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The Night's Watch is the oldest in the [[Seven Kingdoms]], as it survived the fall of the kingdoms of the [[First Men]], following the [[Andal Invasion]], and the [[War of Conquest]]. It was founded over 8,000 years ago, after the period known as the [[The Long Night|Long Night]]. Under cover of an endless night that lasted for a generation, the [[Others]] invaded from the [[Lands of Always Winter]], laying waste to much of Westeros, until the Others were finally defeated by the Night's Watch at the [[Battle for the Dawn]]. After having pushed back the threat, the Wall was built by [[Bran the Builder|Brandon the Builder]] in order to protect the Seven Kingdoms, should the Others ever return. During the [[Age of Heroes]] it was also recorded by the Night's Watch that the [[children of the forest]] gave the Night's Watch a hundred [[obsidian]] daggers every year.{{Ref|aFfC|5}}
But other than the corrupting of the thirteenth [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] named the "[[Night's King]]," attacks by the Others never came. Instead, the most frequent attacks came from the [[wildlings]], sometimes led by their [[King-Beyond-the-Wall|kings]], and their constant attempts at raiding in the North. Little by little, the Night's Watch began to forget that its main mission was not the fight against the wildlings, but against the Others. As the years came and went, the purpose of the Watch became less and less obvious, and its manpower decreased more and more, with most of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] neglecting the Wall. Only the North, particularly the [[House Stark|Starks]], have the memory of the old days, but even they believe the Others are no more than vague figures in stories told to frighten children.
But other than the corrupting of the thirteenth [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch|Lord Commander]] named the "[[Night's King]]," attacks by the Others never came. Instead, the most frequent attacks came from the [[wildlings]], sometimes led by their [[King-Beyond-the-Wall|kings]], and their constant attempts at raiding in the North. Little by little, the Night's Watch began to forget that its main mission was not the fight against the wildlings, but against the Others. As the years came and went, the purpose of the Watch became less and less obvious, and its manpower decreased more and more, with most of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] neglecting the Wall. Only the North, particularly the [[House Stark|Starks]], have the memory of the old days, but even they believe the Others are no more than vague figures in stories told to frighten children.
Revision as of 19:02, 27 February 2013
The Night's Watch is a military order dedicated to holding the Wall, the immense fortification on the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms, defending the realms of men from what lies beyond. The order's foundation dates back to the Age of Heroes, at the time when the Others were pushed back. The men of Night's Watch wear only black.
- 1 History
- 2 Organization
- 3 Possessions
- 4 Notable Members
- 5 References and Notes
The Night's Watch is one of the oldest orders in the Seven Kingdoms, as it survived the fall of the kingdoms of the First Men, following the Andal Invasion, and the War of Conquest. It was founded over 8,000 years ago, after the period known as the Long Night. Under cover of an endless night that lasted for a generation, the Others invaded from the Lands of Always Winter, laying waste to much of Westeros, until the Others were finally defeated by the Night's Watch at the Battle for the Dawn. After having pushed back the threat, the Wall was built by Brandon the Builder in order to protect the Seven Kingdoms, should the Others ever return. During the Age of Heroes it was also recorded by the Night's Watch that the children of the forest gave the Night's Watch a hundred obsidian daggers every year.[1]
But other than the corrupting of the thirteenth Lord Commander named the "Night's King," attacks by the Others never came. Instead, the most frequent attacks came from the wildlings, sometimes led by their kings, and their constant attempts at raiding in the North. Little by little, the Night's Watch began to forget that its main mission was not the fight against the wildlings, but against the Others. As the years came and went, the purpose of the Watch became less and less obvious, and its manpower decreased more and more, with most of the Seven Kingdoms neglecting the Wall. Only the North, particularly the Starks, have the memory of the old days, but even they believe the Others are no more than vague figures in stories told to frighten children.
At one time the Night's Watch boasted nineteen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, with over ten thousand men-at-arms between them. Castle Black alone quartered five thousand fighting men with all their horses, servants, and equipment. The highborn of the North have traditionally considered it an honor to serve on the Wall. Many younger sons of Northern houses, low in the line of succession, gladly took the black. 300 years after Aegon's conquest, only three castles remain in use and the Night's Watch's numbers have dwindled to fewer than a thousand men. Not only that, but the Night's Watch is now largely made up of the misfits of the Seven Kingdoms: peasants, debtors, poachers, rapers, thieves, and bastards. Only a few of the noble and knightly houses south of The Neck have members in the Night's Watch, and most serve because they fought on the wrong side of a war or fell afoul of political machinations.
According to Maester Pycelle the Wall is a world apart, and news oft reaches them late.
The Night's Watch consists of three orders: Rangers, Builders, and Stewards. All of them are subject to the Lord Commander and each of the three orders is led by its own officer, called First Ranger, First Builder, and First Steward, respectively. These officers are appointed by the Lord Commander.[2]
- Rangers: Although all brothers of the Watch stand watch on the Wall, the rangers are the main fighting force, adept at surviving in the wilderness and tasked with scouting and patrolling the Haunted Forest beyond the Wall. They are actively defending the Wall and riding out to face the Watch's enemies, including the lawless wildlings as well as the mysterious, inhuman Others.[3]
- Builders: The builders are responsible for maintaining the Wall, the castles, and the equipment. They provide masons, carpenters, miners, and woodsmen. [3]
- Stewards: The stewards are the largest of the three orders. The stewards are responsible for an assortment of critical functions, providing vital day-to-day services. They hunt and farm, tend horses, gather firewood, cook meals, make clothing, maintain weapons, and conduct trade with the south, bringing back to the Wall all of the supplies needed by the Night's Watch.[3] Like other members of the Watch, the stewards must be ready to fight at a moment's notice, and all have received at least basic combat training.
Among the stewards, those with skill in sums or reading or writing might be given specialized tasks as well. Few enough are literate, but the Watch has a purpose for every man. Stewards also serve as attendants and squires for the high officers of the Watch, such as the Lord Commander. In short, the entire administration of the Night's Watch is in the hands of the Stewards.
The Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is the final authority and oversees the entire order. Any man of the Night's Watch can be nominated to be the Lord Commander. A Lord Commander serves in office until the day he dies, when a new Lord Commander is elected by the men of the Watch. It is strongly suggested that the Lord Commander is usually a ranger. This may be gainsaid by a passage in "A Game of Thrones", in which Jon Snow is appointed a steward and not, to his disappointment, a ranger, and assigned as the personal steward of the current Lord Commander. His peers take it for granted that this means Snow is being groomed for leadership. A combination of these two theories may indicate a "fast track," where suitable candidates for Lord Commander may be placed to give them experience in each of the three disciplines, regardless of which they are initially placed. Ultimately though, the position of Lord Commander is filled by an election, so no one, even fast-tracked, can be guaranteed it.
The majority of the officers and leadership of the Watch are pulled from the upper crust of Westerosi society. An aristocratic or knighted man is almost guaranteed a position as an officer in the Watch, but there are several powerful and influential brothers that are of common blood as well, such as the senior rangers Qhorin the Half-Hand, Blane, and Cotter Pyke, commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea and a bastard-born pirate. The Watch, as a meritocracy, is one of the few places in feudal Westeros where a common man can rise high and even gain command over knights and lords, rising as far as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Once, serving on the Wall was honor and a sign of selfless devotion to duty, with many knights, honorable men, and nobles taking the black voluntarily. Today, the Night's Watch is beginning to be seen as only a way to avoid punishment; suitable less for knights now than for the dregs of Westeros, salvaged from dungeons by traveling recruiters. Disgraced nobles, bastards, and even the unwanted legitimate offspring of nobles are "encouraged" to take the black, making many of today's Watch a surly and dissatisfied lot.
Those who come voluntarily are free to leave during any time of their training, but no man may leave after he has said vows. Any deserters are sentenced to death. After taking the vows, the men of the Watch cannot own any land, marry, or father children. Men are also encouraged to sever any ties left with their families, if they're lucky enough to have one.
Men of the Night's Watch are garbed all in black, a tradition that earned them the nickname "crows," particularly among the wildlings. While some use this name derogatorily, many in the Night's Watch have adopted the term for their own use. They are also called "the black brothers," and in song they've been called the "black knights of the Wall."
When the recruits are considered ready to take the black, they say their vows either in a sept or before a heart tree. The vows are as follows:
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all nights to come.
It's customary to finish a black brother's eulogy with the words, "And now his watch is ended."
Castles of the Night's Watch
The Night's Watch raised nineteen castles to guard the hundred leagues of the Wall, although they have never manned more than seventeen at one time. Today only few of them are maintained by an ever dwindling force. The castles themselves are closer to garrisons, composed mostly of barracks, stables, storehouses, towers and out-buildings, as they have no walls of their own (other than the Wall itself). They were purposefully built this way so the Watch could man only the Wall itself and focus on threats from the north. The Night's Watch feared no attack from the south because of their vow not to take part in the wars of the Seven Kingdoms.
Presently, due to manpower shortages, the Watch only mans the Shadow Tower, Castle Black and Eastwatch, although there are plans to re-garrison Nightfort and many of the other castles. The question of who will be responsible for the remanned castles is a point of tension between the Lord Commander Jon Snow and King Stannis. Patrols between the castles used to be more regular, but as the manpower of the Night's Watch diminished, so did the number of patrols. Now the Watch uses mules to ride atop the Wall, as the paths have not been graveled between the older castles in many years. The mules are bred at Eastwatch and are specially trained for their duties.[4]
Night's Watch castles listed from west to east
Most notable are
- Castle Black, the largest maintained castle, located at the northern end of Kingsroad held by nearly six hundred brothers at the beginning of A Game of Thrones
- The Shadow Tower, most western outpost of the Watch, garrisoned by two hundred men at the beginning of "A Game of Thrones."
- Eastwatch, port town of the Night's Watch with the smallest standing garrison.
- The Nightfort, the oldest and largest castle of the Night's Watch. Houses the "The Black Gate," a secret way through the Wall sealed by a magical ancient door fashioned from weirwood, which only opens to a sworn brother of the Night's Watch.
- Deep Lake, built seven miles east of the Nightfort and meant to replace it. It was paid for by Good Queen Alysanne Targaryen.
- Queensgate, originally called Snowgate, it was renamed after Good Queen Alysanne slept there for one night during her visit to the Wall.
The Gift and the New Gift
The Gift is a tract of land measuring twenty-five leagues southward from the Wall that the Night's Watch received from King Brandon Stark of the North. For years the Watch farmed the Gift, but as their numbers dwindled there were fewer hands to plow the fields, tend the bees and plant the orchards, so the wild reclaimed much of the area. Wishing to restore the Night's Watch and reward its loyal service in defense of the realm, Queen Alysanne, wife of King Jaehaerys the Conciliator, doubled the extent of the Gift. Towns and villages that were located within the "New Gift" supported the Night's Watch with their taxes, rendered by goods and labor. In time, the New Gift lost population as people moved south, into the mountains or into the Umber lands east of the Kingsroad to avoid wildling raids, further reducing the support structure for the Night's Watch and the Wall.[5]
The nearest point of civilization to Castle Black is Mole's Town, a subterranean settlement whose brothel is frequently patronized by brothers of the Night's Watch.
The Night's Watch employs a small fleet at Eastwatch. Known Night's Watch ships include the Blackbird, the Storm Crow, and the Talon.
Notable Members
Recent Lords Commander
- Lord Jeor Mormont, 997th Lord Commander of the Watch, known as "The Old Bear." Towards the end of his tenure, he became increasingly worried as more rangers were lost beyond the Wall, including First Ranger Benjen Stark. Also, there were more reports coming in of wildlings either fleeing south or gathering in large numbers to escape or meet some threat. After an attempt to investigate in force, most of the brothers who went with him were killed at the Battle of the Fist of the First Men. Following this staggering loss, he was murdered by his own rangers during a mutiny.
- Lord Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
Past Lords Commander
- 'Night's King', 13th Lord Commander who converted the Night's Watch into his own personal army and led it in battle against the King of the North and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall.
- Lord Commander Qorgyle, the 996th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch before Lord Jeor Mormont and a member of House Qorgyle. His first name is never given.
- Runcel Hightower, tried to make the position of Lord Commander hereditary and pass the position to his son.
- Rodrik Flint, thought to make himself King-beyond-the-Wall.
- Tristan Mudd, Mad Marq Rankenfell and Robin Hill; Three Lords Commander who nearly destroyed the Watch when they forgot their vows in favor of their pride and ambition.
- Osric Stark, a brother or son of a King in the North. He was chosen Lord Commander when he was 10 making him the youngest Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He served for 60 years [1]
- Brynden Rivers, AKA "Bloodraven", Sent to the Wall ca. 233 AL by King Aegon V, he eventually became Lord Commander.
- Unknown brother of Harren the Black, Stayed on the Wall while his brother burned at Harrenhal.[6]
- Sleepy Jack, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch when Raymun Redbeard crossed the Wall and was late for the Battle of Long Lake.
- Beardless Dick, A ranger.
- Benjen Stark, First Ranger and younger brother to Lord Eddard Stark. Missing beyond the Wall and thought dead.
- Blane, a senior ranger of common blood, scout and second to Qhorin Halfhand. Killed while in command of the Shadow Tower Men during the Battle at the Fist of the First Men.
- Bowen Marsh, Lord Steward of the Night's Watch. Led a successful but costly battle against wildling raiders in the Gorge, west of the Shadow Tower.
- Chett, former steward to Maester Aemon until Samwell Tarly was raised to the post. Sent to the pens to take care of the dogs. Later, he conspired to kill Jeor Mormont, but was slain and turned into a wight.
- Cotter Pyke, commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
- Donal Noye, one-armed blacksmith at Castle Black. He was personal blacksmith to House Baratheon and made Robert's warhammer before losing an arm during Greyjoy's Rebellion. He died killing Mag the Mighty, King of the Giants, underneath the Wall during the Battle of Castle Black.
- Eddison Tollett, a steward, called "Dolorous Edd" for his sarcastic and black humor.
- Jarmen Buckwell, a senior ranger. Survived the Battle of the Fist of the First Men and retreated back to Castle Black.[7]
- Ser Denys Mallister, commander at The Shadow Tower.
- Janos Slynt, former commander of the City Watch in King's Landing, later Lord of Harrenhal, and finally a Brother of the Night's Watch. A political lackey of House Lannister, he was exiled to the Wall by Tyrion Lannister, who wanted to rid King's Landing of corruption and himself of Lord Slynt. Tyrion's father Tywin Lannister later tried to make Slynt a tool of House Lannister in the Watch, and nearly turned the election for a new Lord Commander in Slynt's favor. After Jon Snow's election to the post, Slynt's continued insubordination led Snow to execute him.
- Maester Aemon, maester of Castle Black and one of the last Targaryens. Died of old age at sea with Samwell Tarly.
- Ser Mallador Locke, knight and ranger. Killed during the Battle of the Fist of the First Men.
- Othell Yarwyck, first Builder of the Night's Watch.
- Qhorin Halfhand, second-in-command at The Shadow Tower and a ranger of much repute. He allowed Jon Snow to kill him so that Snow would be accepted among the wildlings.
- Thoren Smallwood, acting First Ranger after Benjen Stark's disappearance. Killed by a wight bear during the Battle of the Fist of First Men.
- Samwell Tarly, son of renowned battle commander Randyll Tarly. Obese and an admitted coward. Sent by Lord Snow to the Citadel for study after the Battle on the Fist of the First Men.
- Grenn, recruit with Jon who is assigned to the rangers.
- Pypar, more commonly known as Pyp, recruit with Jon, originally with a mummers' troupe.
- Dareon is a recruit in the same "class" as Jon and is named a steward sent to Eastwatch-by-the-sea. He was an apprentice singer in the Reach.
- Todder, more commonly known as Toad, is a recruit in the same "class" as Jon, named a ranger.
- Jeren is a recruit in the same "class" as Jon Snow and is named a steward. He was the bastard son of a septon.
- Halder, also known as Stoney, is a recruit in the same "class" as Jon Snow and is named a builder. Incredibly strong.
- Albett, also known as Pimple, is a recruit in the same "class" as Jon Snow and is named a builder.
- Satin is a recruit of the Night's Watch after Jon.
- Ser Jaremy Rykker, a senior ranger and knight. Killed by a wight at Castle Black.
- Ser Waymar Royce, novice ranger and knight, slain by an Other.
- Ser Wynton Stout, an elderly ranger.
- Small Paul, a simple-minded brother. He was part of a conspiracy to kill Jeor Mormont until the Brothers were attacked at the Fist of the First Men. He saves Samwell Tarly, but was slain by an Other and returned as a Wight.
- Stonesnake, ranger from the Shadow Tower. Companion to Qhorin Half-Hand and the most accomplished mountain climber in the Watch. Missing and presumed dead after trying to cross the Frostfangs alone and on foot.
- Ulmer, a grey-bearded outlaw, once part of the Kingswood Brotherhood. Skilled with a bow.
- Yoren, senior "wandering crow" or recruiter for the Watch. He attempted to smuggle Arya Stark to the North, but was killed fighting Lannister men who were searching for the outlaw Beric Dondarrion.
See also List of all known members of the Night's Watch
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 26, Jon III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 40, Bran III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 60, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
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Led Zeppelin | Official Website Subiaco Oval - February 16, 1972
Click here to view the 1972 Australian tour programme(flipbook) Reviews / Press: Heavy Rock - With Discipline, by John BryantThe West Australian | February 17, 1972Perth has probably never seen a concert quite like it. Certainly, a Festival of Perth attraction has never been so "heavy". That Led Zeppelin rock group's only concert at Subiaco Oval last night at the beginning of an Australian Tour was unique. The pelting rhythm and distinctive brackets of the group - consisting of electric guitarist Jimmy Page, organist John Paul Jones, drummer John Bonham and lead vocalist Robert Plant - were different from any rock group that has appeared in Perth. And the 80000 people who went enjoyed every minute of the two and a half hour performance. Some were so keen to see the most popular English heavy rock group to ever appear live in Perth that they did not mind climbing fences to get in. Police and officials were kept busy preventing and removing people entering the stadium. Early in the programme about 30 youths could be seen running across the stand adjoining the member's pavilion at the oval. Presumably they did not pay for the seats in that stand. Soon after the concert began Robert Plant told the audience, "Anyway we took 36 hours to get here, so we are going to have a good time." That drew a wild cheer from the audience. The group performed on the shell-backed stage. The sound produced by the amplifiers placed on each side of the stage was at times painfully loud. The group wound up to its full potential during heavier numbers. Perhaps for the older eardrums, a few less decibels would have been appreciated. The Led Zeppelin represents a rock music expression whose main contribution is originality. As has been suggested, it can produce a domineering, pulsating sound in which the heavy rhythm section is the only distinguishable feature. 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About 500 youths rammed the locked gates, threw rocks and bottles into the oval and lit fires. Police reinforcements were rushed to the oval soon after the concert began and at one stage there were more than 20 police vehicles outside the ground. Several people were arrested. The St. John Ambulance treated 15 people for minor cuts and bruises, most of them caused by broken glass and stones thrown into the crowd by the mob. Many of the people who were unable to buy tickets to the concert climbed fences, cut holes in the fence wire and pulled gates from the hinges in an attempt to join 5000 people already inside the ground. The 500 violent protesters outside the oval continued to throw rocks till the police arrived. Burning paper was thrown at the policemen near the gates. Officials used a hose to put out the fires. However, youths moved toward the gate to block the stream of water. The officials then sprayed the water at the youths to make them move. 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They thought the raid was retribution for the concert trouble. He said the group had not seen the riot, but had only read a report in this mornings newspaper. Page criticised the police for leaving the group unprotected and allowing the stage to be mobbed at the end of the concert. "I'd like to now if today's raid was some sort of a rebuff for last night", he said. "We had nothing to do with any of what happened and then this morning, at some unearthly hour we were pulled out of bed and treated in a totally derogatory manner". He said the group had not got to bed until early this morning and then were dragged out of bed by police about 8:30 am. Abusing "They came into our rooms and started abusing us - they were very rude", he said. He said he was "sick do death of authorities asserting arbitrary power". He had experienced riots before and "it was always the police who provoked the crowd". He said: "I thought we could get away from this sort of thing out here. I'm just dumbfounded by it all. We just didn't expect anything like this to happen in Australia". A bloody riot broke out at a concert, where the group played in Milan, Italy last year, and police fired tear gas into the crowd. The other members of the group, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham were not available for comment. The group - among the to British pop money earners - left Perth by plane at noon today and flew to Adelaide where they will continue their tour. Chief of the CIB, Superintendent W.H. Nielson, said today: "Acting on information received, members of the drug squad visited the group at their hotel today. They interviewed them but took no further action. Today's action by the CIB men was completely divorced from any incidents which occurred last night at Subiaco Oval. Today's action had no connection with the group's public show". Meanwhile, a spokesman for Channel Seven which helped organise the concert as part of the Festival of Perth said today many of the gatecrashers and rioters - at Subiaco Oval last night - had come "armed like they were ready to storm a Norman castle in the dark ages.There were about 500 people outside and many of them came prepared", he said. "They came with wire and bolt cutters and even had ladders. It was obvious that they had no intention of paying. Many were just there to cause trouble. At one stage about 50 of them came over the fence. We had 30 security men on the fenceline and 25 police inside the grounds". Police were attacked with bricks, rocks, bottles, cans and flaming projectiles, before they called for reinforcements. They called for help when fans began pelting them with cans filled with rocks. All available men were rushed to the oval from Central Police Station. Traffic police and police from nearby suburban stations also answered the call. When the trouble was at its height about 20 extra police were at the oval. While the battle raged, thousands of gatecrashers came though and over fences around the ground. Youths with wire cutters left a trail of gaping holes in the fence. Sections of barbed wire were cut away and heavy duty, tube steel gates at the Subiaco Road turnstile were twisted and the hinges torn from the wall. As police battled to control the riot the stage was left unprotected and more than 1000 fans mobbed the musicians. As the group drew towards the end of its last song, people began to dance on the stage. The group kept playing and the crowd swamped them. Lead singer Robert Plant had his shirt torn from his back as he tried to run from the stage.
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We'd like to stick to the same or similar colors, blue and gray. These colors tend to work well on a black or white background.
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The name of this parish is generally supposed to have been derived from the two Saxon words god and win, 'good wine,' applied on account of the superior ale for which the place was celebrated, and which, after being kept for several years, approached in flavour to wine. Some, however, derive it from the Gaelic word gamham, pronounced gavan, and signifying 'a ditch,' used in reference to the river Clyde, which runs through the parish, and which, in ancient times, was a very narrow stream. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
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She had seen much in her lifetime, be it visiting children's hospitals, veteran's hospitals or old folks homes. Still, she greeted each day with an alert shine in her eyes. She endured each new pain, be it her own or someone else's, with a deep sigh signaling merciful acceptance. Even at 84 -- that's 12 in dog years -- Maxine treated each car trip, each walk, as an event packed with infinite possibility and immeasurable joy.
I came to Maxine late. Her owner introduced me. By the time I met her she was a Grande Dame. Regal. Tolerant. Loving.
She had seen much in her lifetime, be it visiting children's hospitals, veteran's hospitals or old folks homes. Still, she greeted each day with an alert shine in her eyes. She endured each new pain, be it her own or someone else's, with a deep sigh signaling merciful acceptance.
Even at 84 -- that's 12 in dog years -- Maxine treated each car trip, each walk, as an event packed with infinite possibility and immeasurable joy.
Most weekend mornings she would sit stoically and silently by my bed, her nose inches from mine. She made no move. No noise. Until I stirred. OK, there was that morning she sneezed all over me, but that was involuntary. I'm sure she would have covered her nose with one of her palm-sized paws if she knew how. So, other than the sneezing incident, she would wait. Patiently.Once I moved, her patience disappeared.
She would open and close her mouth in quick snaps. Her ears would perk up. If her tail had been hooked up to a turbine, it could have powered the neighborhood. She walked in tight circles in front of me, taking her spade-sized head and nudging my thighs, making me lose my balance, forcing me to hop and stagger around the bedroom, one pant leg on and one off.
"C'mon. Times a wastin' Time for our walk. And I just know this is going to be greatest walk in the history of walks. I must have a good two or three loads in me. And the peeing! Think of the peeing! Oh, this is going to be fantastic. Something good's going to happen. I just know it. Hurry up. Get those pants on man!" she seemed to be saying with every fiber of her being.
She'd stand still long enough for me to clip on the leash and stare in disbelief as I put on hat, coat, shoes and gloves. I'd reach for three poop bags — experience taught me one was rarely enough. I'd give the signal to head down the stairs and off we'd go, her tail thumping the wall on either side as we went down the stairwell.
Once out, every leaf, every blade of grass, every clump of soil presented a chance for olfactory bliss. Once the snow came, she treated each clump, ice chunk or yellowed pee hole as the Holy Grail. Once in a while she'd hit a poop pile left by an irresponsible dog owner. Oh the joy at this discovery. I'd stand. She'd sniff. And sniff. And sniff. Finally I'd tug the leash."That's enough poop sniffing," I'd say.
And she'd look at me with her big brown eyes, the left perennially bloodshot, as if to say, "Hey. Don't you know you have to stop and sniff the dog poop on the way?"The scolding would give her a few more sniffs at the brown pile.
Once home, Max would wait for her post-walk biscuit, slurp at the water bowl and then camp out on the second-floor porch, lying on her belly, front paws outstretched, head up, Sphinx like, watching the traffic, ensuring no car would dare invade the porch. She'd do this for about 20 minutes. Then, guard duty over, she'd head to her bed, exhausted from her night of sleeping, her half-hour walk and her porch guarding, and sleep for most of the day — until the evening walk.
Part Burmese mountain dog and part beagle — I don't know, so don't ask — Maxine could have looked much goofier than she did. She had short, beagle hair. Black dots on her white snout. And her legs were a little squat for a 90-pound dog, as if she needed to grow another few inches to complete her body. The sniffing was the beagle, I'm sure.
Maxine lumbered, her black-and-brown body nearly swaying from one side to the other, as if determined to leave paw prints in the pavement with each step.
Presented with a closed door, she would lower her head and flip it forward, banging the door with her forehead several times to make sure she couldn't force it open.
Maxine wasn't graceful, but she was full of grace, possessing a charisma rarely seen in dogdom. Once, I was taking her for a walk and a group of kids saw her and sprinted 50 yards across the playground, arriving too breathlessly to ask, "Can we pet your dog?"
A trained therapy dog, she would let kids climb all over her. Or she would sit at the base of the bed of the sickest patient in the ward. Around the apartment, she invariably sat by me whenever I paid bills or was on the phone to an insurance company.
Sometimes, when she was resting, I would lie down beside her and place my head on a velvet-soft, hand-sized ear and she would raise a paw and place it on my shoulder.
And that is how I left her. Petting her, saying, "Goodbye Max."
Over her last couple of days her lumber had become a limp. And then, she was simply paralyzed from the middle of her back down. She no longer wagged her tail because she couldn't.
She made one last great sigh at the vets, reached her paw toward my shoulder, her head on her owner's lap, full of grace to the last.I'm so glad I always gave her those extra sniffs.
Dan Mac Alpine is senior editor of the Beverly Citizen in Beverly, Mass.


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Authorities released the booking photo on Saturday of the Greeley man who was arrested a day earlier on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of his wife.
Police say Juan Manuel Velasquez-Trinidad, 51, walked up to the front desk of Greeley police headquarters about 12:25 p.m. on Friday and told officers he had stabbed his wife, Martha Velasquez, 47, in the chest. Police responded to the duplex home in the 800 block of 31st Avenue and found Velasquez bleeding from severe stab wounds to the chest. She was taken by ambulance to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 2:43 p.m. as a result of her wounds.
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As the state geologist for Arizona, Lee Allison knows granite from sandstone, a syncline from an anticline. But he has lacked the ability to look through rocks to visualize the inner workings of the Earth.
In the past year, Allison has been using a Microsoft Research-developed tool called Layerscape. Based on the popular WorldWide Telescope, also developed by Microsoft Research, Layerscape is a cloud-based instrument that enables earth scientists to analyze and visualize massive amounts of data. With Layerscape, scientists can create three-dimensional virtual tours of the Earth; explore new ways of looking at Earth and oceanic data; and build predictive models in areas such as climate change, health epidemics, and oceanic shifts.
In Arizona, Allison is using Layerscape to create detailed models of the state's landscape to help policymakers create ways to manage groundwater, map geothermal resources, and more.
"With Layerscape, we can look not only across the surface and bring in all the geologic maps," he says. "We're also bringing in the subsurface data—the millions of boreholes, water wells, oil and gas wells—and looking down in 3-D and bringing that information together to create a 3-D visualization that we've never been able to do before.
"Layerscape is giving us a visualization capability to show decision-makers, to show industry, to show the public how to use this scientific data and what the implications of it are to their lives."
Extending Capabilities
WorldWide Telescope, which launched in 2008, gives users an observatory housed within a PC. But it always was more than a way to explore space. It also offered a trove of information drawn from scholarly publications and databases, giving users detailed information about nearly any astronomical body.
Layerscape, says Rob Fatland, Microsoft Research Connections research program manager and Layerscape evangelist, builds on that approach in the service of earth sciences—geology, climatology, oceanography, glaciology, and other disciplines devoted to studying our planet.
One of the big challenges for the environmental scientist is managing the flow and the visualization of research data, Fatland says. Layerscape uses the power of a PC's graphics processor to visualize large amounts of data in space and in time. It can be used to render 3-D visualizations from data sets such as historical surface-temperature measurements, chlorophyll concentration, seismic activity, greenhouse-gas diffusion, sea-ice extent, wind patterns, ocean pH—even the drift of Saharan dust as it fuels plankton blooms across the surface of the Atlantic Ocean with nitrogen and iron.
"It gives scientists a way to generate a story about their data—to visualize and tell stories around complex data sets," Fatland says. "It's like you're given the camera and lighting and a film crew, and you can change the story and edit it any way you wish."
Fatland has created a webpage with demonstrations of Layerscape's capabilities, such as the way it enabled one contributor to visualize earthquake activity near Samoa and Japan.
Feedback Incorporated
Layerscape was first shown in beta version in San Francisco during December's meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). On Feb. 16, it was released, incorporating feedback received after the AGU meeting.
Layerscape will provide scientists and researchers from multiple earth-science disciplines with three key features:
Collaborators Quick to Find Value
In Arizona, for instance, geologists have records of essentially all earthquakes that occurred during the past 150 years. By importing that data to Layerscape, Allison's team quickly created an animated visualization of those earthquakes, by location and intensity.
"That has really been an eye-opener for the geologic hazards community," he says. "There's a common perception that 'Arizona isn't California—we don't have earthquakes in Arizona.' But we really do have a hazard here, and Layerscape is helping demonstrate that for us."
Allison, and the Arizona Geological Survey he directs, were among the approximately 30 collaborators working with Layerscape to show its capabilities before the release. Another collaborator has been the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, located in Moss Landing, Calif. There, James G. Bellingham, chief technologist, has been using Layerscape to solve what he calls the "incredible detective story" of understanding the world's oceans and their role in climate.
Today, ocean scientists such as Bellingham are collecting enormous amounts of data about the ocean by deploying autonomous underwater vehicles—essentially, underwater robots that can take video and can measure temperature, salinity, chemistry, and currents. Managing that growing amount of data is a challenge.
"In the past," Bellingham says, "the way we visualized data was we created a plot, we printed it on a paper, we put it on the wall, we thought about it."
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But now he uses Layerscape to manipulate and visualize the data. "What Layerscape lets us do is interact with the data and explore these data sets," Bellingham says. "Sometimes, we're really more interested in a story, and Layerscape helps us tell stories. It's becoming one of the tools that we use now for exploring these data sets, which are not just three-dimensional, but also four-dimensional over time."
He also is collaborating with Fatland—whose background is in earth sciences—on an instrument package that will measure the DNA and RNA of marine organisms as they drift through the ocean. "Our question is: How do these organisms respond to the changing ocean environment?" Bellingham says. "And can we actually see, in a visual way, how these organisms are distributed? That's what Rob is helping me work out with Layerscape."
Mark Abbott, dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, is another ocean scientist collaborating with Microsoft Research on Layerscape. He sees great potential in Layerscape's ability to handle diverse, complex data while also creating new opportunities for collaboration.
"Layerscape offers the opportunity," Abbott says, "to look at a whole range of variables and overlay them in space and, eventually, in time—so you can see how these ocean landscapes change and respond to changes in the environment," such as climate change and the increasing acidification of the oceans.
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Layerscape is available as a free download to run in conjunction with WorldWide Telescope.
"We believe the earth sciences are an important space in research, and we know that, for most researchers, money is tight," Fatland says. "We believe these people are worth supporting."
Although downloadable by anyone, Layerscape is aimed primarily at scientists, who can sample the program and provide more feedback. That will help Microsoft Research build features in preparation for a future release.
Certainly, if the success of WorldWide Telescope is any indication, Layerscape in time will prove popular with the public as well as the scientific community. WorldWide Telescope has been downloaded 4 million times and is used by researchers and educators, as well as people simply interested in exploring space from their desktop.
Using Layerscape, that exploration now extends to a planet—our own—that is well-known to most people, but not really well-understood.
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First of all I would like to make you think more about who you are, why you are, where you are, what you want and where you are going. So if you don't like to spend much time thinking about life and rather spend more time taking drugs and party every day? Then I suggest for you not to comment at all to spare yourself from humiliation. As for the rest of you guys that are interested in knowing more about life I want to consider few things below:
Philosophy + (Science vs.- Religion) + Life with God
#1 Philosophy: Many think that science is the way forward to become enlightened. Yet life at first was thought to be simple by such as to all known Mr. Darwin. But science alone isn't enough to achieve enlightenment that's where philosophy comes in such as "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". Later we find it to be true. Of course there seems to be contradiction in this statement, but no more than religious so called "contradictions" or even "scientific". So let philosophy be our missing link of both right and wrong (for now). And the only way to find the right one is actually to find out where we are now and where we are heading. There are many philosophies in life. Most of them are based on experience. But experience is like knowing both good and evil, right and wrong. People make mistakes. People change and finally many people define their lives by one-sided experience while others by two-sided. Those that seek the truth, find it. Because "you can run from the truth, but you can't hide from it. Eventually you will run into it as it is as light guiding this world." - Vadim Cool
#2 Science: Let us go back to Darwin since every Atheist is praising Darwin. Darwin supported the theory of Natural Selection along with that life must be very simple. Well simplicity is true to the extend that it is the ultimate sophistication proven even by later science, not to mention philosophy. Just like we now have Macro-Evolution theory standing butt naked to Micro-Evolution theory where Natural Selection getting it's butt kicked by the day since there are more evidence to support (note: DEVOLVING) Evolution rather than EVOLVING Evolution where we find bigger species and humans of intellect throughout history of their own significant complexity. My personal favorite is the one I find least mentioned on the internet is SEX. Well everyone loves sex right? So why is nobody talking about it when it comes to science vs. religion? It's funny for me to see how Natural Selection is promoted as the way forward, yet nobody takes a look around to see the probability of it being the way backwards. Natural Selection is about the 'survival of the fittest'. But there is only a need for 1 fittest cell like a virus in order to maintain it's significance and adoption to the nature's course of evolution. Yet everywhere around us we life still prospering not to mention that especially in animal species we see a requirement of a female and male organs in order to reproduce and survive. So if one is dead without the other, then it is a weakness which should have been removed long time ago by so called Natural Selection polishing process. While people may call this development for Natural Selection. In reality it's just a name which many don't know the real meaning of, since many don't know what NATURE even is. If nature perform things in a certain pattern, it's indeed not an ELECTION of the fittest, but rather a SELECTION by a design. Since nature isn't suppose to have a mind of it's own, then why does it look so pre-programmed? Like a product that never fails to impress and to re-sell due to it's changes that are almost NEVER flawed. No matter how deep we dig, we do not find mutants, but rather impressive creatures that are more beautiful than (Ferrari designed by man). We're then no longer talking about a Natural Selection, but rather a Supernatural Selection beyond our control which is far more likely in our case and if we ever to have any hope for a future. Besides there is far more to life than pure science, like love, beauty and life after death which could occur in other dimensions which can't be measured by scientific instruments... And how can something come from nothing anyway?.. No-one dare is foolish enough to challenge theory of NON-EXISTENCE since we consider yourself to exist. So science alone can kick it off so that no religion can't stand in it's way? There is just one problem or two. Number one is that science is can only measure depth of creation while creation in it-self doesn't provide life, but rather replicates it, a process which even scientists haven't achieved yet like to make a human being from scratch, so what does it say about our human intellect when Nature can achieve more than us? Are we then to give more value to a cell than our intellect/thoughts/soul? And besides there is a reason people call programmers nerds with no life. Because there is more to life than a string of code. Values which we live by such as love. So when I die, what am I going to use my scientific knowledge for in death? Or if I were to live forever on Earth or in space around people with lust for blood and power, how is that different from living forever with God which is considered to be evil by many Atheists? At this point I stand better chance with God. Since at least if God is God, he must be stronger, smarter and more powerful to make my life awesome! And if it was to make my life miserable or hell, then why am I experiencing so many good things in life besides the bad things? So next stop, religion.
#3 Religion: Many believe in God or so they say, yet almost everyone seems to have their own personal God which is God of no personality or a God with a personality but not answering God or an answering God but claims to be different God since everyone experiencing different answers. But is it really that complicated? Yes and No. Some believe that there is a spiritual world or different dimensions. Yet their experience may indeed be false. Because spiritual world can contain, not different Gods, but rather spirits claiming to be Gods. There can be only one God and therefore people shouldn't seek spirit world, but rather God. But you will be surprised if you go on Google and see for yourself that it is far easier to come in contact with spirits rather than God itself. Why? Now that is a good question and something for you to figure out. A hint would be, "God want us to realize that on our own we can only do evil and destroy ourselves". In any case you should seek God like if it was your last day of life, because you never know when your last day actually will come. And if I were you, I wouldn't bet my life on a complete random chance and place it on a Russian Roulette. If we know love, lets start with that. Then so must also God. And if we live only for ourselves, so does ... NO! We don't live only for ourselves, at least not like me, myself and I. We live for eachother/ourselves. And so now we can say that so does God. God lives to make our life a joy and not a living hell. And the only reason our lives become a living hell sometimes is because sometimes we get too greedy and spoiled wanting things we don't really need. Like a big house rather than a happy child. A spoiled child rather than a good child. People living for eachother not realizing that their lives are temporally and that they soon going to leave this kind of life. Still many go on doing as they pleased without considering the cost of leaving faith to God who might be very angry and displeased. Because our lifestyle and in total our value of life isn't found in life but rather in death since many of us are looking forward to death without any concern for what next? But this isn't a game where you can go on to next game after you done your best with this one. This is your now which will decide your future. And your children and your children-children won't decide your future. You will. But what if there is only one possible God and your will does not correspond with God's will? Are you free to do as you pleased and still be right? Sure.. You will always be right if you want to be God and play his part. But then be willing to spend the rest of your possible future in the absence of God on your own. And since God only want the best for us since God must know far more to love than us his creation. And we never seek God and never want to find a life with God? Then our life will be hell in one way or another. Because humans fight eachother far more and kill far more of it's own kind than any animals on earth probably even combined all together. Good luck surviving. It seems more intellect we gain, the faster we are able to destroy ourselves.
AS FOR THE EXPERIENCE WITH GOD. I can promise you, you will have it for real so there won't be any doubt in your mind that it was God. But only if you wish for an actual LIFE and not just a hopelessness to look forward to. Every story is different, some indeed experience more and some experience less. But one thing remains, the experience which point to the same source. That source is Jesus. There is a reason for why people still use B.C. and A.D. in our date. Things changed when Christ has walked the earth. Those things he taught can be performed and even tested for those who refuse to believe. But the awesome thing is, why wait for someone else to reveal God to you when it's you that need to experience God, not me. God is alive and we can see it by what we experience when we walk according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. You can experience them as well. The question is do you want to and what will you do after that? Yes, God want us to be happy, but God also want us to live by his side and not somewhere far away like if we were fugitives or somethings. There is no need to and not recomended since we will just create our own Hell for ourselves and it is a declaration of WAR to good God (our creator) at the same time. So will you live for God if you experience God? THAT MY FRIEND WOULD BE A NICE CONSIDERATION BEFORE YOU START YOUR CONVERSATION WITH GOD. Because God is using those that are willing to live for him and with him, not to die for him/(our life giver and our true father). Dying is easy, living is hard. Just like your father and mother gave you life, wouldn't you live close to them? Well in any case.. love is not about separation. So if you want love, you will go and seek your true life giver and he will answer the door if you come to make peace and not war. So to be or not to be a believer, good, alive and loved? One thing that you may not always understand God's intentions. Another is they will eventually bring you or people around you true joy of life which you can't experience on your own or even with people. Only with a righteous and loving God.
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Preheat oven to 375.
Brush 2 baking sheets with oil; set aside.
In a wide, shallow bowl, whisk together eggs and 2 tablespoons water.
In another bowl, combine breadcrumbs, 3/4 cup Parmesan, oregano, and basil; season with salt and pepper.
Dip eggplant slices in egg mixture, then dredge in breadcrumb mixture, coating well; place on baking sheets.
Bake until golden brown on bottom, about 15 minutes; turn slices and back about 10-15 minutes longer.
Raise oven heat to 400.
Top pizza crust with sauce, eggplant, and cheeses.
Bake 15-20 minutes, until crust is baked through and cheeses are melty and bubbly. (Serves 4-6...but, Hubs and I ate the whole thing)


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"Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside" (MTV 10 p.m.) Haven't we overdosed on Lady Gaga yet?
"River Monsters: The Lost Reels" (Animal Planet 7 p.m.) C'mon. These reels weren't "lost." They were sitting on the editor's desk when producers came in and said, "Let's milk another few episodes from all this leftover footage."
"Revolver Golden Gods Awards 2011" (VH1 Classics 8 p.m.) Metalheads Avenged Sevenfold, Lars Ulrich, Alice Cooper, Duff McKagan and Sebastian Bach get the shout-out from host/wrestler Chris Jericho.
"My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding" (TLC 7 p.m.) While weddings among the traditional Romani people of Europe are colorful enough to merit their own special, My Big Fat Greek Wedding was nine years ago and no longer counts as a hip meme.
"Iced With Sylvia Weinstock" (WE 10 p.m.) You know the rules, WE: Blatantly plagiaristic reality show concepts get mocked. We already have, like, a hundred cake-decorating shows on basic cable. Yours is waaaay too late to the party.
"Ice Loves Coco: Baby Got Backstory" (E! 11:30 p.m.) Fear that you'll be lost when rapper-turned-actor Ice-T and his freakishly anatomized bride get their own reality show? To help out, E! offers this half-hour special giving you all the information you'll need. ... Namely, he's a rapper-turned-actor and she has a cartoonishly large ass.
"Single Ladies" (VH1 7 p.m.) Stacey Dash, LisaRaye McCoy and Charity Shea headline this Beyoncé-inspired sitcom.
"Man v. Monster" (Nat Geo Wild 8 p.m.) Sorry, Nat Geo Wild, but I'm gonna have to dock you for having a blatantly plagiaristic reality show concept as well. We've already got dozens of shows on the air that have failed to find Bigfoot and pals. We don't need you adding to the disappointment.
"Platinum Hit" (Bravo 8 p.m.) Oh, thank God. Kara DioGuardi is back. I was worried a former "American Idol" judge would be without a televised singing competition to judge.
"Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition" (KOAT-7 9:01 p.m.) Blatantly plagiaristic reality show concept! We are full up on "fat people losing weight" shows. Don't need any more. Please move on to shows about lazy people mowing lawns or something.
"Love Handles: Couples in Crisis" (Lifetime 8 p.m.) Blatantly plagiaristic reality show concept overload! Two "fat people losing weight shows" in one week? Shame on you, TV!
"Haunted Collector" (Syfy 7 p.m.) A reality show about a family that collects "haunted" objects? Lemme check. ... Nope, don't have one of those. You're good.
"Love in the Wild" (KOB-4 9 p.m.) This so-called "extreme dating experiment" sends couples out into the jungle to get it on. Think "The Bachelor" crossed with "Survivor." Only dumber.
"Sand Masters" (Travel 8 p.m.) Sorry, but much like ice sculpting, sand-castle building doesn't count as a real career and therefore is ineligible for the Wheel of Blue Collar Jobs That Don't Have Reality Shows Yet.
"The World According to Paris" (Oxygen 11 p.m.) Aaaand somebody gave Paris Hilton another reality show. ... What a week.


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Dear Herkimer patrons from last night,
I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for my actions during the Packers-Falcons game. If you were the unfortunate recipient of splashing beer during my many siezure-like celebrations, I am truly sorry. If you feel that this apology isn't sufficient, I can offer you nothing more, but I urge you to lodge a complaint directly with Aaron Rodgers who was the cause of the majority of these celebrations when he proceeded to go 31 of 36 for 366 3 and 1.
Sincerely yours,
PS - I would also like to thank the sweet girl who found my scarf on the floor...four times. You'd think after two times I would have addressed the issue. You would have been wrong.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Apology to Herkimer Patrons
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Was it a Packers scarf?ReplyDelete
Sadly, no. I have yet to pick one up. Soon...ReplyDelete
- Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant ChuckerbuttyJanuary 16, 2011 at 12:14 PM
I suggest wearing your scarf around your waist in championship belt fashion. It boosts confidence and secures the wandering apparel.ReplyDelete
Then you can be 2 of 2 with three spilt home-made energy drinks.
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Welcome to the new Custom Map Makers forum.
This forum was created to be a meeting place for those interested in making maps for the popular first person shooter, Urban Terror. The original idea and effort came from rayne and the torch has been passed on to others, we do our best to keep the original vision alive.
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Passages in Time
We're a start-up company, bringing much-needed inspiration to the overworked, tired, under-enthused, hyper-stimulated masses. We're creating a new product, on very unusual material, that can best be described as two side-by-side vertical panels printed on a neoprene sleeve. We're in the business of encouragement and enlightenment, but we're not new-agey patchouli-scented hemp sock wearers. This is also NOT syrupy greeting-card stuff nor Motivational "waterfall" posters. This is something the user will look at and possibly use daily. Our product is Fair Trade and Green and its purchase will benefit everyone involved.
Please read the whole brief. Target market is likely to be 70% female, 30% male from initial creative research. Our guess is that this is a niche market, with customers being above average in income, education, profession and world experience. Respondents showed keen interest in TATTOO INSPIRED DESIGNS, NATURE MOTIFS, ASIAN-INFLUENCED PATTERNS, and HIP ALL-TEXT TREATMENT. Target audience interests: yoga, spirituality, self-help, theater, fitness, environmentalists, optimists etc. We suspect this will be an upscale gift item that makes a statement about the giver and the recipient - allowing both to feel socially-aware, indulging in a dose of Zen, and a reminder of what matters in their life.
See attached file. Dimensions are actual. We need two side-by-side inspirational panels designed along themes above (or any other theme to attract target audience.) Side A carries one half of a quote, side B carries the other half. One quote split on 2 panels.
*Black background or edges are ideal but not required. 2 or 3 colours may keep it more upscale, but 4-colour is ok too.
*Text should be CONCENTRATED in the 3" wide, 4.5" tall space where indicated, but not entirely limited. Designs should be scalable, finished product size may vary slightly.
*THE TEXT IS THE STAR OF THE DESIGN. It should be visible from about 3ft. away so do not make it hard to read or allow graphics to obsure it. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
*Text reads L to R, with space used creatively - whimsy, artsy etc. Base material is like neoprene - wet suit fabric.
*Fonts should NOT be typical or tired fonts we are all used to seeing. No photography.
*Choose any of these quotes to show us your best work. They should break where indicated, first half on side A, second half on Side B. :
1. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon...
But that we wait so long to begin it.
2. Get Outside Everyday...
Miracles Are Waiting Everywhere.
3. Life is 10% what happens to me...
and 90% how I react to it.
4. Imagination is everything...
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Alex is going to bring the Toreador clan from Bloodlines 2 to life - in case mod form!
Researchers at the UCLA have developed a graphene-based transistor running at 300GHz.
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Sulzberger's last straw
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger fired executive editor Jill Abramson after concluding that she had misled both him and chief executive Mark Thompson during her effort to hire a new co-managing editor, according to two sources with knowledge of the reason for her termination.
While several factors contributed to Sulzberger's frustration with Abramson's management of the newsroom, the sources, who are sympathetic to the Times management, said it was this incident that sealed her fate.
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In conversations and emails, Abramson led both Sulzberger and Thompson to believe that she had consulted with other newsroom leaders about her decision to offer The Guardian's Janine Gibson a job as co-managing editor, the sources said. Specifically, they said she implied that both Dean Baquet, her managing editor, and Janet Elder, the deputy managing editor responsible for newsroom resources and staff development, had been informed and were on board with the plan.
( Also on POLITICO: N.Y. Times defends Abramson firing)
In fact, the sources said, Abramson had not consulted Baquet or Elder about her decision. Baquet did not learn about the offer until he was informed by Gibson herself at a lunch meeting — at which point the offer had already been made, the sources said. When Baquet voiced his frustration to Sulzberger the following day, the publisher concluded that his executive editor had misled him, and moved to fire her later that week.
Abramson did not respond to a request for an interview regarding her termination. Sulzberger, Thompson, Baquet and Gibson and Eileen Murphy, the Times' chief spokesperson, all declined to comment.
The handling of Abramson's exit from the paper was widely criticized as graceless: Abramson was not in the newsroom when Sulzberger announced the transfer of power to Baquet, and very little was said about her tenure. Howell Raines, who had been forced out eleven years earlier after overseeing a plagiarism scandal, was given gentler treatment.
( Also on POLITICO: Can Dean Baquet save Times Digital?)
In a statement issued Saturday, Sulzberger said that he fired Abramson after she proved unable to improve upon problems with her management style, which had been the subject of complaints by her colleagues.
"During her tenure, I heard repeatedly from her newsroom colleagues, women and men, about a series of issues, including arbitrary decision-making, a failure to consult and bring colleagues with her, inadequate communication and the public mistreatment of colleagues," Sulzberger said. "I discussed these issues with Jill herself several times and warned her that, unless they were addressed, she risked losing the trust of both masthead and newsroom."
"She acknowledged that there were issues and agreed to try to overcome them. We all wanted her to succeed," he continued. "It became clear, however, that the gap was too big to bridge and ultimately I concluded that she had lost the support of her masthead colleagues and could not win it back."
Sulzberger decided that "the gap was too big to bridge" when he concluded that Abramson had misled both him and Thompson about having consulted Baquet and Elder on the Gibson offer, the sources told POLITICO after the statement was released.
( On Media: What's next for the New York Times, Jill Abramson)
"The clear implication was that Dean and Janet had been told and endorsed the specifics of the plan for Janine," a high-level Times source said. "They had not."
Several Times sources, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, added new details regarding Abramson's ouster in background conversations and correspondence.
Abramson's efforts to bring Gibson to the Times began in earnest several weeks ago. Gibson, who had recently been promoted to editor-in-chief of TheGuardian.com, was known for her digital savvy, which the Times viewed as crucial to its future success. Six weeks earlier, the Times had circulated an internal report warning that the paper had been too slow in adapting to digital and was at risk of falling behind online competitors, including The Guardian. "Our journalism advantage is shrinking," the report stated.
( WATCH: On Media: What's next for the New York Times, Jill Abramson)
Sulzberger and Thompson were both open to the idea of bringing Gibson on board. Thompson was even enthusiastic about it, as evidenced by an April 28 email to Abramson, first published in its entirety by The Daily Beast, in which Thompson even suggested Gibson might one day become the paper's executive editor.


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Early afternoon: Florida State might (but probably doesn't) have a game on its hands in Tallahassee with Wake Forest coming in. That's practically it until things get kind of hectic in the later afternoon, with Alabama probably crushing Arkansas and taking us into a very good slate of night games. Master schedule here, and we'll link back to this yak so all yakking can be concentrated in one yak. Enjoy.
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Nation & World
Sen. Hagan's campaign ads hit the airwaves
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's first two TV ads of the campaign are out. The North Carolina Democrat is in a race rated as a tossup against Republican challenger Thom Tillis, speaker of the state House.
One ad is about her work to get the bipartisan law passed that provides medical care to Marines and their families who became ill from drinking contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. The other is about closing a loophole in a trade agreement on textiles.
Retired Marine Jerry Ensminger narrates the Hagan ad., His daughter Janey was born at the base and died of leukemia from the carcinogenic-laden water at age 9. Ensminger worked for 17 years trying to bring attention to the contamination and get care for families suffering from it. The ad notes the bill was bipartisan. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., also worked to get it passed and signed into law in 2012.
Hagan's second ad is about a loophole in the Central American Free Trade Agreement of 2005 that left out a synthetic thread from the deal. It allowed countries that were not part of the agreement, including China, to put cheaper yarn in textiles. Hagan helped get a bill passed to close the loophole, which her campaign claims saved jobs in the textile industry in the Carolinas.


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I'm retiring on 22 August and leave on the cruise the next day.
Reason for retirement is to help my daughter get a Bachelor's Degree by watching her 7 year old boy and 4 year old girl after school hours. Her husband is on the road 90% of the time, my wife wants to continue working part time. Brandy my daughter works at a Montessori school as a teacher's aid; they told her that if she just gets a degree (in anything other than Education) she can teach at the elementary level with twice the pay. She is fully onboard with the Montessori philosophy. She starts in January but there are many opportunities for me in the Sept-Nov timeframe to travel (Europe, California, Florida are planned) and conferences (Brian McLaren, Jim Wallis, AL CBF all in Alabama), academies (5-Day Spiritual Academy - Methodist thing, Open View conference at the Academy of Religion in San Diego). There will be more golf, duplicate bridge, and tennis. I may even try my hand at some book writing. Suspect about equal involvement with BL.
I may return to work after I'm 66 in June 2016 and I can earn extra money above Social Security w/o penalty. But only if the atmosphere is right in my specialities (I gave my going away suggestions briefing today which went very well and there are good/younger people that will carry out the suggested research - I hope). Then again I may love retirement so much, I might not go back. All the better to torture ya'll with graphs.


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White House Defends Biden's 'Double-Barrel' Self-Defense Advice
(WASHINGTON) -- The White House Wednesday defended Vice President Joe Biden's provocative suggestions that those concerned about an intruder in their home should "get a double-barrel shotgun" and "fire two blasts outside the house."
"This president and this vice president, this administration firmly supports our Second Amendment rights, upheld by the Constitution, and that includes the right of homeowners, law-abiding American citizens, to have a firearm at their home to protect themselves in their home," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
During a Facebook Town Hall Tuesday, Biden told a questioner she'd be better off with a shotgun than an AR-15. A shotgun is what Biden said he recommended to his own wife.
When pressed by Karl about whether the president agrees with Biden's self-defense advice, Carney said the president did.
"I think the president does agree with the vice president that homeowners who are interested in utilizing their Second Amendment rights to own a firearm to protect themselves in their home, and their families in their home do not need a military-style assault weapon and that a shotgun would be a logical choice," Carney said.
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Founder Roundtable is a young but professional business forum that provides interactive roundtable discussions for business owners. Unlike some expensive and elitist business coaching companies and institutionalized business networking groups, we create casual and accessible forums for entrepreneurs (and budding entrepreneurs) to share experiences and learn about different aspects of business from seasoned subject matter experts. Our roundtables usually consist of 10-12 people.
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I am looking for a clean and professional logo. The current website at http://www.founderroundtable.com is based on a template theme that I used to just get started. I am NOT looking to keep the same color combinations. I would like to have a logo that will work with a brighter, cleaner overall look/design on the website and on company materials.
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Even before the non-handshake took place, tension was high at Old Trafford. According to police, the Manchester United fanzine Red Issue, being distributed before kickoff, featured "a Ku Klux Klan-style mask, with the words 'LFC Suarez is innocent' printed below."
As you can see, the zine obviously alludes to the Suarez suspension and tidily foreshadowed the charged first meeting of the two men since Suarez referred to Evra as a "negro" several times during a match last October. Police were made aware of the zine before kickoff and took action immediately.
Chief Superintendent Mark Roberts said: 'Shortly before kick-off we were made aware that a Manchester United supporters' fanzine being sold outside Old Trafford featured a potentially offensive image.
'Officers are now seizing the fanzines and in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service we will take appropriate action against anyone either found selling this particular fanzine or provocatively displaying the image in public.'
This whole episode has turned a high-stakes rivalry game into a circus-like sideshow. So it makes sense that both parties just want to move on with things. Suarez has since apologized for the handshake snub ("I realize I got things wrong.'') and Manchester United has accepted the apology. Based on their artwork, however, the fans might not be so quick to forget.
h/t tomuban
Manchester United fanzine seized by police ahead of Liverpool clash [Metro]
BREAKING NEWS: Manchester United thank Liverpool for apologies over Luis Suarez's handshake snub with Patrice Evra [Goal.com]