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1962 B.R.M.
P-578 Formula 1
Eight-cylinder vee-type engine, double overhead camshafts, two valves per cylinder, 1498 cc, 193 bhp at 10,250 rpm.
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About the 1962 B.R.M. P-578 Formula 1
This car is the most famous product of British Racing Motors, Ltd. Named "Old Faithful," she brought driver, Graham Hill, the Formula I World Drivers' Championship and BRM the F-1 Constructors' World Championship in 1962.
"Old Faithful" is one of the highest mileage cars in Grand Prix history, having raced for both works and Scuderia Centro-Sud in 1963, for veteran driver Maurice Trintignant in 1964 and Centro-Sud again in 1965, over 20,000 miles!
Even before WW2 ended, pre-war British racing celebrity Raymond Mays launched his all-British Grand Prix program. It was to be funded by a motor industry cooperative named "The British Motor Racing Research Trust," its focus to build the "British Racing Motor," or BRM. That sensationally-specified 1.5- liter, centrifugally supercharged V-16, intended to emulate Hitler's GP racing strategy by generating national prestige, flopped miserably.
In 1952, the Trust sold out to loyal backer Alfred Owen of the Owen Organization, British industry's largest privately owned company. "British Racing Motors Ltd." was then formed to develop new BRM cars.
When a new 1½ liter Formula 1 began in 1961, BRM raced Climax-powered spaceframe chassis P57s while this smaller P578 was being readied for the first P56 V8 engine. The new car was finally ready to test at Monza around that September's Italian GP. Graham Hill drove it some 280 miles there.
In 1962, Graham won his heat in "5781"s race debut, the Brussels GP in Belgium, placed 2nd at Snetterton, then at Goodwood, on Easter Monday, he scored his maiden F-1 victory. He led the Aintree "100", then at Silverstone beat Jim Clark's new Lotus Climax V8 by inches.
The subsequent World Championship Dutch GP provided Graham's maiden championship points win. As the 1962 season wore on, he led the Monaco, Belgian and French GPs in this same car, placed 2nd at Reims and won the German GP at the Nürburgring. Another 2nd at Oulton Park preceded the championship round Italian GP at Monza, where she and Graham Hill won yet again with less than a pint of fuel remaining. Graham and "5781" then placed 2nd in the United States GP at Watkins Glen positioning him to wrap up the Championship in South Africa in a sister car. "Old Faithful" indeed…


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. February 15, 2003; Eddie Pells writing for the AP reported that NASCAR, more than any other sport, that might not be all bad.
The Daytona 500 on Sunday will mark the 25th time NASCAR's biggest race has been televised live, and in the last quarter century, no sport has put its fans closer to the action via TV.
In-car cameras. Eavesdropping on conversations between crew chiefs and drivers. Continuously scrolling race statistics. Pit road reporters.
It's the football equivalent of having microphones and cameras in the locker room, on the sideline and inside the players' helmets.
"Fans want more and more," said Fox director Artie Kempner. "We've come up with a format to be able to present that."
Fox Sports, which enters the third year of a $2.8 billion contract it signed along with NBC, will introduce the Fly-Cam for Sunday's race, a camera that dangles on a cable above pit road and travels up to 65 mph to check out the action during pit stops.
It's the next step in a trendsetting process that began in 1979, when Ken Squier persuaded executives at CBS that stock-car racing could prosper in the Sunday-afternoon time slot during a normally low season for sports.
This year, more than 30 million Americans will watch the Daytona 500, which surpassed the Indianapolis 500 as the most-watched race in 1996.
"It was a tough sell," Squier said. "There was a general feeling that this was more of a novelty thing and that it wouldn't work on a national level."
It has worked, mainly because of the access granted to the networks.
In 1982, TV introduced the first stationary in-car camera at the Daytona 500.
A year later, the first remote-control in-car camera was used in Cale Yarborough's car.
From there, there has been a steady increase in microphones, information, reporters and camera angles, and NASCAR has welcomed it all.
It's quite a contrast to the NFL, which has become America's most popular sport despite a relative lack of inside access during games. For instance, this year at the Super Bowl, ABC made a huge deal over the miking of Jerry Rice and John Lynch, and the few tidbits - hardly any of them insightful - it played for viewers during the game.
NASCAR has been doing stuff like that for 20 years.
"When you put people who love to watch racing with the technological people we've got, you put it all together and come up with a great product," said former driver Darrell Waltrip, a Fox analyst who made a splash when he began shouting "Boogity, boogity, boogity!" at the start of races.
Another innovation this year is a feature on digital cable that allows viewers to choose between seven different angles from cameras inside the car. Fans also get to vote online on which cars to place the cameras in.
Maybe the most inventive concept came in 2001, in the first year of the new contract, when Fox brought scrolling race updates - with speeds, placement, position changes and other data, on the top of the screen.
At the time, critics wondered if the scrolls produced too much clutter. These days, those kind of scrolls and bars are practically taken for granted, not only on race broadcasts, but during football games and on news channels.
"It's all in response to the needs of the viewers," Kempner said. "You've got a small TV screen, limited time. Experts need to focus on the race, and we needed to find a way to present information with the least obstruction."
Of course, with progress comes problems.
Fox made a huge PR blunder in 2001 when it decided not present logos of the cars whose sponsors hadn't paid to advertise with the network. It was, Fox explained, a way to reward paying advertisers for their loyalty.
Fox got burned by that decision, and within days, it relented - realizing that removing a brand name was akin to referring to John Elway's team simply as Denver instead of the Broncos or Derek Jeter's team as New York instead of the Yankees.
Later that year, NBC got criticized when news spread that it had met with drivers and urged them to spice up their post-race victory celebrations, despite the fact that many drivers had trouble merely crawling out of the car after an exhausting three-hour ride.
A few months after that, Robby Gordon's chances at victory ended when a telemetry box that provides on-screen data such as rpm, speed and track position burst into flames on the floorboard.
"We've lost races under freak circumstances in the past that seemed to be in the bag, but this one takes the cake," crew chief Royce McGee said at the time.
But NASCAR never apologized, and Gordon never really expected it.
Innovations such as the telemetry box are what make fans feel that they're in the car during the telecasts. In turn, TV has helped make the series and its drivers rich.
"We're great at rejiggering it and making it better," Waltrip said. "That's what we do."


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3/17: Wednesday Briefing
March 17, 2021 By rebecca No comments
We are now in Phase 1b, Tier 2 of vaccine eligibility!
Newly eligible people include pregnant people, as well as individuals with disabilities that put them at high risk for severe COVID-19 illness.
High-risk worker groups across several areas including grocery, agriculture, firefighting, and more.
People who are unsure if their disability puts them at greater risk are advised with their health care provider.
Anyone who supports the daily, functional and health needs of someone who is at high risk of COVID-19 illness due to advanced age, long term physical condition, co-morbidities, or developmental or intellectual disability is considered a health care worker and is therefore eligible as well. They can be licensed, unlicensed, paid, unpaid, formal or informal. The person for whom they are providing care can be an adult or child.
Veterans of any age can also now get vaccinated through the VA by calling 206-716-5716.
It is expected that tomorrow, March 17th, vaccine eligibility will open to pregnant people, individuals with disabilities that put them at high risk for COVID, as well as people who work in certain settings where they interact with many people such as agriculture, food processing, grocery stores, public transit, firefighting, law enforcement, and incarceration facilities.
By mid-April, the governor's office expects to open vaccine eligibility to people age 16 and older with two or more medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe COVID illness complications, as well as anyone over 50 who had not been previously eligible.
All other adults can expect to have vaccine access by the start of summer.
Pierce County businesses or organizations with capacity to run or facilitate a community vaccination clinic can contact Tacoma Pierce County Health Department by calling 253-649-1412.
Individuals can also go to coronavirus.wa.gov to search for providers, clinics, and pharmacies that may be offering vaccine appointments elsewhere in the state.
The governor has published his order regarding the resumption of in-person schooling that he'd announced last Friday.
All public schools in WA must offer 30% in-person instruction to Elementary school families by April 5th
They must offer middle and high school students the option for in-person schooling by April 19th
Districts may continue to offer fully remote or virtual instruction for families who want it.
The Tacoma Pierce County Health Dept reported 164 new COVID cases today and 1 new COVID-related death.
The 14-day case rate per 100,000 is 139.
The current Moratorium on residental rental evictions is set to expire on March 31st.
Anyone having trouble paying rent or utilities can apply for financial assistance by going to https://piercecountywa.gov/housinghelp or by calling 211 and asking to be referred to rental assistance.
Eligibility is open to those renting apartments or homes, renters staying in hotels or motels, people renting an RV space, those renting from a family member or friend or renting a room in a shared house, as well as those using a section 8 voucher.
In addition to permanent regular testing locations, The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept offers free mobile testing events. Testing events this week are:
Thur, Mar 18: Vassault Park
Fri Mar 19: Center at Norpoint and at Madrona Park in the Oakland neighborhood
Testing runs 10am-3pm.
If you need later hours, the Lakewood State Emissions Inspection Station is open till 5:30pm
If your business or organization has the capacity to serve as a mobile testing site, get in touch with Tony Smith of the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department by emailing TSmith@TPCHD.org.

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Maurice Guiraud-Rivière, né Jean Achille Maurice Guiraud à Toulouse le  et mort en 1947 est un peintre, dessinateur, et sculpteur français.

Biographie

Formation artistique

Neveu du sculpteur Théodore Rivière, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière est élève de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris où il étudie sous la direction d'Antonin Mercié, maître de son oncle et comme eux, natif de Toulouse.

Il expose au Salon des artistes français à partir de 1907, et également au Salon des humoristes.

Œuvres

Sculpteur de style Art déco, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière est l'auteur de nombreuses statuettes  principalement sur les thèmes de la femme, du sport, de l'aviation ou de l'automobile. La plupart de ses œuvres sont éditées par la maison Etling qui, fondée en 1909, fut très active dans l'édition de bronzes Art déco et représentait de nombreux sculpteurs de ce mouvement artistique dont Demetre Chiparus.

Maurice Guiraud-Rivière est également connu pour ses mascottes automobiles, domaine dans lequel il s'est beaucoup investi. Il fait partie des sculpteurs ayant créé quelques-unes des plus belles mascottes connues lors de l'âge d'or de cette production, de 1919 à 1930. Ses mascottes sont actuellement recherchées par les collectionneurs.

Il est aussi un auteur de modèles pour la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres entre 1911 et 1923.

Il est également l'auteur de dessins humoristiques et d'aquarelles d'inspiration orientaliste peintes lors d'un voyage au Maroc en 1933. De retour du Maroc, il réalise des affiches pour les Chemins de fer du Maroc et Air France.

Liste

Statuettes en bronze ou chryséléphantines

thèmes féminins

Thèmes sportifs

Thèmes liés à l'automobile et au hippisme

Thèmes animaliers
Maurice Guiraud-Rivière s'est peu illustré en dehors d'animaux associés à une figure de femme ou de sujets pour les mascottes automobile.
 Tigre marchant.
 Lionne.
 Écureuils, céramique.
 Les éléphants au ballon, céramique.

Mascottes automobiles

Statuettes en céramique

 Tête de femme (buste).
 Venezia (allégorie).
 Arlequin, céramique émaillée craquelée blanc gris et vert, vers 1930.

Varia

 Buste de Philibert de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ancy-le-Franc, château d'Ancy-le-Franc.
 La Charité de saint Martin, vers 1930, bas-relief ornant le tympan du porche de l'église Saint-Martin de Roisel.
 Jeanne André, médaillon en marbre, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Sculpteur français du XXe siècle
Peintre français du XXe siècle
Élève de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts au XXe siècle
Naissance en février 1881
Naissance à Toulouse
Décès en 1947

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Q: Syntax highlighting code with Javascript What Javascript libraries can you recommend for syntax highlighting <code> blocks in HTML?
(One suggestion per answer please).

A: How about:
syntaxhighlighter
highlight.js
JSHighlighter

A: If you're using jQuery there's Chilli:
http://code.google.com/p/jquery-chili-js/
All you have to do is include the jquery-chili.js and recipes.js, and do the highlight with
$("code").chili();

It should figure out the language by itself.

A: I'm very happy with SHJS. It supports a bevy of languages and seems pretty fast and accurate.
Here's an example where I use it on my blog. I'm using my own custom CSS file that simulates Coda's syntax highlighting. Email me if you'd like to use it.

A: I recently developed one called rainbow.
The main design goal was to make the core library really small and make it really easy for developers to extend.
See http://rainbowco.de.

A: jQuery.Syntax is an extremely fast and lightweight syntax highlighter. It has dynamic loading of syntax source files and integrates cleanly using CSS or modelines.
It was developed specifically to fill a gap - that is: a fast, clean, client-side syntax parser.

A: I'm not being argumentative but just thought it worth mentioning that if you're using a CMS or blog platform then using a backend highlighter is better for obvious reasons — Have a look at Geshi(http://qbnz.com/highlighter/) if you're interested. Actually you could set up your server to parse HTML content through a backend technology — so there is no need for the JS highlighters at all. (The only functionality they add is the ability to print/copy[using swf].)

A: If you are looking for syntax highlighting in an in-browser editor, try CodeMirror.

A: SyntaxHighlighter is available as a GitHub project.

A: SyntaxHighlighter

A: This article at the Web Resources Depot lists a bunch of options for highlighting code, some of which use Javascript. It was published on 4th May 2009.

A: What about Prism by Lea Verou.
From her blog post announcement in June (2012):

*

*It's tiny. The core is only 1.5KB minified & gzipped.

*It's incredibly extensible. Not only it's easy to add new languages (that's a given with every syntax highlighter these days), but also to
  extend existing ones.

*It supports parallelism through Web Workers, for better performance in certain cases.

*It doesn't force you to use any Prism-specific markup, not even a Prism-specific class name, only standard markup you should be using
  anyway. So, you can just try it for a while, remove it if you don't
  like it and leave no traces behind.

A: jQuery Syntax Highlighter is a new one based on Google's Prettify - a really really really popular plain javascript syntax highlighter.
It supports such things as code and pre blocks, able to use classnames like language-javascript to indicate we want it to highlight, as well as wordwrap. You can copy and paste code by selecting it normally instead of having to open a raw view like many others. It can be further customised by using the HTML5 data attribute data-sh or via specifying options at initialisation. A great stable choice which is updated regularly.

A: StackOverflow uses the Prettify library.

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Christchurch Memorial RSA is holding a Passchedaele memorial parade and service at 11:00am on Thursday 12 October 2017.
The parade will begin forming on the Hereford Street bridge at the North end of the Park of Remembrance at 10:40am and will march to the Bridge of Remembrance at 10:50am through the Park of Remembrance where 842 Fields of Remembrance crosses and poppies will be set out.
The parade will be led by a detachment of the NZ Army Band and members of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Trust on horseback.
The remembrance service will commence at 11:00am and will include placing of wreaths.


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Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn, one of the largest independent, international beer businesses in the U.K., has unveiled plans to drive growth in the U.S....
Award-Winning Tours Returns for Tröegs
By Tröegs Independent Brewing on September 13, 2021
Tröegs Independent Brewing announced the return of its award-winning Guided Production Tour. In 2020, it was voted "Best Brewery Tour in America" by readers of...
Summit Attributes Success to Tradition, Community in 35th Anniversary
By Summit Brewing on September 13, 2021
On Sept. 24, 1986 Summit Brewing Co. sold its first two kegs to Johnny's Bar in Saint Paul, Minn. In June 2021, 35 years later,...
Ballast Point Switches Original Victory at Sea to 16 oz Cans
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With colder months on the horizon, Ballast Point is celebrating the kick-off to the season with the launch of its flagship Victory at Sea Imperial...
Baxter Celebrates 4th Year of Limb-it-less Blonde Ale with Travis Mills
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Last post, I discussed the first chapter of Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong. The first chapter was essentially an introduction to what the book would be focusing upon, and chapter two is where we jump right in.
Chapter two is titled "The Multiple Talents of Students with Learning Disabilities". I will say that the title and length of this chapter initially threw me for a loop.
First of all, as someone who teaches students with learning disabilities, I am already aware they have a huge plethora of talents and abilities. I am also aware that there are a vast number of different learning disabilities and to write in one small chapter all of the various learning disabilities and all of the hundreds of thousands of talents these children possess seemed no easy feat.
However, I will say that this chapter was very good at broadly discussing learning disabilities, most notably dyslexia, as well as strategies to incorporate in the classroom to help these students to succeed.
Each chapter in the book discusses various things students with neurodiversities need in the classroom and life to help them succeed (such as strength awareness and assistive technology), but one thing in particular which I really like is the inclusion of positive role models and success stories. Kids love to hear, see, and read about famous people who are like them. Knowing that they are struggling and that these people who have the same neurodiversities as them also struggled, but made it through and greatly succeeded is exactly what students need.
Indeed, it has inspired a project I want to begin in my classroom in which students research and present a role model to the class. It would be great for them to learn more about their "disability" as well as learn about how someone facing the same challenges succeeded on a large scale.


SALISBURY, Md. – The Salisbury University men's and women's tennis teams saw the final match of their spring break trip to California cancelled due to rainy conditions in Claremont, California.
The matches, slated to be played against Trinity (Conn.) College, will not be rescheduled.
The teams will return to action on Friday, March 29 when they travel to St. Mary's College of Maryland for their Capital Athletic Conference opening match. The contest will begin at 3:30 p.m.


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£500-a-bird! How falcons get first-class airline treatment
This viral picture of VIP birds of prey en route to Saudi Arabia came as no surprise to Bryn Close, breeder to the sheikhs
Carrion baggage: 80 falcon hawks on a flight to Jeddah. Photograph: Ahmet Yasar
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Bryn Close was not surprised by the picture flying around the web this week showing 80 falcons on an airline flight to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The birds of prey sit on boxes on the middle-row seats, apparently ignoring the safety talk. "To me that's totally normal, we do it all the time," he says from a Doncaster industrial estate, where he breeds the fastest birds in the world. "But when we do it they normally send a private jet over here to pick them up."
There is big money in falcons, nearly all of it circling around the deserts outside Middle Eastern cities. For centuries, tribesmen in the region used the birds to hunt. Today, as cities including Jeddah as well as Dubai and Abu Dhabi have exploded, falcons have become economic as well as cultural status symbols.
"It's all part of a massive heritage," says Close, who exports about 200 young birds a year to Middle Eastern clients including Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, the billionaire crown prince of Dubai. The prince, 34, is also a keen horseman, fisherman, skydiver and car collector.
Today, the birds have exhausted their prey around the cities, and lavish hunting trips to wilder grounds in Pakistan, Iran and Morocco are popular. "But then they started getting kidnapped and it was costing them millions in ransoms," Close says. In 2015, 100 armed men kidnapped 26 Qatari hunters in Iraq, including members of the ruling family.
Falcon racing has exploded as a safer, local pursuit. Close has just returned from the President's Cup in Abu Dhabi. The president himself is another client. In 2014, the top seven winning birds in the title race came from Close's farm. "They gave me a Rolex and a Range Rover for my efforts," he says. "I sold the Range Rover out there because it was left-hand drive."
Close delivers his birds while they are young in padded travel boxes. Airlines in the region are equipped to carry them between races. Qatar Airways allows six falcons in the economy cabin per flight, for an excess baggage fee of up to $630 (£500) per bird. The airline would not comment on how many avian passengers it carries.
Close, a former shop fitter from an impoverished background in Newcastle upon Tyne, sleeps in a caravan for half the year while he tends to his beloved birds. But life has been good since he started breeding 17 years ago. He prefers not to talk prices, but it is fair to say his revenues are in the millions. "I have to pinch myself sometimes," he says. "When I first went to Abu Dhabi I was staying on a mattress on the floor in a converted greenhouse. This year, I was picked up in a gold Rolls-Royce and taken to the presidential suite at the Emirates Palace hotel."


This morning I stepped on the scales and urgh. The number looking back at me had definitely jumped up. I know it's normal for women to gain weight in pregnancy, we're carrying around a load of extra fluids and a little person after all, but does that make it easy to accept?
As someone who has spent my life watching my weight I don't find it easy seeing the numbers on the scales getting bigger. I love food too much to diet and I struggle to fit in the time for much exercise so for me the key is to keep my weight in a manageable window. If my weight gets to my upper limit I can spend a week or two making an effort to get back to normal. Pregnancy weight gain is different though because the weight goes up despite following my normal habits.
Funnily enough I am more body confident with a bump and you are more likely to find pregnant me in figure fitting dresses than normal me, but that doesn't stop me feeling like a whale at times. I am happy to have a big bump, but not to get bigger in other places.
According to the NHS "Most pregnant women gain between 10kg and 12.5kg" mostly in the second half of the pregnancy. Within 2 weeks of giving birth of both my girls I had lost 10kg and 8kg so I know much of the expected gain is purely baby related. On the other hand I've also heard horror stories from older ladies who claim they have never managed to lose that extra pregnancy weight.
Of course some people use the "eating for two" excuse to indulge, when else can you get away with elasticated waistbands on all your clothing? As much as I might have wanted to eat lots in the past I have struggled to gain much weight in my previous pregnancies. In the first trimester I am normally "off" food unless it's toast or chips and not long after my appetite returns in the 2nd trimester I develop awful heartburn which changes what I eat (chocolate and fatty foods are awful for heartburn) and how I eat (smaller meals and less snacking) and then near the end there is so little space for my stomach anyway. So the sudden jump in weight I have experienced at 18 weeks in this pregnancy is pretty unusual for me.
The response to my laments from both G and my friends was unanimously that I should chill, that my weight gain is small and that I'm pregnant. Yes ok, I hear you, but with 25 years of standing on scales and harshly assessing myself it will take time to accept my bulging body. I probably need to put the crisps and sweets down and go for a swim, but maybe I'll have a little nap first?
How Do I Know If I Am Having A Miscarriage?


The Burglars starring Dyan Cannon, Omar Sharif. Written, produced and Directed by Henri Verneuil. A Columbia Picture. Colour and Panavision.
The Burglars is a very bad film, but it's also a very entertaining and exciting one. The acting is drab 1950's style. The direction abysmally unimaginative, except for the predictable, but nevertheless exciting car chase (not directed by Verneuil). Other cliches abound like flowery hats at a vicarage tea party. Dyan Cannon plays an American pin-up star and Jean Paul Belmondo survives an 800 feet fall. The burglars break into a solid steel safe in about 60 seconds. The dubbing is in a kind of mid Atlantic French. It's all so terrible but such fun.


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OREGON TRALE
Dardanelles-West End
Informing the TargetZack Hemsey
REGISTERED?:
RELATIVE AGE:
Samuel Oregon Trale
USA/Gold Hill/Hero
ALIAS(ES):
ORIGINAL TEAM:
APPEARANCE DATE:
Don "Major Deej" Finger
RELATIONS:
Humphrey Trale (father, deceased)
Caroline Trale (mother, deceased)
Kit Trale (brother)
Sarah Trale (sister)
Oregon Trale is a true hero; a hero who fought against an alien invasion, a hero who fights to save lives and uphold the law every day...and a hero to his magically hidden community of Gold Hill, Oregon.
To tell of Oregon Trale, you must first know about where he comes from and how it came to be.
Back in 1860, a group of families, most originating from Europe, helped found a hamlet named Dardanelles, located along the Rogue River in Oregon. The T'Vaults, Ambroses, Swindens, Hawkinses, Rhotens, and Evanses families were immigrants who had left Europe because of one secret - MAGIC.
An adventurous immigrant known as Thomas Chavner, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, had originally founded the area and took to exploring the region with his newfound neighbors. It didn't take long before Chaver quickly learned that his neighbors were magic users. At first, Chavner was concerned about 'the devil being in them', but when he saw that they used their magic to help others, he agreed to carry on their secret. Sadly, this became an issue when he and his neighbors soon discovered gold in the hill above Dardanelles.
Chavner, upon finding gold, bought up mining rights all over the area, where he successfully extracted gold from a 'pocket gold' bloom that eventually earned him the equivalent of $40 million in today's money. Once the word of gold spread, thousands of folks came from all over and tried to do the same as Chavner, buying up land, setting up mines and tearing up the beauty of the region in the process. Dardanelles quickly gave way to the new town of "Gold Hill" and became an overnight boom-town complete with saloons, house of ill-repute, hotels, liquor stores and a stagecoach stop. Chavner and his 'secret magical' neighbors made a lot of money in the process. Although money was good, the magical families really wanted seclusion to enjoy their way of life and not become ostracized from a town they'd helped build. This caused a bit of irritation with Chavner, seeing as he was now the wealthiest man in the region and his indifference to his 'magical neighbors' became more apparent each year.
In 1883, Chavner gave some of his land in the town of Gold Hill and made it public for further town expansion...just as he finished a deal with the Oregon & California Railroad to make a train stop (and station) in Gold Hill, ignoring Dardanelles (where most of the magic community stayed). This made Chavner and his family richer and in turn, drained Dardanelles of nearly all business and commerce, causing Dardanelles to turn into a ghost town withing the next 4 years. Bad blood flowed between Chavner and the magical townsfolk, leading to first fights and even a few 'unusual' happenstances attributed to 'strange occurrences' but were actually magical 'attacks and mischief' against Chavner. Chavner, although in failing health, held firm on his anger against the secret magical neighbors, but never outed them for their magical ways.
Finally In 1888, on Chavner's death bed, he had his will changed to give a 20 square mile chunk of land in the hills north of Gold Hill and alongside Sardine Creek and the Rogue River to the T'Vaults, Ambroses, Swindens, Hawkinses, Rhotens, and Evanses - his secret magical neighbors - free and clear. In the will, he stated the land was "the most beautiful land [he'd] ever seen and that the mining boom and [his] greed destroyed it. Make the land as it once was, maybe even a better place. Rebuild the Dardanelles into 'your' unique community that you've always wanted. I know what you do with it will be magical".
As such, over the next several years, the mines and gold all dried up; the miners, vagrants and boom-towners all left, and Gold Hill practically became a ghost town unto itself. In the land deeded to the Chavner's 'special' neighbors, no one saw any new housing permits, fresh businesses, or for that matter those same neighbors. They all seemed to 'disappear', and along with them, any expectation of further development in the region...all except for one strange curiosity...the Oregon Vortex.
The Oregon Vortex was an old Gold Assay office that collapsed aat an angle off its foundation one day and seemed to operate with a strange new set of physics in the land in and around the office. The entire office building, angled at 40 degrees relative to the ground, gave the perception that you were standing straight up; pictures of people standing next to each other on the property conveyed differing heights from picture frame to picture frame, seemingly like human perception was warped in that area. In 1930, this 'curiosity' opened to the public and has even to this day been a tourist attraction, but the truth behind the Oregon Vortex actually ties into the disappearance of the secret magical families as well.
Back around 1890, the T'Vaults, Ambroses, Swindens, Hawkinses, Rhotens, and Evanses, a new Chinese family, the Chos, and even one of Chanvner's sons (who, unknown to his father, was having an affair with Katrina Swinden and learning Arcane magic secretly) went to their newly deeded land. There, they spent a month performing a difficult 24-hour a day, 7-day a week magical ritual that created a magical 'vortex' barrier; a barrier that, anyone NOT of magical powers, would ever perceive of the barrier simply due to an alteration of their own human perceptions that 'nothing was there' and that anyone walking toward, near or at the barrier instead would have their internal sense of direction altered to prevent them for even getting close to the stealth-like barrier of the deeded property. Even from the air, the land below seemed nothing different than standard trees and vegetation, bereft of human habitation. Although many entered the land illegally or in search of squatter's rights or an old vein of gold, the barrier's 'perception alteration' spell always made the curious wander away from the property with no inkling of anything being amiss. So what was the secret the magical families were hiding?
The newly created secret mage-town of Dardanelles.
The magical families who set up the barrier decided to create a new magical township on their newly deeded land; one of the few ever created in the world. The magical families had a unique set of skills as well; they were all from DIFFERENT schools of magic - Arcane, Nature, Spirit, Divination and even Technomagic. As such, their use of magic was unlike anything anyplace on the planet. Different schools of magic NEVER interacted in one community; one usually became the dominant school, but in this town, all were treated equally, even the Chinese Cho family and their Spirit school of magic.
To explain the Oregon Vortex anomaly, when the magical stealth perception barrier was created, it used the veins of quartz, as well as a prominent magical ley line, to provide the magical energies needed to maintain the barrier. Sadly, a branch of the Ley line and a high concentration of underground quartz next to that Gold Assayers office created a 'spur' that unfortunately couldn't be fully masked. The shack and the grounds around the shack still altered human perceptions, but did not allow for a stealth field/shield to form, thus making a 200 yard area now known as the regional curiosity (previously mentioned) as the "Oregon Vortex". Try as they might, even to this day, the magic users of the the hidden mage-town of the Dardanelles could not and have not been able to undo the Oregon Vortex spur.
From 1890 until 1999, the hidden mage-town Dardanelles was never found or breached unknowingly. The families grew over the years, sometimes bringing in new wives and/or husbands they'd found in the neighboring towns and region. The Dardanelles mage-townfolks did leave their town on a routine basis, going into Gold Hill or neighboring towns to get supplies that they needed, making friends, but never directly inviting said friends to Dardanelles or telling their secrets of magic (that is, until one 'married' into the family - for good). The township made its own laws and rules, and had a mayor, a council (veteran and esteemed town mages), a sheriff and, by 1999, had a bustling town of nearly 3,500 townfolks.
The town of Dardanelles was beautiful; an old west style town from the late 1800s, but with magical intonations here and there. Everyone was civil and courteous, as in 1800s-style formalities, civility and gestures (tipping of hats to women, polite conversations, respect, etc.) Magic was taught in the schoolhouses for children, as well as standard American studies, all predominantly towards benevolence. A couple of 'trade schools' were made available in the town, including magic-fighting, known as "magefighting", which was taught mostly to the town's sheriff and deputies).
The town rules on its laws by Council vote. Law enforcement done by the Sheriff and his deputies. Punishment and inquisitions were performed by Prosecutors; there are no lawyers or prison wardens in Dardenelles. Prosecutors are trained to use magic to punish or extract confessions. A prosecutor's methods, by today's ethical standards, would be mostly considered barbaric, but as such, kept a health 'air of fear' from attempting to perform any illegal or immoral act.
Everyone in town was allowed to use magic; up to age 16, children and young teens were only authorized to use magic in the presence of their parents or guardians (and if misused, the child AND the parents were 'prosecuted'). Between one's 16th and 18th birthday, you were allowed 'probationary' authorization for non-supervised use of magic, however, infractions would lead to 'severe prosecution'; a path most teens feared more than anything.
Punishment was meted out in several different ways, but the most extreme was banishment. Murder, grand larceny, malevolent use of magics against a person (i.e., curses) or sustained maleficent magical infractions would lead to prosecutors 'ripping the magic' from the accused's body and soul, ripping their memories out of their minds about Dardanelles and banishing them out into the 'real world' as shells of the accused's once former selves. These cast-out individuals usually became the bums and dregs of the outlying non-magical towns and cities in Oregon.
The sheriff and his police force were responsible for maintaining law and order. The Sheriff was usually the best magefighter in the town; a title that was tested every 4 years in the "Sheriff Electoral Battle", wherein anyone who wished to challenge the sheriff for the job would do so; the winner, as judged by the council (not the mayor), would become (or continue to be) Sheriff for the next 4 years.
As stated earlier, from 1890 to 1999, the mage-town of Dardanelles went on in a relatively blissful utopian self-governed state of being. In January 2000 though, that all changed with the Soltan Star Empire invaded Earth.
A battalion of Soltans landed IN the Dardanelles town square (and nowhere else in Oregon) and destroyed the town, obliterating the stealth and perception spells around the town and killing 9 out of every 10 of Dardanelles magical citizen. During that invasion, Sheriff Humphrey Trale and his deputies took out over 100 Soltan warriors themselves before each one of them were killed. Humphrey Trale's son, Samuel Trale, picked up his dad's magical guns and gun belt and went on a rage-driven assault on the Soltans, killing over three dozen himself. Just as Samuel was about to be killed in an epic battle with the Soltan Battalion Commander, the Knights Arcanus arrived and joined in on the fighting. The Knights Arcanus, coupled with the remaining Dardanelles townfolks, fought like warriors born against the Soltans.
As the tide seemed to turn against the town's few remaining defenders, the 'non-magical folks' from the neighboring towns of Gold Hill, Sam's Valley and Medford, along with the Oregon Army National Guard arrived and started fighting the Soltans. Thanks for quick thinking and actions from all non-alien combatants, the magic siphoning equipment that the Soltans were trying to set up was quickly destroyed. Without the siphon, the Soltans failed in their mission. The Soltan Battalion retreated back into space to one of their in-orbit Soltan Battle Cruisers (where if was later discovered that that same Soltan Battalion Commander was executed for his failure in the taking over Dardanelles), however, out of the original 3500 magical residence at the time of the invasion, only 350 Dardanelles citizens remained.
For the next few weeks, the non-magical communities helped bury the dead and care for the wounded. The town, 90% destroyed, would have to be rebuilt from scratch. The Dardanelles neighboring townships offered up their homes for the homeless magical community, vowing to keep their magical community's existence a secret as best they could. Sadly, with the stealth and perception fields down, the town was visible and accessible to anyone now. Nonetheless, the Oregon Army National Guard cordoned off the town to keep trespasser at bay (even making a no-fly zone over the town), with only one condition - that should Oregon ever need their help, Dardanelles would reciprocate when the call was given by Oregon.
Surviving Dardanelles Mayor Ambrose agreed to the deal.
By 2003, Dardanelles had its stealth and perception field up again, but this time, the site of the "Oregon Vortex" now became a gateway for any and all in the area to be allowed 'day passes' to visit Dardanelles that were on 'the list'. With the approval of the Dardanelles Mayor and Council as well as the outlying township's, a 'short list' of authorized visitors, town government councilors and benevolent businessmen/women, equating about 300 to 350 people, were allowed to enter Dardanelles between 9am and 5pm, Monday through Saturday.
Sadly, word got out about the 'hidden' community. Reporters, paranormal experts, ghost-hunters, treasure seekers and the curious spent the better part of the last decade trying to 'find and access' the Dardanelles. There were a lot of rumors created about the "Oregon Vortex" as being a portal to the 'hidden dimensional old west town', but as usual, the locals explain away the 'crazy notions' of the 'whack-a-doodle' people trying to find something 'that didn't exist'. The outer-lying communities did all they could to keep Dardanelles from the rest of the world, and as such, Dardeneles' citizens and the local towns and the communities all worked together to help each other out like family. A grievously ill child would get poenicilin or antibiotics from the 'non-magicals', while the 'magicals' would provide 'ever-burning firewood' to say, Gold Hill's less fortunate, so as to stay warn during the cold snowy winters in the region. Even the local newspapers helped to protect the Dardanelles by running stories about people caught creating 'hoaxes' about magical things and made-up accounts of 'invisible secret magical cities in people's backyards'.
In 2010, Samuel Trale, the son of the Sheriff who died protecting the town during the Soltan Invasion, entered himself in the magefight for Sheriff in the town's every-4-year Sheriff Electoral Battle. Along with him was a 30+ year old Dardanelles survivor of the Soltan Invasion named Mordecai T'Vault, who was horrendously scarred (and unable to be magically healed) while trying to save a couple of the surviving town's council members (Mordecai, however, was also chided for protecting ONLY the two council members in an underground cave and not fighting off the hordes of Soltans with the rest in the streets alongside the Knights Arcanus and the other remaining town defenders). The defending Sheriff, Clarence Chavner, was considered only 2nd best to Samuel's father in magefighting.
In the first round, it was Trale vs. T'vault.
Not only did Trale beat D'Vault in record time, but new employed new magefighting techniques no one had every seen before; techniques that he learned from being exposed to 'the internet' and how to use gun-fu and crav maga in his fighting techniques. D'Vault was furious about the 'unauthorized' techniques (which weren't really unauthorized) and demanded Trale be disqualified. In a 5-4 vote by the Dardanelles Council, Trale was deemed the winner. D'Vault left the town, never to return (maybe...).
The next round, it was Trale vs. Chavner.
The battle turned into a 15-minute all out epic event, the likes of which had never been seen before. Trale countered everything Chavner threw at him, all the while Chavner fought with the skill of a warrior born.
In the end, Trale won the magefight.
The Council voted and agreed that Trale was to be their new Sheriff, the youngest ever appointed in Dardanelles' history. Chavner gracefully and courteously acquiesced his job and title to Trale. Ensuingly, Chavner was promoted to be the next Master Magefighter for the town's Magefighting School.
Between 2010 and 2017, Sheriff Trale did his job better than any mage-town Sheriff before him. Not only did he help to maintain law and order in Dardanelles, but he also assisted other local town sheriffs and police chiefs in maintaining their law and order. As part of the Sheriff's role for Dardanelles, Trale had to wear traditional 'magical gear' that bore a semblance to clothing styles of the late 1800s. His magical gear provided his body armor, magical alerts, sensors, alarms, perception, true sight and several amplifier and magical artifacts needed in performing his duties. As such, when people saw Sheriff Trale walking down the streets of, say, the non-magical town of Gold Hill, people took notice to his 'out of date' clothing style and mannerisms. Most non-town folk chalked this up as a 'tourist trap' tool to lure curious out-of-towners to 'buy' things in their towns; the locals however, had nothing but respect for Trale and the Dardanelles community.
That all changed in mid 2017.
A band of radical protestors, without warning or notice, converged on the town of Gold Hill (located just south of Dardanelles) and began barricading themselves in for a stop-traffic 'sit-in' protect against 'magic users' in their state. The protesters were secretly led by none other than Mordecai T'Vault in disguise. The protest turned violent in less than an hour, with local police overwhelmed at the hundreds of crazy radical protestors, who began turning over cars, throwing Molotov Cocktails into Gold Hill town businesses and setting fire to stacks of old tires piled up in the middle of the town's roads.
When Sheriff Trale showed up, the protestors mobbed him. Using his natural fighting skills and not his magic powers (or magic pistols) to subdue them, he battled through the mob, trying his best to prevent any injuries to the innocent or the rest of the town, but the mob was too much. Trale called for his deputies, thus leaving Dardanelles without any law enforcement...and a means for Mordecai to enter Dardanelles and get his revenge.
After an hour of fighting the protestors, the other local town police forces combined their efforts and arrested all the protesters, however, it was too late. The media arrived ignoring the damage and strife done to the town, but instead highlighting the the 'bloodied' and 'unnecessarily arrested peaceful protestors', while vilifying the police and Sheriff Trale for inflicting such cruel abuses in the face of freedom of speech and the right to protest (which no permit had ever been authorized for said protest). The media seemed abnormally fixated on Sheriff Trale, grabbing at him and pinning him against a news van, demanding answers. It was then that Trale saw it; the look in the reporters' eyes - they were under a 'fixation' spell; a spell that would cause a normal person to become fixated on an implanted image, action or a named person, but only at the bequest of the one crafting the spell. He remembered who was the best at formulating that spell - Mordecai D'Vault.
Trale climbed up on the van, with the reporters tearing at him, trying to pull him down, even beating on him in the process. He leapt and hopped from car-top to car-top, eventually escaping the mob of crazed reporters. He ran back up the hill to the Dardanelles. When he got there, everything would change for Trale and his community thereafter.
The Dardanelles' stealth and perception field was down.
The town was visible to the naked eye once again.
As Trale entered the recently rebuilt old west style town, three or four 'non-magicals' dead batlle-gear ladened bodies were lying in their own pools of blood, each next to AR-15 machine guns. Along with the non'magical bodies, there were several 'magical' town residence lying dead on the ground, one being a little girl. Amongst the dead was one of the nine Town Council members, and next to him, ex-Sheriff/Master Magefighter Chavner, whose body seemed positioned to have tried to shield the now 'dead' councilor.
At the town center stood Mordecai, the Mayor and 4 of the 9 Town Council with the look of shook and dismay on their faces. Mordecai bellowed how Trale "failed" to protect Dardanelles from the dangerous 'non-magicals' and instead 'ran to help them' instead of 'doing his duty and protecting Dardanelles'. Mordecai stated that if he hadn't been keeping a watchful eye on Dardanelles, far more would have died at the hands of these 'radical non-magicals' that wanted to kill anyone else 'not like them'.
The four town Councilors in the town square, seemingly slow to respond, possibly in shock over what they'd just witnessed, demanded an emergency vote on the spot for the sheriff's expulsion from his duties and potential banishment by the prosecutors for Trale's failure in his duties. Four Councilors voted for expulsion and banishment, the other four Councilors, who arrived moments later, voted against, thus leaving a tie vote; a tie which the town Sheriff, by law, was normally required to cast a tie-breaker vote on, but with the charge being AGAINST said Sheriff, the responsibility, by law, fell unto the Mayor; Mayor Everett Evans, a man with a weak will, but a man of moral aptitude and kindness. The mayor's decision would either negate the charges against the Sheriff...or banish him forever from the town as nothing more than a shell of a man, bereft of all knowledge and memories of Dardanelles and anything related to magic...and a violently ripped-out soul.
The mayor, fumbling with the decision, was looking for any distraction. He didn't want to banish Trale; after all, he respected and admired Trale since the Soltan Invasion. The Mayor, instead, knelt down beside the prone figure of the 'dead' Councilor, pleading with the Councilor's dead body to help him in making the 'right' decision. Mordecai was quickly growing impatient and continued screaming at the Mayor to make the decision now to banish Trale and get it over with...but that's when fate stepped in.
The 'dead' councilor wasn't dead after all.
He was alive...but just barely.
The Mayor hollered for a Healer, but before one could arrive, the dying counselor said, "I can vote...and I say - NO - to the charges against the sheriff....he is...after all...Oregon's Trale.".
The councilor died in the Mayor's arms.
With the dying councilor's vote cast, Sheriff Trale was cleared...but the situation wasn't over.
Trale, in turn, accused D'Vault of orchestrating this whole event to push Trale out of the town, to murder Chavner, and to take charge of Dardanelles and the council for his own lust for power. As Trale was about to arrest D'Vault, the remaining Councilors stopped him. They told him that something WAS amiss about all this, but they weren't sure if now was the time to jump to such conclusions amidst 'the murderous and horrific acts' they'd all just witnessed. As such the Councilors deemed that D'Vault would be 'watched', but that, for now, to prevent any further disruption in their community, D'Vault would take over as the new Master Magefighter for tthe Magefighter school...unless Trale wished to relinquish his job as Sheriff and become the new Master Magefighter himself.
It was a Catch-22.
Trale knew he had no choice.
He HAD to remain Sheriff or D'Vault would get the Sheriff's job and then have a deciding vote against ANY tied council vote (and since D'Vault was older than Trale, D'Vault had a better shot at being a Councilor in the next few years over Trale).
Trale said he'd stay on as Sheriff.
D'Vault graciously accepted the new role as Master Magefighter and stated, "I can't wait to mold the young minds and bodies of today into PROPER magefighters to PROPERLY defend the innocent of Dardanelles".
With D'Vault in a new position of influence and power, Trale knew he had to stay close to the town to keep Mordecai in check. Of course, it didn't take but a week later for the Council and the Mayor to create a new proclamation that Trale was now also "Dardanelles' Ambassador to the World"; an idea Mordecai brought to the council's attention. In Trale's new duties, he was to tell the world about the Dardanelles and to promote the exemplary being of a true Dardanellian to leaders all over the world...an effort that would required LOTS of travel.
Thanks to quick thinking and working with the non-magicals and several young computer geeks from Gold Hill, Trale was able to promote the Dardanelles as an established United States community with a new town charter and PR firm (which locals for Gold Hill were only too happy to oblige with (more tourists and people for town businesses!)). Using state laws, protocols and legal precedence, access to the town would be (as it once was) only by cleared personnel authorized by only country and town leaders, thus preventing a trampling of the town and the region.
The hardest part to deal with was the fact that the whole world now knew about what once was their secret existence.
The stealth and perception shields never came back up after Mordecai's attempted coupe, thanks to Mordecai's new influence over the Council.
Mordecai, as the new Master Magefighter, enlisted 20+ new students, the largest class size ever in the town's history, all of which have now formally sworn 'allegiance' to their new Master Magefighter, now called Master D'Vault.
Recently, several super-villains have attempted to steal magical items from Dardenelles and/or take over the town for their own malevolent means (or possibly, as Trale suspects, manipulated and sent by Mordecai). Trale and his remaining deputies stopped them, but each time, one of his deputies either became severely injured, maimed or killed in the process, leaving fewer people to protect the town.
In one such battle, a handful of super-powered heroes arrived to aid Trale and Dardenelles against a super-villain. These heroes, led by Doctor Warder, wanted more than anything to have Sheriff Trale join them in creating a new mid-western hero team. Trale declined initially, stating his responsibilities to his town. Doctor Warder, over a beer, let Trale know that he 'understood' the politics of what was happening in Dardenelles and offered a counter-proposal. Trale join them, should he be able to, if summoned or called upon by any of the team, but if Trale had to stay to protect his town, he could do so at his own desire, with no repercussions or judgement. This way, they could help each other should any need arise, yet provide the freedom needed to fulfill one's own personal or greater duties.
Trale agreed with Doctor Warder, and within days, they all became the American Patrol.
Today, Trale is inundated with media interviews, paparazzi, curiosity seekers, thieves, protestors and the routine demands of his job to not only maintain law and order in Dardanelles, but in the neighboring communities, the state, and now via the American Patrol. His brother, Kit Trale, is now a new Sheriff's deputy; his sister, Sarah Trale, is the new gunsmith for the town.
It's only a matter of time before Mordecai finds the right time to make his next move...
Power Origin: Magic.
Arcane Bolts
Can emit blasts from his hands for good-ranked magical/energy damage.
Range is 100 feet
Can only fire 10 shots per hand/day.
Can lift self (only) to no more than 10 feet off relative ground level
Can travel at 10 mph
Can create 10' diameter portal
Can transport up to 1 mile per portal
Can only create 10 portals/day
Portal stay open for only10 seconds; close at the 10 second mark or when caster himself enters the portal, whichever occurs first
Has excellent ability to see through magically or technologically created illusion or holograms
Psyche-created illusions cannot be seen through with this power
Deflection Shield
forward-only casting shield that deflects any and all excellent-ranked magical or energy-based attacks outward as a richochet
Can maintain shield for only several seconds at a time
Can only cast 5 times/day
Can create an overcharge of an energy/source (magical, electrical, energy; not temperate) by 2x its own power level
This is usually used to overload weapons, equipment, batteries and/or boost an energy-based ability/power for only several seconds
Can only perform once/day
Diamondback Shooters (2)
Unearthly magical material
Over 100 years old
Auto-cleans itself
Can fire any of the following magical/energy cartridges (cartridges stored on "Belt of Cartridges" (see below)):
Magishot
Excellent-ranked magical/energy-based shooting shots
200 yard range
20 shots per cartridge
Excellent-ranked incendiary (heat/temperate) damage upon impact
Iceshot
Good-ranked freezing (cold/temperate) damage upon impact
Will cause impact area a good chance to freeze up for several seconds to a minute's time
Acidshot
Excellent-ranked acid (toxic/physical/chemical) damage upon impact
200 yards range
Impacted area will have feeble-ranked chemical (damage over time) effects for 12 seconds to 2 minutes
Smokeshot
creates 4x difficulty in normal vision
magically imbued, ergo, anything less than an excellent-level magical True Sight cannot see through it
Can only be seen through with excellent or better thermal imagery or X-Rays
4 shots/cartridge
Noisyshot
good-ranked sonic damage upon impact site (remarkable magnetic/adhesive) outward for 10 feet, with ranked decrease each succeeding 10 foot distance
Requires earplugs to prevent effects (pending protection rank)
Lasts for 12 seconds per shot
10 shots/cartridge
Jacket of Protection
Provides wearer good physical, energy, toxin, temperate and magical protection via a magically-based thread imbued into weave
Incredible material strength
Braids of Accuracy (2)
Each braid under the jacket's arm provides an additional level of accuracy to any and all ranged attacks and hand-held ranged weapons
Unearthly material
Chaps of Movement (CoMs)
Wearer increases normal speed in running, swimming, etc by 30% (i.e., if 10mph in a run w/o chaps, 13 mph with CoMs)
Effect lasts for 3 minutes maximum/day
Once activated, cannot be stopped until 3 minutes is up
Hat of Discussion (HoD)
Allows for incredible magical verbal communication with other selective others with a HoD up to 40 miles distance
Must 'pair' HoDs with another person's HoD within 6 feet of each other's HoDs
Must program unique 'hand gesture' to attune pairing
Can only store 40 HoD 'frequency' pairings
Activate a specific person's HoD 'frequency' using specific set of hand gestures previously programmed during 'pairing'
Belt of Cartridges (1)
Carries the following:
Magishot (10)
Fireshot (2)
Iceshot (2)
Acidshot (1)
Smokeshot (2)
Noisyshot (1)
Belt magically replaces expended (slot specific) cartridge fully charged within 10 minutes
Belt is made of amazing magical material; can withstand incredible physical damage
If belt is damaged >10%, magical cartridge replacement will not occur until the belt regenerates to 100% (Feeble healing)
Buckle of Fisticuffs (2)
One Belt Buckle separates into two sets of 'brass knuckles' that, when worn over firsts, are instead amazing-material 'bludgeoners'
provides an extra level of damage to fisticuffs and manual melee
Knife of Eternal Sharpness (1)
Carried in typical leather-material belt sheath
Auto-sharpens/cleans itself once/day
Unearthly material, 9" blade
Can pierce remarkable material and magical fields
Skull of Stealth (1)
Located on hat
when pressed for 3 seconds, will activate incredible stealth/invisibility/soundproof field around wearer
lasts 4 minutes; can be turned off sooner but it can only be activated once/day
Glasses of Vision (2)
Carries spare glasses in case in jacket
Corrects ANY vision deficiencies to 20/20 vision, including permanent blindness
Has night vision capabilities, but with a monochrome green scheme
Excellent material strength
Prevents flash blindness up to and including excellent-ranked flash blinding
Spurs of Immobility (one each boot)
Connected to boots
Using a Latin phrase, the boot's spurs turn into magically extended skewers that imbed in any material incredible strength or less to immobilize the wearer
extend 1.5 feet (18 inches)
Good for high winds, storms, slam prevention, etc.
Lasts only 2 minutes max; can turn on or off
Must recharge for an entire day after 2 minutes use before they can be used again
Can also act as heel spikes for sharp melee fighting using boots/feet
"Freedom" (Horse)
Magically imbued Mustang that can be summoned out of the blue, complete with saddle, reins, and travel equipment
Max speed: 60 mph; range 600 miles
magically armored to ensure up to good physical, magical, energy, toxin, temperate damage
Excellent (all around) abilities
Understands and is trained to respond to silent hand gestures and head movements
Can kick with remarkable force
Can only be used for 10 hours/day
Saddle carries:
40' remarkable-strength
Magishot Rifle (2)
Amazing magical material
Fires 10 remarkable level magical/energy shots
Range 300 yards
Magicshot Cartridge (1)
Hidden in leather fold of saddle (for emergencies)
Excellent energy shot
Blanket of Comfort (1)
Excellent temperate protection
Feeble physical protection
emits remarkable anti-insect, anti-bat, anti-snake, etc field (20' radius)
provides incredible soothing/comforting feeling to any wrapped in it
Magical compass (1)
Tells true north, magnetic north, magical power sources
Lantern of Eternal Light (1)
Provides typical lighting
never runs out of charge
Bag of Plenty (2)
Insert a currency, metal, food, object (small) in bag; let sit for 1 hour; replicates x10/hour
will continue to replicate so long as 1 item remains in bag; must empty bag to prevent further replication
if bag replicates too much and tears >10% of its typical material strength fibers, then the bag becomes inert
Canteen of the Eternal Oasis (2)
1 quart canteen that refills itself with pure fresh water every 10 minutes
only refills if cap is screwed back on and creates a seal
does not overflow
American Patrol Smartphone
Contains the highest powered smartphone capabilities, with an independent self-recharging power source and a range of 25 miles, or via satellite or cellular towers.
Magical Port Crystal
Square, 2 in x 2 in. Light blue clear crystal
Used for summoning teammates to bearer's location or bearer to a summoned location
Allows 1 minute response time; bearer can use Latin words to call for help or choose not to be teleported
100,000 mile range
Requires magical recharge after 1 year
Marksman: handgun & rifle (Master)
Gunsmith (Master)
Arcane Magic (Master)
Gun-Fu (Professional)
Crav Maga (Professional)
Boxing (proficient)
wrestling (proficient)
acrobatics (proficient)
aerial combat (professional)
stealth (professional)
tactical combat (professional)
Mining (proficient)
Law enforcement (Master)
Horse Riding/Care (Master)
Detective (proficient)
Knife fighting (proficient)


40 track compilation album of yesteryear, featuring tracks from the first phase of this label in the 1990s, several were unreleased on vinyl or CD before.
Available as a strictly limited tri-fold vinyl edition.
1) BOMB POPS - "Girl Daredevil"
6) BOYRACER - "No Fuel"
8) VINEGAR BLOSSOM - "Perfection Found In Good Health"
13) HULA HOOP - "French Kiss '66"
14) THE CLAIM -"Waiting For Jesus"
15) LOVE PARADE - "Lazy Days"
16) HOPE - "There´s A Place"
17) THE APPLE MOTHS - "Miserable Town"
18) FEVERFEW - "Bed Of Roses"
20) SUGAR PLANT - "Orange Filter"
21) BOYRACER - "The Useless Romantic"
22) THE GRAVY TRAIN - "Make It Better"
24) JUNIPER - "You Don´t Hide So Well"
25) TREE FORT ANGST - "You Should Have Seen The One That Got Away"
27) ANTISEPTIC BEAUTY - "Illuminate Me"
28) THE APPLE MOTHS - "Fred Astaire"
29) EVA LUNA - "She Shines"
31) HELLFIRE SERMONS - "Bill And Sarah"
32) SECRET SHINE - "Unbearable"
35) THE ROPERS - "These Days"
36) THE DREAMSCAPE - "Blackflower"
37) BOYRACER with EVEN AS WE SPEAK - "Friend"
38) THE CLAIM - "Plastic Grip"
39) THE RILEYS - "Time Will Pass"


Perhaps, the most relative aspect of Nag Ashwin's Mahanati – is its character presentation, the way Nag Ashwin has presented yesteryear Actress Savitri Garu. It's a truthful and honest befitting tribute to Savitri Garu given the fact, it deploys as a research project which articulates arcs to the researcher. While the researcher scoops Savitri's life in form of perspectives (mostly one-noted), it enlightens the audience with plenty of information as well as the researcher (Journalist played by Samantha Akkineni) in her reel life. Since, I was assigned a Research Fellowship to document a veteran Editor's life who worked in Telugu & Tamil Cinema, I've had the opportunity to watch a handful of Savitri Garu's films. Also to be honest, the film works as a documentation rather than a character study. To dumb it down, it may be called a powerful powerpoint presentation.
Mahanati is an episodic film which flows smoothly between fact and fiction, with well-executed anecdotal scenes especially the recreated film sequences like Mayabazaar. Director Nag Ashwin handles the biopic with maturity and finesse, there's no slight room to ridicule any scene or plot point which has been handled with utmost delicacy. Though, it floats over the surface – a fleeting glance of rise and fall of an Actress, a perfect cinematic compilation packed with flamboyant Cinematography and compelling Performances. But, the film focuses on her journey and less on the essential drama required.
Although never admired or even liked Keerthy Suresh's acting, her striking resemblance to Savitri Garu adds a closeness while she ably delivers a terrific performance. Dulquer Salmaan, Samantha Akkineni, Vijay Deverakonda, Rajendra Prasad, Akkineni Naga Chaitanya, Prakash Raj, etc. make a phenomenal ensemble.


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Some people claim to have been touched by the wings of angels; I guess that I could say that I was tossed, pinned and choked by a playful, spirited imp. I studied with Murashige Sensei at San Diego Aikikai, where he was the assistant instructor under Kazuo Chiba Sensei. I had moved to San Diego in order to join Chiba Sensei's kenshusei program.
Perhaps I should begin with the legend, because the stories we construct determine much of our understanding of a person's identity and spirit. Murashige Sensei's father, Aritoshi Murashige, was a student of Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo. He eventually left Judo in order to study Aikido with O Sensei. Famous for his skill and intensity as a martial artist, he inspired great fear: "I was so scared, " Chiba Sensei exclaimed, upon describing Murashige's visit to Hombu dojo; no small statement coming from someone who inspired a bit of discomfort himself. Murashige Sensei's father must have had tremendous presence; according to the stories, even petulant babies stopped crying when he walked into the room, as if they instinctively sensed a predator.
I have heard many stories about his son, too. When Murashige Sensei moved to the U.S., he took bets in bars, challenging people to fight. It was easy money. Inevitably, people placed their bets on the brawny American barfly rather than the diminutive, retiring Japanese man. Or there is the story about his mugging in Central Park, back in the days when Manhattan was a combat zone and Japanese tourists were known to be easy marks due to their tendency to carry large quantities of cash. Sensei hardly knows any English, but he holds up his watch: "You want this?" he asks. When the thug's eyes shift to the fine watch, Murashige Sensei uses uraken uchi with the same hand, smacks him in the face, and casually walks off.
I mention these stories because Murashige Sensei belied his father's fierce legacy and martial past with his joyous, idiosyncratic spirit. The reader may imagine a pretty tough character, but Sensei was droll, playful, often smiling, always mischievous. In a dojo noted for its martial intensity and serious, rigorous practice, Sensei was the dojo jester. While we nervously ran about cleaning the dojo, washing dishes or attending to Chiba Sensei, Murashige Sensei chatted away like a schoolboy on vacation. I recall him putting a drop of cream in Chiba Sensei's whisky when Chiba Sensei briefly left the table during a Friday night dinner. And then, like a little boy, he snickered, with that wonderfully complicit smile on his face.
Murashige Sensei described getting thrown by O Sensei as something magical and mysterious: "One moment standing, next moment down." He said that he had absolutely no idea what happened and how the world shifted. Similarly, Murashige Sensei's ki was an inexplicable force; a small, lean man, his power seemed to come out of nowhere. If you capture his technique in the stillness of a photograph, it may look like he was a bit off balance, a bit lackadaisical. But his casual mien and small frame belied tremendous internal strength, timing, and subtly. His shoulders were relaxed and free of tension, and his hands, soft and extended, as if ready to hold a baby. Or strike you hard in the gut. He also threw with great power and ease: his iriminage had the studied casualness and virtuosity of baseball great Sadaharu Oh batting against an easy pitch (Sensei would have me take ukemi in iriminage by blocking his throw with my arm to reduce the chance of injury). * Soft power, he would call it. I had felt nothing like it before.
Murashige Sensei at USAF Western Region (now Birankai) Summer Camp, c. 1998. Uke, B. Pincus. Photo by Gary Payne, courtesy of Birankai.
Do I believe in magic? If I define magic as a sense of wonder in the face of the inexplicable, then I suppose Murashige Sensei had magic (if he was still around, he would correct me, call it "The Power" instead, and toss me several times for good measure. His technical skill and ability to relax allowed him to access a surprising amount of power, in particular given his slight build. In my experience very few of his sempai, including uchi deshi of the late Doshu and O Sensei, seemed to access to this kind of internal power. I suppose he led a charmed life in other ways, too.
Sensei had a heart condition caused by contracting Kawasaki disease as a child. This ailment, if untreated, often claims its victim early in life. Apparently, he lived with this condition longer than anyone else in the U.S. I often wondered if his perennial good cheer had something to do with his awareness of his mortality. Why focus on oblivion when you can practice Aikido, laugh, love your family, drink beer, prepare sushi, and eat good food? What more is there in life?
I mourn the passing of a great teacher. I have so many memories. How he would catch my center in ikkyo, and down I would go. He would manage a quick kick to the solar plexus for good measure, whisper something mysterious, and smile when I rose to my feet. I remember training with him for a full hour when Tamura Sensei came to San Diego. Years after I left San Diego, I recall Sensei, beer in hand, demonstrates a "no inch punch" on M.D at a dojo party. M.D. is a big man, now in the Special Forces. He is standing, braced in a stable hamni position, and Sensei is still in his chair. He knocks M.D. back several feet without spilling his drink. His emphasis on internal power, spontaneity and organic movement wonderfully complemented Chiba Sensei's technical precision.
I recall his droll amiability, and of course, that deadly, relaxed iriminage, with so little muscular effort, and so much energy. I remember his quick atemi (strikes) and his sutemi waza classes: crazy sacrifice techniques out of nowhere, a peculiar amalgamation of Judo and Aikido, and then that impish smile as I stand once again. It was hard not to smile despite the intensity. Heavy hand, light heart, and a lot of ki. Sensei, good luck on your final journey. Thank you so much for your wonderful spirit and profound instruction.
* Sadaharu Oh broke the world record for the number of home runs: 868 home runs during his baseball career in the Japanese major leagues. Famous for his flamingo-like batting stance, he held his right leg tucked high in the air before the pitch. Oh studied Aikido to improve his batting skills, and attributed his tremendous success to his Aikido practice. This "flamingo leg" stance was notable due to the fact that it required tremendous confidence in his ability to maintain his balance despite the fundamental instability of the position. Similarly, Murashige Sensei sometimes appeared off balance due to his extremely relaxed, internal method of Aikido. But his body was so integrated, allowing him to throw with great power and minimal effort. I have often been thrown by people with significant body mass and muscular power, but it feels very different to experience power from a person of slight stature like Murashige Sensei.
Born in Yamaguchi-ken in 1945, Murashige started Aikido practice as a teenager with his father, Aritoshi Murashige. He moved to Tokyo to train at Hombu dojo with Morihei Ueshiba and others including Seigo Yamaguchi, Yoshimitsu Yamada, Kazuo Chiba, Mitsunari Kanai and Terry Dobson. He cited Yamaguchi Sensei as a major source of inspiration. He taught at New York Aikikai with Yamada Sensei for three years starting in 1965 before returning back to Japan. He returned to San Diego, where he worked as a sushi chef. In 1981, he also taught at San Diego Aikikai with Chiba Sensei, a direct student of the Founder. He left San Diego Aikikai to teach at Jiai Aikido of San Diego, and taught his last Aikido class ten days before his death on October 11, 2013.


After seeing Friends Building, come here for a meal. The Chinese cuisine is on the menu at this restaurant. Degust mouthwatering Peking duck, oysters and oxtail Decoy offers. Try good key lime pie, gâteau and crepes. Get your meal started with delicious wine, beer or whiskey. It's a must to taste great juice, thai tea or ponche while visiting this place.
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Don't discount finding bar seats and get a few small plates. Plus outstanding unique drinks. Of course the Peking duck is amazing if you have the appetite.


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Q: Add custom then()-method to every function generated by promisifyAll I've recently started playing around with Aerospike and their Node driver. I think the database itself is phenomenal, but the client library has a minor hiccup:
// Read the same record from database
client.get(key, function(err, rec, meta) {
  // Check for errors
  if ( err.code == status.AEROSPIKE_OK ) {
    // The record was successfully read.
    console.log(rec, meta);
  } else {
    // An error occurred
    console.error('error:', err);
  }
});

Instead of returning null or undefined as the error when all went well, an object is always sent back. If err.code === 0 all went well. This means that the library can not be wrapped with bluebird's promisifyAll.
I tried to fix this by adding yet another then-method after each function generated by promisifyAll.
getPromise().then((err, rec, meta) => {
  if(err.code === 0) {
    return {rec: rec, meta: meta};
  } else {
    return Promise.reject();
  }
}

I could not get it to work without explicitly doing it to every function manually. Is there any other way to achieve this?

A: Sounds like this is a case for Bluebird's custom promisifier option:
var Promise = require('bluebird');
var aerospike = Promise.promisifyAll(require('aerospike'), {
    promisifier: function(originalFunction, defaultPromisifer) {
        return defaultPromisifer(function() {
            var last = arguments.length-1;
            var callback = arguments[last];
            arguments[last] = function weirdAerospikeCallback(err, rec, meta) {
                if (!err || err.code == status.AEROSPIKE_OK)
                    callback(null, {rec: rec, meta: meta});
                else
                    callback(err);
            };
            originalFunction.apply(this, arguments);
        });
    }
});


This module explores the motivation for individual terrorists. It also explores the use of psychological profiling for identifying potential terrorists.
Click here to view the RIF terrorist quiz.
What psychological 'barriers' must a terrorist overcome to justify the use of violence?
What is profiling? Is it justified?
Does profiling violate the American principle of fair, nondiscriminatory practices?
What disadvantages are there to identifying specific traits of terrorist-group members that generalize to other, nonterrorist members of the civilian population (e.g., ethnic or religious characteristics)?


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What is residency and who can get it?
Can a parent who committed abuse get custody, residency, and/or parenting time?
I am the child's family member. Can I get vistitation?
Can I file for custody in Kansas?
Are there exceptions to the "home state" rule?
Can I get temporary custody if I have a protection from abuse order against the other parent?
How will a judge make a decision about legal custody, residency, and parenting time?
If I have moved out of the home and left the children with the abuser, will this hurt my chances of gaining custody?
What is mediation and how does it affect me?
Once I have a custody order what can I do to enforce it?
How can an order of custody, residency or parenting time be changed?
If there is a custody order in place, can I move or take my kids out of the state?
This section provides information about custody, residency, and parenting time in Kansas. In our general Custody page, we have information about custody that is not specific to any state. The page includes a section about how to try to transfer your custody case to a new state where you are living so that you can modify the custody order from your new state.


Can you name every West Ham United January transfer window signing since 2003?
Ever since the January transfer window as we know it was introduced in 2003, it's captured the imagination of fans for clubs across the country.
Not least West Ham fans, who have been treated to a number of action-packed months for incomings during the winter.
In fact, the Hammers have a huge list of players that they have signed since January 2003 - 50 of them to be exact.
Do you think you can name every single one of them?
We're only talking since 2003 when the current transfer window system was introduced - and any players signed on a free contract outside of that January period DON'T count.
Give your Hammers knowledge a test, compare your scores with your mates - and, of course, don't forget to share your total with us!


Taking the time to compare insurance quotes will save you money and stress in the long run. You never want to be in the situation of having to deal with illness, accident, damage or theft only to discover that your insurance cover is inadequate. It is recommended that you compare at least three insurance quotes from as many companies before committing to any policy.
There is more than looking at the premium price involved when you compare insurance quotes. You need to examine the details, requirements and exclusions listed for each offer. The details and requirements may include such things as installing security devices in a vehicle, health habits and history, maintenance history on homes, alarms and grates on windows or intended use. If you are in violation of any of these requirements, you could render your insurance policy void. Also, if you can fulfill as many of these details before applying you will lower the rate of the quote. Exclusions are very important to understand. Some policies will not pay out if there is any fault on your part in a claim and some may exclude certain types of storm damages if they are too common to the area that you live in. Make sure you also understand what will be reimbursed by the claim and what will not. A basic roof repair may be covered, but matching the roof to your home may not. Likewise, the policy may not cover certain types of medical procedures. Read all the fine print carefully.
Make sure that you understand the stability of the rates offered when you compare insurance quotes. Many companies use a point system to determine whether or not to raise your rates. If you have a series of claims or even one large claim, it may put enough points on your insurance record that the company will raise your rates to offset the risk of providing cover. An insurance company makes the most money when it does not have to issue payments on claims. The less of a risk you are deemed to be, the lower the premium rate that will be offered.


After more than a year of hard work and 17 betas, we are finally on the home stretch of releasing Jamoma 0.5 .
We're glad to announce Jamoma 0.5 Release Candidate 1, which is available online .
Jamoma 0.5 is a major rewrite for Max 5, and also contains numerous improvements and new features.
The Jamoma developers have been working hard lately to improve Jamoma, and to fix as many bugs as possible. However, some bugs may still have escaped us, and would appreciate your help to catch and report them before we submit the final release.
It's a good place to keep in touch with the Jamoma developers and to report bugs and feature requests, so everybody's welcome !
The most important changes have been listed in the ChangeLog, and there is also a guideline to port your modules from Jamoma 0.4 to 0.5. Though, even if you have been using the 0.5 betas, you'll need to change a few things, which are copied at the end of the guideline page.
We hope you'll enjoy Jamoma 0.5, and we hope to get some valuable feedback.


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Sturgill Simpson's 'Sound & Fury' Anime Film Receiving Graphic Novel Prequel
Angela Stefano Published: August 11, 2020
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Sturgill Simpson's Sound & Fury anime film will soon have a graphic novel prequel to accompany it. Sound & Fury: The Graphic Novel is due out on Nov. 17.
Per Rolling Stone, Simpson worked with Z2 Comics and graphic artists Rufus Dayglo, Deathburger, Rosi Kampe, Vasilis Lolos and Takashi Okazaki on Sound & Fury: The Graphic Novel, which gives readers a look into the origin story of "The Driver," the shadowy figure at the center of Sound & Fury the film. The movie was released on Netflix in 2019, in conjunction with Simpson's album of the same name, which is the film's soundtrack.
Sound & Fury: The Graphic Novel will be available in standard paperback form and as a deluxe, oversized hardcover edition. Both versions are 144 pages long and available for pre-order now.
Simpson has since admitted that Sound & Fury, which came with a $1 million-plus pricetag, was an attempt to distance himself from his record label, Elektra Records. In an interview published in February, Simpson threatened to quit music unless the label dropped him, railing against the music industry, producer Dave Cobb and the Recording Academy, which runs the annual Grammy Awards.
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You're a thief—a con artist. You recently met an elderly widow with a good-sized bank account fueled by pension and dividend checks. In sharp contrast, your own financial engine is running on fumes. You decide to take her money.
But what if you're a child molester—a predator? What if the object of your desire isn't the widow's bank account, but her six-year-old grandson? What steps will you take to get what you want?
Are there no female molesters?
Thanks for posting this. A good reminder for me to discuss this with my two boys.
It's better for them to be very well informed than to be naive about this horrible thing.
There are, but I don't think anywhere near as many. I saw a special on E! about teachers who molest their students (and am too lazy to look up the names of the specific cases covered) and one of the stories was of a high school gym coach who molested one of her female students. She was a friend of the family, came over for dinner often, and no one expected a thing until the sexual assault had been going on for quite some time.
There are but the number reported is lower. The FBI thinks the number of female molesters is much higher but for 2 reasons the reporting is not done. In sexual crimes involving women people seem to be less likely to actually file a report. And 2 in the cases where females are caught their victims tend to be around toddler ages. Meaning the signs you would normally notice with an older child you sweep under the rug because all 3 year old have tantrums,wet the bed,have problems sleeping etc etc etc. A young child is less likely to be verbal enough to explain what has happened to them.
Parents should also stress that its not just strangers that abuse. In fact most often abuse is interfamilial. And while the child you taught not to talk to strangers or about the man in the trenchcaot handing out candy will avoid those type of people, they will not understand that aunt helen or uncle bob doing it is just as wrong. It's pretty common for parents to be stunned over this too because they often will speak to their kids about the stranger molester.
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the thing about this california grade school teacher is that parents have been complaining about him since the 1990s. Can you imagine the guilt these parents who refused to take their children seriously are feeling?
He made the kids feel like it was a game and is pictured smiling and laughing in these 400 plus pornographic pictures. I swear, sometimes I feel like I don't want to let my kids step outside the house.
They are 9 now and just yesterday begged to walk all the way to school together. I usually drive them to where a big gaggle of neighborhood kids walk but I did let them walk yesterday. They made it fine of course but I did worry. It is so hard to be a good parent without going overboard with precaution.
It's hard not to be afraid. But we can't watch our kids 24/7 and we can't hover over our children and then expect them to be healthy, well adjusted, independent adults.
Things can happen no matter how careful and watchful a parent is. I took one of my kids to a martial arts class - I sat there and watched the class and talked with the other parents. During the middle of the class, the instructors would allow the kids to take a quick break - they would all go into a back room to get a drink of water from the water fountain and use the bathroom. Then they would all come right back out and class would resume.
A few months after that class ended I was stunned to read in the newspaper that one of those instructors had been arrested for molesting a child in that back room, although the incident(s) did not occur during a regular class and no parents were present at the time.
At any rate, it reinforced to me how important it is to talk with our kids about these dangers and what they should do if they were to ever find themselves in a bad situation.
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You probably don't need to be obsessed over it, especially once they reach talking age...just use the pointers they give over what you tell your kids: where noone is allowed to touch, not taking any gifts from strangers, and never ever keep a secret for an adult (may ruin a birthday or Christmas, but wth).