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From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small
Ian Fleming and Geoffrey Boothroyd
I recently found a short BBC piece on the guns of James Bond, and now I've found a 1962 Sports Illustrated article in which Ian Fleming shares the original letter from Geoffrey Boothroyd:
I have, by now, got rather fond of Mr. James Bond. I like most of the things about him, with the exception of his rather deplorable taste in firearms. In particular, I dislike a man who comes into contact with all sorts of formidable people using a .25 Beretta. This sort of gun is really a lady's gun, and not a really nice lady at that. If Mr. Bond has to use a light gun he would be better off with a .22 rim fire; the lead bullet would cause more shocking effect than the jacketed type of the .25.
"May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver? This has many advantages for the type of shooting that he is called on to perform and I am certain that Mr. Leiter would agree with this recommendation. The Beretta will weigh, after it has been doctored, somewhere under 1 pound unloaded. If Mr. Bond gets himself an S & W .38 Special Centennial Airweight he will have a real man-stopper weighing only 17 ounces loaded. The gun is hammerless so that it can be drawn without catching in the clothing and has an overall length of 6½ inches. Barrel length is 2 inches, but note that it is not 'sawn off.' No one who can buy his pistols in the States will go to the trouble of sawing off pistol barrels as they can be purchased with short 2-inch barrels from the manufacturers. In order to keep down the bulk the cylinder holds five cartridges, and these are standard .38 S & W Special. It is an extremely accurate cartridge and when fired from a 2-inch barrel has, in standard loading, a muzzle velocity of almost 700 ft./sec. and muzzle energy of around 200 ft./lbs. This is against Bond's .25 Beretta with muzzle velocity of 758 ft./sec. but only 67 ft./lbs. muzzle energy. So much for his personal gun. Now he must have a real man-stopper to carry in the car. For this purpose the S & W .357 Magnum has no equal except the .44 Magnum. With the .357, Bond can still use his S & W .38 Special cartridges, although not vice versa. The .357 Magnum can be obtained in barrel lengths as follows: 3½ inches, 5 inches, 6 inches, 6½ inches and 83/4 inches long. With a 6½-inch barrel and adjustable rear sights Bond could do some really effective shooting, getting with the .357 Magnum a muzzle velocity of about 1,300 ft./sec. and a muzzle energy of nearly 600 ft./lbs. Figures like these give an effective range of 300 yards, and it's very accurate, too — 1-inch groups at 20 yards on a machine rest.
With these two guns Bond would be able to cope with really quick-draw work and long-range effective shooting.
Now to gun harness, rigs or what have you. First of all, not a shoulder holster for general wear, please. I suggest that the little Centennial Airweight be carried in a 'Lightning' Berns-Martin Triple Draw holster. This type of holster holds the gun in by means of a spring and can be worn on the belt or as a shoulder holster. I have played about with various types of holster for quite a time now and this one is the best. Here are descriptions of how it works — as a belt holster and as a shoulder holster:
A Series. Holster worn on belt at right side. Pistol drawn with right hand.
Ready position. Note that the gun is not noticeable.
First movement. Weight moves to left foot. Hand draws back coat and sweeps forward to catch butt of pistol. Finger outside holster.
Gun comes out of holster through the split front.
In business.
This draw can be done in 3/5ths of a second, and with practice and lots of it you could hit a figure at 20 feet in that time.
B Series. Shoulder holster. Gun upside down on left side. Held in by spring. Drawn with right hand.
First position.
Coat drawn back by left hand, gun butt grasped by right hand, finger outside holster.
Gun coming out of holster.
Bang! You're dead.
C Series. Holster worn on belt, as in A, but gun drawn with left hand.
Draw commences. Butt held by first two fingers of left hand. Third finger and little finger ready to grasp trigger.
Ready to shoot. Trigger is pulled by third and little finger, thumb curled round stock, gun upside down.
This really works but you need a cutaway trigger guard.
D Series. Holster worn on shoulder, as in B, but gun drawn with left hand.
Coat swept back with left hand and gun grasped.
Gun is pushed to the right to clear holster and is ready for action.
I trust this will explain what I mean. The gun used is an S & W .38 Special with a sawn-off barrel to 2½ inches. (I know this contradicts what I said over the page but I can't afford the $64 needed, so I had to make my own.) It has target sights — ramp front sight, adjustable rear sight — rounded butt, special stocks and a cutaway trigger guard.
If you have managed to read this far I hope that you will accept the above in the spirit that it is offered. I have enjoyed your books immensely and will say right now that I have no criticism of the women in them, except that I've never met any like them and would doubtless get into trouble if I did.
Fleming's response:
I really am most grateful for your splendid letter of May 23rd.
You have entirely convinced me and I propose, perhaps not in the next volume of James Bond's memoirs but, in the subsequent one, to change his weapons in accordance with your instructions.
Since I am not in the habit of stealing another man's expertise, I shall ask you in due course to accept remuneration for your most valuable technical aid.
Incidentally, can you suggest where I can see a .38 Airweight in London. Who would have one?
As a matter of interest, how do you come to know so much about these things? I was delighted with the photographs and greatly impressed by them. If ever there is talk of making films of some of James Bond's stories in due course, I shall suggest to the company concerned that they might like to consult you on some technical aspects. But they may not take my advice, so please do not set too much store by this suggestion.
From the style of your writing it occurs to me that you may have written books or articles on these subjects. Is that so?
Bond has always admitted to me that the .25 Beretta was not a stopping gun, and he places much more reliance on his accuracy with it than in any particular qualities of the gun itself. As you know, one gets used to a gun and it may take some time for him to settle down with the Smith and Wesson. But I think M. should advise him to make a change; as also in the case of the .357 Magnum.
He also agrees to give a fair trial to the Bern Martin holster, but he is inclined to favour something a little more casual and less bulky. The well-worn chamois leather pouch under his left arm has become almost a part of his clothes and he will be loath to make a change though, here again, M. may intervene.
At the present moment Bond is particularly anxious for expertise on the weapons likely to be carried by Russian agents and I wonder if you have any information on this.
As Bond's biographer I am most anxious to see that he lives as long as possible and I shall be most grateful for any further technical advices you might like me to pass on to him.
Again, with very sincere thanks for your extremely helpful and workmanlike letter.
I can't stop sharing these letters. Boothroyd again:
I was truly delighted to receive your charming letter. This is the first time I have had either the inclination or the temerity to write to the author of any books that pass through my hands; quite frankly, in many cases the rest of the material is not worth backing up by correct and authentic 'gun dope.' You have, incidentally, enslaved the rest of my household, people staying up to all hours of the night in an endeavour to finish a book before some other interested party swipes it.
If I am to be considered for the post of Bond's ballistic man I should give you my terms of reference. Age 31, English, unmarried. Member of the following Rifle Clubs: N.R.A., Gt. Britain, English Twenty Club, National Rifle Association of America (nonresident member), West of Scotland Rifle Club, Muzzle Loaders Association of Gt. Britain. I shoot with shotgun and rifle — target, clay pigeon, deer but, to my deep regret, no big game. (I cherish a dream that one day a large tiger or lion will escape from the zoo or a travelling circus and I can bag it in Argyle St., Glasgow, or Princes St., Edinburgh.) I do both muzzle-loading and breech-loading shooting, load my own shotgun and pistol ammunition. Shoot with pistol, mainly target, and collect arms of various sorts. My present collection numbers about 45, not as many as in some collections, but all of mine go off and have been fired by me. Shooting and gun lore is a jolly queer thing; most people stick to their own field, rather like stamp collectors who specialise in British Colonials. Such people shoot only with the rifle and often only .303, or only .22. There are certain rather odd types like myself who have a go at the lot, including archery. It's a most fascinating study if one has the time, and before long it's either given up and you collect old Bentleys or it becomes an obsession. We all have a pet aspect of our hobby, and mine at present is this business of 'draw and shoot,' or the gun lore of close-combat weapons. On reflection it is pretty stupid, as it's most unlikely that I shall ever do this sort of thing in earnest, but it has the pleasant advantage of not having, very many fish in the pond and however you look at it you are an authority. In Scotland I have the space to do this sort of thing, and have two friends who are not 150 miles away to talk to. I seem to have taken up a lot of space on this — must want to impress you!
Now to the work. The S & W Airweight model is not common in England, at least in a shop. I therefore enclose S & W's latest catalogue, which shows current models. Perhaps you would let me have this back, as I have to send it off to another chap who is going to S. America and he wants to buy a gun when he gets there. The only people in London who may have S & W new-model pistols will be Thomas Bland and Sons, William IVth St., Strand, and Cogs-well and Harrison. Current demand for pistols in this country is restricted to folks going off to Kenya, Malaya, etc.
Some people have bought modified guns from Cogswell and Harrison. This type is a cut-down S & W .38 Special Military & Police Model. I'm sorry I can't help regarding an actual inspection of a new-model S & W. The only people who may have one are Americans in this country or James Bond.
Re holsters. A letter to S. D. Myres Saddle Co., 5030 Alameda Blvd., El Paso, Texas, will bring you their current holster catalogue. The Berns-Martin people live in Calhoun City, Mississippi, and a note to Jack Martin, who is a first-class chap and a true gunslinger, will bring you illustrations of his work. Bond's chamois leather pouch will be ideal for carrying a gun, but God help him if he has to get it out in a hurry. The soft leather will snag and foul on the projecting parts of the gun and he will still be struggling to get the gun out when the other fellow is counting the holes in Bond's tummy. Bond has a good point when he mentions accuracy. It's no good shooting at a man with the biggest gun one can hold — if you miss him. The thing about the larger calibres is, however, that when you hit someone with a man-stopping bullet they are out of the game and won't lie on the floor still popping off at you.
Regarding weapons carried by Russian agents. I have had little experience of using weapons from behind the Iron Curtain or of meeting people who use them. I did once meet a Polish officer who was some sort of undercover man and cloak-and-dagger merchant and he used an American Colt automatic in .38 cal. I would suggest that a member of SMERSH would in all probability make his choice from the following, and use either a Luger with an 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch or 16-inch barrel with detachable shoulder stock or a Mauser 7.63 automatic with shoulder stock for assassination work from a medium distance, say across a street. A short-barrel 9-mm. Luger (Model 08), 4-inch barrel, might be carried for personal protection, although it is rather large to carry about. In the same class as the Luger and having equal availability to someone employed by SMERSH would be the Polish Radom Model 35. This takes the standard Luger cartridge and also the more powerful black-bulleted machine pistol 9-mm. round. It closely resembles the Colt Model 1911, or perhaps more so the Colt 9-mm. Commander. Another choice would be the Swedish 9-mm. Lahti. This is a strong and very well-made pistol strongly reminiscent of the Luger. It weighs 44 ounces loaded as compared with 34 ounces for the short-barrel Luger.
The Russian Tokarev pistol Model 30 appears to be the standard sidearm of the Soviets, and once again is a close copy of John Browning's basic pistol. Calibre 7.62 Russian or 7.63 Mauser and designed in the 1930s. This pistol looks like the Belgian Browning auto pistol made by Fabrique Nationale, Liège, except that it has an external hammer. There is no manual safety, and if the gun is carried loaded at full cock, obvious safety hazards exist. Carried at half-cock the gun undoubtedly would be safer, but the hammer design is such that cocking the hammer is not an easy job and the first shot would be a slow one from the draw.
In this same general class would be the Walther P-38, which was used by the German army as a replacement for the Luger. Evidence is that the pistol is not quite as good as it might be, this being probably due to production difficulties met with during the war. This also takes the 9-mm. cartridge. One of the advantages of the Walther is that it can be used double-action, i.e., there is no need to cock the hammer for the first shot provided the barrel has a cartridge 'up the spout.' After the first shot the gun operates as does the normal auto pistol.
For carrying on the person the following arms could be chosen: Walther PPK 7.65-mm., Mauser HS c. 7.65-mm. or the Walther PP in 7.65-mm. cal., Sauer Model 38 H in 7.65-mm. calibre.
All of the above were tested for accuracy, endurance, etc., by the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in 1948. Also included were the Japanese Nambu and the American Colt 1911A1 Auto. In accuracy the Nambu came first, followed by the Russian Tokarev, the Sauer being third. Colonel F. S. Allen, USAF, who wrote an article on the findings of the O.C. tests, concluded by saying that for an emergency defence weapon he would have a lightweight .38 Special, a decision which I heartily agree with.
I hope that when the SMERSH operative, armed perhaps with one of the guns mentioned above, meets Bond, your friend will be able to adequately demonstrate the effectiveness of Anglo-American cooperation, a competent English pistol man behind a truly lethal .38 Special.
The above should give some idea of the type of weapon likely to be carried by SMERSH men, the Russians being rather similar to ourselves where firearms are concerned. They do not hesitate to use foreign weapons if they are better than those produced by themselves. An instance of this was their use of the Finnish Soumi light machine gun during the last war. In brief, one could be safe in arming an agent of SMERSH with the Tokarev, Radom or Luger, in that order. Pocket weapons would be either German Mauser or Walther.
Please convey warmest regards to Mr. Bond and assure him of my closest interest in his activities and very willing cooperation in his 'gun needs' for as long as he wishes. Instead of remuneration, an introduction to Solitaire would more than adequately compensate me for the little trouble I have taken. Between you and me, I quite enjoy it.
And Fleming:
I have been away in Vienna, and seeing a man about a flying saucer in Paris, and I have only just had your letter of June 1st with enclosures.
Thank you again most sincerely for taking all this trouble, and also for sending me the very interesting information on your own career and hobbies. You certainly seem to lead a full life!
I am intrigued by your mention of archery. I have long thought that Bond could do a lot of damage with a short steel bow and appropriate arrows. What do you think of this suggestion, and do you know someone who would instruct me on weapons, ranges and so forth?
I am returning the Smith & Wesson catalogue and, since I am off to New York at the end of July, I propose to purchase a Centennial Airweight.
Would this not, in any case, be the best weapon for Bond? There is no hammer to catch in his clothes.
I am vastly intrigued by your own M & P model and by the way you have beautified it. Bond will certainly adopt your two-thirds trigger guard. I don't intend to go too deeply into the holster problem and I intend to accept your expertise in the matter of the Berns-Martin holster.
Only one basic problem remains in changing Bond's weapon, and that is in the matter of a silencer. It would have to be an extremely bulky affair to silence a .38 of any make and I simply can't see one fitted to the Centennial. Have you any views?
As a matter of fact, a change of Bond's weapons is very appropriate. In his next adventure, which deals with an intricate plot by SMERSH to kill Bond, he finally gets into really bad trouble when the Beretta — with silencer — sticks in his waistband.
It is too late now to save him from the consequences, but in the book that follows, if I have the energy and ingenuity to write one, I shall start off with a chapter devoted entirely to his re-equipment along the lines you suggest.
But in this chapter the matter of a silencer will have to be overcome and, in fact, in his latest adventure, which I mention above, he could hardly have used an unsilenced .38 in the room at the Ritz Hotel in Paris where he wrestles fruitlessly with his snarled gun.
Turning to foreign weapons, have you by any chance got the article by Colonel Allen on the findings of the O.C. tests, or could you tell me where it appeared? It sounds most useful to my purposes.
Once again, please accept my very warm thanks for your kindness in taking Bond's armoury in hand and sorting it out. As a small recompense for your trouble I am sending you a shiny and rather expensive book on Odd Weapons which has just appeared and which perhaps you do not possess. It is not exactly on your beat, but it may entertain."
Back to Boothroyd:
Silencers. These I do not like. The only excuse for using one is on a .22 rifle using low-velocity ammunition, i.e., below the speed of sound. With apologies, I think you will find that silencers are more often found in fiction than in real life. An effective silencer on an auto pistol would be very ponderous and would spoil the balance of the gun, and to silence a revolver would be even more difficult due to the gas escape between the cylinder and the barrel. Personally I can't at this stage see how one would fit a silencer to a Beretta unless a special barrel were made for it, as the silencer has to be screwed on to the barrel, and as you know there is very little of the barrel projecting in front of the slide on the Beretta.
This business of using guns in houses or hotels is a very strange one. So few people are familiar with what a gun sounds like that I would have little hesitation in firing one in any well-constructed building. This remark is only regarding the noise or nuisance value. I would not fire a pistol in a room without some thoughts on the matter, as bullets have a bad habit of bouncing off things and coming home to roost. I have fired .455 blanks at home on several occasions, even in the middle of the night, without any enquiries being made. The last time was at Christmas when I blew out the candles on the Christmas cake with a pistol and blanks. To conclude, if possible don't have anything to do with silencers.
I found this letter excerpt from Fleming intriguing:
I sympathize with you about not liking silencers, but the trouble is that there are often occasions when they are essential to Bond's work. But they are clumsy things and only partially effective, though our Secret Services developed some very good ones during the war, in which the bullet passed through rubber baffles. I have tried a Sten gun silenced with one of these and all one could hear was the click of the machinery.
I rather like the picture of you going through life firing bullets 'in any well-constructed building'! But I agree with you that one could probably get away with a single shot in a Paris hotel bedroom. Your Christmas trick would, of course, be helped by its association in a listener's mind with cracker-pulling.
He had fired a silenced Sten gun, and it was in fact silent?
Anyway, this is what gun nuts had to do before the Internet. I'm having trouble imagining Bond with an American revolver.
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Doctor Pat says:
When I was young I had regular access to firearms and places to shoot them — not in a well constructed building, but rather in the local park, which was large enough for 15 minutes of walking to get you far enough in for sounds to be muffled and safe.
Anyway, my friends and I certainly experimented with silencers, which helped no end in giving us places to shoot. Using a .22 rimfire rifle, as suggested, we found that a Coca-Cola can, fit over the end of a barrel, and stuffed with crumpled up newspaper was quite sufficient. The bullet would pass through the paper fairly easily, but the hot propelling gasses would be lost in all the folds and the result would be about as loud as clapping your hands.
This no doubt destroyed any accuracy. But we couldn't aim anyway with a Coke can covering the sights.
Then someone came up with silence ammunition. Called, if I remember correctly, Winchester Long Z, these .22 rimfire rounds sounded, when fired from a normal rifle without any newspaper, like a hand clap. The loudest sound was the semi-automatic action reloading the next bullet.
Since then I've read many, many books in which the author, narrator, or wise old detective assures the naive youngster that silencers do not work in real life. The truth being that they can work very well, if the ammunition is suitable. We never bothered, but I'm sure a bolt-action rifle with a Coke-can silencer and the Long Z could probably be fired in a restaurant without notice.
Isegoria says:
A .22 can definitely be silenced — or suppressed — and choosing sub-sonic ammo is a big part of that. (Ordinary super-sonic ammo cracks like a whip.)
I wasn't familiar with that Winchester Long Z ammo, but a little research reveals that it's really sub-sonic, with a muzzle velocity of just 800 feet per second, rather than 1,000 or so, for most sub-sonic ammo.
I'm a little surprised you used a Coke can, because I've read that plastic Coke bottles were the go-to silencer for Chechen snipers. (Actually, I'm not surprised, because plastic Coke bottles weren't around when I was a kid.)
The Israelis, of course, use top-notch equipment: a Ruger 10/22 with full-length suppressor, bipod, and 4x scope.
I vaguely recall some incidents in school that only make sense if plastic softdrink bottles were available, but at the time they were not that common.
Anyway, cans looked more like the silencers in the movies, and were perfectly adequate for a .22.
Conn Shawnery says:
Thanks for sharing the article.
It is, in fact, possible to silence a pistol or a rifle to the point where the loudest sound is the click of the mechanism. Here is an example.
There was an integrally suppressed rifle called the De Lisle carbine, developed for British commandos in WWII, that was equally quiet, although the suppressor was much thicker.
Arnold Hartman says:
"I'm having trouble imagining Bond with an American revolver."
When I'm thinking about movies with Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan as a James Bond, I agree – it's hard to imagine. But Daniel Craig? Nowadays Bond using even panzerfaust wouldn't be so strange.
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It's no secret that top PGA Tour golfers can earn a fair amount of cash throughout their career, with even a single victory guaranteeing a pay cheque offering up life-changing sums of money.
For the 2021/22 PGA Tour season, not only have we seen a seismic increase in the amount of prize money, but also in media coverage, with PGA Tour Live's move to ESPN+, Netflix's announcement of a behind the scenes docuseries and the strategic alliance with the DP World Tour yielding big changes within the largest golf tour in the world.
Out of the $838 million in comprehensive earnings to players in 2022, nearly half of that will feature in prize money, with $427 million being distributed between the 47 official tournaments. This means that the average purse this season is now an eye-watering $9.1 million per event!
Breaking down the prize money offered out in the events, we do indeed see some trends, but two things really stand out – Firstly, only four tournaments have a first-place pay-out of less than $1 million and secondly, eight events (Tour Championship has no purse of its own due to the FedEx Cup) offer a higher purse than three of the four Majors, The Masters, PGA Championship and The Open.
So let's start off with the biggest pay cheques that the pros will be playing for in the 2021/22 season. Last year, the FedEx Cup pool was just a measly $60 million, now, in 2021/22, we see a $15 million increase to $75 million, meaning the winner will scoop $18 million, a $3 million increase on last year.
The Comcast Business Tour Top 10, which rewards the top players in the regular season, has also seen its pool doubled to $20 million, with the first two FedEx Cup Playoff events – the FedEx St. Jude Championship and BMW Championship – seeing both their prize money rise by more than $5 million to $15 million, making them the third and fourth highest purses.
Moving away from the FedEx Cup events to Florida and TPC Sawgrass for The Players Championship which, for this season, has seen its prize money move from $15 million to $20 million, making it the richest tournament in golf. Ironically, golf's 'fifth Major' is the highest-paying single event in the game.
Justin Thomas will be defending his Players Championship title.
Talking of Majors, the US Open has also seen an increase over the last few years. Originally $10 million in 2016, and then $12 million in 2017, it has increased by $500,000 in 2022 to $12.5m, making it still comfortably the largest purse of the four Major championships.
The three player-hosted invitationals – the Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial Tournament feature next, with all three offering $12 million in prize money, an increase of nearly $3 million over the previous season. The World Golf Championships have also increased their purses from $10.5 million to $12 million.
Jon Rahm claimed the 2021 US Open thanks to a stunning putting display.
We then come to the Majors, with The Masters offering $11.5 million, the PGA Championship $11 million and Open Championship $10.75 million, oddly less than the World Golf Championship events…
It's not just on the course where individuals are going to be making a serious buck or two. The Player Impact Program and new Play15 bonus offers players the potential to increase their earnings further. The PIP will be paying out $50 million in 2021/22, an increase of $10 million over its inaugural year, with the introduction of the Play15 bonus handing out $50,000 to each player who competes in 15 events this season.
In late 2021, Phil Mickelson revealed he had won the PGA Tour's $8 million Player Impact Program.
2022 PGA Tour Purses – Ranked Largest To Smallest
Tournament Prize Money 1st Place Pay-out
Tour Championship $75,000,000 $18,000,000
The Players Championship $20,000,000 $3,600,000
FedEx St. Jude Championship $15,000,000 $2,700,000
BMW Championship $15,000,000 $2,700,000
US Open $12,500,000 $2,250,000
The Genesis Invitational $12,000,000 $2,160,000
Arnold Palmer Invitational $12,000,000 $2,160,000
The Memorial Tournament $12,000,000 $2,160,000
WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play $12,000,000 $2,040,000
Masters Tournament $11,500,000 $2,070,000
PGA Championship $11,000,000 $1,980,000
The Open Championship $10,750,000 $1,395,000
Zozo Championship $9,950,000 $1,791,000
The CJ Cup at Summit $9,750,000 $1,755,000
AT&T Byron Nelson $9,100,000 $1,638,000
Wells Fargo Championship $9,000,000 $1,620,000
AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am $1,566,000 $8,700,000 $1,566,000
RBC Canadian Open $8,700,000 $1,566,000
Valero Texas Open $8,600,000 $1,548,000
Farmers Insurance Open $8,400,000 $1,512,000
Charles Schwab Challenge $8,400,000 $1,512,000
Rocket Mortgage Classic $8,400,000 $1,512,000
Zurich Classic of New Orleans $8,300,000 $1,494,000
Travelers Championship $8,300,000 $1,494,000
Sentry Tournament of Champions $8,200,000 $1,476,000
Waste Management Phoenix Open $8,200,000 $1,476,000
The Honda Classic $8,000,000 $1,440,000
RBC Heritage $8,000,000 $1,440,000
Genesis Scottish Open $8,000,000 $1,440,000
Valspar Championship $7,800,000 $1,404,000
The American Express $7,600,000 $1,368,000
Houston Open $7,500,000 $1,350,000
Sony Open in Hawaii $7,500,000 $1,350,000
3M Open $7,500,000 $1,350,000
Mexico Open $7,500,000 $1,350,000
Wyndham Championship $7,500,000 $1,350,000
World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba $7,200,000 $1,296,000
The RSM Classic $7,200,000 $1,296,000
John Deere Classic $7,100,000 $1,278,000
Fortinet Championship $7,000,000 $1,260,000
Sanderson Farms Championship $7,000,000 $1,260,000
Shriners Children's Open $7,000,000 $1,260,000
Bermuda Championship $6,500,000 $1,170,000
Puerto Rico Open $3,700,000 $666,000
Corales Puntacana Championship $3,700,000 $666,000
Barbasol Championship $3,700,000 $666,000
Barracuda Championship $3,700,000 $666,000
How Much Prize Money Is Being Offered On The PGA Tour?
In November 2021, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed that the PGA Tour's overall purse will increase from $367 million to $427 million for the upcoming season. That means that players will be competing for an extra $60 million through the 2021/22 PGA Tour season.
How Much Does The Average PGA Tour Pro Make?
During the 2020/21 season, the average player on the PGA Tour earned a tidy $1,485,055 for his work. However, if we were to look at the 125th ranked player in the FedEx Cup standings (Top-125 get through to the FedEx Cup playoffs) then we see that Chesson Hadley earned $940,986 for his work through the 2020/21 PGA Tour season.
Who Has Won The PGA Tour Money List Previously?
Last year Jon Rahm topped the PGA Tour's money list with $7,705,933, the year before, Justin Thomas earnt $7,344,040 for his 2019/20 season. However, these numbers are just a shade of those from 2012 – 2019. You can check out the list below.
2019 — Brooks Koepka, $9,684,006
2018 — Justin Thomas, $8,694,821
2016 — Dustin Johnson, $9,365,185
2015 — Jordan Spieth, $12,030,465
2014 — Rory McIlroy, $8,280,096
2013 — Tiger Woods, $8,553,439
If we delve even further back to the period where Tiger Woods was the dominant force, then the numbers are even more impressive, especially considering the prize money wasn't as vast as it is today. Throughout the 2000's, Tiger finished top of the PGA Tour money list seven times.
2009 — Tiger Woods, $10,508,163
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Iremember where I was the day that Amy Winehouse died. I had run into a shop in Soho to buy a birthday present, when I heard an exchange between the girl at the till and her customer. "She died of an overdose. It was just on the radio," the cashier said in a "sad news" voice while counting out the change. Both shook their heads, tutting, saying "what a waste" and other stock phrases that people keep in reserve for when the talented die young.
Whenever there's mention of Amy – which is often at the moment because, withthis new film, she's suddenly everywhere again – the same feeling is dredged up from a crevasse in my guts. The sucker punch that gave me jelly legs. The way my mouth went slack and dry. The fact that my teeth chattered even though it was July.
After I persuaded my feet to move, I ran back to the car, thinking: "If she can't make it then, my God, we're all fucking fucked." Because somehow, and it's odd to admit it even now, during those years when Amy Winehouse's life came undone in pixellated Technicolor, I used her as a yardstick. I made a pact, a ridiculously unutterable pact, that Amy Winehouse being alive meant that my addict sister Siobhain would be OK.
While Amy catastrophically pinballed from the streets of Camden to the stage of the Grammys and managed to keep singing, or just breathing, I held out hope that my sister would make it, too. My talented, funny, kind, shy, much-nicer-than-me sister. My sister the heroin addict, the methadone user, the crack dabbler, the erstwhile alcoholic. My sister whose addictions and self-loathing would snowball to such an extent that she would be hospitalised, become homeless and give her only child – such a child – over to me and my family.
On the day Amy Winehouse died, my whole body caved in. My warped logic was that if Amy's manager, her family, her doctors, her bodyguard couldn't keep her alive, then honestly, what hope did we have? Us or any of the families in the UK who reluctantly tag along on an addict's grand tour, seeing sights we never wanted to see, meeting people we never would have chosen to sit next to at breakfast, in the cockeyed hope that one day our loved one might come home to us.
As is the case with all high-profile addicts, Amy's life has been forensically examined for the "why?". Why was this striking, multitalented, whip-smart woman having scrappy bust-ups at smart hotels? Many theories have been mooted: her parents' break-up, Mitch's affair, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil's heroin-enabling, her bulimia, her unquiet mind.
The "why?" with my sister is just as obvious. We have a lively family history, a bleak mashup of EastEnders and Shameless storylines. When the madness peaked in an epic end-of-season finale, my siblings and I were left, as young teens, essentially parentless and rudderless. We stumbled into our adult years, all of us trying to make sense of a baffling, macabre past. But she was the youngest, most vulnerable and most impressionable. She never had a chance.
It didn't look that way at first. While I carried on family tradition and became a teenage mum, my sister set out a clear path for herself. Although she dabbled with drugs from the age of 13, she focused her talents, her desire to make a life overriding her crippling shyness, and she seemed to be flying. I was at home with a new baby, on income support and crying a lot, looking on at her in awe. She worked hard at her job in catering and partied hard – which is OK, right?
I mean, these are rites of passage in the UK. You're young and you get bent-up and still go to work? It's a social norm. As Mitch Winehouse says about Amy, in the film: "She was like a lot of kids, going out binge-drinking." We thought the same. So at what point should we have said: "Actually, she's got a problem. Our sister needs help"?
For the Winehouse family, this seems to be the most contentious part of the film.Mitch has complained about the editing of words from one of his quotes: "She didn't need to go to rehab at that time." Put aside some of his more questionable actions and imagine how hard it is to confront the reality that someone you love has a serious problem. The klaxon went off for us when our sister, then 19, returned from a three-month holiday with her then boyfriend (our very own "Blakey") as a fully fledged heroin addict.
From then on, nothing was the same for her again. Life became wild and untethered. There began the visits to the hospital, the police, the courts, the homeless persons units. As events became by turn hilarious and disturbing, I, my siblings and our respective saintly partners ran around London on missions to "sort her out". We rowed about it, too, each of us having our own theory on how to get her better.
As the years went on and the person that we knew and loved became more distant from us, we were locked in a cycle of sorrow and anger. Her life became scarier, the worlds she moved in much darker. She held down jobs – just about – until she was 25. Then she had a child, Maya, who was born methadone-dependent. By the time Maya came to live with us, because Siobhain had started taking crack, we were all spent. We knew that we needed to redirect our efforts to this tiny wonderful person and, bit by bit, we stepped back from our sister and tried to bring some normality to our own lives and protect our own kids.
The lesson to take from Amy has, of course, been blindingly obvious from the start. There was comfort in knowing that other people were going through what we were going through. Reading about Mitch Winehouse's, Bob Geldof's or Cara Delevingne's experiences of having an addict in the family has helped me cope with the wretched feeling that, somewhere down the line, we abandoned our sister to save ourselves. It has helped knowing that no poetic words, no guilt trip, no high-profile friend or swanky rehab unit can save someone headlocked by addiction. Frustrating as this cliche is, it stands true: they must do it for themselves.
With Amy gone, the Winehouse family continues to mourn, with the burden of a cumbersome legacy. As for me and my family, we are shyly looking to the future. I am proud to say that my sister has managed a long, intensive period in rehab and continues to work towards rebuilding a sense of herself. We are no longer looking for "the old her" to return, but a different, stronger, happier version. We tiptoe towards plans where we reintroduce her to her child. But experience has made us sceptical.
Will there ever be a time when we siblings do not nervously ask each other: "How did she sound?" A time when we all forgive each other for the stuff we did and didn't do? A time when we all sit at a table and laugh about that time she tried to get me and my husband arrested for assault because we were trying to stop her from doing crack in a hospital toilet? We hope so. Because it was pretty funny, in a twisted way. We'll cling to that hope hard, because for these past 16 years, hope is all we've ever had.
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Guild dues/membership tiers are set by the board of directors and the structure can vary from state to state. We surveyed the nation's guilds to provide the averages of different membership category dues across the nation.
These averages are not an exact science—no two guilds shape their membership dues structures exactly the same. Some guilds have a simple flat rate, others have a tier system and some charge a flat rate plus an amount per barrel. These numbers are based on our best division of the different structures.
Note: Data was provided from 38 of the 51+ across the nation. Some guilds don't charge dues, or haven't established dues structures yet. Major outliers were removed to make the averages more accurate.
Most generally used bylaws definition: A brewing organization that brews common brands, names and formulas at a facility in the guild's state in which it owns a majority interest. If there is more than one brewing organization involved in a brewing facility, the one holding a majority interest is eligible for regular membership. The member must hold a Federal Brewers notice. The brewery must qualify for the Federal Excise Tax exemption applicable to brewers producing no more than 6 million barrels of product a year. A contract brewer who does not own a majority interest in a brewing facility in the guild's state is most often, but not always, ineligible for a Regular membership.
Beer industry partners (wholesalers, retailers, non-voting breweries) who sponsor the guild/guild events in return for exposure, networking, advertising and increased business relations with breweries.Most generally used bylaws definition: Tradesmen and suppliers doing business with the brewing industry or any individual, partnership or corporation in an allied industry or endeavor may be admitted as a non-voting Associate member. An Associate will pay minimum dues as set by the Board of Directors. The voting rights of an Associate shall be at the Board level only. An associate is eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors but may not serve as an officer of the Association.
A valuable supplier/vendor directory could be crafted with membership information and provided to brewery members as a benefit.
Breweries could organize co-operative supply purchasing of ingredients, tanks, glass, etc.
Suppliers could be given the option to pay to present product demonstrations at guild meetings. These funds could be used to put on more professional meetings.
Benefits identified by Scott Graham, Michigan Brewers Guild. Benefits increase with the level of sponsorship (financial investment).
Usage of guild logo for promoting local craft beer.
Opportunity to advertise on guild website.
Complimentary festival tickets, and/or early entry.
Participation in process to identify retail accounts receiving complementary festival tickets.
Logo placement on festival programs.
Brewery hospitality sponsor at guild events.
This membership tier allows craft beer enthusiasts to stay more connected to the developments of the organization. This can also be an excellent source of foundational funds as brewery members can contribute the benefits to these members.
There are no voting rights for enthusiast members, and they are not eligible to be elected to the board of directors. As of 2011, the Washington Brewers Guild had 1,740 active enthusiast members. What a great seed fund!
Notice of legislative alerts (similar to the Support Your Local Brewery program). You can also use this enthusiast member list as a grass roots network for legislative issues. They are your foot soldiers and will often make a call to their representative if needed.


Employees had no choice, even top executives, as they now roam freely on the top two floors of a Bunker Hill tower. No assigned desks or offices. You can join peers in a "neighborhood" or plop down on a modernist couch.
The Chief books an office by the day plus there are no family pictures, top salesperson trophies, etc. You can take everything home or use an assigned locker. This is designed to make workers more efficient and attract young techies.
Four blocks from my home, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a building for Johnson's Wax with no offices where everyone in that very large company worked in one big room. It made an impression on me, and if it can be arranged with no problems, I have always sat in the "big room" with the customer service staff. I believe that I can better see what is going on and make corrections. Perhaps, the staff is not always in favor of it.
Do not make any negative remarks about Johnson's Wax. At a very low financial day in my senior year at Indiana University, a very substantial check arrived from them as an incentive for "deserving students from Racine". I will use EDGE and PLEDGE forever. A shout out for my sister, Judy Gomer Greenquist, who worked her way from the Secretary Pool to Top Dog Assistant for Chairman of the Board, Sam Johnson.
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Saudi Arabia on its way to doubling natural gas production by 2030
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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - JEDDAH — "Between 2008 and 2018, LNG trade flows increased from 172 MTPA to 314 MTPA, averaging 6% annual growth... Aramco expects global demand for LNG to continue to grow at 4% annually, breaching 500 MTPA by 2035," KAPSARC's recent paper titled "Aramco's LNG strategy: Opportunities and Options" said.
KAPSARC's latest commentary highlights Aramco's efforts to double the Kingdom's natural gas production and boost its infrastructure network by 2030 to achieve Saudi Vision 2030 objectives.
Since China and India are also forecast to be the fastest-growing oil and gas markets, having LNG in Aramco's energy offerings ensures that Saudi Arabia retains its market share in these countries.
The report noted that the cost for reducing the burning of liquid fuels in the power mix and meeting the bulk of future power demand with gas is around $150 billion and may include the possibility of exports.
The paper mentioned that the company has already invested in and operated refining and petrochemical complexes internationally. As Aramco's business strategy shifts toward more gas-related activities in the Kingdom, it also looks to add overseas gas assets to its international energy portfolio.
Additionally, LNG can provide an immediate and temporary solution to eliminate the use of liquid fuels from the power sector, as Saudi Aramco gradually ramps up gas production over the next decade. Plus, the flexibility offered by LNG contract terms and infrastructure can allow LNG to be used for a transitionary period without committing to fixed volumes of cargoes or having stranded importation facilities.
The paper also suggested that the LNG importing could additionally provide insurance against delays in the expansion of domestic natural gas production and infrastructure projects. KAPSARC has tested a scenario importing LNG into the western region from 2022, using a 5 MTPA regasification terminal, and found that most cargoes can be cost-effectively sourced from Egypt and Eastern Africa (Mozambique and Tanzania).
This strategy is aligned with the announcement that Japan and Russia are set to launch a $9bn LNG project in the Far East in a move that may shift the power dynamics of the growing global LNG market.
The new project will send gas via a 200-km pipeline to Russia and produce 6.2 million tons of LNG a year, nearly a tenth of Japan's total LNG procurement.
KAPSARC is a non-profit global institution dedicated to independent research into energy economics, policy, technology, and the environment, across all types of energy. The Center is focused on finding solutions for the most effective and productive use of energy to enable economic and social progress nationally, regionally, and globally. — SG
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Traditionally summer is the time that galleries often feature group exhibitions of images by photographers they represent. Eclectic by definition, these shows tend to display a broad variety of shooting styles and genres. Three such exhibitions are on view this month at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Ehlers Caudill Gallery and Houk Gallery.
Jacques Baruch Gallery, well-known and unique in Chicago for its devotion to Czech photography, also is presenting an extensive group show. The gallery`s finely focused specialization, however, permits it to mount an unusually strong thematic offering, uncharacteristic for summertime fare.
photographers such as Ladislav E. Berka, Miroslav Hak, Jindrich Marco and others. The work of Emila Medkova represents the only female entry in a show otherwise monopolized by men.
All but one or two of exhibition`s photographers worked within the tight- knit Czech artists` community; thus the show is a virtual visual equivalent of the song ''Dry Bones'' ( . . . toe bone connected to the foot bone . . . ). Small groups of photographers from each period assimilated and expanded on the accomplishments of their predecessors, touching along the way many of the major 20th Century movements-Pictorialism, Symbolism, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Constructivism, Cubism, Bauhaus School, Surrealism and so forth. Dritikol, whose work often is characterized by its dark and melancholy mood, is widely credited with being the first man in Bohemia to help establish photography as a creative art.
Ruzicka, Dritikol`s contemporary, studied photography in America under Clarence White and was greatly influenced by the work of Alfred Stieglitz. Reportedly, the trend toward ''straight'' photography in Czechoslovakia seriously began with the 1921 exhibition of Ruzicka photographs, in Prague.
Two of those most strongly affected by Ruzicka`s work were Sudek and Funke. They, together with the younger Ehm, would subsequently teach at the influential State College for Graphic Arts, in Prague. Later, Funke became co- editor of the journal ''Fotografie vidi povrch'' (Photography sees the surface). He published fine-art images alongside purely decorative, technical and scientific photographs, overtly implying an equality among them.
This tendency to not separate commerce from personal artistic endeavors is a trend that continues in Czech photography and can also be seen in postwar photographers represented in the exhibition. Regardless of their chosen medium, Czech artists receive the same education and are encouraged to make commercial use of their talents in order to make a living, says gallery owner Anne Baruch.
Houk Gallery concentrates on presenting photographs by 20th Century masters, together with those of accomplished contemporary photographers who work in the classical tradition.
The current exhibition features images by Andre Kertesz, who was one of the first, and best, photographers ever to embrace the Leica rangefinder camera. While exploring the new aesthetic possibilities offered by the 35 mm camera, Kertesz helped lay the groundwork for what would become modern photojournalism.
Also included is work by English social-documentary photographer Bill Brandt. The late photographer is reputed to have once claimed he never picked up a camera unless he was being paid. Yet his best-known work-a series of female nudes emphasizing exaggerated perspectives-was shot during the `50s using the most non-commercial of optical instruments, the pinhole camera.
Diane Arbus, who took intensely personal portraits of persons on society`s periphery, is represented in the show. In a career lasting only about a decade, cut short by her suicide, Arbus established herself as one of the giant figures in American photography.
Contemporary images by Sally Mann, Sheila Metzner and Vernon Miller are featured as well. Mann became well-known in the `80s for her poignant photographs of pubescent girls, many of which were published in the book ''At Twelve.'' Metzner is noted for her stylish color fashion photographs, slightly grainy images imbued with a sense of airy pointillism. Her portraits also have received wide recognition. Miller shoots large-format nudes and still-lifes of antiques and natural objects, contact printing his images on hand-coated platinum paper.
Rounding out the show are images by Berenice Abbott, Richard Albertine, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, George Hoyningen-Huene, Annie Leibovitz and Nicholas Nixon.
Nineteen photographers are presented in the current Ehlers Caudill exhibition. They range from the documentary perspectives of Walker Evans, Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand to the popular pinhole images of Ruth Thorne- Thomsen and ''sculptural environments'' of Sandy Skoglund.
Works by Patty Carroll, Sandra Newbury and Lewis Koch, the first photographers ever exhibited at Ehlers Caudill, are also included. Chicagoan Carroll is noted for her fantasylike, color, shots of Florida motels and Chicago-area hot dog stands.
Newbury deliberately uses precise camera movement during exposure to create scroll-like, blurred images of birds.
Koch draws on various societal symbols from the past to create multi-image pieces that draw conclusions about the current state of American culture.
Extensively published photographer Ralph Gibson is represented as well. He is famous for decontextualizing his subjects-photographing only a small portion of a person, building facade, etc.-and making high-contrast prints.
The exhibition opening next Friday at Catherine Edelman Gallery features Michael Kenna and O. Winston Link, both internationally known for their nocturnal photography. During the `40s and `50s, Link employed elaborate high- power, flashbulb setups to capture passing steam locomotives. Kenna relies on existing light to create hauntingly beautiful landscapes, seascapes and urban parks.
Other photographers featured in the exhibition are Chicagoan Barbara Crane, Italian-born Mario Giacomelli, photographer-writer Allen Ginsberg, Jeffrey Wolin and Richard Misrach.


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OK. I'm jumping on the bandwagon. In recent weeks, I have seen a couple blog posts on "two ingredient pancakes." I tried them, and you MUST give them a shot. They taste and look like pancakes, but they aren't. Truly magical.
Not the most appetizing photo, but trust me, these babies taste divine.
His and hers. Oatmeal (leftover oatmeal made into a pancake) and my faux pancake.
There you have it, THAT easy! Two ingredient pancake that is gluten-free, sugar free and nut free, but full of energy, protein, and flavor. Great as an easy breakfast or as a quick snack in the middle of the day. Please try it. Trust me. We are off to Marfa, Texas for the wedding of two of our close friends. Stay tuned for pics next week. Have a great weekend!
I've always wanted to go to Marfa. Go to the MArfa Prada!
Safe travels and have a good weekend!
Thanks, Jill! Hope you were able to read all the recaps in the posts following this one!
Interesting! FYI, this isn't vegan.
So embarrassing! I made the change.. thank you!
That sounds delish! I'll have to try it.
I swear by these! My new go to snack!
I love making pancakes, but I never seem to have the time in morning because getting all the ingredients together takes forever. But this is so easy! Definitely will make my mornings easier…and healthier!
I love, love, love this! I have been going crazy trying to find nourishing yet healthy breakfast choices. This is seriously an amazing option — please keep them coming!!


It's that time again. Time to buy a new car. Finding a moment out of your busy schedule to head all the way down to the dealership is tough without having to work around their limited hours.
You work full time, and the dealership isn't even open on Sundays. Saturday, they are open from 10am-1pm, but let's be honest - those hours are comical. You are already sweating and uncomfortable thinking about heading down to the dealership, and you haven't even left the house.
In your frustrating chain of thought, it dawns on you: A trip to the dealership isn't necessary when online car shopping is possible.
Online car shopping is not only possible but actually preferred over going into a traditional dealership, by most people. After heading online, you realize that even with a dealership's online car shopping tool, you will still need to make a trip to the dealership to seal the deal.
Your local dealership has an online car shopping section, but after the time it will take you to do everything and then travel to the dealership - you might as well just go in.
Just as you begin to mentally prepare yourself to go haggle with a salesman, you find NowCar.com. A website that claims you can purchase your vehicle directly online from them, without leaving your house? Not even to pick up your car? Sounds too good to be true, right?
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At NowCar.com, you can sit in the comfort of your home, and complete the entire car buying process. Just like browsing inventory at a dealership, NowCar buyers are able to peruse our inventory and build their perfect vehicle, without having to pay to do so.
NowCar is much like a physical dealership in that respect. We don't charge you for using our website, just like a dealership wouldn't charge you for coming in to check things out.
You have the power to shop for your dream car online, without even having to leave the house. NowCar is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with representatives standing by to help you when you need it.
Our online shopping tool allows you to search for a vehicle by typing in your must have features.
This unique tool allows you freedom in choosing a new car, without being immediately tied to a certain make and model. You tell NowCar what is important to you in a vehicle, and NowCar will tell you what vehicles match your criteria.
A vehicle may pop up that is within your budget, that you may not have considered before. NowCar allows you to do price comparisons, market value research, and more - right from our website. We don't want you to make a hasty decision when you buy your new car, but rather an educated decision based on research.
The NowCar model puts you in the driver's seat. Not only of your new car, but of your entire online car buying experience. You purchase the vehicle you want to buy, not the one a pushy salesman convinces you that you want.
A limited inventory is also a non-issue with NowCar. You tell us what you want, and we will find your perfect car, to match exactly what you are looking for. Really, it is that easy.
NowCar is different from other car buying websites, in that we are a fully licensed dealerships. We won't mention any names, but those third party websites that promise you great deals if you purchase a vehicle online, end up selling your information, and playing price games.
These websites always end up displaying an attractive price on the car you've had your eye on. The number is promising, and you go ahead with the process of purchasing the car.
At the end of your transaction, after investing hours of your time, government taxes, fees, and other additions are tacked on to the price of your vehicle. WHAT!?
At NowCar, we don't believe in the old bait and switch tactic. The price you see when you first click on a NowCar vehicle, is the price you pay. No dealer fees, no delivery fees, and no questionable fees.
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The staff at Pregnancy Resources of Delaware County goes through extensive training on a continuous basis. We keep our staff up to date on current and changing health care information. We have licensed professionals at our disposal.
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Q: COMO RETORNAR UMA RESPOSTA PARA UMA PERGUNTA COM JAVASCRIPT Comecei agora em JavaScript e estou tentando retornar algumas respostas de perguntas usando JavaScript, mas não estou conseguindo, não sei aonde estou errando.

function conferir() {
  var A = document.getElementsById('question')
  var B = document.getElementsById('first')
  var C = document.getElementsById('second')

  if (A == B) {
    greeting = 'Você é muito fã';
  } else {
    greeting = 'Talvez curta um Dolly';
  }

}
<!DOCTYPE html>

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  <title> Quiz </title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="Style/style.css">

 Você é fã de Coca-Cola?

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   SIM

  <input type="radio" id="second">
   NÃO

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        Resultado</button>

A: A solução do seu problema é esse aqui:

*

*Remova o trecho de código do botão: Resultado e deixe apenas a chamada da função no seu código:

<button type="button" onclick="conferir()">Resultado</button>

*

*Atente-se a escrita da sintaxe na sua pergunta o existe um comando errado. Não é
getElementsById e sim getElementById no singular.

*Você na estava declarando e nem retornando valor da variavél gretting.

function conferir() {

    var A = document.getElementById('question');
    var B = document.getElementById('first')
    var C = document.getElementById('second');
    var greeting = "";

    if (A == B) {
        greeting = 'Você é muito fã';
    } else {
        greeting = 'Talvez curta um Dolly';
    }

    document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = greeting;
}

Apenas substitua os trechos apontados e teste para ver se funcionou.
Segue o exemplo funcionando:

function conferir() {

  var A = document.getElementById('question');
  var B = document.getElementById('first')
  var C = document.getElementById('second');
  var greeting = "";

  if (A == B) {
    greeting = 'Você é muito fã';
  } else {
    greeting = 'Talvez curta um Dolly';
  }

  document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = greeting;

}

 Você é fã de Coca-Cola?

<input type="radio" id="first">
 SIM

<input type="radio" id="second">
 NÃO

<button type="button" onclick="conferir()">Resultado</button>

A: Haviam alguns erros no codigo.

*

*O seu codigo esta permitindo selecionar as 2 respostas.
Para corrigir os 2 inputs devem ter o mesmo name.
Isso fara com que apenas 1 possa ser selecionado.
Assim:
  <input type="radio" id="first" name="anser">
  SIM

  <input type="radio" id="second" name="anser">
  NÃO

Perceba também que adicionei um atributo for, no label, que linka ele ao ID do input

*A verificação esta incorreta
A == B, sempre retornara false pois são coisas diferentes
A é um input e B é outro.
Você deve verificar se A está marcado ou B esta marcado, quando clicar
no Botão
  const A = document.getElementById('first')
  const B = document.getElementById('second')

  if (A.checked) {
    alert('Você é muito fã de Coca-Cola');
  } else if (B.checked) {
    alert('Talvez curta um Dolly');
  }

*Não use VAR! veja videos sobre let e const, são mais recomendados hoje em dia.

*Como ja citado o correto é getElementById, no singular pois vc ta pegando apenas uma "coisa";

*O evento onclick deve referenciar apenas a função conferir
<button type="button" onclick="conferir()">
  Resultado
</button>

Codigo completo abaixo

 Você é fã de Coca-Cola?

  <input type="radio" id="first" name="anser">
  SIM

  <input type="radio" id="second" name="anser">
  NÃO

  <button type="button" onclick="conferir()">
    Resultado
  </button>

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Michael's entry into the building industry began as a top mortgage professional specializing in construction loans for custom home builders. He achieved great success from his early days by earning the "Rising Star" award at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in 2003. In 2006, he earned the "Circle of Excellence" award for being a part of the top 2% of all loan officers for Countrywide Home Loans. At the time, Countrywide was one of the nation's largest lenders financing one out of every seven homes in America. Michael also earned an award in 2006 as the Top Originator for the Southwest Florida Region, focusing on new construction.
In 2008, after the acquisition of Countrywide Home Loans by Bank of America, he left the banking industry to join a team of business professionals as part owner in a start-up manufacturing company. He operated as the company's top financial executive and helped grow the business to industry prominence as one of the leading manufacturers of engineered construction products. With 52 representatives in 23 countries, QuantumFlo, Inc. has been the industry leader in product innovation and technology. He sold his ownership in the company at the end of 2014 but still maintains a seat on the Board of Directors.
With his knowledge of construction financing, and his background as a financial executive, Michael was a natural fit for the Waterstone concept. Having financed construction projects with Edwin's previous company, MAK Homes, he teamed up in 2014 to help realize the vision that became Waterstone City Homes, Inc. Michael personally assists all Waterstone clients to make sure that the right construction financing options are secured and that they work seamlessly with the client's unique financial profile.
Michael's formal financial experience and education began while attending the University of South Florida and attaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance. He was then employed by Paine Webber in The Private Client Group, as a licensed financial advisor while holding his series 7, 65 and 66 state licenses as well as his state life, health, and variable annuities licenses. He worked with high net worth individuals developing financial and estate plans. These valuable experiences allowed him to seamlessly move into the banking arena where he turned his attentions to lending money, carrying with him a deep sense of the client's perspective. He took a position with Wells Fargo where he "cut his teeth" in construction financing. In 2005 he joined Countrywide Home Loans, then spent five years with his company QuantumFlo, Inc. and then on to his new position with Waterstone City Homes, Inc.


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Closely related to Ivatt's 4MT 2-6-0, the BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 class was a useful locomotive used in most regions, with the exception of the west.
On tight 2nd radius curves 4 bogey carriages is a maximum before some slipping occurs, though it will just pull 6. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Bachmann has come up with an excellent model of the largest class of steam locomotives on the Chesapeake & Ohio. This model is based on the model of the USRA 2-6-6-2 Bachmann offered a few years ago in their Spectrum line. In the meantime, rival Norfolk & Western was experimenting with 5 class X-1 0-8-8-0's and 5 class Y-1 2-8-8-2's.
The USRA engineering committee decided to base the USRA smaller articulated on the N&W Z-1. Bachmann has moved back down this family tree by backdating their USRA 2-6-6-2 to make it into a C&O H-4. The Bachmann H-4 uses the same boiler as on their USRA 2-6-6-2, but has changed details as appropriate to the C&O locomotive. Completing the Bachmann H-4 is an excellent model of a C&O class 12VC Vanderbilt tender. The mechanism in the H-4 consists of a skew-wound can motor with two flywheels centered in the boiler, which drives both engines through universal joints and gear towers, much like a typical model diesel drive. Sandy River & Rangeley Lake #11 - Inside Frame Forney 2-4-4Matthias Forney's locomotive was designed to power elevated and surface commuter railroads in America's rapidly growing cities.
The 1876 Centennial Exhibition, which marked the 100th anniversary of our Nation's birth, was a showcase of the American spirit in industry and culture. Several locomotive manufacturers supplied motive power for the Exhibition's 3.5 mile passenger railroad, but a Baldwin 4-4-0 was the standout performer. This style of locomotive was used more than any other in nearly every variety of service throughout the United States. Bachmann has come up with an excellent model of the largest class of steam locomotives on the C&O.
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Naglis Stankaitis, in his final year of his BSc(Hons) Business Management course at the University of Brighton, has discovered a business payload after years of trial and error.
He was halfway through his studies and was "fed up" with part time casual jobs when he came across a business idea that has since grown "much bigger than I ever thought possible".
Naglis discovered the concept of selling private label products on Amazon and has since seen his annual turnover climb to over £500,000. Naglis now works closely with beepurple, the University's careers service which offers students, graduates and staff support to become more entrepreneurial and enterprising.
Naglis explained: "In essence, the business is very simple. I use software to analyse demand for different products on marketplaces like Amazon. I source these products and find factories in China and other countries to manufacture them under my own unique private label brand.
Naglis sells around the world and has been so successful that he is now counselling others interested in the line of business, and writing a book.
He took on a variety of jobs including shop work, leaflet distribution and deliveries, joining apprenticeship schemes, and even commuting to London to work for large companies, but he found all were unfulfilling.
Alongside his studies Naglis continued searching for the right business – and found it when he attended a conference on selling products on Amazon. At first, he suffered from returns and poor quality products but after improving standards, profits started trickling in.
Naglis launched more products and saw his revenue steadily increase and sales spreading throughout Europe, the USA and Australia – with one month's revenue now reaching £60,000.
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Verigan's Fist
With my nostalgia for WoW as it used to be rekindled by BlizzCon, I decided to log onto my paladin on Kronos for the first time in several months. Her quest log was a hot mess with leftover quests in half a dozen different zones, and I was bumping up against the limit of only being able to hold twenty quests at a time. Argh! As I really wanted to move on to Stranglethorn Vale, land of numerous, glorious kill quests, I made an effort to clear things out a bit. Those leftover group quests from Redridge? Not gonna go back for those... abandon! A quest for Gnomeregan? Bah, whatever... abandon!
But there was one quest I definitely wasn't going to let go: The Test of Righteousness! After all I had already braved the Deadmines for that Whitestone Oak Lumber, fought elite ogres in Loch Modan for Refined Ore and descended to the Blackfathom Deeps for a Purified Kor Gem. All I needed was that darned hammer from Shadowfang Keep!
I figured that since I was past level thirty now, I was probably going to be OK soloing this last step, even though my gear was atrociously bad for my level. Fortunately I already had all the flight points up to Southshore from when I travelled north in search of the Expert First Aid book. I took it slowly, cleaning up a couple more quests on the way, but eventually I stood at the border to Silverpine, faced with giant red text warning me that I was entering Horde territory. I did not encounter any Horde however. Kronos' not particularly high population is definitely an advantage when it comes to avoiding PvP on a PvP server.
I killed the first couple of trash packs inside the instance with no issues but died once to the boss, since I didn't realise that he came with no less than three adds, which was a bit much for me in my gear, even at my level. Fortunately I managed to kill at least one of them before I died, and when I came back for more I was able to handle the remaining two adds before tackling the boss himself. I wouldn't have been able to tell you his name before I came in; I have to confess that Shadowfang Keep is one of those dungeons that I didn't run many times back in its Vanilla incarnation.
After successfully dispatching of Rethilgore, I found the captured Dalaran mage in his cell and talked to him so he would open the door to the courtyard for me. Surprise! The cell door closed behind me as I walked in to chat with him and I ended up trapped! I can't tell whether this was a bug or an actual Vanilla mechanic (after all you were supposed to come in with a group, so someone else would have been able to pull the lever from outside to let you back out), but it sure was annoying! Since there was no way to kill myself, it looked like my only way of escaping might be using my hearthstone... which was set to Darkshire. Ugh! However, then I had one last idea, which fortunately worked out - by casting Consecration close to the wall, I managed to pull Deathstalker Adamant from the adjacent cell, and as he was not held back by trifling matters such as walls or gates, he came over and helpfully agreed to kill me to save me from having to hearth out. Dodged that bullet!
I was kind of baffled by just how packed the courtyard was with mobs and patrols, but once again I managed to fight my way towards the stables with no further issues. At last, there was Jordan's Hammer!
I decided to pull the "horse boss" as a last hurrah, since I wasn't sure anymore whether the other horses would aggro as well. They did, and they stomped me. But I had got my quest item, so it was all good!
It didn't matter that I was prot/holy and had no real use for a two-handed mace. In Vanilla, there were just some things that you had to do because your pride demanded it, and owning your own Verigan's Fist was definitely one of them. Not to mention that getting it felt like completing one hell of a quest, in the truest sense of the word.
Tags: gear, kronos, paladin, private servers, quests, screenshots, shadowfang keep
BlizzCon, the Warcraft Movie and Ironmen
BlizzCon has come and gone and WoW was once again all over the (MMO) news. There was also that little announcement about further subscription drops and that they'll never report subscriber numbers again, but oh well. I liked the way Wilhelm put it: "In the end, even World of Warcraft in reality cannot compete with World of Warcraft of legend."
The Legion announcement left me completely cold. I say this not to pooh-pooh on anyone who was excited by it, but because it's an interesting contrast to Warlords of Draenor. WoD at least still sounded somewhat tempting to me. This stuff? Nope. I guess I really am over that. I didn't even like the Legion trailer, mainly because it was focused on Varian.
I've been told that he's gradually been turned into a decent character, and maybe that's true, but if it is it definitely came too late for me. To me he'll always be that douche with the stupid hair. The only time I liked him (sorta) was when he was still the missing diplomat.
I was sort of intrigued by the Warcraft movie trailer:
I don't think it will blow anyone away in terms of story, but it does capture the Warcraft aesthetic pretty well and it's interesting to see a more "realistic" rendition of Azeroth for once. It focuses on a time period from classic Warcraft, which will appeal to a lot of people who may not like or care about the current game anymore. And it will be interesting to see how they change up the lore to make it more suitable for the big screen. For example the orcs come across as a lot more sympathetic in that trailer than I would have expected them to be at that point in Warcraft history, plus there's that whole "green Moses" scene...
I've also been watching people play WoW on YouTube, specifically the Ironman Challenge. I seem to remember hearing about the basic idea of levelling a character with as many self-imposed handicaps as possible as far back as Wrath of the Lich King, but it seems to have increased in appeal the more boring the base levelling game has become.
My favourite has been TheLazyPeon's series about it, because he gets so genuinely enthused about exploring the game in a new manner and so freaked out by his near-deaths. (Dying instantly causes you to "lose" the challenge.) You definitely feel a bit of Vanilla WoW flair in the air whenever his little mage sheeps things and runs for his life.
The other YouTuber I've been watching play through this challenge is Asmongold:
He projects more of a "bro" personality on screen, and if you see the weird sort of "fan mail" he gets, you wonder if he ever regrets it. It's interesting to see how completely different his approach is though. He couldn't get what the challenge was about initially, constantly deriding it as too easy (and to be fair, he did roll a hunter). But then he made a stupid pull in Duskwood and pretty much only survived it because he happened to level up at just the right time and it really seemed to sink in that the game could still be challenging if you do gimp yourself enough. He also has pretty much zero interest in quests and lore and frequently seems to forget that Cataclysm happened (as in, he'll keep talking about what sort of quest he thinks is coming up in the next area, but it's almost always the Vanilla version he describes). Still entertaining in its own way.
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Гру́па туй за́хідних (7 екз.) — ботанічна пам'ятка природи місцевого значення в Україні. Розташована в межах міста Дрогобича Львівської області, на вулиці Т. Шевченка, у сквері між педуніверситетом і філармонією (довкола пам'ятника А. Міцкевичу).

Площа 0,08 га. Статус надано 1984 року. Перебуває у віданні Дрогобицького педуніверситету.

Статус надано з метою збереження семи екземплярів туї західної.

 Поруч розташована ботанічна пам'ятка природи — Група тисів (4 екз.).

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 Група туй західних (7 екз)

Ботанічні пам'ятки природи Львівської області
Природно-заповідний фонд Дрогобича
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1984

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