If you haven't been paying attention: pay attention.
Things are going to hell in a handbasket in Ferguson, Missouri. Cops are throwing tear gas and firing rubber bullets at peaceful protesters. State senators are getting gassed, city aldermen are getting thrown in jail for no reason other than being out at night, covering the protest. Reporters, including Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post, are being arrested by cops for daring to cover the brutality.
Here's the context: Michael Brown, a black 18 years old, was gunned down Saturday night by an unknown policeman on the Ferguson force. He was unarmed; his only crime was that he was jaywalking. Witnesses say that Mike was shot as he held his hands up, pleading with the cop for his life. Of course, the Ferguson police department claims that "there was a struggle" before the shooting. An ambulance wasn't called, and his body lay on the ground for four and a half hours before being removed.
Mike was two days away from starting college.
The largely peaceful protests that have been taking place in Ferguson have been plagued with police repression, but yesterday, things took a turn for the worse.
South Asians had a lot to say on social media about the police crackdown last night.
Anil Dash was livid about how Ferguson police were handling themselves.
It's plain as day that the cops have no strategy, no end goal in #Ferguson. No leadership. They don't even understand the situation.
Basic crowd management for a group that will not disperse is to de-escalate. Hot summer day in #Ferguson? You hand out some water to folks.
But #ferguson police never had a plan. They had a wish. They bought that insecure macho myth of the "show of force". Impotence performed.
The turmoil on his dash threw rapper Heems into a spiral of existential doubt.
Scholar Vijay Prashad took a break from tweeting about Gaza and the crisis in Iraq to link what was happening in Ferguson to the wider world.
We'll end with the always socially conscious Hari Kondabolu, who dropped some serious knowledge on our dashes.
Police want people in #Ferguson to only protest in the day. Do they think jobs allow you to take off for "protest days"?
We say we send soldiers abroad to protect freedom. Then, I see cops shooting tear gas at protesters. Should we send troops to #Ferguson?
Finally, Hari lets us know that to compare the racial profiling that South Asians experience to the profiling that Black folks experience is wrong, and that desi folks shouldn't do it.
Notably silent celebs: Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, Hannah Simone. Kal Penn, Vijay Iyer, and Utkarsh Ambudkar didn't tweet about Ferguson themselves, but instead retweeted others who were talking about the situation.


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What Causes Wrong-Way Car Accidents?
February 14, 2020 | Accidents,Car Accidents,Personal Injury
Any car accident can be a devastating event and lead to serious injuries. However, wrong-way accidents can be particularly severe for drivers and passengers. These crashes often occur when one or more vehicles are traveling at high rates of speed. The US Department of Transportation reports that approximately 350 people are killed each year due to wrong-way collisions, and many thousands more are injured. Wrong-way car accidents have a variety of causes.
Characteristics of wrong-way crashes
Using data from various agencies, including the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), we can see that many wrong-way crashes have common characteristics.
In one recent study year, the NTSB says that more than half, and maybe as many as three quarters, of wrong-way drivers were impaired by alcohol. The NTSB says that approximately 59% of those wrong-way drivers had a blood alcohol content at or above .15%, which is considered a high BAC.
Drivers over the age of 70 are over-represented as the at-fault drivers in wrong-way crashes.
The primary origin of all wrong-way movements is drivers entering an exit ramp. Other common causes include making a U-turn or using an emergency turn around through a median.
Most wrong-way collisions occur at night. The NTSB reported that 78% of fatal wrong-way collisions in a recent year happened between the hours of 6:00 PM and 6:00 AM. They say that a disproportionate number of wrong-way collisions occurred on the weekends.
The NTSB reported that most wrong-way collisions occur in the lane closest to the median.
What type of injuries are common for wrong-way crashes?
Based on the available data, the NTSB concluded that wrong-way collisions tend to be severe incidents resulting in fatalities. For those who survive wrong-way collisions, the injuries are frequently serious. It is not uncommon to see the following injuries as a result of a wrong-way crash:
Spinal cord injuries with possible paralysis
Open head wounds
Crush injuries
Broken or dislocated bones
Loss of or damage to bodily organ
Dismemberment or amputation
Significant disfigurement
Each of these injuries requires immediate medical care. Wrong-way crash victims often require extensive recovery periods. Victims may not be able to work while they recover, which can lead to them losing the income they need to support themselves and their families.
Preventing wrong-way collisions
It is important that you do what you can to prevent wrong-way collisions. Every driver should be responsible on the roadways and take steps to avoid traveling down the wrong side of the roadway. Do not operate your vehicle while impaired by drugs or alcohol and pay very close attention to traffic signs in order to ensure you are traveling the right way.
During the latest reporting year in the state, the Washington Department of Transportation says that there were 105,894 total car crashes reported. These incidents killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more. While we do not have exact data on how many wrong-way crashes killed or injured Washington residents, we do know that they occur on a regular basis in this state.
Because so many wrong-way crashes occur due to impaired drivers, the NTSB recommends anyone who has a DUI conviction be required to install an alcohol ignition interlock device on their vehicle. Preventing drunk driving will be vital to curbing incidences of wrong-way crashes. If you've been injured in a serious accident, contact the Seattle car accident attorney at Washington Injury Law today.

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Daily Archives: 3 Feb 2011
Fun Facts From the History of the Church
Church History 3 Feb 2011 1 Comment
Emperor Charles V dec lared that in his realm (basically all of western Europe) all who denied the Trinity were to be executed.
In Spain, the anti-trinitarian Michael Servetus was burned in effigy for his ghastly remarks including but not limited to 'god is a three headed monster'.
So escaping to Geneva, he hoped he would be left alone and free to spread his filthy pagan nonsense.
He was wrong. What happened to him in Geneva would have happened to him somewhere eventually. He was a dead man walking and it was just a matter of time.
Thus, it's a tad unfair to be angry at the Council of Geneva for doing what Strassbourg or Paris or Madrid or Bern or Cologne would have happily done.
The BBC Apologizes to Mexico…
Modern Culture 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 3
For, in my opinion, nothing. People are sometimes completely bereft of the ability to contextualize and interpret. Sadly it seems that the masses in Mexico suffer that inability. But the BBC has apologized anyway.
Top Gear presenters characterised Mexicans as lazy and feckless. In a letter to Mexico's ambassador in Lon don, the BBC said it was sorry if it had offended some people, but said jokes based on national stereotyping were part of British national humour.
If I might offer some advice to the Top Gear presenters- be sure not to visit Mexico. It's a killing field as it is and given their attitude towards you I'm fairly confident things would turn out badly.
If You Thought Fountain Woman the Texter Was Inattentive…
Modern Culture 3 Feb 2011 1 Comment
Wait till you watch the 10 year old boy who was so busy playing his silly game he didn't know he was about to fall onto the tracks… I just hope the kid never gets a driver's license.
Did They Find the Tomb of Zechariah?
Archaeology, Bible 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 4
Archaeologists in Israel believe they may have stumbled upon the tomb of the biblical Prophet Zechariah in a newly discovered church. The church, which is more than 1,300 years old, contains massive marble columns as well as exquisite mosaics, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement. Archaeologists believe that the church, uncovered in Hirbet Madras in central Israel, is the location marked on the Madaba Map as the tomb of Zechariah, according to Ha'aretz.
The Madaba map is an ancient mosaic map of the region that includes modern Israel. It was found in a sixth-century church in Jordan. "The researchers believe that in light of an analysis of the Christian sources, including the Madaba Map, the church at Hirbet Madras is a memorial church designed to mark the tomb of the prophet Zechariah," the IAA said.
And most sensibly of all-
The agency stressed that this is just a theory and requires more research for confirmation.
Naturally as soon as mention is made of finding anything even remotely related to the Bible, there are nearly instantaneous bold and unsubstantiated claims of it proving this or that. Have they found the tomb? It's too early to say. How such a claim could be proven, who knows. Unless there's a grave marker or ossuary bearing the name discovered in situ and undisturbed and examined by real archaeologists and not Hershel Shanks. Then we might have something.
The NRA: Corruption Reigns There
There's a fascinating 'must read' essay exposing the last several years of the NRA's history, their goals, their methods, and their reasons.
There was a time, back before the late 1970s, when the National Rifle Association (NRA) represented their members. But not anymore. Once they fully re-entered the world of politics on the heels of the Cincinnati Revolt, they became corrupted by the very special interest politics from which they claim to protect their members. With their decision to reject the calculated negotiation of their previous "old guard" board members, who for example, came out publicly in support of a proposed ban on .38 Specials by then-senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, they embarked upon a "no compromise" plan of action for the future. This, of course, made them natural allies of the gun manufacturers, who like arms dealers everywhere are far less interested in who they are selling weapons to than that they sell as many weapons as possible. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence that the NRA's mission has nothing to do with its members, but everything to do with protecting the profits of the gun manufacturers who support the organisation with big bucks – not to mention pay the million-dollar-plus salary of the NRA's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
Read the rest. Very telling indeed. And very certainly it will enrage the gun lobbyists because it's the truth.
When You Have Children You Have to Watch Them Every Second…
Humor 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 3
Or they do gross things (that are gross and funny at the same time!)
Mom fail of the day: looked over at Sophia in her stroller at Taco Bell in the mall…and there she was with a long string of gum from under the table. — (Name of mom with-held to protect the guilty. Suffice it to say, she lives in West Virginia and her husband has a top 10 biblioblog….)
Gum from the table bottom… classic, nasty, and grossly funny all at the same time!
When You're Not Even Bright Enough to be Dumb…
You'll use a hole in your floor as an ashtray…
An official in Portland, Ore., says a house fire that caused $30,000 in damage was apparently started by tenants who were using a hole in the floor as an ashtray. Portland Fire & Rescue spokesman Paul Corah says, in his words, "That's not careless smoking, that's stupid smoking." He says the caller who reported the fire Wednesday also hung up on the 911 dispatcher, then refused to talk when the dispatcher tried to call back for more details.
Need another reason to stop smoking? It evidently makes you dumb as a stick.
The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon
Bible, Books 3 Feb 2011
Originally published in 1995, this 2011 second edition undertakes the task of updating the earlier with more recent research and its results. I appreciate very much the kind folk (Adrianna Wright in particular) of IVP Academic for sending along a copy for me to take a look at.
You can check out the very extensive table of contents here.
If you check out that table of contents you'll note that the volume is comprised of seven major divisions. As Patzia remarks, though, it isn't the typical 'introduction' to the New Testament as it doesn't concern itself with the usual questions which introductions address. Rather, '… on the issues that inform us how the sayings of Jesus, the traditions of the early church and the thoughts of certain writers such as Paul and others eventually culminated in the New Testament' (p. 14). Or in other words, P. is interested in how the New Testament became the New Testament.
That's why it's not surprising that he offers a fairly traditional (but definitely not fundamentalist) explanation of the literary world of the New Testament, the making of the Gospels, the making of Paul's letters and the other NT books, the making of the canon and text critical issues.
Proof that Patzia is no fundamentalist (and shouldn't be taken, or read, as one) is his discussion of 'inspiration' (in part five amidst his discourse on the making of the canon). He offers students (and do take note, this is material which beginning students or interested lay persons can most benefit from- it is written with them in mind) a very concise and yet very elegant description of the facts as they stand. Inspiration wasn't the basis for inclusion of books in the New Testament, it was the result. P. quotes Stendahl who wrote
It was not until the red ribbon of the self-evident had been tied around the twenty-seven books of the New Testament that 'inspiration' could serve theologians as an answer to the question: Why are these books different from all other books? (p. 173).
If Patzia is an inerrantist or an infallibilitist one cannot detect an overt interest in convincing others that they should adopt such a position. He just presents the facts without dogmatizing along the way. He is conservative, but he is well within his rights to be so.
His work is solid, his methodology is sound, and his results are reliable. What else could one want from a scholarly monograph? There are even charts, graphs, and informational panels!
If you are looking for a book which will show your students how their New Testament got to be what it is, this is the one.
Egypt is Descending into Chaos
Things have taken a real down turn there since the peaceful (generally speaking) demonstrations before Mubarak's 'I'm going to stay till September' speech. Since then… chaos and death and malice and destruction. And now Egyptians have gotten so desperate for cash (the banks have been closed) that…
For over a week, Zaki Abdel-Aziz has been out of work and largely out of money, joining millions of Egyptians living more on hope than cash as the capital plunged into chaos and the economy ground to a virtual halt. His wife and three children were hungry, tired and tense. There was slightly over 100 pounds ($17) in their apartment, and no way to borrow more. Then a chilling call came Tuesday night. "The guy asked me, 'Zaki, you haven't worked for a week, right? You don't have money?'" Abdel-Aziz, 45, recalled Thursday. "He said, 'Come out tomorrow and you'll get 100 pounds and a bag of food. All you have to do is join us against those traitors in Tahrir." Abdel-Aziz, who works in a government records office, angrily rebuffed the offer. "I'm hungry, but I won't sell my soul to eat," he said.
And so it goes in Egypt, where the tyranny of the one has given place to the tyranny of the mob. What a dreadful turn of events.
Cash-starved Egyptians turn on each other (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
"Egypt – Chaos in Cairo as Mubarak Backers, Opponents Clash" and related posts (vosizneias.com)
Devotional Books Worth Reading
Bible 3 Feb 2011 1 Comment
I normally don't mention devotional books because, honestly, I find most of them sugar water and insubstantial Dreck. But I've been re-reading Andrew Murray (whom I first discovered decades ago and confess to having been greatly influenced by) and I thought I'd go ahead and commend him to you. These are some of his books online- you can't go wrong with any of them:
Deeper Christian Life
Lord's Table
Master's Indwelling
New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples
School of Obedience
True Vine: Meditations for a Month on John 15:1-16
Two Covenants
Waiting On God!
With Christ in the School of Prayer
Working For God!
My 2011 Superbowl Predictions
1- Lots of people will attend the game.
2- Many more will watch on tv.
3- There will be drunks at the stadium.
4- Dallas will host more prostitutes than normal.
5- Fat ugly old guys will purchase said prostitutes.
6- Some wives will find out about their husbands behavior.
7- Many will divorce.
8- Most watching the game will overeat.
9- The rest of the world will wonder what all the fuss is about.
10- The best thing about the game will be the commercials.
11- Churches (falsely called such) will cancel evening worship services.
12- One of the teams will defeat the other team in the game.
13- And how will they do it? They will score more points.
14- The halftime show will be stupid.
15- Next year very few people will even remember who played.
Those are my 15 Superbowl predictions. I guarantee that all of them will come true.
A Random Act of Kindness…
Bible, Books 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 2
Thanks very much to Chuck Grantham for sending along this volume from my Amazon list. It's very much appreciated so I wanted to give him what the kids call a 'shout out'. Beale is a brilliant scholar and I've enjoyed everything I've read of his so I'm keen to dive in.
Call for Papers: Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology
Archaeology, Bible, Conferences, SBL 3 Feb 2011
The SBL Program "Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology" is accepting papers for an open session at the upcoming national meeting in San Francisco, November 19 to the 22nd. The session covers the ancient history of Israel and Judah from perspectives that range from archaeology, epigraphy, Semitics, to new methods in biblical interpretation. In addition to archaeological papers, the session particularly encourages the submission of papers that engage the topic through socio-anthropological analysis, interdisciplinary methods, or comparative approaches that involve Egyptian or Mesopotamian studies. Inquiries can be directed at the program co-chairs:
Matthew Suriano – mjsurian@indiana.edu
Jeremy Smoak – smoak@humnet.ucla.edu
Via Jack Sasson
Israel Belongs to Christians- There's Archaeological Proof!
Archaeology 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 2
Everyone else needs to get out. There's archaeological proof that Christians were there 1500 years ago and that's before the Palestinians or the 1947 influx of Zionists.
Israeli archaeologists presented a newly uncovered 1,500-year-old church in the Judean hills on Wednesday, including an unusually well-preserved mosaic floor with images of lions, foxes, fish and peacocks. The Byzantine church located southwest of Jerusalem, excavated over the last two months, will be visible only for another week before archaeologists cover it again with soil for its own protection. The small basilica with an exquisitely decorated floor was active between the fifth and seventh centuries A.D., said the dig's leader, Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority. He said the floor was "one of the most beautiful mosaics to be uncovered in Israel in recent years."
There you have it. The land belongs to Christians…
Israelis and Palestinians and all non Christians need to get out. We will be bulldozing soon and we will use force of arms and any propaganda necessary. We've learned well the lessons taught us by the modern State of Israel.
[Of course this is pure dripping sarcasm aimed at demonstrating the idiocy of claiming land belongs to someone just because there's some textual or archaeological artifact dating back to some time in the hoary past. But if Israel can claim the land belongs to it because of various finds and can even displace Palestinians because of that fiction, it's only fair that the same standards be applied to everyone else.]
Zwingli's Theology in a Paragraph
Church History, Theology, Zwingli 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 8
Zwingli's theology is a system of rational supernaturalism, more clear than profound, devoid of mysticism, but simple, sober, and practical. It is prevailingly soteriological, that is, a doctrine of the way of salvation, and rested on these fundamental principles: The Bible is the only sure directory of salvation (which excludes or subordinates human traditions); Christ is the only Saviour and Mediator between God and men (which excludes human mediators and the worship of saints); Christ is the only head of the Church visible and invisible (against the claims of the pope); the operation of the Holy Spirit and saving grace are not confined to the visible Church (which breaks with the principle of exclusiveness). — Philip Schaff
'Top Gear' Isn't Racist
If you've ever watched the BBC's fantastic show 'Top Gear' you'll know that the presenters banter and carry on and make snarky remarks all the time about everything. So the claim that they were being racist in recent banter about Mexico is absolutely unfounded and wrong headed.
A Mexican woman has accused the BBC programme Top Gear of racism and instructed lawyers to bring a test case against the show after remarks made by the presenters characterised Mexicans as lazy and oafish.
They've said far worse about the French and the Germans and the Americans! Someone just wants a bit of money and sees an opportunity to get it via a suit.
In the episode, which was viewed by more than 6 million people, Richard Hammond claimed that cars imitate national characteristics. "Mexican cars are just going to be a lazy, feckless, flatulent, oaf with a moustache leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat," he said. Jeremy Clarkson went on to joke that being Mexican would be "brilliant" because then he could sleep all day.
Banter. Nothing more. Racism? If you want to see racism at its worst visit Mexico… if you dare.
Body Cavity Search via Paralysis…
Modern Culture, Total Depravity 3 Feb 2011 Comments: 3
Suspicious some guy is hiding drugs on his person and want to get to the 'bottom' of it? Just take him to the hospital, have him chemically paralyzed, and do a thorough body cavity search. You're sure to find something. And oh, do it without a warrant…
Read the story and you'll get to this point-
The officers did not seek a warrant for a cavity search, however. Instead, a naked, shackled and handcuffed Booker was taken to the emergency room of Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, where Dr. Michael LaPaglia ultimately injected Booker with paralyzing drugs, placed a breathing tube down his throat and recovered what turned out to be 5.7 grams of crack hidden in Booker's rectum.
It didn't take the jury very long to find him guilty. And evidently they believed the officers had sufficient cause to search him without a warrant.
I'm not so sure such a thorough search without a warrant was a good idea. Sure it gets a thug off the street, but it raises serious questions about the unbridled power of the police. They could easily claim that they were suspicious of you at your next traffic stop and haul you over to the hospital, have you paralyzed, and then search every opening on your body- all without the permission of an impartial judge.
The question is, are we all willing to see our rights eroded bit by bit and little by little in order to catch one criminal? I suppose that's a question Christians too are forced to ponder.
Egypt Overnight
Modern Culture, Total Depravity 3 Feb 2011
Protesters continued to clash with pro-Mubarak antagonizers.
From a BBC transcription of Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq on state TV:
This is a fatal error, and when investigations reveal who is behind this crime and who allowed it to happen, I promise they will be held accountable and will be punished for what they did … There is no excuse whatsoever to attack peaceful protesters, and that is why I am apologising.
The tragedy continues and reporters have been attacked. Even Anderson Cooper was smacked around.
CNN has released video of the attack on Anderson Cooper and his crew in Cairo by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. The video is extremely shaky, but Cooper and his crew are clearly under siege, and Cooper can be heard saying he's been hit, yelling "calm down" and talking to his camerawoman.


While annoucing the increase in fares, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal also said prices will not be hiked in the annual Rail Budget to be announced in February.
In a rare decision just a month ahead of the Budget, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday effected an across-the-board hike in fares of all classes from midnight of January 21 to net an additional Rs 6,600 crore a year, the first such increase in a decade.
The proposals will rake in an additional Rs 1200 crore between January 21 and March 31 this year, the minister said announcing the decision and did not rule out a hike in the freight tariff.
Fares of Ordinary Second Class (suburban) trains will go up by 2 paise per km while for non-suburban travel it will be 3 paise.
Travel by Second Class Mail and Express trains will be costlier by 4 paise per km, while it will be 6 paise in Sleeper Class.
Travellers by AC Chair Car and AC Three Tier will have to shell out 10 paise more per km, First Class by 3 paise, AC Two Tier by 6 paise and AC First Class by 10 paise.
The fares for First Class, AC Two Tier and AC First/ Executive Class were already raised by 10 paise per km, 15 and 30 paise respectively in the current year's budget.
Breaking away from the populism of his predecessors, including Lalu Prasad and Mamata Banerjee, Bansal, who was made the Railway Minister in October, told a press conference that the decision to hike the fares was "imperative" as lack of revision in the last 10 years has had a "telling effect" on the railway finances.
Dinesh Trivedi, who succeeded his party chief Banerjee, made a bold decision to hike fares in the Budget in February, 2012 to mop up an additional Rs 4000 crore but paid the price when he was made to resign by his party Trinamool Congress which was opposed to it. .
The decision also covered services like Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto type trains. However, it exempted platform tickets from any hike.
Bansal also proposed to do away with the practice of levying development charge on passenger tickets and all the chargeable fares will in future be in multiples of five.
As a result of the proposed hike, ordinary Second Class suburban fares for a distance of 35 km will go up by Rs 2 from Rs 8 to Rs 10, while in the non-suburban trains it will go up by Rs 5 for an average distance of 135 km.
In Sleeper Class, the increase would mean a hike of Rs 50 for a distance of 770 km from Rs 270 to Rs 320. In the case of AC Chair Car, for a distance of 387 km, the increase would be Rs 40 from Rs 345 to Rs 385.
In the case of AC Three Tier, for a distance of 717 km, the fare will go up from Rs 724 to Rs 800, an increase of Rs 76.
Similarly, in the case of AC Two Tier, the increase would mean a hike of Rs 48 for a distance of 721 km, while for AC First Class it will be Rs 56 for a distance of 547 km.
Replying to questions, Bansal said the Railway Budget next month will not propose any fresh hike in passenger fares.
But when asked whether there would be hike in the freight tariff, he was non committal. "I am not saying anything either way. We are not saying anything now."
Giving reasons for the decision which he described as reasonable, the minister said the losses in passenger segment, which was Rs 1,059 crore in 2004-05, rose to Rs 19,964 crore in 2010-11, an increase of 18 per cent a year. This is likely to go up to Rs 25,000 crore in the current fiscal.


Sometimes I just need to get out of bed and into the world of the living. My bed is comfy for the morning, but by afternoon I am ready to face the day. Enter book stores. I LOVE bookstores! They are so peaceful and ALL of your best book friends surround you. Luckily LA has NO lack of awesome book shops! Here are a list of the top five that I have found and fell in love with!
1. The Last Book Store - Downtown LA. This was my first LA bookshop. One of my best friends was coming to visit and I was looking for interesting places to take her. She is a huge book nerd like me so when The Last Book Store popped up I knew it would be perfect.
Inside is gorgeous and spacious and upstairs they have the most gorgeous arch made out of books! They even have records and live music. The only downside is that parking can be a bit of an issue downtown. BUT it is definitely worth the hassle to get lost in this amazing space.
2. Book Soup - Hollywood. I stubbled upon Book Soup while heading to The Viper Room. This lil corner of LA is actually quite perfect. I have my lot I park in pretty cheaply, a Coffee Bean, The Viper Room and Book Soup all in a one block radius.
Book Soup is cute, quirky and always has some type of event going. Authors are always there reading from their books and doing signings. There are stacks HIGH of books and adorable gifts. Book Soup is a small but mighty find.
3. Magic Door IV - Pomona. Another one I stumbled on while heading to a show! The Glass House concert venue is on super adorable street in Pomona. There are a bunch of lil places and one was this tiny book shop! I might have squeed and ran across the street when I spied it.
I stayed in the shop for about an hour looking through all their books. There were so many old ones. It was amazing just to hold a book from 1901! The owners were super sweet and had no problem letting me take the time to nerd out over their little slice of heaven.
4. Iliad Bookshop - North Hollywood. GUYS! There is a sign on the door to this book shop that says be careful not to let the cats out! Cats LIVE in this book shop!!! This is not a drill! I searched high and low for the kitties but could not find them. Apparently they can be shy sometimes. BUT that just gives me a reason to go back because besides the cats this shop is amazing!
Ceiling high bookshelves. A vault of rare books and I even found some really neat old ones just sitting on the shelves! My favorite was a Shakespeare for Children book. It was really old and falling apart, but pure magic. The stories were still in tack, just made shorter for children. PLUS the shop is only a few blocks down from my favorite place Republic of Pie...so I will defiantly be making that a weekly stop.
5. Vroman's Bookstore - Pasadena. Before I talk about this amazing book shop, I have to say that when I parked my car down the street, I unknowingly parked directly in front of a record shop! I about lost my mind. I walked in with the biggest smile and it didn't leave my face until I left with a Record Store Day release that I had been searching for!
NOW the bookstore. Vroman's is a labyrinth of amazing-ness! EVERY corner of this shop has something adorable. I easily did some birthday shopping for friends. The shop is huge and has an upstairs full of YA books where I could spend a day. Downstairs is an adorable lil coffee shop where I of course had to relax and enjoy drinking coffee surrounded by books!
This one is pretty close to home so I cannot wait to make it a regular hangout!
What I loved most about my book shop tour of LA was discovering new places on my own. Having some me dates and taking my time and enjoying things that I love so much. I don't think until the idea for this article came that I was doing much me time. I'm thankful for the inspiration these places have given me and the time to just BE in a moment alone and be ok with that.
Do you have any places you like to go and be alone with people?! I am really enjoying the experience of striking up a conversation with people I come across in daily life. I think we all need to do more of that. Interact with our fellow humans. It is so nice to be in the "real" world after loosing myself in blogging.
I wish we had awesome bookstores here. I haven't found any yet... just big box book stores. Also, I don't know if I've said this, but I love your HP tattoo.
This post is amazing and has added so many places I need to check out for myself! I think the Republic of Pie + bookstore pairing is amazing! Will have to make it an excursion one of these days.
Awesome post! I love bookstores not only as a place to purchase, but to just hang out! Unfortunately, indie bookstores are very few and far between in San Diego, so you are a lucky nerd indeed to have 5 fantastic ones within reach.
Oh my gosh, I LOVE the one with the giant books outside! & the one with cats..omg!


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Worth the Candle, Ch 40: The Feminine Mystique
Worth the Candle
We teleported into the Aon Adharc Glen fully armored and with weapons drawn. If not for the fact that a murderous unicorn was there, I probably would have found it pleasant. Birch trees stuck up from knee-high grass, with little yellow flowers poking up in small clusters and blue butterflies flapping their wings as they made their way through the forest. We were in a clearing, with the closest tree some sixty feet away.
Grak sprang into action while the rest of us stood with our backs together. He was drawing up a ward around us, circling at ten feet out. One of the things that Grak had done with his day was try to find out more information about unicorns, specifically with regard to warding. He was fairly confident that a ward against latent skin magic (i.e. skin) would work on a unicorn, so that was the one that he was drawing, but he gave us the caution that it was possible that because unicorns were an intensely magical creature our unicorn friend, as Fenn insisted on calling him, might either have skin which was fully imbued with unicorn magic instead of latent skin magic, or he might only have notional skin in the first place.
Killing a unicorn shared some surface similarities with killing a revision mage. With a revision mage, you basically had to ensure that they couldn't revise backward to a point where they weren't dead, either by killing them with something their magic couldn't interact with, or by ensuring that no amount of revision or different action on their part could possibly prevent their death. The big difference was that timeline fuckery, or whatever the unicorn did, didn't actually seem to care about magic all that much. It wasn't undoing anything, just doing a sideways merge into a timeline where that thing hadn't been done in the first place.
So that basically meant that we had to kill it in such a way that we couldn't not kill it, no matter how many timelines it tried to merge together.
The good news was that Amaryllis had been rescued from a unicorn's 'care' and then, when she was quite a bit older, read through the after-action report of that rescue. We were at least partially going off of what she remembered from that, though by her reckoning it had been at least four years since she'd read it, and she wasn't terribly confident in her specific ability to recall fine details, because she hadn't been reading with intent to memorize. The dual memories reported by the men sent to kill the unicorn were always within three seconds of divergence, which meant that all you really had to do was ensure that there was nothing that the unicorn could do within a three-second period to survive.
The bad news was that this power, or magic, or whatever it was, could be used an unlimited amount of times, and the unicorn had other abilities beyond just that big, annoying, deadly one. For example, it could slip behind trees and teleport around, which would allow it to close in on us from practically any angle. And while my normal response to the time fuckery might have been to just use poison (assuming I could figure out a way to administer it), that was all moot, because the unicorn's natural healing conferred a complete immunity to poison and disease.
Grak finished the ward against skin and then came back to rejoin us with his axe drawn. We still hadn't caught sight of the unicorn.
"You said that you were fairly certain that this unicorn hadn't died?" asked Grak.
"Yes," said Amaryllis. We had already gone over this back at Weik Handum, and it didn't seem like she wanted to repeat what she'd said there. If there was no unicorn, then all we really lost was time. The existence of a unicorn in this glen wasn't exactly common knowledge, and people with the resources and motive for killing this unicorn were also in short supply.
Fenn began moving before I saw anything, drawing an arrow from her glove, nocking it, and turning to track something unseen in the woods. My eyes caught a flash of white a moment later, but that was it.
"Elf luck still works," she said. "That's enemy contact, by the way."
"Steady," I said.
The unicorn came out from behind the closest tree to us, nine feet of equine somehow hidden behind a foot-wide birch. I wondered how that was possible, not just in the sense of this being a teleporting unicorn, but we had to have different perspectives on where it was hiding, right? And given that, there wasn't just physical trickery involved, but visual trickery as well, because at any given time the four of us were looking at different parts of the unicorn.
Fenn loosed an arrow at the unicorn. I watched it sail toward him — and then I had this other memory, one where he began moving just as Fenn let her arrow fly. He knocked it out of the air with his six-foot long horn and gave us a contemptuous snort that sent curls of steam into the chilly air.
"Well, that's just like you drew him up," said Fenn. "Good job, Juniper."
(It wasn't actually though. The way I had drawn him up, he had a version of Deflect Missiles that worked with his horn, and that was only once per round, plus a way for him to do the same to melee attacks, again only once per round. It was easy enough to overwhelm him or use area-of-effect spells against him, and the 'new memories' thing was mostly flavor because of the theme I was trying to go for.)
"He should be attacking," I said, watching him. He was stationary, staring at the four of us. "You think he senses the ward?"
"He's cautious," said Amaryllis. "You can see there, on his flank, where they wounded him." I looked to where her gloved and gauntleted hand was pointing and saw a thin, gray scar against his white hair.
"Shit," said Fenn. "Doesn't seem like that's going to work in our favor. Should I shoot him again?"
"Let's try the void rifle," I replied. I unslung it from my back and took aim at the unicorn, which was watching me and occasionally stamping a cloven hoof. I was about to squeeze the trigger and shoot it before a thought occurred to me. "Is there any reason that it would just stand there and let me shoot it? Because my only guess is that it's gathering information."
"Could be taunting us," said Fenn.
"I don't know," said Amaryllis. She was wearing her immobility plate, with helmet in place, and I hated that I had to go on the tone in her voice. This creature had kidnapped her and killed three of the people she was with when she was eight years old. "It likes its victims to know and understand that it has power over them, but … the three of you aren't victims, you're threats, obstacles."
I squeezed the trigger on the void rifle, and watched as a dime-sized hole opened in the unicorn's chest, and then there it was again, this alternate memory, where he had turned and darted back behind a tree. In the memory, I had tried to track and shoot him, but he had moved too fast for me, and my shot had put a hole in a tree instead.
He came at us from a completely different direction, charging at speed with horn down. He covered fifty feet in the space of a single second, and hit the ward hard, his horn swinging to within a few feet of us. And then, suddenly, we all had a new memory, one where instead he appeared behind a different tree and simply stared at us.
"Okay," I said, "He's definitely probing us out. Are we confident in that ward?"
"For another two hours, yes," said Grak. "More confident now than when it was made. He's proven that it will stop him."
"It's not enough that we stop him," said Amaryllis.
She was right. The condition for success, as stated by the quest, was that we had to kill the unicorn and have Amaryllis drink its blood. Sitting in a field with a unicorn staring at us for two hours until the timer on the teleportation key was up and we could leave wouldn't actually accomplish anything.
Logically, the game had to have a way of implementing unicorn timeline fuckery within the game. I didn't know how the game itself was implemented, but while simulating the entirety of Aerb seemed like a stretch, and simulating all nine thousand hells beggared belief, I was pretty confident that simulating actual alternate timelines was right out. It would be easier if the simulation was local to me, detailed only if my attention was directly on something, but if the Dungeon Master were going to cut corners like that, then there was no way that he would simulate a stupid number of timelines, especially since he was only really interested in the ones where the unicorn won.
My biggest question was whether the unicorn was getting information from the future or not. It was possible that if the unicorn got hurt, or was about to get hurt, or just wanted to, his mental state would get sent 'back in time' three seconds and he would get a do-over with more information. It was also possible that 'time' got rewound backward three seconds instead, and then events played out with different die rolls (or whatever), which would mean that the unicorn only got alternate timeline information when the merge happened.
These things weren't functionally equivalent, not if there was a limit to plausibility/probability. If most of what the unicorn did could be summed up as 'repeat the scenario until I win' then you could never kill it, because something dumb and out there like everyone dying of random brain aneurysms could happen, or skilled fighters making rare flubs, or something like that. To make a D&D analogy, it would be like saying that you got to reroll the dice as many times as you wanted, which would mean that there was never a point where you wouldn't roll 20s.
The solution spaces looked different depending on what we were dealing with. Maybe we didn't need a death he couldn't escape from, maybe we just needed a death he couldn't escape from if there was no possibility that he had the information necessary to react to it.
"Okay," I said. "We need to figure out whether the unicorn is getting information from the future or not. Maybe it is, or maybe it's picking what actually happened from within a random set of things that might have happened."
"And how, praytell, do we figure out which is which?" asked Fenn.
"Artillery shot," I said. "His previous response to you firing an arrow was to wait and watch it come at him, then to use his magic to bring us into a world where he knocked the arrow out of the sky, right? He's obviously really, really fast, we've seen that, maybe even fast enough that he didn't need to use his power, but he probably can't do the same for an artillery shot, because there would be too many arrows."
"Only between eight and sixteen at this range," said Fenn.
"You think he can parry eight arrows?" asked Grak.
"If he can, it's worth knowing," said Amaryllis.
"Okay," I said. "So what I want you to do is to aim straight at him, wait six seconds at full draw, and then release. If you see him move at all, or you get the feeling through your elf luck that he's going to move, then you release before the time is up, but only if it's after three seconds have passed. Alright?"
"Uh, sure," said Fenn as she thought about that. "You want to make sure that he can't go back to a time before I had full draw. You're trying to game it."
"Yeah," I said. This wasn't actually a definitive test on whether the unicorn was actually getting future information, but it was as close as I thought we'd be able to get. I had a flowchart in my head for how this encounter would go, and information gathering was right where we wanted to be given that we didn't get attacked.
"It's me he wants," said Amaryllis. I noticed a slight sway to her as she spoke.
"We have time," I said.
Fenn nocked an arrow and pulled the bowstring back, closing one eye to sight along the grip. One mississippi. Two mississippi. And then the unicorn was off, back behind the tree and off somewhere else. Fenn turned to track him. One mississippi. Two mississippi. And again, he moved, darting back behind the trees. His movement reminded me more of a deer than a horse, in the way that he could spring forward or to the side. Maybe it was the agility that a cloven hoof gave him.
"Okay," I said. "He's smart enough to avoid getting in a situation where he'd have his options limited, he's staying next to the trees so that he always has an out, and even then, he's not staying still for long enough that he'd be faced with something inevitable. My guess is that he's not getting future information, just information from the parallel timelines on merge, which means that all we really need to do is get him in a situation where he can't see the killing blow coming."
"The only reason it has to stick around is that it wants me," said Amaryllis.
"Or because it can't understand the teleportation key and is waiting for the ward to fade," said Grak. "I would have to redraw it smaller."
"Do you have something clever, Juniper?" asked Amaryllis.
I hesitated. "I have a vial of nicotine," I replied. "If I drink it, then maybe with Ropey's help I can grab onto the unicorn and –"
"Oh, are we entertaining idiotic deathwish scenarios?" asked Fenn. "Because mine is that I stab it in the throat, but I'm so good at stabbing it in the throat that there's no possible scenario where it runs me straight through instead of just dying." She turned to Amaryllis. "So that's mine, and we know the princess has hers, Grak, did you have one?"
"With enough healing magic it might be possible to entrap the unicorn in a warped ward," said Grak.
"No," said Fenn, "It's got to be something like Joon's or Mary's, where you're putting all of the weight of the adventure directly on your spine."
"I'm the one that's dying," said Amaryllis. She pulled off her helmet, and I looked at her sunken eyes. She had taken a shower and some magical healing, but that had only done so much. "I knew that it would come to this. We all knew that I was the key."
She laid the helmet on the ground, and began walking forward, unarmed. The ward protected us, but not from the horn, and with three steps she was past the point where it might be able to gore her. Fenn began to raise her bow again, and I laid a hand on her arm to stop her.
"It's me," she said the unicorn. She walked forward with a trembling hand held out in front of her. Her voice was higher, more mellifluous than normal. "I'm your sweet little girl, your darling come back to you, still pure and innocent, still untouched by man, still unawakened to the pleasures of the flesh, that's what you want, isn't it? Your trembling, virginal, doe-eyed beauty returned, yours to capture again?"
(I felt my stomach churn at her words. The whole 'innocent little girl' thing had always left me feeling uncomfortable, maybe mixed with a little bit of shame. Part of that was Tiff's influence over me. If she'd been here, she would have given me an earful about the male obsession with purity and youth. But that was the whole reason that I had made the unicorn in the first place.)
The unicorn leapt forward and charged at Amaryllis. I kept thinking that it would come to a stop, or at least that Amaryllis would try to dodge out of its way, but all she did was flinch a bit at the end, just before it drove its long, white horn straight through her armor and out the other side.
And then that was just an alternate memory of how things might have been, and the timeline we were in was one where it did come to a stop in front of her.
"Yes," she breathed with a shaky voice, "You could kill me, thank you for showing me that, you're so big and strong and handsome, that's why I came back to you, why I'm here to let you take me away from these people, so you can use your big strong muscles and long, powerful horn to protect me from anyone who might try to defile me."
The unicorn was semi-intelligent, but couldn't understand English, so what she was saying to it was mostly to convey emotion and intent to it. She was a better liar than I gave her credit for; even with the overacted character she was putting on, there was something compelling about her words.
Again the unicorn moved in a flash of power and brought his horn down, thrusting it forward and spearing her through, and again the violence and gore, the shock of Amaryllis dead, became just a memory of a thing that never was.
"I know I was taken from you," said Amaryllis, who tensed and then relaxed at the moment of integration, "And I know you've been lonely in this glen, because everyone keeps their daughters from you, but it was those mean men who took me from you, who whisked me away even though I clawed at the ground trying to stay with you. I was chaste and pure and modest while I waited until I could get back to you, back to the only creature that could ever protect me." She took another step forward and rested her hand on the unicorn's horn, then stepped forward tentatively, running gloved fingers across it.
Twice now it had gored her through and then made that only a memory, and I was tensed up waiting to see what the beast would decide. There was nothing stopping it from killing her for real, nothing except the fact that it had this intense, pseudosexual desire for her. I was worried that her armor would make her unappealing, or that it would smell the disease on her, or maybe just that she wasn't pure and innocent except maybe in the sense that she'd never had sex.
But the unicorn allowed her to approach it, and she kept moving forward, down the length of its horn, until her hand met the ward against skin.
"Grak," said Amaryllis, without looking back. "You're going to need to remove this ward so I can be reunited with the unicorn." Her voice was still the same, light and airy. She'd been careful with her words since coming into the glen, and this was the critical moment.
"Will it stay with you if I draw a new one to protect us?" asked Grak.
"I can't say," replied Amaryllis. "You're in his glen. He has every right to kill you. He doesn't like men."
"I'm not quite a man," said Grak.
"Whatever you do, do it quickly," said Amaryllis. "We've been apart for so long."
The unicorn moved backward just a bit as Grak slowly and cautiously made a second ward within the first, but made no move to attack, or even to give us a memory of attack. It wasn't clear how intelligent the unicorn was, but I thought maybe he understood that we were going to release Amaryllis to him. He certainly wasn't smart enough to see the trap, or if he was, then his desire for Amaryllis was strong enough to overwhelm any natural caution.
When the second ward, much smaller than the first, had been drawn upon the ground, Grak raised his warder's wand and swished it precisely through the air. The unicorn made the first move, closing the distance between himself and Amaryllis until his muzzle butted up against her hand. She leaned forward and gave it a brief, gentle, chaste kiss.
"It'll be just you and me," she said, almost too soft for me to hear, "I can help bring in more girls to your care, I can bring them back to this glen with me, so that we can all be yours, together." She brought her head down to touch against the unicorn's. Where her red hair touched its horn, it changed, taking on a shiny, spectral quality. "Can I ride you?"
(I held my breath.)
The unicorn lowered its head until its horn touched the ground, and Amaryllis moved over to the side of him. With a start, he sprang into action, turning toward her and bringing a foot slamming down on her, stomping on her face, which was the only unarmored part of her. And then that was only a memory, yet again, a memory that said, "I'm a nice guy, but I can and will fucking end you if you betray me". Amaryllis stopped, only briefly, at the unicorn's side as the memory caught up with her, and then she put a hand on his flank. He lowered slightly at her touch, and she climbed up with an ease that spoke of experience with horses.
Amaryllis gripped him with her thighs and leaned forward to wrap her arms around his neck. She whispered something in his ear, too soft for me to hear, but I was paying more attention to the count. One mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi.
"Now!" screamed Amaryllis, and the unicorn tried to move with a start, only to find himself locked in place by the arms around his neck, the immobility plate rigid around him. And then there was not one memory, but a cascade of memories, all of him trying to buck her and her clamping down, locking her armor in place and closed tight around his neck.
I sprang into action. I faltered for a moment in the confusion of timelines, because I hadn't sat there counting, not in reality, I had been moving from the moment he tried to buck her and she had locked him down. I raised my void rifle and aimed straight for center mass, trying to ensure that there would be no possible reality where I hit her instead of him, and pulled the trigger.
Skill increased: Rifles lvl 21! (Skill capped at triple the value of primary stat CUN.)
New Virtue: Compensator!
Critical Failure!
There was another disorienting flurry of memories as the unicorn tried and failed to avoid the shot. A few things came to me at once, thought several times along parallel timelines, the first being that I'd been at 12 for Rifles, and I had memories of different messages coming up, which meant I was gaining skill from every timeline, and the second that the unicorn had to be iterating through timelines to find one that worked, trying over and over.
And still, the void rifle put a hole in him, just off-center of his chest, and I remembered times it had gone worse for him, when six inches of penetration had been enough to kill rather than just a wound that missed everything vital. It began to close almost immediately, and within a second it was just a grey dot.
Grak dropped the ward as Fenn moved around to the side, darting with the speed of her armor and then lining up a shot carefully. The unicorn began throwing its head back, trying to smash into Amaryllis, and I could see her jerk from the impact, but almost all of its force went up against her armor, which wasn't going anywhere. The memories were coming thick and fast now, and I was having trouble keeping track of what was and wasn't happening. I laid a hand on a bone sticking out of my bandolier and started draining it for SPD, and popped a snake from my wrist tattoo to slither across the ground, as I went to join Fenn.
Skill increased: Bone Magic lvl 21! (Skill capped at triple the value of primary stat KNO.)
Skill increased: Skin Magic lvl 21! (Skill capped at triple the value of primary stat KNO.)
When Fenn shot, I must have lived the same slice of three seconds a few hundred times. She had been moving as far away from the unicorn as possible, and when she shot the arrows split, then split, then split, and I had a wash of memories of it happening, arrows driving deep into the unicorn's flank. The true reality we ended up in was six of them in the unicorn and another two in Amaryllis' leg, the odds against that astronomical but still not enough to save the unicorn.
It slowed down, huffing and rearing frantically, occasionally tossing us across into another timeline, giving us memories of things that had happened in just slightly different ways. Amaryllis was bleeding from her face, battered from where he'd managed to hit her just so, but she grit her teeth and waited there as we hopped between realities and the unicorn wore down, until finally it sank so that the front half of his body was supported by the lock Amaryllis and her immobility plate had around his neck.
Unicorn defeated!
She dropped unceremoniously and rolled for a bit, then gasped in pain and moved over to the unicorn. Amaryllis ripped one of the arrows out of its side, ignoring her own wounds, and pressed her lips to where metallic blood was trickling out. I moved over beside her and took a small cup Fenn offered, trying to scrape up more blood from the unicorn's other wounds. When I offered the cup to Amaryllis, she drank deep, guzzling it down, leaving her lips and teeth stained with the silvery fluid. The arrows in her leg popped out, the cuts and fractures of her face healed, and then, with a trembling hand, she removed her glove. Her hand, previously yellow, was now as pretty and perfect as it had ever been.
She looked at me with a maniacal grin on her face, and that was when I noticed that her pupils were crazily dilated, giving her a look that might have been cartoonish if not for the blood (hers and his) all over her face. She reached toward me and gripped me on the neck, then pulled me in for an uncomfortable kiss, with her lips mashing against mine and our teeth clinking together.
When she pulled away she rose from her knees and raised both fists in the air for a scream. "Woooooo!" She pointed down at the unicorn. "Fuuuuck you, fuck you, stupid fucking horse!"
Quest Complete: Unihorn – The unicorn blood has purged the disease from Amaryllis and cured all the damage it had done. Don't worry, the high won't last longer than 1d4 hours.
I braced for the level up, but it didn't come, and I felt my heart sink at that.
"I feel SO FUCKING GOOD!" shouted Amaryllis as she started to remove her armor. "Did I always feel this good?" she asked, speaking fast and not waiting for an answer. "No, no, I never felt this good, this is the unicorn juice talking, but FENN, do you want to go for a naked run through the woods with me, because I'm not going to die anymore and it's probably a good idea to try to burn off some of the unicorn blood inside me so that I can get my head on straight and Juniper I'm sorry I kissed you but I knew you'd been wanting me to –" She stopped and struggled with one of the straps on the immobility plate, flailing around with it for a bit.
"Well now I kind of want to try it," said Fenn. "But we're going to need at least two people with their heads screwed on straight. Joon, you're up."
I looked down at the unicorn corpse and then did as Amaryllis did, pulling an arrow from the unicorn's side and then sucking at the wound. I'd already had some of the taste when Amaryllis had kissed me; it was metallic and slightly bitter, not the ambrosia I would have been expecting. I didn't really think that this would do anything for my bones, but not even trying didn't seem like an option, not even with the psychological reaction that Amaryllis had. Fenn was at my side, watching me carefully as I drank, and before I knew it she had thrown me backward and climbed up to sit on my chest.
I was waiting for it, and could feel the effects start to rip through my mind, holistic integrity thresholds on my personality network be damned.
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Thomas Palackal Malpan CMI (, * 1780 in Pallippuram bei Alleppey, Kerala, Indien; † 16. Januar 1841 ebenda) war ein indischer syro-malabarischer Geistlicher und Ordensgründer.

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Er empfing 1804 die Priesterweihe. 1809 eröffnete er ein Kleines Seminar, wo Anwärter auf das Priesteramt ausgebildet wurden; als Vorsteher des Seminars trug er den Titel Malpan (von altsyrisch malpānā 'Erzpriester'). Ferner war er Sekretär und Berater des Apostolischen Vikars von Verapoly, Bischof Raymund Roviglia OCD. Im Auftrag von Bischof Roviglia bereiste er alle syro-malabarischen Pfarreien und reformierte ihr Gemeindeleben. Ferner betrieb er die Gründung einer einheimischen Ordensgemeinschaft und eines Priesterseminars. Um diese Ziele zu erreichen, arbeitete er mit dem Priester Thomas Porukara zusammen. Ein weiterer Mitarbeiter war sein Schüler Kuriakose Elias Chavara. Gemeinsam gründeten sie am 11. Mai 1831 auf dem Berg Mannanam im Bundesstaat Kerala das erste Kloster der Carmelites of Mary Immaculate. Hier entstand 1832 auch ein Priesterseminar, in dem Welt- und Ordenspriester ausgebildet werden.

Thomas Palackal Malpan starb in Pallipuram und wurde in der dortigen Kirche beigesetzt.

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Chiefs vs. Seahawks live stream, TV channel, time & game odds
Russell Wilson and the Seahawks host the Chiefs in an NFL preseason game on Friday night. [Image via NFL/YouTube]
Kansas City visits Seattle on Friday in a Week 3 NFL preseason matchup.
The third week of the 2017 Nfl Preseason is underway and there are two matchups for fans to enjoy on Friday night. The game that most viewers around the United States will get to see is the Kansas City Chiefs as they visit the Seattle Seahawks. Here's a look at tonight's preseason game preview including odds, game time, TV channel, radio coverage, and how to watch the Chiefs vs. Seahawks live streaming online.
Preseason game preview
The Kansas Chiefs have gone 1-1 so far in this NFL preseason with a 30-12 win at Cincinnati and a 27-17 loss at home against San Francisco. Rookie quarterback Patrick Mahomes looked solid in his appearance against the Bengals, throwing for two touchdown passes.
In that game, the Chiefs scored on their first five possessions and jumped to a 30-9 lead in the third quarter. Fellow rookie Kareem Hunt also was on display in the win over the Bengals as he had eight carries for 40 yards and three catches for 23 yards in the game. Both players may be on display some more tonight as well as the returning Eric Berry and Chris Jones.
The Seattle Seahawks have looked good so far in the preseason, going 2-0 over their games. That included a rout of the Chargers and a 20-13 win at home against the Minnesota Vikings. While Russell Wilson threw for 206 yards and two touchdowns in just the first half, the team also was hit by a season-ending injury for left tackle George Fant. He reportedly suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during the second quarter.
It was noted that this injury overshadowed a solid victory by Seattle which included Mike Davis and Kasen Williams hauling in touchdown catches. Tonight Seattle looks to make it 3-0 with a national television audience.
Heading into tonight's matchup, the Seahawks are three-point favorites on the spread. The Chiefs come in as +142 on the moneyline with the home team at -165.
The over/under points for tonight's game was at 44 points as of this report.
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ALBANY, NY – The City of Albany American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Leadership Team is excited to announce that 63 proposals have been selected to advance to the full application phase. These proposals, which were gathered during the first phase of the City of Albany's "Albany For All" program, total $68 million in requests. The City has committed $25 million of the City's ARPA allocation for this phase of the program.
These 63 applicants, comprised of community-based organizations, small businesses, and City of Albany departments, will have until Friday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. to submit their full applications.
A cross-section of community and civic leaders volunteered dozens of hours of their time to evaluate nearly 150 community proposals and provide feedback to the City's ARPA Leadership Team. The Leadership Team further evaluated proposals and feedback from the community and civic leaders to help determine which proposals are invited to submit full applications for further review. Applications will continue to be scored on a variety of criteria, including equity, collaboration, and sustainability.
The following optional sessions will be held for those invited to submit full applications. Relevant links and invitations will be emailed to invited applicants ahead of the sessions:
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Those proposers moving on to the full application round are being reminded it will not be possible to fund all applications at 100 percent of the amount requested and are being asked to indicate whether their respective projects can produce similar outcomes with lower funding than requested in the pre-application process.
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In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.
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Being in a relationship with an artistic person is always romantic and passionate. But there are much more reasons to date a person with an art profession, especially if it is related to music. It's a whole new world filled with beautiful songs, parties and shows, inspiration and a chance to get close to the process of music-making. In other words, let us tell you why it is so cool to date a singer, a songwriter or a guitarist.
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Once upon a time, to be accurate in early 2000, a giant called Vodafone bought an attractive bride called Mannesmann. What made old lady Mannesmann such attractive was her young daughter D2, one of the two leading German mobile operators. But, alas, there was another daughter called Arcor that did not suit at all the mighty Vodafone. In the times of mobile hype and hysteria, Arcor was active in a business considered to have no real profitable and attractive future: fixed line services. Vodafone was not especially happy to take care of this new family member and planned to make Arcor go public.


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The board of EXCO Resources Inc. has formed a special committee to consider a buyout proposal from CEO Douglas H. Miller. Evaluation of the offer -- and any others that might come -- is expected by analysts to take anywhere from six to 12 months.
Miller wrote to the board late last month with his offer of $20.50/share for al of the company's outstanding shares (see Shale Daily, Nov. 2). In Miller's camp are oilman T. Boone Pickens and the investment firms Oaktree Capital Management LP and Ares Management LLC.
The board's committee has retained Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Jones Day as its legal counsel and is in the process of retaining financial advisers, the company said, noting that no decisions have been made on the proposal. "There can be no assurance that any definitive offer will be made or accepted, that any agreement will be executed or that any transaction will be consummated," the board said.
While the potential for an offer is up in the air, it creates uncertainty for the company, analysts at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) and Moody's Investors Service said in recent notes.
"We believe the management buyout proposal set in motion a series of events that are likely credit negative," said Stuart Miller, a senior analyst with Moody's. "Until a decision is made, the evaluation process will be a distraction to the company's management and employees, which increases the risk of a decline in operating performance."
S&P analyst Patrick Lee said if a buyout does happen, increased leverage at the company could harm credit quality. "Depending on how the buyout proposal is ultimately structured, we could lower the ratings by one or more notches if leverage and capital protection materially worsen," S&P said.
Dallas-based EXCO is active in East Texas and North Louisiana, particularly in the Haynesville/Bossier Shale, the Vernon and Kelleys fields and the Cotton Valley Area. It is also active in the Permian Basin in West Texas and in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. EXCO also has interests in midstream assets in East Texas and North Louisiana.
"With the large amount of capital needed to develop its shale gas properties, any non-productive increase in leverage would have a compounding negative effect on EXCO's credit profile," Miller said.
Analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. (TPH) cited a 21% decline since June in the 2011 New York Mercantile Exchange gas futures strip asked in a note: "How do the buyers make money at $20.50/share?" They said the proposal contains "an inherent bet on higher commodity prices."
TPH said a competing bid from a strategic buyer wasn't likely, "but good assets at the right price and opportunity for cost synergies makes a competitive bid possible."
Moody's said "a more highly rated entity may be willing to pay a premium to gain access to EXCO's large natural gas asset base." Such a scenario could be a positive for the company's credit, Moody's said.


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In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's most conservative province, billboards showing women are regularly torn down and music shops have been repeatedly bombed. So how is it that under the noses of Islamist forces, adult movie houses continue to flourish?
The half-lit room smells strongly of hashish. On the screen, a woman wearing too much make up and a clingy, provocative outfit sways her hips suggestively. The audience, made up exclusively of men, hoots and whistles. The music stops and the onscreen action starts to heat up. The crowd loses all its inhibitions. The whistles turn into hoarse moans and the chairs start to vibrate intensely.
The location is Peshawar, the capital of the most conservative province of Pakistan, and the men are watching a porn film, right under the nose of the religious political parties, the Taliban and the government.
In this province and, in particular, in Peshawar, the music shops and cafes are often the targets of bomb attacks by religious extremists. Advertising boards that show women are regularly torn down. But surprisingly, in this repressive climate, adult cinemas still manage to prosper.
"Every showing is full," says Lala Fida Mohammad Khan, a former movie producer who got out of the conventional film business because "no one wanted to watch clean films, they don't sell anymore." Mohammad Khan now manages a small cinema in Rawalpindi, a town near the capital Islamabad.
"Everyone knows what goes on in the cinemas. We organize three screenings every day. On Sundays there is even one in the morning. During the Aïd-el-Fitr festivities [which mark the end of Ramadam], we increase the number of showings to five," he remarks.
But this freedom has a price. Mohammad Khan explains that cinema owners must pay hundreds of thousands of rupees in bribes to protect themselves and prevent their businesses from being shut down by the authorities.
In Peshawar, the Shama cinema belongs to the Bilour family. Some members of the family belong to the Awami National Party, a left-wing party with secular tendencies that holds a majority in the province. "They had three cinemas, one of which was attacked several years ago," said Mohammad Khan. "They then turned two of them into shopping centers, and the one that's left shows pornographic films."
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The town as a whole has just nine movie houses left. And according to Aijaz Gul, a film critic, they all show adult films – except one, which is owned by the Pakistani air force. Since the Taliban established themselves in the region, two cinemas have been attacked from the street and several cinema owners have been held for ransom. "They had to pay enormous sums to be freed, but they have still not abandoned their profession."
"Pollywood," the Pashto language film industry that produces these movies, has always been known for its erotic and pornographic content "even though other genres of films used to be produced as well," says Aijaz Gul. The industry slumped over the past couple of decades following a peak in the late 1970s. Scriptwriter Younus Qiyasi has about 20 films to his name, but he decided to give up filmmaking in the 1980s, after "vulgarity and obscenity had become its trademark features."
Mohammad Khan remembers Pollywood's golden age nostalgically. The screenings would sell out days, or even weeks in advance. And most importantly, women were also amongst the cinema-goers. "There was of course a strict separation between men and women, but at least the women went," he recalls. But now, with this type of film, even if it's not porn, no woman would dare to enter the semi-darkness of the Peshawar cinemas.
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Ignite Your Research is an educational series of video lectures from our endowed faculty and expert staff to help others learn more about research in the area of intimate partner violence, and to enhance and elevate understanding of researchers entering the field. In 2020-2021 the CRVAW lecture series is available in online on demand format in order to continue our outreach and education mission while observing social distancing precautions.
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Episode 5: A Career in Violence Against Women (VAW) Research
Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Verizon Wireless Endowed Chair, Dr. Ann Coker, talks about the path of her career and how she began studying the coincidence of negative health impacts related to Violence Against Women (VAW). Dr. Coker's award winning career as an Epidemiologist working in Women's Health spans over 30 years. She is a recipient of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center Visionary Voice Award, and the Wade Hampton Frost Lectureship Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. Coker's candid discussion of her career path is informative and insightful especially for those considering a career in VAW Studies.
Episode 4. Domestic Violence & Financial Status
A discussion originally recorded and published by the COVID-19 Domestic Violence Task Force and featuring Judi Conway-Patton Endowed Chair, Dr. Claire Renzetti. Drs. Claire Renzetti and Cynthia Sanders are interviewed by the COVID-19 Task Force on Domestic Violence in this video. As experts in their fields, they discuss the reported increase in intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. They address how shelter-in-place orders, quarantine requirements, and increased stress due to working at home, home schooling children, and the financial crises spurred by the pandemic have exacerbated the problem of domestic violence.
Episode 3. See You Now Podcast by Johnson & Johnson, "COVID-19 The Nurse Response: Safe Homes," hosted by Shawna Butler and featuring Cralle-Day Foundation Endowed Professor, Dr. Camille Burnett.
This episode of our series features an interview with Dr. Camille Burnett, Associate Professor of Nursing and Cralle-Day Endowed Professor at the University of Kentucky on the podcast SEE YOU NOW presented by Johnson & Johnson. Originally aired on May 21, 2020 during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic host Shawna Butler discusses with Dr. Burnett how nurses are uniquely positioned to help women facing domestic and intimate partner violence just as shelter in place orders have increased their exposure and risk to harm by their abusers. Even as COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and restrictions are slowly lifted, this conversation about how Nurses' presence at multiple access points including schools, hospitals, and churches uniquely positions them to support women threatened by violence and the agencies that serve them is still quite timely and relevant one year later in our changed and increasingly digital world.
Episode 2. Challenges of Measuring Intimate Partner Psychological Abuse
Dr. Diane Follingstad, Professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology and Endowed Chair at the Center for Research on Violence Against Women (Univ. of KY), discusses the nuances of collecting and measuring data pertaining to intimate partner psychological abuse she has gained from years in her field. Her insightful commentary illuminates areas of special consideration for designing studies which are both meaningful and useful in this vitally important and sensitive research field.
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Missing data is commonplace in research studies in many disciplines including Sociology and Criminology. Caihong Li, Ph.D. who serves as the Statistician at the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, explains practices for preventing missing data, types of missing data you may encounter and methods for handling missing data. Her helpful overview includes information on study design and new guidelines from journals on how to treat missing data prior to publication.
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As the European Union gears up its own equivalent to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), fair use becomes more important on a global scale. Fair use in the United States used to mean you could duplicate copyrighted works for personal use. Mix tapes; VHS recordings of TV broadcasts; parodies; making duplicates of purchased movies; photocopying pages from books; these are all acceptable practices for use within one's own home and in more limited instances, the country at large.
Content creators also have the right to place protections, in the form of distribution rights management (DRM), on media to prevent piracy. This generally makes it impossible to produce a fair use copy of the content, without the use of a copy protection defeating scheme. In the analog world of VHS and cassette defeating copy protection could be done by simply attaching a recording device to the player.
Along came the DMCA, making it illegal to make and/or distribute tools designed to defeat DRM on digitally distributed content (even for personal use). So, on one hand, we are legally entitled to make copies of things we purchase. On the other hand, we are now breaking the law if making copies involves defeating DRM solutions. This system is obviously flawed.
As I indicated in the previous issue, fair use was delivered yet another defeat when 321 Studios became legally required to stop distributing its DVD X Copy software, which circumvents CSS codes designed to copy protect DVDs in order to make backup copies of those DVDs. A judgment against 321 Studios stacks the odds against all DVD copying solutions. At least in the United States, it is very likely consumers will be forced to choose between breaking the law in order to exercise fair use or accept the fact that fair use is no longer fair.
A third solution exists. Getting our government to redefine what constitutes fair use under the scope of the DMCA. Redefining fair use will only happen if We the People get involved and inform our government representatives we find these restrictions to be unfair. The United States Congress needs to know we will vote for people who do understand the importance of this issue.
ProtectFairUse.org, a site dedicated to helping protect consumer rights, is making this easier. Thursday March 4, 2004 is day 4 of their Fight For Fair Use week. In my opinion, March 4 is the most important day of this campaign, because it is the day they assist We the People in sending e-mails and faxes to our representatives in Congress, letting them know how we feel about fair use and the DMCA.
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Real Madrid moved to within two points of third place in LaLiga after Karim Benzema scored in a 3-0 win over Deportivo Alaves. Karim Benzema continued his scoring streak as he netted for the sixth time in four games to help Real Madrid cruise to a 3-0 victory over Deportivo Alaves on Sunday.
The Frenchman struck after 30 minutes of a one-sided contest at Santiago Bernabeu where Gareth Bale made his first start overcoming a calf injury but Vinicius Junior stole the show, including scoring his side's second.
It was the 18-year-old who unlocked the Alaves defence with a killer pass in the build-up to Benzema's opener, and he converted Marco Asensio's low cross to double Madrid's advantage 10 minutes from time.
Substitute Mariano Diaz added a late third as Madrid moved to within two points of second-placed Atletico - who lost 1-0 away at Real Betis earlier in the day - in the table after a fourth consecutive win in LaLiga.
Guillermo Maripan's error almost allowed Dani Ceballos to open the scoring after three minutes but his shot deflected over the bar, while Benzema curled an effort narrowly wide from just inside the box moments later.
The Brazilian teenager had the vision to see Sergio Reguilon's run and played him in behind the Alaves defence, with the defender sending over a low cross that Benzema side-footed into the net.
Santiago Solari replaced Bale and Benzema with Mariano and Asensio in the final half-hour and the latter's centre bounced through the Alaves box to the feet of Vinicius, who calmly provided the finish.
Alvaro Odriozola was denied a goal by an offside decision but did set up Mariano in additional time, the forward's firm header wrapping up a thoroughly convincing win for the hosts in the Spanish capital.
After a tumultuous start to the season, Madrid have worked their way back into contention for a top-two finish and are now within striking distance of Atletico, who they play next in the league. Catching Barcelona - who are eight points clear of Solari's side - may be a tall order, but they will be focused on making sure they finish above their neighbours.
The hefty fee - reportedly €45million - Real Madrid spent to bring Vinicius to Spain last year looks like a bargain after the young forward put in a performance full of maturity and poise.