The Book of Deacon Saga is the epic tale of a world besieged by war and at the mercy of dark forces who would see the land and its people wither and die. First Published in 2010, the story has grown significantly, expanding the story into earlier and later eras, exploring the lives of characters both minor and major.
The Book of Deacon - The tale of Myranda Celeste, a young woman orphaned by a century long war, and her chance discovery of a fallen soldier's priceless cargo. The find will change her life, sending her on an adventure of soldiers and rebels, wizards and warriors, and beasts both noble and monstrous. Each step will bring her closer to the truth of her potential, of the war, and of the fate of her world.
The Great Convergence - The second in the Book of Deacon series, The Great Convergence continues the tale of young Myranda Celeste. With fresh knowledge of magic and steadfast resolve to see the end of the war that plagues her land, Myranda sets out to find and unite the five fated heroes, the Chosen. Each new warrior brings her world a step closer to peace, but does she have the strength to survive the trials ahead?
"I began this series with the opening novel, which was sandwiched into the middle of an anthology. Once I finished The Book of Deacon, I forgot all about the anthology as I delved into the rest of the series. This remarkable world of war and magic and alien secrets kept me reading into the wee hours of many nights."
"It was different than other adventure stories because it develops characters you immediately like and builds the plot slowly around them as you get to know them."
"I absolutely love this book series … Highly recommend for the D&D adventure nerd experience and imagination fulfillment"
The end of an era is always a time of great importance. Sweeping change. Advancing into a new age. These are surely things worthy of a place in the memory of a people. Too often, though, it is a single event that brings about the most direct change that receives the attention. The blow that ends the battle, the last brick to fall. In our worship of these moments, these endings, we neglect the journeys, the trials, the hardships, and the battles endured to make them possible.
Whosoever is fortunate enough to find this book shall finally hear the greatest of these tales. I have spent much of my life piecing together the words that follow. Most of what you shall read comes from the mouths of the people who lived it. It is my hope, in recording the path taken by these heroes, that those in the years to come will not be blind to the dangers that threatened this world once before. If the unthinkable is once again allowed to come to pass, perhaps the knowledge and the deeds of the heroes of old will stir others to their greatness.
The tale you shall read is of the Perpetual War. If you live in a time or a place that has allowed you to forget this dark era, consider yourself fortunate. To be ignorant of these events is a blessing. However, knowledge of the evils of old is the only protection against their return.
The Perpetual War, at the start of our tale, had been plaguing the world for one and a half centuries. It was a conflict that divided our people. The large farming kingdom, Tressor, formed half of the conflict. It was a land of fertile fields, a land of plenty, that covered most of the southern part of the continent and was home to more than half of the people of the world. They opposed a union of the three remaining kingdoms—Kenvard, Ulvard, and Vulcrest—that had come to be known to its people as the Northern Alliance, and by its enemies as the Nameless Empire. This was a land of snowy fields, dense forests, and icy mountains. Despite a vast disadvantage in strength and size, this Alliance had managed to withstand decade after decade of battle. This conflict was a constant part of the lives of all, and is the reason that what follows must be told.
My place in this tale is small. There are others better suited to put to words what came to pass, but most have taken their final steps down their own paths. Thus it falls to me, lest the tale go untold. I shall endeavor to recount the events in as straightforward and impersonal a manner as possible. Do not imagine this as a tale told by a man. It is merely a record. Words on a page. Words that tell of the most unlikely of events, beginning in the most unlikely of places . . .
The end of the fall had only just come, and already the air could chill one to the bone. Of course, this far north, one could seldom expect anything else. It was not the cold that bothered her, though. She'd dealt with that all of her life. Pulling the tattered remnants of her uncle's old cloak closer about her, she pressed on.
As Myranda strained her eyes against the blistering wind, she saw nothing more than horizon. It would likely be another full day of walking before she saw anything but the unbroken field ahead of her. She shook her head, a faint frown cracking her dry lips.
"I should have known," she said aloud to herself. "He seemed a shade too eager to give me directions."
Myranda had taken to talking to herself to fill the long, lonely, and all too frequent trips like these. With no companion, the only thing likely to interrupt the ceaseless howl of the wind was the periodic noisy complaints from her stomach. That much concerned her. She could afford to buy no supplies in the last town, and no tavern or inn had been willing to serve her thanks to a simple yet disastrous slip of the tongue. Anyone could have made the same mistake. In another time, it might have gone unnoticed—or, at least, unchallenged—but in the world of her birth it was inexcusable.
Two older women had been standing in the street, discussing the most recent news of the war. These days one would be hard-pressed to find a different topic of discussion. In this instance, it seemed that the Northern Alliance had pushed back a rather sizable advance. After three long, bloody days of battle, the Alliance troops had managed to take back the very same piece of land that they had started on. The cost of this maintenance of status quo was the lives of the better half of the troops in the area. In and of itself, such a tale was anything but notable. Indeed, a day without such a battle was rarer than a day with one. The difference on this day was that the Tresson army had lost even more.
The two women cackled and bragged over the victory, each telling exaggerated tales of their nearest war-going relative. "My boy promised to kill three of those swine just for me," one would say. Another would respond triumphantly that all four of her children had made the same promise. It was during this exchange that Myranda made her fateful slip.
"All of those lives . . . wasted," she had said with sorrow.
Wasted! Having your child give his or her life for the cause was the greatest honor a mother could hope for. To speak of such noble efforts as a waste was tantamount to treason. How dare this wandering woman speak ill of the war! After countless generations, it had ceased to be a simple struggle between two lands and had become a way of life. Those who opposed this sacred tradition of noble battle were unwelcome. That one word—wasted—may as well have sealed the poor girl's doom. It had kept her from filling her pack and from filling her belly. Worse still, it had led a seemingly good man to send her through this frozen waste, claiming it to be the fastest way to the next town.
She shook her head again. It was one lesson that she could not bring herself to learn. If someone was going to tell a lie, they would tell it with a smile. Now she found no less than a day of solid travel between herself and another human being. The cold was tightening its grip on the icy field with each passing moment. In perhaps an hour, the last glow of the sun would leave the sky, taking with it the meager warmth it had cast upon the world. The cold of the day was unbearable, but the night was unlivable. Worse, there was a darkness due to the impenetrable sheet of clouds overhead that warned of a snowfall in the coming hours. She had yet to find a replacement for her thin summer blanket, and she could neither afford nor carry a tent. If Myranda was to survive this night, she would need a fire.
Alas, there were but three types of terrain in this land: vast, treeless fields; dense, forbidding forests; and rocky, impassable mountains. She found herself in the first, an icy, barren stretch of land with not a plant to burn for warmth save some sparse grass and tough lichens. Neither would be good for producing anything more than smoke and ash. She scanned the endless horizon for a tree, a bush, anything that could yield a flame. Finding none, she made ready to bed down where she was and hope for the best.
Just as she stopped, the last rays of the setting sun peeking through a rare break in the cloud cover reflected their crimson radiance back from the east. After squinting, rubbing her eyes, and blinking only to find the fading twinkle still present in the distance, she was convinced that whatever it was, it was real.
"It was probably nothing," she said. She glanced back in the direction she'd come, then in the direction she'd been heading. "Which beats every other direction, where there is certainly nothing."
To fill the time as she approached the mystery object, and to take her mind off of the rather dire position she found herself in, she busied her imagination with thoughts of what it might be.
"Shiny . . . a mirror. Perhaps a caravan of nomads came by and dropped wares. Or perhaps it is a jewel. A dozen or a hundred jewels. And gold, too. A king's ransom left behind by some daring thief where no one would ever find it, in no man's land. Ha, that would be my luck. To find a pile of treasure when all I need is a pile of wood," she said to herself.
The time passed quickly as she dreamed up objects and ways to explain them. She'd not yet reached the object when the sun's rays failed, leaving her without a reflection to guide her. Her sense of direction was nearly flawless—a fortunate fact, as it was all she had left to lead her to the mysterious object. The sunset-painted clouds gave little in the way of light, but night brought utter darkness. Neither moon nor stars could hope to break through the solid sheet of gray overhead. That was no different from any other night, though. Even without the stars to follow, one found ways to stay on course in this land.
In the thick blackness that surrounded her, she literally stumbled over what she was looking for. There was what seemed to be a large mound of rocks surrounded by a liquid that was sticky, despite the cold that would have frozen most things. There was also a bundle of irregular metal plates that she heard clang and crunch as she stepped on them.
"What happened here?" she asked no one in particular as she tripped blindly through the obstacle course she'd found. Two more steps, though, brought a squeaky crunch that made her heart skip a beat. It was the sound of icy wood. She must have stumbled into the remains of a camp site, and now stood ankle-deep in her salvation.
She knelt by the fireplace and began to pull away the icy crust that eventually formed over anything that remained outside long enough. Soon all that remained was the powdery remains of the fire that had occupied this place not long before. It was bone dry and better than kindling. A single spark and she would have a fire in no time. The overjoyed young lady pulled her flint from one of her tattered pockets and reached blindly for one of the metal plates she'd heard clang free when she'd nearly tripped over it. She struck the flint to the metal and in moments had a warm bed of embers. A few moments more and the largest of the charred pieces of wood had caught, casting a delicious warmth and light on her immediate surroundings.
Now, with light enough to see what she held in her hand, she looked over the piece of metal. It was oddly shaped and not nearly polished enough to have caused the reflection that had led her here. On the curved interior of the metal plate, she found a few torn leather straps bolted to it. The outside bore an embossed symbol that looked to be a crest—one that she did not recognize.
"It must be a piece of armor," she decided, turning it about one last time.
Satisfied that the fire was in no danger of going out, Myranda stood to inspect the strange place she'd wandered into. She found the bundle she'd stepped on and could now clearly see that it was indeed a full suit of plate armor. It appeared to be badly damaged and fairly frozen to the ground.
"Why would an empty suit of armor be in the middle of a field?" she wondered aloud. The answer came quickly and brought a chill to her spine that the iciest of wind never could. It was not empty.
She backed slowly away, dropping the piece she held. Myranda hated death above all else, a fact that had made her life a good deal more miserable than those of the war-hardened villagers who shunned her. They saw death not only as a necessary part of life, but a positive one, a source of glory, respect, and honor. They heaped more praise upon a fallen soldier than the poor man or woman could ever have hoped for in life, a fact that bothered Myranda all the more.
As she moved away from the body, her eyes darted all over. Something caught her panicked gaze and froze her in her tracks. Peeking out from beneath the frost-covered shield was a patch of coarse brown cloth. A pack! One could not live in a time of war and not know what such soldier's packs contained. Money, water—and, best of all, food. The body could not be more than a few days old. In this cold, the rations in his pack would still be edible.
Myranda may have hated death, but if being near to a corpse for a few minutes could save her life, she would not hesitate. She grasped what little of the cloth was visible and pulled with all of her might, but it was no use. The pack was frozen to the ground and pinned beneath the heavy shield. If she wanted to free the pack and its precious contents, she would need something to pry the metal sheet off of it.
Myranda's eyes swept across the cluttered campsite. Surely there must be something she could use, but what? The chest plate from the corpse? It had been partially torn free, but the thought of tearing the piece of armor from the fallen soldier's ice-cold body turned her stomach. Not nearly enough, though, to make her forget how starved she really was. Reluctantly, she locked her cold-numbed fingers around the frost-covered metal and threw her weight against it. After three failed attempts, she kicked the plate in frustration, her other foot slipping on a patch of loose snow. She lost her balance and tumbled to the ground, her head striking something far harder than ice.
The impact dizzied her. As she rolled to her knees, she punched the ground. The food that could keep her alive for another day was mere inches away and she could not get it. It was maddening. Myranda rubbed her sore head and looked up with her blurred vision to see what had delivered the painful blow. The light of the fire danced on a highly polished, almost mirrored surface. Even before her eyes had regained their focus, she knew that this was the object that had led her here.
Standing out of the frozen earth was a sword that was beyond elegant. The hilt was covered with a myriad of different jewels. The blade itself, at first seeming to be a flawless surface, revealed itself to be engraved with an exquisite design, composed of countless lines as thin and delicate as a spider's web. It was a weapon unlike any she'd seen before. The price of a single jewel from the hilt could keep food in the bellies and clothes on the backs of an entire family for a year. The sword as a whole could easily provide her with a lifetime of luxury and leisure far greater than she could ever imagine.
The value of the sword did not concern her—at least, not at this moment. Regardless of the price it might fetch in the future, at the moment it represented a far greater find. It was the means to extract the only thing that mattered to her right now, the food that would give her the strength to leave this frozen wasteland. It represented life itself. When her senses at last returned to her in full, she reached out to the lifesaving tool.
The very instant she touched her skin to the ornate handle of the exceptional blade, she felt a crisp, sharp burning. It originated in her palm and shot straight down her arm. She hit the ground hard, agonized and trying desperately to pull her hand from the torturous burning. Her fingers, though, would not obey her. Instead they locked tightly about the source of the torment and would not release. The pain grew to the point that Myranda was certain it would force her into unconsciousness. She was a heartbeat from blacking out when the pain relented, her fingers loosened and her hand came free.
Myranda gasped for breath, cradling the afflicted hand. What was it that had just happened to her? Had she triggered a booby trap? She turned her watering eyes to her left hand, fearful of the state she might find it in. Her survival was unlikely enough without a wound to deal with. Slowly she opened her fingers. To her great relief, the palm was merely red and tender, as though she'd scalded it in hot water. A simple bandage would suffice. Myranda pulled herself back to the fireside to recover.
"This is why I hate weapons. I find a sword and it manages to injure me twice without once being held by its owner," she said, eying the offending tool angrily.
Myranda touched the tender hand to the lump that had already formed on her head from the first encounter with the blasted weapon. She cursed the blade over and over again in her mind, never once thinking about the fact that if her head had found one of the weapon's cutting edges when she'd fallen, she would not have lived to suffer. When she was through letting her anger pour out at the sword, she stared broodingly into the fire and tore a bit of her inadequate blanket to treat her hand. As she did, light from the flame danced on the ground around her. Slowly her hungry eyes drifted to the sword, then to the pack, then back to the sword . . .
"No! It would take a fool to try to grab that blade again. I have lasted for days without food. One more day will not kill me. Besides, that food is probably rancid. It has been out in the open for at least a number of days. Why risk burning the other hand to free some spoiled food?" she reasoned aloud.
"Of course, the touch to the sword wasn't that bad. It did not kill me. After all, it was probably a booby trap, and how likely is it that it would be set to trigger more than once? It is cold out, so the food has probably been preserved fairly well," she reasoned again, this time the hunger getting the better of her.
She moved carefully toward the weapon and, extending her bandaged hand to the handle, while keeping the rest of her body as far from the blade as possible, touched her fingers to it. She cringed at the expected onslaught, but when none came she knew it would be safe to use the hand that still had some strength in it. She wrapped her right fingers around the grip and pulled, but the icy ground held tightly to the sword, allowing only the slightest movement. Myranda put her left hand around the grip as well and pulled as best she could. On a normal day the sword would have come free quite easily, but hunger had robbed her of more strength than she knew. Had she not taken the chance tonight to free the food, the morning would have found her without the strength to stand.
Finally, the weapon came free. She dragged the sword across the icy earth and slid its tip beneath the edge of the huge shield.
"I am very sorry about this, sir," she grunted to her fallen benefactor. "I do realize how disrespectful this is." Grunt. "But I am left with very little choice."
Several minutes of prying and apologizing later, she'd cracked the icy buildup and freed the pack. Eagerly, she pulled it open. Savior! Salted meat and hard biscuit. By no means a banquet, but it was more than enough to save her. The food was well past its prime, but so long as it was still edible, it would serve its purpose. Aside from the food, she found a small bag of copper coins and a rock-hard frozen flask of water. There was also a pan for cooking and something that roused her spirits even higher. There were two loops of fabric across the top of the pack that could be only one thing.
"Tent straps! You had a tent, stranger! And if you had a tent, then I have a tent. I just have yet to find it," Myranda said.
Grabbing the unlit portion of the largest stick in the fire, Myranda held the makeshift torch, swept it about near to the ground. Before long, she found what was left of the tent. It was flat against the ground and crusted with ice, one of the supports shattered. Myranda set what was left of the tiny tent near the smoldering fire. The heat slowly filled the half-collapsed cloth shelter and gave her the first comfort she had felt in days.
She had only just fastened the tent flap when a heavy, wet snow began to fall. Myranda put the pan on the coals and heated some of the food she'd found, smiling to herself about her accuracy in detecting the coming snow. It was a skill to be able to read the clouds. The northern lands were shrouded in thick, gray clouds for most of the year. One could not simply see clouds on the horizon and predict rain. It was more a feeling, a nearly imperceptible change in the color of the gray, a new quality to the wind. Even she wasn't quite sure how she knew, but whether it was to be rain or snow, hail or sleet, she always knew. It was a gift.
She nearly burned herself as she snatched the meat eagerly from the pan. She had stood the hunger this long, but the smell of the cooking food made the pain a thousand times worse. Myranda took her first bite of food in days, the first full meal in more than a week. Her eyes rolled and her jaw tingled at the first taste of food. When she'd eaten the ration for the day, she slipped into a sleep few would ever know. If there was one thing she'd learned in her years of endless travel, it was that starving made any meal a feast, and exhaustion made any bed fit for a king. She was warm, full, and happy now, and that was all that mattered.
In a flash, she found herself in the middle of a sun-drenched field. She was bewildered and disoriented. The ground was warm against her bare feet. As her eyes adjusted to the light, they saw the beauty of the field. It was the finest sight she had ever seen, a vast meadow of lush green grass as far as the eye could see. She breathed in the freshness of the air and let out a triumphant sigh of joy. Myranda closed her eyes and began laughing, sheer happiness spilling out of her.
When she opened her eyes to take in more of the splendor, they came to rest on a tiny speck of black. It was the smallest fleck of darkness, but in such a place nothing could have been more foreign. It floated near to her, then off and way, almost out of sight. Slowly, it drifted down and touched the ground. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the ground began to darken. The life-giving soil turned a charred black color, spreading outward like a stain across the countryside. The green grass faded slowly, so slowly that it was barely noticeable. She stood, helpless, as her paradise blackened. It was as though the world was being consumed by night from the ground up.
When all of the life had been drawn from the grass it spread skyward. Night flooded the field in spite of the sun above. In a grim finale, that too was blocked out by a curtain of black clouds. Only darkness remained, a darkness stirred by a frigid wind. Myranda strained her eyes, searching desperately for some wisp of what had been before. She saw faint, flickering lights far off in the distance. She rushed toward them, but one by one, the embers of light winked out, swallowed into the darkness as all else had.
"No!" Myranda screamed, opening her eyes. A sliver of light peeked through the flaps of her tent.
It was not real. The horror she had seen was false, a dream. The horror she had felt, though, was real. She took several minutes to catch her breath and steady her pounding heart. Never before had a dream been so vivid. She shook herself in a vain attempt to chase the tormenting images from her mind. The only comforting thought came in the words her mother had spoken to her long ago. Even with the eternity that had passed since she lost her mother, the voice still echoed in her ears. Now memories were all she had left.
"A nightmare is the best kind of dream. The only one that brings happiness when it ends," she repeated.
The fright had brought her to full wakefulness instantly, with no hope of returning to sleep. She smiled as she wiped a drop of sweat from her brow. How long had it been since she had been too warm? The feeling of sweat trickling down her back was one she'd not felt in weeks—months, even. Of course, once the cold hit her when she left the tent, the novelty would wear thin rather quickly. Carefully, she pulled the flap of the tent aside. A cascade of snow from the previous night's fall assured her that it was at least not dangerously cold, or else the wetness of the snow would have frozen it into a shell of ice. She crawled out of the dilapidated tent, favoring her stricken left hand.
With the light of the morning filling the field where she'd slept, she could finally see the scene she had stumbled through in darkness the night before. It had all been blanketed with several inches of dense snow that elsewhere might have been a terrible storm, but amounted to little more than a light flurry to the people of the Northern Alliance. She waded into the ankle-deep snow and surveyed the campsite.
Where she had thought there was a great mound of rocks the night before could now be seen for what it really was. Even buried beneath the snow, the mound clearly had the shape of a beast. The form indicated a dragon, but it was a bit bulkier than she'd imagined a dragon to be. Of course, she had no interest in finding out if she was correct, particularly because she would have to step into the pool of blackish liquid that stained the snow around the fallen creature. A liquid that was too thin to be pitch, and too black to be blood.
"Well, you killed it and it killed you," Myranda said, looking at the fallen soldier, its form barely discernible through the snow. She looked to the dragon. "That goes for you too. But why were the two of you here, I wonder? The dragon can come and go as it pleases, but this is awfully far from the front to find a soldier from either side."
She knelt and brushed the snow from the shield. It was standing nearly straight up after the prying she had done to free the meal the night before. She expected to find the crest of the Northern Alliance, or perhaps that of the southern land of Tressor. Instead she found the same simple crest she'd seen among other marks on the sword and armor. It resembled a smooth, curving letter V, with a rounded bottom and downturned ends, or perhaps a pair of smooth waves with a trough between them. Centered above them was a single point.
"So, you were not of the north or the south. That must be why you were in this forsaken place. You fall into the same lonesome caste as I. Non-supporter of the Perpetual War. You refused to join either side. You should consider it something of a triumph that you had managed to be killed by something other than an angry mob. I know it is no consolation, but the end you came to here prevented my own. I sincerely thank you for it, and I hope that whatever powers pass judgment on you in the great beyond will take that into account. I thank you for the food, the shelter . . . and the sword."
It had not been her intention to take the sword, but even she could not resist such a treasure. Even the most treacherous buyer would be forced to dole out a sizable price for such a weapon, and it was unlikely she'd find a buyer of any other kind. Myranda never even entertained the possibility of being paid a fair price for the piece. These days the shopkeepers were nearly as cutthroat as the soldiers, with barely enough wares to go around. Still, something of such value was sure to at least provide her with the funds to buy a horse, a tent, some food, and perhaps some clothes more befitting of the season.
She rolled the sword in her blanket and took some of the softened biscuit for breakfast. She then transferred the food, as well as the water and the heavy blanket, from the soldier's pack to her own lighter one. If only it had been smaller or she had been stronger, she could have taken the tent with her, but the days of walking would be made difficult enough with her newly-filled pack without a mound of heavy canvas and wooden poles. When all had been prepared, Myranda went on her way.


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Q: Storefront child theme still load parent CSS I have a problem with the Storefront child theme.
I created a Storefront child theme like they suggest here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/set-up-and-use-a-child-theme/
The child theme works fine, I can write my CSS, write my code inside functions.php and override template files, but the child theme still loads the parent theme CSS.
How I can create a child theme without the parent's CSS loaded?

A: Add these functions to your child theme's functions.php.
This code will disable the loading of the Storefront default CSS.
Source: https://github.com/stuartduff/storefront-child-theme
/**
 * Storefront automatically loads the core CSS even if using a child theme as it is more efficient
 * than @importing it in the child theme style.css file.
 *
 * Uncomment the line below if you'd like to disable the Storefront Core CSS.
 *
 * If you don't plan to dequeue the Storefront Core CSS you can remove the subsequent line and as well
 * as the sf_child_theme_dequeue_style() function declaration.
 */

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sf_child_theme_dequeue_style', 999 );

/**
 * Dequeue the Storefront Parent theme core CSS
 */
function sf_child_theme_dequeue_style() {
    wp_dequeue_style( 'storefront-style' );
    wp_dequeue_style( 'storefront-woocommerce-style' );
}

Also, you can disable the WooCommerce standard stylesheets,
Source: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/disable-the-default-stylesheet/
/**
 * Set WooCommerce image dimensions upon theme activation
 */
// Remove each style one by one

add_filter( 'woocommerce_enqueue_styles', 'jk_dequeue_styles' );

function jk_dequeue_styles( $enqueue_styles ) {
    unset( $enqueue_styles['woocommerce-general'] );    // Remove the gloss
    unset( $enqueue_styles['woocommerce-layout'] );     // Remove the layout
    unset( $enqueue_styles['woocommerce-smallscreen'] );    // Remove the smallscreen optimisation
    return $enqueue_styles;
}

A: As of Storefront 2.5.8, released 07 July 2020, the means by which to dequeue the Storefront parent theme stylesheet/s have necessarily changed due to Pull request #1369.
This commit establishes the Storefront stylesheet's (handle-name | path/to/file.css):

*

*storefront-style | wp-content/themes/storefront/style.css and

*storefront-icons | wp-content/themes/storefront/assets/css/base/icons.css
as explicit dependencies of storefront-woocommerce-style | wp-content/themes/storefront/assets/css/woocommerce/woocommerce.css.
This change was made so that child theme's could define storefront-woocommerce-style as a dependency, without the risk of breaking the ordering of other Storefront stylesheets, and without the need for setting a higher priority to that enqueued dependency to mitigate such breakages - per Issue #1299.
Due to this dependency, any attempt to simply dequeue the storefront-style stylesheet (or storefront-icons) now will not work (no matter the priority set). You must first redefine/reset the dependencies of storefront-woocommerce-style, then with a high priority, any removed dependencies can be dequeued.
Per the below example;

*

*First enqueue the woocommerce style with only the icons as a dependency,

*Then enqueue your child style, and

*Lastly the storefront style is dequeued.

In this example I have deliberately queued my child style after woocommerce, as I have overridden some woocommerce styles within my own (if an even lower priority was needed - I could put it in the dequeue_styles function instead). If this is wasn't the case, and my child style was simply a direct replacement for the storefront style, I could have simply made it another dependency of woocommerce, with the icons styles - array( 'storefront-child-style', 'storefront-icons' ). Or if your child style has replaced both the woocommerce and storefront styles, remove all dependencies from woocommerce, then make the icons a dependency of your child style, then remove woocommerce along with the storefront style. Etc, etc, etc... adjusting it Ad infinitum, according to your specific needs.
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'enqueue_styles' );
function enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'storefront-woocommerce-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/woocommerce/woocommerce.css', array( 'storefront-icons' ), $storefront_version );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'storefront-child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', '', $storefront_version );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'dequeue_styles', 99 );
function dequeue_styles() {
    wp_dequeue_style( 'storefront-style' );
}

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Hi family of friends, if you would like us to pray for your requests and needs, Naomi and I, will be going to Mount Carmel on November 13, 2019 to dedicate a time of prayer and ask our God, the God of Breakthrough to overwhelm us and have all our enemies scatter!
Please send in your prayer request and we will stand in the gap with you on Mount Carmel, Israel! You are such a blessing, we bless you from the Holy Land!


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Guide: $1,000 -
Est. qty: 2-10 per ashcan
Golden Age Ashcan Comics
(Produced for legal purposes)
Various Publishers, 1938-1945.
Ultra-Rare!
Long before ashcan comics became a marketing gimmick in the 90's, they were produced in very small numbers for legal purposes associated with securing trademarks for the titles with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The term ashcan originates from the waste container used to collect soot and ash from old fashioned heating systems such as wood or coal fires. The term was seemingly given to these comics as they were assumed to be thrown in the ashcan once they fulfilled their purpose although this was not the case as they were usually kept (hence there may be another reason for the name).
There would be a minimum of two ashcans produced, one kept as a publisher file copy and another sent to the US Patent Office for registration. Note that it is very unlikely that any of these were sent to the Library of Congress (for copyright purposes) as most had already published material from another comic inside and the cover art was also sometimes copied from another comic (the key element of these ashcans was the title).
Below is a DC ashcan for its then planned Superman title, featuring cover art by Joe Shuster from Action Comics #7 (and part of the interior of Action Comics #8). This was sold by Heritage Auctions for $37,375 back in 2005 (2,875 more than it sold for the previous year):
Below is another interesting ashcan, the title was never in fact used but the cover has Captain Thunder on it who was later published in Whiz Comics #2 under the new name of Captain Marvel (Shazam!), who became the most popular superhero of the 1940s (based on sales).
Below is another unused trademark title for Superman Superhombre; the application was sent in August 1944, along with the ashcan below, and the trademark registered on February 6, 1945. See the page on Superman #409 Superhombre logo variant for more details on this.
Given the rarity and, in most cases, historical significance of these ashcans, some of them can realize astronomical sums today. Many have been sold through Heritage Auctions but some are also available on auction sites such as ebay.
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George Haven Putnam A.M., Litt.D. (April 2, 1844 – February 27, 1930) was an American publisher, soldier, and writer. He was the president of G. P. Putnam's Sons for its first 52 years, from 1872.

Biography
The eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam, he was born in London, UK where his father had been living since 1841 while establishing a branch office for his New York City publishing company, Wiley & Putnam. In 1848 the family returned to the United States, settling at Stapleton, New York, on Staten Island. Haven's early instruction was at home by his mother and nurse. He was prepared for college, first, by the Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, who had a class of boys at St. George's Church, of which Dr. Tyng was rector, and his son, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., instructor of a company of cadets. Haven next entered Starr's Military Academy, Yonkers, New York. In 1857 he attended Prof. John MacMullen's school in upper New York and the Columbia Grammar School conducted by Dr. Anthon after 1859.

He matriculated at Columbia College in 1861, but the condition of his eyes led his father to send him abroad to consult oculists in Paris and Berlin. In Berlin, Putnam placed himself under the care of Baron von Graefe, then the leading oculist of Europe. As his sight improved, he attended courses of lectures at the Sorbonne, Paris, devoted to French literature and the literature and history of Rome. At the advice of Baron von Graefe, he discontinued lectures after reaching Berlin and sought open-air environments as necessary to complete his treatment. He visited Bayard Taylor at Gotha and en route visited the galleries at Dresden, tramped through Saxony, Switzerland, studied Bohemian life at Prague, passed through the Black Forest region, saw the toymakers of Nuremberg, continued the tramp through the pleasant region of the Thüringerwald and finally reached Göttingen, where he took up his studies at the University of Göttingen. However, with the outbreak of the American Civil War he left the university without graduating to return home to serve in the Union Army.

Putnam enlisted as a Private in the 176th New York Infantry Regiment in December 1862 and was promoted to Sergeant in January, 1863. He was captured at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing but was paroled to his regiment in August 1863. Promoted to First Lieutenant in December 1863 and Adjutant in March 1864, he was captured at the Battle of Cedar Creek near Middletown, Virginia, and was held for a short time at the notorious Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia before being transferred to Danville where he was held until March 1865 when he was returned to the Union forces as part of a prisoner exchange. He attained the rank of major of volunteers. Years later, following the 1911 marking of the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, in 1912 George H. Putnam published an account of his experiences titled "A Prisoner of War in Virginia - An Experience in Virginia Prisons During the Last Winter of the War."

 At the war's end, Major Putnam joined his father's publishing business, "G. Putnam Broadway." He was also appointed deputy collector of internal revenue. On his father's death in 1872, George H. Putnam took over the business with his brothers John Bishop and Irving, renaming it G. P. Putnam's Sons. He was made president of the firm, a position he held for the next fifty-two years. In 1884 he hired 26-year-old Theodore Roosevelt as a special partner; Roosevelt would write several works published by Putnam.

Like his father, Putnam was active in numerous civic, social, and business causes. He served on the executive committees of the Civil-Service Reform Association, the Free-Trade League and the Reform Club, and was a founding member of the City Club of New York. He also aggressively continued with his father's work on copyright protection for authors. In 1887, he helped organize the American Publishers' Copyright League that led a successful campaign resulting in the 1891 passage of an international copyright protection law.

He retired in 1924, formally turning the presidency of G. P. Putnam's Sons over to Palmer C. Putnam. He died in 1930, aged 85.

Wives and children

Putnam was first married to Rebecca Kettel Shepard who died of typhoid fever in 1895. They had five daughters: Dorothy Lesley, Ellen, Ethel Frothingham, Bertha Haven and Corinna Haven. Bertha went on to become a noted medieval historian, and Corinna became the wife of Joseph Lindon Smith, painter of Egyptian archaeological discoveries.

Putnam married his second wife, the classical scholar Emily James Smith in 1899. A son of this marriage was wind power pioneer Palmer Cosslett Putnam.

Writings
Putnam also wrote articles in scholarly and historical publications.

Children's books
 The Artificial Mother (1894)
 The Little Gingerbread Man (1910)

Other
 Authors and Publishers, by G. H. and J. B. Putnam (1882)
 Anecdotes of Luther and the Reformation (1883)
 Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages, 2 vols. (1896, 1897)
 Washington Irving, His Life and Work (1903)
 Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence Upon the Production and Distribution of Literature, Part 1 (1906)
 Abraham Lincoln (1909); also issued as Project Gutenberg eBook #11728
 A Prisoner of War in Virginia (1912)
 Memories of My Youth (1914)
 Memories of a Publisher (1915)
 Some Memories of the Civil War (1924)

References

External links

1844 births
1930 deaths
American memoirists
English emigrants to the United States
Union Army officers
American Civil War prisoners of war
Columbia College (New York) alumni
People from Staten Island
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Civil Funerals Dublin
For a personal funeral ceremony reflecting the unique life of the person whose loss is mourned
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Memorial Ceremonies
Advance Funeral Planning
Death and your online accounts
Civil Funerals in Ireland
Yes, you can arrange a personal funeral which reflects the life of the person whom you have lost.
With such a funeral you to express thanks for the unique life of your loved one.
In this way you celebrate the lived life of the individual concerned.
Note also that a personal funeral is all prepared in accordance with the wishes of the family.
Civil Funerals
A civil funeral may include religious references in accordance with the beliefs of the person concerned.
People who are practising members of a particular religious faith will have a funeral conducted by a minister of that faith. But there are also people who have lapsed from the practice of their faith. For them a funeral in their former faith tradition might be considered hypocritical. There are people too who have no particular religious affiliation but who would not wish that their funeral be simply a secular affair.
So for various reasons people may wish to have a bespoke funeral and this is the service which I provide. This individualised funeral ceremony is not limited by a set formula. It may for example include readings taken from a wide variety of sources. Or it may also include prayers and readings from a spectrum of religious or secular texts. In other words all will depend on the wishes of the family and the beliefs of the deceased person.
Where to hold the ceremony:
A funeral ceremony can be held almost anywhere you wish. Obviously this can take place in a cemetery or a crematorium. On the other hand it could just as easily take place at home or in a funeral home or some other place of your choice. Remember, if you select a venue of your own for the main funeral service there will be no time constraints. It follows that if you select such a place you won't be confined to the time slots which you will find at a crematorium. Of course any such main service can be followed by a short but still meaningful committal at a crematorium or in a cemetery.
Contacting me:
You may approach me directly or through a Funeral Director. I will come and meet you at an agreed time and place. At that meeting you will tell me about the life, hopes, dreams, achievements and philosophy of your loved one. Based on what you tell me I will draft a meaningful ceremony for your approval. The funeral service will attempt to celebrate the life of the person whom you have lost. You may include music, readings, prayers or poetry which have special significance for you or for your loved one.
Music:
Your choice of music is particularly important. This is because when you reflect back on this ceremony, you will wish to recall music which reflects the significance of the occasion.
The musical part of the ceremony need not be solemn but neither should it be trivial. Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, known by his stage name, Macklemore say this: Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heartstrings. It acts as medicine" And of course in the case of a personal funeral you have a limitless selection of music from which to decide.
The death of a loved one is a harrowing time for family and friends. At such an emotionally distressing time, the next of kin have to make many choices and reach quick decisions about funeral arrangements. In this situation the ceremony might fall into a routine which does not reflect the life you wish to celebrate. Therefore I aim to put together a service that will be a fitting and memorable tribute to the life of your loved one.
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DOX: Here's Monique Rathbun's response to Scientology's appeal of its anti-SLAPP defeat - 2014-08-08
DOX: Here's Monique Rathbun's response to Scientology's appeal of its anti-SLAPP defeat August 8, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
This time, she's opposing Scientology's appeal of Comal County Judge Dib Waldrip's denial of the church's "anti-SLAPP" motion. And if the appeals court sides against Monique this time, the lawsuit is over.
So there's a lot on the line, and Monique's attorney Leslie Hyman rises to the challenge. We've been telling you that it's really amazing to see Scientology try to use a law - the anti-SLAPP statute - which was intended to help protect the free speech rights of resource-poor individuals from being overwhelmed by the deep pockets of a litigious foe. In fact, Scientology's long history of litigious bullying and scorched-earth tactics was one of the inspirations for anti-SLAPP legislation in its early history.
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There are many older women dating younger men, and these cougars sometimes find the best, men for them. It can be possible to date younger men, if you're a cougar, however there are some really important safety tips that you need to remember. This is because there are many men out there that takes advantages of older women looking for younger men. Here are some of the most important dating tips that you need to remember if you're seeking younger men.
The first and most important safety tip, is that you should never give out your personal information at the first time that you're talking to a younger man. How much do you really know about him? Is he really who he said he is?
We are teaching our children not to talk to strangers and not to give out personal information to strangers. The same goes for us, the older women that are dating younger men.
If he wants to meet older women like you, you need to make sure that you're choosing a public place to meet. And, still you don't give out any personal information. You will meet him there. And, if you're on the date with him, and you see that he is really someone that you can trust, then you can think about giving some of your personal information to him. You can give him your telephone number and your name. But, don't give your address to him, just after the first date.
Trusting just anyone in this world can be dangerous. And, the same goes for trusting the first younger man that you are meeting. It doesn't matter if you're on a date with him, or if you're chatting to him online. Don't just trust him.
If you don't know him and don't know anything about him, you should make sure that you're aware of your surroundings and that you are careful to the information that you're giving him. Don't go on dates with the first younger man that you meet. It is important that you trust him, before you go out with anyone.
There are many cougar dating websites online, and there are a lot of sites for older women looking for younger men. However, you need to make sure that the dating site that you're using is legit and that is making sure that all the members are verified. This is the only way that you can make sure that you are chatting to the person who you think you are talking to. There are many scammers that are using older women to steal their personal information from them. Besides, you can check the best cougar dating website reviews to help you find the right site for cougar hookup wisely.
If you're an older woman seeking younger men, then you should make sure that you're aware of all the safety tips. It is important to make sure that you're staying safe, and that you know the person that you're going on a date with cougar women. And, don't give out your personal details.
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CHICAGO — More than 8,000 runners are set to participate in the sold-out Byline Bank Chicago Spring Half Marathon & 10K on Sunday, May 20 in scenic Maggie Daley Park. This is the 10th annual running of the event in downtown Chicago offering athletes sweeping views of downtown Chicago, its legendary skyline and historic landmarks. Produced by Life Time®—Healthy Way of Life, the event is also expected to raise $150,000 for its official charity partner, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Since the inception of the partnership, more than $400,000 has been raised for MDA.
New this year is partner Byline Bank, who is joining as title sponsor. Together with Life Time, the nation's premier healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment brand, Byline Bank will be a driving force in providing a premier race experience for new and veteran athletes.
The Byline Bank Chicago Spring Half Marathon/10K will be the first of two races in the 2018 Chicagoland Half Marathon Series, which also includes the Chicago Half Marathon on September 23. Participants who complete in both half marathon distances will earn a custom, 26.2 Challenge finisher medal at the final event. Currently, more than 2,000 athletes are registered for the Series.
Both the half marathon and 10K (approximately 6 miles) events will start and finish on Columbus Drive alongside Maggie Daley Park. The one-loop half marathon and 10K courses will run through Chicago's historic and scenic museum campus alongside Soldier Field and along the city's beautiful lakefront path. The Junior Dash will take place at "The Ribbon" at Maggie Daley Park. The event kicks off with the half marathon race at 7 a.m., followed by the 10K and lastly, the Junior Dash for children ages 2-12. Award ceremonies for the half marathon and 10K will follow each race. This year's race will feature the USA Track & Field Illinois Association 10K Championships and a local elite field vying for top honors and a $3,000 prize purse.
After participants cross the finish line, friends and family are invited to celebrate at the Spring Market Finish Festival at Maggie Daley Park. This celebration, unique to Life Time, is complete with a gourmet breakfast, a do-it yourself flower station, live entertainment and a variety of great local vendors. Athletes 21 and older will toast their finish with a complimentary beer from official race partner, Lagunitas Brewing Company.
MDA, the longtime charity partner of the Chicago Spring Half Marathon, is welcoming more than 150 participants this year via MDA Team Momentum, the race's Official Training Charity Partner. Donations to MDA were made online when registering for the race, and proceeds from those donations will support critical research and families of those living with muscular dystrophy.
The Byline Bank Chicago Spring Half Marathon & 10K is Sold Out with registration still available for the Junior Dash (youth ages 2-12) at http://www.chicagospringhalf.com/.
Life Time champions a healthy and happy life for its members across 135 destinations in 38 major markets in the U.S. and Canada. As the nation's only Healthy Way of Life brand, Life Time delivers an unmatched athletic resort experience and provides a comprehensive healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment experience that goes well beyond fitness to encompasses the entire spectrum of daily life for individuals, couples and families of all ages. More info is available at http://www.lifetime.life/.


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Ален Муковић (Подгорица, 22. фебруар 1988) црногорски је поп-фолк певач који је учествовао у ријалити-шоуу Фарма 6. Најпознатији је по песми Приђи ми.

Биографија
Рођен је 22. фебруара 1988. године у Подгорици. Има једну сестру.

Основну и средњу школу завршио је у родном граду. Са 12 година радио је као ди-џеј у локалним клубовима; био је члан удружења ди-џејева Црне Горе. Са 17 година снимио је прву песму, На срцу квар. Потом је, исте 2006. године, за Голд мјузик, издао први албум — Ко да више; хитови су били насловна песма, Криво ти је, На срцу квар, Не тражи ме, Нипошто, Питај ме, Слутиш и сумњаш, Заузета. Године 2009. снимио је два сингла, Не желим сад и мега-хит Приђи ми. Године 2011. излази сингл са спотом, Ти си та.

Остало
Учествовао је у ријалити-шоуу Фарма године 2015. У такмичењу је остао до финала.

Приватни живот
Са супругом Аном Малезовић — с којом више не живи заједно — има ванбрачну ћерку Лану, коју је пар добио 2014. године.

Идол му је српски криминалац Кристијан Голубовић, који му је током учешћа на Фарми претио — због чега су саслушани у полицији.

Дискографија
 Ко да више (2006)
 Опрости (2007)

Синглови
 На срцу квар (2005)
 Не желим сад (2009)
 Приђи ми (2009)
 Ти си та (с Биг тајмом; 2011)

Референце

Спољашње везе

Рођени 1988.
Подгоричани
Црногорски певачи
Поп-фолк певачи
Турбо-фолк певачи


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Філіпповське сільське поселення — сільське поселення, Кіржацький район, Владимирська область
 Філіпповське сільське поселення — сільське поселення, Кірово-Чепецький район, Кіровська область


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Albert Pujols Just Hit His 599th Career Home Run, So Why Is No One Talking About Him?
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By Jonathan Candelaria | 3 years ago
On Tuesday night in Anaheim, Albert Pujols hit a rocket off of Bartolo Colon down the left-field line for his 599th career home run, helping lead the Los Angeles Angels to a 9-3 win over the Atlanta Braves. Pujols is now one homer away from being just the 9th person to eclipse the 600 home run mark.
That patented Pujols swing. No. 599 was majestic. https://t.co/rPBn8VGPb0 pic.twitter.com/RDDmbubmuA
Since being drafted 402nd overall in 1999 by the St. Louis Cardinals– MLB scouts and GM's really thought there were 401 better players in that draft class–Pujols has been a model of consistency. The Santo Domingo-born natural would go on to accumulate a laundry list of accomplishments over the next 17 season: Rookie of Year, 3-time MVP (he also finished second in voting four times), 10-time All Star, 2-time World Series champion, 6-time Silver Slugger winner, 2-time Gold Glove winner, batting champion, has posted an OPS over 1.000 in 77 career postseason games…. the list goes on.
In his first 10 seasons in the MLB, the man dubbed "The Machine" hit .331/.426/.624 while averaging 41 home runs and 43 doubles a season. After coming up as a third baseman and playing left field in 2002 and 2003, he led NL first basemen in total zone runs for six straight seasons from 2004-2009. He actually led all NL players in that stat in 2007 and 2008.
Granted, after some foot injuries in recent years with the Angels, Pujols hasn't been the same guy. However, he still managed to hit 41 and 34 home runs in the last two seasons respectively. The 37-year-old first baseman is still a solid MLB player and, even after 17 years of play ranging from all-time great to "solid," he appears to be flying under the radar in the twilight of his career. Baseball should probably take a break from mound rushes and bat flips to appreciate a guy reaching a milestone, as Pujols will shortly become only the 3rd Latino to hit 600 dingers.
Players like Pujols are far and few between, and his numbers can go toe-to-toe with nearly anyone in baseball history; in fact, ESPN's David Schoenfield ranks him as the greatest first baseman of all time, even higher than Lou Gehrig. He has four years remaining on his contract after this one, although there is no telling how long he will choose to play. If he plays it out, he'll be 41-years-old and will likely end up top 5 all time in home runs, and top 10 all time in doubles and RBIs, while striking out less than he's walked. Maybe this guy deserves some attention on the eve of the 600 Club, after all.
albert pujols, baseball. Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 3:38 PM EDT by Jonathan Candelaria
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Book 2 Chapter 4: Alcohol and games
Posted on August 13, 2021 August 14, 2021 by PCP Translations
Ruan Zhan already felt a chill down his back before he saw Xiao Xia enter. This was because Yue Xiao Xia equaled trouble, and he was most afraid of trouble.
"Bloody Mary." Xiao Xia acted like a new customer as she spoke seriously to Ruan Zhan. Ruan Zhan had no choice but to put on his usual gentle expression and elegant smile. She was a customer. It wasn't like he could kick her out.
"Sis Xiao Xia!" Ni Yang greeted with a loud voice.
"You're also very close with this young man!" The woman next to her was sour.
"It's because we're close that there's no chance of anything happening between us. Keep doing your best." Xiao Xia spouted some nonsense. "Boss, let me borrow your servers for a chat. Send the alcohol over later." She knocked on the bar a few times and pulled the two people to sit by the corner while it wasn't too busy yet. She acted as if all the murderous gazes, including that of the hypocritical boss, were disinfectant rays.
"I've helped you guys get some time off. To repay me, you should tell me about that girl."
"She's called Qian Li. She was closer to Liu Tie so he should be the one to say it." Ni Yan said. "I'll go entertain the customers. I can't bully the boss along with sis Xiao Xia."
Xiao Xia rolled her eyes at him and then turned to Liu Tie.
"Alright." Liu Tie sighed. He was shocked and upset about Qian Li's death, even though he wasn't interested in her like that. "What should I talk about?"
"Anything, as long as it's the truth."
"Actually, there isn't much to say. She's an ordinary student. She's more quiet and graceful, and normally doesn't like to stand out."
"Did this matter stand out?"
"Of course! Everyone knows how scary Bloody Mary is. Ever since last semester, this game had been spreading around the school but no one had dared to try it. The first person to do so would naturally stand out."
"Goodness!" Xiao Xia was rueful. "Society is really progressing fast these days. Just a few years is enough to leave a generation gap. When I was in college, there weren't any such games. Girls these days! Aren't they scared?"
"They are! But only then is it thrilling!"
"You haven't been playing, right?"
"I'm not interested." Xiao Xia relaxed.
She had interacted with ghosts before. Friendly spirits were fine, but if something evil was summoned, it's not as easy to say you aren't playing anymore. Even if they are inadvertently summoned there would be calamity, let alone if someone took the initiative to do so!
"Forgive my old age and not keeping up with the trend. Just what is up with this Bloody Mary thing?" Xiao Xia asked.
"Actually, I also don't know much. However, since people at school have been talking about it and so many things have happened since then, I've also gotten some understanding." Liu Tie said honestly: "Have you heard of the cocktail called Bloody Mary?"
"Of course. It's what I ordered tonight. Actually, I haven't tried it before and was merely curious why this cocktail has the same name as such a scary "spirit summoning" game. No, it's a western game, so maybe it should be called "conjuring". Hey? Why isn't my drink here yet? Isn't the service a little too awful?!"
She looked at Ruan Zhan as she spoke, seeing him smiling gently and calmly as he mingled with a large group of customers. She motioned Ni Yang to bring her drink over. She wondered with Schadenfreude whether these infatuated women would still be after him if they had seen his cold gaze which was covered by his glasses as he drew symbols in the air while battling an evil spirit. They would probably have run off in fear!
"Does it taste good?" Liu Tie watched Xiao Xia take a small sip after Ni Yang left.
"It's a little strange but it tastes very good." Xiao Xia took another sip. "But let's not talk about this. Tell me about that."
Liu Tie knew what that was, so he told Xiao Xia everything he knew.
It turns out that Bloody Mary was initially the name of a ghost, and it was also a game to communicate with spirits. She was also called witch of the mirror, and was very popular amongst foreign teenage girls. However, Bloody Mary was known as a thoroughly evil spirit. The slightest inattention would result in extremely dire outcomes. You might see a mutilated face in the mirror. There might also be a pair of evil red eyes that appear in the mirror. The mirror and walls may start bleeding. The evil spirit may even pull you into the mirror, or scare you to death or insanity. If someone playing this game thinks these are the worst outcomes, the result may end up even worse! Outside the country, rumor has it that many female students who played Bloody Mary were discovered dead in the bathroom with their eyes missing.
The weirdest part about this game was that no one knew where Bloody Mary came from. However, this game grew popular in the seventies. Most people believed that Bloody Mary was a witch who was burnt at the stake due to practicing witchcraft a century ago. She had also been disfigured. Therefore, when she is summoned, she would always steal the young teenage girl's beauty.
As for why people still tried summoning her despite the dangers, it was probably because this made it even more thrilling. Many girls who wanted to prove their courage would try it out. A minority probably wanted to disprove this legend. But mostly, they wanted to enter a contract with the witch of the mirror because it is said she will grant you a wish as long as you fulfill one of hers. No matter how difficult the wish, it will be granted.
"Is there any proof of that?" Xiao Xia asked.
"What proof can there be with such supernatural things? These are all legends. At most, such proof would be hearsay."
"Did you say evil red eyes earlier?" Xiao Xia recalled something Liu Tie mentioned and thought about her vision in front of the mirror. She felt chills down her back. This meant that the girls at T. University had awful luck and managed to summon it right away? And it was lingering around, refusing to return?
"What's wrong?" Liu Tie saw Xiao Xia's expression was strange and couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing!" Xiao Xia brushed over it. "I'm just timid and got a little scared."
"Then you shouldn't get involved in our school's case."
"I'm just acting as your school's consultant." She also wanted to give up on it, but wondered whether it would have the opposite effect. Every time she tried to get away from something, she would get pulled in further.
Was this fate messing with her? Who could fight against fate!?
"That girl was called Qian Li, right? If she was such a quiet and introverted girl, why would she be the first to play this game? Did you hear any relevant rumors?"
"Rumors? The rumors are all from other classmates. It's said the girls in her dorm room have all fallen ill from the fright. They all went home on sick leave the next day so there are no primary sources left. However…" Liu Tie hesitated, suddenly recalling something. "I've previously heard Qian Li played this game because of a bet with another student."
"With whom?"
"This I don't know. Perhaps I can go ask around for sis Xiao Xia."
"That would be great." Xiao Xia was very happy. This was a huge potential clue into Qian Li's motivation. "Whether or not you manage to help, I'll treat you to a meal."
"I also want to go." Ni Yang suddenly appeared and said.
"No problem. But you must also act as my spy." Xiao Xia felt there wasn't anything left to ask, and thus left after saying her farewells to the two. Before leaving, she didn't forget to get both of their numbers to make it convenient to communicate. However, she completely forgot to thank Ruan Zhan who had helped her a ton last time, making her appear extremely unconscientious. Ruan Zhan didn't care about that. What he cared about was that for some reason, his mind was still unsettled after she left.
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Suranga Bawadi on World Monument Watch list
News:Suranga Bawadi has been included in the World Monument Watch list for 2020 along with 24 other monuments from across the world.
About Suranga Bawadi:
Suranga Bawadi is an integral part of the ancient Karez system of supplying water through subterranean tunnels built during the Adil Shahi era in Vijayapura,Karnataka.
The magnificent underground system was built to supply water to the city which had a population of nearly 12 lakh then.
Significance of inclusion:
Suranga Bawadi has been selected under the 'Ancient Water System of the Deccan Plateau' by World Monuments Fund.
The inclusion will help Suranga Bawadi to get funds for restoration within the next two years.
The World Monuments Fund would also coordinate with the authorities concerned for restoration and create public awareness on its importance.
About World Monuments Fund:
World Monuments Fund(WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization founded in 1965.It is is headquartered in New York,USA.
It is dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.
About World Monuments Watch:
The World Monuments Watch is a global program launched in 1995 by World Monuments Fund.
It aims to identify imperiled cultural heritage sites and provide direct financial and technical support for their preservation.
It is a biennial selection program of at risk cultural heritage sites that combine great historical significance with contemporary social impact.
It is a nomination-based program that uses cultural heritage conservation to empower communities and improve human well-being.
About Karez System:
Karez is a water harnessing technology in which groundwater is brought to the surface by a tunnel.
In this system,no mechanical pump or lift is used.Gravity alone brings the water from the underground source.
The Karez is found in 38 countries worldwide and most of these are concentrated in the Middle East region.Persia is known for the earliest known and documented Karez system.


I wasn't specifically tagged for this, but I'm going to take a lead from Liz Norris, whose novel UNRAVELING is coming out this month, and roll the Lucky 7 game on the good old blog.
1. Go to the seventh or seventy-seventh page of our WIP.
4. Tag seven other authors.
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He motioned for a chair as he leaned back comfortably. She nodded and took the offered seat with only enough hesitation to convey that she did it because she wanted to, not because he told her to.
"So, you have yourselves quite a situation," Jax started.
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Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. A man brings his 10-year-old son to the library and allows him to choose one book to keep. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find.
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Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julian Carax.
But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find.
Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from the book, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them.
What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind…
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The groups also want students to look out for each other and noted that the community counseling and resource centers that opened after the attack still remain available.
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#LGBTWellness News Celebrates World Cup Soccer
July 15, 2019 LGBT HealthLink
Each week LGBT HealthLink, a Program of CenterLink, and researcher and blogger Corey Prachniak-Rincón bring you a round-up of some of the biggest LGBTQ wellness stories from the past week.
Queer Community Scores at World Cup
NBC News reported on the impact of more "out" lesbian women in this year's Women's World Cup, in which the U.S. team alone has five out players as well as a lesbian coach. In total, the number of queer participants doubled from the 2015 to 2019 Cup . Experts say that this visibility is important for queer youth, who still have few role models in athletics and of whom only 24% play a sport, compared to 68% of youth overall.
More than 8 in 10 Trans Youth Bullied
Researchers found that 86.5% of transgender and nonbinary youth aged 16-25 had experienced bullying, and that the most common setting for this treatment was in school. Transgender and nonbinary youth who were assigned female at birth were more likely than those who were assigned male at birth to experience bullying, which had significant mental health effects.
HIV-HPV Data Inconclusive
A study explored the intersection between HIV and HPV, in which people living with HIV are at higher risk for HPV as well as for the cancers that HPV can cause. Unfortunately, the report found that evidence is inconclusive on how best to provide HPV vaccination to people living with HIV, and concludes that clinical studies testing various vaccine regimes are needed.
Queering STEM
Scientific American explored how to tackle unconscious bias towards LGBT folks in science and technology (STEM) fields, which are critical in addressing LGBT health disparities. The article cites studies finding that LGBT people are underrepresented in STEM jobs and as research grantees, and that 70% of out STEM faculty report being uncomfortable in their environment.
School Hopes to Be Leader in South
Texas A&M announced that they will try to be the first institution in Texas to formally incorporate an LGBT health curriculum into its health degrees, an initiative led by its new Center for LGBT Health Education. The university said that given the high level of disparities facing the community, more is needed than just isolated research and sharing of best practices.
Best Practices for Improving Trans Care
A new study reviewed best practices on providing care for transgender patients, including providing hormone therapy, understanding options for surgery, and inclusively collecting data on gender identity in medial records. The lead author said that increasing competency widely in the medical field will reduce the need for transgender people to need highly specialized providers.
Beware of This Cancer Myth
BBC reported on what health experts are saying is a "dangerous myth" – that sexual minority women are not at risk for cervical cancer and do not need to get tested. The British healthcare system is warning women to get tested after a survey found that 29% of queer women falsely felt they were at reduced or no risk for the disease, which also impacts transgender and nonbinary people with cervixes.
More Than Half Haven't Been Tested
The CDC recognized National HIV Testing Day with a theme entitled "Doing It My Way" that highlighted personal motivations for getting tested and options for doing so, including the growingly popular option of home testing. They also released a study finding that 60% of the population has never had an HIV test, and that 70% of those at higher risk had not had a test within the past year.
Parent-child Talks Are Complicated
A new study examined the experiences of gay and bisexual young men in talking about their identities and sexual health with their parents. The study found that even when parents tried to have affirming discussions, they were complicated by factors like siblings, the media, and religion.
LGBT Report Updated
LGBT organizations led by Movement Advancement Project published a second edition of the report, Understanding Issues Facing LGBT People in the U.S., to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. They share that not only do LGBT people score lower on an overall wellbeing index than do others (average score of 58 versus 62, respectively), but they score even lower on factors including physical health (26 versus 33).
How We Can Address Disparities
Futurity published an interview with Professor Julia Raifman, a leading LGBT health researcher, on how disparities in the community can best be addressed, including by addressing discrimination as an underlying cause for many health problems. Raifman says that increasing data on LGBT disparities inspired her to get involved in this work.
Do you want to inspire researchers and reduce inequities, too? Check out the All of Us initiative, with which LGBT HealthLink is proud to serve as a partner, and help contribute to a groundbreaking effort to increase health data on our communities.
Improving Women's Health by Reforming Healthcare
Center for American Progress published a report on how reforming the payment and delivery system in the U.S. healthcare market could improve health outcomes for women. This includes sexual and gender minority women, who they note may especially benefit due to higher needs for mental healthcare in particular, and their increased likelihood of facing discrimination.
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Michigan Department of Transportation officials are considering extending the US-23 Flex Route to Interstate 96 in Brighton, if funding can be secured.
State transportation officials are considering extending the US-23 Flex Route, an experiment in traffic management, about seven miles north to Interstate 96.
However, officials say plans aren't set in stone and no funding has been secured.
The flex route is the first of its kind in the state. It features overhead signs which allow motorists to drive on the left-hand shoulders on the southbound side during morning rush hour and the northbound side during evening rush hour and other times when congestion is high. The signs also alert motorists of traffic conditions ahead such as crashes and suggested speeds.
The Michigan Department of Transportation opened the US-23 Flex in November 2017 on nearly nine miles of the highway between M-14 near Ann Arbor and M-36 in Green Oak Township.
"If we're going to do it, we would add an additional seven miles and take it to the Interstate 96 interchange," in Brighton, MDOT University Region spokesperson Aaron Jenkins said.
Jenkins said MDOT officials considered extending the flex route to I-96 in 2017.
"But we had to work with the funds that we had," he said.
Construction of the flex route was part of a $92 million revamp of US-23 between M-14 and Silver Lake Road south of Brighton, which also included replacing overpasses, building new roundabouts, upgrading ramps and fixing pavement.
Extending the flex route to I-96 would cost in the ballpark of $100 million, and improvements to the M-36 interchange, where the flex route currently ends, could cost an additional $30 million, Jenkins said.
The major issue is securing funding, "but we hope that we can make some changes, because we're in a situation now where we have neglected infrastructure for so long," he said.
While there was an initial uptick in crashes after the route opened, Jenkins said the number of crashes has been cut in half since.
Between January and April 2018, the total number of crashes were up about 14 percent in the entire route, compared to those months in previous years, according to MDOT data. Crashes on both side of the highway stretch increased from 49 to 56 during those months.
MDOT officials noticed a concentration of crashes at M-36 on southbound US-23 where the highway narrows to two lanes.
"It's reduced incidents of primary and secondary crashes by 50 percent," Jenkins said.
Since it launched, morning peak travel time on southbound US-23 has dropped by about 32 percent, and peak travel time on northbound has dropped by a "comparable" amount, he said.
He said the amount of time motorists planned to travel the route improved by about 50 percent and speeds increased about 20 miles per hour during rush hour traffic.
While MDOT officials have discussed installing flex routes in other parts of the state, including I-96 between Kent Lake Road and the I-275/I-696 interchange in western Oakland County, they have no plans to do that at this point.
"They way things are going, I would say no, but it's one of our projects that we are really stoked about," Jenkins said. "It could happen in other areas, but we don't have anything planned yet."
It is not a part of MDOT's five-year plan.
"We're really diving into it right now, and we'll come up with facts and figures and see what we can do then," Jenkins said. "It's something we're hoping will happen, but it's in the planning phase right now."
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials awarded the project a regional Operations Excellence award, according to an MDOT news release.