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Into the Snowstorm: CJ Box's Winterkill Preview and Review by Darren Nguyen
Author's Note: The 2nd part of the analysis deals with major spoilers in the book. If you want to avoid such spoilers then click here.
Christmas week has arrived in Twelve Sleep County and things could not be worse for Joe Pickett and his family. April Keeley, Joe's "adopted" daughter, is about to be taken away from the Pickett family due to her real mother being in town. In addition, Forest Service manager Lamar Gardiner was killed brutally while under arrest for hunting violations. Lamar's death has triggered a cascade of events that involves the FBI, Wyoming Department of Investigation (DCI), and the Saddlesastring Sheriff. Supervising the investigation of Gardiner's death is Melinda Strickland of the Forest Service special taskforce dealing with deaths of Forest Service employees. Furthermore, FBI agents Dick Munker and Tony Portenson are deployed to assist with the investigation.
Evidence gathered at the crime scene points to a man named Nate Romanowski, an anti-government loner and falconer as the prime suspect. Upon interrogation, Romanowski maintains his innocence but the evidence is stacked against him. A compound bow and a knife found in Romanowski's house matchs the arrows that impaled Gardiner and the knife that slit Gardiner's throat. Furthermore, Romanowski has admitted openly to how he disliked the government, talking specifically about its land management policies which he claims limit his hunting territory. However, despite the evidence, Joe is skeptical that Nate killed Lamar.
Now, Joe has to find the real killer, and a car accident involving Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee Birch Wardell puts him closer to proving Nate's innocence. When a potential suspect is spotted heading to an anti-government resistance faction called the "Sovereigns," Strickland and Munker order a full-on assault on the Sovereigns's compound. However, that is not the only problem on Joe's mind. Jeanne Keely (April's birth mother who abandoned and neglected her) filed a court order to force April out of Joe's home. It seems only a matter of time before April is returned back to her abusive mother, but Joe and Marybeth are determined not to let that happen. But, with the upcoming assault on the Sovereigns, is it possible for Joe to save April and stop a blood bath? Will he have to sacrifice April to save more lives? Will Joe save April but risk the lives of his friends? Or, will that choice be made for him? Now, Joe is on the clock. In order to prevent a war between the police and the Sovereigns, Joe has to juggle three impossible tasks. First, Joe has to prove Nate's innocence. Next, Joe has to stop the war between the Sovereigns and Strickland. Finally, Joe has to save April.
The Man, The Myth, The…Ear Ripper? (Minor Spoilers) "He's a hunter and a killer […] He could also be, Joe thought, a hell of an ally" (Box, p. 244)
As I mentioned in the last review, I will be talking about my favorite character of the Joe Pickett series. That man is named Nate Romanowski. Despite how Nate is portrayed by Strickland, Nate is not a murderous lunatic; he kills with precision. The pistol he carries, a .454 Casull, is the most powerful handgun in the U.S. One shot from this pistol can disable an armored SUV. It is symbolic of who he is as a person: deadly, but not frequently. Nate is not the person to kill for fun, he is the person who kills those he deems evil or threatens Joe. Nate has a strong sense of justice and patriotism especially since he is former Special Forces. Not much is said about why he left the Special Forces other than a "disagreement" with his superiors. Turns out that "disagreement" is an understatement because Nate mentions the government is hunting for him. Since Joe proved Nate's innocence, Nate has been strongly devoted and protective of Joe. Since Joe encounters many evil people in his misadventures, Nate has many targets to kill--though Joe stops Nate from killing criminals.
An exception to Joe's "don't brutally torture/kill criminals" rule is his final encounter with Melinda Strickland. After an incident with the Sovereigns, Melinda was promoted and is now the head manager of Forest Service in Saddlestring. Joe hated the idea that someone like Melinda is now in office and wanted to get rid of her. Nate suggested that Joe needs "leverage" in order to force Melinda's resignation so Nate kidnapped her dog and threatened to shoot it with his Casull unless Melinda signed her resignation letter. This is where Nate's sense of justice dictates his morality. He is threatening an innocent dog just to force a resignation. When Melinda refused to sign, Nate kills her and covers up the scene to appear like Melinda killed herself. When Nate has his eyes on a target, he will kill it no matter what the costs. When dealing with criminals or Joe's enemies, the nicest thing Nate could do is rip their ears off. In the later books, Nate tortures and executes people much to Joe's chagrin. While Joe fundamentally disagrees with Nate's tactics, Joe accepts Nate as a brother-in-arms. Overall, Nate has his moments in which he appears as an out-of-control vigilante, but he does, at times, show his soft side which leads to the next point. Nate makes Joe a better person.
I mentioned many times before that Joe is a young and somewhat naïve game warden. Like Nate, Joe has a strong sense of justice and would like to see all criminals in jail. However, Joe wants to do things by the book and legally convict a criminal rather than execute criminals like Nate does. However, in Winterkill Joe's idealism starts to fade as he deals with FBI Agents and government officials who abuse the system for their own personal gain. Melinda Strickland and Dick Munker want to assault the Sovereigns's compound in order to get promotions and pay raises. During the standoff, Munker (equipped with a sniper rifle) reports a hostage situation inside the Sovereign camp. Seeing the opportunity to end the standoff, Stickland orders Munker to fire a "warning shot." However, Munker shoots a propane tank and causes explosions across the compound, starting a shootout. As Joe takes cover, Nate fires on police, buying time for the Sovereigns and Joe to escape. Munker, seeing Nate, tries to pursue Nate but crashes his snow mobile. Joe confronts the mortally wounded Munker and contemplates executing him. Before Joe raises his gun, Nate stops him.
"You don't murder people in cold blood." [Nate]
"I do now," Joe said. God, his head hurt,
"If you shoot this guy, who will take care of Marybeth? What about Sheridan? And Lucy?" […] "Who will take care of them? They need their dad."
"Goddamn you Nate."
(Box. p.348)
Nate understands why Joe would want to kill Munker. If the roles were reversed, Nate would have executed the guy with no hesitation, but Nate convinces Joe to spare him by appealing to Joe's role as a father. Nate respects him not only because Joe is a genuine "good" guy, but also because Joe is the father of a loving family. Protecting Joe's family is the same as protecting Joe. In this scene, Nate proves to Joe he understands Joe. Nate goes above and beyond not by arguing that Joe should not kill Munker because it is "illegal" and Joe would go to jail. Instead, Nate argues that if Joe kills Munker in cold blood, then he will lose more than just his job; Joe will lose the love and respect of his family. If Marybeth and Sheridan knew that Joe murdered a man out of spite, then Joe would break his good guy image and consequently lose Sheridan's admiration of him and Marybeth's love. When Nate swore to protect Joe, he did not mean just Joe. Nate meant everything Joe holds dear.
Overall, I really like Nate Romanowski as a character not only because he complements Joe's strength but also because he is a strong character by himself. He is a vigilante, a protector and most importantly a very loyal friend. Nate knows who Joe is and what is most precious to Joe. No matter the costs, Nate will always be there for Joe. A friend that is there for you no matter the problem or situation is family.
What if…. (Major Spoilers)
"He [Joe] failed her, and as a result, she was gone. It tore his heart out" (Box, p. 350).
Joe changes a lot in this book. His idealism, naivety, and faith in the system are all shattered. It turns out doing the right thing does not bring happiness or respect in some circumstances. Joe was a pawn in Munker and Strickland's game. He was used to gather information on those responsible for killing Lamar Gardiner. His report on Gardiner's death caused a cascade of events that almost lead to the downfall of Joe. Strickland and Munker took advantage of Gardiner's death to generate a narrative that Saddlestring is harboring anti-government criminals. It is that constructed narrative that got Joe's daughter April killed.
The first major event was losing April. When April was taken suddenly from them, Joe and Marybeth were in disarray. Both were upset that they never had the chance to say goodbye or explain the situation to April. She was just taken to the Sovereigns's compound without them even knowing. What made matters worse is the impending police raid. As mentioned earlier, in order to stop that assault and save April, Joe has to find the real murderers. He promised Sheridan and his wife he would come back with April safe and sound. But that is not the case. Joe tried so hard: he drove for hours, navigated through knee deep snow, suffered multiple injuries on the way only to fail. Even with Nate's help, Joe still failed to stop the assault from happening. The "warning shot" Munker fired lit a propane tank powering April's RV. She died in the fire along with Jeanne Keeley and her boyfriend. At the end of the assault, Joe sunk into deep depression wondering what more he could have done to save April. For furthermore analysis click here.
Final Word: Anyways, that's enough medical philosophy for one review. If you have any questions or concerns, then feel free to email me or talk to me in person. Or you can talk to/email Dr. Davis since he is definitely more experienced in ethics, morality, and philosophy than I am. The next book I will review is called Trophy Hunt which will follow Joe and Nate's adventures as they investigate cows that are missing their… utters.


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Sarajevo, mon amour (Grbavica) est un film dramatique bosnien réalisé et écrit par Jasmila Žbanić, sorti en 2006 en France et le  en Belgique. Il a reçu l'Ours d'Or à la Berlinale 2006.

Le film a par ailleurs bénéficié de nombreuses projections dans des festivals internationaux tels que le Berlinale, le Festival international du film de Karlovy Vary, le Festival du film de Toronto ou encore le Festival international du film de Hong Kong, et dans lesquels il a remporté plusieurs prix. Il met en scène une mère et sa fille, interprétées par Mirjana Karanović et Luna Mijovic, dont le père est apparemment mort en héros à la guerre. Néanmoins, un banal voyage scolaire va rapidement tout remettre en cause, et projeter la fille dans la dure réalité de la vie.

Sarajevo, mon amour est la première réalisation de Jasmila Žbanić. Diplômée de l'Académie d'Arts dramatiques de Sarajevo, elle a d'abord été marionnettiste puis clown avant de devenir réalisatrice. Depuis 1997, Žbanić a tourné quelques courts métrages dans lesquels elle évoque déjà l'après-guerre en Bosnie. C'est en 2006 qu'elle tourne enfin son premier long métrage : Sarajevo, mon amour. Ce dernier est très apprécié par la critique, et par le public, également, malgré son petit budget.

Synopsis

Esma, mère célibataire, vit avec sa fille de douze ans, Sara, dans le Sarajevo d'après-guerre. Sara souhaite partir en voyage scolaire, et Esma commence à travailler comme serveuse dans une boîte de nuit afin d'économiser l'argent nécessaire. Sara devient amie avec Samir qui, comme elle, n'a pas de père. Leurs pères respectifs sont supposés morts en héros. Samir est surpris que Sara ignore les circonstances du décès de son père : son père à lui a été massacré par les Tchetniks près de Žuč parce qu'il refusait de quitter la tranchée qu'il défendait. Pourtant, chaque fois que mère et fille évoquent ce sujet délicat, les réponses d'Esma se font vagues. La situation se complique alors que l'école propose d'emmener gratuitement les enfants en voyage, à condition qu'ils fournissent un certificat prouvant que leur père est mort en héros. Esma explique à Sara que le corps de son père n'a jamais été retrouvé, et ainsi elle ne possède pas un tel certificat. Elle promet cependant d'essayer de l'obtenir.

En réalité, elle tente d'emprunter l'argent dont Sara a besoin, auprès de son amie Sabina, de sa tante et de son employeur. Sara ne peut se défaire du sentiment que quelque chose ne va pas. Choquée de découvrir qu'elle ne figure pas sur la liste des enfants de héros de guerre dressée par l'école pour le voyage, elle se bagarre avec un camarade de classe et, reprenant à son compte l'histoire du père de Samir, lui raconte que son père a été massacré par les Chetniks dans la tranchée qu'il défendait. Une fois rentrée chez elle, Sara interroge sa mère et exige de connaître la vérité. Esma craque et lui révèle brutalement les faits : elle a été violée dans un camp de prisonniers, et forcée de garder l'enfant né de ce viol. Sara réalise soudain qu'elle est l'enfant d'un Chetnik, mais le fait de connaître la vérité lui permet de commencer à surmonter le traumatisme. Finalement, Sara part en voyage et fait signe à sa mère au dernier moment. Dans le car, les enfants chantent une chanson populaire évoquant Sarajevo, Le Pays de mes rêves, et Sara reprend l'air à son tour, concluant le film sur une note optimiste.

Contexte
Selon la réalisatrice :

Dans le film, les criminels sont nommés  Chetniks, un terme dérogatoire que plusieurs musulmans/croates de Sarajevo utilisaient pour parler des gens de nationalité serbe. La réalisatrice a déclaré qu'elle voulait volontairement éviter le mot « Serbe », pour éviter d'imposer cette culpabilité à un groupe ethnique entier.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Sarajevo, mon amour
 Titre original : Grbavica
 Titre international :
 Réalisation : Jasmila Žbanić
 Scénario : Jasmila Žbanić
 Production : Barbara Albert, Damir Ibrahimovich, Boris Michalski, Damir Richtaric et Bruno Wagner
 Sociétés de production : Coop 99, Deblokada, Jadran Film et Noirfilm
 Société de distribution : ID Distribution
 Musique : Enes Zlatar
 Photographie : Christine A. Maier
 Montage : Niki Mossböck
 Décors : Kemal Hrustanovic
 Costumes : Lejla Hodzic
 Pays d'origine : Bosnie-Herzégovine
 Langue originale : Bosniaque
 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1 - Dolby Digital -
 Genre : Drame
 Durée : 107 minutes
 Date de sortie :
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 Lieux de tournage : Sarajevo

Distribution
 Mirjana Karanović : Esma
 Luna Mijović : Sara
 Leon Lučev : Pelda
 Kenan Ćatić : Samir
 Jasna Beri : Sabina
 Dejan Aćimović : Cenga
 Bogdan Diklić : Saran
 Emir Hadzihafizbegović : Puska
 Ermin Bravo : Professeur Muha
 Semka Sokolović-Bertok : Mère de Pelda
 Maike Höhne : Jabolka
 Jasna Žalica : Plema
 Nada Djurevska : Tante Safija
 Emina Muftić : Vasvija
 Dunja Pasić : Mila
 Sedina Muhibić : Maja
 Sabina Turulja : Zehra
 Vanessa Glodjo : Dzemila
 Sanja Burić : Mirha
 Hasija Borić : Fadila

Autour du film

Grbavica
Dans la version originale de Sarajevo, mon amour, le film s'intitule Grbavica. Ce titre a été choisi par la cinéaste pour sa signification. Grbavica est un quartier de Sarajevo dans lequel vit Jasmila Žbanić. Durant la guerre, il a été assigné par l'armée serbo-monténégrine. Des gens y ont été torturés. Ainsi, elle déclare : « lorsque vous marchez dans Grbavica, aujourd'hui, vous pouvez voir des immeubles typiques du régime socialiste, des résidents locaux, des magasins, des enfants, des chiens… mais en même temps, vous pouvez sentir la présence de quelque chose d'indicible et d'invisible, cet étrange sensation d'être dans un endroit marqué par la souffrance humaine ». Par ailleurs, étymologiquement, Grbavica signifie « femme bossue ». Ainsi, Bvanic pensait résumer son histoire à travers ces deux aspects du terme. Néanmoins, en France, le film a été distribué sous un titre très différent : Sarajevo, mon amour, lui faisant perdre toute sa symbolique.

Réception publique
Alors qu'il a été projeté dans près de vingt festivals internationaux — dont le Berlinale, le Festival international du film de Toronto, de Karlovy Vary ou encore d'Hong Kong — Sarajevo, mon amour a été reçu par un accueil très variable en salles. Ses recettes brutes, aux États-Unis, s'élèvent à seulement  après dix sept semaines d'exploitation. En parallèle à la déception américaine, s'ajoute celle du Royaume-Uni avec une recette de seulement . Toutefois, le film a été acclamé en République tchèque, avec un résultat de  ou en Allemagne avec une recette finale de . Le film termine son exploitation avec , score tout à fait appréciable pour la réalisatrice, dont le film avait été produit avec peu de moyens. Sarajevo, mon amour est par ailleurs classé  de l'année 2007.

Sarajevo, mon amour est de plus le premier film en tant que réalisatrice de Jasmila Žbanić. Elle avait précédemment tourné un épisode d'une série télévisée, un court métrage et un téléfilm. Pour ses premiers pas dans le monde du cinéma, Žbanić a tourné un film très lucratif, et a bénéficié d'une projection dans plusieurs festivals internationaux, marquant par ailleurs le début de sa carrière internationale.

Réception critique
À côté d'une réception publique réussie, la réception critique a été très bonne. En marge des diverses projections aux festivals, plusieurs magazines félicitent la réalisatrice pour son œuvre, en acclamant la victoire de l'Ours d'or. C'est dans cette optique que Télérama publie « un film vibrant et maîtrisé », Le Journal du dimanche déclare « un récit poignant […] en finesse, le film évite le mélo et met en relief, sans angélisme, l'indispensable devoir de vérité » ou encore L'Humanité avoue « l'amour, la cocasserie, une drôlerie sans cynisme que Jasmila Žbanić manie en artiste, usant des ressources propres au cinéma pour que jaillisse la vérité de l'histoire ». Pourtant, certains ont trouvé que, justement, la réalisatrice avait voulu trop en faire. Score écrit « quand on s'attaque à un sujet tire-larmes, mieux vaut y aller mollo sur le pathos ». Plus loin que Score, Le Monde ne trouve aucune originalité à la mise en scène de Žbanić et déclare qu'« aussi grave soit-il, aucun sujet ne se suffit à lui-même : encore faut-il le mettre en scène ».

Malgré plusieurs mauvaises critiques, néanmoins, le film a été très apprécié dans son ensemble. Il ressort majoritairement que l'Ours d'or est une récompense à la hauteur du film, et que la mise en scène est à la hauteur du scénario et du thème évoqué.

Distinctions

Récompenses
 2006 : Grand prix du jury à l'AFI Fest.
 2006 : Ours d'or du meilleur film, Prix du jury Œcuménique et Grand prix de la paix au Berlinale.
 2006 : Prix de la meilleure actrice et Prix Canvas du meilleur film au Festival du film européen de Bruxelles.
 2006 : Prix Femme et égalité au Festival international du film de Thessalonique.
 2007 : Prix de l'audience au Festival international du film de Portland.

Nominations
 2006 : Nommé au Grand prix du Jury au Festival du film de Sundance
 2006 : Nommé au Prix du cinéma européen de la meilleure actrice et du meilleur film
 2006 : Nommé au  de la meilleure actrice

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Liens externes
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Film bosnien sorti en 2006
Film autrichien sorti en 2006
Film croate sorti en 2006
Film allemand sorti en 2006
Film dramatique bosnien
Film dramatique autrichien
Film dramatique croate
Film dramatique allemand
Film se déroulant en Bosnie-Herzégovine
Film se déroulant à Sarajevo
Film tourné en Bosnie-Herzégovine
Film sur la guerre de Bosnie-Herzégovine
Ours d'or
Prix du jury œcuménique à la Berlinale
Film en bosnien
Film réalisé par Jasmila Žbanić

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Home Commentary Lisa Wolff: Living a lifelong dream
Lisa Wolff: Living a lifelong dream
Lisa Wolff
Last year the Hopewell Valley Regional School District had a teacher named "Mercer County Teacher of The Year" for the first time in at least a decade. That high school chemistry teacher was Nick Johnson, and I invited him to write a guest column for my regular From The Schools update.
Exactly one year later another HVRSD teacher has been named Mercer County Teacher of The Year. This time it is Hopewell STEM Facilitator Helen Corveleyn. While I have switched to writing "Nature in The Valley," she is a quite fitting guest columnist. In March 2019, Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space named Helen Corveleyn their "Force of Nature" claiming she was "the pied piper of scientific pursuits" by leading every child crossing her path to happily engage in her latest ecological project.
I asked her to write about her passion for nature, conservation or her ecological influence on her students. Here are her unedited words:
I've had a lifelong dream to study ecology in the tropical rainforest. Always an avid environmental activist, I looked at the world's rainforests as the ultimate scientific research paradise. Land boasting the richest biodiversity on earth, flora and fauna so exotic that the scientific community has not even had a chance to scratch the surface of the volume of life that exists there. My college experience in environmental policy was rich and fulfilling but never brought me to my ultimate habitat experience as I double majored in education pledging to change young minds to conserve our earth as my life's work.
Last month a lifetime dream was realized. My graduate work in conservation biology brought me to Malaysian Borneo to see some of the most magnificent forests I have ever experienced. Watching majestic flying squirrels glide from tree to tree in the canopy of the loud and vibrant forest, I gazed upon a purple sunset in complete awe of the beauty I was able to breathe in. At a remote field station on the Kinabatangan River, I was fortunate to be able to shadow incredible scientists conducting research on many endangered species: Monitor Lizards, Pythons, Pengolins, Proboscis Monkeys, Pygmy Elephants and finally the crown jewel of charismatic megafauna: the Orangutan.
Orangutan in Malaysian is translated as "person of the forest". Observing these magnificent creatures is a practice that requires extreme patience, traversing treacherous vine-covered land, scaling knee deep banks of mud, fighting through swaths of mosquitoes in extreme heat and maximum humidity. A strenuous hike through the depths of uncharted forests and a neck craned so far back to support (heavy) high quality binoculars brought rich rewards. Beautiful glimpses of orange limbs as a mama and her baby make a new nest for themselves each night. A rare occasional glance at a curious leathery face is like a gift, even from 500 feet away the wild creatures know when they have visitors in their forest.
While I thought my dream was fulfilled with the treacherous hiking through the forest dressed in leech socks tucked into my heavy rain boots, I had yet to experience the true beauty of my expedition. I was lucky enough to stay in a small village in the home of a generous Malaysian family. It was in this village that my soul was changed: surrounded by a forest threatened by massive palm oil plantations an entire community of native Malaysians participate in community-based conservation. To save what remains of this bountiful forest and protect the deeply fragmented habitat of the Orangutan, teams of people are trained, educated and enabled to help protect the forest. Women grow and nurture tree seedlings bearing the favorite fruits of the Orangs, villagers act as wildlife wardens reporting threatening activity through a network of conservationists, teams are trained to track and record difficult to obtain Orangutan data, and my favorite: a team of women armed with machetes and weed wackers who clean and re-forest damaged parts of the rainforest to generate rebirth and plant hope.
It was the community conservation that I realized was my ultimate destiny. The forest is deeply troubled; a painful, turbulent beauty emerges as it battles against monoculture and the anthropocentric whims of our economic needs. But the community voice speaks loudly in my soul to provide inspirational fuel to help the forests of my dreams.
Many times in life we start down a specific path bound for whatever adventures lie ahead, certain that our ambitions are the way to a sustained fulfillment. What I found all those thousands of miles away from our tiny part of the world lead me back to community; back to nature; back to broader theories of true sustainability; back home.
To immediately help the Orangutans of Borneo and Indonesia, download the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo app on your smartphone for resources to help you purchase products that have the RSPO label attached. It is our duty as American consumers to support sustainable efforts on the global stage.
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I exercised the unalienable right of locomotion in my vehicle with out a state license, registration, or driver's license, for 5 years in Oregon. I still don't have a driver's license. Gave that up in 1981 along with my SS #. I was ticketed for all the above and went to court for 4 1/2 years on the tickets. I learned a lot about how the courts really work. I teach the difference between "judicial" Courts and "non-judicial" Courts.
It results in a lot of dismissals.
I have found the police under the statutory term "Peace Officer" are in really the state military police, and the non-judicial courts are exercising a state Military Jurisdiction titled "Martial Rule" I find this same condition in the Federal Courts as Well. Normally a non-judicial court does not have a criminal jurisdiction, but under a military jurisdiction they do.
"When the citizen is governed by the military power, he is not governed by the soldier's code of military law, but he is said to be governed by martial law; and this law is perfectly distinct and entirely different from military law, to which soldiers are subject."
"The source and origin of the power to establish military commissions, if it exist at all, is in the assumed power to declare what is called martial law. I say what is called martial law; for, strictly there is no such thing as martial law..."
"All the Laws But One" William H. Rehnquist Published by Alfred A. Knopf, INC.
"...the violation of city ordinances are held to be in the nature of civil cases although of a quasi-criminal or penal nature where imprisonment may be inflicted." (Emphasis supplied.) Scott v. Denver, 125 Colo. 68, 241 P.2d 857.
In Oregon, a City Court is a court NOT of Record. Courts NOT of record have no power to fine or imprison, unless they by statute are given a military jurisdiction. They then use the criminal jurisdiction of the military power to do what under the state Constitution they can not do.
I'm sure you have noticed the term "Infraction" used citing vehicle offences. The non-judicial courts say these infractions are of a civil nature, but also are under criminal procedures. Under military law all offences are criminal, but the military defines some criminal offences as a lessor crime than others. But all offences are under criminal procedures.
17. "In all civil cases, the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate." Article I, Section 17, Oregon Constitution (1859).
But if the legislature has by law created a code under the military power of the state and infractions are offences under this military power then that's why NO jury trials are permitted for infractions. All this comes under what is called EMERGENCY legislation. If you check the legislative Acts of the State legislatures you will find the term EMERGENCY LEGISLATION at the end of the Act.
When the state legislatures enact EMERGENCY legislation they are acting as a PROVISIONAL Legislature. A PROVISIONAL Legislature can alter the state Constitution without the consent of the Citizens of the State. In Oregon I have noticed every time the state Constitution is amended the term CITIZEN" is not used in the amended article???? How much amending is it going to take to omit the term "CITIZEN" completely from the Oregon Constitution, or yours? If a state Constitution no longer recognizes it has "CITIZENS" and its the "CITIZENS" who are the state, then is there a STATE? I think its time the police and the Citizen take a good look at what being done and put a stop to it. I for one am tired of the police referring to me as a "CIVILIAN" who do they think they are?
I also teach the difference between state Citizens and federal citizens. I do have judicial notice from the District Court of Oregon that I am a white state Citizen of Oregon and not a federal citizen.
I refer you to Case No.M35072100S, M35072000S, M35072200S, M35072300S , In the Oregon State District Court for the County of Multnomah, (1986), STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff v. Robert W. Wangrud, Defendant, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ROBERT L. KIRKMAN, judicially recognized Robert W. Wangrud, as a free white Citizen of the State of Oregon.
I refer you to Case No.M35072100S, M35072000S, M35072200S, M35072300S, In the Oregon State District Court for the County of Multnomah, (1986), STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff v. Robert W. Wangrud, Defendant, DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, CHARLES B. GUINASSO, judicially recognized Robert W. Wangrud, as a free white Citizen of the State of Oregon and thereby a citizen of the United States..
I refer you to Case No. M-34578100S, M- 34578200S, M-34578300S, In the Oregon State District Court for the County of Multnomah, (1986), STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff v. RANDY L. GEISZLER, Defendant, PRESIDING DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Frank L. Bearden, judicially recognized Randy L. Geiszler as a free white Citizen of the State of Oregon.
I refer you to Case No. 86-28224 CHARLES W. BROWN, Petitioner, VS. JOHN & JANE DOES Nos. 1 through 99, Respondents, Presiding State Distrct Court Judge FELIX SALAZAR, Jr, In the DISTRICT COURT OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, 157TH Judicial District. ORDER FOR DECLARATION OF CITIZENSHIP. judicially recognized CHARLES W. BROWN, as a free white Citizen of the State of TEXAS.
I refer you to Case No.492,817, FIRST CITY BANK-SIOUX FALLS, PLAINTIFF vs. Lang Holland, Defendant, Presiding Judge, Thomas Sullivan In the COUNTY COURT OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS. ORDER FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE OF STATE CITIZENSHIP. judicially recognized Lang Holland, as a free white Citizen of the State of TEXAS.
A few others have done this also. I won't get into racist arguments, but will show the law on this issue, if your interested.
[9, 10] "The privileges and immunities clause of the fourteenth Amendment protects very few rights because it neither incorporates any of the Bill of Rights nor protects all rights of individual citizens ... Instead this provision protects only those rights peculiar to being a citizen of the federal government; it does not protect those rights which relate to state citizenship ..." Jones v. Temmer (Aug. 1993) 829 F. Supp. 1226.
"It is claimed that the plaintiff is a citizen of the United States and of this State. Undoubtedly she is. It is argued that she became such by force of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, already recited. This, however, is a mistake. It could well be claimed that she became free by the effects of the Thirteenth Amendment, by which slavery was abolished, for she was no less a citizen than she was free before the adoption of either of these amendments. No white person...owes the status of citizenship to the recent amendments to the Federal constitution.
The history and aim of the Fourteenth Amendment is well understood. That purpose was to confer the status of citizenship upon a numerous class of persons domiciled within the limits of the United States, who could not be brought within the operation of the naturalization laws because native born, and whose birth, though native, had at the same time left them without the status of citizenship. These persons were not white persons, but were, in the main, persons of African descent, who had been held in slavery in this country, or, if having themselves never been held in slavery, were the native-born descendants of slaves." Van Valkenburg v. Brown, 43 Cal 431 47 (1872).


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Selige Witwen ist ein Kriminalroman von Ingrid Noll, in dem, wie typisch für die Werke Nolls, Morde von Frauen an Männern aus der Perspektive der Täterinnen erzählt werden.

Veröffentlichung
Der Roman erschien 2001 im Diogenes Verlag und ist die Fortsetzung von Nolls Roman Die Häupter meiner Lieben (1993). 2002 erschien das Hörbuch, gelesen von Franziska Pigulla. In den folgenden Jahren erschienen Übersetzungen ins Dänische, Spanische, Türkische und Russische.

Handlung
Cora und Maja sind zwei junge Frauen, die zusammen in der Toskana leben und das Geld durchbringen, das Cora von ihrem verstorbenen Ehemann Henning geerbt hat – den die beiden (im Vorgängerroman Die Häupter meiner Lieben) ermordet hatten. Sie besichtigen eine Villa auf dem Land, die Cora eigentlich kaufen möchte. Sie zögert jedoch etwas zu lange und eine reiche Amerikanerin schnappt ihr das Haus weg.

Um sich um Coras kranke Großmutter Charlotte zu kümmern, müssen sie und Maja nach Deutschland zurückkehren; unterwegs bringen sie Majas kleinen Sohn Béla zu seinem Vater Jonas, von dem sich Maja getrennt hat. In Darmstadt hält es Cora aber nicht lange aus; sie kehrt mit ihrem Cousin Felix nach Italien zurück und lässt Maja sitzen, die nun in Felix' WG bei dessen Mitbewohnern Andy, Max und der Volkshochschul-Lehrerin Kathrin unterkommt. Mit Kathrin freundet sie sich schnell an und beide tauschen ihre schlechten Erfahrungen mit Männern aus. Auch Kathrin lebt von ihrem Mann getrennt: Erik, einem Anwalt mit guten Kontakten in die Unterwelt und das Rotlichtmilieu von Frankfurt/Main. Maja und Kathrin gehen heimlich in Eriks Wohnung, um Kathrins persönliche Sachen zu holen und nehmen dabei auch vier Gemälde von den Wänden mit. Zurück in der WG stellt Maja fest, dass hinter den billigen, kitschigen Gemälden sehr wertvolle Bilder in den Rahmen versteckt sind – Hehlerware, darunter ein Original von Henri Matisse.

Da Kathrin Angst vor der Verfolgung ihres Mannes hat, mieten die beiden sich eine neue Wohnung in Frankfurt und Maja bringt drei der Gemälde bei Coras Eltern in Heidelberg in Sicherheit. Dann reist Kathrin mit dem vierten Gemälde nach Innsbruck, um es an einen Händler zu verkaufen, den Maja einige Zeit vorher im Zug kennengelernt hatte. Maja soll sie solange in der Volkshochschule vertreten und fühlt sich schon zum zweiten Mal von einer Freundin sitzengelassen.

Erik ist den beiden Frauen auf die Schliche gekommen und schickt den Bordellbetreiber Sven Hilter zu ihr, der sie beim Verlassen der Volkshochschule betäubt, fesselt und in Eriks Haus bringt. Maja gesteht unter Folter die neue Adresse von Kathrin. Als Erik und Sven dort nach den Gemälden suchen, ruft zufällig Kathrin in der Wohnung an und erkennt Eriks Stimme. Sie weiß nun, dass Maja in Gefahr ist und beauftragt Andy und den inzwischen aus Italien zurückgekehrten Felix, Maja aus Eriks Wohnung zu befreien und mit in die WG nach Darmstadt zu nehmen.

Endlich kehrt auch Cora aus Florenz zurück. Sie ist so besessen von der Villa, dass sie mit Maja wieder in die Toskana reisen will, um die Amerikanerin zu töten, was Maja aber ablehnt. Sie bringt Cora wieder zum Flughafen und möchte später mit dem Auto (und Béla) nachkommen. Am Flughafen treffen sie jedoch auf Sven Hilter und seine thailändische Frau. Sven bemerkt sie nicht, die Frau gibt Maja jedoch einen Zettel mit einer Adresse und macht ihr klar, dass große Gefahr bestehe. Maja und Cora nehmen die Verfolgung von Sven Hilter und seiner Frau auf: Es stellt sich heraus, dass Sven drei andere thailändische Frauen abholte, die zur Arbeit in seinem Bordell gezwungen werden sollen. Maja und Cora fahren zu der Adresse auf dem Zettel weiter: Es ist Svens Haus, und in einer versteckten Kammer finden sie, gefesselt und betäubt, Kathrin und die Leiche einer weiteren Frau. Sie befreien Kathrin und treffen beim Verlassen des Hauses auf Svens Frau, die inständig darum bittet, mitgenommen zu werden. Später erzählt sie – ihr Name ist Seng Aaron, Spitzname Pu – dass sie von Sven wie eine Arbeits- und Sexsklavin gehalten wird und ihm den Tod wünscht. Auch Kathrin würde vom Tod ihres Mannes Erik profitieren, zudem hat er sie immer wieder betrogen.

Also mieten die vier Frauen sich auf Coras Kosten in einem teuren Hotel ein und planen einen Doppelmord: Unter einem Vorwand bitten sie Andy, der als Taxifahrer weiß, wo man illegale Drogen bekommt, Methadon zu besorgen. Sven und Erik gehen regelmäßig morgens zusammen joggen, und so verstecken sich Maja und Cora an der Joggingstrecke, finden in Eriks Auto seine Wasserflasche und schütten das Methadon hinein. Kurze Zeit später verunglückt Erik tödlich auf der Autobahn, Sven saß jedoch nicht mit im Wagen. Kurz darauf wird die Frauenleiche, die neben Kathrin in Svens Wohnung lag, enthauptet in einer Baugrube aufgefunden. Cora und Maja brechen in der nächsten Nacht in Svens Haus ein, um das Methadon in ein Getränk zu schmuggeln. Dort kommt ihnen jedoch jemand zuvor, der Sven erschießt: Es stellt sich heraus, dass die tote Frau eine Prostituierte war, die zu einem mit Sven konkurrierenden Zuhälter gehörte, von Sven entführt und später getötet wurde. Der andere Zuhälter rächte sich nun durch den Mord an Sven.

Pu und Kathrin werden nun von der Polizei zum Tod ihrer Ehemänner befragt, was sie jedoch heil überstehen und ihr Erbe antreten können, während Cora und Maja in die Toskana zurückkehren können. Maja holt zuvor noch die drei Gemälde und ihren Sohn Béla ab. Cora muss wegen einer Blinddarmerkrankung ins Krankenhaus und bittet Maja, die amerikanische Villenbesitzerin zu töten, was Maja nach wie vor ablehnt. Später gerät Maja zufällig mit der Amerikanerin, die sich als Kunstexpertin namens Pam herausstellt, in einen leichten Verkehrsunfall und wird daraufhin in die Villa eingeladen. Pam hatte die Villa wegen einer verflossenen Beziehung zu einem Italiener gekauft, nun möchte sie sie eigentlich wieder loswerden und in die USA zurückkehren. Als sie Majas Matisse-Gemälde sieht, ist sie sofort begeistert und will es unbedingt haben. Maja erreicht, dass Pam ihr im Tausch gegen den Matisse die Villa zu Lebzeiten vererbt, unter der Bedingung, dass Pam ihre Europa-Aufenthalte weiter dort verbringen darf. Sollte Pam eines unnatürlichen Todes sterben, soll Maja die Villa wieder los sein. Als Maja mit dieser guten Nachricht zu Cora kommt, ist diese erfreut, dass sie auch ohne Mord Zugang zu der Villa bekommt. Maja plant, sich dort mit Béla niederzulassen und eine exklusive Unterkunft für deutsche Touristen einzurichten.

Rezeption
Michael Matzer hebt in seiner Rezension der Hörbuch-Version das "beeindruckend[e] Gespür für Dramatik" der Sprecherin Franziska Pigulla hervor. Er lobt Nolls "Witz und kühl[e] Ironie", kritisiert jedoch, dass die Handlung erst nach einem langsamen Anfang in Fahrt kommt. Matzer resümiert:

Christina Langner gibt in ihrer Kritik zu bedenken, dass Noll in Selige Witwen an einem altbewährten Konzept früherer Romane festhält: "gnadenlos Männer mordende Frauen, die einem sonderbarerweise ans Herz wachsen, untermalt von schwarzem Humor und boshaft-sympathischer Satire". Allerdings vermag der Roman es nicht mehr, den Leser wirklich zu überraschen oder zu schockieren,

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Werk von Ingrid Noll
Literatur (Deutsch)
Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Fears that creation of commuter rail link between Rossendale and Manchester could threaten ELR heritage line
East Lancashire Railway bosses say opening up a commuter line could bring an end to heritage steam train services.
Beth Abbit
A train on the East Lancs Railway
Railway bosses have claimed a commuter train service from Rossendale to Manchester would 'destroy' a popular heritage line.
East Lancashire Light Railway Company (ELLRC) volunteers say opening up a historic line to deliver commuters to the city would conflict with existing heritage services.
Electrical engineer Roger Humphreys claimed a 37-minute rail link between Rawtenstall and Manchester Victoria, via the Metrolink, could be achieved for as little as £10.5m, in proposals unveiled in last week's Free Press.
He has proposed upgrading signalling and using the former Buckley Wells section to accommodate a rush hour commuter service.
But ELLRC chairman Peter Duncan said a commuter line would 'destroy' the heritage services, which attract more than 150,000 visitors to the area each year. He said: "The prospect of a commuter service in whatever form has hung over the railway for a number of years.
"It is quite clear that the railway's heritage operations would be marginalised by any such operation, bringing its financial viability into serious question.
"The Operating Company, Preservation Society and Working Membership have all expressed the view that a commuter service would destroy the railway we have all worked so hard to develop and many key figures both within the ELLRCo Board and within the ELR Preservation Society have indicated they would walk away from the project they have so freely given their time to develop."
Mr Duncan said onerous safety processes and licensing arrangements would need to be undertaken in order to upgrade the 25mph line from light railway status.
ELR began a passenger service between Bury and Ramsbottom in July 1987 after it was bought by Rossendale and Greater Manchester councils from British Rail. The service was extended to Rawtenstall in 1991 and to Heywood in 2003.
Mr Duncan added: "I am amazed that there remain those who think they can somehow unlock development funding and revenue support where others have already failed."
But Mr Humphreys said the commuter line and heritage line could easily be run together and there was potential for a park and ride scheme to open the service to the whole Valley.
He said: "You could have a locomotive operating from 6am and then run right through peak periods until 9.30am and again at 4pm until 7pm. The heritage trains could run as normal in between and at weekends.
At Rawtenstall there's a second line so we could have a fast commuter line without any hiccups.
A major rail network would be able to donate money to the ELR. There will still be a heritage line and it won't affect the steam trains at all.
It will still be a heritage line and you can use it to promote the ELR. Can you imagine how popular it would be?"
Rossendale council hopes to carry out feasibility work with North Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the rail link.
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Three Tricks to Calm Your Nerves While Shooting
How to overcome the unfortunate quality shared by bad shooters
Far be it from me to profit from the sorrow of a friend*, but this column is inspired by the misfortune of a deer-hunting buddy and may contain some lessons for the rest of us. One year, he shot and wounded two deer, and the next, when he shot at a deer that was close enough to swat with his rifle, he missed it.
THE UNHINGED SHOOTER
Researchers have found that when a buck appears, a hunter's heartbeat can go from 72 beats per minute to 180-plus, which is heart-attack range for some people. Your physical coordination vanishes and your brain turns to industrial sludge. When suffering from this condition (which is known to neurologists as "Heavey Syndrome") you become a pitiable object, a giant flayed nerve ending, twitching uncontrollably.
I've seen this happen time and time again. In Botswana, in 1978, I watched a veteran of 28 safaris aim at a lion that was sitting only 30 yards away. This seasoned hunter was shaking like a castanet, shot badly, and wounded the animal, which we then had to finish off.
The same thing occurs in competition. In 1973 I shot in the North American Clay Target Championship at Vandalia, Ohio, along with a thousand other shooters, and the day before the event I was practicing on the same squad with a young man who was absolutely pounding the targets.
The next morning, not only was he on the same squad with me--he was right next to me. And his shooting went altogether to hell. I think he missed 25 birds out of 100, which by ATA standards means that you go in the men's room and hang yourself from a water pipe.
THE NERVELESS SHOOTER
I know a number of people who are virtually immune to the shakes, and they have three things in common:
1. They are self-confident to the point of arrogance; they literally cannot imagine themselves missing a shot.
2. They have achieved this self-confidence through an immense amount of practice.
3. They have the ability to block out mental pressure for however long it takes to do what they have to do.
Of these, the third quality is the most difficult to achieve and the most necessary if you wish to avoid having your shirttail cut. It was put best by Launi Meili, an American shooter who won the women's Gold Medal in the Three-Position Free Rifle event in the 1992 Olympics. I asked her what it was like knowing she was only one trigger squeeze away from top place on the podium. She said, "I don't know. If you start thinking in those terms, you won't even qualify for the Olympics, never mind winning gold there."
A friend of mine, who is the most successful competitor I know, puts it this way:
"You can only think about one thing at a time. You can think about how afraid of failing you are, or you can think about what you have to do in order to hit the target. I think about what I have to do, and nothing else."
IS THERE A CURE?
Drugs and alcohol are out for obvious reasons. Self-hypnosis may help. The only proven cure is practice, and I don't mean firing a box of ammo a week before the season. Jeff Cooper, the gun writer--philosopher, says it takes about 1,600 rounds of ammo to turn a beginner into a good shot, and about 1,000 rounds a year to keep him at that level.
A thousand rounds of centerfire ammo in a year runs into money, but there is an alternative--the rimfire. Assuming you have a decent .22 rifle, all you have to do is buy a case—5,000 rounds—of .22 ammo. It costs about $330 and will keep you shooting for five years. This comes to $66 per year, which is not much money these days.
When you practice enough, it really doesn't matter much what your nerves do. You go on autopilot and do what you must. If you don't practice, the animals bound away, light at heart, while you trudge off, a beaten shell of a man, to wait for next year.
*This, of course, is arrant nonsense. Journalists feed on sorrow the way crows feed on roadkill.


The former Sotheby's specialist appeared in handcuffs in criminal court flanked by court officers.
New York State Supreme Court. Photo Martin Haesemeyer, via Flickr.
It's rare that art deals gone wrong wind up in criminal, rather than civil, court. But English art dealer Timothy Sammons, age 61, appeared at his arraignment in New York State Supreme Court this afternoon flanked by court officers and with his hands cuffed behind his back. Prosecutors are calling for the former Sotheby's specialist to serve five to 15 years in prison for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from clients who had entrusted him with works by artists including Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Sammons has been charged with multiple counts of grand larceny in the first and second degrees and one count of scheming to defraud in the first degree.
Sammons allegedly used proceeds from the sale of one victim's art to pay other clients and used art that did not belong to him as collateral to obtain personal loans.
Glenn Hardy, Sammons's attorney, pleaded with Judge Felicia Mennin to allow Sammons to post bail, saying it would be very complicated to compile the records necessary to mount his defense if he were sent to jail. He argued that Sammons—whose passport has been seized and who voluntarily turned himself in to US Marshals—was not a flight risk.
Moreover, he pointed out that while living in the UK after being released on £20,000 bail, Sammons had submitted willingly to restrictions on his travel imposed by the UK's Insolvency Service and that those restrictions had gradually been lifted due to his compliance.
"This is going to be a complex and detailed case in which Mr. Sammons has entered a not guilty plea and will maintain his innocence throughout," Hardy tells artnet News.
Judge Mennin declined to set bail and Sammons was taken into police custody after the arraignment. His next court date is scheduled for November 6.


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2016: A (Mostly) Statistical Year in Review
By Andrew Puopolo
As 2016 winds to a close, we take a look back on 55 reasons why this year was a particularly crazy year in the world of sports.
1.) Both teams that made the Super Bowl failed to make the playoffs the following season for the first time since 2003
2.) Peyton Manning became the oldest QB ever to win a Super Bowl (39), but Tom Brady could pass him in the 2016/2017 season
3.) There were ties in the NFL on back to back weekends
4.) There were a record 4 NFL season games played outside the country
5.) One of the 3 London games ended in a tie (how British)
6.) The Seahawks-Cardinals game on October 23rd featured more punts than points
7.) Michigan defeated Rutgers 78-0 (highest differential between Power 5 teams since at least 2000).
8.) Yale beat Harvard for the first time since 2006
9.) Army beat Navy for the first time since 2001
10.) The Syracuse basketball team scored 50 points on a day their football team gave up 61 (both teams lost)
11.) The Warriors blew a 3-1 lead after winning 73 games. The Thunder lost Kevin Durant and a 3-1 lead to the Warriors
12.) The Warriors lost as many games in the playoffs as they did in the regular season
13.) Steph Curry was the first unanimous MVP
14.) The Philadelphia 76ers had a worse record over an 82 game season than any other franchise has had in history
15.) The city of Cleveland won their first title since 1964 (when the Browns won the NFL Championship)
16.) Kobe set an NBA record for shots in a game in his last game
17.) Steph Curry hit 402 three-pointers in 2015/2016 and Klay Thompson hit 276. The most by any other player in history is 269 (Ray Allen 2005/2006)
18.) The Boston Celtics lost to the Atlanta Hawks in a playoffs series for the first time (in 10 attempts)
19.) Ben Simmons was the first collegiate #1 draft pick not to play in March Madness since 1978
20.) Syracuse made the Final Four as a 10 seed, the first power conference double digit seed to do so since 1986
21.) UConn Women went undefeated, again
22.) The Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years
23.) Kris Bryant won MVP despite making only $652,000 a year
24.) The World Series went to extra innings in Game 7 for the first time since 1997
25.) Rajai Davis' 8th inning HR in Game 7 was the 3rd most influential play in World Series history
26.) This was the first year since 1993 that all the winners of the 4 major sports (Cubs, Penguins, Broncos, Cavaliers) did not come from states that bordered oceans
27.) The Giants lost a playoff series for the first time since 2003 (11 consecutive series wins)
28.) Leicester City won the Premier League with 5,000 to 1 odds. They were the first team to win the English top flight for the first time since 1978 (Nottingham Forest)
29.) Portugal won Euro 2016 despite not winning a single game in the group stage and winning only one match in 90 minutes
30.) Seattle won MLS Cup despite not registering a single shot on target in the final
31.) Paul Pogba was sold to Manchester United for a world record fee ($116.4 million)
32.) The United States lost their first ever qualifier to Mexico in Columbus 2-1 (all 4 previous matches ended 2-0 to the United States)
33.) Zinedine Zidane had more trophies (3) than losses (2)
34.) Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool all failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 1995
35.) Lincoln Red Imps from Gibraltar (country population: 32,194) defeated Celtic F.C. of Scotland (stadium capacity: 60,411) 1-0 in a UEFA Champions League qualifier
36.) Iceland (national population: 300,000) knocked off England (national stadium size: 90,000) 2-1 in the Round of 16 of the Euros
37.) A year after winning MLS Cup, the Portland Timbers failed to make the playoffs and failed to win a single away game (out of 17)
38.) The Sharks made the Stanley Cup final for the first time in franchise history
39.) Austin Matthews scored 4 goals in his NHL debut
40.) Connor McDavids was named the youngest ever NHL captain (19 years old)
41.) John Chayka was named the youngest ever NHL General Manager at age 26
42.) The Avalanche beat the Canadiens 10-0 in the first 10+ goal shutout in the NHL since 1996
43.) A Harvard player won the Hobey Baker for the first time since 1989
44.) Andy Murray ended the year as the ATP #1. This was the first time since 2003 (Andy Roddick) when one of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic was not #1
45.) Monica Puig from Puerto Rico won the Olympic Tennis Tournament despite never getting past the 4th round at a Grand Slam. Her career high ranking is 27
46.) The Williams Sisters lost in doubles at the Olympics for the first time ever (3 previous gold medals)
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47.) The Women's 10,000 meter world record was broken by 16 seconds. Previously, nobody had ever finished within 20 seconds of the previous record
48.) In the same race, Molly Huddle broke the American record by 9 seconds. She got 6th place and finished 56 seconds behind the winner
49.) The US Women's Olympic Soccer team failed to make the gold medal match at the Olympics for the first time ever (since the competition was added to the Games in 1996)
50.) Michael Phelps won his 28th Olympic medal over 5 Olympics (23 gold)
51.) Keri Walsh Jennings lost a match at the Olympics for the first time
52.) Joey Chestnut ate 73.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes
53.) A man ran a mile in 4 minutes and 34 seconds. These 4 minutes and 34 seconds include stopping 4 times to chug a full beer
54.) Mo Farah became the first athlete to pull off the first 5k/10k double at 4 consecutive global championships (World Championships/Olympics)
55.) Competitors from Africa failed to win a gold medal in the Men's 1500, 5k, 10k for the first time since 1976.
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We Like To Move It Move It at St Margarets House | Review
October 2, 2021 Last updated: October 2, 2021 1:35 pm By Chris Omaweng
At surface level, this production involves clowning around while tackling some pertinent and contemporary issues in society at large. It runs to sixty minutes officially, though there is some interaction (not, I hasten to add, the same as participation) even before the show proper begins. The audience is told, in no uncertain times, that this is to be a "serious play", and in some respects, it is: few things are more serious than people's futures hanging in the balance, thanks to the various hoops and hurdles, both physical and metaphorical, that the immigrant characters must negotiate.
Truth be told, there are worse examples than the ones served up in this rapidly-paced show, which liberally indulges in absurdism: nobody is quite sure how a Peruvian man ends up talking to his dead grandmother in what is not (or so the audience is led to believe) any kind of dream or hallucinatory experience. The native languages of the cast (all first-generation immigrants) are woven into the narrative, and as each of the four actors takes on multiple characters, there's some fun to be had as the limitations of having a maximum of four on-stage characters are dealt with deftly, even if the device of X looking for Y but not being able to find Y because the same person is playing both X and Y is too heavily relied on.
Some unusual techniques are deployed in the production to make certain points, but the result is surprisingly not discordant, perhaps because the analogies within the plotlines are more logical than the plotlines themselves. Lack of congruence does not always result from the play's absurdist tendencies, however: an ongoing subplot about the 'Life in the UK' test for British citizenship, for instance, is both hilarious and very, very true.
The production team's work with Dr Sarah Fine, a senior lecturer in philosophy at King's College London who specialises in political philosophy, has led to challenging questions being raised in the show, in a distinctly friendly and non-confrontational manner. Based on real-life accounts of immigrant experiences, the show does not offer any solutions to the problems it presents, which means that one reaches the end of the show knowing what it is against but wanting to know more about what it is for. That said, it is implied that the show would like the immigration policies and procedures to be revised – the Government's beloved citizenship test has questions about Stonehenge, the Proms, and whether the Channel Islands are technically part of the UK, but does knowledge of such matters really prove one is a worthy citizen?
Hints of the Windrush scandal manifest themselves with the appearance of an older Caribbean lady who expresses dissatisfaction with a play within the play, in which a large Union flag is on display in the front room of a British townhouse and its occupants are sat in polite conversation drinking tea. The reaction from her, and from others, is one of bemusement and bewilderment: where is the drama? Why are there no raised voices? How can watching people sat down being civilised to one another make for good theatre?
Asking about relatively trivial matters gives variation to the show, which would otherwise run the risk of being a difficult and uncomfortable watch from start to finish. As it is, one would have to have a heart of stone not to be humoured by this chaotic but likeable production.
How do you solve a problem like immigration? Karaoke, philosophy and border controls come together in an all-immigrant comedy, variety show! What is behind our collective acceptance of immigration control? What does it say about us and what do those who have come to the UK from somewhere else want to say about it? ice&fire theatre and Matthew Schmolle productions (in collaboration with the Philosophy Department at King's College London) invite you to join the (very jolly) conversation. Directed by Olivier award-winner Donnacadh O'Briain.
28 September – 16 October 2021, various locations in London
https://iceandfire.co.uk/project/wltmimi/
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Rays starting pitchers have made two bad pitches. The Astros are up 2-0 in the series, and are one win away from advancing to the ALCS.
*Houston went from 69.5% favorites to win the Series on Friday morning to 82% yesterday to 93.1% today. FanGraphs has the Astros at 52-48 to win tomorrow afternoon in Tampa and close it out. Yesterday I said that Game 3 would start at 1:07pm. That was wrong. First pitch is at 12:07pm. 50 teams have taken a 2-0 lead, and 43 of them have won the series. Kevin Kiermaier:
We're obviously disappointed down two games to zero. They've just been a little bit better so far. Verlander threw great, Cole was about as dominant as you can get. Our pitchers threw the ball great, they just came up with a few more hits than us.
*Gerrit Cole did Gerrit Cole things: 7.2IP, 4H/0ER, 15K:1BB. Cole became the 7th pitcher to strike out 15+ batters in a postseason game. Your full list:
Bob Gibson (17): 1968 World Series Game 1.
K*vin Bro*n (16): 1998 NLDS Game 1.
Gerrit Cole (15): 2019 ALDS Game 2.
Roger Clemens (15): 2000 ALCS Game 4.
Livan Hernandez (15): 1997 NLCS Game 5.
Mike Mussina (15): 1997 ALCS Game 3.
Sandy Koufax (15): 1963 World Series Game 1.
Gerrit Cole's 15 strikeouts in a postseason game are a franchise record, breaking Mike Scott's record of 14 Ks, which Scott did in Game 1 of the 1986 NLCS. According to MLB Network, Gerrit Cole's 33 swings and misses are an MLB record since they started keeping track of that in 2008. Cole:
We've got a lot more work to take care of. There's a few months this winter that maybe we can sit back and have a drink about it. Right now, it's on to the next one.
Hinch:
Whether it's about the new-age opener or pulling guys third time through, most of the people that support that haven't had Verlander or Cole on their team. It's hard for me to relate to having to pull guys early or wanting to pull guys early when these guys are putting up these kinds of performances...I'm going to roll with these boys while we have them.
He was incredible. It's hard to put into words exactly what his performance meant for us tonight.
*The Rays went 5x45 with 23 strikeouts against Verlander and Cole. Kevin Kiermaier:
Good for Jeff Luhnow, or whatever their GM's name is, for acquiring him. Like they needed any more than Verlander and Greinke and all the other guys they have.
*Brian T. Smith: Gerrit Cole is the best pitcher on the planet. Lots of one-word paragraphs and two-word sentences in this.
*Roberto Osuna allowed 2H/1ER, 1K:2BB in 0.2IP and looked terrible when he came back out for the 9th. Hunter Atkins reports that Osuna is not thrilled with the Astros' wanting him to throw more sliders. Context:
"I usually throw my fastball a little bit more, then I go to my changeup. I don't believe the slider's my best pitch."
That was part of the problem heading into Saturday's game. The Astros wanted Osuna to prepare to throw Tampa Bay a lot of sliders, to use it like his best pitch. He was iffy, but he went along with the plan.
"That's what really got me upset tonight," Osuna said.
Good article, highly recommended. Hinch, on Osuna:
Osuna's our guy. He'll get the ball when he needs to get the ball and when we expect him to get the last three outs. There's always a consideration for just putting the guys out there against the matchups. But I believe in Osuna, and I believe he's the best matchup most of the time.
*Will Harris recorded the save. Harris had six regular season saves since the beginning of 2017. Harris has inherited five baserunners in the last two games and none of them have scored. Harris:
It's a long postseason if you're going to win it. You're going to have some ups and downs and you have to win 11 games. We won our first two, but it's not going to be seamless. There's going to be some bumps in the road.
*The Astros have hit a home run in each of their last 27 postseason games, extending a franchise record.
*The Astros went 2x12 w/RISP a day after going 3x9 w/RISP in Game 1. So the Astros are 5x21 w/RISP this series. And are up 2-0.
*Alex Bregman hit his first home run of the postseason.
Bregman, 2017 postseason: .208/.256/.417, 10K:5BB, 4HR.
Bregman, 2018-19 playoffs: .333/.565/.733, 6K:13BB, 3HR.
A full and complete list of the pitchers off of which Alex Bregman has homered in the postseason:
-Blake Snell (2018 AL Cy Young winner)
-Trevor Bauer (2018 All-Star)
-Corey Kluber (2014, 2017 AL Cy Young)
-Kenley Jansen (3x All-Star)
-Clayton Kershaw (3x NL Cy Young, 2014 NL MVP, 8x All-Star)
-Chris Sale (7x All-Star)
Bregman:
The environment that we've played in the last two days here is unmatched. And we love playing in front of these great fans. They know the game of baseball. They have fun. They're passionate.
Alex Bregman:
Oct 5 2019: Go-ahead HR vs TB (ALDS 2)
Oct 5 2018: Go-ahead HR vs CLE (ALDS 1)
Oct 5 2017: Go-ahead HR vs BOS (ALDS 1)
First player in postseason history to hit a go-ahead homer on the same date in three consecutive years.
— Doug Kern (@dakern74) October 6, 2019
*George Springer is having a rough one so far. He went 0x4 with a strikeout in Game 2, bringing his ALDS to 0x8. The last time he had back-to-back hitless games in the postseason was ALCS Games 1-2. He had a hit in every single postseason game in 2018.
*Yordan Alvarez was 2x4, as was Carlos Correa. Martin Maldonado was 2x3 with an RBI.
*As much as Girardi and Pierzynski (I don't even know who the play-by-play guy is because he says maybe ten words all game) wanted The Stool to be a controversy, it wasn't. Hinch:
I don't blame [the ball boy]. That's unlucky more than bad. I think he tried to take a swipe at it. That ball's coming in pretty hot. A little unlucky on our part. I wish it would have gone through the gap there or gotten down into the corner, and I think Tuck scores. It was a great hit and run by Martin [Maldonado]. But we got a little unlucky.
*Chandler Rome: How an early-September talk with A.J. Hinch turned Kyle Tucker's motor on. Hinch:
We talked to him about it when he first got here, and I think he wants no part of the reputation of being a low-motor or an aloof type player. He's taken it to heart and is paying with the urgency that we want.
*Richard Justice: The Astros are proof that starting pitching still matters. Verlander:
I feel like, if I did my job as a starting pitcher throughout the season, that our bullpen should be fresh and ready to thrive. I know what you're asking because I have an old-school mentality.
*Jenny Dial Creech: Uncle Mike brings smiles to the clubhouse. Hinch:
[Brantley is] extremely valuable in all aspects of our team. He's a balanced person. He's a balanced player. He posts every day. I think he's a great influence for our guys. I think he's really found a way to lead without being the most vocal guy, and people still look at him.
*Hinch, on the Astros' aggressiveness on the basepath:
I like pressure. I like making them make plays. And that comes with a little bit of risk. And [Friday], when it works out for us, it's great...But 90 feet matters. If you can steal it, all the better.
Labels: A.J. Hinch, Alex Bregman, George Springer, Gerrit Cole, Kyle Tucker, Michael Brantley, Roberto Osuna, Tampa Bay Rays, Will Harris


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Джонатан Льюис Сьюард (), более известный как Джонни Крайст  — бас-гитарист группы Avenged Sevenfold. Джонни — третий басист группы, заменил Джастина Сэйна и Дэмеона Эша.

Биография и личная жизнь
Джонатан родился в Хантингтон-Бич, Калифорния. Джонни — младший брат одноклассника Синистера Гейтса, а The Reverend знаком с ним ещё с детства благодаря старшему брату.
Учился в Marina High School в Хантингтон-Бич. За время учёбы познакомился со всеми участниками группы. Также хороший друг брата Заки Вендженса, Мэтта Бакера из группы The Dear & Departed.

Музыкальная карьера
Джонни заменил Дэмеона Эша, когда выяснилось, что последний не в состоянии играть в группе. Получилось это случайно: Джон шёл по улице и увидел, как в гараже у Мэтта группа репетирует. Посмотрев на то, как играет группа, Джон дал группе о себе знать. Когда Эш вынужденно не смог продолжить участие в туре, Джонни пришёл в группу играть на басу. Результат не заставил себя ждать, и он идеально влился в коллектив. После многочисленных концертов Джон был вынужден забросить высшую школу, чтобы продолжить турне с группой. Он выбрал карьеру музыканта.

Его 2 главных кумира — это Клифф Бёртон из Metallica и Дафф МакКаган из Guns'N'Roses. Стиль игры Джонни зависит от песни. В основном это, конечно же, быстрые песни, наподобие «Beast and the Harlot» и «Bat Country».

Музыканты Avenged Sevenfold
Музыканты из Лос-Анджелеса


The Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE) has been established by the Community Empowerment Act pursuant to Chapter 50B of Title 12 of the Liberian Code of Laws as of July 22, 2004.
The objectives of the Agency are to improve the living standards of poor communities through the provisions and strengthening of basic social services and to promote a community-based approach in sub-project identification, preparation, implementation, administration and maintenance.
The Agency finances sub-projects of poor communities and disburses to those communities funds provided for them in support of poverty reduction. The Agency does not implement community sub-projects, but co-operate with communities or other implementing bodies; it assists community-based organizations (CBOs) develop their technical and managerial capabilities in all aspects of sub-project activities.
The Agency is a not-for-profit organization that operates like a private sector entity. It is autonomous but accountable to the President of the Republic.
Bong County Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor, has dedicated the Kerkula Giddings Public School Building in Sanoyea District, after the project met full completion by the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE), under the Legislative Support Project (LSP).


Emb170 captain experiences failed communication with the ground crew during pushback; resulting in the parking brake not being set when the tow bar is disconnected.
We were scheduled to push at xa:12 but had no push crew. Calls were made to operations notifying them we had no push crew and the aft cargo door remained open. At approximately xa:23 a push crew arrived and the tug driver made visual contact with me through my dv window by tapping his headset indicating that he could not talk to us. Visually indicating by tapping my own headset and shaking my head I communicated to him that we would not push with an inoperative headset. He gave me the signal to release the brakes which I refused to do given that we did not have 2-way communication and the aft cargo door remained open. He either switched headsets or wiggled the connection and restored 2-way communication. I verbally told him that I could not release the brakes until the aft cargo door was closed. He told me he thought it was already closed. I told him it was indicating open and he needed to visually inspect it. He left and the aft cargo door was then closed and indicated such. The tug driver verbally told me everything was set and we were ready to push. We pushed straight back and were stopped. The marshaller with the wands crossed the wands to indicate we were not to move. I had the cockpit dome light on so we should have been clearly visible to the push crew. No verbal or visible command had been given for us to set the brakes. I verbally queried if we were to set the brakes and received no response. I gave a second inquiry and go not response. I presumed verbal communication had been terminated at that point. I made eye contact with the marshaller with the crossed-wands and visually inquired if we should set the brakes and got no response. At that point another push crew member came into view via my dv window moving toward the forward view window and he held the strap up in the air indicating it had been removed from the nose gear. I visually inquired of him if we were to set the brakes and got no response. At that point the tug reversed out from under the airplane proceeding backward toward the terminal and the airplane began to roll slightly forward (not more than several feet). I depressed the brakes and set the parking brake. The first officer and myself discussion the safety ramifications of a push at night; with little visual reference in the dark that you might not even notice the aircraft was moving. I put my hands up indicating confusion to the ground crew about why we were never instructed to set the brakes at the conclusion of the push. He push crew reunited near the top of the 'T' and huddled to talk; perhaps conferencing about the incident. Prior to taxi from the ramp I contacted operations and informed them of the details of the incident and asked them to explain the push crew the safety implications of the situation. I informed operations I would passing the incident along to our flight ops management for follow up as well. The headset issue remains a problem in ZZZ and this incident if not for vigilant situational monitoring could have gotten ground personnel hurt or property damaged.
Title: Emb170 Captain experiences failed communication with the ground crew during pushback; resulting in the parking brake not being set when the tow bar is disconnected.
Narrative: We were scheduled to push at XA:12 but had no push crew. Calls were made to Operations notifying them we had no push crew and the aft cargo door remained open. At approximately XA:23 a push crew arrived and the tug driver made visual contact with me through my DV window by tapping his headset indicating that he could not talk to us. Visually indicating by tapping my own headset and shaking my head I communicated to him that we would not push with an inoperative headset. He gave me the signal to release the brakes which I refused to do given that we did not have 2-way communication and the aft cargo door remained open. He either switched headsets or wiggled the connection and restored 2-way communication. I verbally told him that I could not release the brakes until the aft cargo door was closed. He told me he thought it was already closed. I told him it was indicating open and he needed to visually inspect it. He left and the aft cargo door was then closed and indicated such. The tug driver verbally told me everything was set and we were ready to push. We pushed straight back and were stopped. The marshaller with the wands crossed the wands to indicate we were not to move. I had the cockpit dome light on so we should have been clearly visible to the push crew. No verbal or visible command had been given for us to set the brakes. I verbally queried if we were to set the brakes and received no response. I gave a second inquiry and go not response. I presumed verbal communication had been terminated at that point. I made eye contact with the marshaller with the crossed-wands and visually inquired if we should set the brakes and got no response. At that point another push crew member came into view via my DV window moving toward the forward view window and he held the strap up in the air indicating it had been removed from the nose gear. I visually inquired of him if we were to set the brakes and got no response. At that point the tug reversed out from under the airplane proceeding backward toward the terminal and the airplane began to roll slightly forward (not more than several feet). I depressed the brakes and set the parking brake. The First Officer and myself discussion the safety ramifications of a push at night; with little visual reference in the dark that you might not even notice the aircraft was moving. I put my hands up indicating confusion to the ground crew about why we were never instructed to set the brakes at the conclusion of the push. he push crew reunited near the top of the 'T' and huddled to talk; perhaps conferencing about the incident. Prior to taxi from the ramp I contacted operations and informed them of the details of the incident and asked them to explain the push crew the safety implications of the situation. I informed operations I would passing the incident along to our Flight Ops management for follow up as well. The headset issue remains a problem in ZZZ and this incident if not for vigilant situational monitoring could have gotten ground personnel hurt or property damaged.


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Lenovo confirms IFA 2017 keynote set for August 31st
Lenovo confirms IFA 2017 keynote on August 31st (Source: Lenovo)
The keynote is scheduled for 23:00 local time the day before the official start of IFA 2017 where new product announcements are expected to be announced.
Allen Ngo, 07/10/2017
Android Business Convertible / 2-in-1 Laptop Rumor Smartphone
Sony isn't the only manufacturer to have reserved a keynote spot at this year's IFA event. Lenovo has just sent out press invites for its own keynote taking place on the very same day as Sony's on August 31st in Berlin. Unfortunately, the invite makes no hints or teasers about any potential announcements or products.
Despite the lack of any clues, we can predict that the keynote will not likely focus on Moto smartphones as Lenovo is already dedicating an entire Motorola launch event on July 25th in New York. Most, if not all, Motorola-related announcements will already be known well ahead of IFA 2017. Smartphones directly under the Lenovo Brand, such as the ZUK series, could still potentially make an appearance at IFA. The New York event is definitely a surprise considering that the Motorola brand has been a sinking ship for the Chinese manufacturer.
A more probable expectation is the reveal of multiple new convertibles and unique notebooks. Successors to the popular Yoga convertible or the keyboard-free Yoga Book, for example, could be in the works. Curved and foldable tablet concepts teased during last year's Lenovo Tech World in San Francisco could make more thorough appearances as well.
Notebookcheck will be live at IFA 2017 for all the latest mobile news and product announcements.
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Allen Ngo - US Editor in Chief
After graduating with a B.S. in environmental hydrodynamics from the University of California, I studied reactor physics to become licensed by the U.S. NRC to operate nuclear reactors. There's a striking level of appreciation you gain for everyday consumer electronics after working with modern nuclear reactivity systems astonishingly powered by computers from the 80s. When I'm not managing day-to-day activities and US review articles on Notebookcheck, you can catch me following the eSports scene and the latest gaming news.


Anyone can come and Race!
Contact us about the next race meeting enquiries@cmcc.co.za, or come along to the track!
Membership of CMCC automatically gives you membership of the Natal Radio Drivers Association (NRDA - the Provincial body controlling R/C racing in Natal) and you can enter the Natal Racing Circuit.
This consists of 5 races per year held at Richards Bay, Margate, Camperdown and Southway Mall + a 5th venue selected from the 4 active clubs. We have the best catering facilities in Natal, courtesy of the Camperdown Club, which can provide full bar facilities, menus etc. We also have what no other club in Natal has – the 'Big Tree', which provides shade for competitors and spectators alike! Much appreciated on hot days! Warning! Don't park or sit under the 'Ha-de-Da's' nest – you will regret it!
Our racing classes cater for novices to experts. TT-01 Stock, TT-01 Modified, Open Stock, Super Stock, Mini, F1, 1/12th and GT Pan. The recommended class for novices is the TT-01 Stock class which uses the popular Tamiya TT-01 chassis based cars which can be raced 'out of the box'. I would suggest however that a set of high speed gears be purchased (25 tooth pinion and 55 tooth spur gear) as this seems to suit our track with regard to speed.
Novices will be given advice as to driving techniques and upgrades for their cars (what to buy and what not to buy). For the more experienced driver there are often Pro-Level cars available second hand for those who wish to progress to more competitive racing.
Several of our members import R/C spares from overseas (batteries, motors, tyres etc.) and these are often available at club meetings! Spectators are always welcome. If you are thinking of getting into the sport, a day spent with us at a club meeting will give you all the information you need on what you should buy (and what you shouldn't)!


Nate Gerry didn't have to wait long to find out what the Eagles' plans were for him last year. After calling the University of Nebraska safety to inform him that they were about to take him in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL draft, they called him back five minutes later and informed him that, oh, by the way, they were switching him to linebacker.
The position switch seems to be working out pretty well for Gerry. After earning his keep on special teams as a rookie, Gerry finds himself in the thick of the battle for the starting weakside linebacker job this summer, with Corey Nelson and Kamu Grugier-Hill, following Mychal Kendricks' release in May.
Gerry, Nelson and Grugier-Hill have a combined six career starts – five by Nelson and one by Gerry, who started the Eagles' Week 17 game against Dallas.
Regardless of which one wins the WILL job, all of them will be key components of Dave Fipp's special teams.
Grugier-Hill led the Eagles in special-teams tackles last season. Gerry, who played in 10 games after spending the first six weeks of the season on the Eagles' practice squad, finished sixth.
Nelson, who was signed by the Eagles in March, had been a special-teams standout with the Broncos.
Gerry got a lot of first-team reps at all three linebacker spots during the Eagles' spring OTAs and is getting quite a few at WILL in the first two weeks of training camp.
"That helped me tremendously,'' Gerry said of the spring reps. "We were down a lot of people in the spring. So, being able to understand all of the [linebacker] positions and get reps at all of the positions was invaluable.
Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is a big proponent of versatility. He likes safeties who can play corner, corners who can play inside and outside, and linebackers who can play SAM (strong side), MIKE (middle), and WILL.
Given middle linebacker Jordan Hicks' struggles to stay healthy – he has missed 20 of the Eagles' 51 games in his first three years – that's fairly important.
In making the switch from college safety to pro linebacker, Gerry has had to master a new position and reshape his body. He weighed 215 pounds at the NFL combine before the draft and played last season at about 220. He added 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason.
Gerry said he was on a 4,200-calories-per-day regimen and spent a lot of extra time in the weight room.
"I still run,'' he said, "but not as much as I did at [defensive back]. You've got more space to cover [as a safety]. So, I wasn't running as much. Did more sprints and short-area drills and things like that, which are more conducive [to linebacker].
Even with the extra weight, Gerry said he's probably faster than he was as a 215-pound safety who ran a 4.58 40 at the combine.
"The offseason treated me well,'' he said.
Just watching him in practice, there's a night-and-day difference in his comfort level between last summer and this summer. He reacts to things faster. He takes better angles to the ball. He is better at slipping blocks. He is holding his own with bigger tight ends in coverage.
"He's made huge strides,'' linebacker Nigel Bradham said. "The weight he's put on. The way he's learned each and every position. He's very versatile. You can put him at any spot.
Kendricks was one of the league's most athletic linebackers, but he wasn't an instinctive player and never earned Schwartz's trust.
Safety Malcolm Jenkins said he has been impressed by how effectively Gerry has made the safety-to-linebacker switch.
"He hasn't looked out of place since he's been here,'' Jenkins said. "It's looked like it's his natural position. I think it's a good move for him and for us.


It is not easy to keep a secret when you're a celebrity, so kudos to British superstar Cher Lloyd because she was keeping a doozy under wraps!
The singer just revealed on Instagram that she's expecting her first baby and, not only is she expecting, but get this: she's six months pregnant. Six! And her baby bump is adorable.
In her Instagram, the 24-year-old announced that she and her husband Craig are due in May.
Yeah, you read that right – not only is the mommy-to-be having a baby but she has new music coming out, too!


In midst of many big restaurants, this small joint is a perfect option for refreshment. They have maintained a great cleanliness level and you can have stomach filling food for very low price. Their Parathas are very popular among visitors. Aloo Paraths, Rajma Chawal and Mix Paratha are their some of the must have dishes.


Paragliding in India was introduced in the mid to late 90s, but it has really caught on in recent times. Paragliding courses in India have become very popular lately, and while you can always book a tandem ride, there's something immensely liberating about learning how to fly on your own. Here's all you need to know about paragliding prices in India.
If you live in Maharashtra, you can take advantage of some of the best paragliding courses available in India. You can take your basic Elementary Pilot course, or the Commercial Pilot course here. Paragliding over the Sahyadris gives you plenty to look at below: the green landscape dotted with hills, lakes, and with railway tracks running across.
Paragliding in Maharashtra go over the rolling hills of Kamshet, making this an unforgettable experience. The weather and wind conditions here are favourable almost all year round. For tandem trips, all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the ride. Paragliding course in Maharashtra are available here too.
The Himalayas are rife with ideal paragliding places, thanks to the high hills and mountains, and the long valleys that direct the winds upwards. The best and most popular paragliding tandem rides takes place in Bir Billing in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. Bir Billing has an altitude of 2600m and is surrounded by beautiful tea gardens. Solang Valley and Marhi are two of the other most prominent spots for paragliding in Manali. Here you can do tandem paragliding, expedition paragliding and trans-Himalayan paragliding flights. Paragliding is available throughout the year except during the monsoon.


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Q: Does bloom ever destroy resources or improvements? Bloom is a spell in Fall From Heaven 2 that creates a New Forest.  This doesn't immediately remove resources or improvements.
Are conflicting resources or improvements removed if and when the new forest grows into a Forest or Ancient Forest?

A: After a couple hours of testing I can confirm BadP's comment. Neither a new forest growing into forest, nor a forest growing into ancient forest, will destroy any bonuses or improvements. (and it hurt my fps)
To test this I modified a map to have every (legal) resource and terrain combo within range of my cities. I then used workers to improve everything and had high priests of leaves cast bloom. After that I saved the game and let it run for a couple hundred turns until every square had become ancient forest. At this point there were no missing bonuses or improvements. I then loaded the saved game and ran it for a couple hundred turns again, but this time I switched to a different religion from the Fellowship because only Fellowship civs can create certain improvements on top of forests. This had no effect on the results. Again, nothing was destroyed.
TL;DR No.

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