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The summary given in this post is printed after D, the earliest manuscript of the Quatre Fils. However, most parts of the poem have at least two redactions, and the MSS switch from one redaction to the other with no apparent rhyme or reason, and no two parallel each other's jumps exactly. D usually gives the oldest form, but it is not free of inconsistencies.
Many manuscripts, in their recapitulations, make reference to events or details that are not actually recounted in that particular manuscript, but are found in others. It is not always clear whether the reference is to an existing but omitted episode, or whether the episode was invented to explain the reference.
Beuves episode
FIRST FAMILY: The enfances of Reynard are interspersed with the story of Beuve d'Aigremont, like so. First fragment: the dubbing of the Four Sons and their tilt at the quintaine. Second: Aymon and his sons flee Paris after the death of Lohier. Third: the quarrel at chess and its consequences, leading into the Ardennes War. DPAZMO
SECOND FAMILY: The second fragment is suppressed. The tilting at the quintaine is moved to just before the quarrel at chess. NC.
THIRD FAMILY: The first and third fragments are united and moved to the end of the Bueves episode. The second is still gone. LV. Hence in these, the entire war with Bueves is over before Renaud even appears on the scene.
For the Bueves d'Aigremont episode proper, OLNC (Italian) give the same redaction, in which Enguerrand is sent to Bueves and slain before Lohier. DPA (Caxton) give a different one. MZ formed their own version, still without Enguerrand. V is unique and lacks Enguerrand.
Aigremont is on the river Agremore [nonexistant] which flows into the Garonne, DPAMZ.
Aigremont is in Lombardy, and Bueves is killed in the plain of Souvigny [in Auvergne] on his way home, LNC.
The Italian Cantari claims that Agrismonte is reached from Paris by passing through Champagne and past Troyes, and that it stands on a mountain on the river Agremore, along which many merchant ships sail.
Origin of Baiard
In the early versions, Baiard and Froberge are given to Renaud by Charlemagne at his dubbing. In later versions, the two are given to Renaud by Maugis, who has won them from the isle of Boucan, as told in Maugis d'Aigremont.
D: Baiard and Froberge are given to Renaud by Charlemagne at his dubbing. Baiard is a fairy horse from Normandy.
Z: Baiard is from Normandy.
P: Baiard is from Mongibel [Mount Etna, home to Morgan le Fay and a sleeping King Arthur in Sicilian legend].
N: Renaud received Baiard from Oriande the fairy.
O: Baiard is from "Bretagne" [Brittany], and can carry three men for a week.
C: Baiard is was given to King Pepin by Morgan le Fay, before Charlemagne gave him to Renaud. Later on, Renaud says Baiard was given to him by the fairy Orguellouse.
V: Charlemagne gave Baiard, the fairy horse from Avalon, to Renaud at his dubbing. Later, Baiard is from "Bretaine" [Brittany] and can carry two men all day.
A: Baiard is from the Island of Boucan, where he was begotten by a dragon on a serpent.
It should also be noted that D never has more than three of the brothers on Baiard at once. The rest say that Baiard can carry three or four if the need arises, though apparently it is a strain on him and only to be done as a last resort. By the late MS M, the illustrations (but not the text) of NOA, and the Rhymed Remainement, Baiard does so habitually.
Death of Lohier – Aftermath
DPA: When the news arrives of Lohier's death, Aymon's sons urge him to leave the court with them. The Duchess approves. The Sons are included in the peace treaty, and is is Bertholai's fault that war breaks out again.
ZM: Just as Renaud has won the prize for tilting at the quintaine, news arrives that Bueves has killed Lohier. Aymon gathers his sons and leaves the court. At home, the Duchess rebukes them for not standing by their emperor. After the war is over, the Four Sons are left out of the peace treaty. They come back to court, half-looking for a fight, and Renaud confronts Charles, as see below.
Death of Bertholai and Flight to Ardennes
Bertholai is killed in Orleans in N. In Paris in DZPOCLMVA.
ZMO (Burgundian) Renaud confronts Charles before the chess game. He kills Bertholai immediately after the game. DPNCLMVA he confronts Charles after being struck by Bertholai, and when Charles scorns him, he goes back and kills Bertholai.
ZMO: When Aymon, his Four Sons, and Maugis return to court, around Pentecost, after peace has been made between Charlemagne and Doon and Girart, Charles offers to make the four sons great officers of his court, but Renaud and his brethren refuse the offer until Charles makes reparation for Bueves' death. Charles thinks that Lohier's death is reparation enough, and (ZM) calls them whoresons. That afternoon, as the courtiers are playing at jousts and board games, Renaud is brooding. He play chess with Bertholai, who calls him a whoreson and strikes him. Renaud kills him with the chessboard immediately, (in O, Richard also stabs Charles' son Loris), and the five cousins flee.
Who died, anyway?
Charles' murdered son is Lohier, killed by Beuve d'Aigremont, as related in the beginning of all versions. Bertholai, a nephew of Charles' is killed with the chessboard by Renaud in all MSS. In O, besides this murder, Richard kills Charles' son Loris [Loeis] with the sword. O also claims Bertholai is the son of Charles' sister Beatrix. V, in the corresponding passage, does not. But in later references:
Charlemagne swears not to stop the war until he has avenged himself.
D: Richard killed Loeys with the sword; Renaud killed Bertelai with chessboard. (l. 2416, Thomas p. 172)
L: Richard killed Loois with the sword; Renaud killed Bertelai with chessboard. (l. 2135).
O: Richard killed Loeis with the sword; Renaud killed Berthelai with the chessboard. (l. 716, p. II/244)
N: Guichard killed Lohier, who was so dear; Renaud killed Bertholai with the chessboard.
C: Richard killed Renier, who was so dear; Renaud killed Bertholai with chessboard.[4]
Not found in PAMV[5]. Z is lost.
As Naymes tells it in the same council, however:
D: Richard will be executed. Naymes asks Renaud for Richard. Renaud refuses to hand over Richard l. 2467, Thomas p. 173.
P: Guichart will be executed. Naymes asks for Richard and Guichard [evidently the scribe's attempt to correct his mistake]. Renaud refuses to hand over Richard (II/42)
A: Richard will be exeuted. Naymes asks for Richard. Renaud refuses to hand over Richard
M: Richard will be executed. Naymes asks for Richard. Renaud refuses to hand over Richard. (II/192)
Z: lost.
O: Guichart will be executed. Naymes asks for Guichard. Renaud refuses to hand over Guichard. (II/245-6)
V: Richard will be executed. Naymes asks for Richard. Renaud refuses to hand over Richard (III/54)
L: Guichard, who killed Charles' son with a sword, will be executed. Naymes asks for Guichard. Renaud refuses to hand over Guichard (l. 2191).
N: Aymon recommends Guichard be executed. Aymon and Ogier carry this message. Renaud refuses to hand over Guichard. (III/230)
C: Aymon recommends Guichard be executed. Aymon and Ogier carry this message. Renaud refuses to hand over Guichard.
Renaud remarks to his brethren that one Girart, whom they are fighting, hates them because "we killed Loois." L, l. 3111, p. 372. D, l. 3346, p. 205, O, p. I/277. N, III/308.
C: "I killed Bertolai with the chessboard". (III/309)
P: "Of what we did in Paris".
V: "Of what we did against Charles"
Not in AM. Z is lost.
The Aftermath of the Murder
After fleeing Paris, the Four Sons flee through Senlis to the Ardennes (D, l. 2218, p. 165). Nothing stated in L.
From the death of Bertholai to the flight of the brothers to Arden, there are some six redactions. DPA agree, as we have given. ZM follow DPA until the departure of Aymon and his sons from court, where they branch off on their own. O and V give different redactions again, but agree in parts of the captivity of the three brethren. L is unique. NC give one last redaction, also featuring the captivity of the brothers, but not agreeing with OV.
NC: Renaud escapes, but the three brothers are captured. Renaud and Maugis go to Orleans to save them, and meet by coincidence. Maugis pretends to be a poor beggar to speak with the guards, then he puts them to sleep and frees his cousins.
O: Maugis was at the court before the chess incident. He is captured with the brothers, and thrown in jail, despite Aymon's pleas. At midnight, Maugis enchants the guards and escapes with his cousins. They meet Renaud and ride for Dordonne. They learn that Aymon is coming and has forsworn them, so they flee.
V: Similar to O, only Charlemagne does not realize that his fourth prisoner is Maugis. Maugis reveals himself to the guards, who tell Charles, who comes down to tell Maugis he will hang him at dawn. Midnight comes, however, and Maugis puts Charles and the guards to sleep. The cousins lock Charles up, and then flee, and the text rejoins O.
Once the brethren have fled, all manuscripts give mostly the same redaction down to the departure for Gascony, although NC have many variants unique to them.
First discourse of Renaut and Aymon, DPNOCA (Italian) agree against LMV.
The end of the episode of Hervis is different between DPOLA (Italian) and NCMV.
When the brothers are starving in Arden, NC the three propose to eat Baiard. DPOLMVA (Italian) this is only implied.
The reception by Aymon is again DPOLVA against NCM, though no significant differences.
MSS D and Sl have Aye tell her sons to flee to "Gascogne." All the other manuscripts have "Espagne."
Introductory to Gascony
I can find little information on the war of Yon against Begues, or Charlemagne's discovery of Montalban.
In C only, as far as I know, the cousins pass through Orleans on their way to Gascony, where the citizens recognize Maugis (for stealing Charles' treasure) and raise a hue and cry. Maugis disguises himself and his cousins with a magic ointment made in "Cubie", and they escape.
Saxon Wars
N telescopes the Saxon wars to half a dozen lines.
Horse Race
The shortest form of the horse race is in LM(Z?), which do not feature Renaud's disguise as a Breton or Naimes, Ogier, and Fouques keeping guard outside Paris. DCVA Caxton give the same text of the "Breton" episode. P expands the race episode somewhat, and N expands it still further, introducing a competing Saracen whom Renaud unhorses during the race. [Unknown to me: O]
Monbendel and the hunt
For the entry of Charles into Gascony, D(Z?)LM follow the account we have given above. PNCVA give a different version, however. Monbendel is taken by force instead of surrendering. Charles lays siege to Montauban. Roland and some knights go out hunting by the ford of Balençon. A spy tells Renaud, who ambushes them. In the ensuing battle, Maugis carries off a carved dragon which was on top of Roland's tent and mounts it on the highest tower of Montauban. [Unknown to me: O] This may be a duplication of the theft of Charlemagne's carbuncle, but I am told that the episode of Monbendel is better written in the versions with the hunt.
Yon's Council and Vaucoleurs
There are two major redactions of Yon's Council and Treason. In the first, given in DL [PN?], he is furious with Charlemagne's messenger and wishes to hang him. In the second, given in C [ZPOMVA?], he receives him with courtesy.
DPNL: Yon summons his barons and explains the situation. A baron (DN), the lord of Toulouse (P), Hunaus of Tailleborc (L) recommends that Yon hand them over. The bishop (DN Sl) or the count or vicount (PL) of Avignon recapitulates how the war started. According to him, Charles held court at Laon [it was actually at Paris in all MSS. Renaud was dubbed at Laon in OV, though.] and summoned Girart, Doon, and Bueves. Bueves killed Lohier, Charles killed Bueves, and Girart and Doon warred against Charles for seven years (DN) fifteen years (P) a long time (L). Renaud then killed Bertholai, a baron. Hence Yon should hand Renaud over. The Duke of Monbendel insists that, even though his fief is lost, he will never counsel treason. Hunaus of Tailleborc says that he knew Aymon, and that he was a stubborn man like his son. Hand him over. Raimond (DL), Count Raimond (L), Duke Renaud (P) of Toulouse (all) says that he knew Aymon too, that Charles was wrong to kill Bueves, and Renaud was right to avenge him by killing Bertholai. At Antoine's suggestion, Yon, Monbendel, and Raimond withdraw and let the others take counsel. The four who remain swear to abandon Yon if he does not hand over the Sons. Monbendel is the first to reenter the room, and they threaten to kill him then and there if he does not join them. They persuade Raimond, too, and then Yon returns, to hear their ultimatum. He protests that Renaud will destroy all Gascony if they betray him. The bishop of Avignon tells him to tell Charles that the Sons will be in the plain of Vaucoleurs, wearing scarlet mantles over grey tunics, riding on mules, unarmed. The council chamber miraculously turns from white to black, but the barons conclude their council unmoved. Yon has his chaplain Gontart (his chamberlain Girart, P) write a letter to Charles planning the treason, and sends it to that king via his (Yon's) cousin Salatrez. Charles, at Monbendel, weeps for the necessity of killing his kinsmen, but has his clerk take a favorable reply back to Yon, along with the scarlet mantles. He then summons Foulques of Morrillon and Ogier the Dane to give them command of the ambush. He makes Ogier swear on relics not to help his cousins the Sons. Ogier swears with no intention of keeping his oath. He and Foulques head to the ambush. [Here L leaves this redaction].
King Yon receives Charles' letter in his city of Toulouse, has his clerk read it, and then heads to Montauban, where Clarice and her sons come out to meet him. Yon refuses to embrace Clarice, claiming his head aches. [Here C joins this redaction] The Four Sons return from hunting and sit down to supper, which Yon claims he is too ill to eat. He rebukes the Sons for not coming to his court at Pentecost, and then tells them that he has met with Charles, who is willing to make peace. Renaud rejoices, for the war has lasted twenty years. Yon tells him to meet Ogier the Dane in the field of Vaucoleurs, and gives him the mantels with which to be recognized. Alard is suspicious, and wants an escort of Yon's barons. These barons, who counseled him to betray the Sons, gladly agree.
That night, Clarice and Renaud discuss the situation. She warns him not to go unarmed, and relates her dream. She was in bed with Renaud (DNC), when a gryphon (DN) or eagle (C) burst into the chamber and carried the two of them away. Montauban collapsed and crushed Alard, Guichard was struck by lightning, Richard was in peril and called for aid. Renaud rode to him on Baiard, but Baiard stumbled and broke his neck. Renaud tells Clarice not to put stock in dreams (DN), that believing in dreams is a sin against God (CLOAV), but asks Yon for permission to ride Baiard to the meeting. Yon angrily refuses, asking if Renaud mistrusts him. Renaud apologizes, and the Four Sons ride to the meeting, leaving Baiard behind. [The dream scene is not in P or H.]
AOMHCV: Yon summons his barons and explains the situation. In M only, he makes it clear that he expects them to reject the treason and help him fight Charlemagne. First to speak is Godefroy, Yon's nephew, who counsels him to stand by the sons. The viscount of Avignon relates how Bueves killed Charles' son Lohier, how Charles made peace with Vivien d'Aigremont and all his family, how Renaud, son of Hermenjart (AO) Aie (C), Bueves' sister, refused to accept the peace and killed Bertholai in Paris. Hand the felon over. The count of Monbendel urges Yon to protect the Sons. Antoine urges him to hand them over. Duke Guimars of Bayonne urges him to protect them. Hunald the old urges him to hand them over. Hertaus (V), or Bertrans (C), or Ernald (H), or Bernart (M), or Antor (O), or Hertaus (A) urges him to hand them over In CHV, he alludes to a quarrel between Aymon and Oliver over a swan that led to a long war in which Charles wasted all the land beyond the Loire. Yon weeps, but consents. He leaves the chamber and summons his chaplain Gontart to write the letter to Charles. In CMV, the chamber turns from white to black. No MS of this redaction has the lord of Avignon plot the details of the treason; Yon does so himself. His seneschal Salatrez takes the letter to Charles, who is at Montbendel (with his Peers in AOCV, but he sends them away for privacy). Charles gloats, and sends the messenger back. He sends Ogier and Foulques to Vaucoleurs, but is not worried about Ogier. [Here L joins this redaction]. Foulques gives his men a speech.
King Yon receives the letter, has Gontart read it, and heads to Montauban. He feigns sickness so as not to embrace Clarice, laments in secret, [Here C joins this redaction], won't eat when the Sons return from hunting, and the rest is mostly the same as the first redaction. Clarice dreams she was in the forest under an apple tree (LVM), in the castle of Montauban (AO), and was attacked by a boar (MV), a bear (AO), an eagle (CL).
All versions (except H, which goes off on its own) reunite for the actual fight at Vaucoloeurs, and stay together through the misadventures of Richard and Ripeus down to the theft of the eagle/carbuncle from Charlemagne's tent.
H: Unlike all other traditional versions, Ogier has no internal conflict whatever regarding his duty to Charles and to his cousins. He is firmly on Charlemagne's side. Foulques urges his men not to take the Four Sons alive. Maugis does not put Yon's barons to sleep, and Richard's wounds are healed by a doctor. Clarisse offers to submit to an ordeal by fire to prove her innocence of complicity in her brother's treason.
CNV interpolate an episode as Maugis is returning to Montauban after the capture of Richard. He meets two squires at the ford of Balençon, kills one and steals his horse. The survivor tells Charles what happened.
Gascony – post Vaucoleurs
From the theft of the eagle/carbuncle, L gives one long laisse all the way to Maguis' kidnapping of Charles and his departure. D tells the story in a different redaction in shorter laisses. CNP are a third redaction, with longer laisses than D. [Unknown to me: ZOMVA]
Gascony to Tremoigne
From the departure of Maugis from Montauban to the end of the poem there are two great redactions, a long and a short. The incidents do not greatly differ until the actual siege of Tremoigne. DPNCVA follow the short redaction, LM the long one. (Z broke off at the departure of Maugis, but presumably followed the long). P switches over to the long redaction as the brothers are fighting Roland and Oliver, just before Charlemagne's council, (D l. 11727, p. 507, Laisse 280). A switches just before the beginning of the famine (D l. 11793, p. 510, Laisse 286). [Unknown to me: O]
At the siege of Tremoigne, the long redaction, followed now by PLOMAH Caxton, features only Richard of Normandy being captured by the Aymonids. DNCV features Richard and Charlot as prisoners, as given in our summary.
NCV: In C, Maugis spends eight years in the hermitage. NV, seven. D does not specify. In C, Maugis steals Charles' scepter [baton] on his way to Tremoigne. NV have "bacon," which is evidently a mistake. In CNV, Maugis enters Tremoigne by enchanting the guard. When he returns with Charlot, the porter is terrified of him, even in D. (Has something dropped out of D, or did the fear inspire the earlier passage?)
PLOMAH: When the Peers discover that Montauban is empty and that there is a secret passage out of it, they assume Maugis must have made it. Only Naimes realizes it was made by the Saracens who used to rule the city (Not in P). [Many Roman buildings in Europe really were attributed to giants or Saracens in the Middle Ages]. Maugis learns of his cousin's danger in Tremoigne in a dream (not in PO). As he heads for the city in pilgrim's garb, he falls in with two merchants who have just been robbed by seven thieves. Maugis recovers their goods, and then they tell him about his cousins. He enters the city without any shenanigans with the porter. He receives Renaud's charity with the other poor, and Renaud takes a while to recognize him. The other three brothers come to welcome him, but he insists on departing for the Holy Land immediately.
The "Death" of Baiard
DNCV: As we have given. Charlemagne throws Baiard into the Rhine at Tremoigne [Dortmund] with a millstone around his neck. (It's Naimes' idea.) Baiard breaks the millstone, swims to shore, and escapes to Valfondee [nonexistant], where he meets Maugis, who learns thereby that peace has been made. Charlemagne fumes. Renaud weeps. Some MSS write Meuse by mistake, but in other places they write Rhine.
PLOMAH: Charlemagne throws Baiard, with millstone, off a bridge in Liege into the Meuse, gloating all the while, much to his barons' disgust. Baiard breaks the millstone, swims to shore, and is alive to this day in the Forest of Ardennes, where, if anyone sees him, he whinnies and runs away.
The Holy Land
For the adventures in the Holy Land, DNCV follow the account we have given, though V breaks off in the middle of a battle.
PLOA (Caxton): Rather longer. Renaud, passing through Constantinople, happens to stop at a lady's castle where Maugis is lying ill. The cousins restore King Thomas to the throne of Jerusalem, instead of helping Geoffrey of Nazaret win it. They stop in Sicily on their way home to succor Simon of Puille against the Saracens. They return home to find Clarice is dying. They then go to Montauban, where Maugis, after three days, departs for the hermitage, where he will live for seven more years and then die at Easter.
M: For the pilgrimage until the battle, the same as CN, except they depart from Marseille and land at Acre. After the siege, however, King Naburdagant leads a host of Saracen admirals and kings against the Christians. He chooses three champions to fight three of the Christians: King Safadin [sic] of Egypt, King Marados of India, and the King of Damietta. King David of Jerusalem cannot find a champion, not the Lord of Damascus, nor the Count of Acre, the Master of the Templars, the Master of the Hospitallers, nor any other. Renaud at last volunteers, and the manuscript stops in the middle of his duel against Safadin.
Anent this triple combat, note that the Dutch poem and verse Vita claim that Renaud slew three Sultans in the Holy Land with nothing but his staff.
Trial by Combat
C abandons DN at the end of the trial by combat, to join PLOA for the martyrdom of Renaud.
DN: Renaud is killed by the masons who drop a stone on his head.
PLCOA: Renaud is killed by the masons with their hammers while he sleeps.
DN and Dutch: The corpse went straight from Cologne to Tremoigne.
LC: It stopped in Ceoigne for the night before proceeding to Tremoigne.
POA French prose Caxton: It stopped at Ceoigne and went no farther.


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The plant genus Tillandsia, a member of the Bromeliad family, is found in the deserts, forests and mountains of Central and South America, Mexico and the southern United States in North America. They display an incredible range of form and size, blooming in an impressive palette of extraordinary colors.
Tillandsia species are epiphytes, also called aerophytes or air plants. They normally grow without soil while attached to other plants. Epiphytes are not parasitic, depending on the host only for support. They nourish themselves totally, imbibing rain, dew and whatever nutrients are gathered from the air such as dust, decaying leaves and insect matter.
Although not normally cultivated for their flowers, some Tillandsia will bloom on a regular basis. In late fall-winter, the plants bloom with striking purple flowers. In addition, it is quite common for some species to take on a different leaf color, usually changing from green to red when about to flower.
Tillandsia is a primary ingredient in Allerplex, a standard process herbal supplement used to treat pollen allergies. The genus was named after the Swedish physician and botanist Dr. Elias Tillandz.


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At the end of last week fellow fishing addict and species hunter Ross Johnson sent me a text from Peterhead breakwater, where he was trying to catch a ling, to ask if I'd like to go to Oban with him to fish at the start of this week for three days including a session afloat on Loch Etive. I replied that whilst I couldn't go for three days, I would like to fish Loch Etive as it would be an opportunity for me to target a thornback ray to add to my species tally and when I got back from Rutland Water on Sunday I started looking at the forecasts.
The weather forecast for Monday was truly horrific so I sent a text to Ross and told him to have another day targeting ling on Peterhead breakwater and travel down on Tuesday. After an extra day trying for ling but catching mainly small codling he came down and arrived in the early afternoon. The plan was to pop down the coast to a few rockpools to try and get him a two spotted goby. Unfortunately when we got down there the tide had beaten us to the rockpools so we popped into Mike's tackle shop on the way back and picked up a few bits and pieces for our boat trip the following day before heading home to make a few rigs and sort out our gear before going out for something to eat.
Yesterday morning we were up early at 5am. It looked like a nice morning and the forecast for Loch Etive were good, sunny all day with very little wind but it would still be very cold. After driving west over 100 miles we were met on the shore near Taynuilt by Doug Bannatyne of Taynuilt Fishing Club Boats, whom we had rented a boat from for the day.
|We arrived just after the sun had risen over the mountains. Stunning. Bloody cold though!
Gear soon loaded into the boat, off we went. On the advice of Doug we started in Airds Bay tied up to a buoy off of the south eastern shore. Mackerel and squid baits dropped down 180 feet, we patiently waited for bites. After a while with no real action Ross decided to drop down a scaled down "one up one down" rig with small hooks and straight away had a few small whiting, poor cod and pouting. I did likewise, bites were coming as soon as it hit the bottom and I started catching them too. All small but good fun whilst we waited for bites on the bigger baits. Ross caught a small thornback ray on his mini rig which was encouraging as I wanted one too.
|The smallest thornback ray Ross has ever caught!
Ross then caught a grey gurnard. After catching another thornback I hoped I'd get one but the bites dried up a bit so we moved to another buoy. In quick succession Ross caught another two small thornback rays. I couldn't seem to stop catching whiting though! Most of them had parasites on them which I picked off before putting them back.
|Poor little buggers.
We also thought it was quite strange that with so many small fish in the area that there didn't seem to be any spurdogs around. Perhaps they prefer the taste of whiting tipped with parasite to mackerel tipped with squid! At this point we realised almost three hours had passed and decided to move north to drift near the quarry at Bonawe. We switched to luminous Hokkai traces weighted down with luminous pirks with the hooks all baited up. After a few drifts with no action at all we moved opposite the quarry and tied up to a buoy near some fish cages but again our jigging went unrewarded so we decided to head back to the first buoy we'd had the most fish from in Airds Bay. I was still hoping to catch a thornback ray and Ross was hoping that a few spurdogs would turn up but all we caught was small fish again. For the last hour we headed to new buoy close to where we launched from but again this produced no fish. As a last throw of the dice we decided to head out for a drift in middle of bay. It was over 200 foot deep here and after switching to a running ledger on my boat rod I hooked into a slightly bigger fish that turned out to be another whiting. After 10 minutes or so it was time to head back so I reeled up and began tidying up a bit. Ross was just about to reel up too when he had a few good bites which he let develop a bit before striking into a fish. As it came up from the depths we soon realised that it was what he'd wanted to fish Loch Etive for, a dark and nicely spotted spurdog.
|He's talkin' about sharkin'! Lucky bugger!
|Nasty sharp spurs on both these shark's dorsal fins give them their name.
Whilst I was disappointed not to add any new species to my tally I was so pleased that Ross had got one to add to his on his last cast. Neither of us could believe his luck and it made the journey home a bit easier.
Ross had to head home this afternoon but before he left we headed down the coast again to try and get him a two spotted goby. Fishing a #26 hook it wasn't long before the gobies started appearing and thirty minutes, a few common gobies and a change from a tiny piece of Isome to a tiny chunk of ragworm later, Ross had another new species balanced on the tip of his finger.
|They all count when you are a species hunter!
Whilst Ross had been micro fishing I had been amusing myself trying to catch a small flounder that we spotted in a long shallow rockpool and after a while dangling a small chunk of Isome in front of its mouth, it gave in, ate my offering and was quickly hooked and hoisted up.
|Pretty strange to find it there in the rockpool not that I was complaining.
After dropping me off back in town Ross had to head off so we said goodbye and I wished him luck trying to catch a ling over the next few weeks. Fishing Loch Etive from the boat was great and I'll certainly be doing it again although I may try in warmer weather next time! It's always a pleasure fishing with Ross and I have a feeling he may be back up here before the year is out so we may be fishing together again fairly soon which I have no doubt will be fun whatever the target species!
Tight lines, Scott.


text: The Grouchland Jail is one of the many businesses briefly glimpsed in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. Located in Grouchland USA, the Jail is the equivalent of a regular prison. Once someone is put behind bears, the Grouch Cop says, "You have the right to scream your head off" instead of "You have the right to remain silent." Known prisoners of the jail are, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Telly Monster, Zoe, Maria and Gordon when they traveled down to Grouchland in an attempt to rescue Elmo, who had jumped down into Oscar's trash can to try to get his Blanket back after Oscar dropped it in his trash can. However, the Grouch Jailer let them and all the other prisoners go when Oscar convinced all of the other Grouches to, just this once, work together to completely stop Huxley from robbing them of any more of their precious trash.


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I 'should' feel bad for screen shotting this H DS parse, as the numbers are 'average' in comparison to pre-5.0.4 numbers, but hey – our warrior was dead (PERHAPS due to the fact my DBM wasn't working 'properly' and I managed to kill our bare tank when dispelled *insert evil face and standing on top of tank here*, which then killed Elvs thanks to being second on threat…) and there was no res available after ressing said tank (too bad, so sad), but that Ferocious Bite still has some serious kick!
No, it wasn't sustained, and yes, it was just before the boss died, but you know what?
Bring on MoP and big yummy numbers!!!
That 'other' durid has a legendary by the way…. *cough*


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Barnardos Practitioner Guide
Barnardos purpose as a charity today is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children.
This guide is an evidence based guide for practitioners working with children and young people who experience running away and child sexual exploitation.
The aim of this guide is to:
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text: The European Union expects Belarus to hold a free and fair presidential election, Stefan Fule, the EU's commissioner for enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, told reporters in Minsk on Monday following his meeting with Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw. This would give a new serious impetus to the development of bilateral relations, Mr. Fule said. The EU is ready for deepening and expanding its relations with Belarus on the basis of European values such as democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Mr. Martynaw said that the entire range of relations between Belarus and the EU, and ways of their development were discussed at the meeting. "The role of the election as one of the factors for the development of the relations was also discussed," he said. "Both sides spoke for the relationship between Belarus and the European Union to be deeper."While talking to reporters ahead of the meeting with Syarhey Martynaw, the visiting commissioner described the plan as an attempt to deepen relations between the 27-nation bloc and Belarus. The plan offers Belarus assistance from the European Union on reforms, modernization and progress in the sphere of democracy and human rights, according to Mr. Fule. He would not speak in detail about the plan, citing the need to discuss the document with the Belarusian foreign minister first. Mr. Fule noted that there would be no strict timeframe for the implementation of the plan and said that an in-depth discussion of the document would start only after Belarus` presidential election scheduled for December. The European Commission has approved negotiating mandates for agreements with Belarus on visa facilitation and readmission, he said, adding that the mandates were being considered by EU member countries. He suggested that work on the draft visa facilitation agreement could begin later this month, while work on the readmission accord could start in December. Speaking about Belarus` presidential election, Mr. Fule said that the European Union had already singled out the areas where it would like to see progress. In particular, he referred to candidate registration, the formation of election commissions, early voting, vote count, presidential candidates` access to the media, and freedom of assembly. Mr. Fule noted certain progress but warned that the opposition`s negligible representation on election commissions did not meet the European Union`s expectations.


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More services anticipated to attract overseas professionals
Changning is intending to extend services to overseas talent in Shanghai's neighboring provinces.Foreign experts in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui whose employers have offices in Changning are expected to be able to benefit from the same privileges as those overseas talent in the district later this year.To get more Changning District news, you can visit shine news official website.
"Overseas talent will be treated exactly the same as local people by our human resources policies," said Ma Jun, head of Changning's talent services.
Although the Hongqiao One-Stop Service Center of Overseas Talents is among the best of its kind throughout the country, Changning will set up five sub-centers and a number of counters in local communities to better serve expat workers on their doorsteps.
The sub-centers at Chengjiaqiao Community and ShanghaiMart will be available for enquiries, while the one at Gubei Civic Center will accept applications for Shanghai Residence Permits and Foreigner Work Permits from August.
Applicants for services at the Hongqiao center are only required to visit the counter at 999 Jinzhong Road once.Changning was among the first in Shanghai, as well as the country, to pilot the Foreigner Work Permit when it was introduced in December 2016.By the end of February, the center had issued 4,950 Foreigner Work Permits and served more than 17,500 applicants needing entry or exit paperwork.Its services will be further expanded to become China's most functional and efficient foreign professional service center.
The center also issues work permits for residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.This includes verification of their identities and those of their relatives, or children's enrollment in local schools.It will extend its services to foreign affairs and top-notch overseas talent included in "the Recruitment Program of Global Experts" (known as "the Thousand Talents Plan").
A top-level applicant with all the correct qualifications will get his or her Foreigner Work Permit in just one day at the Hongqiao service center. Moreover, Nobel Laureates, winners of the Turing Award or Magnolia Award and other first-tier talent, and their families, will enjoy privileges offered by Changning.
Jan Kreibaum, a senior executive with the world's leading specialty chemical company, Clariant Corp, benefited from the "last mile" service.
Kreibaum, who heads Clariant's regional headquarters in Changning's Linkong area, was twice honored with the Magnolia Award and wanted to apply for Shanghai permanent residency.At the same time, his company was in urgent need of overseas talent and interns. But he and his colleagues were not familiar with the policy and the application process.
Officials from Changning and the city's talent service center then provided services to both Kreibaum and Clariant (Shanghai), and his application for permanent residency was accepted, while his company was schooled on how to introduce overseas talent and interns.
Kreibaum and other foreign talent may also enjoy housing subsidies of up to 500,000 yuan (US$78,000), schooling for their kids, high-end health care and the most important, a public affairs specialist to help them deal with flight upgrades, legal advice to foreign exchange settlement and personal finances.
Tongren Hospital and Changning Maternity & Infant Health Hospital are two public hospitals which accept most foreign medical insurance plans, as do a number of private clinics and hospitals based in Changning.
Changning has established the city's first district-level foreign expert bureau to serve highly skilled professionals from abroad. "Changning aims to attract global talent with world-class services," said Wang Weiren, the district's Party chief.
Since top-notch talent as well as enterprises employing people from overseas can enjoy tailored services by the Changning government, others may seek help from agencies as the district human resources and social security bureau will outsource the services.
Changning also welcomes foreign entrepreneurs to start their businesses here. For those to launch their projects in the district, they and their team members would soon be granted Foreigner Work Permits.
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A Wrench to the Heart 3/?
By Max
Disclaimer: On this one... not any great warnings. Duo's a little crazy though. :)
Chapter 3
All the rest of the kids were at school, but Julia ran circles around Duo as he went to check up on the farm part of his house. Walking into the 10,000 square meter space - he got a good idea of how sick he'd been. Plants were wilted. Whole sections were brown. Several of the tending bots were too broken down to continue work. He coughed, an arm over his face, he also thought something had gone seriously wrong with the mulch system. Julia clung to his leg, face pressed against his jeans.
He ruffled her hair. "Go back upstairs, sweetie. We'll work on your plant lessons after I clean this up, okay?"
"Do some math until I come upstairs."
She groaned, staring up at him with big green eyes.
He squatted down, touched a fingertip to the tip of her nose. "Tell you what. You finish the 100th math module and I'll teach you how to make your own pony level. Get them to do anything you want."
"Can I make Rainbow Dash a boy?"
"If you want."
"Can I have an alive pet?"
"We'll talk about it."
"Can I go to school with the other kids?"
"When you are really feeling all better, yes."
"How long? I wanna play with the others."
"I know that Julia. I understand. As soon as you're well enough, we'll get you off to school. Then you're going to complain that you want to stay home. Right now though, go do more math, okay?"
She sighed. "Okay."
Duo watched her trudge into the elevator, then threw his whole effort into fixing up the food production center. Time was easy to lose as he got the bots fixed. He had a lunch of fresh tomatoes, avocado, and strawberries, then put his shoulder to clearing out the corn that hadn't been harvested and had long since turned brown. He had an actual scythe that Wufei had given him as a winter solstice gift one year. The blade was gundanium and illegal as fuck on any other colony. A few rows in, he peeled off his tee shirt, used it to wipe sweat from his face, the back of his neck, then went back to laying the corn over.
He was about half way through, leaning against his scythe, giving serious thought to the idea of making some scarecrows, setting up a holographic bonfire, and getting the kids down to roast marshmallows and fish, when Charlotte found him.
She stared at him, at the solid hard curves of his shoulders and lined abs, dark braid hang down past his ass.
"What?" He asked. "I was a little behind on the upkeep. I guess I wasn't feelin real well for a while."
"Really," she said like he'd just explained that water was oxygen and hydrogen. "The school called. There's a new exchange teacher, up from Earth. Apparently, she and Jacob got into it and she's claiming he assaulted her."
Duo wasn't quite sure how this was Heero's fault, but he was sure it had to be. "'Kay. I'll go talk to her. Don't cook dinner. I'm thinkin we're gonna roast shit down here tonight. I might bring the new teacher. She just gotta getta know us, I'm sure."
Charlotte shook her head vigorously. "I don't think that's a good idea, Duo."
He jumped down from the raised corn bed, his oak and gundanium scythe resting on his shoulders arms hanging over the sides. He winked at her, light violet eyes full of mischief. "You ever see the movie Jeepers Creepers," he asked as he walked away.
"I took twenty first century lit," she said offended.
Walking backwards, he wrinkled his nose and grinned. "I'm just sayin..."
Managing to work for Duo Maxwell for at least a year was really, really good for one's resume. This colony had free education. She really wanted to finish pre-med. Goals! One had to keep one's mind on the goals. "What are you going to do? Oh god!"
An hour later, Duo was cleaned up real good. He wore a dark tailored suit that Wufei had given him. His tie was a vivid blue that had always reminded him of Heero's eyes. His hair was rebraided, with black pearls braided in. Neat black nail polish gave his hands a serious and manicured look. Polished black shoes clicked against the smooth tile of the empty school hallway.
The school had been built on the design of a school Duo had seen in a grainy video he'd found in a damaged library during the war on Earth. He'd never really understood why the movie had been called 'Grease'. The vehicles in it barely counted as mecha, they weren't even the main part of the story and as near as he could no one even had sex it it, so he hadn't understood, but he had liked the love between Sandy and Danny. Heero was definitely the Sandy though. So it was the Rydel Primary school and it went from K through PhD level. It wasn't bad for a small colony.
He stopped in the office to let them know he was there, but it was empty. He didn't think that was a good sign. There were, however, cookies, and he was unreasonably hungry, so he helped himself to two. One went into his mouth like he was Cookie Monster, the other he just carried as he went in search of his kid that didn't make it home.
Duo felt completely whole in the school. There were no echos of any other voices, no hungers that weren't his. It wasn't the first time he'd thought about being a teacher. He went up the stairs three at a time and by the time he got to the top, he was sure it was all just a big misunderstanding.
Jacob was a good kid. He'd been born on a family ship, people who had evaded modern culture. Small ships were really vulnerable though. All kinds of bad shit could happen out living in the rocks. He'd been the only survivor, picked up in a cryopod a dozen years after the loss of his family's ship. The rescue crew dropped him off at L4 and Quatre's people shipped him to Duo.
He'd been with Duo for two years. He'd never had any trouble with Jacob.
Okay, so walking down the hall towards where a group of admin and teachers were clustered by a door. The principal saw Duo and waddled over to him. "Duo! I'm so glad you're here!"
"What's going on," he asked, taking her hand and shaking warmly, squeezing with reassurance.
"The new Earth History and politics teacher... it's her first day. She's the one we got as an exchange teacher for Hamilton.. He wanted to go down to Earth, you know, just for a year, and well, she's got really offensive ideas! I had NO idea! I swear! Jacob had her class last period and she's claiming he hit her. She says she wants to charge him with assault and is waiting for the police. I told her we don't have police!"
Duo's smile was tight and sharp, his eyes a little darker. "I can be the police. I'll sort it out."
Andie wrapped her arms around Duo's arm, leaning on him a little. "She came with such good recommendations!"
"I'm sure she has many positive qualities," Duo said, patting the principal's hands. "Don't worry. We'll get it all sorted out."
The little cluster of teachers and a couple of students from the student paper parted like the Red Sea. Duo rapped a knuckle on the glass panel of the door. "Comin' in."
The teacher in question was a bean pole of a person in a gray suit, her white hair pulled into a tight bun on top of her head. She wore a little plaid bow tie and sported a nicely progressing black eye. Her arms were crossed over her chest, chin lifted as she eyed Duo. "Are you the police?"
"Kinda," Duo said as he signed his response.
Jacob jumped to his feet, a stocky built boy with mochacino skin and dark angry eyes. He signed a tirade at his dad, hands moving at lightening speed.
Duo nodded, signing slowly in response.
Mouth open the new exchange teacher eyed one then the other. "What are you doing?"
"Asking for his side of the story," Duo said, signing everything he said. "He says you took his tablet and that you shoved him when he tried to take it back. Did you?"
"I don't allow electronic devices in my classroom," she snarled. "Who are you?"
"I'm Duo Maxwell. I'm the mayor and I'm his dad. I'm also what passes for police around here. The safety officers are not going to respond to a call that doesn't have credible threats of actual harm."
"He hit me! I'm going to press charges against him. What ARE you doing with your hands?"
"This is American Sign Language. Oh, and Jacob says you're a racist asshole. I think he might be right," Duo said and signed.
Jacob laughed, the oddest cracked laughter.
The woman moved to put the desk between them. "What is he?"
"He's deaf, ya ignorant log. Haven't you ever met a deaf person before?"
"Goodness no! Why don't you give him appropriate medical care!"
Jacob had moved closer to Duo at that point, signing as he moved.
"I was born into a deaf family," Duo interpreted. "I like how I am. I'm sorry I hit you. I was afraid. May I please have my interpreting device back now?" Duo moved to stand by the kid who was a few inches taller than he was. "I think you should give him back his device."
She pulled it out of a desk drawer and put it on the desk, fingers pulling back like it burned her. "Even if you're sorry, it's still assault."
"It's not like you took any real damage," Duo pointed out. "Go over to the first aid kit and get it fixed."
"A bandage is not going to fix this! I think my eye socket might be fractured!"
"Is she really hurt," Jacob signed worriedly.
"She's fine," Duo said and signed. "Let me show you how to use the first aid kit."
He moved over to the very nondescript little box on the wall. "All rooms have them," he said and signed. "Put any finger on the little square in the center. Come on, try it. I think you'll find it really interesting. You are here to learn about us, right?"
"Poverty stricken savages," she hissed, but moved over to where Duo stood. Angry, she put her finger on the square. The box unfolded like a flower, petals forming and curling open.
"Oh I love this kind," Duo said. "I didn't realize we had any of these in the school! Highest level."
"It's only a blank screen," she mocked him. "What's it going to do, give me positive reinforcement?"
"If you want it to," Duo said, snickering. He pressed his thumb on the pale gray square below the screen. "Full medical assessment and treatment," he commanded.
An image of Galen, the Great Physician appeared. "Greetings, Patient. What is your name."
"Dr. Angela Ledbetter. I don't like AI."
"I see. Is that your complaint today? May I have your permission to scan you, Dr. Ledbetter?"
She crossed her arms over her chest, glared with her one non swollen eye. "Yes. Go on."
"I see that you are in pain. I'm sorry. Pain is always difficult. May I please have your permission to resolve all pain concerns and provide you with optimal health?"
"How are you going to do that from a screen," she snapped.
"I am happy to provide all the details and methods of every treatment I have available to me, but I think it would be easier to understand after you have experienced the treatment first hand. May I please proceed?"
"Yes, fine."
Duo took a step back. Jacob signed that he didn't think this was a good idea. Duo winked, grinning like a maniac. Which if Angela had seen that grin, she might have made some other choice, changed her mind, something.
The first aid kit blinked. A bright light seemed to pop in the air around her.
Jacob signed, "Dad... it's gonna come out bad."
"Nah," Duo signed back, "gonna be fine."
The light was gone and Angela staggered a bit. Duo rushed to catch her and set her down. "Give it a moment. You're all better now."
Dazed, she sat down in her chair... and then she caught sight of her hands. She froze there staring at her outstretched hands. She slowly turned them over, looking at her palms... the smooth skin, healthy skin, creamy and white. After a moment more of staring, she ripped open the drawer, dug into her handbag and found a mirror. The woman staring back at her had no wrinkles, a nice color to her skin, sandy blond hair, thick lashes, soft full red lips, not even the slightest hint of black eye. She dropped the mirror and it shattered into a dozen skidding parts.
She looked up at him, those red lips parted, golden lashes fluttering. "Whaaaa...."
"Hey there's no bruising now, right? You feel better, doncha? Not bad fer poverty stricken savages, uh?" Duo grinned, pointing at her with both hands. "Don't worry, no medical bills here."
"You're a monster."
"Maybe sometimes," Duo said, going back to speaking and signing again.
Jacob had his device now and it spoke for him, "You don't wanna make him real mad."
"Why... why doesn't it fix him then?" She looked at Jacob, looked back at Duo.
"Because there's nothing wrong with me. You didn't like being old, or Galen wouldn't have fixed it."
"Old is natural! Natural!"
Duo had lost all sense of wearing a fine suit and looking proper. Jacket unbuttoned, hands shoved deep in his pockets, the jacket bunching around his arms, he shrugged, "So. Hey, to like welcome you to Camelot.L2, I was thinking I might invite you over for dinner. I was thinking we could roast marshmallows and fish, do a Jeepers Creepers theme. Wanna come over for dinner then?"
"NO. No, I do not want to come over for dinner," she said, eyes wide, a pained grin pasted on her face. "Thank you so much for the offer."
"Well, some other time then," Duo said. "Me and Jacob gotta go now, but just to be sure, we're all good now, right?"
"Yeah, yeah, everything's fine. Thanks for, uh," she said, hands gripping the arms of her chair, "Coming in for such a lovely parent teacher conference. Anytime."
Galen, who hadn't been shut back down, frowned. "I sense you are getting a headache. May I apply follow up treatment?"
"No!" Angela nearly screamed, grabbing her handbag and half running for the door.
Duo followed her out the door and stood with the school staff as he scratched the back of his head. "She's a strange one, alright."
The student reporter slipped up close to him. "Mayor Maxwell, would you like to give a statement?"
"Oh sure," he turned to Jacob and signed, "Is it okay if I tell them?"
Jacob nodded, smiling brightly.
"Jacob has been accepted to pre-law, starting next year, on Paris.L1. I'm extremely proud of him."
"Oh that's great!" Sam, the reporter, said, "Good job," he signed in Jacob's direction.
Jacob beamed. Duo signed, "See? I told you it would come out great."


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STOCKTON - Police on Friday identified the man who allegedly drove through a stop sign and into the path of an unmarked police vehicle as 44-year-old Jose Castillo of Stockton.
STOCKTON - Police on Friday identified the man who allegedly drove through a stop sign and into the path of an unmarked police vehicle as 44-year-old Jose Castillo of Stockton.
Castillo was driving north on Pilgrim Street and failed to observe a two-way stop at Main Street, according to police. Two officers from the Manteca Police Department were driving west on Main Street when Castillo crossed their path.
They struck him at what Stockton police described as a low speed.
The two officers were taken to San Joaquin General Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Castillo was injured, police said.
Castillo was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, failing to stop at a signed intersection, driving on a suspended or revoked license, and driving without insurance.
STOCKTON - A multiagency task force arrested 80 people during a parole sweep in Stockton on Thursday night, targeting what authorities called the city's most dangerous parolees.
Authorities drew up a list of 240 parolees who are gang members, sex offenders or violent criminals and searched 160 locations from 3 to 11:30 p.m., said Stockton area parole supervisor Susan Kane.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, California Highway Patrol and other local police departments teamed up with Stockton's anti-gang unit and patrol officers to search 160 locations in the Stockton area. More than 200 people participated in the sweep, which also recruited the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
"It was the biggest one we've ever done," Kane said.
The 80 people arrested accounted for 55 suspected parole violations, nine outstanding felony warrants and 14 misdemeanor warrants, police reported.
The confiscated weapons included knives, swords, crossbows and two firearms.
Kane did not have an exact number of how many of those searched were found to be following the conditions of their parole.
STOCKTON - A big-rig truck lugging garbage overturned on southbound Highway 99 near the Waterloo Road exit at 8:43 a.m. Friday.
Arriving officers from the California Highway Patrol blocked three lanes of traffic and reported there were no major injuries at the site of the accident.
Lanes were reopened around 12:10 p.m., the CHP said.
LODI - A bus carrying dozens of Vallejo students passed a little too quickly over a set of railroad tracks in Stockton on Friday evening, forcing an emergency stop in Lodi for medical care.
The students, from North Hills Christian School in Vallejo, were returning from a field trip when their bus drove over the railroad tracks at Van Allen Road and Mariposa Road.
The driver was traveling at the posted speed limit, but that was fast enough to jolt students, the California Highway Patrol said.
Everyone seemed fine, but by the time the bus had reached Lodi, students were complaining of aches and pains.
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Marianne Stanley is the Indiana Fever's new head coach and was officially introduced by the organization Tuesday morning. The Fever also announced that former player Tamika Catchings, the team's vice president of basketball operations, will also now serve as general manager.
Pokey Chatman had the combined role of coach/GM, but she was fired in September after three seasons in which the Fever went 9-25, 6-28 and 13-21 and missed the playoffs.
Stanley, 65, comes to Indiana from a long stint as an assistant coach with the Washington Mystics, who won the WNBA title last season.
She said she was content in her role with the Mystics but still had an "itch" to become a head coach again if the right situation came along. She decided it did in Indiana, a young team that has nine players with three years or less of WNBA experience and the No. 3 pick in the upcoming WNBA draft.
"I always said, 'I'm not going to leave for just any old job,'" Stanley said. "I love what I do, and I'm passionate about what I do. I love to work with people who are equally invested in each other and the task at hand. It became obvious the more I talked to people that this was going to be that kind of place.
"Looking at the future, I thought this was a great opportunity for me, to take a team and help it get back to the level that it was accustomed to a few years ago. We've got a good core group, and we're going to add some pieces. The sky is the limit for some of our young people."
The Fever made the playoffs 12 consecutive times between 2005 and 2016, winning the 2012 WNBA title. But Indiana has been in rebuilding mode since Catchings' retirement after the 2016 season.
Stanley was a collegiate head coach from 1977 to 1993, including at Old Dominion, where her team won AIAW titles in 1979 and 1980 and the NCAA title in 1985. As a player in the 1970s, she won two AIAW titles at Immaculata College.
Stanley's college head-coaching career hit a roadblock after she filed an equal-pay lawsuit against USC in 1993, which was rejected by an appeals court, and then felt she was blacklisted. But she got an opportunity to be an assistant at Stanford and in 1996 became head coach at Cal before leaving for the WNBA in 2000.
She has been an assistant coach in different stints for three WNBA franchises: the Mystics, Los Angeles Sparks and New York Liberty. She also was head coach of the Mystics from 2002 to 03 and was named WNBA Coach of the Year in 2002. She briefly returned to the college game as an assistant at Rutgers to C. Vivian Stringer from 2006 to 2008.
"We are young, and I think about individually what each player needs to work on," Catchings said. "A lot of it is empowerment. Marianne's proven time and time again what it takes to develop players and put them in the right position."


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Dimitri Contominas (Dimitris Kontominas) has been one of the leading Greek entrepreneurs since the 1960s. He has been actively engaged across a multitude of industries both in Greece and abroad, primarily through the DEMCO Group of Companies, a highly diversified Group, of which he is the majority shareholder and Chairman.
He founded insurance company Alico in 1963, but became a household name through Interamerican, an insurance company that he founded in 1969 and changed the Greek insurance market forever through the introduction of innovative products and a customer-centric approach. He exited Interamerican in 2005 after securing its strategic partnership with insurance giant Achmea (formerly Eureko). He has since returned to the insurance market through the establishment of Prime Insurance in Cyprus and Greece and My Direct, an online insurer.
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Dimitri Contominas is also actively engaged in corporate philanthropy, recognized for his charitable work by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Metropolis of Chalcedon, while in 2002 he was awarded with the Comenda do Infante D. Henrique medal by the Portuguese Republic. He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and is an avid collector of art and rare books. Part of his collection has been hosted by the National Library, Athens.


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The Lee Family. Once upon a time Noel and Rena got married and had 2 kids - Doris and Donald. Then one day, Doris got married to Jeremy and had her own 2 kids - Vince and Edda. We all live far apart, and keep moving around. It's hard to keep tabs on each other. Welcome to our blog.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Andy, bow, pomodoro.
I met up with Andy for lunch today. We went to Jimmy Johns - my favorite sandwich place. I like to get the roast beef and then put potato chips into the sandwich and eat it all together. Crunch, crunch, crunch. We talked a lot about horses and cinematography. Also books! I met Andy through an online book club. Andy reads a lot of books (probably more than one a week), but he's a book thrifter, so I can't resist getting him new-ish books that I think he might like. This time I got him Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and Ready Player One by Earnest Cline. I've read neither - though Jeremy loved Thinking Fast and Slow and Ready Player One is being made into a movie by Steven Spielberg for release in 2018.
Vince got his new, fancy to him (though still not fancy in the world of fancy violins and bows), carbon fiber violin bow. When I told Bob that Kelly (Vince's violin teacher) told me that Vince's old bow wasn't worth rehairing, he was shocked. Shocked! I forget what Bob said exactly, but it was something like - that's like giving away the dog when he needs a good grooming.
This term, though a slog as it always is midway through any term, is going well for Vince. He's really tracking his assignments much better, he's preparing for tests, he's following rubrics. It's so much better than last term, though exhaustion does set in for both him and me. I'm trying to go incrementally and not demand perfection which is my tendency and which is not Vince's tendency. There are pros and cons to each approach, I see how trying to perfect things led me to lots of heartache and grief. There is a sweet spot in there, trying hard but not too hard. Now comes the real challenge for Vince to manage. It's the challenge of writing your paper on the laptop and then not getting sucked into the vortex of the internet. This is the productivity trap we all suffer from. I told him my tricks, the main one being the 20 min on, 5 min off trick (which I've now learned is called the pomodoro technique). Twenty min of focused concentration and then a 5 min break set with a true timer or stopwatch. I did this way back in college when I'd study two days for every exam. Hours and hours in the library and the internet didn't even exist back then. My 5 min break would be sneaking (who was I sneaking from? myself? I'm ridiculous.) upstairs to the 2nd floor where the MIT library inexplicably had a subscription to People Magazine. I felt so efficient back then. I'm much less efficient now. I can tell when I try to study this second time around, my brain is sloppier and clumsier. It's less certain with twirling the information around like a baton aflame and throwing it up in the air and catching it behind my back with my eyes closed. I can do it, but I drop it more often on the floor than I used to.
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Today has been so long guys. Now that I'm done nannying (summer job), I have like zero motivation to get up in the mornings. Today I didn't get up until 10:45–how pathetic is that? Getting up late just makes me feel miserable all day. And then we had work acquaintances come by for the afternoon and I get really anxious and grumpy when I have to socialize with strangers for that long so I retreated to my bedroom for a nap until work. So it's been a bit of a blah day. I have officially uploaded my Gatsby dinner party pictures though! So I super double cross-my-heart promise they'll be up tomorrow!
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♥The fact that this place (Lake Lucerne, Switzerland) is actually a real place. Gahhh I wanna go there.
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Integrity ....
Hebrews 1:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 You have loved righteousness [You have delighted in integrity, virtue, and uprightness in purpose, thought, and action] and You have hated lawlessness (injustice and iniquity). Therefore God, [even] Your God ([e] Godhead), has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy and gladness above and beyond Your companions.
When people have integrity you will see it in everything they do. It will be noticeable in their daily work. They do things diligently and with enthusiasm. Even when no one is around the work is done properly and with the best intention. It is probably one of the most difficult things to teach people who have not been exposed to this kind of discipline and they feel you picking on them when you enforce certain rules. To my mind being good at what you do is important and to be excellent at what you do is even better. But you have to be able to work hard without someone watching you and checking up on your progress. I heard a sermon of Joyce Meyers and it struck me that even in a store you should take care of how you do things. There is always someone that needs to come and 'pick up' after you. Why? People don't care. They just say 'ah, it's not my job, that's why they employ shop attendance' and you drop clothes on the floor and walk away, not your problem. Funny you dropped it why not just pick it up?
I like a beautiful set table, I love it when the plates match, the knives and forks are set correctly, and all the condiments are set out on the table with a beautiful clean table cloth. I seem to have this huge fight in getting the table set the right way. Maybe one day the penny will drop, in the mean time I pray the Lord to give me wisdom and understanding.
I need to live with integrity, virtue and uprightness in purpose, though and most of all action. Let my intent be true and may I keep my integrity in everything I do.
God bless you, live your life with righteousness and integrity, virtue, and uprightness in purpose may God bless you as you go through your day.
[e]Hebrews 1:9 Arthur S. Way, Way's Epistles: The Letters of St. Paul to Seven Churches and Three Friends.