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Welcome to the homepage of British Merchant Navy veteran, Charlie Mountain. When World War Two began, the Netherlands , commonly known as Holland, possessed a substantial merchant fleet which traded around the world. During the first eight months of the war the ships of the Netherlands Merchant Navy sailed as neutrals. After Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, many of the Dutch ships then sailed as members of the Allied Merchant Navy under direction of the British Admiralty. Charlie first went to sea on October 5th, 1940 at the age of 16 when he signed aboard the Dutch-flagged tanker, SS Amsterdam. Before joining the ship's crew, Charlie had to buy his own straw mattress -- known as a "donkey's breakfast" -- plus his own knife and spoon, all for the princely sum of 2 pounds, 10 shillings. Once aboard Amsterdam Charlie worked 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. Amsterdam sailed to the tiny Caribbean island of Aruba, one of the important petroleum-processing centres just off Venezuela in the Dutch West Indies. From January 18th to March 3rd, 1941, Charlie served aboard the first British Rescue Ship, the Dutch-owned SS Hontestroom Click Here for Photo. Her crew worked another gruelling shift which was then common at sea, 4 hours on and 4 hours off. Hontestroom's job was to travel with a convoy's naval escorts into the part of the Atlantic known as the
by Charlie Mountain
When I signed aboard the SS Veerhaven she was loaded with general cargo which was destined for various cities in South America. We crossed the Atlantic without incident and arrived safely at our first port of call, Recife, Brazil. There we learned that on August 22 while we were at sea, Brazil had joined the Allied cause by declaring war against Germany and Italy.
Port Stanley's
main buildings consisted of one small general store,
a church and
a small pub.
If a person needed something that was not in stock at the store,
the item had to be ordered and then brought to town by a small
ship which had a regular run to Port Stanley from the mainland.
The little church
was unusual in that outside of it there was an arch made from two
big whale bones. The other important building in town,
the pub, had been busy for two years
catering to 2,000 British soldiers who had been
stationed on the Falklands.
Some of the soldiers we met were so desperate to escape
the tedium of their lives in the lonely outpost that they
pleaded with us to to hide them
aboard the Veerhaven as stowaways. As things turned out,
it was a good thing that we didn't stow anyone away!
After Port Stanley, we returned once more to Buenos Aires and
Rosario, Argentina,
where Veerhaven was loaded up with a cargo of
linseed destined
for the United Kingdom. Although, we didn't know it
at the time,
the linseed was to prove to be a fortunate choice. After
our holds were full, Veerhaven headed north for
the Caribbean island of Trinidad,
which was intended to be our
first stop on the way way home.
On November 10th, as we were proceeding northwards
about 800 miles off Recife, Brazil, our Radio Operator
received an
from an unidentified ship. The ship, which was
apparently somewhere ahead of us, reported
that she was being attacked by submarines. Our captain
suspected that the message was a trick designed to lure us into
a trap, so he ordered a change of course away from the
other ship's position.
The next day was November 11th -- Armistice Day -- and in the
early morning hours
I was awakened
suddenly by
the sound of heavy gunfire and machine gunfire.
I raced up on deck, but when I arrived
all I could see in the dark
were brilliant flashes coming towards the
port bow and
port beam
(the left front and side) of our ship. The flashes
were followed by explosions and fires
which broke out on the ship's deck.
We did not know until years later that we
being shelled
by the Italian submarine
Leonardo da Vinci
which was
under the command of the Italian ace,
Lieutenant Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia.
Da Vinci
had just recently arrived
in Brazilian waters with the intention of
attacking Allied merchantmen, which like us,
were travelling as independents, without naval escorts.
Beginning with the
SS Empire Zeal
Da Vinci sunk on November 2nd,
the submarine had also attacked the
SS Frans Hal
on November 3rd, the
SS Andreas
on November 4th, and the
SS Marcus Whitman
on November 8th. Only Frans Hal
had managed to escape her attacker -- Da Vinci
had shot five torpedoes
at the freighter, but fortunately they were all misses.
I was a member of Veerhaven's gun crew,
so once I had arrived on deck I attempted to clamber
up to the gun platform. But, it was impossible to
get up up there because the area was being raked by machine
gun bullets. Soon it became evident that
there was nothing we could do to save the Veerhaven,
and our captain gave the order to "abandon ship".
There were two lifeboats on either side of the ship and I
was assigned to the
captain's lifeboat on the starboard
(right) side.
As we lowered the boats and were getting in them, I heard a
very big bang which I thought might might
have been an explosion in the engine room. The force
of the explosion caused Veerhaven's funnel to
lift off the deck.
Our lifeboat had a small engine as well as a sail, and as soon
as we were all
settled, our captain ordered the engine started so that we could
pull away as quickly as possible. During all this
time Veerhaven was still being fired upon, and we were
that neither our boat nor anyone in it was hit.
When daylight came, we were all saddened when we realized
that the other
lifeboat which had been launched from the
port (left) side of the ship, was nowhere in sight.
The captain then ordered
our sail to be raised and we set off for the coast of Brazil,
hundreds of miles away.
That same day we saw an aeroplane, but there was no indication that the plane saw our tiny little speck on the ocean. Another day passed and then on November 13th shortly before sunset, we spotted
Our rescuers took us to one of our earlier ports of call,
Natal, Brazil.
Natal's location on the easternmost
bulge of Brazil's coastline
had turned out to be
a great benefit to the Allies because it
provided the shortest air route
across the Atlantic to the coast of West Africa.
Before its entry into the war the USA had
acquired various stragetic bases throughout the
Atlantic Ocean including a string of southern
airfields at
Puerto Rico,
British Guiana,
Belém, and
By time we arrived at Natal
in November 1942, the
United States
Air Transport Command (ATC)
was keeping very busy ferrying
American-built bombers and transport planes
across the Atlantic
and onward to the
Allied forces
fighting in North Africa.
The amazing
air route eventually stretched as far
as Kumming,
over 14,000 miles from its start in
After just a few days in Natal, space was found for us aboard
a military DC-3 plane which was
heading back to the United States.
It was a lucky thing for us that the DC-3 had been
cleverly designed so that
it could fly on only one engine because as we flew over
the Brazilian jungle, one of our engines caught on fire.
However, the loss of the engine was not a problem and we
continued on to the American base on
the Caribbean island of
Puerto Rico where we landed
safely, appropriately enough on the American holiday of
Thanksgiving Day.
Our damaged engine was exchanged for a new one and three days after
landing at Puerto Rico we arrived at our destination of
Florida. We caught a train which
took us up the American coast and deposited us 36 hours later
into the freezing cold weather of
New York city.
But, although the weather itself was bitterly cold,
I found that the people
were very warm and they made me feel very welcome.
I spent
a month in New York waiting for a ship and then signed on another
Dutch vessel, the SS Palembang.
On our way across the North Atlantic to the UK, we struck the
worst storm in fifty years. I was thrown about quite badly,
injuring both my knees and after we finally arrived in
I had to spend some time in hospital recovering from my knee
In May 1943 I signed aboard the
SS Aelbert Cuyp
but I had to be taken off her at Hull, England and
hospitalized again with a bad bout of influenza.
When I was recovered
I sailed again in June 1943 aboard another Dutch ship, the
SS Jan Van Goyen. While
Jan Van Goyen was in
Massachusetts, I had the
misfortune to fall down the hold. That landed me in
hospital for another 10 days, but I was lucky that
I only had a few bumps and bruises and nothing broken.
It was around this time I found out what had happened to
the men who had been in
Veerhaven's port lifeboat.
During Da Vinci's attack the lifeboat was badly damaged and
was in
such bad condition that it would not have gotten very far.
However, it was then that the signifigance of Veerhaven's
linseed cargo
became apparent.
Veerhaven had capsized, but she did
not sink right away because the
linseed swelled up in the water and
actually helped to seal some of the holes in her hull.
When the crew in the damaged lifeboat
realized that Veerhaven
was going to stay afloat, they
clambered up onto the upturned keel. There they
remained for three
days while they patched up the lifeboat as best they could.
Then they set
forth in the fixed-up boat and after five difficult days had the
good fortune to be picked
up by a tanker from the neutral
country of Uruguay.
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Abu Dhabi Blog 11-18-2014
Playlist: The Showdown—Carry On Wayward Son (Killer Cover), Michael Franti & Spearhead—I Know I'm Not Alone, Foo Fighters—All My Life, The Rolling Stones–Angie, Rage Against the Machine—Fistful of Steel, Avenged Sevenfold—Hail to the King, Led Zeppelin-Black Dog, Emery—The Party Song, Tool–H, Mos Def–Zimzallabim, The Smashing Pumpkins–Rocket, The Skies We Built–Girls with Accents, Swervedriver—Rave Down, Jeff Buckley—Hallelujah, Quicksand–Unfulfilled, Fugazi–Waiting Room, KXM—Rescue Me, Jane's Addiction–Stop, Urge Overkill—Sister Havana, Styx—Renegade, Nayked Raygun—Surf Combat, Kool & the Gang—Morning Star, Trey Anastasio—Alive Again, By Line—Happy, Mother Love Bone—Stargazer, Pantera—This Love, The Steepwater Band—Dirty Ol' Blues, The Jimi Hendrix Experience—Wait Until Tomorrow, Los Lonely Boys—Oye Mamacita, Foo Fighters—Walk, Eric Clapton—Five Long Years, Cage the Elephant—Ain't No Rest for the Wicked, Middle Class Rut—Aunt Betty, System of a Down–Radio/Video, Bonnie Somerville—Winding Road
Don't want to be an actor pretending on the stage
Don't want to be a writer with my thoughts out on the page
Don't want to be a painter 'cause everyone comes to look
Don't want to be anything where my life's an open book…
Don't want to be a farmer working in the sun
Don't want to be an outlaw always on the run
Don't want to be a climber reaching for the top
Don't want to be anything where I don't know when to stop
WASTE by Trey Anastasio, recorded by Phish
Hey…I mean, Hello. Yes, it has been a while. Ya know…I have notes, poems, ideas, random thoughts. All things I planned to write about for this blog, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I have avoided it. I have become fearful of a monster I created. (Monster is a bit over-stating it, I realize.)
You see, I really do enjoy this…this, um…hmmm, what is this? Simply, it's blogging, but what is it really? That, I believe, is where I got stuck. (In a strange twist, I had a day where I was just draped in melancholy. Don't know why. Emo music, longing for bangs to hang over one eye, dog-eared volume of Sylvia Plath in my back pocket kinda thing. I was driving and I almost started to cry…no idea why. I just knew it was time to purge…so, I ended up here…Hi!)
"Stuckness." The first time I came upon this idea was when I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Of course, I had been stuck before, but I was a 20 something, pseudo-macho know-it-all, I didn't realize it could be an actual condition. Pirsig taught me all I needed to know about "stuckness", but I didn't use that information to avoid being stuck. In fact, there have been many times throughout my life where I have been stuck, and I thought I had no resource to get unstuck. You know what? I did. I just didn't step back, and look at my problem. I maintained the blind objectivity of an expert who has no actual expertise. I'm gonna blame that on ego…but we'll get back to that…maybe.
I have been really stuck, lately. Stuck. (Strange word, huh? Say it…say it out loud, painfully slowly…not easy. The t and ck make it tough. I lost my breath trying it. Did you?). Anyway, Pirsig writes about the mechanic's relationship with the motorcycle. Most of what can be maintained on a motorcycle is objective. Anyone who can maintain objectivity can read a manual and maintain a motorcycle. However, once something outside the realm of traditional repair, such as a stripped screw, occurs, then objectivity can't solve the problem. You need innovation, creativity, and to clear your mind of the path you were previously on. Meaning, you cannot charge ahead with the maintenance in the same manner, because you will always arrive at that same "stuck" point, or screw, as it is.
SO, what the heck is Lee talking about? I've been stuck. The blog became a thing. An object. A task. It had a form to it that I felt objective about. I made it that way…in what can be the worst neighborhood in the world…my head. I thought I could just charge ahead and the words would just come; but I had backed off my first person involvement. I was writing as a reader, not as a feel-er. I was writing as "Lee the blogger" (which seems strange to me), rather than Lee, the me. I was editing for the audience before I even got a word on the page. I felt I had to provide a similar path every time. I wasn't taking the necessary risk of creating something original (a debatable word, I know). Yet again, I know that we change every single minute of every single day, that the me right now is different than the me just then.
Still, I persisted in trying to reproduce substance that came from a former me. All of my talking of being here now, and I'm not being authentic. That's how I got stuck. I relapsed, I lost my awareness, I went into that autopilot that just says, "the screw isn't budging, put some locking pliers on that mothe-uh-screwdriver and muscle it!" Then, I stripped the screw…and I'm glad. It has forced me to step back and examine how I got stuck. Does that make sense? Hopefully, it will.
Sitting down to write became harder and harder, because it was less flow and more form. (If you're into flow, check out Mikhaly Czikszentmihalyi—I had to google for spelling…good stuff, though…especially for teachers). I thought I had lost control over it. What I realized is I was trying too hard to control it. This is a reoccurring pattern in my life. The need to control. I like to know how a thing is going to turn out. Well, not "like", more like insist. I've been trying to let that go, I really have, though I've noticed a bit of a relapse in my growth lately.
So, I attribute part of my stuckness to work. Once again, I let it take over. I lost perspective and became a bit too obsessive about it. Here's the nutshell: at work there have been some pretty large strategic deficits and some policies that were just plain ignored. Well, now that it's my second year and I know who to talk to about what, my plan was just to fix everything…NOW! Ummm, bad idea. Here's a system that's been running for years in this particular manner, by the same people everyday, and my dumbass ego in his second year is going to push for major changes…and push for them immediately. Guess who got the most upset and frustrated? One guess, go ahead…yes, yours truly.
Strangely, I felt some sort of satisfaction out of the pain and stress I was feeling. There was an actual adrenaline rush, as if my ego was saying, "Yes, this pain, this is what work should feel like…give me more, Lee, push harder." Well, thank the universe (and a little Ekhart Tolle), that I learned about the "pain-body" that can exist in all of us. That part of us that thrives on stress or pain and pushes forward for fleeting intellectual, yet irrational, stimulation. That is the pain-body. Your, or rather, my, ego feeds it so I push harder. For what? It is an endless pursuit. More is a dangerous thing to want. More has no limit. More is a bottomless pit, a fall that never stops.
I feel very fortunate, though. Rather than get angry or really frustrated (well, I did get purty darn frustrated), I have some tools to slow me down. I am learning to assess myself. Why do I feel this way? Why am I grinding my teeth again? Why am I losing sleep again? Why the headaches? Why are people, again, looking at me and drawing smiley faces at me, or making furrowed brow looks? Why?
You see, in a former state I would pass all that off as just part of life. Stress, anxiety, sleeplessness, telling people to smile when you don't, a crease so deep between your eyes it looks like your forehead is trying to eat your uni-brow (You know who you are. I'm not the only one.)
I don't really make those faces in all parts of my life. I make them in my work life. Which is a silly thing to say, life is life. When you separate your lives, you're being someone, not just being.
I can't place my finger on it, but I get very intense around my work. I love what I do. Yet, I question that word all the time. I believe loving what you do is important, but are you loving it so much that you start substituting it for you? Do I get consumed with work? Yes. Do I get emotional about work? Yes (Everyone that knows me has seen that.) Am I allowing my work to interfere with my ability to be happy? Or, am I loving it to avoid loving something else?…Maybe, just maybe, I am.
The difference for me, is I'm questioning it now. Formerly, I thought work, or something you love, was supposed to create that ultimate elation and that grinding, yearning, tiresome, dissatisfaction. Strange, huh? (I also believed that great art came from great pain…only. I don't believe that now…topic for a different day.)
Here I am, 20 years into my career, 30+ years into work life, and I'm still looking for balance. I often feel that if I'm not happy in my work day, then I'm not happy. Now, I KNOW that's not true, yet I allow it. I relapsed into the idea that if I do well at work, then I am doing well as a person. I am accomplishing and succeeding to feel good about me. Rather, I should feel good about me in order to accomplish and succeed. Easily said, commonly taught, not so easy to do…especially, if your habit is the former.
So, I have to get back the the present moment. Tolle says something that I must keep in mind, "The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment." A to the men, ya know? I have a habit of letting the possibility, and the beauty, of the moment slip by because I'm too preoccupied with unproductive feelings like frustration and anger. Useless, man, useless.
What's it all mean? I still struggle. I struggle to achieve something that I can have at any moment: happiness. Which is silly. Happiness is merely a choice. There is nothing or no one in your head that MAKES you feel a certain way. It is your head, your heart, your life. (Really, I'm talking to me.) So, I'm going to keep practicing my attention to the moment, and give myself the understanding that some habits are really hard to break.
I think what we need to consider about happiness is that it is not fleeting. Really, it's not an emotion, happiness is a state. There are other emotions that can interrupt or temporarily cloud happiness, but only because we allow it. So, that's what I'm working on. Allow the clouds into my happiness, but hold on to happiness as a state. It's my decision, it's my choice.
In the meantime, I think I just finished the blog I was dreading. Cool! I will take this moment to feel you all in my heart. I feel how I miss you, and how I love you. I am grateful to have that. Imagine its absence…not for too long, though. Think about making happiness your state. (For a really weird take on being grateful, watch any of Louis C.K.'s stand-up shows.)
Family (especially my girlies) and Friends,
My love and gratitude to you,


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[acm-tf] abuse-c: email vs. abuse-mailbox clarification
Denis Walker denis at ripe.net
Wed Jun 15 20:13:54 CEST 2011
Hi Tobias Just a suggestion, but I would use the word 'private' rather than 'personal'. If something is thought of as personal we start to think data protection, filtering and access control with limits. In this context I think private also fits quite well with your definition. cheers denis On 15/06/11:25 6:06 PM, Tobias Knecht wrote: > Hi, > > as promised in the call before I will try to clarify the difference > between an email attribute and an abuse-mailbox attribute. > > e-mail attribute: > > The e-mail attribute is intended to be the contact for personal > communications between 2 or more parties. If I have questions for an > abuse department I will send an email to this address. Services could > use this address to verify that the for example delisting request is > coming from the right person, by sending back a verification to this > address. Spamhaus is doing something similar at the moment. > > > abuse-mailbox attribute: > > This e-mail addresses is exclusively for abuse reports. The reports > received by this address are usually handled automatically. > > > Any questions? Let me know. > > Thanks, > > Tobias > >
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Owner Could Withhold Consent to Reduced Rent Sublease
Facts: Two guarantors promised to carry out the lease obligations of a restaurant tenant in the event that the tenant defaulted. The lease's assignment and subletting clause required the tenant to get the owner's consent to an assignment or sublet.
After the tenant made partial rent payments several months in a row, the owner terminated the lease and sued the tenant for the back rent of more than $54,000. The tenant claimed that it had, in fact, produced a subtenant for the space, but the owner unreasonably withheld its consent to that arrangement.


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A point to the first person who comments with the source of this quote without having to google it.
In this past week's Torah portion, Ekev, we have the much maligned middle paragraph of the Shema, the quintessential source for reward for following mitzvot and punishment for shirking them, all in the form of the most essential boon for members of an agrarian society: rain, whether sent in abundance or withheld in drought, rain marks the difference between life and death. Even today, though I live in a city, I would be ultimately affected by drought. It could be much worse than a whopping $24 for a case of cantaloupe as a result of this year's drought...
But it would be foolish to say that drought and starvation is a direct result of evil. I cringed when a famous yet infamous rabbi said that Hurricane Katrina was a result of lack of Torah study in New Orleans. This very need to justify everything with a reason for divine retribution kept the Rabbis of the Talmud up at night. A famous example in the Talmud involves a son climbing a tree to fetch some eggs, in doing so fulfilling the two mitzvot that carry with them a reward of long life, that is honoring his father (#1) and shooing the mother bird (#2) to fetch the eggs. The kid, in doing these two things fell from the ladder and died. The rabbis tried to reason this: the kid wasn't intending to fulfill the mitzvot, he was going to grow up to be a murderer, and so forth. Finally a rabbi steps in and says two words: Sulam Rakua, a faulty ladder. If you step on a broken ladder, don't expect a miracle. It's going to break. Rain will fall even if you are evil. Drought will happen even if you are good.
The reason we say this second paragraph silently, I said, is so that the common person does not question the fact that the content is patently false. The wise, however, will examine it and come to the conclusion that there is free will given to the universe, and that goodness will result in human goodness in turn and evil will be repaid in human evil. Don't look for the salvation of God in the face of the deluge, as we find in a famous joke. Rather look for God in the rescuers he sent with the two boats and the helicopter.


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SHORTLY AFTER WRITING Loose Lips, I began corresponding with the Lion. Within days of our first exchange of emails, I was fascinated. Within months, I was obsessed. I then discovered that the Lion was not who I imagined him to be. The story that follows is my attempt to reconstruct, to my own satisfaction, how I — an intelligent, well-educated, professional woman in my thirties — fell so desperately in love with a man I knew only through an epistolary exchange….
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With Claire Berlinski's marvelous debut novel,Loose Lips — a perfect blend of satire, romance, and suspense featuring a young female CIA operative — book critic Frank Bascombe observed: "It's more than a little obvious that [protagonist] Selena Keller is Claire Berlinski." Despite her denials to the contrary, Berlinski isn't above poking fun at that myth in her hilarious and intriguing new novel, Lion Eyes.
In Paris, a fictional Claire — the expatriate author of a novel about love among young CIA trainees — is unsuccessfully dodging a deadly heat wave and her even deadlier ex-boyfriend. When she receives an email from an admirer in Iran who wonders how to obtain a copy of Loose Lips in his native city in Iran, she wastes no time in replying. Her correspondence with the mysterious stranger, whose name means "The Lion" in Persian, quickly becomes personal. Then intimate. Then obsessive.
As Claire heads to Istanbul to find shade, her electronic flirtation begins, inevitably, to consume her. The boundary between reality and her imagination begins to blur and then melt. The Lion, meanwhile, nurtures his own powerful fantasies about the author. To satisfy their growing passion, they agree to meet, in Paris, but Claire soon learns that someone is secretly intercepting their communications.
Suddenly, Claire's romantic dreams dissolve in the face of reality. Nothing is as it seems. The Lion is not who she thinks. Events take an unimagined, even dangerous, turn where life imitates art — and art imitates life.
Clever and witty, Lion Eyes has all the makings of a great story — intriguing characters, exotic locales, snappy double-entendres, clever spy games, and the forbidden pleasure of reading other people's mail. Claire Berlinski expertly plots out chance and chase, love and lies, and brings it all together with intelligence, counter-intelligence, and a dossier full of humor.
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SEMpdx President Kent Lewis recently sat down with SEMpdx Board Member Todd Mintz and answered questions about the organization, its upcoming events & the world of search.
Kent, please give our readers a bit of your professional background. How did you get into Search Engine Marketing?
I graduated with a degree in marketing and started my professional career in public relations. I had an opportunity to provide pro bono PR services for a sister Web development company back in 1995, and was immediately intrigued by the Web. I soon left my PR job to take on a manager role at the Web developer. After a few months of research and testing, I was able to roll out Internet marketing services to clients. After building and managing SEM teams at 3 different agencies, I settled on doing my own thing with Anvil in 2002.
Tell us the story about how SEMpdx was formed.
SEMpdx was originally an idea brought to my attention by a local competing SEM firm. We talked through the need and opportunity over lunch, and within a few weeks, we had our first official board meeting. As an adjunct professor at PSU, I've always been a proponent of education, and we all agreed that the Portland area would benefit greatly from a professional trade organization dedicated solely to SEM.
Talk to us about some of the other SEMpdx founding members. Why did you choose those particular people to help form the organization?
The SEMpdx board members are a collection of some of the most talented and experienced SEM professionals in the country. We hand-picked the board from the local talent based on experience, knowledge, network and overall fit. I'd worked with some at previous agencies, and the rest we knew from being in the industry so long. There were a few that I didn't know well and I was pleasantly surprised at the level of knowledge and insight of those individuals.
What are your objectives for SEMpdx, short-term and long-term?
We have four primary objectives for SEMpdx:
Success is Danny Sullivan, the godfather of SEM, attending or presenting at one of our future events.
SEMpdx will be launching a new website shortly at http://www.semportland.com. Can you tell us a bit about it?
We're very excited about the new Web site, which is being design from scratch by Site9. The site will be everything to all people (at least those interested in SEM in the Portland area). We'll have information on membership, sponsorship and events, as well as a robust resource section, complete with SEM articles, blog, podcasts, tools and news. Whether you're breaking into the SEM industry, or already an expert, there will be something of value for you at SEMportland.com.
SEMpdx will debut its "signature" event in December: SEM Hot Seat. Describe the event and let people know what they will gain from attending.
SEM Hot Seat is going to be beneficial to all involved. For the audience, it's a unique opportunity to learn from a panel of distinguished SEM professionals. Businesses or individuals just getting started can submit specific questions, Web sites or campaign creative to the panel for feedback. The goal is to maximize the value of being able to get specific questions addressed from multiple perspectives, as well as hear what other people are asking. It's like knowing what you don't know you don't know (or something like that). If you're too shy to ask a question, you can submit it in advance, or just attend and listen to the Q&A. Either way, we feel the $100 admission cost is a tremendous value, considering the insights gained from panelists that average $150/hr consulting fees.
SearchFest…I know the event is early in the planning stages, but can you give people a hint of what to expect and why they should attend?
SearchFest will be a one-stop shop for anyone in or around the SEM industry. Freelancers, seasoned client-side SEM professionals and vendors will all benefit from the timely topics covered by seasoned speakers. The full day conference will offer beginner and advanced topics as well as a small exposition/tradeshow for vendors to share their solutions with attendees. For those of you in the SEM industry, SearchFest will be the Search Engine Strategies for the Pacific Northwest. The 2005 inaugural event was very well received, and we look to build on that momentum with SEMpdx now owning the event.
Part of SEMpdx's mission involves giving back to the local community, particularly to supporting local non-profits. Can you tell us more about this program?
While we are just getting started, we've already begun outlining our community outreach program. Currently, the plan is to take on one local non-profit for one year. This charity organization will receive pro bono SEM services from the board, as well as a cash donation at the end of the year, based on our overall profitability. As a non-profit trade organization, we're not only obligated to spend our money, we're happy to do so to support our local community. We are also developing a scholarship program, which will allow underprivileged individuals benefit from membership and event attendance.
For Search Engine Marketers in other communities that lack a local SEM organization…what can be gained from creating a local SEM group?
I couldn't have imagined how powerful a force SEMpdx was going to be for me personally. As the owner of Portland's largest SEM agency, I initially didn't feel I had as much to gain from participation. I still got involved because I believed in Portland and its people. I soon found out my competitors in the local area are actually potential partners and lead sources. I also was able to benefit from recruitment for new talent and have already learned a ton from my peers. I'm sure the rest of the board, as well as our members, feel even more strongly about the value. I would have loved to have started SEMpdx earlier, but I don't think the industry was ready for us a few years ago as it is today.
Give us some Search Engine Predictions for 2007.
I'm not into the day-to-day as I used to be, but I do make predictions each year, and my 2006 predictions were fairly accurate. To expand on my predictions, SEO will evolve into a one-off project for companies, whereas PPC will become the primary lead generation source for many companies, and will require extensive ongoing management. Mobile search and advertising will gain acceptance and users, especially compared to the past few years. The search engines will collaborate more in 2007 than they have in the past, in order to improve the overall user experience and general search engine adoption. Google will NOT rule the world (their attempts to control traditional publishing and advertising media will ultimately backfire). Blogging and podcasting will be marginalized by spammers and vidcasting and lose their luster a bit. Social media will continue to be the media darling through early 2007, although spamming and the need to generating real revenue will create burnout by year's end.
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Auto-Ordnance released a submachine gun commonly known as the "Tommy Gun." When the product first came to market, its sales were weak. World War I was just over and the new weapon had no proven battle experience.
The manufacturer needed to do something about its lack of sales.
Then ... Auto-Ordnance came up with a marketing idea. During Prohibition, as gangs were using guns during their bootlegging turf wars, what if the company's dealers only sold Tommy Guns to the "good guys?"
Mindful that their product could wreak havoc in the wrong hands, the company had an agreement with their dealers:
Thompson guns are for use by those on the side of law and order, and the Auto-Ordnance Corporation agents and dealers are authorized to make sales to responsible parties only.
This image depicts an ad which was part of that marketing campaign. One can only wonder if Auto-Ordnance executives ever fretted that so many of their weapons ended-up in the hands of the "bad guys."
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About Kitty Hayes and Peter Laban
Extract from sleeve notes by Tom Munnelly
Kitty Smith was born in Fahanlunaghta, east of Moy, with Lahinch being the nearest sizable village. But it was not in the town but at her own hearthstone that she and her siblings and peers found their academy of music. Kitty got her first good concertina from her father and she was playing at house dances from her mid-teens. Like many of her generation and before, she met the boy who was to become her husband at one such country dance: Josie Hayes was then a member of the renowned Laichtín Naofa Céilí band, which had in its ranks such local luminaries as Willie Clancy (pipes and flute), Junior Crehan (fiddle), Martin Tatty (pipes and whistle), Paddy Joe Mac Mahon (accordion), J. C. Tatty (flute and whistle), Jimmy Ward (banjo), Angela Merry (double bass), Paddy Galvin (fiddle), Michael Sexton (accordion), and several more, all of whom were neighbours and friends. During the years they were on the road it was tough for the members of the band to integrate their travelling with their work at home—usually the back-breaking toil of running a small farm. But if it was tough on them it was no easier for those like Kitty, who had to take on extra tasks as well as rearing a family of seven in the home that she and Josie set up in Shanaway, on the other side of Miltown Malbay. Kitty had little social life beyond her home at the time, but this is not to say that she was deprived of music, for theirs was a welcoming home and a spot frequented by musicians who would call in to pass an evening. Among these was an American visitor, the illustrious fiddler Paddy Killoran (1905-1965), who was married to Josie's sister.
All centres of population have gathering points where the local 'parliament' convenes. In cities it might be the town hall but in rural areas it was more likely to be the grocery shop, the blacksmith's forge or, in more recent times, the pub—which with the dawning of sexual equality, some affluence, and even more importantly, lounge bars with toilets for the women, became socially accessible to both sexes. In Kitty's and Josie's case this pub was Gleeson's of Coore, which was also a grocery. Junior Crehan and Josie had played music there since they were twelve years old and altogether served seven decades there playing on Sunday nights. Sunday night was always a good night fora gathering of locals to sing, dance, and listen to the music of Junior, Josie, Patrick Galvin, Micheal Downes (fiddle), and the frenetic bodhrán playing and hilarious singing of Pat Kelly. Musicians from all over the country and from much farther afield came to play in this unspoiled traditional venue. As the older people moved on, their places were taken by others living locally such as Eamonn McGivney, Conor Keane, and Jackie Daly (accordions). Singing was always part of the night's proceedings and among the many performers, Kitty's singing ranked with the best (an aspect of her talents which could fruitfully be covered in a future CD). The Gleeson family ran this pub for five generations and it is no exaggeration to state that its closure in the year 2004 is still keenly felt by hundreds of people. Any musical history of the area will have to take into consideration the musical impact of this sanctuary for musicians for well over a century.
After the Josie's death 1992, encouraged by her son Joe who also died tragically a few years later), Kitty began playing the concertina again. Diffident at first, she would take it out for brief sorties into the music on Sunday nights. As time progressed she became more confident. Her self-assurance was helped in some measure by the musical rapport she had struck up with Peter Labor. Peter, an archivist, librarian, superb photographer, and musician from Rotterdam, had come to live in the area and also was taking part in the sessions on pipes and whistle. As well as playing with the general gathering, they began playing duets during lulls in the dancing and these soon became a very pleasant part of the evening's proceedings.
This CD catches the musical understanding that Kitty and Peter share with one another. The music is stately and relaxed at the same time. It eschews flashiness totally and gets
under the skin of the tunes, a conversation between friends, never an argument or a race. If you wish to hear Clare music as ít should be played, you will be hard-pressed to find a better example.
Undoubtedly this CD will gain Kitty and Peter an even larger audience when people hear this truly harmonious combination, played in a spirit which is rarely achieved: enjoyment in the sharing of the music.
Tom Munnelly
List of Tracks
1. The Newport Lass, Mist on the Meadow, The Legacy (jigs) 3.38
2. The Concert Reel, The Hare's Paw, Garret Barry's Reel (reels) 4.04
3. The Humours of Tulla, Tear The Callico (reels) 2.19
4. The Girl that broke my Heart, The Sligo Maid (reels, concertina solo) 3.39
5. The Wandering Minstrel, Fasten the Leg in her (jigs) 3.40
6. Hills of Coore, The Stack of Oats (hornpipes) 3.23
7. The Pigeon on the Gate, The Drunken Landlady, Sporting Nell (reels) 4.02
8. Winnie Hayes', The Rose in the Heather (jigs) 3.38
9. Corney is coming, An Bhean Tincéara, The Collier's Reel (reels, pipes solo) 5.20
10. Na Ceannabháin Bhána, Hardiman the Fiddler (slip jigs) 2.48
11. Ar Éirinn Ni 'Neosfainn Ce Hi (slow air, concertina solo) 2.11
12. John Egan's 1 and John Egan's 2 (jigs) 3.12
13. The Porthole of the Kelp, The Maids of Mitchellstown (reels) 2.36
14. Lost and Found, The Haunted House, The Luthradán (jigs) 3.38
15. The Mountain Top, Tom Ward's Downfall, The Honeymoon Reel (reels) 4.02


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True or False: Advertising efforts targeted at branding, awareness and perception continue to influence direct-response metrics. Most chief marketing officers and marketing managers would agree. Innately, I know that to be true, but as a marketing executive, I am hunting for numbers.
Some groups claim a conversion lift of up to 25 percent from branding and awareness campaigns. Big B2C advertisers agree. I learned the importance of branding when I worked for a large digital subscription business several years ago that did not do TV. Upon initiating a television campaign, they saw more traffic driven to the site, accompanied by an increase in purchases. Solid information for sure, especially if pre- and post-campaign studies back up the statement, but again, real numbers? Still kinda, sorta squishy.
If branding is a stand-alone ad created to improve perception and increase awareness, the numbers are probably good. You might think it is gravy on top if branding also drives response metrics, such as traffic to the site, or to bricks and mortar, motivating viewers to consider and buy. Campaigns that try to accomplish both advertising and response can give the impression of a higher bounce rate, leading marketing to believe a website isn't doing its job when that is not really the case.
Advertising, as defined rather ironically by the Direct Marketing Association, is a vehicle designed to change perception and elicit awareness without generating a direct response. In contrast, direct response is advertising designed specifically to elicit a response. The two go hand in hand. Branding depends on the product to live up to its name. Direct response depends on branding to make the introduction. There will always be a need for both, but in what proportions?
Three huge trends have profoundly compressed the top of the marketing funnel and blurred the defining lines, making accurate attribution even more surgical:
- Digital
- Mobile
- Social
Consider a shopper in a store that sees a product and likes it. Shopper scans the code on the product with a phone and, in seconds, has huge input regarding ranks, reviews, and pricing, either encouraging a buy or sending the shopper to a competing product. Might be nearby. Might be online.
Or, say a shopper passes by a kiosk and is attracted by a magazine cover. Shopper uses a smartphone to scan the cover of the print magazine embedded with an NFC chip, instantly accessing music associated with an article in that issue, again influencing the buy. Enormous trends by any gauge, there are combinations of branding and direct response here that are so closely tied to consumer response that they become indivisible. What once took months, from the launch of the awareness campaign through consideration and purchase, now wraps it all up in under 30 seconds.
As the heavy hands of mobile, social, and digital weigh on the top of the marketing funnel, our jobs as heads of marketing will change. Shaping the CRM approaches of the future with emphasis on precision timing and brand relevance will build loyalty, repeated consideration, and ultimately, continued conversion. What will that weight do to print, broadcast, and public relations, and how will that change the traditional marketing funnel?
Will it morph to an hourglass? A straight shot? A merger of the top and middle levels? I believe that the purpose of the product and the type of consumer attracted to it, along with global economic conditions, will influence that change.
I continue to seek concrete research that illustrates in numbers how awareness and perception move the needle on direct response. Endeavoring to understand that relationship through specifically cited, non-anecdotal results will prove valuable to all in developing marketing plans for delivery of products that customers want.
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Fresh evidence showing what life may have been like at Druridge Bay as long as 7,000 years ago, has been unearthed by an archaeologist.
Barry Mead has discovered a second set of well-preserved hoofprints, possibly made by an ancient breed of wild cattle, on the beach near his Cresswell home.
Eighteen months ago, he had found more animal and human prints preserved on the beach in a peat bed, which had been exposed by an exceptionally high tide.
His finds back up the discoveries unearthed during the Rescued from the Sea project at Low Hauxley at the northern end of Druridge Bay.
Led by the Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Archaeological Services and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, this 13-week dig at a Bronze Age burial cairn and Iron Age round house, hit the headlines because of the significance of the evidence it unearthed of human habitation on the Northumberland coast and the sort of animals, including wild boar and deer, that may have been roaming the area thousands of years ago.
Another recent exceptionally high tide coupled with a northerly wind has combined to strip the sand dunes above an area of peat close to Cresswell village, revealing more animal prints.
The remains of a large tree trunk from the same period, when a forest would have covered what is now the beach, can also be seen.
"Although the hoofprints are not as well defined as the ones I found earlier, they could, I believe, have been made by aurochs, a type of cattle that has been extinct in Britain for some 3,000 years," said Barry.
"What also intrigued me is that my latest find links archaeology from two vastly different time periods existing virtually next to one another; Second World War anti-tank blocks put in place along the beach to hinder the progress of a possible German invasion in 1940 and well-preserved animal prints dating back to the days not long after the North Sea was formed and Britain became an island."
This Saturday, Barry will lead a tour around the 15th-century Pele Tower at Cresswell as part of Heritage Open Days.
The tower is generally not accessible to the public so it is a rare chance for people to look around.
His historical walk starts at 2pm from Cresswell Ices and if the animal hoof prints are still visible, Barry will include a visit to the site in his walk and talk to show people his find.


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Immune Design, a Seattle-based developer of immune-based therapies for cancer and other chronic conditions, has secured up to $49 million in Series C funding, including a $32.5 million upfront investment. Topspin Partners and existing backer The Column Group led the round, and were joined by Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures and insiders Alta Partners, Versant Ventures, Osage Partners and ProQuest Investments. www.immunedesign.com
CVRx Inc., a Minneapolis-based developer of an implantable system designed to treat hypertension and heart failure, has raised $12 million in new Series F funding. New investors included Ysios Capital andDaVita HealthCare Partners. The round total is now $40 million, including earlier commitments from New Enterprise Associates, Johnson &Johnson Development Corp., BBT Fund and SightLine Partners.www.cvrx.com
Harvest Automation, a North Billerica, Mass.-based agricultural robotics company, has raised $11.75 million in Series C funding. Mousse Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Life Science Partners, Cultivian, Founder Collective, Entrée Capital and MassVentures. www.harvestai.com
Securus Medical Group Inc., a Cleveland-based developer of a thermal measurement device for use during surgery, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. 3X5 Special Opportunity Fund led the round, and was joined by the University of Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups program and return backer RiverVest Venture Partners.
Revenew, a Palatine, Ill.-based local marketing network for national brands, has raised $5 million in Series B funding. Allos Ventures led the round, and was joined by TGap Ventures and Illinois Ventures.www.revenew.com
9Lenses, a Leesburg, Va.-based provider of organization intelligence software, has raised $4.1 million in Series A funding from Kinetic Ventures, Icon Venture Partners and the Corporate Executive Board Company. www.9lenses.com
Trustev, an Irish startup that verifies the identity of online shoppers, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Backers include Greycroft Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Telefónica's Wayra, and Enterprise Ireland. www.trustev.com
Adaptive Planning, a San Francisco-based provider of SaaS solutions for enterprise performance management, said that Salesforce.com has joined a previously-announced $45 million Series D round. Existing backers include Bessemer Venture Partners, Onset Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, RBC Venture Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital and Monitor Ventures. The company previously raised around $40 million. www.adaptiveplanning.com
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This is a poem I wrote for my stepdad this past Christmas.
He is truly one of a kind
You hear little children ask
all too often, "Why this, and why that?"
But you hardly ever hear,
"Why did God make Dads?"
God made Dads to listen
when a small child asks "why?"
and wisdom to think it over,
before he gives his reply.
As a small child gets older
You still hear the question, "why?"
And God made Dads to answer.....
Because I said so, that's why!"
Why did God make Dads?
And how did He find the time?
To make the most perfect one,
That He gave to me, to call mine!!!
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Christmas 2002.
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Mrs. Mary Sanders widow of Hiram Sanders relates the following. "I was born on Finley Creek in Wright County, Mo. in 1837. My parents were Isaac and Prudie Medlock. My mother died on Finley Creek when I was 8 years old. My father died in Illinoise. All the early settlers that I have a distinct recollection of that lived on Finley Creek near where we lived was my grandfather Henry and Rachell Medlock and my uncle Bill Williams and my aunt Rhoda Williams. I came to Lick Creek below where Gainsville Mo. now is in 1847 and was married to Hiram Sanders in 1853. We were married on the old John Sanders land on Lick Creek. This place is near one mile below the Steve Sanders Place. Cage Foster was a justice of the peace then and he officiated. I remember the names of some of the citizens who lived on Lick Creek. There were Joe and Bob VanMeter who were brothers. Joes wife was named Sarah. Bob married Polly Turley daughter of Jake Turley. There was also Abe West and Rhoda West his wife. John Howell and Eliza his wife. Sole Workman, Jim Workman and Elizabeth Workman were children of Isaac Workman but were grown when I first saw them and there was Capt. Ben Bray who was killed or died a natural death at Springfield Mo. during the war. These all lived on Lick Creek in the early days of Ozark County. The first school I went to was taught on Lick Creek by Charles Goobey one half mile below where Steve Sanders lived. The first day of this school is very vivid in my mind from the reason that I cried all day. I was afraid that I would violate the rules of school and get a whipping. Steve Sanders wife was named Annie. She was a daughter of Cage Foster. Fosters wifes name was Sally. Grandfather Allin Sanders we always called him was my husbands father. His wife was named Annie, who one day picked a spot of ground where she said she desired to be buried. This is on what is now the Doctor Arnold Place one half a mile above the mouth of Possom Walk Creek, and when she passed over the dark river of death her remains received interment where she wished to rest. There are also two of Jake Fosters little girls buried there, the names of which were Mary Elizabeth and Sarah Eliza. Mr. Thomas Guifford the first merchant at Gainsville formerly lived at Rock Bridge. When he came to where Gainsville now stands he hauled the logs of a log building and put them up and covered the wall and put his goods and groceries in it until he could construct a better house. Guiffords wife was Sarah Ann daughter of John Sanders. Tom Lord the noted chimney builder built a number of stone chimneys in Ozark County before the war. Some of his work is standing to the present day. Soon after the close of the war in 1869 he built a black smith shop on Gooleys Spring Creek and lived there several years and made horse shoes and shod horses and did much other work for the settlers. One day he went up on the hill near the black smith shop and selected a place to be buried which was near a post oak tree. He marked the spot by placing a stone on it and when the time arrived for him to quit shoeing horses and depart from this world his body was given burial where he requested to be laid. Mr. Lords son Bartlet is also buried there and his grandson Morgan Wood is buried there. Morgan was a son of Jim Wood and Sally Ann, daughter of Tom Lords. Millie a sister of Tom Lords married Jim Barnette another noted blacksmith.
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Boi Akih DUO at Hide and Seek Festival and Dutch Delta Sounds
Boi Akih DUO will play at Festival Hide & Seek on 28th of August at the Horta-Lambeaux temple of Human Passions. The temple is situated at the heart of the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels.On September the 8th Boi Akih Duo will play at the Dutch Delta Sounds, Tuinzaal Paradiso Noord.
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Madeleine Peyroux has released her new album, Standing On The Rooftop.
Peyroux wrote most of the tracks herself, but recruited several well-known musicians for the album including bassist Me'Shell Ndegéocello, guitarist Chris Bruce, guitar iconoclast Marc Ribot, and drummer Charely Drayton. Peyroux's previous album was 2004's Careless Love. Track listing and a quote from Madeline on Standing On The Rooftop after the jump. Listen to 'The Things I've Seen Today,' below.
"I have been building on the relationships I developed in co-writing, and something new has taken hold of me," Peyroux says. "This project is meant to be a wider dreamscape than previous recordings. I'm interested in exploring tougher sounds, even ugly sounds… trying to find something more raw than the voice that I have now, and in the accompaniment that I have become used to."
'Standing On The Rooftop' Track Listing
1. Martha, My Dear
2. The Kind You Can't Afford
3. The Things I've Seen Today
4. Fickle Dove
5. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love
6. Standing On The Rooftop
7. I Threw It All Away
8. Love In Vain
9. Don't Pick A Fight With A Poet
10. Meet Me In Rio
11. Ophelia
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Alright, so i'm doing a very not-traditional review of a book called False Covenant by Ari Marmell. Why? Because these books are AMAZING and since Pyr is a new imprint, it's not getting enough attention. So what am I going to do? Fix that, obviously.
Reasons why you should be writing Thief's Covenant and the sequel, False Covenant:
1. The heroine.
Widdershins don't play games. She's seriously one of my favorite heroines of all time; which is SAYING something. She's funny and strong and super brave -- she's a thief! One of the best thieves in her city and she doesn't take lip from anyone but she also has this fantastic vulnerable side that I just loved watching develop when she becomes not Widdershins, but Adrienne. The backstory of Widdershins really is heartbreaking and you really see her transition from being this badass to slowly unveiling a sad girl who just happens to kick some ass.
2. The setting
High Fantasy is where it's at, guys. The writing in this book completely captures the mood of the world Marmell has created using a town to show this elaborate system of gods and government that rules across the nations. You're focused on the small town of Davillion but there's so much going on there, you're not gonna want to go anywhere else!
3. The thievery
I hope thieves are the new vampires, because dammit, I love a good steal. I love reading about thieves which is why Widdershins happens to be awesome in my book. Sometimes she steals for fun, sometimes she steals for a reason, but she's just good at it. She always has been and you get to see how she got into this whole thing in the first place back when her parents were still alive and she was a young girl. And then the thieves guild! Oh the tangled webs that are woven over there! It's funny to me that in a place where there are so many thieves as to have a guild, there is still honor and alliance amongst thieves. Widdershins isn't very good at following orders, from the Shrouded Lord that is the thieves' guild's leader, or from anyone else, which is always refreshing.
4. Julian
HE NEEDS HIS OWN CATEGORY OKAY? This book isn't soaking in the romance but it's subtle enough to take backstage to Widdershins but enough that i'm not pulling my hair out in frustration. (Especially the second book guys, my heart. MY HEART.)
5. The side characters
Renard is hilarious. He bounces around like a peacock, preening his feather and stealing at his leisure, and I just love every scene with him in it. He is sarcastic and witty but there are some moments where I really feel for him and his unrequited love. And then you have Robin who is young and adorable and willing to do anything for Widdershins. The Shrouded Lord is BOSS (no pun intended) and he would scare the living hell out of me and basically everyone in the Thieves Guild was awesome or awful, in the best way.
6. People like people and it's not a big deal
There are side characters in the book who like Widdershins. You know, elementary style, like-like her. And it's not a big deal. It's not made into this torrid love triangle or love square and it doesn't seem annoying or fake or "Why does everyone even like Widdershins?". It just...is. And it seems realistic and your heart breaks for them but you love them and just....guys.
7. Olgun
The best god ever. He is attached to Widdershins in the sense that she can kind of "hear" him and he helps her be an awesome thief and they are just such a funny pair together.
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Happy Reading!
Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city's aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story straight from an ancient fairy tale. Until one horrid night, when a conspiracy of forces—human and other—stole it all away in a flurry of blood and murder.
Today she is Widdershins, a thief making her way through Davillon's underbelly with a sharp blade, a sharper wit, and the mystical aid of Olgun, a foreign god with no other worshippers but Widdershins herself. It's not a great life, certainly nothing compared to the one she once had, but it's hers.
But now, in the midst of Davillon's political turmoil, an array of hands are once again rising up against her, prepared to tear down all that she's built. The City Guard wants her in prison. Members of her own Guild want her dead. And something horrid, something dark, something ancient is reaching out for her, a past that refuses to let her go. Widdershins and Olgun are going to find answers, and justice, for what happened to her—but only if those who almost destroyed her in those years gone by don't finish the job first.
A creature of the other world, an unnatural entity bent on chaos and carnage, has come to stalk the nighttime streets of the Galicien city of Davillon. There's never a good time for murder and panic, but for a community already in the midst of its own inner turmoil, this couldn't possibly have come at a worse one.
Not for Davillon, and not for a young thief who calls herself Widdershins.
It's been over half a year since the brutal murder of Archbishop William de Laurent during his pilgrimage to Davillon. And in all that time, Widdershins has truly tried her best. She has tried to take care of Genevieve's tavern and tried to make a semihonest living in a city slowly stagnating under the weight of an angry and disapproving Church. She has tried to keep out of trouble, away from the attentions of the Davillon Guard and above the secrets and schemes of the city's new bishop.
But she's in way over her head, with no idea which way to turn. The Guard doesn't trust her. The Church doesn't trust her. Her own Thieves' Guild doesn't trust her.
Too bad for everyone, then, that she and her personal god, Olgun, may be their only real weapon against a new evil like nothing the city has ever seen.


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…your kid gets her driving permit.
This is the thing nobody tells you when you plan for your first child. You spend hours on Pintrest admiring baby room colours, get surprised by your friends for your first shower, and plan for that really 'J&J' moment of labor when 'the most wonderful thing in your life' comes in the form of a soft, tiny pink baby who looks tenderly up at you with her big blue eyes … and smiles.
Then you give birth.
Which is nothing like the ad for Pampers, but rather a realistic harbinger for things to come.
If, like me, you have four kids, you spend years of your life not sleeping, cleaning up poop, cleaning up other stuff you'd rather not remember, cooking and then cleaning up the table, the dishes, the floor. You calm them down when they're crying, and encourage them when life gets hard. You hug them. You take their side, but teach them to be sensitive to others; you officiate classes like Manners 101, Medicine 101, Psychology 101, Religion 101, Motivational Speaking 101, Cultural Awareness 101, Hygiene 101, Math-English-Geography-Gym 101. And then you fall asleep exhausted on the sofa, trying to stay awake for your favourite 20-minute sitcom, which, after the merlot you downed an hour ago while trying to remain a calm and wise bulwark in the midst of a teenage meltdown, seems impossibly long. You snore.
Then, suddenly, they appear taller, kinder, more reasonable. You find yourself relaxing as you morph from parent to equal, to friend. Life suddenly shines on you like a great, golden sun as your children begin praising you like adults, telling their equally-adult friends how awesome you are as a mom. You start to relish; you thank your lucky stars that they still like hanging with you on a Friday night. You tell yourself it was all worth it.
Then they make you get in the passenger seat.
Last week my daughter and I drove around for about two hours to give her some road practise before the big day. My general opinion is that once I feel safe enough to text a friend while she's driving, she's probably ready to give the driving test a try. That is not yet the case. Somewhere between a feeling of relative safety and bonafide terror, she hung a left over the railroad tracks – and then stopped.
"There's a car coming," she said. "I should let it pass."
A distant horn started blaring behind us.
"Yeah," I answered, "But if you use your blinker you should be good to go. I mean… I think you have right of way here."
The blaring was growing closer, sounding more like a bullhorn by the minute. I turned my head to see (lo, and behold) a train barreling right toward our car, which was parked on (yes, I said 'on') the tracks.
"Step on it! Go!" I screeched.
(This is when I think it is appropriate to play the mom-card to a 19-year-old.)
Needless to say, it took a good deal of unholy language to get her to move her theoretical a** off the tracks… but it saved our sorry lives.
"Mom, I can't believe you cussed so loud. I think we should practise that again – let's give it another go."
I popped a ginger pill and wished for an Old Tom. No one tells you that just when you think you've got this parenting thing covered — after labouring in their favour for nineteen years — you have to put your own hide on the line. Nobody tells you in the maternity ward that the ultimate parenting sacrifice still hovers on the distant horizon.
She bought me a cup of coffee as a kind of consolation prize (don't get me started on the way she negotiated that drive-thru) and we drove home reminiscing over our dramatic near-death experience, which, incidentally, she thought was hilarious.


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Another slow week at work so here's bio number 2. Thank you everyone for the feedback on the Dong Zhuo bio, it is much appreciated. As before, if anyone has any comments or corrections, please post them here
Diao Chan was born around 169 AD (1) and raised in the capital city Luoyang where she served as a handmaiden, singer and dancer in the palace of the Interior Minister Wang Yun. She was very close to Wang Yun and their relationship was more like that of a daughter with a father than servant and master. In 190AD Dong Zhuo deposed the ruling Emperor and empowered a new Emperor who he controlled. Dong Zhuo freely used and abused his power, unopposed by the ministers of the capital as they all feared him and his adopted son Lu Bu. Due to an alliance against him, Dong Zhuo would even relocate the capital from Luoyang to Chang'an forcing all the residents to move with it. When the alliance failed, there was no-one left to stand against Dong Zhuo and his abuses of power became even worse than before. However, Wang Yun could not stand the situation anymore and he came up with a plan to kill Dong Zhuo: he would use Diao Chan to turn Lu Bu against Dong Zhuo.
Wang Yun immediately put his plan into motion by inviting Lu Bu to his palace where he introduced Diao Chan and offered her hand in marriage to Lu Bu. Lu Bu was enthralled by Diao Chan's beauty and could not take his eyes off her, so he accepted Wang Yun's offer without a second thought. However a few days later, Wang Yun invited Dong Zhuo to his home for a banquet, during which Diao Chan danced and sung for him. Dong Zhuo was enchanted with her just as Lu Bu had been and he too accepted when Wang Yun offered her to him as a concubine. Dong Zhuo took Diao Chan with him and it was not long before word got to Lu Bu who confronted Wang Yun. Wang Yun lied to Lu Bu, telling him that Dong Zhuo was fully aware of the previous arrangement but he had taken Diao Chan anyway. The next morning Lu Bu went to the palace, asking the the servants about Diao Chan and he was not happy to find that she had slept with Dong Zhuo in his bedroom. Diao Chan had just risen when she saw the shadow of Lu Bu who was sneaking around outside the window. She pretended to cry to give Lu Bu the impression that she was deeply saddened by her circumstances. Lu Bu went back into the palace where he met with Dong Zhuo. Diao Chan stood behind a curtain watching them and every so often she would peek around the curtain to look lovingly at Lu Bu. Dong Zhuo eventually noticed Lu Bu staring at Diao Chan, became suspicious and dismissed him.
Diao Chan satisfied all of Dong Zhuo's needs so that he became completely devoted to her and soon began to ignore the affairs of state in order to spend time with her. He was so fond of her that he would not even undress in front of her and when he fell ill, Diao Chan sat vigilantly by his side soothing him. Hearing of Dong Zhuo's illness, Lu Bu came to visit him but Dong Zhuo was asleep when he arrived so Diao Chan took advantage of the situation. She pointed to her heart with one hand and with the other pointed to Dong Zhuo and began to weep, breaking Lu Bu's heart. Dong Zhuo awoke to see Lu Bu again staring at Diao Chan and became angry, he had Lu Bu ejected from the palace and banned him from returning. Li Ru would convince Dong Zhuo to make amends with Lu Bu for the sake of peace but Lu Bu still thought of the woman who he considered rightfully his.
One day while Dong Zhuo met with the Emperor, Lu Bu left his side and went to find Diao Chan. He tied Red Hare outside the palace and carrying his halberd, went inside. Diao Chan met him in the garden and burst into tears crying "Though I am not the Minister's real daughter, he has treated me as his own child. The desire of my life was fulfilled when he promised me to you. But to think of the wickedness of the Prime Minister, stealing my poor self as he did. I suffered so much. I longed to die, but I had not told you the real truth so I lived on, bearing my shame as best as I could. Now that I have seen you, I can end it all. My poor sullied body is no longer fit to serve a hero. I can die before your eyes and so prove how true I am!". She then motioned that she would throw herself into the pond below but Lu Bu grabbed her and held her close. Lu Bu began to cry as he finally knew that Diao Chan shared his feelings, so she wrapped her arms around him and begged him to rescue her. He told her that he would need time to think as he knew that he could not simply take her away from his adopted father, but she pressed him by expressing her confusion that a formidable warrior such as Lu Bu would be ruled by someone else. This outburst shamed Lu Bu, he held her close, soothed her and could not bear to let her go. However, Dong Zhuo had noticed Lu Bu's absence and soon became suspicious so he made his way quickly to the palace where he found Red Hare tied outside. Storming into the grounds, he found the two lovers locked in an embrace but Lu Bu saw him and ran away, abandoning his halberd in the process. Dong Zhuo grabbed the halberd and gave chase but when he could not catch up to Lu Bu he threw the halberd but missed his target. Li Ru stopped Dong Zhuo, calmed him down and begged him to give Diao Chan to Lu Bu in order to end the strife between the two of them. Dong Zhuo summoned Diao Chan and asked for her account of what had happened in the garden, but she told a very different story. She told him that Lu Bu had come armed to the palace and that she had been afraid that he would force her to do his will so she had tried to leap into the pond but Lu Bu had caught her. She thanked Dong Zhuo for saving her, but he suggested sending her to Lu Bu as a peace offering. Diao Chan protested, wept and threatened to kill herself rather than serve an underling such as Lu Bu. Satisfied with her response, Dong Zhuo placated her and assured her that he cared too much to give her away. Diao Chan confided in him that she was scared of Lu Bu and wanted the two of them to move to Dong Zhuo's city of Miewo so that they could be far away from Lu Bu. When Dong Zhuo informed Li Ru that he had decided to keep Diao Chan and that they would be leaving for Miewo the next day, Li Ru exclaimed as he left the palace "We are dead men, slain by the hand of this girl".
As they set out to Miewo, Diao Chan saw Lu Bu in the crowd so she looked to the ground and looked sad. Lu Bu confided his sadness in Wang Yun who became angry, shouting that people would laugh at them as Dong Zhuo had stolen Diao Chan away from both of them while they stood idly by. Lu Bu became angry and swore to kill Dong Zhuo if it were not for the punishment he would no doubt receive. Wang Yun stirred matters further by assuring Lu Bu that killing Dong Zhuo would lead to the restoring of the Han empire and that there would be no repercussions for the killing of a rebel. Wang Yun with two colleagues worked out the details and the next day a messenger arrived at Miewo to inform Dong Zhuo that the Emperor would be abdicating all power to him. Dong Zhuo was greatly pleased, so he arranged for four generals, Guo Si, Li Jue, Fan Chou and Zhang Ji to guard the city and then prepared to return to the capital. Before he set out, Dong Zhuo promised Diao Chan that she would be named 'Lady of the Palace' and while she thanked him, she secretly was overjoyed as she knew that this was the culmination of Wang Yun's plan and that Dong Zhuo was walking into a trap. As he arrived at the capital for the ceremony, Dong Zhuo was ambushed and slain by Lu Bu who then gathered an army of 50,000 soldiers ready to assault Miewo. When news reached Miewo of Dong Zhuo's demise and of the oncoming army, the four generals protecting the city fled to Liangzhou. Lu Bu's first act when his army reached Miewo was to find Diao Chan and with that done, his troops killed every member of Dong Zhuo's family.
However, the four exiled generals were determined to avenge Dong Zhuo so they amassed an army and marched towards Chang'an. On their way there they fell in with Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Nu Fu and his army. Lu Bu went out to oppose the rebels but they were well prepared for him, forcing him to retreat to the capital. When he got back to Chang'an, the city was already under siege by the rebels. Lu Bu shouted over the wall begging Wang Yun to escape with him, but Wang Yun was determined to fight to the end. Lu Bu had no choice but to escape to Yuan Shao leaving his family, Diao Chan and Wang Yun behind. When the rebels entered the city they sought out Wang Yun and for his role in killing Dong Zhuo, they executed him. Eventually Diao Chan would be reunited with Lu Bu and the two would move from province to province together until they reached Xia Pi where Lu Bu would meet his end at the hands of Cao Cao. (2)
(1) Sources vary, some say 161AD while others say 169AD.
(2) There is a folktale that Diao Chan was captured by Cao Cao after Xia Pi. When Cao Cao was trying to keep Guan Yu in his service, he sent Diao Chan to seduce Guan Yu. Guan Yu suspected that he was being tricked as he knew how she had betrayed Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo so he killed her to prevent her from hurting anyone else (source: Mengdez New Book). A second version of this story is that years after Xia Pi, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu all wanted to marry Diao Chan and the three argued bitterly over her. To end the strife between them Guan Yu cut her in half.


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