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Short History of Mexico - Arthur H. Noll
Upon the capitulation of Tenochtitlan, Cortes took up his residence in Cuyuacan. A house built for him and La Marina shortly afterwards still exists on the north side of the plaza in that town (now called Coyoacan), and is used as the municipal building. From his new headquarters the Captain-General commanded the cleansing of the pueblo he had just captured and despoiled, employing fires to burn the dead bodies lying in heaps in all parts of it. He sought also to relieve the necessities of the famished survivors of the terrible siege. It is hazarded as a guess that 100,000 of the Aztecs had died either in battle or of hunger during the siege.
At once there began a clamor among the Spanish soldiers for the treasures of the Aztecs which had been held out before their imaginations throughout their hardships as the rewards of their perseverance. The amount actually divided among them could not have given them more than one hundred pesos per capita according to Bernal Diaz, and that was, even if pesos de oro or gold, were meant, but $1,200, and was disappointing; while if $100 silver were intended, it was a mere pittance as compensation for their two years and a half of risks and toils, of wounds and sickness. To appease their clamoring, Cuauhtemoc and one of the war-chiefs of Tlacopan were put to torture, that they might be made to divulge what disposition had been made of the wealth of the Aztecs. Their feet were covered with oil and roasted before a slow fire. But the torture was heroically borne (by Cuauhtemoc at least, who turned to his companion and in reply to his groans said, "Do not suppose that I am as comfortable as I would be in my bath") and the only admission that could be extorted was that the treasures had been thrown into Lake Texcoco. Search in the lake, however, revealed but a few objects, and those of small value.
The next subject to which attention was given by the great Conqueror was the government of the newly acquired territory. Naturally he established, tentatively, a military government, assuming for himself the titles of Governor, Captain-General, and Chief Justice. He was subsequently confirmed in these titles by the King of Spain, to whom he had diligently reported all his proceedings in the new country, and in whose name he had taken possession of the territory, naming it New Spain.
The building of a city, to be the capital of New Spain, was ordered upon the captured site, against the judgment of several who saw many more desirable locations for a city within the Mexican Valley. It was upon a plan intended to vie with the cities of Spain in splendor that Cortes set out upon the work of reconstruction. The canals were to a great extent filled up. The names of many of the streets in the modern city are our clue to the size of the Spanish city immediately succeeding the overthrow of Tenochtitlan. An irregular circle of streets each named Puente (bridge) would indicate the limits of the island city. The southern limits must have been in the neighborhood of Puente de San Antonio Abad; the western limits may be traced through the streets named Puente de Mariscala, Puente de San Francisco, and several others on a line therewith; the eastern boundary must have been considerably within the line of the puentes in the vicinity of San Lazaro; while the narrow dividing line between Mexico and Tlatelolco (though the latter was included within the new city, and reserved for occupancy by the natives) is likewise indicated by a line of streets deriving their names from ancient bridges over a canal.
The lines of the causeways were partially retained within the city. The tourist may now trace the southern causeway from the southeast corner of the Zocalo, or main plaza, through the Calle de los Flamencos, and in a direct line past the Hospital de Jesus to San Antonio Abad (the street, though straight, changing its name with every block,—a characteristic of Mexican streets), near which point stood Xoloc, and the fork occurred in the ancient causeway. If the northern causeway was, as has been said, in direct continuation of the southern, its line within the city has been obliterated, and corresponds to no existing street. Beyond the city limits, it is that highway by which the street-cars now run to the city of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The western causeway has been already identified. It was the first to be widened, and, in order to make it a sure way of retreat, no sluices were left open in it. That a series of defenses might be obtained, house-building was especially encouraged along its line. The growth of the city in that direction has been the consequence. Along the north side of the Alameda this causeway bears the name of La Avenida de Hombres Ilustres ("Avenue of Illustrious Men"), in token of its historic memories.
The great teocalli had been completely destroyed, and its site was permanently set apart for a Christian temple. Prior to the year 1524 a small church was built there. It was intended as a temporary structure merely, and was replaced in a few years by another small edifice. The latter building was, however, of the dignity of a cathedral, Mexico having been erected into a diocese by Pope Clement VII., in 1527, and Fray Juan de Zumarraga having been made its first Bishop.
In the partition of the city by lot among the conquerors, the site of the tecpan of Moteczuma II fell to the Captain-General, and upon it Cortes built a large, low house, with towers at the corners, intending to use the same as the gubernatorial palace. It was confirmed to him by royal order, and continued in his own and his heirs' possession until 1562, when it was bought by the Spanish government to be used as the vice-regal palace. The present National Palace, occupying the same site, was begun thirty years later, after the original building had been destroyed by fire in a riot. There was also assigned to Cortes a palace built upon the site of the present Monte de Piedad, or national pawnshop.
In the work of reconstruction the Governor employed the services of the Tlaxcalan allies, thus fulfilling the predictions of the Aztecs, as during the siege they beheld their hereditary enemies engaged in the work of destruction under the commands of the Spaniards. "Ay, go on and destroy," they had said; "you will only have to rebuild as the slaves of the white men."
The adventurous spirit of Cortes was ill-suited to the quiet pursuits of government, and he was well pleased when the opportunity came for him to lead an army into Hibueros, as Central America was then called, in 1525. The occasion was an insurrection headed by Olid, who had been appointed governor of that region. It was on the way thither that in Izanca (now called Tabasco) final disposition was made of the brave Cuauhtemoc. He was accused, probably unjustly, of conspiring with others to overthrow Cortes, and was summarily hanged to a cypress- tree; and thus died the last Tlaca-tecuhtli of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, in the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth year of his age.
Cortes found Olid already dead when he reached Hibueros, and the land at peace; but on his return to Mexico he found that his enemies had supplanted him in his absence, and his life was henceforth principally spent in defending his character from the charges brought against him by those who were envious of his fame. Many false charges were undoubtedly brought against him, and in addition to these his whole career was made the subject of investigation. It was probably from no very good motives that he was made to defend many acts for which we would ourselves condemn him,—the massacre of the Cholulans, the capture of Moteczuma, the torture and finally the death of Cuauhtemoc. Journeys to Spain were made to arrange his affairs and defend himself from the machinations of his enemies. In the intervals of these journeys he made expeditions of discovery and conquest in the neighborhood of Jalisco and the Pacific coast as far as California. In 1529 the Emperor Charles V. bestowed upon him the title of Marques del Valle de Oaxaca, and with it an immense estate comprising the Valley of Quauhnahuac (Cuernavaca), a beautiful and fertile valley a day's ride southwest of the Mexican capital. A cross set up by the great Conquistador to mark the eastern boundary of his vast estate may still be seen at Cruz del Marques. At Cuernavaca, in buildings which still stand, the last three years of his life in Mexico were spent A church which he built also exists there.
The declining years of Cortes were not happy. He gave up Marina to her people on one of his journeys into her native country. His own wife arrived from Cuba, but died soon after her arrival, and his enemies hesitated not to say that he caused her death. Tradition points out a well in Coyoacan in which he is said to have drowned her, but this is clearly a mistake. In addition to the malicious stories proclaimed by his envious enemies, the ingratitude of his sovereign, whose territories and riches he had vastly increased, served to magnify the difficulties of his old age. He finally went to Spain, and was taken seriously ill at Sevilla. Removing to a neighboring village called Castilleja de la Cuesta, he died there the 2nd of December, 1547, in the sixty-third year of his age. He was but thirty-five when he set out upon his career of conquest in Mexico.
His body was first buried in the tomb of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia in the Chapel of San Isidro; but subsequently, in partial fulfillment of his expressed wishes, his bones were taken to Mexico and placed in the Church of San Francisco, Texcoco. In 1629, upon the death of his grandson Pedro, son of the Martin who was born to the Conqueror by La Marina, decided to bury the bones of the Captain-General with the body of his grandson in the Monastery of San Francisco in the City of Mexico. With great solemnity this was done in February that year. In 1794 the bones of the Conqueror were again removed, this time to the Church of Jesus Nazareno, which, with the adjoining hospital, he himself had founded and amply endowed sometime prior to 1524. There a marble sarcophagus had been prepared to receive them. The sarcophagus remains and may be seen by visitors, but in the revolutionary times, the second and third decades of the present century, when everything Spanish was the object of hatred and liable to mob violation, the bones of Cortes were removed for greater safety (on the night of the 15th of September, 1823), and hidden in another part of the church. They were finally removed by Don Lucas Alaman, the famous historian and publicist, and Mexican agent of the Duke of Monteleone, the heir of Cortes, and sent to Italy, where they are now at rest in the tomb of the Monteleones.
The form of government, established by Cortes in Vera Cruz under the name of ayuntamiento was a very wise provision, and many of its ordinances have been in force in Mexico since the year 1522. In addition to this there was a board of Royal Officials (Officiales Reales) having charge of the government of New Spain ad interim, in the absence of Cortes. When Cortes fell under the suspicion of the Spanish sovereign there were appointed by the crown Visitors and Resident judges (Jos Visitadores y Jueces de Residencia) to examine and report upon the charges made against him, and to assume the government in cases of necessity. Finally there were Royal Audiences (Oidores Reales), boards composed of jurists, usually five in number, whose duties were to administer justice and to act as a check upon the military governors; and in case of a vacancy in the head of the colonial government, the President of the Audience filled the post ad interim. There were at first two such audiences, one in the City of Mexico, the other at some distance therefrom, and intended to have jurisdiction along the Pacific coast.
Don Luis Ponce de Leon succeeded Cortes as military governor of New Spain in 1526, but he lived only a few months and was succeeded by a jurist named Marcos Aguilar. The next year Alonzo Estrada and Gonzalo Sandoval were military governors. In 1528 the first Audience was sent out to Mexico, virtually for the purpose of persecuting Cortes. Its president, Nuno de Guzman, was a man of great cruelty and dishonesty, and left an unsavory record behind him on account of his unprovoked murder of the Tarascan chief in Michoacan. In 1529 a second Audience came to Mexico. Its president was Sebastian Rameres de Fuenleal, and this Audience retained the governing power, without accomplishing much of historic interest, until the year 1535, when the first of a long line of Viceroys begun to rule in New Spain.
Meanwhile another important governing power had been established in the land, demanding our attention. As has been mentioned, Pope Clement VII in 1527 erected Mexico into a bishopric and appointed, upon the nomination of Emperor Charles V., Fray Juan de Zumarraga, as Bishop. He received the title of Bishop and Protector of the Indians. When other dioceses were created in New Spain, and the original diocese was advanced to an archbishopric, its first Bishop was correspondingly advanced in dignity. This was by act of Pope Paul II in 1545. From the very first the prelates of New Spain exercised a great influence in the civil affairs of the country. They early won the good-will of the natives. They were empowered to exercise the vice-regal functions ad interim in certain cases, upon the death of the Viceroy. So that we have the names of no less than ten prelates in the long list of Spanish Viceroys.
In the period now under our notice, from the Conquest to the time of the Viceroys, the ecclesiastical power was taking a deep root in the fertile soil of New Spain, to have there a most astonishing growth for three centuries and more. The most prominent monuments to greet the eyes of the tourists in Mexico at the present day are those relating to the ecclesiastical history of that country. It is necessary, therefore, that some attention be given to that subject.
In point of fact, one of the terms of the contract by which the Spanish kings acquired right to the countries of the New World under the bull of Pope Alexander VI. (May 4, 1493) was the advancement of the Church in those countries. And there can be no doubt that one of the actuating motives of the expedition for the conquest of Mexico was a zeal for Holy Church, and each one of the rough old warriors belonging to the army of Cortes had a desire, along with his love of gold and of adventure, to bring other nations under the sway of the Holy Faith. They were not accomplished missionaries, it must be confessed, and failed most ingloriously in all their attempts to bring the natives of Mexico to a knowledge of the Christian religion. But belonging to the expedition of Cortes was Father Olmedo, a fit type of the soldier priest of the sixteenth century. He not only shrived the soldiers, and said masses for them before going into battle, and gave Christian burial to the slain, but he baptized such of the natives as desired to adopt the new faith, and judiciously instructed all who expressed a desire to learn anything concerning the religion of the Europeans. The destruction of heathen temples, furthermore, was quickly followed by the building of Christian churches. In the case of the great teocalli of Tenochtitlan, we have already seen the pro-cathedral erected and rebuilt. The Sagrario (adjoining the cathedral) was built in 1524 as the first parish church, for the use of the European residents of New Spain. The present structure is of much more recent date (circa 1749).
Missionaries were among the first colonizers in New Spain. Every ship from the old country brought some of them. They were for the most part members of one or another of the various religious orders. Fray Pedro Gante (Peter of Ghent in Flanders) and five missionaries were among the earliest of these, and they established themselves in Texcoco. And in 1524 the "twelve Apostles of Mexico," as they were called, being twelve Franciscans, appeared in the country. To the most prominent of these, Fray Martin de Valencia, the Superior of the Province, has been given the name "The Father of the Mexican Church." Finding Pedro Gante at his work in Texcoco, they took him with them to the City of Mexico.
It was by the Franciscans, who at once assumed control of the missions to the Indians, that the new city was divided into four sections or parishes, coterminous with the former divisions of Tenochtitlan, and the names of the churches erected in these four divisions supplanted the Indian names formerly given to them. San Juan Bautista, now San Juan de la Penitencia (no longer a parish church), in the market-place of San Juan, gave its name to what was formerly known as Moyotlan, in the southwest; the church of San Pablo on the Plaza San Pablo in the southeast gave its name to what was formerly Teapan; Nuestra Senora de la Ascunsion (now known as Santa Maria la Redonda), on a block bounded by various streets having Santa Maria in their names, in the northwest, gave its name to what was formerly known as Cuepapan; and in the northeast the church of San Sebastian, on the street of that name, gave its name to what had been known as Aztacalco. These four churches were designed for the use of the natives, and were all subordinate to the church of San Jose de los Naturales, near San Juan de la Penitencia. The buildings which first bore the names above-mentioned no longer exist in Mexico, as will hereafter more clearly appear; but the names themselves are historic monuments, and mark sites of deep interest to the tourist. Tlatelolco became the seat of the church of Santiago and of a "college" for the natives, in 1536.
The very year of his arrival, Fray Valencia founded Franciscan monasteries in Huexotzinco, Texcoco, Tlaxcala, and the City of Mexico. The site occupied in the City of Mexico was that said to have formerly contained the natural- history museum of Tenochtitlan,—a tract bounded by the present streets of Zuleta, San Juan de Letran, Coliseo, Colegio de las Ninas, and First San Francisco. The tract is now intersected by the Calle de la Independencia (a monument of an historical event of a later century) and a short street very appropriately named Calle Gante. Upon this tract was erected a magnificent monastery, of which detached portions still exist, and cannot fail to attract the attention of the visitor. The building, however, belongs to a later period. The school of San Juan de Letran was founded in 1529.
The development of the work undertaken by the Franciscans was so encouraging that by 1565 three other provinces had been erected: San Jose de Yucatan, Santo Nombre de Jesus de Guatemala, and San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacan; and in 1606 two others were added: Santiago de Jalisco, and Nuestro Padre de San Francisco de Zacatecas.
In 1526 missionary monks of the Dominican order arrived in Mexico. Their career was so intimately connected with the history of the country that we shall have occasion to see more of them. In 1533 seven Augustinian monks arrived and took possession of a tract of land in a part of the City of Mexico called Zoquiapan, where now stands the Bibliotheca Nacional on the Calle de San Agustin. Other and less important orders arrived subsequently from time to time.
The tourist will find in the sacred names given to streets in the City of Mexico, and in other cities of the country, lasting monuments to the number of edifices once existing there. The religious nomenclature observable throughout the country likewise testifies to the untiring zeal of the missionaries who followed up the conquest of the country and kept in the front rank of all the schemes for colonization.
To this period belongs the founding of the city of Puebla. Among the twelve Franciscan "apostles" was one named Fray Torribio Benevente, to whom the Indians gave the name of Motolinia ("the poor and miserable"), a name he humbly accepted. He conceived the idea of building a religious city, to be a resting-place for travellers between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico. Hence, on the 16th of April, 1530, the town was begun on a site "revealed to the Motolinia in a dream,"—he and Juan Salmeron (a member of the Second Audience) being the founders. It was called La Puebla de los Angeles ("the town of the Angels.") Eight thousand Tlaxcalans were employed in the building, and in a short time and "as though by enchantment" nearly four thousand houses (probably mere huts) were erected.
Precisely how much or how little of sober history enters into the traditions regarding the great Patron Saint of the Indians of Mexico, it would be difficult to say. But as the year 1531 is fixed as the date of the alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin in Guadalupe, and as the influence of the traditions has been widespread and cannot fail to reach the attention of the tourist, it is proper to relate here what is told concerning Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.
Prior to the Conquest the Aztecs used the hill of Tepeyacac, at the terminus of the northern causeway from Tenochtitlan, as a military outpost, and had also erected there a teocalli for the especial worship of Tenantzin, "the mother of the gods." On the 9th of December in the year named above, Juan Diego, an Indian of Cuauhtitlan, was on his way to mass in Santiago-Tlatelolco, where there was one of the numerous Franciscan chapels built through the instrumentality of Padre Gante. Passing the hill of Tepeyacac he heard music, and looking up saw the Blessed Virgin, who directed him to go forthwith to Bishop Zumarraga and tell him, in her name, to build a church upon that hill for the accommodation of all those Indians who lived at such a great distance from Tlatelolco.
The Bishop was gracious but incredulous, and demanded proofs of the apparition which Juan described. Juan went back to report, and was told by the Blessed Virgin to come the next day, when she would furnish the required proofs. Sickness in his house prevented Juan from keeping his appointment the next day, and when the sickness increased and Juan was sent for a priest early on the morning of the 12th of December, he was afraid to cross the hill of Tepeyacac. But as he skirted the eastern side of the hill the Blessed Virgin came down to meet him, told him to feel no anxiety about the sick at his house, but to cut some flowers from the rock at his feet, wrap them in his serape, and show them to no one until he stood before the Bishop. Lo, flowers were actually growing upon the rock whereon Juan stood, and he did as he was told. And when he unwrapped his serape in the presence of the Bishop, a greater wonder was beheld than the flowers gathered from the rock. A beautiful portrait of the Virgin appeared, as though painted upon the serape.
The Bishop could no longer remain incredulous. He forthwith built a chapel where the miraculous flowers had been plucked, and where now stands the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe. The chapel thus built was afterwards enlarged and is now the sacristy of the present edifice. The handsome Collegiate Church itself is the second structure covering the entire site. It was built about the beginning of the eighteenth century, replacing one built about a century previously. The serape of Juan Diego, with its miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin, is enclosed behind plate glass in a frame over the high altar.
Of the other two chapels at Guadalupe, the Capilla del Cerrito marks the spot of the first appearance of the Blessed Virgin; the Capilla del Pocito encloses the well or spring which first gushed forth during the last interview between Juan and the Blessed Virgin.
The 12th of December was generally observed by the Indians of Mexico as a religious feast almost from the time of the alleged apparition, but it did not receive papal sanction until 1754. Then by papal bull the festival was instituted, and the Virgin of Guadalupe was declared the Patroness and Protectress of New Spain. She became the champion of the Mexicans in the revolt of New Spain in the last century, while the Virgin of the Remedies became the champion of the Spanish troops. The 12th of December was made a national holiday upon the establishment of the Republic in 1824, and Guadalupe has been made a religious center ever since.


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I recently started looking into making kydex holsters. I did alot of research, and it actually seemed pretty easy from everything I saw. Basically, you heat the kydex, then put it in a foam press with what ever youre making a holster or sheath for, then take it out, trime, put in the eylets, and finish the edge.
I got all my stuff today, and I decided to start off with something quick and easy since I have to be at work later today. Since I use a bar blade for work, I decided to make a sheath for it.
First I started by shaping a piece of wood so that it would leave a larger opening so that inserting the blade would be easier, I then taped it in place.
Then I went ahead and cut out two pieces of kydex, and went ahead and put them in my toaster oven. I start out at 150*, then after a few minutes, bump it up to 200*, then after a few more, bump it up to 250*. Im still getting used to working with the kydex, so I still need to fine tune my heating process.
After it has been in the oven long enough, it will be pretty flimsy. Almost like a sheet of putty. I used some mechanic gloves, and pulled it out, put the bottom piece in the press, then put bar blade, and then the top sheet and closed and clamped the press.
After about 10-15 minutes to cool, I was left with this.
I had to pry the two sheets apart. They were stuck pretty good. But I got them apart, drilled the holes, put the eylets in, and proceeded to cut, sand, and shape it.
I started with this:
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Heres a picture of the back. I put the belt loop like that so I can have it at a good angle for when I need to pull it out or sheath it.
I need to get an arbor press for the eylets though. The hammer method Im using isnt fully pressing the eylets. They are snug, but look like crap.
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Saturday, 19 October 2013
Discovering The Hobbit
It was a refreshing change of dice rolls and phases. 40k and Fantasy can get a bit tiresome after a while when OP units come crashing across the board and absolutely ruin your day. Of course, I don't know enough about LOTR, I'm sure there are OP units hiding away for Siceralc to find and abuse soon enough.
I've had a look around the models and rulebooks and have settled upon Mordor as an army. I like the idea of have Morgul Knights/Wargs in creating a cavalry themed army. Or Terror. I like the idea of forcing enemy models to take courage tests every time they want to charge me.
Is Mordor any good?
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Ive only played the system a bit and thats when it was the old Lotr one. Personally I think its a case of go with what you like the look of. Its something I'd consider playing (Once Ive my current mountain of stuff painted) and I'd go rohan/dwarfs just for the look.ReplyDelete
Your other option is to see what your local players play and pick something different
I only play gondor but iv played mordor a cupple of times and I was very impressed with them im a big lotr and hobbit player and its a really good system that's easy to understandReplyDelete
The LotR and Hobbit games are both very good. Mordor is a pretty good faction to play as. Plenty of cheap warriors, some good elite warriors, monsters and a decent selection of named and unnamed hero'sReplyDelete
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2h 18min | Drama | 18 October 2019 (USA)
Director: Manav Shah
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Babbu Bains, a finance recovery agent, doesn't let anyone tell her what to do. She is independent and knows how to get things done her way, but then she gets married. Part of a new family now, can Babbu take a stand for herself?


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Google has added a gallery view for up to 16 participants in order to better compete with Zoom, Skype, Teams, Slack and others.
In order to compete, Google has ramped up its engineering efforts as Google Meet becomes more important to its product portfolio. In a blog post today, Google outlined a number of new features and improvements outlined below.
Tiled layout for larger calls: The expanded tiled layout now lets web users simultaneously see up to 16 participants at once (previously, tiled layouts only enabled you to see four people at a time). More updates are coming for larger meetings, better presentation layouts, and support across more devices.
Low-light mode: Meet can now use AI to automatically adjust your video to make you more visible to other participants in sub-optimal lighting conditions. This feature is currently rolling out to mobile users, and will be available to web users in the future.
Noise cancellation: To help limit interruptions to your meeting, Meet can now intelligently filter out background distractions—like your dog barking or keystrokes as you take meeting notes. Noise cancellation will begin rolling out in the coming weeks to G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers starting with web users and later to mobile users.
Google recently revealed that Google Meet has seen 2 million more new users who are spending over 2 billion combined minutes on any given day as people are working from home in record numbers.
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Posted on February 6, 2017, by Travis Pulver
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no denying the kind of game that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had Sunday night in Super Bowl LI. His team wasn't just out of the game at one point. They were getting their behinds handed to them. But in typical Brady/Belichick style, the Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to force overtime and win Super Bowl No. 5.
It came as no surprise when Brady was named the MVP. With the personal journey had this season thanks to Deflate Gate, he was a sentimental favorite to win the award before the game even started. But then he threw for 466 yards and a pair of touchdowns and earned it.
You would think leading the team back from a record-setting deficit in the first overtime game in Super Bowl history would cause people to treat him with a little reverence. You would think they would try even harder to show him the respect he deserves after the game he had—but someone didn't.
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That someone stole Tom Brady's game jersey.
The NFL shared video of Brady looking a little flustered as he searched in and around his locker for the jersey:
"It was right here. I know exactly where I put it," Brady said (USAToday).
He appeared to indicate that he had put the jersey in his bag which would mean someone couldn't have accidentally taken it. Stadium security was brought in to help as were the equipment managers, but no one seemed to know where it was.
Brady talked about his missing jersey a little more Monday morning after he was awarded the MVP trophy by Roger Goodell (ESPN):
"I put it in the bag, and I came out, and it wasn't there anymore. It's unfortunate because that's a nice piece of memorabilia. If it shows up on eBay somewhere, someone let me know so I can track that down."
Maybe if it hadn't happened once before it wouldn't have bothered Brady as much—but it did. After beating the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX in Arizona a couple years ago his jersey was stolen out of his locker then as well.
Brady as not happy with the predicament, but is not letting it steal the glory away from winning his fifth Super Bowl. Instead, he is busy making sure that the other guys on the team can get the credit they deserve—like running back James White.
White tied a Super Bowl record with three touchdowns including the game-tying score and the winner in overtime. He also set a record with 14 receptions and 110 receiving yards (most by a running back). He also converted one of New England's two-point conversions.
While it is not hard to see why Brady was named MVP, an argument definitely could have been made for White. Brady, at least, seemed to think so and indicated as much when he announced Monday he would be giving the truck that comes with being named Super Bowl MVP to White:
"I think James White deserves it," Brady said Monday morning during the MVP press conference. He gave Malcolm Butler the truck after Super Bowl XLIX for making the game-saving interception.
It's not something he needs to do, but he does it anyway. Now if only people would quit stealing his jersey…


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This blog you are reading is being hosted on IPFS, ironically it was more work to get the nameservers of my domain switched to Cloudflare. I chose for Cloudflare as my DNS provider because they have a free IPFS gateway, which is essentially a reverse proxy that gives me SSL and a custom domain name. Without the IPFS gateway you would have to visit the (previous) version of my blog under https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/Qmdd7FoP36wzgMWnBV5ytYkdYXy2zyBgEqRmAE2UWLw1VW/ instead of https://www.crooy.com.
Which brings me to the core of IPFS, the files itself. My the files of this blog are packaged and sent to Pinata, which is a IPFS pinning service. If you compare IPFS to bittorrents then a pinning service is like a seed node, Pinata acts as my permanent seed node, so whenever somebody needs my blog it can provide a copy. So even if nobody else uses IPFS, as long as there is a server somewhere with my content then the IPFS gateway will return my website. However, if many servers understand IPFS then, like in bittorrent, my content will be spread faster.
Imagine the possibilities! Since data is immutable in IPFS all you need to do to go back to a previous version is change the dns entry to point to the previous IPFS hash. If you run a dozen geographically distributed gateways your own, with pinning services attached then you your own CDN. Synchronize files without needing a single hosting server.
But back to basics, how does this all work. Well I have this blog which I quickly made in Gatsby, which is a static website generator. Well then i just use ipfs-deploy to upload the files to Pinata, update my cloudflare dns records and that is literally all there is.
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December 26, 2004. Millions of vacationers basked on the warm beaches bordering the Indian Ocean. They never knew that they were about to experience one of the most devastating natural disasters in human history. As vacationers frolicked in the peaceful waves, the water suddenly retreated from the shores as if the entire ocean were inhaling deeply.
Those who understood the answer to the question of "how do tsunamis form" knew that this was the first sign of an approaching tsunami and began to seek higher ground. But sadly for most, their retreat was pointless. Within minutes, the coastal communities of 14 nations were inundated with a wall of water up to 30 feet high.
What Is a Tsunami?
A tsunami is a wave or series of waves in the ocean that are extremely large and fast. These waves can travel across the oceans at phenomenal speeds, up to 550 miles per hour. This is roughly the speed of a jet. When they are far out in the ocean, they are barely noticeable. However, once they begin to crest at a shoreline, they can become very destructive.
How do tsunamis form at shorelines? This happens because tsunami speed is directly related to the depth of water. As a tsunami approaches the shore, the speed of the wave slows down. At the same time, the total energy of the wave remains the same. This causes the height of the wave to grow as the top of the tsunami wave travels faster than the bottom. So, while the wave may be completely imperceptible in the deep waters of the ocean, the destructive energy of the wave releases on shore as it lands.
The energy released in a large tsunami is astounding. It is nearly impossible to calculate precisely. Nonetheless, it's estimated that the energy released in the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan was equivalent to nearly 100 nuclear bombs the size of those that were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This is an ironic form of measurement since the tsunami caused a crisis at a nuclear power plant in the Fukushima Prefecture that is still devastating the environment today.
How Do Tsunamis Form?
The answer to the question of how do tsunamis form lies in understanding the different forces of nature that can cause them. Tsunamis form due to an enormous amount of water displacement. Most people think that tsunamis only form from earthquakes. However, there are actually several things that can cause a tsunami to form. Anything that disturbs a large volume of water is capable of generating a destructive tsunami. The possible precursors of tsunamis besides earthquakes include:
- Volcanic eruptions, both above ground and underwater.
- Above ground rockslides or landslides.
- Underwater rockslides or landslides.
- Asteroid strikes.
In each of these cases, a large volume of water is either thrust up or dropped down. This causes all of the water to create a series of waves called a wave train. The waves in this wave train can be up to 60 miles long and as far apart as an entire hour. Because there is often little or nothing in the ocean to interfere with the path of these waves or absorb the energy, they can travel across the entire planet at breathtaking speeds with very little loss of energy. A tsunami wave train can travel across the entire Pacific Ocean in less than one day.
Historical Tsunamis
Contrary to popular belief, tsunamis can form in a lake, as well as in an ocean. How do tsunamis form in lakes? Landslides often are the cause. In 563 AD, a massive tsunami occurred in Lake Geneva for this very reason. The landslide was so massive that it caused the resulting wave to race across the lake and inundate the city walls of Geneva. The waves swept over the tops and drowned those who were unable to escape the wall of water. This is one of the more common answers to the question of how do tsunamis form from forces other than earthquakes.
This landslide was triggered by an accumulation of sediment that reached a point so massive it collapsed under its own weight. Aside from meteor impacts, these landslide-triggered tsunamis can be the most violent that nature produces. They can cause tsunamis that dwarf the Boxing Day tsunami in height, if not destructive power over a widespread path.
On July 9, 1958, in Lituya Bay, Alaska, a rockslide – this one actually was caused by a large earthquake – generated a tsunami with a run-up height of over 1700 feet. The force of this tsunami destroyed all of the vegetation in its path. But the loss of life in this tsunami was minimal because it occurred in such a sparsely populated area. In fact, only five people total died that day. A later tsunami in Alaska in 1964 took 119 lives and inflicted over $400 million dollars in damage.
Where Do Tsunamis Occur Most Often?
Tsunamis can occur along any coastline or in any large body of water. The Pacific Ocean is the place where most of the world's tsunamis form. This is because subduction zones are so common there. How do tsunamis form along subduction zones? Subduction zones are fault lines that cause one tectonic plate to slide under another.
These can trigger particularly violent mega – thrust earthquakes that consist of an upward or downward motion instead of a horizontal wave. This motion almost always produces a wave when it occurs underwater. Nonetheless, it is only strong enough to produce noticeable tsunamis part of the time. Those areas along the Pacific that are most likely to see tsunamis are Alaska, Chile, the Aleutian Islands, Japan and the Philippines.
While tsunamis do occur in the above-mentioned areas most often, they have also occurred in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and elsewhere. So if you live along a shoreline, it is best to fully understand the answer to the question of how do tsunamis form and understand the risk of tsunamis in the area. If tsunamis have occurred in the past, they can and most likely will occur again. Be aware of escape routes and possible warning signs of an approaching tsunami.
Some signs of a tsunami are:
- An earthquake. Very often, local geological services will forecast the possibility of a tsunami and likely strike zones when an earthquake occurs under water or near the shore. Pay heed to these warnings.
- Active buoys in the tsunami warning system. These buoys can be activated even when underwater earthquakes are not noticeable to those onshore. They are particularly useful to sailors. They can receive warning in time to escape shorelines where the destructive force of the tsunami occurs and move out to the open sea.
- A very sudden and noticeable rise or fall in the water level. Tsunamis are often preceded by this phenomenon as the energy of the wave begins to displace the water of the coastline. It is estimated that this phenomenon can precede a tsunami by as much as five minutes. This gives the shore bound time to escape to higher ground. Tragically, many of those who were inundated by the Boxing Day tsunami did not know this sign. They went even closer to the shore to watch as the water receded. This is why knowing the warning signs of a tsunami and understanding how tsunamis form is so important.
Finally, make sure that you always have an emergency kit. It should contain enough food, medical supplies and fresh water to last from three days to a week. This is because tsunamis can wipe out local infrastructure and power and will likely destroy local water delivery systems. Heeding these warning signs and being properly prepared will help you to be a survivor and not a victim of this powerful force of nature.


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Sexual harassment in the workplace is a pervasive, chronic problem that can cause enduring psychological harm, according to the president of the American Psychological Association.
"Sexual harassment in the workplace is a significant occupational health psychology problem," said APA President Antonio E. Puente, PhD. "Psychological research has offered understanding into the causes of workplace harassment, as well as some strategies for preventing or reducing it. However, there is limited research regarding the characteristics of harassers, which makes it difficult to predict who will do it and where and when it might happen. What we do know is that harassers tend to lack a social conscience and engage in manipulative, immature, irresponsible and exploitative behaviors."
Research has shown that sexual harassment is primarily aimed at women, but men are also targets of such behavior. Perpetrators of sexual harassment in the workplace are not only supervisors/superiors but are also coworkers, subordinates, customers and clients, Puente said.
According to the 2017 article "Sexual Harassment: Have We Made Any Progress?" published in APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, women tend to report more adverse effects than men after experiencing workplace sexual harassment. These may include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, post-traumatic stress and a lower level of overall happiness.
Women are more likely to report sexual harassment than men, according to the article, but "studies indicate that men may be at a higher risk of mental health issues and depression." Men in the military are 10 times more likely to experience sexual harassment than civilian men, but an estimated 81 percent of military men who are harassed do not report it, the articles added.
Organizational climate is a strong predictor of workplace sexual harassment and can include situations where men outnumber women, where supervisors are predominantly male, and where there is a sense among employees that complaints will not be taken seriously. Research has shown that hierarchical power dynamics are at the root of sexual harassment.
"Psychology can help, in the form of sexual harassment training, but it only works if it is part of a comprehensive, committed effort to combat the problem," Puente said. "Most research points to sanctions as the primary way that organizations can be less tolerant of harassment.
"Organizations need to be proactive in establishing policies prohibiting sexual harassment, raising employee awareness, establishing reporting procedures and educating employees about these policies. More research is needed to identify the antecedents to harassment that will help employees and managers identify and respond appropriately."
More information: "Sexual Harassment: Have We Made Any Progress?" by James Campbell Quick, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Manchester, and M. Ann McFadyen, PhD, University of Texas at Arlington. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2017. www.apa.org/pubs/journals/rele … s/ocp-ocp0000054.pdf


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Photo Gallery: Super Bowl IX
The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl XLVIII champions, and the manner in which they earned their Lombardi Trophy came as the result of a dominating victory over the Denver Broncos. The Great Peyton Manning's Broncos. The Denver Broncos that employed the NFL's dominant offense of the 2013 NFL season, a unit that ranked either first or second in the league in 10 significant categories during the regular season.
The Seahawks' domination of Denver's offense was complete. Four takeaways, one of which ended up in the end zone. Only one touchdown allowed, and that came in garbage time. Seattle's defense made Manning look a guy who should retire, it shut down the running attack, pushed around the offensive line, bullied the receivers. It was an all-time performance.
As such, and because this is now a 24/7/365 media world in which we live, it didn't take long for the comparisons to begin. The 2013 Seattle Seahawks, the 1985 Chicago Bears, the 2000 Baltimore Ravens all were being talked about in the same reverential tones. Even during the sessions in which some unqualified talking head was charged with ranking the greatest of the great defenses, it was done respectfully and with many bouquets thrown at the ones not chosen.
But don't forget the 1974 Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 2013 Seahawks proved they are deserving to be in any conversation regarding the best defensive performances in leading a team to a Super Bowl championship, and the 2000 Ravens and 1985 Bears are deserving as well.
So are the 1974 Steelers.
All four of these teams led the NFL in defense in their year, and the Steelers' 52 sacks and 25 interceptions accumulated in a 14-game season are evidence of their potential for creating mayhem. With 64 sacks and 34 interceptions, the 1985 Bears set the standard here, with the 2013 Seahawks posting 44 sacks and 28 interceptions, and the 2000 Ravens checking in with 35 sacks and 23 interceptions. Comparable statistics, certainly.
As for what happened specifically in the Super Bowl, the scoreboard shows the Seahawks winning by 43-8 over the Broncos; the Ravens by 34-7 over the New York Giants; the Bears by 46-10 over the New England Patriots; and the Steelers by 16-6 over the Minnesota Vikings. But this discussion is about defense, not margin of victory.
Last Sunday at MET Life Stadium, the Seahawks defense had four takeaways, one of which was returned for a touchdown, and no sacks while allowing only 27 yards rushing. But the Broncos did manage one garbage time touchdown that came on a six-play, 80-yard drive. The Seattle defense also scored that opening-play safety.
The Ravens had four sacks and five takeaways in Super Bowl XXXV, one of which was returned for a touchdown, while allowing no offensive touchdowns, no field goal attempts, and no red zone penetrations. The Giants' touchdown came on a return of the second half kickoff.
The Bears had seven sacks and six takeaways, one of which was returned for a touchdown, plus a safety in Super Bowl XX. They allowed only 7 yards rushing and 123 yards in total offense. The Patriots scored on a 36-yard field goal that was set up by a recovered fumble at the Chicago 19-yard line, and then on a 12-play, 76-yard touchdown drive in garbage time.
In Super Bowl IX, the Steelers had no sacks, five takeaways, and they scored a safety. They allowed 17 yards rushing on 21 attempts – the NFL still was a running league – and they complemented that by allowing only 3.9 yards per pass play. The Steelers allowed no offensive touchdowns, and the closest the Vikings came to scoring was a 39-yard missed field goal in the second quarter following a fumble recovery at the Pittsburgh 22-yard line. Minnesota had 13 total offensive possessions, and those ended this way: punt, punt, punt, punt, missed field goal, safety, interception, punt, interception, punt, fumble, interception, end of game
Now, factor in the competition.
The Bears demolished a Patriots team quarterbacked by Tony Eason, an offense boasting Craig James as its primary weapon as a runner/receiver out of the backfield. Remember, in 1985, Irving Fryar was only a second-year pro who had 50 career catches as a part-time receiver. The Patriots' offense finished 10th in the 28-team NFL in scoring, and the best player it put on the field that day was a guard in the final game of his 13-year career – John Hannah, Hall of Fame Class of 1991. Starting for the Bears that day were three future Hall of Fame players – Dan Hampton, Richard Dent, and first-ballot selection Mike Singletary.
The Ravens were presented with a Giants team quarterbacked by Kerry Collins, a unit, like New England's, boasting a dual-threat running back – Tiki Barber – as its primary weapon. In 2000, the Giants finished 15th in the NFL in total offense, 13th in passing offense, 11th in rushing offense, and 15th in points scored. There were 31 teams in the NFL at the time. Starting for the Ravens that day were a pair of future first-ballot Hall of Fame players – Ray Lewis and Rod Woodson.
The Seahawks faced The Great Peyton Manning, in every sense of what that particular challenge is in 2013, a year in which Manning set NFL all-time single-season records in passing yards and touchdowns. The Broncos were No. 1 in the NFL in red zone efficiency (76.1 percent) on a ridiculous 51 touchdowns in 67 possessions, and their 606 points broke by 17 what was the existing NFL single-season record, and worked out to an average of 37.9 per game. Any potential Hall of Fame players coming from this Seattle defense is an unknown.
The Steelers got a Vikings team that finished the 1974 season ranked fifth in total offense, second in passing offense, 15th in rushing offense, and fifth in points scored. The Minnesota quarterback was Fran Tarkenton, Hall of Fame Class of 1986, whose 1974 found him ranked sixth in the NFL in passer rating, third in completions, second in yards per game, and sixth in touchdowns. Halfback Chuck Foreman was tied-for-third in the NFL in rushing touchdowns, and was fourth in yards from scrimmage. Starting wide receivers John Gilliam and Jim Lash averaged a combined 20.4 yards per catch. The starting left tackle was Ron Yary, Hall of Fame Class of 2001. And among the Steelers' starters on defense that day were four future first-ballot Hall of Fame players – Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Jack Lambert, Mel Blount – all of whom were in their primes.
"The most dominant defensive performance in a Super Bowl" forever will be an open-ended discussion, one with no right answer, and not even with any definitive criteria through which to arrive at a right answer.
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GEAUGA COUNTY, Ohio — Charities have suffered greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic, watching donations drop amid the economic fallout. During the summer, a Geauga County woman thought about the charities close to her heart, and decided it was time to do something about it.
So, Kylie Kaufman changed her company and business model to focus on providing gifts that give back. At the center of her motivation, the 5-year-old girl who stole her heart.
Kaufman became an aunt for the very first time in 2015 to a baby girl named Charlotte. It was love at first sight.
"She's my best friend. I'm obsessed with her. That's all I can really say," Kaufman said.
Charlotte currently lives in Texas where her father is stationed in the military. When they are together, aunt and niece love to eat at restaurants, dance and sing.
Charlotte was the motivation for Kaufman's first business "Rock A Box Baby," a personalized keepsake gift box with carefully selected baby items. The idea came to Kaufman when she was looking for a present to send her newborn niece.
Charlotte's inspiration didn't end there. The little girl opened her aunt's eyes to a world she hadn't fully seen before.
"She was born with Down syndrome, and prior to Charlotte, I didn't know anyone with Down syndrome," Kaufman shared.
Through Charlotte, Kaufman embraced the wonders and gifts of the special needs community. She began volunteering for programs supporting these children and adults. But Kaufman wanted to do more. So, during the pandemic, Kaufman took a leap of faith and followed her heart, by transforming her business to help people like Charlotte.
"A lot of them don't have jobs that they should. And that's why some of the charities I partner with really work on helping those individuals get jobs, interview, learn life skills. There's so much more potential for them."
In Charlotte, she sees someone who loves hair and photography. Two careers this aunt believes her niece could make an impact in years from now.
Over the summer, Lotte321 was born. A jewelry and accessory company that sends a portion of profits from every sale to organizations and charities supporting those with special needs.
"So Lotte is the last part of Charlotte. And 3-21 is three copies of the 21st chromosome, which is Down syndrome," Kaufman explained.
Each month, Lotte321 chooses a new disability-focused charity, like GiGi's Playhouse, a national Down syndrome achievement center with branches here in Northeast Ohio.
In just a few short months, the response to Kaufman's gifts that give back has been overwhelming.
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Let no uneven plaster walls, no lackluster water pressure, no lack of time to repaint the living room, no big budget for furniture, no no-joke that a contractor actually wanted $1,800 to do a mirrored wall over his bathroom sink, thwart Cary Zartman's zeal for assembling himself a home of high design and comfort.
That's because Zartman is an Idea Man.
He is the well-dressed guy next door with the power tools stashed in his buffet and the piercing gaze that lets him envision what might be -- which also explains his obsession with rearranging the furniture in his two-bedroom vintage condo in Wrigleyville.
"I change it a lot. In fact, it's a big joke with my friends," laughs the single guy, who says he gets bored easily. "My brother is big on that, too, so I know it's somehow in our blood."
Somehow, in my core, I knew Zartman was a winner when I first clicked "Open" on his e-mail entry to our Modern Man search for home-conscious, design-conscious men. His clean, graphic style that is not harsh, but deeply comfortable, got me.
I laid eyes on his living room, a beautifully organized space filled (but not crowded) with modern objects and just-right, not-too-chic furniture. It felt like a soothing retreat. What I did not comprehend fully was the extent of its -- or his -- charms.
And then I got more e-mail from Zartman, hinting at his modus operandi. "I have an enormous appreciation for well-designed things, no matter what they are. High end, low end or anywhere in between," he wrote. "And well-designed stuff can be for everyone. IKEA and Target have certainly taught us all that."
What I would come to learn was how well Zartman is able to see design in and make design out of Average Stuff.
This would include the bedroom dresser from his youth, which he outfitted with new pulls from Expo Design Center and turned into a clean-lined hunk of contemporary design. Or: a couple of plain-looking ($15) side tables from IKEA, to which he gave glass tops and an air of greater dignity. And even: Coca-Cola memorabilia (one of his favorite collectibles), which becomes "pop art" atop his kitchen cabinets.
But I also would learn that Zartman has mastered something even more profound than "What is design?" He has figured out how to use design and imagination to fix all sorts of quirky problems in his condo, often with ease and few bucks. For instance, Zartman "fixed" the water pressure problem in his shower (that being a common woe problem in older buildings) with a rain shower head and extension arm that cost him about $120 at The Great Indoors. The design of that head-arm combination -- with a multitude of pores, now pitched straight downward -- gets gravity working for you and gets you a nice gush, Zartman explains.
Furthermore, he "fixed" the uneven plaster walls in his entry foyer by painting them a brilliant Chinese red, which he ragged and mottled. The deep, textured color "covers a world of ills," says the grinning art director.
And that leads me to a proper introduction of the man.
Zartman is 38, single and an art director who has his own advertising/graphic design business called Z Factory, which he runs from his home office.
Genes, undoubtedly, have played a role in his home skills. Zartman's father builds houses for a living and furniture for fun. His mother, a retired schoolteacher, sews everything from bridal party dresses to draperies. Both of their handiwork can be seen here.
But Zartman's profession probably gave him The Eye. "To be an art director on a photo shoot, you might be selecting one house over another for the shoot. So you are exposed to a lot of well-designed, beautiful things," Zartman explains. And "my work gravitates toward bolder and brighter colors, so that has obviously spilled over to my environment."
He bought that environment nine years ago -- 1,000 square feet in a Wrigleyville walk-up, a block east of the ballpark.
"You feel like you're a part of more of the games than you actually go to when you're this close," he says, laughing, adding that crowd roars waft through the condo on game days.
Along with that local color, Zartman got vintage character -- lots of original woodwork, built-in cabinetry and even wainscoting, which covers the walls in his home office. He also got a back porch, sunroom and updated kitchen.
Which is where we are now.
Modern Man pours two steaming mugs of hot chocolate and invites his guest to a sunny getaway, a secluded peninsula of his dreaming.
Zartman "built" this banquette and table inside a nook (which was probably a pantry at one time in the apartment's life) using humble but well-designed furniture from IKEA as his raw materials. He made it out of two sofa tables and one wall-mounted bar unit -- all from the Swedish merchant -- which cost him about $100. He cut down the legs on the two sofa tables to turn them into benches.
The single leg on the wall-hung bar is adjustable, so height was not a problem. But he had to cut the length of the bar top by "a foot or two" to make it fit in the nook.
Zartman's mother sewed the red cushions for the seats and backs. His father built the transom in the entryway.
And so it goes, on and on, one clever idea after another -- from wall to wall, uplighting to area rugs, room to room -- throughout his place.
We land in the living room for a more thorough dissection of the space. It is home to (at least) three of my favorite Zartmanisms.
The large mirrored grid -- a stunning piece that stands about 3 1/2 feet tall and commands the mantel -- is Zartman getting fancy with IKEA again. He made the grid out of 16 wooden picture frames, which cost him about $2 apiece at the Schaumburg store. Zartman screwed the 10-inch squares together using mending plates at the intersection of four corners.
"They [ideas] come from necessity," says Zartman, answering my inquiry about inspiration. "In advertising and design, you don't make a lot of money. But that doesn't mean you don't want to live as well as you can. You get creative."
You also get two large canvases from an art-supply store (on sale, if you can); paint them a bold color (like green, perhaps); and prop them up on that same mantel. And you instantly sprinkle color over the room.
"I have intentions to paint the whole room [now taupe], but I haven't gotten around to it," Zartman explains. "And so that was the biggest thing I could do to accomplish a color change quickly."
Underfoot, he accomplished graphic design in the context of an area rug.
He assembled the rug out of InterfaceFlor tiles, which he ordered over the Internet (www.interfaceflor.com). Into his field of solid green tiles, he inserted strips of gray ones that he cut with a utility knife. Those strips give the rug a hit of color and a subliminal sense of depth.
In the summertime, Zartman swaps the gray strips for red-orange ones -- just for fun.
"I'm here too much," says Zartman, noting that because he works from home, he needs a place that both comforts him and inspires him. "I have to change things."
His latest-greatest upheaval was the bathroom remodel. Zartman shepherded a near-total gut job.
Highlights include: a slate tile floor; faux slate tile back wall in the shower (which his sister helped him set); a vanity that Zartman helped his father build; a new suspended ceiling with recessed can lights on dimmers, inspired by a drop ceiling that Zartman saw in an elevator at a hotel in New York.
And: the Great Wall of Mirror (hiding a medicine cabinet sunken into the back wall) over the sink. Zartman designed it, but didn't want to spend the $1,800 one contractor quoted him to do it. So his father figured out the tricky hinge and had the glass cut. Zartman brought the pieces back from Indiana and handled the installation.
What's next?
"A window seat" in the master bedroom, where there is an unusual interior window looking out onto his enclosed sunroom.
Says Zartman, "I always have to have something new to do."
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We introduce our lineup of Modern Men who will be spotlighted in the coming months:
May 16: Meet Brian Bonebrake. Not a winner in the tidiness category, Bonebrake is a 42-year-old (single) artist whose biggest canvas is his live-work studio in West Town. The place is a lab of experimentation, where walls do not exist and pantries and closets are on wheels "so I can push everything to the right and sweep; push everything to the left, sweep; and then push it out the back door." And did we mention a suspended metal bed and Italian mosaic tile floor?
Other upcoming stories
Parker Lienhart: Passions can't be explained always. And so it goes with Lienhart's insatiable desire for all things 18th Century. Muskets to maps to mirrors to furniture -- to a certain classic colonial house in Clarendon Hills where this 43-year-old art director lives with his wife and three children and where he has labored-in-love to get everything period-right -- down to the hand-forged rose-head nails in the floorboards and the bed hangings he sewed.
Thomas Foertsch: Buy low, sell high -- the options broker in Foertsch, 40 (and single) steered his domesticity down the right path. He bought one of the least expensive units in an old Potter Palmer graystone in the Gold Coast -- and then rolled up his sleeves and got to work, turning the rough into a diamond with new lighting, crown molding and even wainscoted walls. Foertsch sold that place, bought a second in the same building (where he lives now) and found yet another gem up his sleeve.
Paul Berlin: This 43-year-old entrepreneur (he has his own life insurance business; divorced; father of two) credits the 1996 movie "Ransom" for kick-starting his domestic style. Taken with the slick, elegant apartment inhabited by the main characters Rene Russo and Mel Gibson, Berlin went to town on his own digs -- some 4,000 square feet in the former Mayfair Hotel in the Gold Coast. Berlin first worked with a designer and then went solo to turn his condo into an oasis of urban chic, complete with modern millwork, art, a piano and a 200-pound marlin.
-- Karen Klages
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How to get big red on walls
It is difficult to get a full-bodied red out of latex paint, but Cary Zartman did. He got a rich, layered Chinese red color to bathe the walls in his entrance foyer, which not only creates big drama, but also masks the unevenness and cracking in the old plaster walls. Zartman achieved the deep color by layering and technique -- and by first thinking he wanted an orange foyer.
And so, up went a coat of orange -- which turned out to be too yellow. So he followed it with a darker orange paint (which he watered down a bit) and then a significantly watered-down brown "so I sort of antiqued it." The walls stayed this orange color for awhile. And then when Zartman got the red idea, he added on again, a deeper red paint (again, watered down a bit), followed by the very watery-brown.
He applied all his latex paints with a wet brush and then used old T-shirts (wet) to rag-rub his way to a mottled finish that allows hints of the other layers to come through with a nice textural effect.
-- Karen Klages


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Change might just be a terrible thing
he said as the water levels rose
covering the mossy trunks well past
the first or second branching
the mottled bark now deliquescing
handfuls giving up the ghost breaking
off into this liquid landscape of salt
and mud where animals once gamboled
and lovers hid beneath a stippled
canopy wrapped inside their lust
it surely can she said in forthright
confirmation watching as the fires burn
atop surrounding hills watching
the thickness of the blackly cumulous
plumes that shimmer in the hot
extremity as lakes and streams
evaporate adding their moisture to
the menacing violence of the troposphere
parching the earth and all its vegetation
in preparation for a following cycle.
Paul Ilechko is the author of three chapbooks, most recently Pain Sections (Alien Buddha Press). His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Rogue Agent, January Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Book of Matches, and Pithead Chapel. He lives with his partner in Lambertville, New Jersey.


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This hole will demand your attention. First you must deal with the creek running across the fairway about 200 yards from the tee. Getting to the hole will require precision and proper club selection as the generous green is elevated about 50 feet above the fairway.
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Nobody thinks of Utah as a hotbed for beats, but Late Night Alumni's John Hancock says that preconception is dead wrong. "Utah has a lot of music," he says from his Salt Lake City home. "A lot of DJs come through on the way to California. It has a great indie-rock scene too, with Neon Trees and Imagine Dragons getting their start here." His Late Night Alumni, which straddles electronic and indie rock, is a good ambassador for the state of Utah music.
Listening to its sultry electronic dance music, you'd never think Late Night Alumni began with a Christmas song. "Kaskade, Finn Bjarnson, and I were working on some dance music, some chill tracks, when they heard Becky singing a Christmas song recorded here in Utah," the producer says of Late Night Alumni singer Becky Jean Williams.
"It was an indie-bluegrass version of 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing'" Williams explains. "They wanted to put my indie-girl voice over dance music tracks. At the time, I wasn't familiar with the dance music scene. Since then, I've been indoctrinated."
Since that yuletide discovery, Late Night Alumni has released five albums, starting with a bang with the group's most recognizable single, "Empty Streets," in 2005. They quickly gained an audience as a studio project, but years passed before they decided they wanted to be a live act as well. "We had done three albums before we did a live show. Becky's voice was too soft and pretty for a show, we thought," Hancock says.
"I had to learn to project my voice," Williams adds.
That first live show became the subject of an hourlong documentary released by Ultra Records. "We loved the live experience," Hancock says. "We were like, let's keep doing this — I play keyboards and guitar; Becky sings. We'll change it up depending on the venue. Sometimes we have guests; we'll bring in string players. It's not just us DJ'ing behind a booth. We come from the DJ world, where live-playing and anything longer than a 60-minute set is a strange anomaly. We feel like we're pioneering something when playing instruments, and singing live should be the norm."
Late Night Alumni will take its live show to Gramps Sunday, November 11, for its first performance in Miami in four years. Even if this show will be just the two of them onstage, Williams says this won't be a laid-back affair. "We have a vintage look. I gravitate toward the dressy side. We're not just going to wear flip-flops onstage the way Kaskade would. That would be a lot more comfortable," she says.
Even if the members of Late Night Alumni have found their sea legs on the stage, they haven't given up work in the studio. In September, they released the single "Hearts and Silence," a collaboration with Myon. On November 23, expect "Tidal Wave," a collaboration with Mr. Tape, which the duo will play live for the first time ever at the Miami show. The pair believes "Tidal Wave" will appeal to longtime fans and first-time listeners. "That's my favorite of our songs right now," Hancock says. And perhaps as a tribute to Late Night Alumni's origin, the track is coming out just in time for Christmas.
Late Night Alumni. 9 p.m. Sunday, November 11, at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Tickets cost $15 to $20 via ticketfly.com.


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UL Lafayette's Ray P. Authement College of Sciences will offer the state's only master's degree in industrial chemistry in Fall 2021, reports KATC in Lafayette.
The new program will help meet a growing need for graduate-trained industrial chemists. UL Lafayette's program will create more hiring options for small and mid-size companies without the resources to employ teams of Ph.D.-level chemists and engineers like larger companies do. The 30-33 credit hour program offers thesis and non-thesis tracks and will enable students to specialize in chemistry, chemical engineering or environmental impacts.
Core courses will focus on subjects such as industrial organic chemistry, the chemistry of solid-state materials and polymers, and advanced analytical and physical chemistry. The program is geared toward students who have recently earned a bachelor's degree and intend to enroll in graduate school before entering the workforce; it also targets working chemists who want an advanced degree.
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Ability of an organism to resist to adverse environmental factors (to impact of temperature drops, humidity and pressure, to the attacks of causative organisms, etc.) directly depends on what the person eats. Business here not only in that cells of a body received a necessary set of nutrients, vitamins and microelements. Scientists established that such components which are capable to influence immune system in this connection their use should be limited negatively also are a part of foodstuff. We will talk about the main groups of such substances today.
It the substances blocking work of enzymes which help to acquire the proteins coming to an organism with food. At excess consumption of the products containing inhibitors the protective system of an organism as proteins are the main construction material for immune bodies suffers.
Inhibitors of enzymes in large numbers contain in seeds of bean cultures (haricot, peas, soy). At the same time substances of this kind have resistance to heating: they do not collapse even in the course of half-hour cooking of seeds. Other inhibitors which are a part of ovalbumin have no heat stability, and only fans of crude eggs can exceed their dose in a diet.
The substances reducing biological activity of vitamins or preventing an organism to acquire them contain in many products. For example:
Some other feeding habits of the person also have an adverse effect on digestion of vitamins. So, overconsumption of the products containing a large amount of B1 vitamin interferes with hit in B6 vitamin fabric, and deficit of B2 vitamin leads to decrease in content in fabrics of ascorbic acid and B1 vitamin.
It the substances capable to form insoluble compounds with iron, the zinc, calcium, manganese and other microelements necessary for normal functioning of an organism. Treat the demineralizing factors:
Harmful effects of similar substances can be minimized by means of other components of food reducing their chemical activity. For example, the strengthened consumption of ascorbic acid interferes with creation of insoluble compounds of polyphenols with iron, helping an organism to acquire this microelement.
The fatty acids which in a large number are contained in mutton, pork and beef, and also various sausages and meat delicacies in itself do not exert an adverse effect on a condition of immune system. But they are responsible for the pathologies of cardiovascular system connected with accumulation of "bad" cholesterol and development of atherosclerotic process. Such states complicate cardiac performance and lungs, and reduce protective forces of an organism. In order to avoid similar troubles specialists advise to sate a diet with the products containing polyunsaturated fatty acids (sea fish, vegetable oils, nuts, olives, etc.).
The protective system of an organism experiences constant strain and needs support. For this purpose it is possible to accept medicines, to use methods of traditional medicine and a hardening, but the most important and effective measure is correction of a diet.
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Turkish origin footballer İlkay Gündoğan's car vandalized in Germany
Germany's midfielder İlkay Gündoğan (L) and Germany's midfielder Sami Khedira (R) warm up during a training session in Vatutinki, near Moscow, on June 15, 2018, as part of the Russia 2018 World Cup football tournament. AFP PHOTO / Patrik STOLLARZ
The car of German footballer of Turkish descent İlkay Gündoğan was vandalized in German city of Cologne, local police reported on June 16.
The Cologne police confirmed that Gündoğan filed a complaint against unknown persons after his car was vandalized during a friendly game on June 7 against Saudi Arabia.
The windows of his car, which was parked in front of a hotel in Cologne, were broken late at night, police said.
Local media linked the attack on Manchester City footballer to his recent meeting with the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in London.
Gündoğan and another German player with Turkish roots Mesut Özil met with Erdoğan while he was in London in mid-May. The duo gifted their autographed jerseys to Erdogan.
In addition, the German footballers also had their photos taken with the Turkish President.
On the same day, May 14, German Football Federation (DFB) President Reinhard Grindel slammed the meeting, alleging that Özil and Gündoğan were exploited by Erdogan's election campaign.
Gündoğan and Özil were criticized in German media for meeting Erdoğan.
Youth and Sports Minister Osman Aşkın Bak on June 16 expressed his support for the football player.
"(The attack was for) provocative purpose, a sportsman must be evaluated by his play and morality," he said.
Bak said that such incidents only damages the fair-play spirit of sports, adding that Gündoğan and Özil would respond to the attackers and critics with their performance at the World Cup in Russia.