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Nothing about "The Americans" is as it should be.
Philip and Elizabeth Jennings live in a peaceful neighborhood in suburban Virginia, and they're at war with the FBI agent across the street. The heroes are in the KBG; the enemy is the United States. The war is supposed to be cold, but three minutes into last year's pilot episode, there's already a body count. No one is who they say they are. The married couple at the center of the show isn't really married. The Americans of the title aren't really American. Every story is a cover, every promise is a lie.
"The Americans" takes place in the 1980s, but it may as well be yesterday. That sneaking feeling that everyone is spinning a story instead of telling the truth on every resume and online dating profile, that suspicion that a husband or a wife - or a parent or a child - is not the person they seemed to be or the person they were when you met, that unnerving sense that security is an illusion, that nowhere is safe from an enemy who could be setting up shop in the back yard: modern anxieties all, explored on TV in an analog, action-driven drama.
"What's evocative about the premise of the show, part of what's exciting to us creatively, is that idea that we're all spies in our own lives," says executive producer Joel Fields. "And ultimately we have to make a choice to live in trust with other people."
Philip and Elizabeth, played by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, are Soviet spies whose fake marriage was arranged by the KGB. Their two American children think Mom and Dad work at a travel agency. Elizabeth, communist to the marrow, is devoted to Mother Russia above all. (Typical dialogue: "I would go to jail. I would die. I would do anything before I would betray my country.") Philip, grateful for the comforts and security American life provides, is leaning toward defection.
"The Americans" is a marriage story dressed up as a spy flick, with espionage work, and all the secrecy and deception it entails, standing in for the issues we grapple with in real relationships.
"You can choose between safety and risk with your heart and with your life," says Fields. "If you want to be really super-safe from hurt, the best way to do it is to never engage with anybody else emotionally. If you want to live with emotion, heart" - at this, his voice drops low - "you've got to expose yourself."
But how willing are any of us to take that risk, even with our loved ones? Or, as "The Americans" challenges us to ask: Are we ever really close to the people closest to us?
In the office adjacent to the writers room, Fields, who is probably only half-kidding when he says "I haven't slept in six months," reveals what is most "painful" for him and executive producer Joseph Weisberg: "It's really hard for us to accept that people see this as a period show."
"The Americans" is set in the early 1980s, when Intellivision was the hottest new thing in video game technology and the KGB touched based with agents in the field using radio signals and Morse code.
Though it hurts Fields to know his high school days are carbon-dated, "there's something so liberating, creatively, about not having texts or cellphones. When someone drives away and you find out new information, there's nothing you can do to warn them," he says. "So it's very helpful from a writing standpoint. You don't have to worry about, 'Oh, they're in a zone with no cell service' or 'How do we get them underground?' "
(Another perk, Rhys said, is toying with the now-ancient technology on the set: "I never tire of playing with the VCR in the Jennings house.")
But the real power of the setting is how it places the show in a cultural moment when it felt like the world could blow up at any moment. "There was a real feeling that we were in a war," says Fields. "And it was cold, but only because if it got hot, which was inevitable, we were all going to die in a nuclear thermoholocaust."
"We live today with a low buzz of terrorist threat," Noah Emmerich, who plays FBI agent Stan Beeman, says by phone. But during the Reagan administration, "it was a more profound threat of global annihilation - that there were two hands on two triggers, and both had the power to create worldwide destruction. And that was a quite intense, unsettling time."
"Americans" creator Weisberg worked in the CIA's Directorate of Operations. It was his idea to set the show in the '80s, when Ronald Reagan was president and "he was ratcheting up the Cold War in such an intense way."
Weisberg said by phone that "most of the spy stuff in the show is really real." He even gave the cast lessons in countersurveillance techniques, classes he had to get CIA permission to teach. (Every script he writes must also be sent to the CIA for approval.) Some of the most outlandish-seeming plots on the show are based on reality, such as Philip's pretending to be "Clark" and marrying Martha, a secretary at the FBI.
"It's this cruel, crazy thing he does to her," says Weisberg, and it's "very closely based on historical fact. KGB illegals married secretaries of men who were in specific government and political positions that the KGB wanted to get intelligence on."
The easy, unnerving parallels you could draw between what happens to these characters and what could happen to you - imagine finding out the person you're dating has been lying to you all along about who he really is - are "why people relate to the show," says Weisberg.
"Philip and Elizabeth are not aliens from another planet," he says. "Obviously, their job exaggerates all of it and takes it to this life-and-death level. But when you look at [the] way they relate to each other and their kids, it resonates. In one episode, Philip and Elizabeth did some crazy espionage thing, and someone on set said, 'This is just the fight I had with my wife last week!' And that's the whole point of the show."
"The Americans" is part of what you could call the second wave of "Golden Age" television, and one of the ways this new class betters its formers is by embedding complicated female characters in the heart of the action. It's a pretty thrilling change of pace from the typical "wife left in the dark" roles that were often the weak spots in otherwise excellent dramas. Elizabeth - like Claire Underwood on "House of Cards" and Carrie Mathison of "Homeland" - is as brutal as every guy on screen, the clear winner of "most likely to pummel someone's face into pulp." Or, as Fields puts it: "Boy, you don't want to be a security guard in the wrong place at the wrong time when Elizabeth needs to get something done."
"She's the more ideologically fervent partner in the show," says Weisberg. "That gives her a kind of strength and a way to kind of guide the ship."
"I like how cold she is," Russell says. "You know, people have hard lives, and people aren't always fuzzy and warm. . . . And people have protections around them, and I think that's interesting. And it leaves you somewhere to go."
Elizabeth gets shot in the Season 1 finale, and it's the last push she and Philip need to realize how much they love each other. "Weirdly, ballistic injuries draw couples so much closer together," says Rhys. But given that the Jenningses have to swap sex for secrets and engage in deception more often than most people brush their teeth, this is not exactly the safest development.
Elizabeth, says Russell, "is definitely a better soldier in the first season when she's not as in love with Philip. She's not as vulnerable. She's making very clear choices. It's easier to do the honey traps. It's easier to do the sexuality that she has to do for her job, it's easier to accept her husband using sexuality for his job. So her intention is much more clear. It's much more black and white. And I think that has shifted radically."
Rhys agrees. "All of a sudden, [when] emotions become real, the honey traps take on a new color. And it's incredibly hard for Philip to deal with what she does."
"Everything's heightened," he says. "And not necessarily for the better of their jobs."
A quick spoiler-free Season 2 preview: The focus is expanding, from the United States and the Soviet Union to Afghanistan and Nicaragua, from marriage to family. You may have not thought this was possible, but the sex gets even more graphic. Russell and Rhys raised concerns about one scene in particular - you'll know it when you see it - but were overruled. (There's a chart in the writers room that tracks, among other things, how often sex and violence are used. "We never want to have too much," Fields says.)
The issue of what Philip and Elizabeth owe their children, whether that's the truth or just more lies to keep them safe, drives much of these coming episodes. "You know from the last shot of the last season that Paige [the Jenningses' daughter] is beginning to sense, as all teenagers do, that maybe her parents aren't exactly who she thought they were," says Fields. "It's very universal. In her case, the truth is pretty devastating."
"When I worked at the CIA," Weisberg says, "one of the things that fascinated me and moved me was . . . [that] to do this job, parents had to lie to their kids. And at some point, the parents would have to sit down and say, 'I've been lying to you your whole life.' "
In the show, Weisberg asks, "how long can that lie go on?"
That familial lie might be the worst betrayal on a drama where betrayal is all around. "There's a part of me that just wonders about the long-term lies in this family," says Fields, "and what impact that has on these kids who didn't choose to be a part of it."
Then again, Emmerich says: "How do you define betrayal? Everyone's just doing their job."
Philip and Elizabeth also have to reckon with the fact that their children, born and raised in the United States, aren't carbon copies of their communist parents. Early in Season 2, Paige rebels in the most adorable, all-American way imaginable, and Elizabeth's reaction is bananas.
All is not well, really, with anyone. As for Stan, "his world [is] sort of falling apart," says Emmerich. And Philip, said Rhys, has no choice but to lie to his family. "I have to at this point. I'm entrenched." A horrific event in the season premiere sends even the usually steely-eyed Elizabeth into a tailspin.
Bad news for the characters, but good news for the show.
"If you're trying to tell stories," says Weisberg. "Problems are good for you."


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1O LORD, you are my God,
I extol you, I praise your name;
For you have carried out your wonderful plans of old,
faithful and true.a
2For you have made the city a heap,
the fortified city a ruin,
The castle of the insolent, a city no more,
not ever to be rebuilt.b
3Therefore a strong people will honor you,
ruthless nations will fear you.
4For you have been a refuge to the poor,
a refuge to the needy in their distress;
Shelter from the rain,
shade from the heat.c
When the blast of the ruthless was like a winter rain,
5the roar of strangers like heat in the desert,
You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud,
the rain of the tyrants was vanquished.
6On this mountain* the LORD of hosts
will provide for all peoples
A feast of rich food and choice wines,
juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
7On this mountain he will destroy
the veil that veils all peoples,
The web that is woven over all nations.
8He will destroy death forever.
The Lord GOD will wipe away
the tears from all faces;
The reproach of his people he will remove
from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.d
9On that day it will be said:
"Indeed, this is our God; we looked to him, and he saved us!
This is the LORD to whom we looked;
let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!"e
10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain,
but Moab will be trodden down
as straw is trodden down in the mire.f
11He will spread out his hands in its midst,
as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim;
His pride will be brought low
despite his strokes.g
12The high-walled fortress he will raze,
bringing it low, leveling it to the ground, to the very dust.h
* [25:1–9] These verses praise God for carrying out his plan to destroy the enemy and to save the poor of his people in Zion (14:32), and they announce the victory banquet to be celebrated in the Lord's city.
* [25:6] This mountain: i.e., Jerusalem's mountain, Zion.
* [25:10–12] Moab: one of Israel's bitterest enemies.
a. [25:1] Is 12:1, 4; 22:11; 28:29; 37:26.
c. [25:4] Is 14:32; 32:2; Na 1:7.
d. [25:8] Is 60:1, 3; 1 Cor 15:53–55; Rev 7:17; 21:4.
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Congress likes to impose draconian consequences - the fiscal cliff, sequestration, national default - on itself, and unfortunately on the rest of us as well, for failing to do what it's supposed to do.
The latest such gimmick is the "no budget, no pay" proviso. The idea is that none of the lawmakers will get a paycheck until both the House and Senate pass a budget this year. For the senators, it's not an idle threat because they haven't passed a budget in four years.
But the threat is somewhat mitigated because so many members of Congress are wealthy enough that they can get along without their government paycheck and, besides, they get all the money back at the end of the congressional session. No member will starve.
However, David Walker, a former U.S. comptroller general who leads the nonprofit Comeback America Initiative, has come up with a promising proposal to get the solons to do their work: "No deal, no break."
The public is generally unaware how much time off Congress takes. Walker notes it plans to adjourn for the equivalent of a full month this spring while we confront at least two critical deadlines: March 27, when the government faces a shutdown if temporary funding resolutions aren't renewed, and May 19, when the debt ceiling will rise. And the fiscal 2014 budget must be taken up whenever President Barack Obama sends his budget along. Plus, the lawmakers take a week off for every federal holiday and virtually all of August.
A normal working stiff, Walker says, is on the job over 90 percent of weekdays. A member of Congress works just 49 percent of weekdays. He wants to see Congress reach that elusive grand bargain on taxes, spending and fiscal reform. But even if the lawmakers fall a little short of "grand," it's still better than what we have.
Thus, no deal, no break. "The premise is simple," Walker says. "Stay in Washington and do your job and strike a meaningful fiscal deal that can restore fiscal sanity. And until that happens, don't recess."
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Today this Jester was moved to tears at the Mass of Beatification for The Blessed John Paul II. The Mass just completed was beautiful ! Bless His Holiness, Pope Benedict and all others whose preparation and works made today such a moving mass.
Today is Part Two – This is where Stanczyk wanted to write about Karol Józef Wojtyła's genealogical lineage. Blessed be those whose long lineage gave us this magnificent man.
Karol Józef Wojtyła b. 18-May-1920 in Wadowice. He was youngest of three children born to Emilia Kaczorowska + Karol Józef Wojtyła Sr. His beloved mother died in childbirth in 1929 and thus the 4th child within her too must have perished.
Karol Józef Wojtyła's parents were as named above. Karol Józef Wojtyła Sr. was born 18-July-1879 in Lipnik (near Bielsko). His mother, Emilia Kaczorowska was born 26-March-1884 in Krakow. They were married 10-February-1906 in Wadowice. Karol Józef Wojtyła's family died in 1914 (sister Olga), 1923 (grandfather Maciej Wojtyła), 1929 (mother Emilia), 1932 (brother Edmund), 1941 (father Karol) leaving him a solitary pilgrim throughout his life.
Maciej WOJTYLA (paternal grandfather) was born 01-January-1852 in Czaniec. Anna PRZECZEK (paternal grandmother) was born 03-September-1878. Maciej also had a second wife: Maria ZALEWSKA born: 01-February-1861 in Lipnik , the daughter of Jozef ZALEWSKI. Feliks KACZOROWSKI (maternal grandfather) was born 26-June-1849 in Biala. Maria Anna SCHOLTZ (maternal grandmother) was born circa 1853.
The Wojtyła line continues backward with: Franciszek WOJTYLA + Franciszka GALUSZKA and one final generation: Bartlomiej WOJTYLA born circa 1788 Czaniec + Anna HUDECKA born 1792 Bulowice. The Wojtyła family are purported to be from Czaniec originally (near Biala in the south of Poland).
As a genealogist, I should point out that all of this information is not sourced and should be verified by church records.


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Jetpack Joyride is available now on iOS devices for $1 and, although the one-touch gameplay is going to remind you of past games, the devil is in the details. You fly from left to right on your jetpack (which is really a machine gun), and the bullets that provide lift also kill the scientists running beneath you. The game has a gleefully chaotic feel, and the act of avoiding obstacles and seeing how long you can survive almost forces you to give it one more go after you die.
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The United Nations held a historic UN Conference on Happiness on April 2 to discuss wide discrepancies in levels of happiness worldwide and whether countries should track happiness in addition to other more standard economic measures. The meeting drew 600 delegates, including leaders and scholars from around the world. The main consequence of the meeting, in addition to exploring what is known about happiness research was to focus on happiness and wellbeing at the Sustainable Development Rio+20 conference in June. It is also likely that when the new new Sustainable Development Goals come out in 2015 (a re-working of the Millennium Goals) happiness will be on the list of priorities, joining the stalwarts like anti-poverty and educational goals.
The UN meeting follows on the visible efforts of Nicholas Sarkozy (the so called Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission) in 2009 and the decision in 2010 of the UK government to begin measuring happiness regularly.
Attending the conference were, among others, my colleague Robert Putnam, Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, Costa Rican president Laura Chincill, Bhutan's Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley.
"The US has had a three time increase of GNP per capita since 1960, but the happiness needle hasn't budged" [Jeffrey Sachs]
Sachs suggested that there were much more efficient strategies, as shown by other countries, for how to achieve higher levels of average wellbeing than to focus on boosting the size of the economy, as the US has done.
P.M. Thinley (whose country Bhutan has endorsed Gross National Happiness) suggested that focusing on happiness worldwide was essential if the world was to get on a sustainable trajectory. Last summer, led by Bhutan, the UN unanimously adopted a measure "Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development."
Sachs, John Helliwell (a friend and colleague) and Richard Layard, helped produce the interesting background World Happiness Report for the conference which both discusses worldwide variation in happiness and scientific evidence that happiness can be reliably measured and is meaningful.
The Guardian article by Mark Williamson also describes a conference the day before the UN Conference: "[G]lobal experts debated the cutting edge of wellbeing research. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist, had explained how happiness is a skill that can be learned; public policy expert Robert Putnam showed us the vital importance of social connections; economist Joseph Stiglitz highlighted the flaws with GDP; Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard explained the reciprocal benefits of altruism; and Martin Seligman, founder of positive psychology, reminded us that there's much more to a flourishing life than just the absence of misery."
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We live in an age of stark contradictions. The world enjoys technologies of unimaginable sophistication; yet has at least one billion people without enough to eat each day. The world economy is propelled to soaring new heights of productivity through ongoing technological and organizational advance; yet is relentlessly destroying the natural environment in the process. Countries achieve great progress in economic development as conventionally measured; yet along the way succumb to new crises of obesity, smoking, diabetes, depression, and other ills of modern life.
These contradictions would not come as a shock to the greatest sages of humanity, including Aristotle and the Buddha. The sages taught humanity, time and again, that material gain alone will not fulfill our deepest needs. Material life must be harnessed to meet these human needs, most importantly to promote the end of suffering, social justice, and the attainment of happiness. The challenge is real for all parts of the world.
As one key example, the world's economic superpower, the United States, has achieved striking economic and technological progress over the past half century without gains in the self-reported happiness of the citizenry. Instead, uncertainties and anxieties are high, social and economic inequalities have widened considerably, social trust is in decline, and confidence in government is at an all-time low. Perhaps for these reasons, life satisfaction has remained nearly constant during decades of rising Gross National Product (GNP) per capita.
The realities of poverty, anxiety, environmental degradation, and unhappiness in the midst of great plenty should not be regarded as mere curiosities. They require our urgent attention, and especially so at this juncture in human history. If we continue mindlessly along the current economic trajectory, we risk undermining the Earth's life support systems – food supplies, clean water, and stable climate – necessary for human health and even survival in some places. On the other hand, if we act wisely, we can protect the Earth while raising quality of life broadly around the world. We can do this by adopting lifestyles and technologies that improve happiness (or life satisfaction) while reducing human damage to the environment. "Sustainable Development" is the term given to the combination of human well-being, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. We can say that the quest for happiness is intimately linked to the quest for sustainable development."
Prince Charles, who attended and gave a talk, said: "The grim reality is that our planet has reached a point of crisis. The time for us to act is rapidly running out. We are facing what could be described as a 'perfect storm': the combination of pollution and over-consumption of finite natural resources; the very real risk of catastrophic climate change; unprecedented levels of financial indebtedness, and a population of seven billion that is rising fast."
For prior reports on happiness, read here and here is a summary of recent happiness research.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his introductory remarks commented: ""Gross National Product (GNP) has long been the yardstick by which economies and politicians have been measured. Yet it fails to take into account the social and environmental costs of so-called progress. We need a new economic paradigm that recognises the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental wellbeing are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness." Read his introductory remarks here.
[BBC report on the conference here.] NYT pre-Conference story here by Timothy Ryback.
For more on the link between social capital and wellbeing, read "Social Capital, The Economy, and Wellbeing" (John Helliwell).


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Mulcair personally drafted a private member's bill tabled here Monday by one of his MPs that would effectively make it easier for a province to separate from Canada.
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The Clarity Act, similar in tone to the tough approach toward Quebec advocated at the time by the old Western Canada-based Reform party, has always been popular outside Quebec — and has been deeply resented by Quebec nationalists.
It sets out strict conditions that would require a province to get a mandate from the public in a referendum on a clear question with a clear majority vote.
The legislation doesn't say what threshold is to trigger sovereignty negotiations, but the assumption has always been that Quebec separatists would need to win by at least 55 per cent to meet the bill's test.
Dix, in an interview earlier this month before his meeting here with Mulcair and other provincial NDP leaders, said he supports the Clarity Act.
The federal NDP's bill tabled Monday goes against the thrust of that bill by stating that a simple majority of 50 per cent plus a single vote — on a clear question — is enough to break up Canada.
"I'm not concerned about anybody in the NDP," he told The Vancouver Sun when asked about whether he and Dix were offside on a sensitive national unity matter.
He noted that party members voted overwhelmingly in favour of the current policy when the matter was debated and voted on in 2005-06.
Mulcair appeared not to be aware of Dix's position, stated in an interview earlier this month, that he supports the Clarity Act. Dix couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday.
"I think Adrian Dix is one of the strongest political leaders I've ever had the privilege to know in my career, and what we've put on the table is a reflection of the adopted policy of the NDP, adopted by 95 per cent of our members," Mulcair said in an interview in his Parliament Hill office.
"And you're telling me something about a conversation you've had with Adrian. All I can tell you is this: I've spoken with all of my provincial colleagues and they were all very much aware of what we're putting on the table."
He noted that the British government has already indicated it would accept a simple majority in a Scottish independence referendum scheduled for 2014.
"If it's good enough for the mother of all British parliaments, in Westminster, in the case of Scottish secession, why wouldn't we do the same as we did in '80 and '95, which is to recognize that the majority wins?"
The Clarity Act was based on a 1998 Supreme Court of Canada ruling. Mulcair said he's confident his party's bill is consistent with that court ruling, since the bill stresses the need for a clear question — something the judges made clear was necessary.
Mulcair said he'd prefer to focus on the economy, but he felt forced to respond to the Bloc Quebecois private member's bill now before the Commons that would repeal the Clarity Act.
His position was slammed on Tuesday by many, but not all, media commentators in English-speaking Canada.
Mulcair is in a tough spot, polls suggest, because his huge breakthrough in Quebec in 2011 was based on victories mostly in ridings held by the separatist Bloc Quebecois.
The Bloc, by tabling its bill to repeal the Clarity Act, is attempting to force Mulcair to jeopardize the careers of either his Quebec MPs in nationalist ridings or his caucus members outside Quebec, including a dozen from B.C.
An Ipsos Reid poll released after the separatist Parti Quebecois election win last September showed that 67 per cent of Canadians polled thought a majority of no lower than two-thirds (66 per cent) was necessary to break up the country. In Quebec the figure was 55 per cent.
Interestingly, a similar minority in both segments of the poll supported the bare threshold of 50 per cent plus one vote — 30 per cent in Quebec, 24 per cent in the rest of Canada.
The online poll of 1,007 Canadians, done for Postmedia News and Global Television, was conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 4. Ipsos Reid said the survey was assumed to be accurate to within 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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|General Information
|Teleri who turned aside from the Great Journey east of the Misty Mountains and journeyed down Anduin
|Vales of Anduin, Ossiriand, Lindon, shores of Lake Nenuial[1], Lothlórien, East Lórien, Belfalas, Woodland Realm, Ithilien
|Nandorin, Sindarin
|Lenwë, Denethor, Nimrodel, Galion, Loria
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The Nandor (Q, pron. [ˈnandor]; sg. Nando), who included the Silvan Elves (or "Wood-elves") and Green-elves, were one of the Telerin races of Elves. Like the Sindar, they were Úmanyar i.e. part of the Teleri who began the Great Journey but did not complete it. The Nandor were the original elven inhabitants of Middle-earth east of Beleriand, but eventually they also stretched out across the Ered Luin as well into Ossiriand. Many journeyed down the River Anduin forming Kingdoms of the Silvan Elves: the Woodland Realm and Lothlórien. The people of Lórien were of this kind, as were the Wood-elves of Mirkwood.
As other Teleri, they loved water and dwelt most beside falls and running streams. But living wild in the nature, they have greater knowledge of trees, plants, animals and birds, than all other Elves.[2]
[edit] History
[edit] Lenwë and Denethor
Those who would become the Nandor were in the hosts of the Teleri under Elwe and Olwe. They stayed long in the Vales of Anduin upon the east bank of the river while they waited for Orome, but while the Vanyar and the Noldor crossed the Hithaeglir, the Teleri were afraid looking at their shadowy peaks.
Then Lenwë, from the host of Olwë, decided to forsake the march as he was content to remain in the wide forested lands; others broke from the host and followed him southwards along the Great River.[3]
Gradually, the Nandor spread out. They may have moved on to live in Eriador, or by the mouth of the Sea at the outpouring of Anduin. They were a simple folk, with no weapons of steel. They made friends, too, with the Naugrim, and were contented. But evil beasts came from the north, and they had no defence against such terrible weapons. They had been told by the Naugrim about King Thingol and the might of the Sindar, therefore Denethor, Lenwë's son, crossed over the Ered Luin into Beleriand, the western lands of Middle-earth. There they settled in the green and many-rivered Ossiriand, welcomed by Thingol as long-lost relatives. They were called the Laegrim.[4]
[edit] Wars of Beleriand
Thingol took advantage of their friendship on the first opportunity, when he was in great need. The Dark Lord Belegurth invaded Beleriand, cutting Thingol off from his other strong allies, the Falathrim. But Ossiriand was wide and Morgoth could not sever that connection. Thingol called Denethor to his aid, and the Laegrim came. Thingol attacked the orc-host from the west, and the Laegrim from the east, creating a hammer-and-anvil technique that succeeded. But this victory came at great cost. The Laegrim were lightly-armed, and the orcs shod in iron. Denethor was cut off at Amon Ereb; he and all those nearest about him were killed before Thingol could rescue him. The Laegrim loved him and mourned his loss, and henceforth would take no king. They became reclusive, pulling away from the many troubles of Beleriand, and fighting no longer against Belegurth.[4]
When the Noldor returned from over the Sea, they gave the Laegrim the name (in Quenya) Laiquendi. The Laiquendi did not participate in the great events of Beleriand throughout the First Age. The Laiquendi accepted Beren and Lúthien, who came to Tol Galen in the midst of their lands, and made it one of the most beautiful places in Beleriand. After the dreadful sack of Doriath and death of Thingol, many of the Laiquendi joined Beren in the Battle of Sarn Athrad. The Green-elves later sent the news to King Dior Eluchíl of the final deaths of Beren and Lúthien.[5]
After the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Sons of Fëanor wandered in the lands of the Laiquendi, bereft of lands, often mixing with them.[6]
[edit] Second Age
(Henceforth see also Galadhrim and Elves of Mirkwood)
After the War of Wrath, Ossiriand survived no longer, and the survivors of the Laiquendi once more merged back into the main Nandorin population, who now were spread over the face of Middle-earth. The Nandor on both sides of the mountain range were of a somewhat less pure strain, those in Ossiriand having mixed blood with some Sindar, and those in the east having mixed blood with the Avari who came westwards. As the Second Age went on, the blood became even more mixed. Even their language changed from Nandorin to Sindarin. Gradually, the Nandor were changing into what became known as Silvan Elves or Tawarwaith, meaning "Forest People"[7].
The Nandor, now known in their impure state as Tawarwaith, were soon pushed into refuge when Sauron rose to challenge elven power in Middle-earth. Some were forced to take refuge with the Noldor, who although weakened were still very powerful, in Lindon and Imladris. Others dwelt with Círdan the Sinda in Mithlond, and still others hid in their ancient forest homes Lórinand and Eryn Galen. They took leaders from the pure-blood clans of Noldor and Sindar; in the case of the latter two refuges, the Sindarin lords Amdír and Oropher respectively.
The Tawarwaith of Lórinand (the Galadhrim) and Eryn Galen played mostly a small role in the events of the Second Age, as they had in the First. Amdír and Oropher built up their kingdoms as the shadow of Sauron grew longer and longer, and evil more powerful. Both Amdír and Oropher took great hosts to join the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, and fought in the war that followed. Both hosts suffered immense losses; Amdír was cut off and killed in the Battle of Dagorlad with many of his followers, while Oropher rashly disobeyed King Gil-galad in Mordor and fell beside two thirds of the entire company[7]. The Tawarwaith entered the Third Age greatly weakened and disheartened, despite the seemingly final defeat of Sauron.
[edit] Third Age
Lórinand, now known as Lothlórien, and Eryn Galen, now known as Mirkwood, continued to host the larger populations of Tawarwaith. Amroth took over in Lothlórien, later passing the rulership on to Galadriel and Celeborn, while Thranduil became king in Mirkwood. Under these rulers, the Tawarwaith prospered and became numerous once more, while the Noldor and Sindar were in slow but steady decline. Yet though mostly inactive, they were watchful of the growing of men and the ominous change the Third Age would bring[7].
But the elves of both Lothlórien and Mirkwood were threatened by a new evil growing in south Mirkwood. The Necromancer was building Dol Guldur. As the Third Age continued and Sauron rose, the White Council was formed. Sauron was driven from Dol Guldur several times, but the Tawarwaith were still for the most part impassive. Eventually, the War of the Ring came. Legolas, Thranduil's son, became a hero of that war, while both Lothlórien and Mirkwood were invaded by Dol Guldur in the Rhovanion Campaign. All attacks were repulsed, and Dol Guldur was thrown down at last in a grand counterattack by Celeborn and his forces[8]. Mirkwood was renamed Eryn Lasgalen. Yet the Silvan population was again diminished. Galadriel and Celeborn passed west, and the light of Lórien faded.
Throughout the Fourth Age they aided the rising Reunited Kingdom, making Ithilien green, for instance[9]. Their eventual fate was to pass west to the land they had never seen, or else to remain in Middle-earth Changed and fade into forgetfulness.
[edit] Etymology
Nandor is a Quenya name, meaning "Those who go back",[10] apparently containing the element nan-.
- See also: Nandor (Qenya)
[edit] Names
The Nandor were also known by many other names: the Host of Dân, the Wood-elves, the Wanderers, the Axe-elves, the Green Elves, the Brown Elves, the Hidden People.[11]
(Quendi · People of the Stars · Firstborn · Elder Kindred)
|Three Kindreds:
(Eldar · Eldalië · Edhil)
|Vanyar (Fair-elves · Minyar) · Noldor (Deep-elves · Tatyar) · Teleri (Lindar · Nelyar)
(High-elves · Amanyar)
|Vanyar · Noldor · Falmari
|Sindar (Grey-elves · Eglath) · Nandor (Green-elves · Silvan Elves)
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- ↑ A note in the Unfinished Tales
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Sindar"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", Appendices A & B
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: C. The Clan-names, with notes on other names for divisions of the Eldar", p. 384
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Three. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: (I) The First Phase: 3. Of the Coming of the Elves", p. 164


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STORRS, Conn. (AP) _ Vanderbilt's players tried to take the placards from their NCAA tournament news conference Friday as souvenirs.
St. Joseph's asked if they could get a photo with Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma.
Idaho's kids talked about the excitement of making the team's second ever trip to the tournament, and the program's third trip to the eastern time zone.
But for UConn (29-4), making its 25th straight tournament appearance, Friday was about starting a run at a sixth straight Final Four and an eighth national title.
"There's expectations here," guard Kelly Faris said. "I think there are times that we take it for granted that we are a part of the tournament every year, but it goes back to what's expected of us and what's expected of this program and what coach has built here."
UConn faces 16th-seeded Idaho (17-15) in the first round on Saturday. Guard Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis said the Huskies are not looking past the Western Athletic Conference champions, but understand that a first-round win is not really their goal, just a step toward it.
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Should Connecticut get past Idaho, the Huskies will face either No. 8 seed Vanderbilt or No. 9 seed St. Joseph's in the second round.
Vanderbilt (20-11) comes into its 14th straight NCAA tournament on the mend after an injury-plagued season that forced coach Melanie Balcomb to use seven different starting lineups.
The Commodores lost center Stephanie Holzer for the season to a knee injury in an exhibition game. Starting guard Kady Schrann has played only sparingly after an ankle injury suffered in January. And the team's biggest outside threat, Christina Foggie, has been coming off the bench after suffering a late-season knee injury that kept her out four games.
"I think the injuries really helped us come together more as a team, and play good basketball and play well when we needed to," said forward Tiffany Clarke, who has led the team in scoring this season, averaging almost 17 points. "A lot of people wrote us off due to our injuries, but we didn't write ourselves off and I think that's the most important thing."
Balcomb said other players have stepped up, including three freshmen, making a healthier team more dangerous.
"We haven't played our best game yet," guard Jasmine Lister said. "I think our mission is to get to that best game and actually, like, peak."
St. Joseph's (23-8) comes into its first tournament since 2000 after beating top-seed Dayton in the Atlantic 10 semifinals and winning the championship game by a point over Fordham.
"Our team has a great fight in us," forward Chatilla van Grinsven said. "Being here in the NCAA tournament for the first time in so many years means so much for us."
The Hawks are led by Maryland transfer Natasha Cloud and senior guard Ashley Prim, who is from nearby Ansonia, Conn. She was able to get tickets for more than 30 friends and family to watch Saturday as she ties the school record for games played.
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Mrs. Flake: "Oxygen. I can't be anywhere near the stuff. I can't breathe it at all. Just being around it makes me horribly sick. I can only go places where there isn't any, so I don't accidentally inhale it."
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Mrs. Flake: "Oxygen. I can't be anywhere near the stuff. I can't breathe it at all. Just being around it makes me horribly sick. I can only go places where there isn't any, so I don't accidentally inhale it."
48 comments:
Move to Los Angeles or Phoenix, and you won't have any problems! No Oxygen around here...
- March 24, 2011 at 6:49 AM
I don't know, Dr Grumpy. Oxygen affects me exactly the same way and I resent you making a joke out of it.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:54 AM
- Mickey said...
For the record, oxygen compounds are quite abundant on Jupiter, as in most of the universe.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:58 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
Yes, but it sounded better than "Asteroid 17652A is lovely this time of year."
- March 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM
Probably afraid that it will explode when she lights her next cigarette.
Advice if she isn't already a smoker: start smoking immediately. It gets rid of any stay O2 molecules immediately.
A well, probably O2 deprivation at birth. Shame.
- March 24, 2011 at 7:27 AM
She's probably allergic to DHMO as well. Terrible stuff, that. Lethal if inhaled. Someone should do something about it!
- March 24, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- OMDG said...
Maybe she was referring to the TV station and meant "watch" when she said "breathe?"
- March 24, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Hahahaha I am pretty sure I have actually heard this one before too. spooky- the oxygen-haters are multiplying! could be a horror movie in the making...
- March 24, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Dr. Grumpy, how do you keep a straight face?! I would lose it immediately upon hearing this nonsense.
- March 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
Years of practice.
- March 24, 2011 at 9:23 AM
I just want to know what you said in response. I'd be dumbfounded.
- March 24, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Grumpy, M.D. said...
I asked if there were any major illnesses in her family. It's best to just move on. Trust me.
- March 24, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Amanda said...
I just can't believe that you could find the strength to move on without exploring this amazing non-oxygen-using patient. She should be studied...
- March 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM
You should be an actor in your next life-you've had wonderful training. I'm horrible at it, I laugh in peoples faces when they pull that kind of fuckwittery.
- March 24, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Packer said...
So Grumpy : Is it youthful drug activity, alcohol use or aging factors or organic brain disease that is causing the rampant spread of the stupidity epidemic that you are witness to? My own theory is that drug and alcohol abuse lead to a lot of problems--but then I view it from lawyers perspective.
- March 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- watercolordaisy said...
hahahaaa!!! awesome!
- March 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- bobbie said...
Reminds me of a patient who told me he was allergic to epinephrine... His 'allergy' symptoms? "It makes my heart race."!!!
Wonder if he'd have sued us if he coded and we used Epi???
- March 24, 2011 at 12:08 PM
I'm really hoping she meant ozone and was just confused.
- March 24, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Absentbabinski said...
That is priceless and something I think I'll bring up in my next comm's session: How to deal with the really bizarre stuff.
- March 24, 2011 at 12:57 PM
OMG!! I think I know her.
I was just talking with an ICU nurse about allergies. Her favorite was a patient "allergic" to lasix because it made them pee a lot.
I shared, mine was a patient who shared she was "allergic" to oxygen.
I resisted the urge to ask her how she got to be 75 years old!!
- March 24, 2011 at 1:58 PM
I had an ICU patient say he was allergic to nitrogen once. Nickel? Nitro? Nifedipine? You sure? Ok, I won't give you any nitrogen then. Not being anesthesia, I could at least honestly promise that.
- March 24, 2011 at 2:01 PM
And then there's that nasty hydrogen stuf...
- March 24, 2011 at 2:05 PM
I had some Grumpy Acting school inc practice the other day when a patient declared allergy to all water in any form, and then proceeded to sip on her Diet Coke. I know Grumpy et al will profess that it is 100% pure goodness, but the cynic in me believes there might be a trace of the wet stuff too. Somehow i pulled a straight face until out of view.
@Carol: Fuckwittery is definitely a word that'll be entering my lexicon. Thank you for that.
- March 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- ERP said...
Wow. An anaerobic human. Cool.
- March 24, 2011 at 2:37 PM
She's probably allergic to H2O as well...
Neurologist/psychiatrist... the lines are blurred for you, I believe.
- March 24, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Rat: DHMO is a misnomer: water is not ionic. It's called hydroxic acid, or hydrogen hydroxide (as an alkali).
- March 24, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- Mr Mobius said...
I don't have the ability to not smile when thinking like that, so instead I smile and nod reassuringly so they think I'm being a little sympathetic while inside I'm thinking 'crazy'. The problem is, psychiatry may in a few years become my chosen speciality where I'll hear crazy stuff all day every day.
- March 24, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Not House said...
You sure she wasn't actually a giant Clostridium?
- March 24, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Mrs Flake is famous--this is her on vacation, some years back.
- March 24, 2011 at 3:55 PM
OK, I think this finally proves it without a shadow of a doubt: Most of your patients come from an alternate reality, and not the one the rest of us inhabit.
- March 24, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Well she's in for a tough road. On another note, Nitrous Oxide makes me violently sick. Who knows why.
"Fuckwittery" ftw.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Therrin (Ben S) said...
You should write a paper on her.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:46 PM
agree w/ erp. sulfur based anaerobic metabolism. oxygen is toxic.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Did you know that oxygen is highly addictive? Just take one or two breaths of it and you'll find it just about impossible to quit.
- March 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM
I was married once upon a time and my wife insisted that her dermatologist had told her that she was allergic to WATER. I tried to explain to her that water is not a complex enough molecule to cause an allergy. She is now a longstanding ex-wife.
- March 24, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Unknown said...
Had a patient come in with huge list of 48 allergies. Included in it was:
The Sun - Not sure how she survived this one?
(Not much left to eat after all this?)
We just entered the orders along with a good dose of benadryl and figuered the nurses could handle it.
- March 24, 2011 at 9:09 PM
I like that phrase, "from an alternate reality, and not the one the rest of us inhabit." That's awesome. Reminds me of my mother- I've known since age 17 that her version of reality was not the same as everyone elses'. (Keeping that in mind makes it easier to remember not to bother to argue with her or attempt to explain myself to her.)
- March 24, 2011 at 9:11 PM
My father-in-law believes he's allergic to alcohol because he once threw up after drinking six beers in a row.
- March 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- The Mother said...
Good thing there's only 20% or so in most places, huh?
- March 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- terri c said...
Anon 8:31--this seems like a very adaptive misperception, I have a lotta folks I'd like your FIL to convince!
- March 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM
NotHouse, LMAO!
- March 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- MsCee said...
People can actually be allergic to water and alcohol. It may seem crazy, and it is super rare (the water allergy by far), but it's possible. Now Oxygen...well, if she wasn't living in some anaerobic bubble, then well, you sure do get a lot of crazies Dr.G
- March 25, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- RehabRN said...
Did you train with the psychiatrists at your med school?
I heard in the old, old school days the neuros and the psychs all trained together.
- March 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM
I had a patient at the pharmacy tell me that she was allergic to calcium, and that she could not consume any at all. I made the mistake of telling her that her bones were made with calcium, and was rebuffed with "No! I would die if there was any calcium in my body." I asked her what her bones were made of, and she answered, "I dunno, something else! But not calcium, I would DIE!" I stopped asking.
- March 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Grumpy M.D. - you're a hero! I really think I know someone with the O2 allergy. She has been tested for allergies and has none, but "the tests are wrong" because she knows she's allergic to dogs, strawberries & "the smell of paint".
Do you have any advice for dealing with hypochrondrics? She sees a neurologist, cardiologist, orthopedic specialist, dermatologist, head ache specialist, gastroenterologist & more!! I think she needs a psychiatrist, but I'm not a professional.
- March 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM
This woman needs an Alpine Instructor, not a Doctor.
The best antidote for oxygen allergy is mountain climbing!
Regarding moving on, how about just posting an "Aliens Welcome" sign in your Waiting Room?
Or do you think this might discourage legit. business?
WV: pusness - yuk!
- March 30, 2011 at 5:09 AM
- Unknown said...
My personal favorite was the patient who said he was allergic to two milligrams of Dilaudid, but not four milligrams.
- March 30, 2011 at 6:11 PM
I am an oxygen addict. I even forge fake prescriptions and try to get early refills. Give me 500 ccs of the good stuff.
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"I can't wait to get to Spring Training and tell other players about this award and the Negro Leagues Museum," said Pierre, who hit .327 last season. "We need to get more players here to keep the Legacy going.
Many award winners were not present and that is something those in attendance and the Negro Leagues Museum want to rectify.
The first two Legacy Awards have been held on Feb. 13 in Kansas City to honor of the date and location of the founding of the Negro Leagues 82 years ago. But the date is just a few days before most Major Leaguers report to Spring Training and a spokesman for the museum said it might move up the date a week or two for the third annual Legacy Awards in 2003 in an effort to improve turnout among award winners.
"We need every Major League award winner here," master of ceremonies Roy Firestone said.
For Rollins, 23, it was a learning experience and "a great honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Bell.
"I know some of the Negro Leagues history, but coming here I realize there's a lot I have to learn about the struggles of the men who paved the way," he said. "In the Negro Leagues, they weren't just athletes. They were characters. They were entertainers. Everybody had a nickname and story behind them.
"When I leave the game in about 20 years, I hope I'm the same way."
Rollins said he has heard stories about Cool Papa Bell that claim he was so fast that when he turned off the lights he could get into bed before it was dark.
"I'm not as fast as him," Rollins said. "I tried it a couple of times. I always hit my foot on the bed."
Seattle Mariners general manager Pat Gillick, who was the American League recipient of the Andrew "Rube" Foster Award, also attended and accepted five awards on behalf of the Mariners, including three for Ichiro Suzuki and one for manager Lou Piniella.
"Ichiro is sorry he can't be here," Gillick said. "He's a bit shy, but that's no excuse."
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum chairman Buck O'Neil, who is 90 and played and managed in the Negro Leagues, was given a surprise award from Phillies scout Jerry Lafferty at the end of the ceremonies. O'Neil, who scouted and signed Joe Carter, Ernie Banks, Lou Brock and Lee Smith, was given a ring and told he had been elected to the baseball scouts Hall of Fame in St. Louis.
"Thank you," O'Neil said. "I know you don't want to see a grown man cry."
It was a list of Who's Who presenting the awards. Presenters included Ozzie Smith, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in August; Jim "Mudcat" Grant, the first African-American to win 20 games in the American League; Kansas City Chiefs All-Pro guard Will Shields; former National League batting champion Willie Davis; Chicago White Sox manager Jerry Manuel, who won a Legacy Award last year; former Toronto Blue Jays slugger and World Series hero Joe Carter; and Missouri governor Bob Holden and the state's first lady, Lori.
Smith, who has been called the best fielding shortstop in history, said Negro League players have told him that he was good enough to play in their league.
"That's the greatest compliment, that you could have played with us," Smith said.
Alan Eskew is a writer in Kansas City, Mo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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