their 8-year-old son to death. They pleaded not guilty and will be tried in February.
Shamblin calls claims of corporal punishment "totally exaggerated. We are pro-discipline for children, always in a loving manner." But she was drawn into the Smith investigation when a former church member leaked a tape of a February 2003 conference call in which Sonya Smith discusses disciplining the boy by locking him in his room. "We got everything out of there and locked him in there from that Friday until Monday and only left him in his room with his Bible," Smith says on the tape, according to press accounts.
"That's a miracle," Shamblin responds. "You've got a child that's going from bizarre to in-control. So praise God!"
A few months after my first visit to Franklin, I return to attend Saturday-night worship service. Many churchgoers remember me and greet me warmly. A welcome to new arrivals scrolls across the giant screen.
Shamblin's sermon is titled Unrestricted Freedom, Relationship, River of People and Reward. Speaking from the Book of Romans, she describes how Satan and the modern-day church have twisted the scriptures and how God is defending Remnant against its enemies. She preaches for an hour, and none of it makes a bit of sense to me.
"Go all the way without sin," she concludes, lifting her fist triumphantly. The congregation springs to its feet.
"What did you think?" a member asks me. "Wasn't that sermon powerful?"
"Interesting," is all I can manage. It's as if we went to the same theater and saw two different movies.
Amy Hartman, however, says she can understand that devotion, the privileged feeling of belonging among the thin and faithful. Since abandoning the church, she is exercising three times a week and has dropped 10 pounds but is still overweight. Sometimes, despite her negative experience, she is tempted to give the diet another try. "There were overwhelming clues something was wrong, but part of me still wants to believe," she says. "It was an alluring illusion."


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Code Clusters is a fond look back at some of the most interesting and outlandish Code violations published in the pages of EC&M magazine over the past 15 years — the item below is the fifth in a series of 10. Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear your feedback! Post your thoughts in the box below.
Not Just for Food Anymore
All references are based on the 2008 edition of the NEC.
Keith Budka, president of Budka Electric Corp., Nesconset, N.Y., was amazed to find "a new use for Ziplock containers." This installation is a clear violation of the Code.
As per 404.5, "Time switches, flashers, and similar devices shall be of the enclosed type or shall be mounted in cabinets or boxes or equipment enclosures. Energized parts shall be barriered to prevent operator exposure when making manual adjustments or switching."
An exception notes, "Devices mounted so they are accessible only to qualified persons shall be permitted without barriers, provided they are located within an enclosure such that any energized parts within 152 mm (6.0 inches) of the manual adjustment or switch are covered by suitable barriers."


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For Dick Cheney, Iraq means never having to say you're sorry.
His recent interviews damning President Obama for losing Iraq make him sound as if he's suffering from amnesia. But memory loss has not blotted out his central role in creating the Iraq mess. He just refuses to admit he made any errors.
His willful blindness doesn't only distort the past; it also helped create a terrorist haven in Iraq that didn't exist before America invaded. And his hubris dims any future chance of driving out the terrorists.
There's no room here to rehash the deliberately distorted intelligence he used to justify the invasion. But note Cheney's ignorance of the country he was taking on.
He swallowed the claims of Ahmed Chalabi, his favorite Iraqi expat, that the country's Shiites would embrace us, that the Iraqi army should be disbanded and the Sunnis broken. Cheney also believed that Iraq was ripe for democracy (with Chalabi as its leader) and that Iran would be the next domino to fall.
He was wrong on all counts and refused to listen to those who knew better.
The ouster of Saddam Hussein and the rise of Iraq's Shiite majority gave Iran unprecedented influence in Baghdad. In recent days, the most powerful man in the Iraqi capital has been Gen. Qassem Suleimani, head of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Iraqi army was never able to rebuild as a national force after it was dissolved on Cheney's watch. Witness its collapse last month.
None of this excuses Obama's contribution to the current crises in Iraq and Syria.
While Cheney overreached, Obama did far too little. He never developed a strategy to deal with the rise of al Qaida offshoots in Syria or their return to Iraq. He paid scant attention to the sectarian maneuvers of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, which pushed frustrated Sunnis to align, once again, with jihadis.
The Obama White House made too little effort to ensure that there would be a small follow-on U.S. force in Iraq after 2011. Such a force would have provided leverage for U.S. officials to mediate between Iraq's sectarian factions, as they did successfully in the past. That might have headed off the present crisis.
Yet it is simply wrong to say, as Cheney does, that all was well with Iraq when he left the White House. Yes, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus had rescued Cheney and his boss from their self-made disaster, and Obama should have tried harder to maintain those gains. But Iraq's institutions had been broken by the U.S. invasion, and its shaky new foundation was all too susceptible to collapse.
Equally key, the wretched mistakes made on Cheney's watch soured the American public on further involvement in the troubled country. Americans remember the money wasted on projects Iraqis never needed and the troops who died because the Pentagon failed to provide body armor or up-armored humvees in Cheney's time.
Our country is weary of Iraq. The polls show it. My email shows it. Even the Republican Party is split on any future involvement in Baghdad. Americans don't want to hear about the terrorist threat emanating from Iraq – even though it is real now in a way that it wasn't in 2003. The public doubts this threat because Cheney twisted the truth last time.
The former veep's arrogance is so infuriating that it blinds many Americans to the danger posed by jihadis in Syria and Iraq who are training Europeans and Americans. Anything he says is assumed to be hype.
Cheney's constant castigation of Obama blinds many on the right to the fact that the president is finally doing the right things. Secretary of State John Kerry is belatedly pressing the benighted Maliki to reach out to Sunnis (and privately encouraging all of Iraq's factions to seek another leader). He is warning Iran and Saudi Arabia that fueling a Shiite-Sunni holy war in Iraq threatens the whole region – and the world.
Kerry may be too late. There may be no option left other than containing the new jihadistan that spans eastern Syria and western Iraq.
Kerry and Obama need to focus nonstop on Iraq. Instead, of helping, though, Cheney is fueling the fury of those on the right who oppose anything Obama does, as well as those on the left who disbelieve anything Cheney endorses. This will increase domestic opposition to any coherent policy.
Full of righteous indignation, Cheney is once again helping to destroy Iraq.
Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
©2014 Trudy Rubin


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Many visitors find Oslo, Norway, to be surprisingly green, surrounded by forested hills. While the city has been destroyed by fire several times, some remnants of its medieval past remain, along with beautiful modern churches, museums and parks. You can see real Viking ships in one of the three fascinating museums on the Bygdoy Peninsula just south of the city.
Copenhagen, Denmark, is situated where the North and Baltic Seas join. A simple fishing village when it was founded in 1167, Copenhagen's castles, cathedrals and fountains now co-exist with a very modern lifestyle. One of the city's most famous sights is Tivoli Gardens and Amusement Park, decorated with thousands of colored lights.
Water views abound in Stockholm, Sweden, which is built on 14 islands. The narrow cobblestone streets of the Gamla Stan neighborhood are lined with historic buildings that house boutiques, cafés and restaurants. Old Town and the City Hall, site of the annual Nobel Prize banquet, are worth exploring, too.
The city of Helsinki reflects the Finnish love of graceful, imaginative architecture. While two magnificent cathedrals are landmarks, a third church worth seeing – the Temppeliaukio or Rock Church – is not so obvious, having been built inside a huge granite boulder.
In 1703, Peter the Great laid the cornerstone of a fortress on the Neva River. By 1712, the city of St. Petersburg emerged as the Russian capital and home of the royal family. The city's imperial past is still echoed by its breathtaking cathedrals and palaces. The Hermitage, which includes the Winter Palace, is an exceptional museum with scores of exhibits. Royal Caribbean and Celebrity ships dock overnight in St. Petersburg, allowing more time to experience the city.
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This week in fashion law: Sitch sued over "couture" line, Kris Jenner sued over facelift, Oprah sued over inspirational phrase
And now, as much as it pains me to write about anything Jersey Shore-related, this week in fashion law...
The Situation Situation
Well, the owners of Dilligaf USA got what they asked for. After signing a contract with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino to jointly launch a clothing line that would embody their shared "'let's not take things so seriously' mentality," Dilligaf soon grew dismayed by... Sitch's failure to take things seriously. According to a complaint recently filed in Florida state court, Sitch breached th e parties' agreement by neglecting to promote the products or appear at photo shoots, and by teaming up with Dilligaf's competitors. As a result, the company allegedly suffered lost profits on, in the words of Dilligaf's website, a promising "couture line." Now that's some serious semantic drift.
Apparently untroubled by Sitch's pattern of getting sued by former business partners, FLOW Formal inked a deal with him this week to sell tuxedos, of all things. Perhaps most surprisingly, FLOW's CEO was quoted in the New York Daily News as saying he is a "fan" of Sorrentino's. I can only assume there's been some semantic drift here as well.
Face Facts
But the award for the most ridiculous lawsuit of the
week month year-to-date goes to one Kris Jenner, better known as the mother of the Kardashian clan. This week, Jenner was sued by B&P Company, which owns Frownies, a cosmetics company that hired Jenner to promote its anti-aging products. The claim: the defendant breached the parties' contract by opting for an alternative method of turning back time -- a widely publicized facelift -- that effectively served as an endorsement of a competing rejuvenation technique. The company is seeking $2 million, including punitive damages, which it will never, ever, ever get. Jenner, taking a page from the John Galliano legal playbook, invoked the little-known "Neck Skin" defense -- i.e., the operation didn't affect the face that Frownies planned to fix chemically, only the neck that its creams were powerless to tighten up.
You Don't "Own Your Power"
There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding about the scope of trademark rights. A so-called "word mark" is not the linguistic equivalent of a deed to a plot of land: it doesn't grant you a monopoly on any and all uses of a particular phrase. What it does give you is the right to prevent others from using similar marks in a manner that is likely to confuse the relevant consumers about the source of goods or services.
A New Jersey woman named Simone Kelly Brown apparently suffers from this misconception. She sued Oprah (Oprah! Who sues Oprah? That's like suing the Pope!) this week for allegedly infringing Brown's "Own Your Power" mark by, yes, urging fans to "own their power." Brown claims that Oprah's message of self-empowerment shows "brazenly unlawful disregard" for the plaintiff's rights. Ms. Brown: just to be consistent, be sure you never answer a question with the phrase "Yes, We Can," ask someone to help "Save the Earth," or express a desire to "Live Comfortably" -- especially this last one, because it's going to be damn uncomfortable when Oprah pwns your power.
And So It Birkins Again...
Thursday Friday (of the famously litigated "Together Bag," a $35 tote bearing the image of a $6000 Birkin bag) must like hanging out in courthouses. That's the only possible explanation for the company's recent release of the latest in its Together Bag series, which features an image of Miu Miu's $1750 "Hobo" bag. Thursday Friday's lawyers undoubtedly told their client that the best way to deflect charges of trademark infringement for its cute bag-on-a-bag technique was to claim that it served as a biting social critique; hell, maybe Thursday Friday has even been saying that its brand is about "consumerism, class, and iconography" all along. But that line of argument is significantly less credible when a company goes from critiquing one expensive bag to the next -- especially since the Hobo bag isn't the quintessential status symbol the Birkin was. If anyone has nailed irony here, it's Miu Miu, for naming a $1750 bag after "homeless vagabonds." Not cool. But ironic.
And Other Stuff
• The networks behind Project Runway have been sued for allegedly using a handful of photos without permission. When informed of the lawsuit, network execs expressed surprise that the show was still on the air.
• On Friday, singer Nicki Minaj had a classic "wardrobe malfunction" that made us all nostalgic for the good old pre-end of the world days -- specifically, those halcyon days of 2004, when the U.S. enjoyed a triple-A credit rating and Justin Timberlake enjoyed ripping Janet Jackson's shirt off. What's truly amazing is that the legal battle between the FCC and CBS that resulted from Jackson's Nipplegate is still going on. That's, like, longer than Nicki Minaj has been alive.
• Speaking of which, what do high school students do (at least on TV) when they need to get out of a bad situation, fast? They pull the fire alarm, of course! What's the grownup equivalent? Issuing a product recall for fire safety one day after a staid luxury brand's founder is revealed to be an occasionally lesbianic, opium-smoking Nazi sympathizer.
• And lest I forget... in the case that started off fascinating but has since grown tiresome for all involved, Louboutin and YSL have made their final arguments to the court in letter form. Louboutin boasted to the press about the minor win of persuading the judge to ignore some exhibits submitted with YSL's letter, but this is like congratulating yourself for just beating the light to cross the street, only to get hit by a bus when you turn to cross the avenue. At the end of the day, you're still dead.
[This post is for entertainment and informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship among any individuals or entities. Any views expressed herein are those of the writer on the particular date of this post, and should not necessarily be attributed to his law firm or its clients.]


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Alumni Employment
The ES program prepares students well for a wide variety of careers. Here is sampling of some of the jobs our alumni have had, and some of the graduate programs they have entered.
- Assistant naturalist & visitor service, Peninsula State Park
- Biological science technician, U.S.G.S.
- Corporate environmental assistant, Briggs & Straton
- Crew leader, Rocky Mountain Ranger District, USFS
- Environmental consultant, Lake Butte de Morts Conservation Club
- Environmental education, Americorps
- Environmental health specialist, City of Milwaukee
- Environmental health specialist, Wisconsin Department of Public Health
- Environmental/Safety department, Western Lime Corporation
- Environmental science officer, NC National Guard
- Environmental science teacher, Catholic High School
- Farm service agency, USDA
- Geologist, Kapur and Associates
- Lab technician, Saputo Cheese
- Land management technician, EC3 Environmental Consulting Group
- Land stewardship coordinator, Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust
- Natural resources librarian, Montana State Library
- Park ranger, Army Corps of Engineers, Kentucky
- Peace corps, El Salvador
- Plant technician, Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Minnesota
- Recycling and sustainability coordinator, Habitat for Humanity of Springfield, Missouri
- Science teacher, Eagle River Junior High School, Alaska
- Technical information specialist, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
- Waste water technical service specialist, Hydrite Chemical Co
- Water infrastructure security advisor, Wisconsin DNR
- Wildlife technician, Wisconsin DNR
Graduate School
- Agroecology master's program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Biology master's program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Education master's program, University of Portland
- Educational leadership and policy master's program, University of Utah
- Environmental science and policy master's program, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Human services and professional leadership-global education master's program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
- Law school, University of the Pacific; Indiana University
- Library science master's program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Masters of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said.
Clinton was on her way to the White House when she fell and injured her elbow, chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement released late Wednesday.
Clinton was treated at The George Washington University Hospital, just a few blocks from State Department headquarters, before going home. She will undergo surgery to repair her elbow in the coming week, Mills said.
"Secretary Clinton appreciates the professionalism and kindness she received from the medical team who treated her this evening and looks forward to resuming her full schedule soon," Mills said.
Heading to the capitol has become an arduous trip for some high profile women. Weeks ago Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fractured her ankle at a New York airport before heading to Washington D.C. for meetings on Capitol HIll.
Clinton had been scheduled to join actress Angelina Jolie on Thursday morning at a Washington event marking World Refugee Day. That event has been removed from Clinton's public schedule.


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Point: As my fellow Jalopnik readers would agree, the thought of an au-to-MO-bile running on some coffee beans is equally laughable and insulting. Counterpoint: As my fellow coffee drinkers would agree, this is an utter disgrace to our holy bean.
Countercounterpoint: Carpuccino? Really?
A while ago we read that coffee-based biofuels were feasible. Knowing the internet as we do, we figured it was only a matter of time before somebody took that novel possibility and turned it into an absurd reality. We were right! The Carpuccino, a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco modified to run on ground coffee, will drive 337km between Manchester and London in the coming weeks.
The trip will require over 68kg of coffee, with the car getting a mileage of roughly five km per kilogram. The vehicle can hit speeds of 100kph, though the trip could take as long as ten hours, as the car has to stop every 100km to clean out its coffee filters (seriously).
The joke on wheels was built by the BBC1 show Bang Goes The Theory as a reminder that unconventional fuels can power vehicles. Sidebar: the Carpuccino's trip will cost up to 50 times as much as it would if it were running on gas.
All that being said, I think we can agree to set aside whatever qualms we may have with the Carpuccino in light of its similarities, aesthetic and otherwise, to Doc Brown's Mr. Fusion-equipped Delorean from Back to the Future II.
Espresso? Where we're going we don't need espresso. [Daily Mail via Green Diary]


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Each node in the configuration and monitoring object trees is represented as a REST resource that is accessible through an HTTP uniform resource locator (URL). Access to REST resources for Enterprise Server monitoring and configuration data requires a running DAS.
The formats of the URLs to resources that represent nodes in the configuration and monitoring object trees are as follows:
Configuration: http://host:port/management/domain/path
Monitoring: http://host:port/monitoring/domain/path
The replaceable items in these URLs are as follows:
The host where the DAS is running.
The HTTP port or HTTPS port for administration.
The path to the node. The path is the dotted name of the node in which each dot (.) is replaced with a slash (/). For more information, see the following documentation:
If the URL to a REST resource for Enterprise Server monitoring or configuration data is opened in a web browser, the browser displays a web page that contains the following information about the resource:
A list of the attributes of the resource and their values. If the resource represents a node in the configuration tree, these attributes are presented in an HTML form that you can use to update the resource. Attributes of a resource for a node in the monitoring tree are read only.
A list of hypertext links to the children of the resource. This list of links enables you to traverse the tree that contains the resource and to discover the all resources in the tree.
The following figure shows the web page for the REST resource for managing a domain.


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Neo Turf Masters
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The player picks one of six available golfers and competes on a number of golf courses around the world, including Japan (Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club), America (Grand Canyon Golf Course), Australia (Blue Lagoon Golf Course), and Germany (Baden Golf Course). The game features two modes of play. The first is Stroke Play, in which the player attempts to get the best score by playing all 18 holes. The second is Match Play, in which two players compete to see who can win more of the 18 holes. Get ready to hit the fairway!
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|Wolfram & Hart
Attorneys at Law
|First appearance
|"City Of"
(episode 1.01)
|Last appearance
|"Not Fade Away"
(episode 5.22)
|Created by
|Represent the interests of the Senior Partners
|Key members:
Wolfram & Hart − Attorneys at Law is a fictional international and interdimensional law firm featured in the television series Angel, as well as other extended materials in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse.
Fictional history[edit]
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"The Wolf, The Ram, and The Hart" are the names of the members in an ancient trio of true demons. The group was at one point, before the dawn of human history, considered relatively insignificant and was not regarded as a threat by the Old Ones.[1][better source needed] After humanity's triumph over the demons, they remained and slowly gained power and influence, eventually leaving this dimension altogether. In the present day on Earth, they are referred to as the Senior Partners by their employees and enact their will through various puppet organizations. One of the groups they command on Earth is the 'law firm' Wolfram & Hart.
While the Senior Partners have left Earth's plane of existence, the source of Wolfram & Hart's power, the Home Office, exists on Earth itself. Without the evil residing within every living person, the firm would not exist.[2][original research?]
In the Buffy and Angel universe, the firm maintains offices in many major cities throughout the world.[3] However, the only branch offices featured in the television series are in Los Angeles and Rome (both have identical interiors); in Italy, the firm is known as Wolfram e Hart.
The earthly manifestation of one of the Senior Partners is slain by Angel in the Los Angeles branch, in the episode "Reprise".
In Angel: After the Fall, the canonical comic book continuation of the television series, the Wolfram and Hart office buildings have retroactively vanished; the site is now being used for the construction of a "Doublemeat Palace" facility, and few people remember that there ever was a W&H branch there.[4] In the Spike (2010–11) series however, Spike later observes that a Wolfram & Hart branch has sprung up in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada.[5]
As a law firm, Wolfram & Hart typically defends unscrupulous and detestable clients, including stalkers,[6] mobsters,[7] murderers,[8] corrupt senators,[9] and a number of demonic individuals and groups.[6][10] While many of these clients are rich or powerful, the firm is also known to work some cases pro bono, especially when it has a secondary interest in the client.[11][12] The firm also maintains departments of Real Estate;[13] Entertainment;[14] Science;[14] Research and Intelligence;[15] and Interment Acquisitions (the firm's term for grave robbery).[16]
Special Projects[edit]
In addition to the many legal functions the firm performs, Wolfram & Hart also maintains a Special Projects Division.[17] Special Projects is responsible for a wide range of activities, from sponsoring high-profile charity events with the intention of stealing upwards of 95% of the funds raised,[11] to hiring assassins to kill individuals deemed threatening to the Senior Partners.[12] At the Los Angeles office, Special Projects devotes a considerable amount of attention to Angel. According to prophecies, Angel is destined to play a key role in the Apocalypse, but it is not known which side he will take. The Special Projects division is committed to ensuring Angel will be on their side when the prophecy is fulfilled.[11] Among the resources at the division's disposal is a heavily armed special ops team, which carries out operations such as kidnapping at the firm's behest.[18] Marcus Hamilton claims that the patentholder for cancer is a client of theirs.[19]
Human resources[edit]
Wolfram & Hart is known for its unforgiving treatment of its employees. The firm conducts random sweeps of employees, using telepaths to find workers who are disloyal to the company they pledged to work for. When discovered, these individuals are often executed on the spot.[12] The Senior Partners are reputed to have forced employees to eat their own liver if unhappy with their performance.[20] In another instance, several employees were reported to have been sacked with actual sacks. They have also permitted employees to execute and replace their superiors in light of poor performance,[21] and it was said by Knox that on at least one occasion they literally fired an employee ("He was set on fire.").
Every 75 years, the firm conducts a review of its employees. During the Review, a Senior Partner takes corporeal form to punish employees who have shown unfavorable performance. Many employees live in fear of the Review, and in the days preceding it do whatever they can to endear themselves to the Senior Partners, including animal and human sacrifices.[2]
However, departmental heads at Wolfram & Hart can use discretion when dealing with insubordination. If a manager thinks highly enough of an employee, he or she may decide to forgo punishment in favor of a second chance.[12]
Wolfram & Hart's employees often have a "perpetuity clause" in their contracts, meaning that they 'remain with the firm even after their death.'[2][14]
As mentioned by Harmony Kendall, there is also a 'Non-Human Resources Department' specifically committed to their numerous demonic and vampiric employees. Since many of the employees and clients of Wolfram & Hart are non-human, many amenities are offered within the building, most notable is the special catering for non-traditional palates: human blood is kept "on tap" for those who need it, although Angel had this replaced with a selection of animal bloods after he took over. All the windows in the building are made of "Necro-Tempered" type-glass that blocks the fatal effects of sunlight so that vampires can work during the day without having to worry about accidental immolation.
Circle of the Black Thorn[edit]
The members of the circle act as the earthly instruments of the Senior Partners, charged with being the driving force behind Wolfram & Hart's apocalyptic plans and dedicated to keeping the wheel of "man's inhumanity to man" perpetually spinning. The members of the Circle do this not from a belief in evil per se, but because being a Black Thorn allows them to amass power for themselves and wield that power with impunity.
The Circle's lineup in 2004 is: Archduke Sebassis; Senator Helen Brucker; Cyvus Vail; Ed, Grand Potentate of the Fell Brethren; the leader of the Sahrvin Clan; Izzerial the Devil; and three other men whose names were never mentioned. Their latest recruit was Angel, who pretended to have been corrupted by Wolfram & Hart in order to infiltrate the circle and assassinate its members. After Angel and his team kill all members of the circle, the Senior Partners send an army of demons to destroy them as vengeance. As seen in comic book continuation Angel: After the Fall, the Senior Partners sent all of Los Angeles to Hell as a punishment.[22]
Los Angeles office[edit]
The Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart is founded in 1791 over holy ground de-consecrated through a ritual employing the blood of serial murderer Matthias Pavayne, who is able to survive as a spirit in the building for over 200 years.[15] The office is notable because it operates in the same city as Angel, who becomes the focus of many W&H projects. Several attorneys whose duties focus on Angel—Lindsey McDonald, Lee Mercer, Lilah Morgan, Linwood Murrow—all share the same initials.
In 2003, the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart is destroyed by The Beast after it launched a brutal assault on their offices[23] and then slaughtered almost everyone else in the city who worked for the company.[24] The building is quickly rebuilt (and somehow managed to replace the staff extremely quickly), and Angel is offered stewardship of the office by their now-deceased employee Lilah Morgan, ostensibly as a reward for preventing world peace.[14] In reality, the Senior Partners hope to turn Angel to their side, and keep him from recognizing the firm's apocalypse already in progress.[25] Angel accepts the offer on one condition: in exchange, Wolfram & Hart agrees to alter his son Connor's memories and place him with a loving family.[14] The remaining members of Angel Investigations also join Wolfram & Hart, assuming control of various departments.[26]
Angel struggles with the moral ambiguities of his position as office manager. While he is able to make some changes to the business, such as firing the more evil employees[26] and instituting a zero tolerance policy on killing humans,[27] he must keep the business profitable in order to maintain control of the office.[26] As a result, Angel must keep his often immoral clientele happy through creative solutions to their problems that best fit his understanding of doing good. After running the office for months, Angel and the others disrupt the Senior Partners' plans by killing all of the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Partners' major representatives on Earth, effectively destroying their influence and stalling the plans of the Partners. Next, during a battle between Angel and Liaison to the Senior Partners Marcus Hamilton, the Los Angeles office collapses.[28]
White Room[edit]
Within the Wolfram & Hart solicitor's building, one can enter 'The White Room'. This is an interdimensional space that serves as a "Conduit" to the Senior Partners—it is the most direct line to them, but it requires speaking through an intermediary. The 'Room' is accessed by pressing a certain sequence of buttons on an elevator panel. If conditions are met, the elevator doors open and a blinding light transports the occupants to the White Room.[29]
When it is first visited by Angel, the room is occupied by a small girl[29] named Mesektet, the most malevolent member of the Ra-Tet, a family of mystic beings.[30] When Angel visits the Room looking for the demon Sahjhan, the girl offers a brief history on the demon.[29] When Wolfram & Hart falls under siege by The Beast, Angel and his group find their only refuge in the White Room; they arrive just in time to see The Beast draining the dark energies from Mesektet, killing her. Before her death, she transports the group back to the Hyperion Hotel before The Beast can kill them as well.[23]
When the employees of Angel Investigations are offered positions at Wolfram & Hart, Charles Gunn is taken to the White Room as part of his personalized tour. To his surprise, he is greeted by a black panther;[14] the new Conduit's form is determined by the viewer.[3] During his tenure with Wolfram & Hart, Gunn makes use of the Conduit when he has exhausted all other resources.[15] When Gunn visits in search of a way to save Fred's life, he encounters a mirror image of himself, who viciously beats him for his insolence in using the Room for his own convenience.[3]
Other realms[edit]
In addition to its operations on Earth, Wolfram & Hart maintains a presence in a number of other dimensions.[31]
The region of the extradimensional world of Pylea, visited by Angel Investigations, is ruled by priests known as the Covenant of Trombli. This group possesses a trio of holy texts emblazoned with a wolf, a ram, and a hart (male red deer) respectively, a hint that reveals to Cordelia and the others that they shouldn't trust the Covenant.[32] The Covenant has since been overthrown after Cordelia kills the main priest Silas,[33] and the full extent of Wolfram & Hart's influence on Pylea or in other dimensions is unknown; however, there are assumed to be many more, as Angel tells Spike in "A Hole in the World": "Wolfram & Hart has branches in every major city in the world, and a lot more out of it."
The firm is alluded to visually as an evil in Thor's dream in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon placed this in the film as an Easter egg for his fans.
Production details[edit]
Series creator Joss Whedon has described why Wolfram & Hart was created as the ideal antagonist for the show's setting and tone:
|[Actor Christian Kane as Lindsey McDonald] embodies what we wanted for our villains, which is a group of young, go-getter lawyers who are just evil incarnate, working for a great conglomerate. Rather than have The Master, or some seeable villain as we had on Buffy, to have an entire corporation: just sort of an unseen, all-encompassing, 'we make the bad world run' L.A. kind of corporation be the villain.[34]
- The distinctive exterior of the Wolfram & Hart offices seen in the first four seasons of the series is actually the Sony Pictures Plaza, located in Culver City, California.[35]
- The exterior shots in season five are of the Arco Center towers in Long Beach, California.
- The interior of the Los Angeles branch seen in "Home" is actually a large business complex in Thousand Oaks, California.[36]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Shells". Angel. Season 5. Episode 16. 2004-03-03.
- ^ a b c "Reprise". Angel. Season 2. Episode 15. 2001-02-20.
- ^ a b c "A Hole in the World". Angel. Season 5. Episode 15. 2004-02-25.
- ^ Angel: After the Fall #16 (January 2009)
- ^ Lynch, Brian (w), Urru, Franco and Zanni, Nicola (a), Priorini, Andrea (col), Uyetake, Neil (let). "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" Spike 2 (November 10, 2010), San Diego: IDW Publishing
- ^ a b "City of". Angel. Season 1. Episode 1. 1999-10-05.
- ^ "Sense & Sensitivity". Angel. Season 1. Episode 6. 1999-11-09.
- ^ "Billy". Angel. Season 3. Episode 6. 2001-10-29.
- ^ "Power Play". Angel. Season 5. Episode 21. 2004-05-12.
- ^ "The Girl in Question". Angel. Season 5. Episode 20. 2004-05-05.
- ^ a b c "Blood Money". Angel. Season 2. Episode 12. 2001-01-23.
- ^ a b c d "Blind Date". Angel. Season 1. Episode 21. 2000-05-16.
- ^ "That Vision Thing". Angel. Season 3. Episode 2. 2001-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e f "Home". Angel. Season 4. Episode 22. 2003-05-07.
- ^ a b c "Hell Bound (Angel)". Angel. Season 5. Episode 4. 2003-10-22.
- ^ "Just Rewards". Angel. Season 5. Episode 2. 2003-10-08.
- ^ "Reunion". Angel. Season 2. Episode 10. 2000-12-19.
- ^ "Quickening". Angel. Season 4. Episode 8. 2001-11-12.
- ^ "Time Bomb". Angel. Season 5. Episode 19. April 28, 2004.
- ^ "To Shanshu in L.A.". Angel. Season 1. Episode 22. 2000-05-23.
- ^ "Deep Down". Angel. Season 4. Episode 1. 2002-10-06.
- ^ "Angel: After the Fall", November 2007 - ongoing
- ^ a b "Habeas Corpses". Angel. Season 4. Episode 8. 2003-01-15.
- ^ "Calvary". Angel. Season 4. Episode 12. 2003-02-12.
- ^ "Underneath". Angel. Season 5. Episode 17. 2004-04-14.
- ^ a b c "Conviction". Angel. Season 5. Episode 1. 2003-10-01.
- ^ "Harm's Way". Angel. Season 5. Episode 9. 2004-01-14.
- ^ "Not Fade Away". Angel. Season 5. Episode 22. 2004-05-19.
- ^ a b c "Forgiving". Angel. Season 3. Episode 17. 2002-04-15.
- ^ "Long Day's Journey". Angel. Season 4. Episode 9. 2003-01-22.
- ^ "Loyalty". Angel. Season 3. Episode 15. 2002-02-25.
- ^ "Through the Looking Glass". Angel. Season 2. Episode 21. 2001-05-15.
- ^ "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb". Angel. Season 2. Episode 22. 2001-05-22.
- ^ Whedon, Joss & Greenwalt, David, "City of" (Commentary by Joss Whedon & David Greenwalt), Angel: Season One on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2002.
- ^ "TV Locations - part 7". Archived from the original on March 29, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ^ Minear, Tim, "Home" (Commentary by Tim Minear), Angel: Season Four on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox, 2004.


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