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The Wolf: What can I say? I was raised by wolves.
A character who lost their human parents and was raised by animals.
Animals in fiction range from the almost human to the bestial, but since Most Writers Are Human, animals tend to think, feel and talk like we do. Thus a literal Mama Bear might be an ordinary parent — or a wildly offbeat role model. This trope ranges from a purely cosmetic touch of exoticism to a comedy trope to a full-blown otherness trope that drives drama.
A character raised by animals will seem unusual to ordinary folk. They may speak crudely or just strangely. They are a Funny Foreigner — but without the risk of offending an audience member. In more extreme cases they have No Social Skills, and it is common for them to be Not Good with People.
Expect to see at least some discrimination. His adoptive siblings might get over him being funny-lookin', human society might get over them scratching their head with their foot, but he may ultimately be seen as a Half-Human Hybrid.
It can be an extreme case of the longing for the Good Old Ways — a vision of the good life before any of the corrupting influences of civilization, the Noble Savage being In Harmony with Nature. They may be a Nature Hero or a Jungle Princess. Sometimes they pick up powers from their family. Lamarck Was Right: Mysterious Animal Senses abound and having birds for family teaches flight.
Expect a character of this type to have a Name From Another Species as a result of being raised by animals.
In their original setting expect to see Loin Cloths, pelts, Fur Bikinis and Wild Hair. The character sometimes Does Not Like Shoes. A quick route to Fanservice is having no nudity taboo.
Even if things are not that bad, expect a tougher, rougher, childhood. But the Upbringing Makes the Hero, so these early trials pay off later. At a minimum, someone who was Raised by Wolves will be a bit wild; impulsive, aggressive or just more in touch with base human drives.
Can be a case of Nurture over Nature, if the character chooses the nurturing of the wild over the nature of humanity - or Nature vs. Nurture, choosing the nature of humanity over the nurture of civilized society, depending on the writer's viewpoint.
For the most realistic take where lack of human contact makes kids feral and mute, see Wild Child. For social awkwardness in general, see No Social Skills.
For a more intelligent Always Chaotic Evil variation, see Raised by Orcs.
A Sub-Trope of Interspecies Adoption, which doesn't require that the parents be "uncivilized beasts". Contrast to Raised by Humans.
- In one of the "Behold the Power of Cheese" ads, three guys at a party eye the last piece of cheese on a platter. The first guy starts to take it and his mother appears on his shoulder telling him to let someone else have it. The second guy starts to take it when his mother appears saying "Don't be greedy, you weren't raised by wolves!". The third guy looks at the cheese and a howling wolf appears. After the third guy takes the cheese, the two Mothers shout "Animal!" at him. Then as a tag the third guy sticks his face in a punchbowl to lap up a drink.
- An infamous Quizno's ad featured two men sitting on a bench with subway sandwiches. The man with the Quizno's sub says "Untoasted? What, were you raised by wolves?" Cue the second guy note having a flashback of himself, still adult and in a three-piece suit, nursing from a mother wolf with her pups. He then responds back in the present "Why yes. Yes, I was." Enough people were put off by this ad that it was taken off the air, then put back on with the nursing scene cut out.
- Yamato from Battle B-Daman was raised by cats. Not tigers or anything, normal stray cats. Later he is adopted by a relative — possibly his birth mother.
- The Boy and the Beast: Well, a humanoid bear with some help from a pig and a monkey, but still. It turns out that Ichirouhiko is actually a human that Iouzen found abandoned as a baby and raised as his own.
- Beast Master Sarutobi Sasuke from Brave10 was abandoned in the forest as a boy. Therefore, he became more antisocial with humans but gets along better with animals.
- Spider Riders: Aqune was raised by Insectors. Insectors act like human beings, so she does.
- Mana from Mermaid Saga, having been raised by cannibalistic mermaids, suffers quite a bit of this.
- In Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals, Mabambi was raised by a giant lion-quill hybrid.
- Persia, the Magic Fairy: The title character grows up alongside the animals in the Serengeti.
- San from Princess Mononoke was literally raised by wolves after her birth parents encountered a huge wolf in the forest when she was very young and abandoned her in an attempt to get away safely. Indeed, it's implied that her parents literally threw her at the wolves to get away. The wolves were offended enough by this behavior to take care of her, instead. Of course, it helps somewhat that these wolves are gods who are perfectly capable of speech.
- Pokémon:
- In the anime episode "The Kangaskhan Kid", set in the Kanto Safari Zone, we meet Tommy, a little boy who was raised by kangaroo-oid Kangaskhan. He's been in the park since he was accidentally dropped from a helicopter by his birth parents into the park while an infant.
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!- the main character was raised by wild Pokémon. The kid was being looked after by Professor Rowan when the good professor decided that the boy should go live with the wild Pokémon because he had the beginnings of communication with them! Hareta's dad is actually alive. He's just on the run right now... although he really DID leave Hareta with Professor Rowan for no good reason the first time. Parental Abandonment...
- Rebecca from Haré+Guu was raised by pokute — small, weird, sort-of-rabbit-like animals.
- Natsu of Fairy Tail was raised by the Fire Dragon Igneel. While Igneel taught him things like Fire Dragon Slayer magic and speech, he clearly wasn't able to teach Natsu typical human social customs. Then Igneel vanished when Natsu was still little. Natsu was then taken in and raised by the mages of Fairy Tail, and all of them are to some degree crazy (awesome).
- This is actually a rather common occurrence among Dragonslayers: Gajeel, Wendy, Sting, and Rogue were all raised from a young age by dragons before events forced them apart. The former two by a similar manner to Natsu, and the latter because they killed them, though they had reasons. Except not really.
- Dragon Ball: Son Goku accidentally killed his adoptive grandpa while under the influence of the moon as a small child. For an uncertain number of years, he lived on his own in the wilderness, his only interactions 'killing animals' and occasionally 'not killing animals'. Then he killed Bulma's car, and the rest is history.
- His major Raised by Wolves thing is not being able to tell the difference between boys and girls, and considering 'patpat'ing the groin area to be a sane method of differentiation. This is how he wound up engaged to ChiChi.
- His mistaking Bulma's breasts for an extra butt was a tasteless gag that actually worked really well.
- His major Raised by Wolves thing is not being able to tell the difference between boys and girls, and considering 'patpat'ing the groin area to be a sane method of differentiation. This is how he wound up engaged to ChiChi.
- Ikuto/Keenan from Digimon Savers was raised by a Frigimon for most of his life after being taken away from his parents via a Digital Gate. He eventually came to terms that he was human after spending some time in the real world, but continued to have the brave heart of a Digimon (at one time getting Ninjamon recruits for his new friends in the Kurata arc, cementing his HeelFace Turn). For some reason he uses Hulk Speak despite the fact that nearly every Digimon can speak fluent English/Japanese (his Digimon partner/brother even had a British accent).
- One character in Hikkatsu not only was raised by pigeons, but learned martial arts from them as well.
- A futuristic, and more intentional, approach to the trope was the development of the Trinity siblings from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, although this was never explained in the actual anime itself. The side materials explained that they were created by Dr. Clay Lihichyte, who used Ribbons Almark's blood samples. All three spent most of their life either in stasis or under the close supervision of lab technicians who were teaching them how to be Gundam Meisters. Because their role was to be part of Ribbons's master plan, however, they were not taught morality, not given full training, and were given antiquated, impostor Gundam. That way, once their task (unbeknownst to themselves) was completed, they were to be terminated. This is a valid explanation in pointing out why Michael is Ax-Crazy and Nena is a Psychopathic Manchild.
- In Animal Land, Tarouza and other human children were each raised by different animals.
- The dark side of life in Toriko is that a lot of people easily die in world where even some of the weakest animals can only subdued by professional hunters. And that's in human world, let alone the gourmet world. As such, there's almost no named character with living parents. But some people are exceptional that some beast actually raised them:
- Played with Midora backstory, who in his infancy was given to carnivorous pigs as a food. He tamed them and suckle at a female beast to survive.
- Played straight by Knocking Master Jirou. He is raised by a battle wolf, and not your average battle wolf, but THE Wolf King Guinness, one of the 8 Kings. Well, that explains his Animal Motif.
- Ran Komatsuzaki from Akai Kiba Blue Sonnet was raised by wolves until she was five, yet she has a normal personality and skills. She was simply a normal school girl in her primary personality with a secondary personality who had a more aggressive personality and phenomenal cosmic power for reasons that had nothing to do with her wolf parents.
- Inosuke Hashibira from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was raised by a wild sow, hence his boar motif. It's later revealed that this happened after his mother threw him off a cliff in an attempt to save him before she was killed by the demon Doma.
- In a literal take on the trope, Byrne of Dreamkix is the adopted son of a wolf couple who seem to switch between being civilized and being feral. It definitely explains parts of his personality.
- Spider-Woman. The original version of the Marvel Comics Jessica Drew had her raised among the High Evolutionary's menagerie of Beast Men. In fact, she was one of them herself, being a hyper-evolved spider, although that was retconned away very quickly. Meaning that she had no idea how to interact with humans when she finally entered the outside world, and tended to creep out everyone she met, although that was at least as much due to her pheromone powers. The recent Retcon version of her origin eliminates this, though.
- Black Condor - Golden Age superhero Black Condor, who first appeared in Crack Comics #1, was raised by Condors who taught him to fly.
- Aquaman - Pre-Flashpoint the backstory of Aquaman himself is that he was raised by dolphins until he was twelve years old, and the entire time earnestly believed he was one of them.
- Catman of the Secret Six.
- The Golden Age Cat-Man (who is unrelated to DC's Catman but wears an oddly similar costume) was raised by tigers. Like the Black Condor above, his upbringing somehow gave him superpowers — he could see in the dark, leap like a cat, scale any wall, and had nine lives.
- In the Green Lantern books, Sinestro Corpsman Karu-Sil was raised by native predators of her homeworld after her parents were murdered by her neighbors for their food. Karu-Sil grew to love and care for them deeply — to the point that she mutilated her own face so she would look more like them. They were eventually killed by a Green Lantern who thought she needed to be "rescued" from them. Once she was recruited into the Sinestro Corps and obtained a power ring, she used it to create energy construct duplicates of her pack and treats them as if they really were her lost family.
- In "The Hoax" in Weird Western Tales #18, Jonah Hex gets mixed up with a pair of conmen who are attempting to pass off one of them as the lost heir to a fortune who has been raised by coyotes.
- Black Moon Chronicles: Pilou was raised by a female dragon who took him to her cave for food, but decided to save him for her offspring when he happened to burst from his egg at that exact moment. The young dragon and the young elf then bonded and the three became a family.
- Arawn: Downplayed. Arawn was initially left out in the freezing cold to die by his mother Siahm, but he was nursed back to health by a she-wolf who becomes a surrogate mother to him. However, he spends his youth living with both his human and wolf relatives.
- Pyrénée: The titular character is raised by a bear and an old blind eagle.
- Garfield:
- In 1990, Jon briefly ended up dating a woman named Kimmy, who revealed she was raised by wolves. Although she appeared to be a normal woman most of the time, her upbringing by wild animals still showed in that she loved to howl at the moon, could be extremely loud and obnoxious, trying to bite off her foot when her shoe was too tight, and ate with her bare hands. She was one of the very few woman who actually liked Jon.
Jon: So, when were you brought back to civilization?
Kimmy: (after scarfing down her plate's contents) Last Friday.
- Garfield once met a cat named Ed who was raised by squirrels. Before they met, Ed didn't know the meaning of "ground". And neither his "mother" did. Ed has the habit of storing birds for winter. When the tree branch where Ed and Garfield were sitting on fell, Ed had the first chance to walk sideways. Odie was the first dog Ed ever met and Garfield explained to him cats were supposed to fear dogs albeit Garfield doesn't remember why.
- A later strip discussed Jon's cousin Earl who was adopted by wolves after being left at a rest stop.
Jon: We got a postcard.
Garfield: (reading the postcard) "I have acquired a taste for small game."
- In 1990, Jon briefly ended up dating a woman named Kimmy, who revealed she was raised by wolves. Although she appeared to be a normal woman most of the time, her upbringing by wild animals still showed in that she loved to howl at the moon, could be extremely loud and obnoxious, trying to bite off her foot when her shoe was too tight, and ate with her bare hands. She was one of the very few woman who actually liked Jon.
- The parody strip Captain Biceps's version of Tarzan was raised by just about every animal there is: apes (hence his strength), eagles (hence his piercing sight), lions (hence his Mighty Roar), parrots (hence his dress sense).
- Cartoonstock.com has a number of single-panel cartoons on the subject, including one about the guy who was raised by a pack of wolves, and the cleaning lady who came in twice a month. That's right, in an apartment.
- In Growing Up Kneazle Harry discovers his innate Animagus ability when he's two years old and spends the rest of his pre-Hogwarts childhood as part of Arabella Figg's resident family of Kneazles. His more notable quirks before becoming at least partly civilized are running around naked and peeing to mark his territory.
- Anthropology: The reason why Lyra is so obsessed with humans is because Lyra herself is a human: Princess Celestia turned her into a pony when she was very young. Lyra was then raised by the foal-less unicorn couple who found her.
- In Symbiosis Ash is raised by a retired battling Pokemon, a Weedle living in the Viridian Forest named Poison Lance, who took him in to follow Mareep's Last Request. Mareep's Last Request was for Poison Lance to protect Ash from the people who killed his family. Poison Lance kept Ash from becoming feral by having him interact with humans in secret.
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Iris is raised by a family of dragon-types after her biological parents abandon her in the woods to die. Her adopted family teaches her how to interact with humans so she can buy medicine when needed.
- Tarzan's Discworld analogue, Tarquin of the Apes, appears in A.A. Pessimal's tale Gap Year Adventures, where it has amused Lord Vetinari to make him Ankh-Morpork's Consul to a small kingdom in Central Howondaland. Apparently he shows the right sort of face of Ankh-Morpork to the world. In practice, his Jane does all the thinking and talking. As a contemporary of Sybil Ramkin at the Quirm Academy, she is capable of anything.
- The Great Alicorn Hunt: Bowser of the Nobody's Fools is an Earth Pony colt who was raised by Diamond Dogs. They had adoption papers and everything.
- In The Lion King (1994) Tarzan fanfic, Tarzan: Two Worlds, One Family, Tarzan is raised by the lion pridelanders Mufasa and Sarabi instead of Kala the ape.
- Compass Of Thy Soul has the Cat Summons, who tend to help their summoners to raise children and outright assume the primary care in case of the parent dying. There's mention of a Uchiha child flying under the rader until his teammates discovered he had a very strange worldview and mannerisms, but the most prominent example is Senju Tobirama, who felt so adrift following his mother's demise he heavily leaned upon her snow leopards — it quite impacted his behaviour.
- Barbie as the Island Princess has Ro, who spent the decade prior to the film raised on an island by a peacock and red panda.
- Eggs from The Boxtrolls, is a Cheesebridge orphan raised since infancy by the eponymous Boxtrolls, to the point he considers himself one of them... up until he meets Winnie, that is.
- Kristoff in Frozen was raised by rock trolls, and yet, he still has a better grasp of human society than sheltered Anna.
- Hoodwinked! quotes this trope with a Visual Pun at the end of the Wolf's story:
Red Puckett: For a reporter, you sure have a strange way of doing your job.The Wolf: What can I say? I was raised by wolves. [Cuts to the Wolf's family portrait]
- According to the Disney direct-to-video film Atlantis: Milo's Return (sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire), the team's geologist Moliere actually got his mole-like characteristics as a result of him being raised by naked mole rats. You Do NOT Want to Know indeed.
- Storks: Attempted when Junior and Tulip run into a pack of wolves that want to raise the baby as one of their own. Technically, Tulip counts too, as she was raised by the storks.
- Epic (1984) deals with two human children being adopted and raised by dingoes, at the end they chose to become dingoes themselves and become their King and Queen.
- An Angel For Christmas: Angela lived in the forest with a pack of wolves before coming to Ironsville.
- Babe has a variation of this. An orphaned piglet raised to be destined for the Christmas dinner table is taken in by an aging, kindly mother sheepdog who teaches an awkward set of manners to him, and more importantly, sparks an unusual talent in him for herding sheep which puts him off the menu. Somewhat appropriately, sheep in the film refer to dogs as "wolves".
- In Batman Returns, contrary to popular belief, according to Word of God the supervillain the Penguin, after been left abandoned by his birth parents due to his deformity, was not literally raised by penguins. He was found and rescued by penguins but raised in a circus by circus folks.
- Walk Like A Man, in which Howie Mandel played the heir to a fortune who was raised by dogs.
- In The Adventures Of Shark Boy And Lava Girl, Shark Boy was raised by sharks, causing him to not only be very aggressive, but evolve shark-like superpowers! He has no problem speaking English or interacting with humans, except for his heightened aggression.
- Jungle Boy: The main character was raised by an elephant and a monkey. Latter, another character gains the ability by a giant badly animated cobra statue.
- Serbian movie Nicije Dete (No One's Child) is Based on a True Story and it plays this trope straight. The story begins in Yugoslavia a few years prior to the conflict. Near Travnik (Bosnia, in central Yugoslavia), hunters find a child raised by wolves. Lacking the means to treat him, local authorities send the child to an orphanage in Belgrade (Yugoslavian and, at the same time, Serbian capital city) where, under a careful tutorage, he slowly learns how to socialize. But the war is looming and everything abruptly changes.
- In Holmes & Watson, Millie was raised by feral cats, explaining her No Social Skills.
- In Up the Chastity Belt, Lurkalot was raised by pigs.
- Arnold of the Ducks was a picture book by Mordecai Gerstein (which got adapted into an episode of CBS Storybreak) about a boy who was scooped up by a near-sighted pelican as a baby and dropped off in a swamp where he was raised by ducks. He manages to learn to walk, swim, and even fly (with the help of a suit made from shed duck feathers), and Hilarity Ensues when he's accidentally reunited with his human family.
- Most medieval versions of Parzifal/Percival characterized him merely as a bumpkin initially, whose inborn talents eventually get training, and then the excess of politeness and the Fisher King thing. But occasionally he gets scaled all the way to Raised By Wolves.
- The Gerald Morris version has him appear as part of the finale of an early book, as a naked super-innocent who trained by wrestling lions and who loses to Gawain and decides he wants to be a knight. Later on he gets his own novel, which seems to owe its content mostly to Wolfram von Eschenbach's but omits the whole Herzeloyde bereavement back story and Feirfiz, along with...the Christianity focus, pretty much. Which is pretty impressive in an adaption of a Grail quest story.
- At least two examples occur in the novels of H. Rider Haggard:
- Galazi the Wolf in Nada the Lily claims to have been raised by jackals , and everything we see in the novel bears out this claim. Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Galazi as one his inspirations for creating Mowgli in The Jungle Book
- Hendrika the Baboon Woman from Allan's Wife is, as might be guessed from her name, a woman who was raised by baboons. She is a servant to Stella's family, but the feral is never far from the surface in her, and is some respects she can be regarded as a Wild Child.
- Torak in The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is a partial example, as he was left to suckle from a she-wolf as a baby after his mother died, giving him the ability to understand wolf speech, but his father came back for him after a while.
- Dick King-Smith's novel Dragon Boy features an eight-year-old boy named John (full name later revealed to be John Little, with hints in the novel suggesting that he will become the Little John of Robin Hood myth) who is taken in by the dragons Montague and Albertine Bunsen-Burner after the death of his father, with John teaching his new dragon parents (who are able to talk and be understood by John, and vice-versa) how to season their food, quickly reaching a point where the Bunsen-Burners' new daughter, Lucky, comes to consider John her brother. When John returns to a human village to get new clothes for himself, facing other humans for the first time since he starts living with the dragons, he finds that he is far more muscular than most boys of his age due to the exceptional feeding he receives thanks to the dragons, and when Lucky is getting married, John muses that it will be strange living among humans again when he decides that he wants to get married.
- Discworld: In a comic variation, Stanley from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal was raised by peas. This left him with a fanatically neat disposition ("Very meticulous, peas are") and a tendency to bend slightly towards the sun when standing up straight.
- In The Echorium Sequence, Shaiala was raised by centaurs.
- Shana, the half-elf protagonist of The Elvenbane, was raised by dragons.
- Kingsley Ward from The Extraordinaires. In-universe he is the child raised by wolves on whom Rudyard Kipling based Mowgli in The Jungle Book.
- In Jane Lindskold's Firekeeper Saga novels, the protagonist was raised by wolves, albeit intelligent ones. A rather unusual example in that she isn't naïve at all in many matters; her adjustment problems are mostly shown by the facts that she never manages to fully master elementary grammar, writing, or table manners. Or hierarchies based on blood.
- Firekeeper actually can speak properly - in the first book she does so more than once. She just omits all the words she sees as unnecessary, because the wolf language doesn't have words like "the", "a", "and", etc.
- The appropriately named Hunter in the Gone series. After accidentally killing a friend with his mutant powers he is brutally hit in the head by Zil, leaving him partially brain damaged. Because of this he slurs his words a lot and doesn't understand some things. He is trained by the nearby mutant coyotes can speak somewhat. They teach him how to hunt: he becomes the primary food bringer for Perdido Beach along with Quinn and his fishermen.
- Hayy from Ibn Tufail's 12th-century Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan (also known as Philosophus Autodidactus, where he is raised by a gazelle on a Deserted Island.
- Camp Jupiter of Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus, specifically by the wolf-goddess Lupa who raised Romulus and Remus.
- Parodied in How to Be a Superhero, where the section on being a "Jungle Lord" includes a list of orphans who didn't make it due to a poor choice of adoptive animal: Tomar of the Molluscs (starved to death) Mikki of the Dolphins (drowned), Sven of the Lemmings (jumped off a cliff) and Eric of the Man-Eating Bengal Tigers (guess).
- Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books. After trying out human civilization for a while, Mowgli returned to the pack that raised him (only to go back to humanity eventually).
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen has Setoc, a war orphan who was adopted by wolves. Born as Stayandi, she was taken in and raised by a pack of wolves when her parents died during a raid. In Reaper's Gale, she is found by the Barghast White Faces, who take her in, but their shamans proclaim her spirit-touched and the "holder of a thousand hearts" and forbid the hunting of wolves, so that her 'first' family can stay close to her. She becomes known as Setoc of the Wolves and never shakes free from the imprint the wild has left on her. She eventually becomes the Destriantnote and the voice of the Wolves of Winter, the recently risen Beast Gods of War, who war against humanity in revenge for the pollution humans have brought upon nature. Over time, her eyes turn to a wolf's eyes, one silver and one amber, and she becomes perpetually surrounded by thousands of wolf spirits who are willing to fight for her. Setoc dies when the Wolves of Winter use her to manifest themselves in the mortal plain.
- In Morality For Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith, a boy is found in the desert who cannot talk. He is sent to the orphan farm run by a friend of the protagonist, who asks her to investigate. Based on the fact that the boy acts more like an animal and hasn't grasped the concept of language, plus the fact that he smelt of lion when he was found, they conclude that he was raised by lions, but they decide to keep him at the farm because he has shown progress in learning how to talk.
- One chapter in More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark titled "The Wolf Girl" tells of a Wild Child who was raised by wolves.
- The narrator of Karen Hesse's The Music of Dolphins was the only survivor of an airplane crash in the Caribbean as a very young child, and was taken in by a pod of dolphins. She's reasonably healthy when she's found by (aside from minor considerations, such as having barnacles all over her) and, unlike other Wild Children in the center that's taking care of her, she can connect with people and understand language, because dolphins are that awesome. However, the betrayals and confused feelings from the scientists studying her turn her away from them, and eventually she is allowed to return to the sea and her dolphin family.
- In William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Rose and the Ring, Princess Rosalba is raised (for a time) by lions.
- Implied with Wolf Boy in Septimus Heap.
- In Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, the title referred to one of the protagonists, Michael Valentine Smith. Mike was born during the first mission to Mars, and was the only survivor. He was raised *by Martians*. This might have been a case of Raised by Natives, save for the fact that the Martians were very non-human. He might have been more normal if he *had* been raised by wolves.
- Tarzan famously was raised by apes. He goes on to be quite successfully socialized and a member of human society. It helps that the "apes" in question were a fictional missing-link species that had a spoken language, and that he found his human parents' house at the age of ten and taught himself to read over a few years. Tarzan's time in civilization rarely makes it out of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels: it is typically omitted by the numerous works inspired by the novels.
- In Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, Alianora was found and raised by dwarves. While generally socially ept, she avoids human habitations; she doesn't like living among them.
- Tortall Universe
- Daine of The Immortals was literally raised by wolves, at least for a little while. Her family was killed by bandits, and her dormant magical powers of being able to speak to animals came through. She joined a renegade pack, tracked down the bandits on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and nearly lost her human self permanently.
- Nawat in the Trickster's Duet is an unusual case. He is a crow (they can change into human form if they want) and all of the relevant fallout occurs he suggests placating an upset girl with a random bit of shiny stone, eats bugs (and offers to feed Aly bugs too), and suggests he and Aly have children to increase their ranks.
- In Wen Spencer's Ukiah Oregon books, the titular protagonist was found running wild with a pack of wolves near the town of Ukiah, Oregon, hence his name.
- Big Alice from Staanley Kiesel' young adult novel The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids was raised by hyenas. Her parents were psychologists, and when they found her again, they abandoned her to the hyenas again after an aborted attempt at rehabilitating her.
- The main character in Pat Murphy's Wild Angel was raised by wolves.
- In the Robert Rankin novel The Witches of Chiswick, a minor character in the novel is 'local celebrity' Master Makepiece Scribbens, who lost his parents in a freak electric dibber accident on the Brentford allotments when he was a baby and was subsequently raised by snails. He is allegedly renowned for his honesty as snails cannot lie, but is wheeled into rooms- his wheelchair actually leaving snail-like trails- covered in blankets, under which he is described as lumplen and shapeless, eyes barely visible beneath folds of skin and his head completely hairless with a musty odour about him. When called upon to appear in court, he can only swear on a box of salt as he has no concept of religion and the Bible. It initially appears that he can only communicate through whispering sounds, but he is actually capable of speaking full sentences in English.
- Knowledge Of Angels: Amara was raised by a wolf along with her sister after both were abandoned at birth. She's discovered by the people of the island where from years later, then put in a convent. She grows up slowly from being a wild child but is never fully at home in human society, choosing a semi-solitary job later.
- Lucan of the TV series of the same name, was literally raised by wolves. His name is a double entendre referring to his wolf family and to the difficulty he had learning English despite being a fast learner. "Lucan" is a mispronunciation of the words "You can."
- Jan Kandou from Juken Sentai Gekiranger, raised by pandas and tigers. He calls himself a "tiger boy" and demonstrates incredible strength, such as having a tree fall on him with no effect. It takes him a few episodes to master the concept of things like doors. His defining trait, though, is that, while he can speak proper Japanese, he colours it with made-up babytalk words such as "nikiniki (happy) and "zowazowa" (danger).
- There was an Inverted Trope in Dinosaurs that had a dinosaur that was abandoned by her parents and raised by the cavemen. She acts as a translator between dinosaurs and cavemen.
- Parodied in The Mighty Boosh. Vince was raised in the forests by Bryan Ferry, and leopards and snakes used to babysit him.
- In one episode of Made in Canada, the actor who plays Damacles (the main character of an in-universe equivalent of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and/or Xena: Warrior Princess) comes up with a backstory for his character which includes being born of a wolf and raised by bears.
- The Huntsman from Once Upon a Time was a creature of the forest, taken in by wolves as a small child. As a result, he believed Humans Are Bastards and wanted very little to do with them.
- Tiger from Sinbad was raised by, well, tigers.
- Liv and Maddie: To improve her chances of getting a role in "Space Werewolves", Liv enlists help from a girl who was literally raised by wolves.
- In Earth2, Mary, who was the child of exiled human biologists. Her parents were killed by Terrian renegades, and she was raised as a Terrian, with the abilities they have to Dream and move about the rock. When she sides with the humans over the Terrians in a dispute, she is exiled by them, and as she doesn't fit in with either the humans or Terrians, resolves to live on her own.
- Parodied in Clarissa Explains It All. As part of his Student President campaign, Ferguson makes a video with some made-up stories about his family to make them more impressive. For Clarissa, he chooses this trope, and she's not amused.
- In Odd Squad, Agent Otis was raised by a flock of ducks. Evil ducks.
- The Falling in Reverse song "Raised By Wolves".
- Mentioned as one of the reasons why the singer is a badass in W.A.S.P.'s "Mean Man".
- There are hints that The Epic of Gilgamesh was based on an earlier story that just had Enkidu moving from living with animals to being seduced by a woman into becoming a city dwelling taxpayer.
- There is an American legend about Pecos Bill, a cowboy who was raised by coyotes after he fell off a covered wagon as a baby.
- Twin brothers Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, were left to die in the wilds as infants. They were suckled by a wolf before being found and raised by a shepherd, making this minor version of this trope at least Older Than Feudalism. Mind you "she-wolf" and "prostitute" are the same word in Latin — the closest English counterpart would be "bitch", so the story probably had a double meaning that was Lost in Translation.
- Atalanta was supposedly raised by a she-bear, even considering the other bears her brothers. This led to lots of confusion when she entered the 'real world'.
- In some stories, the legendary German hero Siegfried was raised by a blacksmith hermit with only wolves for playmates.
- In Tibetan folklore both King Gesar (mythical founder of Tibet) and Milarepa (an important Buddhist teacher) were raised by Snow Lions.
- In the Muppets Tonight skit The Real World Muppets, Bobo the Bear claims that Darci was raised by wolves. "Stupid, illiterate, permissive wolves".
- In a certain Paranoia adventure, the characters have to stand in as actors for a reality show, but since most Alpha Complex citizens have as much of an interesting personality as a dry toast (and less than a Happy Fun Meal), they get additional backgrounds they have to roleplay. One of the available ones is the wolfboy, who was raised by a vicious radioactive wolf until he was rescued by Alpha Complex forces. This role is somewhat difficult because with everyone living underground, no one has any idea what a wolf might be.
- Warhammer 40,000: Unsurprisingly, this is far from unheard of among the Space Wolves chapter of the Space Marines.
- The chapter's Primarch, Leman Russ, was raised by tank-sized wolves and eventually became the leader of their pack.
- In modern times (that is, the last years of the fourtieth millenium), Canis Wulfborn, the champion of Wolf Lord Harald Deathwolf, was also raised by wolves... and, like Russ, managed to make himself the alpha wolf by the time he was in his teens. And remember, this is before he had had any of the genetic and surgical augmentation used to turn normal humans into Space Marines.
- One of the NPCs from a Ravenloft supplement is a caliban (curse-mutated human) born with the head of a tiger. He was abandoned in the forest of a Japanese-style domain, and found and raised by kami animal-spirits.
- Pathfinder:
- A Social trait called Beastkin has you pick an animal species (including bears, gorillas and of course wolves) for your character to be raised by, and allows said character to talk to the animals that raised you.
- There is also an archetype (variation) of the Druid class available for humans called Feral Child, which, in addition to letting you talk to the animals that raised you, trades literacy and the ability to shapeshift for some ranger and barbarian abilities.
- Magic: The Gathering has an enchantment card with this exact name. Not only does it grant benefits for being around wolves, it also puts two of them in play — presumably the ones that raised the enchanted creature. The artwork depicts a leonin — a humanoid panther — running on all fours alongside a pack of wolves.
- Warhammer Fantasy has the country of Tilea, which was founded in ages past when a pair of abandoned human twins were raised by a mutant two-headed leopard.
- In Legend of Legaia, Noa is a girl who was raised by a wolf — albeit an intelligent, talking one. This leads to some occasional embarrassments, such as her inviting a man to take a bath with her, and knocking out whoever appears to be a "bad guy", with no regard for legality.
- In Tales of Legendia, Jay was raised by a ninja, and then hundreds of talking otters. He's an antisocial "information dealer".
- In Tales of the Abyss, the God General Arietta, a.k.a. "Arietta the Wild" was raised by ligers note . Her grudge against Luke and party begins after they kill her mother, the Liger Queen, in the Cheagle Woods.
- Chauncey, the protagonist of the obscure sim game The Horde, was raised by a kind herd of wild cows.
- Pokémon Black and White
- N, the leader of Team Plasma, was raised by Pokémon because his father, Ghetsis, deliberately neglected him to condition N into a man who would hate humans.
- Word of God says that Iris was raised in a forest by dragons. It is unknown how much human interaction she had, but if her anime counterpart is anything to go by, she's definitely wild and quite adapted to moving about the forest.
- Gau from Final Fantasy VI was thrown out of his house by his father at birth; the man went insane when his wife succumbed to Death by Childbirth. He was raised by monsters on the Veldt, where all monsters come at one time or another. Despite this, he's actually a pleasant and friendly young man; when the party tries to reunite him with his father and the man rejects him, Gau's response is happiness that his father's still alive.
- In Trials of Mana Kevin explains that being raised by wolves is normal for beast men.
- There is a challenge for The Sims 2: Pets to have a toddler or child "raised" by pet animals (and one token elder grandparent or teenage sibling, since tots and kids can't pay bills or live alone without social services stepping in).
- In Mana Khemia, Vayne was raised by his talking cat named Sulphur. It turns out later in the game that Vayne himself is a manufactured Mana, while Sulphur is just a mere black cat.
- Grey Mann of Team Fortress 2 was kidnapped at birth by eagles, and then he was raised by those eagles. Then he ate the eagles.
Saxton Hale: That is some preposterous horse@#$% if you ask me. But barely credible backstory aside, he means business.
- Mirania of The Last Story was raised by a Forest Guardian, a sub-deity-like manifestation of nature's power. It left her a little off.
- In Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters we learn that Captain Qwark was given up for adoption and raised by monkeys.
- Invoked and spoofed in Dragon Age: Origins, when Alistair jokes that his terrible table manners and numerous bad habits are the result of having been raised by "a pack of dogs, who were devout Andrastians and hated cheese!" He admits that the truth is actually boring in comparison, that he was brought up in Redcliffe by Arl Eamon, before being sent to a Chantry to begin Templar training. On the other hand, the Warden can learn he was forced to sleep with the Hounds as a child, so there's some truth to this.
- In My Time at Portia, Oaks was raised by a bear—specifically, Papa Bear. However, it's stated that Papa Bear actually moved them closer to the game's titular city when Oaks was still young, because he knew his human son needed human influences.
- The Mario Bros. were raised by Yoshis for at least some period of their lifetime, if the gap between the original Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's New Island, where we see the baby Bros. get delivered to their actual parents is any indication.
- In Hatoful Boyfriend sequel Holiday Star, the human girl claims she was adopted by a pack of jackals in the wilderness. In the "Bad Boys Love" route of the original game, however, her parents are clearly mentioned, so she presumably wasn't raised solely by the jackals.
- Emily Watson from Spacetrawler was raised by coyotes. She can function in human society just fine, but she prefers to live as a nomad in the desert. She also says that coyotes are the only creature she feels any kinship towards... which doesn't prevent her from killing and eating them.
- Homestuck
- The Trolls of the planet Alternia. As part of a coming-of-age process, they must find a native monster to become their Lusus, or guardian as they grow up.
- Jade Harley was raised by her reality warping dog Bec after her Grandfather was shot in a freak accident involving Jade nearly getting herself killed.
- Parodied in Sluggy Freelance when Torg suffers a nervous breakdown, disappears inside his own house and is "raised" by (rather sarcastic) cockroaches for a few days.
- Parodied in this strip of Amazing Super Powers.
- One Hover Head story features a man raised by gorillas who had been raised by wolves.
- In Digger, there are many wombat stories involving baby wombats being raised by moles.
Digger: Do you humans have stories about babies being abandoned and raised by moles?
- Has its advantages, according to Caldwell Tanner.
- The protagonist of Vera Brosgol's "What Were You Raised By Wolves", in another literal example.
- In Siren's Lament, Ian the merman doesn't fully understand human customs when he first stays at Lyra's house, sleeping half-naked on her floor and sitting on her counter.
- In The Bird Feeder #162, "Even more adoption," it's revealed that Tina, a hummingbird, was apparently raised by rabbits.
- In The Handbook of Heroes, Ranger's connection with nature and lack of speech are revealed to come from the fact that she was abandoned as an infant and raised by a pack of wolves.
- There's a deviation about a girl raised by kangaroos, who went on to marry the Sniper from Team Fortress 2 (this is a joke based on one of the Soldier's domination lines)
- Vera Brosgol's wordless comic What Were You Raised By Wolves?.
- Brilliantly parodied in The Onion with, "Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody". The girl in question is a half-human, half-Wolf Blitzer who always wears pressed suits and slicked-back hair, talks in a stilted news-anchor voice, and is calmed by the use of a lint roller.
- Little One in Tales from My D&D Campaign was raised by his dragon mother, as his human father disappeared before he was born.
- How to Hero claims that being raised by evil wolves is one of the most common supervillain origins.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy plays with this trope.
Billy: Hey Pud'n, what're you doing outside?
- Pud'n:
Pud'n: Oh, we live outside outside. I was raised by wolves. *gestures towards a pair of wolves sitting in front of a randomly placed TV*
Father Wolf: Hey. *waves to Billy*
- Another Grim Adventures example: according to Mandy's father, when Mandy was born, a pack of wolves came by to try and raise her as their own. He sometimes regrets turning them down.
- Why does Ezekiel from Total Drama turn feral during World Tour? While he was in the hold, he was homeschooled by the rats. It's possible to assume if he were to be homeschooled by his parents again, he might start speaking again.
- An episode of Brandy & Mr. Whiskers featured a wild dog named Wolfie who shared the same speech problem as Grimlock. It turns out, he was raised by a monkey who had the same speech problem who was raised by a black jaguar who had the same problem... Which is explained when it turns out the jaguar was, erm, "raised" by a coconut tree. That is, coconuts fell onto the jaguar's head.
- In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, one of the recurring villains was the Griffin, who was at one point or another in his childhood raised by virtually every animal known to man.
- Doctor Doofenshmirtz, the Mad Scientist from Phineas and Ferb, has had a Hilariously Abusive Childhood. According to him, at one point, his parents disowned him, so there was a phase in his life where he was raised by ocelots.
- In a later episode, he uses this fact to join an otherwise animal-only spy organization. Apparently the ocelots formally adopted him, making Doofenshmirtz "legally an ocelot."
- Creepila Creecher herself from Growing Up Creepie was raised by insects.
- In Hero: 108, Wu Song, a dentist, found out that his long lost twin brother was raised by dogs and became the Dog King. The Dog King usually runs around on all fours and wears a dog pelt.
- The Adventure Time episode "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain" reveals Finn was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Jake's parents, who are dogs. But it's okay, they're post-apocalyptic talking dogs.
- Also parodied/Played for Laughs in an episode where a runaway Lumpy Space Princess gets adopted by a wolf pack.
- Wild Smurf in The Smurfs who the Delivery Stork lost in the forest as an infant and was raised by squirrels.
- In Rocko's Modern Life, Heffer belongs to the Wolfe family, which is all wolves. The thing is though, he is a steer.
- This is a subversion though: The Wolfe family are (despite their dining habits) sophisticated suburbanites. Heffer's lack of social skills is just because he is Heffer.
- Squidbillies has Rusty raised by wolves while Early is in prison. We're treated to a montage of wolves doing things like teaching him to ride a bike or reading him a bedtime story... and then mauling him.
- Police Academy: the Animated Series had one episode featuring a young man literally raised by wolves. The heroes, being cops, had the duty of finding his parents. Mission accomplished.
- Not only are Tarzan and his animated counterparts examples of this trope, but one of those counterparts once met an Amazon Princess who was also raised by animals.
- The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus applies this trope to freakin' Santa Claus — he's found as an abandoned baby and nursed and raised by a lioness, at least until a young wood nymph decides to adopt him.
- Donnie from The Wild Thornberrys was briefly taken in by a mother orangutan after his primatologist parents were killed by poachers. The orangutan later gave Donnie up so the Thornberrys would take him in.
- One episode Donnie and Debbie encounter a young girl being raised by jaguars in the Amazon rain forest.
- The Monarch from The Venture Bros. was (very briefly) raised by a flock of monarch butterflies after his parents died in a plane crash, hence his supervillain sobriquet.
- In The Jungle Bunch, Maurice the penguin was separated from the rest of his kind while he was an egg. His egg washed up on the shores of Africa, and was taken in by a tiger, who raised him as his own. As a result of his upbringing, Maurice believes himself to be a tiger. When he finally does meet other penguins, he is completely blind to the fact that he resembles them more then he does a tiger.
- In an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, the school welcomes a human girl who was raised by possums, and she acts as such. Subverted when she turns out she was faking it so she can get into the school and get closer to Adam (since she doesn't have a silly last name that can result in a clerical error and be transferred to an all-animal school).
- Wat was raised by a pig in Wat's Pig. He turned out surprisingly competent.
- Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: Boo-Boom, a young boy separated from his parents during World War II, is looked after by five animals. Although they don't intend to raise him (in fact, they are actively looking for the boys' parents), they do protect him as if he were one of their own.
- The Kaeloo episode "Let's Play Baby-Sitting" reveals that Mr. Cat was raised by a salmon (an ordinary one, not a Funny Animal like him) who saved him after his horribly abusive family tried to drown him.
- Dexter's Laboratory parodied this trope in the Justice Friends segment "Ratman", where the titular character's origin involved being taken in by the rats that scared away his parents when he was old enough to live on his own.
- Discussed on Gravity Falls: Mabel is surprised to meet Robbie's parents, as she assumed that he was "raised by sad wolves or something."
- This may possibly actually happen in theory, but if it does, is very, very incredibly rare as it requires both a child to be abandoned/lost from their parents, and an animal to be willing and able to raise young of a entirely different species. Most alleged cases are very dubious and questionable, and at the time of writing, Wikipedia is not a reliable source on this matter.
- The idea of a human being raised by literal wolves is a impossible, heavily romanticized idea because even if these wild predators, which fear and avoid humans, were willing to raise a human child, they have no way of feeding the child. Humans cannot sustain themselves on raw meat for long periods, and a wolf's milk would dry up far before they reached adulthood. The child would also be in danger from other wild animals, and suffer exposure from the cold and heat.


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Your high net worth clients are in the president's sights, and if he pushes his tax agenda through Congress, those making $1 million or more a year will be hit with a new "kind of AMT" that would ensure they pay at the same rate as lower income taxpayers.
President Barack Obama's controversial proposal to cut $3.6 trillion from the deficit over the next decade includes a measure called the "Buffett Rule," a tax increase on wealthy Americans who earn $1 million or more per taxable year. "Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher tax rates than millionaires and billionaires," said Obama. "Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it."
Obama was referring to Buffett's New York Times op-ed piece in which he said that the federal government protects the wealthy like "spotted owls" and other "endangered species." In the piece, Buffett said that his effective tax rate is far lower than anyone else's in his office and called for the wealthy to make "shared sacrifice" to get the country's finances in order.
But Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, don't see the Buffett Rule in terms of fairness. "I don't believe that class warfare is leadership," the speaker said. The president countered that, "[Y]ou're already hearing the moans and groans from the other side about how we are engaging in class warfare and we're being too populist and this and that and the other—all the usual scripts. I mean, it's predictable, the news releases that come out from the other side." Perhaps ironically, Obama's comments were made at his recent $35,800 a couple fundraiser.
Obama claims that the tax hike is necessary to promote fairness among high and low income earners, but government statistics tell a different story. According to the Congressional Budget Office, over 70% of all federal income taxes are paid by the top 10% of earners. And while some millionaires may be paying a lower percentage of their income in tax than the regular middle-income earner, this represents less than 1% of all households with incomes exceeding $1 million.
With the combined effects of the proposed $447 billion American Jobs Act and the sunset of the Bush tax cuts in 2012, this additional tax increase proposal is already receiving widespread criticism. Opponents of it are arguing that Obama is merely raising taxes and increasing spending without affirmatively resolving the high unemployment rates suffocating our economy.
Because it's highly unlikely that Republicans will allow Obama's Buffett Tax Proposal to pass a House vote, taxpayers may be left wondering whether the proposal is really in the best interests of the U.S. economy or whether it's an empty attempt to charge up the president's base in the lead-up to the election.
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The Wombats play an acoustic PV Session in the US, using a Farida M-26E
The Wombats have been continuing the trans Atlantic escapades that seem to have become a feature of their 2012. In the midst of a seven week US tour, this is the band's second visit to the US this year, following a massively successful tour in Spring. The band is promoting its widely critically acclaimed LP, This Modern Glitch, and it seems its unique brand of infectious and melodic yet intelligent pop is garnering an increasingly large following stateside.
During the tour, The Wombats managed to squeeze in an acoustic session for huge US music website, PureVolume. And quite a treat it was, too…
Acoustic performance of 'Jump Into The Fog'
Whilst the band is better known for its energy charged pop, at the PV Sessions The Wombats treated us to some acoustic performances of songs from This Modern Glitch. First up was the beautiful 'Jump Into The Fog', before a performance of 'Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)'.
The Wombats have been Farida Endorsees for some time, and for this session, both front-man Murph and percussionist Dan Haggis played a stunning Farida M-26E parlour guitar. This small-bodied acoustic combines distinctive looks with great playability and an onboard pre-amp to create an incredibly versatile guitar, that's just a bit out of the ordinary…
Regular readers will know that Murph is also due to have a Farida Artist designed model produced in the not-too-distant future. This solid body electric is quite a unique specimen, too. Designed to Murphs's own spec, this beautifully retro guitar has a Doug Abraham T-Bucker circuit that allows the two single coil pickups to be combined to for a wide humbucker. Very cool already, and I haven't even mentioned the subtly sparkled, baby blue vintage finish :-D.
There will only be 25 of these instruments made, each individually numbered. There is no official release date yet, so watch this space…
The Farida M-26E is available right now however. Visit our stores to hear it or try it for yourself. Alternatively, call our customer service team (01925 582420) or order online.
Here's The Wombats PV sessions, complete with interview- enjoy.
Joe is a contributor for the Dawsons Music blog. Specialising in product reviews and crafting content to help and inspire musicians of all musical backgrounds.


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Wow with all the 911 mega scandals and CityTime scandal and Bloomberg and Christine Quinn along with Dept of Investigation being notified about ECTP 911 corruption HP in 2008 ? who has time to think about all the sexual harassment law suits going on DOITT NYC Gov.....birds doitt bees doitt nyc gov just a cess pool historic levels of corruption under Mike Bloomberg and his puppet Christine Quinn and not news!!!!!!
Historic and heads should be rolling and Mike and Christine should be resigning...shhhh..
Oh is it sexual harassment law suits DOITT or sexual discrimination DOITT or both?
Why DOITT which was the portal for the largest amount of tax payer money New Yorkers were ever screwed out of...??????
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Today was my mom's last day of teaching after 42 years. Since she's been her school's library lady for close to 30 years, the students took the old book jackets she saved from damaged books and turned them into quilt squares, decorative paper chains, pinwheels and even mini paper-folded books. Not a bad idea for some favorite reads!
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-1/2 cup Wisconsin smoked applewood cheddar
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Wow. Step 1. It feels like it's been so long since I've wrote about you. You and your cheesy layer of goodness. You and you're repetitive step that happens in every single post that I write. Step 1, you used to bore me and make me anxious with your repetitiveness, but now I'm happy to see you again. Am I drunk? Probably, thank god for spell check. But yea, sprinkle on half the cheese and listen to Dan Deacon.
Peter Piper pickled pepper time. Add some pickled jalapenos and start to get excited.
Then it's everyone's favorite time… BACON TIME. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've read the food trends and think that all those people who say bacon is out can suck a D. I love it and I always will love it. It's my main reason for not being vegetarian and it tastes amazing on everything that you put it on. Those haters need to shut up because this sandwich wouldn't be the same without the smoked bacon goodness layer.
Now smear on a layer of cream cheese and close the sandwich. You should be getting really excited at this point.
Look how pretty it is! Turn your burner to medium and melt a pat of butter all up in that bitch. Add your sandwich in and smear it all around until the bread soaks up that buttery goodness.
Cook for a few minutes on each side and wait until it gets all golden and delicious and melty and oh my gahhhhhhhhh
When it's done on both sides and the cheese is oozing out, take it off the heat and let it set for a minute to concentrate all those awesome flavors. Then eat it and don't look back. Enjoy the moment, live it up, and keep it real. It's good to be back. Thanks for keeping me excited about the blog, dear readers.


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The Bristol and Bath Social Enterprise Network has been developed and is a public meeting place that provides members with a selection of useful resources, including a social enterprise map and directory, helpful guides and tool-kits, video case-studies and information on funding and finance. It provides a network for social entrepreneurs who want to support each other in developing the social economy.
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In early June, our team flew to New York City to to support one of our biggest team sponsors, Basin Holdings. This year they put on a Ride to Conquer Cancer charity ride! It was an absolute blast! The ride was two days and around 130 miles. After that, our team and Basin kept riding for another three days. We rode from NY, to Rhode Island. All in all we had an absolute blast and I hope to return next year!
We finally started jumping at the end of June, which is later than normal. Everyone was really excited and anxious to ski jump again. My first couple sessions were really good. Actually the best sessions I have had in almost a year. I was happy to start the summer jumping off strong and was hoping to carry the momentum to Steamboat Springs for the 4th of July competition.
The Steamboat camp went well. I felt really strong on the cross country side. However my jumping struggled a little more in Steamboat. I didn't have great jumps but was able to ski up to 4th in the competition. I also was able to see my parents. They drove from Aspen to watch the event. I hadn't seen them in a long time.
After Steamboat we returned home for a couple big volume training weeks and some bike races before U.S. Nationals at the end of July. I felt absolutely amazing in these weeks. My endurance was at an all time high and I was lucky enough to pull my jumping back together the week before Nationals. For the first time in two years, my jumping was finally back! During this time I did a little bike racing as well. Taylor, Jasper, Adam, and I went to Captiol Reef National Park(3.5 hours south of Park City) for a three day stage race. I hadn't sat on a bike in almost two weeks so I was a little nervous. However we all did really well. Taylor ended up winning Cat 1-3, and Adam won the Cat 4-5. Jasper and I were 5 and 6 in the Cat 4-5. It was a great race for team Colesport Racing.
We had only one week after the bike race to prepare for nationals. Fortunately, my jumping turned around just in time for the competitions. Nationals went well and I was happy with my performance. I ended up 4th in the nordic combined national championship behind Bryan, Adam, and Taylor. This was the best national result I have had to date.
With nationals behind us, our team now has our sights set on the Summer Grand Prix(SGP) events in Germany and Austria. I have never competed in a SGP so I am really excited. On top of that my level of jumping has improved tremendously and I am looking forward to seeing how I do in Europe. I am in Park City this week and then head back to Aspen with the team for a fundraiser on Tuesday. We will only be there a couple nights and then return to Park City for three nights, before heading to Europe.
I will keep you updated more often, now that we are going to start traveling and competing.


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Laura Haskins, Natural Sciences, 2000, is now practicing at Memphis Mid-South OB/GYN Alliance, P.C. Below is her story in her own words.
Picture this: a 30-something-year-old mother of three, working as an ICU nurse, content with her life. Settled and not keen on change in general, she feels a new "call" on her life. At first, she tries to ignore this call, but over time it becomes overwhelming and unignorable (if that's a word). The call? Go to medical school and become a doctor. A doctor! But wait! First, she must complete her degree. And that means taking stuff like Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Embryology. Ouch! So after recovering from this realization, she steps out in faith and enrolls in a large university in the Memphis area, returning to college after many years. The students have gotten much younger since the last time she was here, and the material is daunting. One day, as she sits in a huge auditorium with hundreds of students, brow furrowed, struggling to grasp some chemistry concept, she overhears this whispered exchange:
"Man, there's a lot of people in this class."
"About half will drop out after the first exam."
"Yeah, I'm repeating this class."
New voice, "I'm taking it for the third time."
Alarmed, she thinks, "I'm too old to be taking classes three times!" Driving home afterward, she phones her husband, frantic. Good naturedly, he suggests she transfer to his alma mater, Christian Brothers University. Ironically, he graduated from the Business College some twenty years earlier, when it was still known as "Christian Brothers College". What great advice that turned out to be!
The story you have just read is true. And, as you may have guessed, I was that 30-something –year- old woman. Thankfully, I did take my husband's suggestion and transfer to CBU. I can honestly say if I had not done that, it is likely I would not have become a physician after all. Of course, I received an outstanding education at CBU. That goes without saying. The instructors were very knowledgeable, approachable and interested in their students. I immediately appreciated things like the small class sizes and the professors teaching their own labs; but, over time I recognized the value of being treated as an individual with a unique set of talents and needs. I sincerely believe this is what allowed me to press on when things were difficult, to hang in there when I wanted to tuck tail and run back to my "settled" life.
At CBU, face-to-face interactions with faculty were commonplace, both prearranged and impromptu. I fondly remember Dr. Westcott's Organic Chemistry study sessions. Every Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the building was like ghost town, he met us in the classroom and tirelessly worked problems on the board. Week after week, he would stay until the last question from the last student was answered. Often it was just a few of us regulars there, but he didn't seem to mind. (Funny, we regulars had a lot of company around exam time.) I'm sure he had better things to do with his Friday evenings, but I am genuinely grateful for the hours upon hours he devoted to us. Not only was I able to pass, he helped me to excel in dreaded Organic Chemistry.
When it came time to apply to medical school, Dr. Eisen was instrumental. Not only did he understand the lengthy process, but he coached me through it step by step. He assembled my paperwork and even wrote a letter of recommendation himself. Above and beyond the call of duty, he proofread and re-read my personal statement offering excellent critique. And like a great coach, he commiserated with me when I was placed on the waiting list, and cheered with me when I was accepted. It's no wonder he was one of the first people I phoned when I launched my new practice.
Because the teachers knew me as an individual, they were able to write letters of recommendation that truly depicted Laura Haskins. During my last two years at UT medical school, I had the very great privilege of serving on the admissions committee. The letters written by professors who knew students personally carried much more weight than ones that sounded like a form letter.
Even after graduating, CBU was there for me. Preparing for my first set of med school exams, I felt so overwhelmed and just couldn't understand the cell biology material. Dr. Ogilvie met me at the CBU library, explaining it in a way that made sense. "CBU is like the Hotel California," we joked. "You can check out but you can never leave." Truthfully, that's a comforting feeling. So, now I am a 40-something-year-old mother of three, grandmother of two, and a doctor. A doctor! Had I not found CBU when I did, I might not be able to say that. Isn't my husband wise? Must be that CBU education of his.


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Fireplaces can add tremendous ambiance to a home, make it a little cozier and take the chill off of a frosty winter evening. Some statistics even suggest they add resale value to your home. Before you decide to put any type of a fireplace into your new home; however, it pays to do your homework.
We love fireplaces! Like most optional items inside a home; however, it is an investment we would recommend you give careful consideration to. We want to be sure you will be happy with everything inside of your dream home for years to come, indeed – for a lifetime.
Things to Consider
(1) Cost. Jandel Homes offers some lovely fireplace options for homebuyers. The average cost is approximately $2,800 [depending on the style you choose], with the three sided fireplaces being the most costly of the natural gas options and the wood burning stoves being the most expensive at approximately $6,000.
(2) Style. You will need to decide on the style of fireplace you want in your home. We may not offer the same design that you saw at your local fireplace retailer, but that doesn't mean we can't work with you on getting it installed. Once you get to that point in the home building process, simply talk it over with your Housing Consultant and they can advise you on the different options available.
(3) Fuel Source. You will need to decide on whether you would prefer a more energy efficient gas appliance, a more traditional wood-burning or an electric fireplace. These all have pros and cons, which are outlined in the links below.
(4) Home Insurance Costs. Wood burning fireplaces are typically deemed higher risk by insurance companies, and generally speaking, homeowners with wood burning appliances will pay a higher home insurance premium.
(5) Declining in Popularity. Fireplaces were once ranked on everyone's must have wish list, but they are no longer as highly sought after as they once were. While fireplaces are still very appealing to most, many of today's homebuyers are simply opting for more space, windows or wall space in lieu of adding a fireplace.
(6) Easy to Retrofit. Fireplaces can be easily installed after you've moved into your new home, unless it's a wood burning fireplace. Wood burning can also be installed after the home has been built, but it is more difficult [and expensive] to retrofit than to add a gas or electric fireplace.
Want to Read More? Here are some links we thought have value:
- How to Choose Between a Gas, Wood-burning and Electric Fireplace – BCLiving.com
- Natural Gas Fireplace FAQs – Fireplace Fact Sheet – ATCOEnergySense.com
- CMHC's Guide to Residential Wood Heating – Housing.YK.ca
- Retrofitting an Existing Build – The Costs of Adding a Fireplace – Houselogic.com
- Planning Guide: Fireplaces – BobVila.com
- Wood Burning Fireplaces – Successful Fireplaces in Tight Houses – WoodHeat.org


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Speak up for affordable medicine
US and European pharmaceutical industries see South Africa as "ground zero" for keeping their large profit margins, say Julia Hill and Catherine Tomlinson.
Cape Town - Imagine that a diagnosis has turned your life upside down. Perhaps it is HIV and you must now take daily treatment for the rest of your life to remain healthy – but sometimes the pills are not available in the clinic because the single company supplying the medicine could not deliver enough. Or you could have a type of breast cancer, but need R500 000 to pay for a year of treatment that could save your life.
Perhaps the best medicine to manage your bipolar disorder is only available on the private market and costs nearly R29 000 per year.
You or someone close to you likely has a similar story. Many people living in South Africa struggle to manage outrageous medical bills, or forego medication when they cannot afford it. What you might find surprising is that the prices you pay for medicine can be exceptionally unreasonable when compared to other countries such as India, or even Japan and Canada.
You might be angry to know that policy, law and practice is in the process of changing in South Africa to address these problems – but the government is dragging its feet.
It should make you furious that the US and European pharmaceutical industries see South Africa as "ground zero" for keeping their large profit margins and are pressuring government to abandon reform, at the expense of people's lives.
In South Africa, many important medicines are offered by only one big, multinational pharmaceutical company which holds a patent on the medicine. Patent holders have the exclusive right to market their medicine for 20 years, during which they can – and do – charge exorbitant prices, making the drug too expensive for government or medical schemes to afford.
One key reason companies are able to price gauge in South Africa is because they are often granted not one but many patents on the same medicine and prolong monopolies by years or decades.
This practice of "evergreening" is easy in South Africa, where patent applications are not examined to make sure they are deserved.
South Africa granted 2 442 pharmaceutical patents in 2008 alone, while Brazil – which examines patent applications – granted only 278 patents between 2003 and 2008.
Evergreening in South Africa blocks access to more affordable generics and biosimilars that are already available in other parts of the world. For example, patents in South Africa could block alternatives for breast cancer medicine trastuzumab, mental health medicine aripiprazole and arthritis medicine celecoxib until 2033, 2033 and 2020 respectively.
South Africa could save as much as R191 million a year on these three medicines if it could realise prices on par with India or Canada, where competition already exists.
In addition to driving up prices, monopolies can contribute to insecurity of supply. Patent protection on the antiretroviral (ARV) medicine lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) is currently blocking use of quality-assured generic versions. Patent holder AbbVie has been unable to provide adequate supply of LPV/r to South Africa for more than six months, leading to widespread stock-outs and thousands of people being sent home without their treatment.
While AbbVie claims the problem is now resolved, more than 9 percent of 796 facilities in four provinces surveyed in October (Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, North West) were still experiencing stock-outs of LPV/r and there is no guarantee that this problem will not arise again as more people go on ARV treatment.
People in South Africa have the constitutional right to have access to healthcare services. South Africa is also a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and in 1994 signed on to the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
TRIPS requires South Africa to grant patents on new medicines, but at the same time allows countries to develop national laws that ensure patent protection does not compromise people's health. Since South Africa adopted TRIPS, patient advocates wanting to promote access to medicines have been in a tug-of-war with Big Pharma wanting to protect their profit margins.
South Africa has made various attempts to incorporate TRIPS safeguards into national law. Most notably, the Medicines Act was amended in 1997 to encourage use of available generic medicines and permit parallel importation – which allows the same manufacturer's product to be imported from another country where it is sold at a cheaper price. This caused panic among international pharmaceutical companies, who under the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association (PMA) took Nelson Mandela's government to court seeking revocation of the laws.
Patient activists mobilised and fought back worldwide, leading the PMA to drop the case.
Over the next decade, challenges filed against pharmaceutical companies at the Competition Commission by the Treatment Action Campaign and the Aids Law Project (now Section27) secured access to generic versions of many ARVs. Today, a first-line ARV regimen is 96 percent cheaper than the cost of a similar regimen in 2000, when only patented medicines were available in South Africa. Lower prices allowed for massive scale-up of life-saving ARVs through the public sector – reaching over 3 million people in 2015.
For six years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has been developing a national intellectual property (IP) policy which will inform changes to the Patents Act and other legislation.
The right changes would help limit the number of undeserved patents granted on medicines. They would also develop easier processes for government to permit generic supplies on the market when legitimately patented medicines are unaffordable or unavailable.
Unfortunately, the reform process appears to have stalled.
Despite past victories, many critical medicines to treat cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, mental health, hepatitis, drug-resistant tuberculosis and other diseases, as well as newer ARVs, remain under patent in South Africa and inaccessible to people that need them.
More comprehensive legislative reform is necessary. This is why 18 patient groups comprising the Fix the Patent Laws (FTPL) coalition** are advocating for full adoption of TRIPS safeguards into national law, in order to protect and promote access to medicines.
In 2013, the DTI promisingly released a Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property, committing to full adoption of TRIPS safeguards to protect health. The draft policy announced plans to introduce patent examination procedures and stric-ter criteria for granting patents.
It reiterated the government's right to issue compulsory licences to allow generic suppliers on the market when patented medicines are not available. Yet for two years, the DTI has repeatedly broken promises to finalise the policy and introduce a bill to Parliament to amend the Patents Act. Pressure from Big Pharma to delay reform undoubtedly contributes to delays.
In 2014, the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of SA (IPASA) – a rebranded PMA – hatched a plot to stall pro-public health reform by funding a R6 million covert lobbying operation. The plot, exposed in the media, was dubbed "Pharmagate" and referred to as tantamount to "genocide" by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Submissions to the DTI on the draft IP policy revealed that the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and EU backed their industries' calls to put profit before patients. A 2015 AmCham submission to the US Trade Representative suggested South African eligibility for ongoing inclusion in the African Growth and Opportunities Act be dependent on the country abandoning IP reform.
Last month, the FTPL coalition called on DTI Minister Rob Davies to clarify when to expect a finalised policy. In response, Davies noted that the DTI remained committed to pro-public health reform and the final policy would be adopted in early 2016.
Yet every day that passes, more patents are granted on pharmaceuticals in South Africa – perhaps on a medicine you will need in the future. At the same time, international companies holding patents are gaining at local producers' expense and the trade deficit grows as we are forced to import expensive medicines from overseas. We can no longer accept delays that hurt our economy and jeopardise people's lives.
As South Africa embarks on legislative reform, the international pharmaceutical industry will continue to use its deep pockets to try and undermine the process.
Ordinary South Africans whose lives are directly affected by the actions of this industry must make their voices heard. If you want to tell the DTI why reform can't wait, send Davies a letter or a tweet (@the_dti) about what more affordable medicine would mean for you.
* Julia Hill is the Deputy Head of Mission for Doctors Without Borders, and Catherine Tomlinson is the Parliamentary Liaison for Doctors Without Borders.
** Fix the Patent Laws is a joint coalition of the Treatment Action Campaign, Doctors Without Borders; Section27; the Cancer Association of Southern Africa; the SA Depression and Anxiety Group; People Living With Cancer; DiabetesSA; Cape Mental Health; CanSurvive; the South African Federation of Mental Health; the Stop Stock Outs Project; the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Alliance; the South African Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance; Marie Stopes South Africa; Epilepsy South Africa; The Cancer Alliance; CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation South Africa; and Advocates for Breast Cancer.
To find out more, visit www.fixthepatentlaws.org. They're on Twitter: @FixPatentLaw.
*** The views expressed here are not necessarily those of Independent Media.
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Rob and Kevin welcome back Tony Awards historian Bryan Hobgood to discuss the 2016-2017 Tony Award Nominations!
This week's episode focuses on this season's musical works. From Come From Away to Groundhog's Day. Hello, Dolly to Sunset Boulevard. Josh Groban to Ben Platt, and everything in between that sings, is discussed, dissected, and dismantled.
Plus: Who will win? Who will lose? Who cares! It was an incredible season and we are all winners!


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Though ardent multitaskers may deny it, study after study shows that unitasking, tending to only one main task at a time, is clearly a more efficient, effective, and productive way to get things done than attempting to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously.
Author Steven Aitchison put it this way:
How many times have you heard someone say, "I get so much done because I am able to multitask"? Usually said with a smug little grin. Whilst it has been a popular thing to be able to attempt, multitasking is on its way out of our lives, that is if we really do want to become more efficient and productive.
It has been shown in numerous studies that people who try and multitask actually lose efficiency and productivity levels drop. The guy on the phone, checking his emails whilst telling their work colleague what to do maybe be doing three things at once however he is doing three things at once very badly and not efficiently enough to be doing the job correctly. Studies by Professor David Meyer at University of Michigan showed that young adults who had to perform two math tasks, back and forth, showed that it took longer doing the tasks this way than it would have if they had done them separately.
To read the entire article, click here.
While some limited multitasking can be a good idea, common sense dictates that one can pay full attention to only one mental processing task at a time. Many workers and students, put off by the boredom inherently a part of certain necessary activities and overwhelmed by the mountain of stuff they have to do, will dogmatically insist that multitasking works really well "for them" and resist with gusto the whole concept of unitasking.
That's too bad, because by doing so habitual multitaskers are actually setting themselves up for increased stress, decreased productivity, and frantic, rushed mindlessness that characterizes the moment-to-moment experience so many of us have of our lives, today.
If you're still not convinced, click here for a list of LifeHacker articles that put the multitasking argument into proper perspective.
Click here to read about one man's quest to heal himself of frenzied "multitasking madness" in 30 days.
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Category: birthday
Nora's mermaid party was a smashing success! View the photos on Flickr.
Don't spoil the covert operation… Nora doesn't know it is her birthday today. We are celebrating a month late (on October 13th), due mostly to the Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference that Dell attends each year, but no worries, she doesn't know the difference… she still doesn't have the months/days thing down yet. I bet we wouldn't be able to pull the wool over her eyes if this was her sixth birthday!
We have had a nice mellow hang-around-the-house day. We have been organizing closets, doing laundry, and kitchen cleaning. The birthday girl watched a few episodes pf Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Wow Wow Wubzzy, and some Power Puff Girls.
The high point was watching an old Star Trek together… the impetus for the vintage tee in the photo. That tee was Dell's when he was a little kid, and Mama T passed it on to us. Nora still isn't quite big enough for it, but she's getting close!
When we dropped Dell off at Dreamforce this afternoon, Nora fell asleep in the back of the car with a My Little Pony coloring book on her lap. She is having a great birthday, even though she doesn't know it is a special day. But when you are five, every day is a special day, right?
Miss Lotus (a former coworker at Mortar) had a little get together at Mars bar, and Nora and I stopped by…
It was a "rockstar" party, so Nora wore her "My mom is a rockstar" tee, but we pinned a Nora-hand-written note over the top replacing mom with Lotus, because Lotus truly IS a rockstar.
Nora didn't last too long, as it was pretty loud, and I gave her a Shirley Temple before giving her food. I should know by now… but I got her out of there pre-meltdown.
Unfortunately, I didn't avoid the meltdown — it DID happen, once Nora realized we weren't going back to the party.
Anyway, Happy Birthday Lotus! We had fun at your party (while Nora lasted).
Baby Quincy is here! She is absolutely perfect, and Shelly, Chad and Grant are all doing well. I am sure you want to know the timeline and details, so here is the scoop on how it went down…
Shelly and Chad checked into CPMC around 8pm Mon 5/7, while Meena (Grandmama Joan) & Papa Ray stayed with Grant at his house. They started to induce Shelly around 9:45pm, and contractions started in earnest around midnight. The epidural was given (yeah!) around 2am Tue 5/8. Shelly called me at 5am to say I should get there before 7am, so I showered up and headed over to CPMC. I got there around 6:30am, and it was perfect timing, because about 6:45am, Shelly's water broke. Then it all happened like gangbusters! She dilated from 6cm to 10cm in only 20 minutes (thank God for the epidural!). Shelly started pushing just before 8am, and after a mere 35 minutes of pushing, Quincy Joan Suzanne Lyon entered the world at 8:28am. WOW!
Just like when I was there for Grant's birth, I am totally humbled and awed by my sister and the miracle of birth. Shelly is such a strong person, a wonderful mother, and I am so ecstatic for the birth of her daughter Quincy. I am getting all teary-eyed just writing this! Anywhoo, CONGRATS Lyon Family, and welcome Quincy — you are soooo loved!
Quincy's YouTube Debut
Quincy's first video – she is getting all cleaned up just a few minutes after being born. Listen to the lungs on that little gal!
Nora Sings to Baby Quincy
Quincy's first serenade is "Rockabye Baby" from Cousin Nora.
Here's the whole gang singing Kelsey "Happy Birthday to You"
Joel was so kind to turn 40 and let us tag along on his birthday bash wine tasting in Napa. We hit Miner ("The Oracle" wine is amazing!), Paraduxx (so-so wine, but beautiful space for tasting), and Patz & Hall (livingroom-esque tasting salon, and great pinot noir wine). The thirteen of us crammed into a van up and back to Napa – felt just like a teenage ski trip or something… singing, razzing, flatulating, dorito-ing. I hope my 40th birthday is as much fun!
View all the photos on Flickr (Kotara's + Thompson's combined).


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Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain
Hey there Canes fans. So sorry I have not posted in awhile. I will not make any excuses. I'm sorry. With that being said, let's move on because typing these articles is cathartic for me. As a fullback, I used to love the shotgun formation. It got me out a three-point stance and into a position where I could survey the field. Here's a survey (and my musings of what's going on in Canes Land).
- Canes are currently 8-0. Although they haven't played perfect football, their schedule is in fact perfect. The College Football Playoff Committee, chaired by Kirby Hocutt (yes, the Kirby Hocutt who jumped ship from UM after saddling us with Al Golden). Has no love for the Canes. Four one-loss teams are ahead of Miami: Notre Dame, who is good because they lost to Georgia (and Georgia is good because they beat Notre Dame – how about that for circular reasoning); Clemson, who lost to Syracuse (apparently their loss to Syracuse is better than Miami's win against Syracuse); and Oklahoma and TCU, who both lost to the mighty 3-loss Iowa State. Aside from Hocutt's double talk on Tuesday nights, and the Committee's disrespect for Miami, this is what bothers me – all of these one loss teams are given a mulligan, a do-over. The Committee overlooks their worst game (a loss to a terrible team) and gives them the benefit of the doubt and crowns them. But Miami – no mulligan. Miami played Syracuse and North Carolina close (and won). No "mulligan" for winning. This is crap. In the end, Canes just need to cake care of business – they control their own destiny – win and they're in. But, still, the hate is real.
- Catholics vs. Convicts – This has not aged well. The more I hear it, the more I get a pit in my stomach. Context is everything. I won't harken back to the origins of this tag line – there is a ND biased 30 for 30 documentary if you are so inclined – but the meaning of "convict" in this context is THUG. It's just that Catholics vs. Thugs didn't have as nice of a ring to it. I'm not a millennial. I'm not always PC. But I am thankful that in 2017 we finally recognize what people mean by the word "thug". I don't wish to go into this any deeper. I just think it important to note how far we've come as a society, and how far we have to go. That being said, F@*% Notre Dame and the clowns that came up with this tagline.
- ESPN's College Gameday is in town. Coral Gables is a buzz. The campus looks amazing. This will be a great opportunity to showcase our amazing university for 3 hours on national television. I anticipate this being a 3 hour long commercial for the University of Miami. Synonymous with College Gameday are signs. Please enjoy our sign. Hopefully polite enough to get on TV, but mean enough to troll Notre Dame.
And with that, this Shotgun Formation is over. This is a special time for Miami Football. There is something in the air. Things smell better. Food tastes better. Drinks pour colder. Etc. Enjoy it Canes Fans. See you on campus tomorrow morning and at the Rock tomorrow night. Let's eat.


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The 35th Annual American Craft Exposition (ACE)
September 20-22, 2019
Preview Party September 19, 2019
Deadline for Applications: March 11, 2019
Deadline for Late Applications: March 25, 2019
2019 Application Information
The 35th Annual American Craft Exposition (ACE), a juried exhibition and sale presented by The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore), will be held at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL. The jury will accept approximately 150 craft artists.
Preview Party: September 19, 2019
Show: September 20-22, 2019
Proceeds from ACE will support mental health services at NorthShore University HealthSystem.
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The booth fees range from $1,250 - $2,500.
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