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Skull and Bones were key in the Eugenics Movement cited by Hitler, along with the sterilization laws of 27 U.S. States as his inspiration for the "Race Laws" of Nazi Germany. These preppy inbreds, since 1832 15 per year, hold positons of power in government, media, arts, military and intelligence services far beyond their numbers. Their oath to the cult trumps all other oaths taken or to be taken including the oath to protect, defend and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States
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Skull and Bones is the most well known of the secret societies based at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft, two students who were not admitted into Phi Beta Kappa. [1] The first Skull and Bones class, or "cohort," was in 1833. The society's current membership rosters and activities are not disclosed to the public. It is a "senior society," which inducts only upcoming seniors, for the year prior to their graduation.
Skull and Bones is known by many names, including The Order of Death," The Order," The Eulogian Club," and Lodge 322. Initiates are most commonly known as Bonesmen, Knights of Eulogia, and Boodle Boys. The women who have recently become members would be known as Boneswomen, Ladies of Eulogia, and Boodle Girls.
Its corporate name is the Russell Trust Association. In 1999 it had assets of $4,133,246. It owns Deer Island, one of the Thousand Islands in the waterway between the United States and Canada, which was given to the Order by one of its early benefactor families.
The society sometimes inspires a fanatical loyalty. Members have been known to stab the Bones insignia into their flesh to keep it on them while showering or swimming.
1 Known members
2 The U.S. branch of a German secret society
3 Bones and U.S. Education
4 Bonesman socialization: core families of "Knights" versus "Barbarians"
5 Nicknames
5.1 Nicknames of selected Bonesmen
6 Deer Island
7 Skull and Bones members
8 Cultural references
9 References
10 External links
Known members
Both two-term U.S. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry (Democratic candidate who lost the 2004 U.S. Presidential election to Bush) are members of Skull and Bones. Bush declined to talk about their common membership in the Order of Death during his February 9, 2004 appearance on NBC's Meet The Press.
Bush: "It's so secret I can't talk about it."
Tim Russert: "What does that mean for America? The conspiracy theorists are gonna go wild."
Bush: "I'm sure they are, I don't know, I haven't seen their webpages yet. (laughs)"
In another interview, when Kerry was in turn asked what he could reveal about Skull and Bones, Kerry said: "Well not much, because it's a secret… Sorry, I wish there was something I could manifest…" and then changed the subject.
Bush reportedly appointed 11 Skull and Bones members to his Administration in his first term.[2]
The U.S. branch of a German secret society
The Order has a private group portrait taken for every new cohort of fifteen. It is always posed in the same manner, showing human bones and a grandfather clock at 8 p.m.
Some people, like the first rigorous outside researcher of the secret society, the late Dr. Antony Sutton (PhD, Stanford, economics), say that Skull and Bones is a U.S. chapter of an early 1800s German secret society. Those who have broken into the Bones "Tomb" (or those members who are disaffected from the Bones experience and wanted to report on them) describe many German-language pictures and themes on the walls and in daily use. Several disaffected Bonesmen testimonies on this point can be read in Alexandra Robbins's book on Skull and Bones.
Co-founder of the order, William Huntington Russell spent some time studying in Germany. It has been suggested that while he was there he was initiated into a secret society with a skull and bones for its emblem. Some even claim that he was initiated into a continuation of the Illuminati, and granted authorization to start a Yale chapter. Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman, immediately upon returning from Europe himself in 1855, spent the next 14 years almost exclusively around Yale University. William Huntington Russell and Daniel Coit Gilman incorporated Skull and Bones in 1856 under the name of The Russell Trust, with Gilman as treasurer and Russell, the co-founder, as President. This is the period in which Bonesman benefactor Miller started funneling large funds, building projects, and real estate purchases all around New Haven and the "Tomb" for The Russell Trust.
On Skull and Bones being a branch of an international secret society, official material from Skull and Bones supports this theory. First, an invitation to a thirteenth-anniversary describes a "Jubilee Commemoration of the History of Our Establishment in New Haven". Second, a historical address that has found its way from the tomb states "The Eulogian Club: An Historical Discourse Pronounced before our Venerable Order on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Foundation of our American Chapter in New Haven July 30th 1863 Thursday evening. By Timothy Dwight of 1849…" Third, mentioned in the Kris Millegan book on Skull and Bones, according to information acquired from a break-in to the "tomb" (the Skull and Bones meeting hall) in 1876, "Bones is a chapter of a corps in a German University… General Russell, its founder, was in Germany before his Senior Year and formed a warm friendship with a leading member of a German society. He brought back with him to college, authority to found a chapter here." Fourth, a 1933 Bones document refers to the "birth of our Yale chapter". It is also suggested that when Bonesmen refer to the order as "Lodge 322" they are acknowledging that they are but a chapter of a secret society.
On the particular German heritage of Skull and Bones, one could cite the Nazi memorbilia there as well. From a report published by Stephen M.L. Aronson in Fame magazine [Vol. 2(2), August 1989] discussing a "sort of a quick canter through the premises" in 1979 by Yale females invited by a "dissident" member:
"There were tons of rooms, a whole chain of them. They were a couple of bedrooms, and there was this monumental dining room with different rolls of Skull and Bones songs suspended from the ceiling. And there was a President Taft memorabilia room filled with flyers, posters, buttons — the whole room was like a Miss Haversham's shrine. And a big living room with a beautiful rug. And this big, huge, expensive-looking ivory carving in the hallway. The whole thing was on a very medieval scale. The most shocking thing–and I say this because I do think it's sort of important–I mean, President Bush does belong to Skull and Bones, everyone knows that–there is, like a little Nazi shrine inside. One room on the second floor has a bunch of swastikas, kind of an SS macho Nazi iconography. Somebody should ask President Bush about the swastikas in there. I mean, I don't think he'll say they're not there. I think he'll say 'Oh, it wasn't a big deal, it was just a little room.' Which I don't think is true and which I wouldn't find terribly reassuring anyway. But I don't think he'd deny it altogether, because it's true. I mean, I think the Nazi stuff was no more serious than all the bones that were around, but I still find it a little disconcerting.
Other German heritage connections can be seen in Skull and Bones 'financing,' particularly in one of its early benefactors, Bonesman George Douglas Miller (1847-1932). Miller gave his inherited Deer Island to Skull and Bones. Miller was closely associate with a German connected Bonesman, William Walter Phelps (S&B, 1860), the son-in-law and estate trustee of John Sheffield, benefactor of Sheffield Scientific School (SSS) and later U.S. Ambassador to both Austria and Germany.
First, Phelps's connections were of a high financial nature. He was a Director of: the Rockefeller/oil linked National City Bank; the Second National Bank of New York; the U.S. Trust Company; nine railroads and several other firms. Researcher Kris Millegan surmises that Miller was a conduit of others' monies and property to the Skull and Bones organization because Miller's own claims to wealth are sketchy and hard to document in their origin. Additionally, Phelps's connections were of a high political nature: he was a U.S. Congressman from the age of 34 (1873-74, 1883-89), the original pick to organize the 1880 campaign for the Republican Party for President James A. Garfield (which is a study of high level odd shenanigans); U.S. Ambassador to Austria for a short while (1881-82), and U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1889-93). Phelps was later appointed as Judge for New Jersey Court Errors and Appeals (1893-94). Throughout his high political career he was simultaneously a member of the Yale Corporation (1872-92). Showing the continuous high level Austrian/German connections in Skull and Bones, there were back-to-back Bonesman in the Austrian ambassador position. It should be noted that co-founder of Skull and Bones, Alphonso Taft, was ambassador to Austria-Hungary in 1882–immediately after fellow Bonesman W. W. Phelps.
Another Germanic high political connection is Bonesman Charles Seymour (S&B, 1908), who served as chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, and as the U.S. delegate on the Romanian, Yugoslavian, and Czechoslovakian Territorial Commissions in 1919–which would put him only in his late 20s when he was redrawing the map of Europe. Additionally, after that high level position in World War I, he got the almost the same position in World War II: the same person was the Chairman of the U.S. Postwar Planning Commission (1943-45). Bonesman Seymour's high level positions may be due to him being a close friend of 'Colonel' Edward M. House. While at Yale as a history professor, Bonesman Seymour was the curator to the Edward M. House Collection.
Further evidence of the widespread chapter bases of Skull and Bones in the United States surfaced in a short history of the Penn State Chapter of Skull and Bones. The Penn State version started in 1912. It taps just like the Yale version, though only 12 juniors. There is additionally another tapping junior society of extreme secrecy at Brown University. According to the Penn State Chapter of Skull and Bones, "[i]n the 1947-48 academic year, under the leadership of President Lawrence G. Foster, Jr., Skull and Bones tried to establish a national governing body for the numerous local Active chapters extant in the United States. The Society sent letters to 30 colleges and universities with the proposed national as a goal. Their efforts were not successful due to the fact that other chapters did not want to conform to national guidelines on who could or would be tapped, how to initiate, and what would be the purpose of each local chapter. Thus today there are several similarly named chapters across the U.S. that are not affiliated." [3] The locations of the other 28 chapters of Skull and Bones in the U.S. are unknown at this time.
Bones and U.S. Education
The connections that Bonesman George Miller had with high finance and high politics through Bonesman William Walter Phelps (S&B, 1860) helped 'steer' U.S. Education to take root in a German-Prussian vein as well. W. W. Phelps was son-in-law and estate trustee of John Sheffield, benefactor of Sheffield Scientific School (SSS), founded in 1854 as Yale Scientific School and renamed in 1861 after Joseph E. Sheffield. In the history of American education, SSS at Yale University was the origin of the "science departments" within the Calvinist religious origin of Yale, and furthermore is cited as a seed altering European classicial educational institutions toward German empirical, experimental, and materialist sciences education and liberal arts. SSS as a different model of education for the United States really expanded because of Skull and Bones memberships channelling a thirty year monopoly of all of Connecticut's Land-Grant College Act funds into SSS from 1862-1892, while other Connecticut instituitons were denied funding. It helped that Bonesman Augustus Brandegee (S&B, 1849) was speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1861 when the state bill to accept the federal land grant script was aired and aimed at Bones-connected SSS exclusively afterwards. (His son, Bonesman Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B, 1885), like his Bonesman father, was another high Connecticut politican. He committed suicide. His appointed replacement was another Yalie Hiram Bingham III who had two Bonesmen in his family.[4]) No other educational institution in Connecticut was allowed Land Grand College Act funds until 1893. SSS was absorbed by Yale in the 1950s; the SSS trust still controls its "Yale" land however.
The same "land grant grab" occurred in the educational history of New York State, with federal land grant monopolies being steered exclusively toward Cornell University. There, Bonesman Andrew Dickson White (S&B, 1853), in the next Bones cohort after Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B, 1852)–thus Gilman had input in sponsoring White for Skull and Bones the next year–was a key activist in this connected operation. Bonesman White later became the first President of Cornell. (Continuing the Germanic connections of Skull and Bones, Bonesman White was Minister to Germany (1879–1881), followed consecutively by previously mentioned Bonesman W. W. Phelps [Ambassador to Austria (1881-82); then to Germany (1889-93)], then co-founder Bonesman Alphonso Taft [German Ambassador, 1882]. Later, after being Minister to Germany, Bonesman White was Ambassador to Germany (1897–1902) as well).
This is somewhat of a Bones theme: the Order using public monies and positions for its own objectives.
Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman helped to found the institutions and frame the curricula for the University of California system. Other Bonesman were connected with the organizing of the University of Michigan System, and the University of Wisconsin system. (At the link, note the decidely Masonic 'all seeing eye' seal of the University of Wisconsin.) More educational details are available in the Antony Sutton book on Skull and Bones.
The treasurer of the Russell Trust, Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman, had a brother who married the daughter of another Bonesman–Chemistry Professor Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (S&B, 1837) of SSS at Yale, who invented petroleum cracking. His father, Benjamin Silliman Sr. was a Chemistry Professor (like his son, who took his father's place at Yale) who had earlier established a high marriage alliance into the last British appointed Governorship family of Connecticut, the Trumbulls. Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman's uncle Bonesman Henry Coit Kingsley (S&B, 1834) was Yale Treasurer, appointed from 1862-1886–capable immediately of further rarifying Bones-steered Land-Grand College Act funds toward preferred projects the moment it was passed, after it was written up by Gilman for the purpose.
From the start of 1862 and the steered windfall of the Land Grant funds, Bonesman have dominated the funding frameworks of the Yale Treasury. Starting with Bonesman Gilman's Bonesman uncle Kingsley in 1862, the period of Yale University Treasurers from 1862-1978, except for two who served 36 years, was exclusively occupied by members of Skull and Bones–a 116 year stretch. However, the one non-Bonesman serving longest, 32 years, hailed from a top Bones family.
The Skull and Bones Treasurers of Yale, 1862-1978
1. Henry Coit Kingley, S&B 1834, Treasurer 1862-87 (D. G. Gilman's uncle; Gilman even wrote the land grant application for Yale, which was quickly authorized; monies passed to his uncle, treasurer of Yale.)
2. Timothy Dwight, S&B 1849, acting Treasurer 1887-89, Yale Pres. 1886-99
3. Morris Tyler, not Bones, Treasurer 1900-03, Yale grad. 1870 with G. D. Miller
4. Thomas Lee McClung, S&B 1892, Treasurer 1904-09 (Bones U.S. Treas as well 1909-12, appointed by Bones U.S. President Taft)
5. Arthur T. Hadley, S&B 1876, acting Treas. 1909-10, Yale Pres. 1899-1921
6. George Parmly Day, not Bones, Treasurer 1910-42 [9 members of Day family in S&B though]
7. Lawrence G. Tithe, S&B 1916, Treasurer 1942-54, Director/Partner Brown Brothers Harriman
8. Charles Stafford Gage, S&B 1925, Treasurer 1954-66, and with Bones family firm Mathiesson Chemical
9. John E. Ecklund, S&B 1938, Treasurer 1966-78, Partner in Bones-dominanted New Haven lawfirm Dana & Wiggin
Bonesman socialization: core families of "Knights" versus "Barbarians"
The Skull and Bones tomb
Starting in 1833, each year one of the responsibilities of the cohort of fifteen seniors is to select fifteen new junior members to replace them. This is called being "tapped" (selected) for the society. To be tapped for Skull and Bones is seen by many Yale students as the highest honor that can be attained, though some occasionally refuse. For a year, Bones members meet at least weekly and conduct long self-analysis of each other and critique. This is aimed at creating a long term bond between them as they leave the university instead of during their stay at the university. Kris Millegan writes that one of the rooms is uncannily arranged like a room arranged for an entrance into an higher level of the Bavarian Illuminati [5]. There are human skulls and bones in the "tomb", which is illegal under Connecticut law. Bones members are reported to be forced to reveal their innermost secrets and their "sexual biography" to one another. It has been suggested that this may be used for blackmailing. In the tomb with each other for one year, members dine off a set of Hitler's silverware according to "dissident" Bones members interviewed by Alexandra Robbins for her book Secrets of The Tomb [p. 5], consuming expensive gourmet meals. Members are given new code names. The members call themselves "Knights," and simultaneously call everyone else in the world at large "barbarians". Another dissociation is that clocks in the Bones "tomb" run intentionally five minutes ahead of the rest of the world, to give the members an ongoing sense that the Bonesmen's space is a totally separate world–and a world just a bit ahead of the curve of the rest of the "barbarians" outside.
Partially, "tapping" is a response to visible or anticipated excellence, thus it could be considered meritocratic. However, since a great many members of the membership in this secret society are drawn over and over from the same families as the "core" of the group, it is a typical nested secret society with "porch brethren" on the outside making a power network for those in the inner administrative levels of the secret society. The top repetitive families in Skull and Bones are known because in 1985 a disgruntled Skull and Bones member leaked rosters to a private researcher, Antony C. Sutton. Many people believe that the membership of Skull and Bones had been totally secret. However the membership for each year is held in the Yale University archives.
The membership rosters cover the years 1833-1985, with some additional years. This original leaked 1985 data was kept privately for over 15 years, as Sutton feared that the xeroxed pages could somehow identify the member who leaked it. The information was finally reformatted as an appendix in the book Fleshing out Skull and Bones by editor, researcher, and writer Kris Millegan, who published it in 2003.
The data shows that certain families have been well represented, and that these happen to be related to each other as well—such as the Cheney family, Taft family, Whitney family, Walker family, and Adams family. Other subordinate members are often related to these families. Other core family names are common. However, not all initiates in these families are as interrelated as the above group. This second category of core families covers such names as Smith, Allen, Brown, Clark, White, Day, Johnson, Jones, Miller, Stewart, Thompson, Cheney, Taft, Williams.
For an example of the predilection of certain core families being embedded in Skull and Bones (or vice versa), here are the top 15 families in Skull and Bones with 10+ Members (over 1833-1985, with occasional later years available):
Smith (15)
Walker (15)
Allen (13)
Brown (13)
Clark (12)
White (12)
Day (11)
Johnson (11)
Jones (11)
Miller (11)
Stewart (11)
Thompson (11)
Cheney (10)
Taft (10)
Williams (10)
Their house is located on Yale's campus at 64 High Street. The property is registered under RTA Incorporated. A search of the records of the state of Connecticut shows that the officers of RTA Incorporated all appear on lists of Skull and Bones members from the 1960′s and 1970′s. The building itself has no windows on the outside and the exterior walls are made of concrete. The inside walls are drywall/plaster and the floors are carpeted. It has a heating system, but no air conditioning.
The building itself is about 5,968 square feet on the first floor. There is also a basement of similar size. It was built in 1900. New Haven police, as mentioned in the Robbins' book, say that the Bones tomb has an underground entrance connected to Yale University's steam tunnel system, allowing covert entrance or escape unobserved.
On an initiate's first day in Bones they are assigned a name, which they will be known as for the rest of their life. Names that are regularly used are: Magog, which is assigned to the initiate with the most experience with the opposite sex; Gog, which is assigned to the least sexually experienced; Long Devil, for the tallest; Boaz, for varsity American football captains; and Little Devil for the shortest. Bonesmen have often assumed names of mythological and legendary figures.
Nicknames of selected Bonesmen
William Howard Taft: Magog
F. O. Matthiessen: Little Devil
Averell Harriman: Thor
Henry Luce: Baal
Briton Hadden: Caliban
Archibald MacLeish: Gigadibs
McGeorge Bundy: Odin
Potter Stewart: Crappo
George W. Bush: Temporary
William F. Buckley: Cheevy
Anson Phelps Stokes: Achilles
Reuben Holden: McQuilp
Charles Seymour: Machiavelli
Donald Ogden Stewart: Hellbender
John Kerry: Long Devil
Deer Island
Deer Island (44°21′41″N, 75°54′24″W) is a privately owned island retreat owned by Skull and Bones' Russell Trust Association. It is on the Saint Lawrence River two miles (3 km) north of Alexandria Bay. Among the island's facilities are two tennis courts, two houses, a bungalow, a boathouse, and an amphitheater. It serves as a getaway for the present members of Skull and Bones, and is often used to host reunions to which family members of Bonesmen are welcome. It can also be hired out for personal use, but membership of Skull and Bones as well as upkeep is required. The island is governed and maintained by the Deer Island Club, membership of which is only available for initiates of Skull and Bones. They say in their articles of association, the purpose of the club is: to promote the social intercourse of its members, and to provide for them facilities for recreation and social enjoyment; and to this end, to purchase, hold and convey any property, real or personal, which may be necessary or convenient therefor; to maintain a Club House for the use and benefit of its members; and to adopt by-laws and generally to exercise all the usual powers of corporations not prohibited by said statutes.
According to Skull and Bones researcher (and member of Scroll and Key, another secret society at Yale) Alexandra Robbins, who interviewed many Bonesmen in her book about the group:
The forty-acre [162,000 m²] retreat is intended to give Bonesmen an opportunity to "get together and rekindle old friendships." A century ago the island sported tennis courts and its softball fields were surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes. Catboats waited on the lake. Stewards catered elegant meals. But although each new Skull and Bones member still visits Deer Island, the place leaves something to be desired. "Now it is just a bunch of burned-out stone buildings," a patriarch sighs. "It's basically ruins." Another Bonesman says that to call the island "rustic" would be to glorify it. "It's a dump, but it's beautiful." [6]
One factor which may explain the change would be the arrival of increasingly widespread airplane travel by the 1930s. Thus, there was an increase of spatial choices given for "escaping from the summer heat". However, in the mid 19th century through the early 20th century, it was certainly a much more prevalent and elegant Bones "getaway" private island. There are many pictures of the island and its buildings in Kris Millegan's edited book Fleshing out Skull and Bones (2003).
Skull and Bones members
The Skull and Bones published membership lists until 1971, which were kept at the Yale Library. The following list of noteworthy Bonesmen is compiled from those lists.
List of Known Members
William Huntington Russell (1832), Founder of the Skull and Bones
Alphonso Taft (1832), Co-Founder of the Skull and Bones
Simeon Eben Baldwin (1861), Governor and Chief Justice, State of Connecticut (son of Roger Sherman Baldwin)
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1936), U.S. Senator
David Boren (1963), U.S. Senator
Amory Howe Bradford (1934), general manager for the New York Times
Augustus Brandegee (1849), Speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1861
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1885), U.S. Senator
James Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator
William F. Buckley
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1950), founder of National Review, author, CIA covert agent
McGeorge Bundy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, National Security Advisor, Professor of History
George Herbert Walker Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States, Vice President under President Ronald Reagan, Director of the CIA, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador to China
George W. Bush (1968), 43rd President of the United States, Governor of Texas
Prescott Bush (1916), father of George H.W. Bush
John Chafee (1947), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island; father of U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee
Thomas Cochran (1904), JP Morgan partner
John Sherman Cooper (1923), U.S. Senator and member of the Warren Commission
Alfred Cowles (1913), Cowles Communication
John Thomas Daniels (1914), founder of Archer Daniels Midland
Russell W. Davenport (1923), editor of Fortune Magazine, created Fortune 500 list
F. Trubee Davison (1918), Director of Personnel at the Central Intelligence Agency
Henry P. Davison (1920), senior partner, JP Morgan's Guaranty Trust
William Henry Draper III (1950), chair of United Nations Development Programme and Import-Export Bank of the United States
Timothy Dwight (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 1887-89, Yale Pres. 1886-99
Timothy Dwight V (1849), President of Yale College
John E. Ecklund (1938), Treasurer 1966-78, Partner in Bones-dominanted New Haven lawfirm Dana & Wiggin
William Maxwell Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Senator (grandson of Roger Sherman)
Robert D. French (1910)
Charles Stafford Gage (1925), Yale Treasurer 1954-66, and with Bones family firm Mathiesson Chemical
Evan G. Galbraith (1950), Ambassador to France and managing director of Morgan Stanley
Artemus Gates (1918), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific Railroad, TIME-Life and Boeing Company
Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), Attache to the American legation at St. Petersburg; President of the University of California, and of John Hopkins University
William Henry Gleason (1853), Lt. Governor of Florida, founder of Eau Gallie, Florida, lawyer and land speculator
Robert Gow (1955), president of Zapata Oil
Briton Hadden (1920), Cofounder of Time-Life Enterprises
Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale acting Treas. 1909-10, Yale Pres. 1899-1921
Averell Harriman (1913), U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce, Governor of New York, Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers & Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad
John Heinz II (1931), heir to H. J. Heinz Company, father of U.S. Senator John Heinz
Reuben Holden
Pierre Jay (1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
John Kerry (1966) U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
Henry Coit Kingsley (1834), Yale Treasurer 1862-87 (D. G. Gilman's uncle; Gilman even wrote the land grant application for Yale, which was quickly authorized; monies passed to his uncle, treasurer of Yale.)
Charles Edwin Lord (1949), U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
Winston Lord (1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador to China, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Luce (1920), Cofounder of Time-Life Enterprises
Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and author
F. O. Matthiessen
Thomas Lee McClung (1892), Yale Treasurer 1904-09 (Bones U.S. Treas as well 1909-12, appointed by Bones U.S. President Taft)
David McCullough (1955), U.S. historian
George Douglas Miller
William Walter Phelps
Gifford Pinchot (1889), first Chief of U.S. Forest Service, under President Theodore Roosevelt
Dino Pionzio (1950), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
John Rockefeller Prentice (1928), grandson of John D. Rockefeller, pioneer of artificial insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool
Percy Rockefeller (1900), Director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil and Remington Arms
Charles Seymour
Benjamin Silliman, Jr
Frederick W. Smith (1966), founder of FedEx
Harold Stanley (1908), founder of investment house of Morgan Stanley
Donald Ogden Stewart
Potter Stewart (1936), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anson Phelps Stokes
William Howard Taft (1878), 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, Secretary of War
Lawrence G. Tithe (1916), Yale Treasurer 1942-54, Director/Partner Brown Brothers Harriman
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1898), son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and brother of Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney
Morrison R. Waite (1837), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (1927), financier and co-founder of the New York Mets
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (1896), scion of the Weyerhaeuser Paper Co.
Andrew Dickson White (1853), first President of Cornell University
Edward Baldwin Whitney (1878), New York Supreme Court Justice
Harry Payne Whitney (1894), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, investment banker
William Collins Whitney (1863), U.S. Secretary of the Navy and New York City financier
Hugh Wilson (1909)
Dean Witter, Jr. (1944), founder of the investment house Dean Witter & Co.
Cultural references
In 2000, Universal Pictures released The Skulls starring Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker capitalizing on the conspiracy theory element surrounding the organization. Rising seniors at Yale are inducted into the secret society and, after witnessing a cover-up of a murder, one character tries to defect from the group. The society is portrayed as having intergroup tensions, cover-ups, lavish lifestyles, and corrupt business deals.
Fictional character Charles Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons was supposedly a member of the Skull and Bones before his graduation from Yale in 1914. In The Canine Mutiny, an episode from the eighth Simpsons season, Burns identifies Laddie the collie as a potential Boneshound.
Millegan, Kris, ed. Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0972020721
Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0972020705
Tarpley, Webster, et al. George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography. Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992. ISBN 0943235057. Available free on the web: http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm
Robbins, Alexandra. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Back Bay Books, 2003. ISBN 0316735612
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John Kerry on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert confirming Skull and Bones membership
George W. Bush on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert confirming Skull and Bones membership
FOX News Live story on Skull & Bones
Bipartisan Bonesmen
White House 'Bonesman' leads nation into the dark (USA Today Opinion/Editorial)
The Skulls, the Bell, and Skull & Bones
A rare look inside Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society and sometime haunt of the presumptive Republican nominee for President: Parts 1 and 2
Secrets of the Tomb
Video of an alleged Skull and Bones ritual
Skull and Bones documentary
The Order of Skull and Bone
The Bohemian Grove Is an Offshoot of Skull and Bones
A Roster (Who's Who) of Bonesmen
Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush
Skull & Bones Article from Esquire Magazine Sept. 1977
How the Secret Societies Got That Way (Yale Alumni Magazine)


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Today I added one headstone photograph to the page of St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery, Necum Teuch, Halifax County, NS.
Robert A. Parlee
1947 – 1950
According to his death record, Robert Alexander Parlee was born August 25, 1947 at New Chester, Guysborough County, NS, the son of Ethel Bezanson and William Alexander Parlee. He died on April 9, 1950 at Moser River, Halifax County, NS, at the age of 2 years and 7 months.
Alphabetical Birth Records Search
Searching for surnames starting with the letter A
Atkins, Harry Roy: Born: July 29, 1894 at Harrigan Cove, Halifax County, NS, the son of Frances Turner Kaiser and James Richard Atkins.

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Bangladesh's biggest adventure sports event "Tour De CHT" celebrated this year's Victory day with "Victory Day Tour De CHT" Mountain Bike challenge Tour with 300 Km longest peak to peak route from Sajek to Thanchi through Kaptai road. It was a personal time trial challenge Organizes by Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tract Affairs (MoCHTA) and Bangladesh Adventure Club (BAC).
Participant from Chittagong, Mizanul Azam became the National Champion and Kausar from Bandarban became Local Champion in Victory Day "Tour De CHT".
Mizanul Azam, the winner of Victory Day Tour de CHT Mountain Bike Challenge, took little over 13 hours to cross the distance of 300 km from Sajek to Thanchi. Local Champion Kausar took 14:45 hours. National First Runnerup Al-Amin Hossain finished it on over 13:20 Hour. 2nd Runnerup Md. Tauseef Munaj Bin moin took 13.59 hour.
Tour de CHT started at 16th December from Sajek and finished at 18th December at Thanchi, Bandarban. Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura ndc, Honourable Secretary of Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs inaugurated the opening program of this race. Mr. Kashoyhla Hla Hla, Chairman of Bandarban Hill District Council join the finninshing day to chear up all the perticipents.


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If you're new to the Feast of St. Pizza, I suggest going back to check out the posts from year one (Lebanon, PA) and year two (Philadelphia). To quickly fill you in, the Feast of St. Pizza is an event I adopted from these guys after hearing about it on a podcast. The first year I kept it in my hometown of Lebanon, PA, the second year (last year) we did it in Philly, and this year we took it to Lancaster, PA. What happens during the Feast of St. Pizza is you grab a bunch of friends and then eat a slice of pizza at ten different places in one city, all in one day. It's always a load of fun, it's a great way to explore a familiar or unfamiliar city in a new way, and we've discovered that we always walk away from it with a greater appreciation for the amazing food that is pizza. God bless.
This year's event in Lancaster may have been the best so far. I kept everything in the downtown area, which meant we were able to walk between all the stops. That worked out super well for pacing, and it's always nice to keep your blood moving in between pizza-eating. Our average walk in between places was only about half a mile. I also had the largest numbers this year: my smallest group was about 15 people, and my largest group was 28. We tried out a bunch of new places and got to know the cool little city of Lancaster a bit better. For those of you who enjoy stats (like me), the day included:
- 30 people
- 10 pizza places
- 3.65 miles of walking between pizza shops
- about 38 pizzas
- 13 hours from start to finish
The day was definitely a success. Below I will break down each spot for you, and then be sure to check out the bottom of the post for my overall reflections. My partner in pizza-eating crime, Laura from Roam and Golightly, created another fun podcast of our day like she did last year. Be sure to check out her show on iTunes, and here are the shownotes for this year's pizza episode. She also created a blog post about the event to go into some more detail with her own thoughts like I did here. Furthermore, I recently chatted about this event on an episode of the Gatherings podcast, along with some tips for how to plan your own. Here we go:
Our order: one large plain, one large with bacon
Thoughts: Every year the first stop has been one of our favorites. I think it has something to do with our early stops being the typical mom-and-pop type of nostalgic pizza places. The first stop is usually the first because it opens earlier than the rest, and that's more common with small neighborhood pizza places, as opposed to the "fancier" ones. We chose to get bacon on one since it was basically breakfast. They were both great, although a handful of people had a lot of love for the plain vs. the bacon because it was just so good on its own. Great gooey cheese plus a crust with a good crispy to fluffy ratio. This place is popular in Lancaster because it's delicious but also because it's open until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.
Our order: 2 fig and prosciutto (mozzarella, fontina, drunken figs, arugula, sherry vinaigrette), 2 duck confit (caramelized onion, fontina, blue cheese, arugula, aged balsamic)
Thoughts: This one was a bit of a disappointment. It seemed like these pizzas were trying to be fancy artisan pizzas but just fell a bit short. The crust was a little soggy and didn't quite stand up to the toppings. Overall, it was fine – but the group felt very "meh" about it. To give them credit, however, I will say that I ate pizza here the week before around midnight (after an evening of drinking with a bunch of friends, and I was the DD), and the pizzas were great. I would especially recommend their four cheese pizza. Maybe they were having an off day during our feast, or maybe the late-night pizzas just tasted really good before our drive home that night.
Our order: one large plain, one large white with ricotta
Thoughts: I'd call this one pretty good, but nothing special. However, we did cut pretty small slices at this place (16 skinny slices of each pizza for a group of about 16, so everyone could try both), and I think it was one of those where it would have tasted better as a normal-sized slice of pizza. It's weird how that can affect the enjoyment of a pizza, but sometimes that's the case. It's one unfortunate road block during the Feast of St. Pizza since we often ask people to cut smaller slices for us. (We ran into this problem at Dock Street Brewery last year.) All in all, it was great and I would eat it again. It just didn't wow us like some other spots.
Our order: one large plain and one large buffalo chicken
Thoughts: Great, classic pizza. Slugger's was one of our favorite stops. It's a small mom and pop pizza shop, and it tasted exactly like what you would want take-out pizza on a Friday movie night at home to taste like. The buffalo chicken was really good and not too spicy for me (I enjoy buffalo chicken but it has to be pretty mild), and the plain pizza was fantastic. I'd highly recommend this place.
Our order: 3 pizzas: FIRST: roasted veggies, red pepper coulis, herbed cheddar; SECOND: portabella, cremini mushrooms, kale, garlic, gruyere; THIRD: margherita (tomato, mozzarella, basil)
Thoughts: The Fridge is a cool little spot with a big fridge full of craft beers and then they make these great flatbread-esque pizzas. A few people in our group were more traditionalists and were hesitant to call this "pizza," but I'd call it pizza. It's a rectangular pie with a thinner crust and a hefty amount of toppings. The roasted veggie one with herbed cheddar was a sneaky surprise that was quite popular and was even the favorite of the day for a few people in our group. I'd definitely recommend this spot for a chill hang with friends.
Our order: one large plain, one large with bell peppers, one large pepperoni
Thoughts: I loved this place!!! Their shop is super tiny and would not have been able to fit our group of about 16 people, but luckily it's right across the street from our friends' house, so we all crashed there to eat this pizza. Even though this was stop #6, It was so good that I went back for seconds. I would describe their pizza as being kind of what Domino's might be like if it was made at a mom and pop shop. I freaking love Domino's (don't hate), so this was like my dream. Espino's has a dusting of cornmeal on their crust, and the crust was a bit doughier than others, like Dominos. The cheese, sauce and toppings were all amazing as well. The bell pepper pizza was a funny choice – That happened because our friends who live by this pizza shop ordered it once by accident and fell in love with it. It was pretty darn good. I think the pepperoni may have been my favorite, which makes sense because I love a Domino's pepperoni pizza. Highly recommended!
Our order: 4 of the Sorrento (crema, basil, shaved garlic, buffalo mozzarella, shaved lemons & spring onions), 3 of the Piccante (crushed tomato, hot soppressata, mozzarella, pecorino, shaved garlic, hot honey), 3 of the Norcia (tallegio crema, mozzarella, thyme, black truffle, pancetta, black pepper), 4 of the Margherita (crushed tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil, olive oil)
Thoughts: Not only do I love the pizza at this place, but it's quickly becoming one of my favorite restaurants EVER. With a handful of our friends living in Lancaster now, I had been there a few times and knew I needed to fit it into our feast. This is the kind of place where you're better off getting a reservation, and you often need to do it 1-2 weeks in advance (and that's for like a group of 4). I was worried they wouldn't be able to handle a large group like ours, so I emailed them to discuss it about two months in advance. Well, they came through for us and I couldn't be more pleased with how gracious they were in hosting us for this event. They planned out a reservation for us, but when the size of my group grew to 28 people (instead of my expected 10-15), they set us up in their new private event space next to the restaurant. It was so great! Our group was free to hang out there in a mingling situation. I had pre-ordered some pizzas, so they came out soon after we arrived to a table in the middle of the room, and we were able to order drinks from a few servers assigned to us. It felt like our own private cocktail party with plenty of amazing pizzas. I can't sing their praises enough.
As for the pizza itself, my favorite of the evening was the slightly unusual "Sorrento" with shaved lemons, garlic and onions. The tang of the lemon was refreshing and unexpected on a pizza; I loved it. Everything else was wonderful, too, and a close second for me was the traditional Margherita. To be honest, my favorite thing on their menu is probably their Luca Sour, which is their spin on a whiskey sour with some Italian amari added to it. It's my favorite cocktail these days and I will be devastated if they ever take it off the menu.
If you're headed there for dinner sometime and are ordering more than pizza (which I hope you do), I can recommend the savory doughnut appetizer (it was on their winter menu earlier this year), and a salted caramel budino dessert that blew my mind. I've only been there a few times so far, but each time it's been a pure treat. Thank you, Luca!
Our order: I'm not entirely sure of the quantities, but I think it went something like this: 2 Hawaiian Hog (smoked pork, pineapple, tomato sauce, aged mozzarella, cheddar), 2 BBQ Chicken (chicken breast, cheddar/jack, red onion, BBQ, Hoppy Ranch drizzle), 1 Walnut Street (pepperoni, sausage, caramelized onion, roasted peppers, tomato sauce, mozzarella), 1 Wild Shroom (caramelized onion, ricotta cheese, spinach, aged mozzarella, truffle oil)
Thoughts: The only pizza I personally tried here was the Hawaiian Hog. I LOVE Hawaiian pizzas. I know some people are anti-pineapple on pizzas, but I'm Team Pineapple all the way. The dough of this pizza was very thick and pillowy. It reminded me of the homemade pizza my mom used to make, so I had a serious fondness for it. I think Robert declared the Hawaiian pizza here to be his favorite of the entire day, so that's saying something. If you're a fan of thick and doughy crusts, this place should be on your list.
Our order: one "16-cut" plus a "3-cut," original style
Thoughts: By stop number nine we're usually just going through the motions of ordering and eating pizzas, but as an echo of the first year, this year's #9 stop was a surprise hit. We walked in and I think we scared the pants off the guy working behind the counter because a group of 16 people walked in shortly before they closed. I told him not to worry and that we were only ordering like one pizza. (He breathed a sigh of relief.) I asked him what their specialty was, and he explained that their pizzas are made with 100% provolone cheese, but their "original style" pizza is made by putting the cheese on AFTER everything else bakes in the oven. Cooking the cheese steals some of the flavor from it, so by putting the cheese on last and just allowing it to melt on top of everything else, it helps to preserve that unique flavor from the provolone. Upon hearing that, we obviously ordered some pizza in their original style to try it out. It ended up being one of the best and most interesting pizzas I've had in a while. The provolone gave it something really unique, and it was interesting to have your cheese become MORE melted as you ate a slice, as opposed to starting really melted and then cooling off and hardening. The crust was fairly thick with a crispy bottom and a nice chewy interior. The pizza reminded me visually of those old Joe Corbi's frozen pizzas, except 1000 times better. This place is absolutely worth a visit.
Our order: one large plain
Thoughts: Okay, so by stop #10 you're DEFINITELY just going through the motions of eating pizza. It was late, it had been a long day, and we were all exhausted. This place was kind of a hole-in-the-wall, but we squeezed in and waited for our pizza to come out. It was cheesy, kind of greasy, and had what we decided was a "butteriness" to it. It was delicious, but I think it was a little too rich for us as the last stop of the day. If we had eaten it earlier we probably would have raved about it. As with most #10 stops, it deserves a proper visit at another time. All that said, I'd probably give it a 9/10.
That's a lot of pizza. As with any group of 30 people eating pizza, you're going to have conflicting opinions. However, we came to somewhat of a consensus this year. What you have below are my personal opinions, but I think most of the group would be on board with this. My brother Colin and I actually agreed this year, whereas the last two years we were basically opposite in opinion. Here are my thoughts:
Espino's – If you couldn't tell from my description above about this place, I loved it. I would order their pizza all the time if I lived in Lancaster. My friends who live near this one were so thrilled to discover that it actually IS that good, and they weren't just fans because it was in the neighborhood and easy to order. They lucked out with this gem.
Luca – I always like to differentiate between the small pizza places and the restaurants making "artisanal" pizza. They're just different animals. As far as the "fancy" places go, Luca is way up there. Their ingredients are so fresh and they do some lovely combinations (try the fig pizza in the fall), plus the staff there is fantastic. Please get yourself a reservation at this place, pronto.
House of Pizza – Keeping with tradition, stop #1 always gets high rankings from me. Although I enjoyed a couple places more, this one was really good and it was a crowd favorite.
Slugger's – This is a true neighborhood pizza shop cranking out some awesome pizzas. It's classic and wonderful. Order it for your next slumber party.
Lancaster Brewing Co. – Although a little unusual, I did love their thick, pillowy dough. And I keep thinking about that slice of Hawaiian I ate. Worth a visit.
DiCarlo's – One of my top favorites for sure. The provolone cheese on their pizza was so interesting. I'd actually love to try to recreate this pizza at home. (Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to figure out that recipe.)
So there you have it – another year of pizza feasting under our belts. I'm not entirely sure which city we'll be visiting next year, so if you have some ideas please let me know. Don't forget to check out Laura's super fun Roam and Golightly podcast with the recordings from our day (>> show notes, >> blog post). We had a rowdy crowd so I'm sure it's going to be an interesting episode. And as always, a huge thank you to all of my friends who go on this journey so enthusiastically with me every year. They're the best. Now, go eat some pizza! (PS – you can get your own #feastofstpizza merchandise in my Society6 shop.)
Illustration at top created with Photoshop, Illustrator, pen and watercolor pens.
Prints of my illustrations (plus other products with my work on them) are available in my Society6 shop.


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During the Thanksgiving holiday week, I had a short week at work (only Monday and Tuesday). Wednesday, I went out for a 12 mile ride pulling the little monkey in the trailer (his sister was in school at the time). Thursday, I pulled both monkeys for just under 10 miles in the trailer to the park to let them run around and get tired. I'm getting closer to 2,000 total miles this year, but haven't broken through yet.
One problem that I've had with the cold are my extremities, my hands and my feet. The biggest problem with my feet is that I wear mountain bike shoes that aren't completely sealed on the bottom because of how the cleats attach. This is worse on a recumbent compared to a regular bicycle because my the bottom of my feet are basically facing forwards into the wind. I think I'll try lining the inside with plastic bags just to act as a wind barrier.
Today I went out for a quick 13 miler with it above freezing, but not by much (36 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius). I wore two pairs of socks, two layers of long underwear under my tights, an undershirt, another long undershirt and long sleeve shirt under my jacket and ear muffs. I wore my long fingered bicycle gloves which are supposed to be wind and water proof, but aren't. But I wasn't worried about cold hands today.
I've seen a few pairs of bar mitts for sale in the past. I had two problems with them. First, they are expensive (these sell for $45). Second, I have bar end mirrors and I didn't see how that would work. Recently on the winter forum on BikeForums.net, somebody mentioned scooter bike mitts for $16 (shipped). For that price, I was willing to experiment.
And I'm glad I did; it turned out well. I ripped out the seams near the corner and glued and sewed in velcro.
This allows me to slip the mitt over my mirror and then close the hole.
This clearly was not a profession job. My wife Kate, on the other hand, makes purses and other bags out of antique silk:
so clearly somebody in my family actually knows how to sew (and it isn't me). But the bar mitts worked extremely well and kept my hands nice and toasty warm. If it had gotten 5 degrees warmer, they would have worked too well.
It wasn't too weird riding with the mitts either. I do miss being able to see what gear I'm in (yes, I have indicators on my trigger shifters), but that wasn't too bad. I was able to get my hands out and signal and get them back in with no problems. And there were no issues with either shifting and braking. This experiment was definitely a success.


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On December 9th, 1990 thousands of North Americans converged on St. Peter's to celebrate the canonization of Marguerite d'Youville (1701–1771), the first Canadian-born saint. Born over 245 years ago outside Montreal, Marguerite d'Youville was an 18th century Mother Teresa who dedicated her life and work to the poor, the ill and the destitute.
This foundress of the Sisters of Charity, like her American counterparts Mother Cabrini and Elizabeth Seton, played a marginal but extremely important part in the history of North America and it is fitting that she is remembered in Rome as well. Pope John XXIII called Marguerite d'Youville the "Mother of Universal Charity" at her beatification ceremony in 1959 for the sacrifices she made to alleviate the suffering of the less fortunate.
The early years of Marguerite's life read like a soap opera: orphaned at seven, she helped support and educate her younger brothers and sisters until her marriage at 20 with a young man from Montreal-Francois d'Youville. The marriage turned out to be a difficult one and the young bride was often left alone for long periods with a miserly, domineering mother-in-law.
When her husband Francois died it was discovered that he had been following in his father's footsteps, dealing in illegal trade with the Iroquois Indians and exchanging alcohol for their precious furs. Marguerite, widowed at only 28, became a single parent with two sons (four other children had died in infancy) and also her husband's debts to pay.
She was able to raise her sons and make a living by running a small shop and eventually found time and money to help the poor of Montreal. Three other women joined her charitable work in 1727, forming the nucleus of a community that became known as the Sisters of Charity.
Some citizens of Montreal looked unfavourably on the women for sharing their home with the poor and derisively called them "Les Soeurs Grises" or "the tipsy nuns" in memory of the public scandal caused by Francois' dealings. Humbly, Marguerite adopted the mocking name as a nickname for the little congregation.
Humility, however, did not keep her from contesting the religious hierarchy and civil authorities of Quebec when she felt that the poor, sick and homeless were endangered. Crossing the barriers of nationality and religion the sisters cared for both the English and French wounded during the war (1756-9) that saw the colony change hands and flags. The Indians, and later also the Eskimos, found that no one was ever turned away at the Grey Nuns' door.
Today the legacy of Marguerite d'Youville is continued by the Grey Nuns or Sisters of Charity who work in hospitals, education, social services and parishes in Canada and the United States. Notable is D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY. Many missions of the order can be found in South America, Japan, the Caribbean and Africa as well as hospitals and schools for Indians and Eskimos in the Canadian North Country.
Featured image of Marguerite D'Youville courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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American-Irish writer and historian Mary Jane Cryan has been living in Italy since 1965. An international educator, researcher and writer, she has also been an official Vatican guide, Site Director and lecturer for Elderhostel and the creator of start-ups for numerous American universities, high schools, writers and artists workshops. She continues to put her experience to good use acting as consultant for tourism and educational endeavors and as enrichment lecturer aboard luxury cruise ships plying the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Black Seas.


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Why do you hope dice fails?
My number one reason is because they don't identify squads. Especially in HVV. I can't tell if matchmaker has made it better or worse. At least if you see the same team again you know they are a squad but then it sucks for the next group who comes in. If dice would Id them I wouldn't mind them so much.
6215 posts MemberOctober 27, 2018 4:58AM edited October 2018I don't hope they fail. I wish they'd turn things around but I've come a long way from making fun of naysayers at launch. Their "data" is garbage and from my observations of "Battlefront live service" they just simply haven't applied enough resources to the game post launch.Post edited by rollind24 on#infantrylivesmatter5
5001 posts MemberI don't... why would I? That is like hoping the captain of the ship you are on crashes into the rocks lol... but you do you!3
159 posts MemberThey're a mediocre developer that, as of late, have shown they don't care.
Just look at this game's failure to launch and the current struggle to stay above water, Battlefield 1's still glaring issues and the controversy surrounding Battlefield V.
The proof is in the pudding.4
October 27, 2018 5:37AM edited October 2018Because when one ship crashes a better one gets built. Literally dopes steering it and I hope they take EA down with them since They set the course.1
7141 posts MemberI dont either, despite my negativity. They have caused the negativity is the issue. Its all good now though, RDR2 is amazingPSN: ibrajoker591
Screw dice.0
126 posts MemberBecause they are incompetent and are making me hate most of the iconic star wars characters thanks to their sorry excuse of a videogame.0
1057 posts MemberI don't want them to fail necessarily but it seems EA wants them to. The game could be so much better but certain design decisions as other things are holding it back.
Also Failure is the mother of success.Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TroopperFoFo/ .
Battlefront 2 , Battlefield and more.1
65 posts MemberBecause of their handling of the IP.
Kill the past etc. Release the IP to more developers, the chokehold they keep is just stupid at this point.0
1225 posts EA Staff (retired)Locking this.
As always, criticism is fine, negative feedback is okay too. But making a thread saying "Why do you hope DICE fails?" isn't constructive, and some of the posts continue that trend.
If you want to post issues you have with the game you can, but you need to do so in a mature, respectful fashion.4
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Social justice advocate sets countryside development agenda
May 3, 2013 11:46 pm
MANILA, May 3 — 2013 senatorial aspirant Samson Alcantara (Social Justice Society political party) will expand his social justice advocacy by pushing for more sustainable countryside development-boosting legislation if elected this year.
He noted the Philippines needs such legislation to better balance development nationwide and address migration to urban areas.
"We must give incentives to those who will do business in the countryside," he said during State-run PTV 4's 'Paghahanda para sa Hatol ng Bayan' program for the 2013 mid-term polls.
Aside from helping boost the economy, he said such businesses will generate much-needed jobs for rural folk, he noted.
Figures former socio-economic planning chief Cielito Habito reported this year demonstrate extent of rural poverty in the country.
He said some 40 percent of rural families nationwide are poor while only about 12 percent of urban families are in the same state.
Poverty incidence remained at around 40 percent in Philippine rural areas since 1997 even if this already declined to some 12 percent from 15 percent in urban areas nationwide during the same period, he continued.
World Bank estimates also show rural areas nationwide hosted about 51 percent of the Philippine population in 2010.
National Statistics Office reported the country's 2010 population reached 92.34 million people.
Alcantara believes the Philippines can boost countrysidedevelopment as the country abounds in land-based natural resources which must be sustainably tapped for the purpose.
"The Philippines has one of the longest shorelines so we must develop our aquatic resources as well," he said.
Aside from countryside development-boosting legislation, Alcantara plans filing bills on increasing protection for workers, teachers and consumers nationwide.
"We'll be a failed country without social justice," he noted.
Alcantara also said pork barrel funds must be included in the budget of Congress itself, rather than released to each legislator, so authorized local public undertakings can be truly funded accordingly.
"I will likewise push for legislation against political dynasties," Alcantara continued.
Previous efforts to push for such legislation failed as about 70 percent of legislators belong to political dynasties, he noted.
He believes the anti-political dynasty bill will likely become a law soon.
"Public opinion on the matter is already strong so that'll pressure legislators into passing the bill – it'll be shameful not to," he said. (PNA)


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Enjoyed Brisk Take-up for its Maiden Leisure Development in Kasa Luntian Tagaytay
Experience Natural Living Spaces at Kasa Luntian in Tagaytay
Kasa Luntian will be Alveo's first foray into leisure developments and is planned to be a leisure residential condominium complex with aquaint retail strip tucked away from the main road.
Home Sweet Home
More than its lush environment, Tagaytay has long been known as a home to various dining spots, wellness destinations, and leisure hubs. Thus, the city has always been one of the most-loved places for a weekenders and tourists seeking a quick and accesible respite from the busy metropolis. Alveo Land now enters the renowned vacation city to share its vision of true leisure and lifestyle innovation, introducing Kasa Luntian – the brand's first leisure development that will showcase a masterplan that will seamlessly weave with the city's intrinsic beauty. "For shared gatherings and fun family-oriented activities, Kasa Luntian will offer a cozy treehouse, nature-themed play areas, and tranquil community lounges per building. Future residents can also take pleasure in the serense setting heightened by Kasa Luntian's exclusive outdoor amenities. Among these are trellised walkway's refreshing nature trails, herb gardens, coffee and citrus orchards, rain gardens, scenic gazebos dotting the premises, large and captivating leisure pools, and cascading Jacuzzis," shares Eunice Acejo, Marketing Head of Alveo Land.
Eat, Stay, Love
With only seven luxurious and spacious suites, the Discovery Country Suites in Tagaytay is the perfect weekend getaway. Stepping into this country-style lodge is reminiscent of the quaint towns in the south of France, where life akes a slower pace and the enjoyment of a meal takes top priority. The property's Verbena restaurant, which ranks number two in the 2011 to 2012 edition of the Miele Guide, takes pride in its gourmet offerings and on what their chefs put on the table. And with the Discovery Country Suites' Eat, Stay, Love package, guests will experience not only the hotel's gracious hospitality but also Verbena's culinary treats. Along with overnight accomodations, the package includes a wine and cheese tasting session during cocktail hour, plus a free hand at choosing the gourmet menu suited for you. Don's miss out on the cheese fondue – perfect for enjoying the cool Tagaytay weather.


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Digital Economy Centres for Doctoral Training
Students at EPSRC-funded Centres carry out a PhD-level research project together with taught coursework in a supportive and exciting environment. These seven Centres cover research relating to the Digital Economy: connect people with digital technology to radically improve the way we live, work, play and travel.
Centre for Digital Entertainment
- University of Bath
- University of Bournemouth
Visual effects, computer animation, digital film and computer games companies are driven by highly skilled people who are fully up-to-date in the latest technology and have design and management skills. Bringing together Bath's media technology research, Bournemouth's National Centre for Computer Animation and leading companies, this Centre offers students the chance to gain a fully-funded doctorate while being immersed in the most dynamic, creative industry in the world.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation
- University of Oxford
This programme concerns engineering in healthcare innovation. Students gain first-hand experience of how technologies they develop have potential clinical impact via a hospital internship, develop translational research skills to both accelerate clinical uptake of technologies, and take inventions through the first steps of commercialisation. Students learn how to design clinical trials, and about innovation/entrepreneurship and conduct a PhD in information-driven healthcare, personalised modelling in healthcare, or cancer therapeutics and delivery.
- Lancaster University
Highwire is a cross-disciplinary and user-centric initiative with innovation at the heart of its curriculum and ethos. Seeking a creative fusion between computer science, management and design, it aims to produce a new breed of innovative people who understand and are able to advance the state of the art in technical, design and business innovation: innovative people prepared to work in challenging roles in organisations and ready to drive radical change in the digital economy.
Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub
- University of Nottingham
The Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub is a venture representing a £40 million investment by UK Research and Innovation and over 40 academic and industrial partners. Horizon focuses on the role of 'always on, always with you' ubiquitous computing technology in the Digital Economy. Building on the Digital Britain plan, Horizon investigates the technical developments needed if electronic information is to be controlled, managed and harnessed - for example, to develop new products and services - for societal benefit.
Media and Arts Technology Programme
- Queen Mary University of London
This programme provides an innovative, inter-disciplinary training in the science and technologies that are transforming the creative sector. It is led by internationally recognised experts in digital music, digital video, human interaction, performance, live art and digital media law. The Centre aims to produce postgraduates who combine world-class technical and creative skills and who have a unique vision of how digital technology transforms creative possibilities and social economies.
Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Computing and Analytics
- University College London
- London School of Economics
- London Business School
This Centre covers financial IT, computational finance and financial engineering, software engineering, computational statistics and machine learning, network, high performance computing, mathematical modelling, statistical and signal processing.
Web Science
- University of Southampton
Web science is a multi-disciplinary approach to a technical understanding of the construction and analysis of the web as a distributed global information system, and a qualitative examination of the social impact of the web on human society. Web scientists develop an understanding of the web's development and growth, its capacity for furthering global knowledge and communication, and its inherent values of trustworthiness, privacy and respect for social boundaries.


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Speaker gets 7 days time to file counter on contempt plea
Cuttack: Odisha High Court on Monday asked Assembly Speaker Pradeep Kumar Amat to file a counter affidavit within seven days in response to a contempt petition filed against him by the state NCP president Utkal Ranjan Parida.
A Division Bench of Justices Indrajit Mahanti and B N Mohapatra after taking up the contempt petition against the Speaker earlier this month had asked the government counsel to get instructions from the Speaker on the issue.
Senior advocate Pitambar Acharya today appearing on behalf of the Speaker sought some more time from the Court to reply to the contempt petition. The HC gave only seven days to the Speaker to file his counters and posted the matter to be taken up on April 22.
Parida in March this year had filed the petition alleging that the Speaker was "deliberately and wilfully" disobeying the orders passed by a division bench of the High Court and a three-member bench of the Supreme Court.
While the Orissa High Court on September 23 last year had asked the Speaker to dispose of the application of Parida within eight weeks, the Supreme Court too had asked the Speaker to dispose of the same by January 7. But the Speaker has not taken steps to implement the orders of both the Courts, the petition had alleged.
Parida had sought disqualification of all four NCP MLAs, who had voluntarily given up their memberships from the party and had joined the ruling BJD in the state in June last year.


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"I like to keep an eye on the weather. Here in Tennessee
the weather is very interesting. It does not do what the
weather does on the tv shows I watch. This makes it
hard to know when mom is going to open the windows."
PS Hey!! Jimmy! Cameron! Mr. Puddy!! Your Feeders need to contact our mom so she can make your Supr Specl Graphic showing you won our Second Annual Everycat Sleeping Contest!!


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Mont-Blanc 42k
Distances and drop
The distances and the drops are determined by ITRA (International Trail Running Association) for the 90km and 42km. We should like to draw attention about the GPX tracks. Some of you can may be found difference between your results. (From 2407m to 3192m of positif drop for the 42km).
Please, find here the explanation about the ITRA certification method: Click here to check
Before register, we recommended you to read the rules, the way, the profil, and the time passage file for total know the race difficulties.
Race bibs distribution:
To get their bibs on the 42km runners will have to show their race bag with all their mandatory equipment to be checked. It will also allow the organisation to put a chronometric chip. No bib will be given to runners who don't have their equipment controlled. No bib will be given less than 30 minutes before the race start.
Mandatory equipment:
- Working mobile phone.
- A reserve of at least 0.5 litre of water.
- Waterproof and windproof jacket with hood (gore tex type) adapted to its size.
- Survival blanket (140cm x 200cm).
- Whistle.
- Personnal cup.
- ID card with picture.
Mandatory equipment depending of weather conditions :
- Hat.
- Panthyose.
- Gloves.


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A new iPad Air has been revealed at tonight's showpiece event in Cupertino. It's the imaginatively named iPad Air 2. Who'd have guessed, eh?
The design-led refresh of Apple's existing tablet is slightly more routine than we'd have liked, adding the expected Touch ID fingerprint recognition to the Home button, plus iOS 8 features, chassis tweaks and under-the-hood spec bumps.
The iPad Air 2 is 6.1mm thick, 18 per cent thinner than the first iPad Air and now the world's thinnest tablet. Optically bonding the screen and chassis, they've removed an air pocket that has in the past sat between both components in order to make the tablet so trim. An anti-reflective coating, reducing reflections by 56 per cent, has also been added to the iPad Air 2 -- Apple now seems to be gunning for Kindle users too, who swear by their reflection-free e-ink displays.
Other than that, it's just a new gold chassis shade to go along with the silver and space grey that's changed.
Powered by an A8X chip, it's been specifically built for the iPad Air 2, using second-gen 64-bit architecture. It packs in 3 billion transistors, making it 40 per cent faster than its predecessors, and 2.5 x faster in the GPU department.
The chip is also equipped with a motion tracker and barometer, as well as the Touch ID scanner that's sat inside the iPhone since the iPhone 5S.
Wi-Fi speeds get a boost too, now up to 866 Mbps, while 20 LTE bands worldwide are now supported.
In terms of photography capabilities, the iSight camera from the iPhone 6 has been pretty much carried over wholesale. It's equipped with an 8MP sensor, making use of 1.12 micron pixels, with a f/2.4 aperture. It also can record 1080p HD video, if your a tablet-touting Coppola. For the first time with an iPad, you can capture burst mode photos and slow-mo videos, too.
The front-facing FaceTime camera has been updated too. It now features f2.2 aperture, pulling in 81 per cent more more light for improved face detection and a burst selfie mode.
Price and Release Date
The iPad Air 2 with Wi-Fi models will start at £399 for the 16GB model, £479 for the 64GB model and £559 for the 128GB model. So that's the death of the 32GV iPad then. As for cellular models, you're looking at £499 for the 16GB model, £579 for the 64GB model and £659 for the 128GB model.
The iPad Air 2 goes up for pre-order on Friday October 17th.
For all of tonight's Apple launch information, rounded up into a single pretty page, look no further than right here.


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Proposal: Swing yer banana round and round
failed by Hix
Adminned at 05 Aug 2007 11:48:06 UTC
Note: I S/K'd Grinding Out Bananas to make room for this one
Add the following text to the end of the rule Doing the Dance:
Transfer 1 banana from the monkey in position n_A to the monkey in position n_B. n_A and n_B must be adjacent to each other.
Transfer to the monkies in positions n_A and n_C one banana each from the monkey in position n_B. n_A, n_B, and n_C must be in a numerical row, examples 3 4 5 or 1 2 3.


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Bullet Bottle Opener
"Short of opening a bottle with your teeth, we can't think of a more manly way to crack a cold one than with a demilitarized .50 caliber bullet casing…which is exactly what this is. Made in the good ole US of A out of military grade ammunition by Bullets2Bandages, this bottle opener is probably the only way most of us are ever going to handle a fist-sized .50 cal round, but we're ok with that."
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