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|Historia Reiss
|Historia Reiss
|Biological Information
|January 15th[1]
|145 cm
|42 kg
| Rod Reiss (Father)
Frieda Reiss (Half-sister, deceased)
Dirk Reiss (Half-brother, deceased)
Ulklin Reiss (Half-brother, deceased)
Florian Reiss (Half-sister, deceased)
Abel Reiss (Half-sister, deceased)
Unnamed mother (deceased)
Unnamed uncle (deceased)
|Survey Corps
|Former Affiliation
|104th Trainees Squad
|Grad Rank
|First Appearance
|That Day
|That Day
|Voice actor
| Shiori Mikami (Japanese)
Bryn Apprill (English)
|Image Gallery
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|Krista probably would've been worried for everyone. Krista Lenz was a good girl. But Historia Reiss... Historia's parents never loved her. Nobody did. Quite the opposite. No one wanted her to be born. Her story isn't even especially unusual. There are lots of kids like her in the Underground... So? Everyone was disappointed, right? That the real me was this empty. That I'm nothing like the good girl Krista Lenz was.
|— Historia to Eren[2]
Historia Reiss (ヒストリア・レイス Hisutoria Reisu?) is an illegitimate child from the aristocratic Reiss family. She was raised in isolation on an estate of the Reiss family before being violently dispossessed after the fall of Wall Maria, and in doing so, she was coerced into entering military service (in the hopes of her death) and consequently renouncing her name and claim to Reiss heritage in order to assume a new identity as Krista Lenz (クリスタ・レンズ Kurisuta Renzu?). Over the course of her childhood and isolation, she intentionally created a persona for herself that was to be in all things selfless and kind to those around her. In her innermost self however, she is an empty, melancholy girl uncertain of her true nature and personality, nor her purpose and meaning in the world. She becomes an important asset to the Survey Corps, and is pursued by various agents of the government (under orders of the King and the Inner Brigade) and the Titan Shifters. Ymir initially sought her out of curiosity to her past and in order to use her as a bargaining chip. In the process, befriended her and fell in love with the Historia she saw underneath the emotional armor and false projections.
Historia has a petite figure, making her the smallest soldier in the 104th. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, and wears the standard military uniform. Historia is noted being very cute and pretty, and coupled with her kindness, making people call her a goddess, as well as the hinted fact that a majority of her classmates have a crush on her or thinks she is cute. When on expeditions, her hair is seen in a low ponytail.
Historia is normally very shy and kind, quick to come to tears, and without knowing how to react to people in certain situations (likely coming from her isolation from people as a child). However, as revealed, and later noted, her desire to perform kindnesses to others stems not only from a desire to gain honour from them, but also to gain the approval of those around, and to be seen as a good person. This is something she values highly as a result of her childhood where she was denied both, and raised to believe herself to have been an unfortunate and unwelcome mistake. The strongest manifestation of this is her often, and severe suicidal inclinations, where she desires merely to die in a manner where others will not hate her for having existed at all, and will be spoken off, and remembered favourably.
Ymir, in understanding Historia, and having an insight into her personality no one else was afforded, correctly deduced this inner side of her nature and, and as a result, worked to discourage her own self belief that it would be better if were she to die. Ymir often and openly displays contempt at her, for accepting her treatment and rejection, particularly at her having rejected her name and heritage, and enlisting in military service to please those who rejected her. It is hinted that the tragedy of Historia's youth emanates strongly with Ymir due to similar childhood experiences. It is Ymir's empathy and outward care for Historia, that forges such a strong and uncompromising friendship between them, and this plays a strong role in her developing a romantic attachment to Historia.
Due to multiple layers and contradictions in Historia's personality, it is difficult to gain a definitive understanding of her innermost nature, as all her actions are a mere outward projection of a facade she feels the need to adopt, not just to be liked. But because she regards herself as being vacuous on the inside, lacking a true nature or identity. Though it should be noted, the fact she joined the Survey Corps was one of the few true expressions of her inner character. Despite her kind outer expressions to other, she is often determined, in a perhaps callous and calculated move to use the deaths of those around her as an excuse to pursue a death at the hands of the Titans. A poignant example of her overriding determination to die in circumstances she cannot be faulted, but in fact praised for, is in using the severe wounding of her fellow trainee, Daz, as a means by which to die in a fulsome attempt to save him and be remembered as having died "for the sake of others". Ymir challenges Historia on this, and openly shows that she actually has no intention of saving Daz's life in insisting to haul his body despite her physical size and constitution being unable to do so, whilst refusing to let Ymir help her, but instead hoping that Ymir would live, only to tell others of the tale of her heroic but ultimately failed sacrifice to save the life of another.
After being abandoned by Ymir (who had left to aid the escape and survival of Reiner and Bertolt) she lost her jovial, and otherwise hopeful nature, instead regressing to a refrain of vapid disinterest to the world and events around her. She claimed that while the outward manifestation of Krista Lenz was a kind and deeply caring person (drawing from her belief that is how good girls should be), what she perceives to be her truest self is hopeless and devoid without Ymir acting as an anchor to identity.
Historia was born out of wedlock as an illegimiate and unrecognised daughter to Rod Reiss (who is later asserted to be of royalty) and a beautiful servant in his household, who later became his mistress. Historia was raised on an estate owned and administered by the Reiss household and was primarily overseen in her childhood by her maternal grandparents. Her mother chose to be deliberately distant to her, always reading by herself and never engaging Historia in any form of social interaction, nor participating with work around the estate. As a consequence of this, Historia was gravely neglected by all members of her family, as was shown to be a curt rejection and refusal of parental obligation on the part of her mother. Her grandparents interacted with her only to inform her of her obligations around the estate, and to instruct her on her chores. An important factor in her isolation in growing up was the treatment of her by the other children on the estate and the surrounding lands, who actively terrorised her if she tried to leave the farm or otherwise engage with them, throwing rocks and shouting other forms of abuse at her.
Growing up, she began to read widely, including books that depicted the typical relationship between a mother and her child, causing Historia to question her own relationship with her mother, and desiring to understand what it was like to have meaningful physical contact with her mother. This led to an attempt to hug her mother resulting in her being violently slapped away and causing her mother to openly lament that she did not have the bravery to kill Historia when she had been born. Though bruised and bloody, Historia felt happiness because it was the first time she had ever been spoken to by her mother. After this incident she would not see nor interact with her mother again for several years. During this interlude, she came to understand her position in the Reiss household, particularly that she was regarded by those around her as a curse and grave burden to her family; though she did not understand the reason for her treatment and rejection. The only consolation in her life on the estate were the animals being husbanded, providing her with a means of companionship.
However, she seemingly held one friend during her childhood; a Mysterious Woman that would visit her in secret (though the frequency of this is not shown). The woman taught Historia how to read, and further encouraged her personal development in the hopes of becoming a kind girl that everyone would love. She would chide Historia for not being more lady-like, but would become distressed when the girl spoke of her as an ideal role model of a proper Lady. It is not yet stated why, but Historia would forget many of these interactions and her existence, save for when the memories were subconsciously accessed during dreams.
Days after the fall of Wall Maria, Rod Reiss came to the estate with her mother to see Historia and to take her into the Reiss household properly; it is assumed that Historia would thus be recognized as a child and heir to the Reiss family. As they attempted to evacuate they were surrounded by unmarked soldiers of the Inner Brigade of the Military Police, who then confronted Rod Reiss over the identity of Historia and her mother. Rod Reiss in turn, denied any relation to them. One of the soldiers, Kenny Ackerman, restrained Historia's mother and killed her as she desperately attempted to deny being Historia's mother and her existence thereof. Her last testament before having her throat cut were to look at her daughter and coldly state that she wished she had never given birth to her. The soldiers then attempted to kill Historia as well, but Rod Reiss intercepted their efforts by offering an alternative arrangement: that if, she were to disappear from the Reiss household, assume a new name and identity before enlisting as a soldier, that would mean they would not need to kill her. The soldiers agreed with this, and Rod Reiss then gave her the new name of "Krista Lenz". [3]
104th Trainees Squad arcAfter the cataclysm of the Colossal Titan breaching Wall Maria, Historia lived in a refugee camp before reaching the minimum age requirement to enable her to enlist as a trainee. Upon her subsequent training and graduation she had been ranked as 10th of the 104th; a rank below Sasha Blouse (this was later asserted by Historia to have been given the tenth position by Ymir).[citation needed]
In the year 848, two years before graduation, Historia accompanies the other trainees on a wilderness hunt to sustain themselves in times of peace. Along with the other trainees, Historia is pulled into an equipment heist by thieves in the forest and is kidnapped, held as a hostage so the trainees don't retaliate. The ones left behind create a plan to try and rescue her, and after some trouble and the eventual capture of the thieves, Historia is safely returned and the thieves arrested.[4]
Battle of Trost District arcFollowing her inauguration into the military, Historia wasn't seen to be partaking in the battle of Trost until attempting to help Armin overcome the distress of him believing himself to have lost his friends to the Titans.[5] She would then play a role in helping a Mikasa lead expedition with the other trainees retake control the supply room, enabling the trainees to affect a resupply which had until then, been preventing their withdrawal from Trost. This was while the Rogue Titan enaged other Titans in combat, distracting them from the expedition.
The Female Titan arcAs ordered, in the aftermath of the battle of Trost, she reported her Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear to the Military Police for inspection as a part of the investigation over the deaths two captured Titans, presumed to be have been killed by a soldier using Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear. [6] Despite her fears in facing the Titans in combat again she volunteered to became a member of the Scouting Legion, something she would later say was a decision made by her innermost self that she herself didn't understand the reasons behind it. During her first expedition out of the walls she saved Reiner, Armin, and Jean after they have become partially stranded in combat against the Female Titan by supplying them wih a horse allowing all of them to proceed on horseback.
She was then seen to be holding her position on the tree line (as per orders) baiting the Titans and preventing them from entering the forest while the Survey Corps attempted to capture the Female Titan.
Clash of the Titans arc
Historia was later shown to be part of the group that is being suspected for being comrades of Annie, when the Beast Titan suddenly attacked with the other Titans.[7]
When Pastor Nick revealed to the members of the Survey Corps that Historia may know about the Walls having Titans inside them because of her family, and that she went under an assumed name after being caught in the middle of her relatives' dispute. It wasn't long until Eren and the others realized that she was often around Ymir.[8]
When she remembers being with Ymir when they were helping Daz in her hometown. She was confronted for living under an assumed name after being caught in the middle of a serious dispute between her families and relatives. Before transforming into a Titan to fight the other Titans attacking them, Ymir made Historia promise her to go back into living under her real name.[9]
After Historia and the rest of the trainees watch Ymir fighting against the group of Titans nearly falling off the tower when Ymir transformed, to which Reiner questioned her if she knew about it but tells she didn't know herself despite being so close to her and refuses to believe it at first. When the Trainees question whose side Ymir is on, Krista remembers some events of her and along with the other watching Ymir's attempt to fight the other Titans and came to the conclusion that she is fighting to protect everyone. She begins to cheer for Ymir telling her not to die and to break down the tower and celebrates when Ymir does so. She, along with the others, ride on her back and land on the ground safely, except for Ymir who is eaten by the Titans. As Historia tries to make her way to Ymir to fulfill her promise she is nearly grabbed by a Titan but is saved by Mikasa. As everyone watches in disbelief at Ymir's wounds and the truth, Historia reveals her true name. [10]
She reveals her true name as Historia Reiss to Hange Zoë and pleads with her to go easy on Ymir. While she knew what her friend did was wrong in hiding information that could have been useful to the Survey Corps, she understood she did it to protect her comrades. Hange tells Historia she understands Ymir being a Titan like Eren and being an ally of humanity, but the political and bureaucratic rules are not as simple as she thinks. She watches with horror as Reiner, in his Armored Titan form, grabs Eren while Bertolt snatches Ymir in his Colossal Titan form.[11]
During the battle, she is assigned to provide care for the wounded. She insists that Ymir is still alive, and begs the other soldiers to rescue her. Later, she joins the rescue mission against Armin's advice. The team eventually manages to catch up with Reiner and Bertolt, but are unaware that Ymir has been convinced to ally with them in exchange for Krista's safety. When Ymir appears in her Titan form, Krista rushes to greet her and is swiftly ensnared in Ymir's mouth, so the Titans can kidnap her.As the Titans flee from the military, Ymir finally spits her out and partially emerges from her Titan form so they can speak. Krista initially believes that Ymir is being forced to cooperate with the traitors, and begs to be released so that they can escape. However, Bertolt points out that Ymir is not being forced to work with them and demands to know if Ymir is going to change her mind again, abandoning Krista to save herself. At this point, Ymir breaks down and confesses to her that she intends to use Krista's status as the heir of the Reiss family and hopes to save herself from the traitors she served. Using Krista's true nature, Ymir begs her to please save her. In response, Krista smiles and states she will always be on Ymir's side.
When Mikasa arrives and attacks Ymir, Krista quickly steps forward to stop the fight. She pleads with her to spare Ymir, and refuses to back down even when Mikasa threatens her. It's only when Mikasa makes it clear she won't spare anyone who gets in her way, that Krista relents and talks Ymir out of fighting any further.
|I'll fight together with you! So release your hand! Even if you have your reasons and there are things you can't tell me! No matter what! I'm on your side!
|— Historia to Ymir [citation needed]
Erwin Smith uses a successful ploy to slow down the traitors' escape, leading a massive horde of Titans directly into the Armored Titan's path. While her former comrades retreat to safety, Krista chooses to stay with Ymir and quickly comes under attack by the mindless Titans. She is rescued by Ymir, and they quickly become separated from Reiner and Bertolt in the ensuing chaos. During the fierce battle, she rescues Ymir from a larger Titan and proudly declares it her first Titan kill. As she lands and prepares to check on her companion, Connie Springer arrives on the scene and snatches her up. Krista initially struggles with him, stating that she doesn't need to be saved and has chosen to side with the traitors. She tells him that unless she goes, Ymir will be killed by the Titan Shifters' people. However, Connie saw through Ymir's lies and asks her if this is exactly what Ymir told her and points out that Ymir only acts seriously in order to protect her. He further points out the dangerous situation they're in, suggesting they retreat to safety together with Ymir. This seems to hit on and calm Krista, and they are quickly joined by Ymir running alongside them in Titan form. It is then that they notice Titans being thrown into the path of the main force, blocking off their retreat. As chaos reigns around them, she uses her gear to jump onto Ymir's head and shouts at Connie to call her "Historia". She then confronts Ymir about what Connie had said to her, wondering if Ymir is still lying to her in order to protect her. With newfound resolve, she states that they should both live only for themselves from now on -- echoing Ymir's words to her before she leapt from Castle Utgard. With a smile, she declares that she will never fear anything as long as they can be together. With this, she charges into battle along with Ymir and Connie. In the aftermath of the battle, she rejoins the main forces in fleeing back to the Walls. But Ymir hesitates and stops upon hearing Bertolt's screams, watching as the traitors fight for their lives against the Titan horde. Historia is shocked when Ymir utters an apology to her, reaching out to gently caress her hair before leaving to help the other Shifters. While Connie leads her horse, a heartbroken Historia watches Ymir join the battle and is forced to leave her behind within the Titan-infested lands of Wall Maria.
The Uprising arc
Upon their arrival back at the Wall, she collapsed from exhaustion and was provided with water by Rico Brzenska. Once she regained her strength, she joined the others and insisted that they needed to return to the interior. In the two weeks that passed, she and Eren were sent into hiding with the new "Squad Levi" (consisting of the surviving members of the 104th Trainees Squad's most prominent members) as their guards. [12] On their first night in hiding, she shared with her squad the terrible events of her past. Afterwards, Eren noted that she had become withdrawn and rarely spoke to the others. Her faith in Ymir remained unshakable, as she assured Connie that the other woman's intentions in lying to him were good. She firmly stated that she understood the other woman, though clearly saddened by their separation. [13]While Levi and the others attempt to lure out the enemy, Historia is left behind with Eren in a safe location. While waiting, she falls asleep and has a dream about the mysterious woman she knew as a child. These memories fade once she wakes up, leaving her confused. She has an awkward conversation with Eren, discussing the differences between the "Kind" Krista Lenz and the "empty" Historia Reiss. She wonders if the others are disappointed by the real her, who is not as kind or sweet as the girl they knew. Eren surprises her by admitting he always found Krista "creepy", and reassures her that the real Historia is just a normal girl. [14]
After the Survey Corps tortured members of the government, they discovered that the Reiss family is the true royal family and that Historia has a chance to claim the throne. [15]
Official Guidebook
- Ymir - Their relationship is complex, but is very close, and Ymir has been stated to be in love with her[17][18]. She states that Ymir has "the worst personality ever", but was willing to abandon humanity if doing so would help Ymir. She states her intention to be at Ymir's side, and trusts her above all others. While Ymir challenges her unhealthy behaviors, she likewise challenges Ymir on her worst aspects.
- 104th Trainees Squad - Krista is admired by the rest of the trainees, and the most popular girl among them. Many of her male classmates have a crush on her due to her beauty and kindness, as demonstrated when she rescued Reiner Braun, Armin Arlert, and Jean Kirstein. Sasha Blouse also initially thought she was a goddess, and seems to have remained close to her during training.
- Mikasa Ackerman - Little is known how Mikasa feels about Krista. However, she does make it clear to her that she won't be afraid of killing anyone who dares to attack. Although neither girls are aware of it, they are very much alike; both have their own important person to them, act on that person's behalf, and are willing to go any length to ensure their important one's wellness and safety.
- Connie Springer - Krista is good friends with Connie, and he is the one to make her aware of the truth behind Ymir's actions. While they've had few interactions shown, it is clear she trusts him enough to take his word at face value.
- Eren Yeager - Krista had always envied Eren for the fact that he always knows his goals and can work toward them, however Eren had initially always disliked Krista, seeing her as a phony. When her true side was revealed as Historia, Eren respects the fact that now she is a "Stupidly honest and regular person." Krista now considers Eren as a very close friend, after hearing his words.[19]
- The official site reveals that the majority of her male classmates had a crush on her, referring to her as the "Goddess" of the 104th.
- In a Volume 11 sideart, Isayama portrayed Historia shifting into a Titan which depicted an angel.
- So far, she has been called a goddess twice in the story. The first time by Sasha in Episode 3/Chapter 15. Second time, in Episode 18/Chapter 24.
- Her name is based upon the song lyrics "The Unsung War" from the Videogame Ace Combat 5 which also serves as Inspiration for Isayama's Oneshot "Heartbreak One" he had written before Shingeki no Kyojin in which the female lead character strongly resembles Historia.[citation needed]
- Her birthday, January 15th, was celebrated in Japan as Coming Of Age Day between 1948 and 2000. It is now held on the second Monday of the month, but continues to celebrate the entry into adulthood by those turning 20.
- Her alias surname "Lenz" means "spring" in old German.
- At the Animagic 2014 series panel, producer George Wada confirmed that Ymir and Historia are "indeed a couple".
- ↑ Shingeki no Kyojin Guidebook: OUTSIDE
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 54
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 52
- ↑ Attack on Titan Anime: OVA 2
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 6.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 21.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 35.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 37.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 40.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 41.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 42.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 51
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 52
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 54
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 55
- ↑ Attack on Titan Guidebook: INSIDE
- ↑ Characters. Attack on Titan official manga site.
- ↑ Ymir. Attack on Titan official anime site.
- ↑ Attack on Titan Manga: Chapter 54
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ#Etymology_and_origins
|v - e - t
|104th Trainees Squad
|v - e - t
|Survey Corps
|Erwin Smith
|Levi Ackerman
|Squad Leaders
|Hange Zoë · Mike Zacharius
|Team Leaders
|Dita Ness · Darius Baer-Varbrun
|Special Operations Squad
| Eld Jinn · Petra Ral · Oluo Bozado · Gunther Schultz
Eren Yeager · Historia Reiss · Mikasa Ackerman · Armin Arlert · Jean Kirstein · Connie Springer · Sasha Blouse
|Squad Members
|Braun · Dieter · Gelgar · Henning · Ilse Langnar · Jurgen · Keiji · Lauda · Luke Siss · Lynne · Moblit Berner · Nanaba · Nifa · Pere · Thomas
|Former Members
|Bertolt Hoover · Keith Shadis · Reiner Braun · Ymir
|Before the Fall members
|Carlo Pikale · Sorum Humé · Kuklo


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...Ring the bells that still can ring.
An Interview with Leonard Cohen
by Richard Guilliatt
At times his life has been as dark as his songs. Now Leonard Cohen the poet of the 60's angst is back and almost happy.
Night in Los Angeles, and the city is on fire, its outskirts put to the torch by anonymous pyromaniacs. After the riots and the floods, the entire city seems unnerved by this latest visitation of disaster. Yet here is Leonard Cohen - the poet laureate of pessimism, the world heavyweight champion of existential despair - getting cheerfully drunk in a Chinese Restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard.
"All life agrees with me," says Cohen, exuding the woozy bonhomie of a man being caressed by the effects of three strong bloody Marys. "I have no complaints." Having just that afternoon finished mixing a live recording, Cohen had brought us here an hour ago with the stated intention of eating a brief dinner before continuing on to his nearby apartment to conduct an interview. But the vodka is flowing and Cohen's train of thought is getting so expansive that it frequently disappears over the horizon.
"Who are you anyway?" he inquires jovially. "Why did you come here? You haven't had enough to drink, I can see that."
Considering that Cohen's poems, novels and songs constitute a 40-year exploration of life's murkiest emotional depths, this display of cheerfulness would seem grossly out of character, not to mention bad for his image. But the truth is Leonard Cohen's career is going so well these days that even Leonard Cohen couldn't complain. His last two albums, I'm Your Man and The Future, re-established him as the most literate songwriter in popular music, his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers has just been re-issued in paperback, and his best writings are now preserved between the covers of Stranger Music, a 400-page collection just published by Cape.
In the process of being rediscovered, Cohen has also undergone yet another of his periodic image transformations. In the 1950s he was a literary Young Lion in Canada, in the 1960s he was a folksinger, and in the 1970s he crafted a series of albums so irredeemably bleak that by the 1980s he didn't have much of a career left. Now, as he approaches 60, he finds himself cast as some venerable philosopher of the heart, a wordsmith whose perennial obsessions - sex, death and spiritual yearning - are once again tuned in to the zeitgeist.
"You know," he says with droll gravity, "It really is very, very nice to be resurrected in one's autumnal years." The role of world-weary Don Juan is one that Cohen, a never-married romantic with a worldwide coterie of female admirers, is clearly not averse to playing. With his double-breasted grey suit, black crew neck sweater, close cropped grey hair and prescription aviator shades, he looks like some ageing gangster sitting here on a pink leather banquette at the back of the deserted restaurant. The effect is capped off by his dolorous baritone voice, which is perfectly modulated for his deadpan bons mots.
Earlier, on the drive over to the restaurant, Cohen had pulled up at a red light and studied the face of a young brunette woman talking on a cellular telephone in a dark Mercedes next to us. "I should get that girl's number," he murmured, fishing around in his suit pocket to produce his own cellular phone as if preparing to try out an in-transit seduction routine. As the Mercedes sped off, he watched its tail lights recede and sighed.
Cohen's cellular telephone was actually a gift from Rebecca De Mornay, the 31-year-old actress who has been his companion for the past five years and who lives just a few miles north of him in Hollywood. The Future was dedicated to De Mornay with a biblical inscription and she also helped him compile Stranger Music. But tonight she is in Atlanta making a movie, and Cohen is being strangely noncommittal about their relationship, claiming at regular intervals to be looking for a companion for the night, but in the next breath describing De Mornay as "the light of my life".
Has their relationship ended? "Oh, I wouldn't say that," Cohen demurs. "I certainly wouldn't say that to you." He feigns elaborate interest in his wristwatch and his drink, then adds: "Leave Rebecca out of it, okay? Rebecca is a dear, dear creature and I don't want to bring her into this drunken talk."
It's the kind of enigmatic routine Cohen has perfected over the years. As far back as 1968 he shocked Canada's literary establishment by refusing to accept the country's most prestigious literary award, telexing an archly-worded statement which read simply: "No, the poems themselves forbid it absolutely." By then his public persona has already taken shape; the coolly self-mocking bard swathed in a dark suit and a veil of irony.
Cohen is equally hard to pigeonhole today. Although he gets up in the pre-dawn hours every day to meditate at a Buddhist temple near his home, he claims not to be a Buddhist and describes the temple priest as his "drinking partner". He has been signed to the same record company for 27 years, yet jokes constantly about its consistent failure to promote his records. He eschews religion, yet his work is shot through with biblical imagery.
Despite his contradictions, evasions and occasional lapses into Leonard Cohen Schtick, it's impossible not to be charmed by the man. His gracious, old-world manners are genuine and there is nothing frivolous about his work, which strives to lay bare what Cohen once described as "the life of the heart".
"I've always been struggling with the sense that it's pretty tricky to negotiate the day and the night," he says. "The calling in my life has been to struggle with that predicament. But," he adds with a lubrugious smile, "I've had a couple good laughs now and then, too."
As Cohen's career has wandered from poetry to prose to the pop charts, he has sometimes struggled to find both the audience and the musical format that could support the heavy burdens of his intentions. For much of the 1970s he found himself pigeonholed as a one-note depressive, a reputation not helped by his frequent and sometimes public disintegrations. But he came back swinging in 1988 with I'm Your Man, an album which modernised his sound and highlighted the scabrous humour that is often overlooked in his work. Since then he has been on a roll, staging arresting performances and releasing a strong 1992 album, The Future, on which he shifted his gaze to the social calamities shaking Europe and the US.
Cohen's "modest enterprise" can now support a full time staff of three which administers his publishing and other affairs while he divides his time between two modest apartments, one in his home town of Montreal and the other in Los Angeles. The Future is approaching sales of one million copies, and Cohen appears to have found an audience that crosses all generational lines. He was particularly gratified by the 1991 album I'm Your Fan, on which a bevy of twentysomething alternative rock bands paid tribute by recording a collection of his songs.
"I've always felt a kinship", says Cohen. "I felt it to the Beats, to the beatniks, to the hipsters, to the hippies. I've always been able to make connections."
Indeed, when Cohen signed to Columbia Records in 1967 he had already spent a decade in the literary limelight of his native Canada. Born into an affluent family in Montreal in 1934, he published his first chapbook of poems at the age of 22 while studying at McGill University, and by 1963 he was living an archetypal bohemian existence amid a cadre of writers on the Greek island of Hydra. He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel called The Favourite Game, and followed that in 1966 with Beautiful Losers. Cohen was heavily influenced by the feverish romanticism of the Spanish poet Gabriel Federico Lorca, and by the beats. Beautiful Losers was an ambitious book that leapt from long stretches of bisexual carnality to historical ruminations on the fate of the Canadian Indians to hilarious parodies of experimental writing.
Asked about his literary influences at the time, Cohen smiles. "Well, there was a lot of amphetamine around," he responds. These days Cohen prefers the more controlled comfort of a few drinks. "I think it's impossible to get through this veil of tears entirely sober," he says. "I'm more like Baudelaire: let me be drunk with wine, with women, with poetry - whatever the thing is."
Although Beautiful Losers was widely hailed by the US critics, Cohen was barely eking out a living, and in 1966 he moved to New York to check out the city's exploding folk scene. He had been writing songs and busking since he was a teenager, and when the singer Judy Collins recorded his song "Suzanne", he was signed to Columbia as a recording artist. The move shocked Cohen's peers back in Montreal, and when Songs Of Leonard Cohen was released in 1967 some of New York's rock critics were not exactly flattering either. "I'm cold as a new razor blade," sang Cohen on "So Long, Marianne," his elegiac farewell to the first great love of his life. It wasn't really a welcome sentiment in the Summer of Love, and the violins and icy backing singers owed more to European art songs than American pop. In retrospect, Cohen sounds almost exuberant compared to the gravely dirges that would soon follow, but not for the first time he found himself accused of being the worst singer in the known universe.
Living in a room at the Chelsea Hotel, Cohen was enjoying most of the pleasures that bohemian New York offered in 1967, although as a performer he was prone to fleeing the stage in panic. "There was a lot of money involved," he recalls, "there was a career, there were prizes, there were rewards. The kind of life I had led in Montreal, there were no prizes, no rewards - you mimeographed your poems and circulated them among your friends. There was nothing at stake. But yeah, when there was big money and beautiful girls and heavy competition and vicious critics - New York City, in other words - of course I got nervous. Even now I drink heavily on tour."
Cohen's first big performance was an anti-war rally in New York, and by 1968 the New York Times was hailing him as "a major spokesman" of his generation. In reality, he was 10 years older than most of his musical peers and felt ill at ease with the anti-American rhetoric he heard. Cohen's mother had fled Russia as a teenager and her stories about communism had eradicated whatever nascent Leftist ideas young Leonard ever harboured. Hence, he remained resolutely self-absorbed even as the music around him became increasingly politicised. His albums appeared every couple of years - Songs From A Room, Songs Of Love And Hate, New Skin For The Old Ceremony - chipping away at familiar themes of loss and yearning and receiving generally laudatory reviews. He moved to a 1500-acre ranch in Kentucky for a couple of years, fulfilling a long-held desire to get close to the country music he had loved since childhood. He began attending a Buddhist temple in 1970 and started a long-term relationship with Suzanne Elrod, with whom he had a son, Adam, in 1973 and a daughter, Lorca, a year later.
None of these events did anything to lighten the lyrical melancholy of Cohen's music, or broaden its musical palette. His depressions were periodic and he once broke down on stage in Israel. He was so dissatisfied with the sound of his records that he attempted a collaboration with the legendary pop producer Phil Spector in 1976, but Spector was in the midst of cocaine-induced dementia and Cohen had just broken up with Elrod. The resulting album, Death Of A Ladies' Man, was a disaster which Cohen concedes was his weakest moment. By 1983 his career had reached such a commercial nadir that Columbia refused to release the album Various Positions in the US. Despite a loyal audience, Cohen recognised that his career had reached a critical juncture.
"I was broke, I had a lot of responsibilities, and my so-called career had just about evaporated," he recalls. "I bought my first synthesiser and I started working in a way that I had never worked before. I had always worked hard, but I really threw myself into this. The work was very intense, very clear. I had to turn it around, I mean, I had a real financial crisis, for one thing. That really lit a fire under my ass and I got serious again. I had sort of lost interest in the whole enterprise."
I'm Your Man, his 1988 comeback record, opens with Cohen growling like a grizzled old prizefighter over a propulsive beat of electronic keyboards. The album climaxed with "Tower Of Song," perhaps the funniest dirge ever written on the subject of artistic angst: "I said to Hank Williams, 'How lonely does it get?' / Hank Williams hasn't answered yet / but I hear him coughing all night long / a hundred floors above me in the tower of song..."
"I don't know why, but something happened to me 10 years ago," muses Cohen. "When things got really desperate, I started to cheer up."
It would be stretching things to say Cohen has become whimsical in his advancing years. His love songs still have titles like "Ain't No Cure For Love" and the passion in them is still a poignant quest for some brief escape. Desire and disgust, the sacred and the sacrilegious all collide between the sheets in his songs: one wonders whether he believes faithfulness is even possible between men and women.
"If you're in the midst of a relationship, you should honour the terms of the relationship," he responds. "I've always believed that. I've never been able to follow it, but I've always believed it... Monogamous marriage and commitment, all those ferocious ideas, are the very highest expression of a male possibility." He pauses a beat. "I'm not good enough for that. It's a great idea, though."
By 9 p.m. the restaurant is still deserted and Cohen is munching on a fortune cookie. "I'm feeling lonely tonight," he says with mock melodrama. "I don't know who to call. It's going to be a long night and my nights don't last that long because I have to get up at 3:30."
What will happen at 3:30 is that Cohen will rise from his bed and drive into South-Central, the poor black neighbourhood south of his home, to meditate for several hours at a Buddhist temple. While it might seem characteristically weird of Cohen to pick one of the most violent neighbourhoods in America as his place of spiritual contemplation, the Zen monk who opened the temple 20 years ago chose the location because of its cheap rent. Cohen has been going there ever since and bought his apartment because of its proximity to the temple, which he visits every day. Zen meditation is usually perceived as a path to blissful equanimity, but Cohen takes a more idiosyncratic view. "It's usually misery that drives you there," he says. "I mean, who really wants to get up at 3:30 in the morning, as I am going to do tomorrow morning, and drive down into a dangerous neighbourhood, cross your legs in a very unnatural way and sit motionless for a couple of hours? I don't think happiness is the motivation for this kind of activity. It's just the opposite. It's confusion and suffering that leads you to these kind of stern measures."
It's the temple that keeps Cohen in his current apartment, against the advice of friends who were spooked by last years riots. Driving home after dinner, he points to some of the destruction in his local neighbourhood - a Tandy store that was levelled, an incinerated gas station. The riots confirmed a certain apocalyptic view he has long harboured, and which became explicit on his recent album The Future. It's two central songs, "The Future" and "Democracy," depict the political turmoil of Europe and the US as flip sides of the same coin, the agonies of societies trying to transform themselves or perish. "We're going to have the same kind of revolution here," he says, "and it's just a matter of who's going to run it, whether it's going to be democrats with a compassionate position or people with a chip on their shoulder about race." Unlike many Canadians, Cohen is a passionate defender of the American ideal, but the solutions he sees to the country's present problems are surprisingly authoritarian - more police on the streets, the censoring of violent television, the application of force.
"At certain times of crisis, like in every other society, extraordinary and emergency measures have to be invoked... The fact is that the predators - on all levels, whether it's Wall Street or the streets - are about to take over," he says darkly. "And they're laughing at our laws."
We arrive at his LA pad, a duplex on a quiet tree-lined street in an unfashionable, predominantly black neighbourhood. Cohen lives on the top floor, a fastidiously neat five-room apartment with polished wood floors and a spartan ambience that denotes a life devoid of unnecessary luxuries. The walls are white, the furniture wooden; there are a few rugs, a few books, a small wall unit containing a ghetto blaster and some CD's and tapes. Instead of the framed awards and album sleeves that usually dot a performer's walls, there is a photo of Cohen with Roshi, his Zen monk. Apparently these few touches are an improvement on the more austere periods of Cohen's life, when he has lived with little more than a desk and a bed.
"Poke around, make yourself at home," he offers, ushering me into his study. The room looks like any office - a couple of high backed grey caster-wheel chairs facing a large wooden desk, on top of which are a fax machine, a Macintosh computer and a printer. The one thing that denotes Cohen's profession is the black Technics synthesizer which occupies the centre of the desk like an oblong spaceship. Nearby is a glass-doored stained cabinet that contains Cohen's notebooks and sketches. It's a disarmingly modest set-up, the kind of place one would expect to find a struggling writer with a day job toiling in obscurity. Cohen's earlier description of his modus operandi suddenly seemed very apt: "I'm always scratching away, y'know, I'm always working. I'm a very hard-working fellow. But I don't have any luxury in the matter, I don't have any choice. There's no virtue involved. Unless I keep working at it diligently, I tend to begin suffering very acutely."
Sitting cross-legged on the floor in his grey suit, Cohen is now leafing through a notebook filled with his scribblings, reciting lines from a new song he has half written. The notebooks are filled with pencil sketches and computer-graphic renderings of a voluptuous black woman who visits regularly to pose nude for him. He holds aloft one sketch, a back view of her naked in the bath. "Beautiful ass," he murmurs appreciatively.
Cohen's life suddenly seems like it would have its salutary moments. When the telephone rings, he lifts his head expectantly. "I wonder," he intones gravely, "if that's someone who wants to spend the night with me?"
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Alain Prost won't criticise this year's Pirelli tyres, adamant they are playing a role in spicing up the show.
While in seasons past Formula One has been criticised for being too predictable, this year it's the exact opposite.
With some drivers opting for four stops in Spain and others three, it meant it wasn't until the very end that fans were assured of a Fernando Alonso victory.
This resulted in massive complaints about the rubber, prompting Pirelli to announce that they will modify the tyres ahead of next month's Canadian GP.
Prost, though, sees little reason to do so.
"In the past, and very recently, F1 was very much criticised for its lack of a show," said the four-time World Champion.
"So we should feel very lucky we have the kind of races we do these days, with the result not known until late.
"Looking ahead to next year, when we have the new engine coming, we will maybe talk a little more about that with the technology much closer to the product of the automotive industry.
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Rabbitte Protests Over Education Grants
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In 1972 Pat Rabbitte addresses crowds of student protesters at Leinster House.
- Title Pat Rabbitte Protests Over Student Grants
- 1st Broadcast 27/10/1972
- Clip Duration 00:01:53
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- Series title RTÉ News
- Clip title Rabbitte Protests Over Education Grants
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A 23 year old Pat Rabbitte in the position as President of the National Union of Students in Ireland (USI). Rabbitte held this position between 1972 and 1974 having previously served as the President of the UCG (University College Galway) Students' Union.
During a student protest over the low level of higher education grants, Pat Rabbitte addresses students at Leinster House. The demonstration brings traffic in Dublin city centre to a standstill. Similar protests are held in Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford and Galway in favour of extending student grants to colleges of technology.
Pat Rabbitte went on to become an official in the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU). In 1989 Rabbitte was elected to Dáil Éireann as a TD for the Workers' Party and has kept his seat at every election since as a Workers' Party TD, then a Democratic Left TD and now as a Labour TD. Since 2011 he has held the position as Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, as part of the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government.
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A RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 October, 1972 featuring a twenty three year old Pat Rabbitte.
- Local keywords Pat Rabbitte, Protests, Education, Grants, Fame, Leinster House
- Geographical coverage Ireland, Dublin
- Topic Arts and Culture
- First broadcast channel RTÉ One
- Production year 1972
- Country of production Ireland
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COLUMBUS--Gewas Schindler scored three goals and assisted on three more, and goalie Ken Montour made 49 saves, to lead the Columbus Landsharks to their third straight win, 19-15 over the Washington Power Sunday at Nationwide Arena.
The Landsharks put the game away with a four-goal run at the top of the fourth quarter. Neal Powless scored his only two goals of the game at 1:47 and 4:16, Kasey Beirnes added a power play tally at 4:16, and Brent Rothfuss capped the barrage at 8:39, leaving the Landsharks with a 16-11 advantage.
Steve Gloeckner put Columbus on the board 41 seconds after the opening faceoff. Matt Shearer and Paul Gait responded to give the Power their only lead of the game, 2-1 at the 2:08 mark.
Gait scored twice more in the closing minutes of the second stanza to tie the halftime score at 10-10, but Bill Greer put the Landsharks back on top with a shorthanded goal at 4:03 of the third. Kyle Arbuckle padded the lead with a power play goal at the 10:01 mark. Gary Gait pulled the Power within one (12-11) at the intermission, before Columbus put the game away.
Arbuckle finished with four goals, Beirnes had two goals and an assist, and Powless and Cory Kahoun each contributed two goals and two assists for the Landsharks.
Paul Gait paced Washington with four goals. Del Halladay and Gary Gait each recorded hat tricks, and Halladay racked up three assists.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Beach teenager faces life in prison for fatally shooting another teen to silence him on a botched robbery plot.
Jabril Jamal Holliday was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the June 2011 slaying of Kody Scruton, a 17-year-old from Norfolk.
The Virginian-Pilot (http://bit.ly/11Ew2AV ) reports that trial testimony and evidence revealed that the then 15-year-old Holliday killed Scruton because he refused to participate in the failed robbery attempt. He feared he'd tell police.
Holliday is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 17.
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The Game of the Year Edition of critically-acclaimed superhero sequel Batman: Arkham City is now available for purchase in the U.K., Warner Bros has announced.
Those of you who have yet to pick up the Caped Crusader's latest adventure really have no excuse not to grab this, as it not only includes a copy of the game itself, but all existing post-launch content plus Harley Quinn's Revenge.
To be more specific, you'll get Arkham City, plus the Catwoman Pack, Nightwing Bundle Pack, Robin Bundle Pack, Challenge Map Pack and Arkham City Skins Pack.
Harley Quinn's Revenge adds over two hours of extra gameplay to an already meaty adventure, giving you plenty to do after you've cleared the main campaign.
Still not convinced it's worth your money? Check out our review of Arkham City here to see what you're missing out on.


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Caption: The researchers used gene expression patterns to try to predict the time of death for each person in the study (inner circles), and then compared it with the actual time of death (outer circles). The two matched closely in healthy people, as shown by the short lines between the two points in the left diagram. But in depressed people, the two were out of sync, as seen at right.
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So, much less "romantic" than yesterday's confessional, are my top, I guess you could say, "logistical" goals.
So, reason #2 I am attending Blogher'12:
To learn all I can about blogging and writing, while making awesome connections with other bloggers.
Here are the TOP TEN things I hope to get out of Blogher'12 (in no way is this exhaustive.) The list that I plan to carry with me, just so I remember, as a newbie being pulled in a million directions, like a kid in a candy store, why I'm here.
10) To attend and learn more about my Big Hairy Audacious Goal of creating a book pitch out of my blog. This has been my goal from the start. Show up, listen and ask questions and learn from some great blog to book authors (Kathy Cano-Murillo and Stefanie Wilder-Taylor) at Pathfinder Day on Thursday before the conference starts. This, hopefully, sets my tone for the whole weekend.
9) And then remember #10 the whole weekend. Ask myself, "What is my niche identity?" and try to keep that in check.
8) Geek it out. Learn how in the world to navigate WordPress! I know so little. It's amazing I even managed to publish this blog post.
7) Learn how to utilize Twitter, Facebook, Google + and probably other things I don't even know about. In a nutshell – what are "best practices" for social media & personal branding while keeping in the loop, without sacrificing your soul over to the social media Gods that be.
7) Vlogging. Period. All ears, know pretty much nothing, scares me pretty much completely.
6) Learn how to drive comments and create an interactive community.
5) Traffic – how to gain more audience specific traffic, how to engage and keep followers and how to analyze and act on google analytics information
4) Photography. Slowly creeping in as a love and hope to learn more about integrating into my blog. Specifically, a good "starter" camera, basic editing skills and best practices for uploading and sharing on blog.
3) Blog networking and best practices for organizing interaction with other bloggers
2) Personal Organization/ Daily,Weekly,Monthly Calendar and goal setting for blog — setting The Plan (also known as an action plan, post conference)
1) The #1 reason I am going is to CONNECT. To see and talk and probably hug other woman (and I don't forget, some men) that are in this boat – whether they started rowing years ago or days ago. Part of my blog mission statement is to connect…and in true form, I can't wait to see what those connections bring to the table … I'm sure things I could never dream up or put on at top 10 list. This, to me, is the truest art of learning…connecting to others.
See you tomorrow for my final reason… Hint, it may have to do with some good old fashioned "me time."


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Augusta did not disappoint again as Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera's play-off battle was as epic as anything seen in the first major of the season, which was jam-packed with talking points from start to finish.
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In the final analysis, all that really matters is that The Masters came to life on the final hole, with Scott and Cabrera both finding a birdie on their 72nd holes to force a play-off, before the Australian just edged it on the second play-off hole.
But even as Scott was slipping on his Green Jacket, the questions that have arisen from the first major of 2013 range from making history, to the appliance of the rules - the very foundation on which golf is proudly built.
So let's look at the major talking points from the 2013 Masters.
Aussie rules
Australia had never had a Masters winner, Greg Norman famously came agonisingly close but the Green Jacket had never been Down Under. This was to be their year though and the Aussies launched the three-pronged attack on the title with Jason Day and Marc Leishman also finishing in the top four and any one of them or Scott could have taken it in the end.
Leishman was a surprise early leader, but he did not just fade into the background as expected, while Day stood on the 16th tee with a two-shot lead before Scott advanced and Day lost focus with back-to-back bogeys. The win was not only a good personal triumph for Scott but, with his two compatriots, three Aussies in the top four it also bodes well for Australian golf.
On the personal front, it seems as though golf is one of those sports where losing may not altogether be a bad thing, it's how you lose that counts. Scott blew a four-shot lead in the Open at Lytham last year, but he took it brilliantly doing every interview with poise and grace after his collapse.
Similar to Rory McIlroy at The Masters, Scott seems to have grown immensely from that experience, and even when his hopes were dashed by Cabrera first time, he showed a barrel load of guts to dig out the win in the play-off. The Augusta fans also seemed to be very much behind him, having been in and around the major hunt for the last few years and after Lytham, the golfing world likes a story of redemption and they certainly got one in Adam Scott.
Rules are rules
I'm glad the Masters had a show-stopping finish to avoid the post-event coverage being totally swamped with Tiger Woods and Rule 33 - possibly now the most famous rule in golf. Tiger should have known the rule on that ill-fated drop, that's the first thing that needs to be said, but so should have his caddie and the accompanying rules official.
Woods obviously did not know he had done wrong, neither did Masters officials who cleared the incident on first viewing and only later found a breach after Woods himself spoke out in his post-round interview. Common sense prevailed, in my opinion, but it's also probably a good thing he did not go on to win another Masters.
In the end the two-shot penalty may well have cost Woods his chance - justice some might say for him not being disqualified from the event - either way it was bad for golf all round.
Long putters
If there was one negative for Scott's fantastic victory, it was that it created a 'Long Putter Slam' with the Masters the last of golf's big events to be won by a player wielding a long putter. It also means that three of the four current major titles are in the hands of players who wield a long putter.
This is yet again going to stir the pot on the impending ban on anchored putting strokes and this sadly is just not going to go away with still a split in thinking between the European and PGA Tours on the matter. The rule makers on both sides of the Atlantic were probably the only ones hoping Scott would miss that final putt on the 10th.
Guan week
What a week for Chinese teenager Tianlang Guan! While most 14-year-olds would struggle to keep concentration enough to play four rounds of Tiger Woods on their computers, this young man made the cut, dealt with a one-shot penalty and still managed to not finish last.
The manner in which he took his harsh penalty for slow play, when a vast portion of the field took over five hours to get round, was immensely impressive, as was the way he approached Tiger Woods to play a practice round - and remembering to bring along his school homework to do during the week!
Euro moan
It may just be nothing, but it also may be a concern that none of Europe's big guns could really get involved in the Masters shake-up on the final day, despite some decent displays here and there, including a first-round 66 from Sergio Garcia.
Lee Westwood finished six shots back with Garcia but could not get into the mix, while Rose, McIlroy and Donald all finished well down the field - as debutant Thorbjorn Olesen finished as top European after a fine final round - he's one definitely worth watching for the future.
Should Tiger Woods have been disqualified from the Masters?


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Brennan officially announces candidacy for Herkimer Family Court Judge
ILION, N.Y. (WKTV) - The Republican endorsed candidate for Herkimer County Family Court Judge has officially announced his campaign for the job.
John Brennan officially announced his bid for Family Court judge at Francesca's Banquet Facility in Ilion on Wednesday. Brennan, a Little Falls resident, has already received the endorsement of the Herkimer County Republican Committee and said his more than 20 years of experience serving local supreme court judges as a law clerk and legal assistant makes him more than suitable for the job.
"If you look at the court system as a hospital, family court is an emergency room," Brennan said. "And you need someone innovative, with the energy and the experience to tend to these families in crisis."
It is the first time in more than 20 years that the Family Court judge race has been contested after the seat becomes vacated by retiring Judge Henry Laraia. Laraia has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
"There's nothing bigger than family," Brennan said. "And it is the most important unit and institution that we have in this country. Though, having worked in my community, involved in my community, I'm prepared to understand the needs of my community. And that's why I think this job is the single most important job in the county of Herkimer."
Also running for the position are Democrat Mary Iocovozzi and Steven Getman, who is also looking for the Republican nomination in the primary.
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Bally Technologies' President And Chief Operating Officer Ramesh Srinivasan (Photo: Business Wire)
Bally Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, interactive applications, and networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry, today announced the implementation of its sophisticated systems solutions at three Peermont Global Pty. Ltd. casinos in Botswana.
Bally Technologies' President and Chief Operating Officer Ramesh Srinivasan (Photo: Business Wire)
The three systems implementations at Peermont's The Grand Palm, Sedibeng, and Syringa casinos in Botswana follow Bally's previously announced enterprise-wide systems contract partnership with the Peermont Group to replace competitors' systems at 10 casinos in Botswana and South Africa.
"We are excited with the journey we are about to embark on with Bally systems solutions and the many new benefits they will provide our operations," said Peermont's Billy Gray, Group Gaming Slots Executive. "The new functionality will not only provide significant operating efficiencies, but will give us better and more ways to reward, retain, and communicate with our customers."
Gray added, "It is refreshing to see a better customer-service experience in our operations, and we're very excited to continue to leverage this platform to gain differentiated advantages from our competitors. The installation process in Botswana went well, and Bally and Peermont are working smartly together to ensure a seamless roll-out in the South African casinos in the months to follow."The Botswana systems installations are Bally's first in the southern African region and provide the sophisticated casino operator with Bally's first-ever powerful combination of cashless and cage functionality in the region that is delivering significant cost savings and operating efficiencies. Peermont is also the first casino in southern Africa to use Bally's TableView™ real-time table-management solution to automate the rating process, track table-game play, and reward table-game players. The use of Bally's next-generation solutions provides Peermont's operations with the ability to do slot-based progressives across all game manufacturers and provide players at Peermont's Botswana operations with such features as auto top-up play, which was not previously available across all game manufacturers.
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Such cute stuff. As the title implies it's Zoo related items. Avery received a Doinkie The Pig hooded towel and a Safari Dinner Set. I LOVE her towel. It's plenty big for her toddler body now that she's outgrown the baby towels (like 2 years ago) and She loves the cute little piggy on their. We also love the dinner set. Although we haven't used the sippy cup because she doesn't really use them anymore, the plate, bowl and utensils have all gotten plenty use.
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It has little pockets for hands to hold onto so they stay warm inside the towel
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Avery all bundled up!
It's very warm and cuddly and I love seeing her little face under a piggy's face. So adorable. She loves this towel and wears it even not after a bath. She's been demanding more baths so she can use this towel lately. Silly girl!
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So many cute things. I LOVE this Rug
Price: The towels are $30. They have 9 designs to choose from. Avery is in love with elephants and I'm sure that would be her first choice! The Dinner Sets are $23. I think they are a little overpriced.
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An ETF For China's Smartphone Market
The thinly traded Global X China Technology ETF (CHIB) is not a spectacular pick for investors, given the lack of interest in its shares, but its portfolio has solid exposure to companies that will cash in on smartphones running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system and benefitting from a more accessible Internet.
CHIB launched roughly the same time as Claymore/AlphaShares China Technology (CQQQ). While I continue to favor CQQQ as a pure technology ETF, CHIB's large telecom exposure, previously a handicap, is now a strength thanks to the emerging smartphone market.
China announced a telecom restructuring in 2008, which shook up the industry and created a third wireless competitor to China Unicom (CHU) and China Mobile (CHL). The industry was hammered by the associated costs of restructuring and new regulations, and the stock prices of the companies involved declined.
Overall, this episode highlighted risks inherent of investing in state-owned enterprises (SOE); such risk is one reason why I have consistently favored Claymore/AlphaShares China Small Cap (HAO) over iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 (FXI). The government can step in at any time and change the rules on an industry, something that has hit the other sectors before. However, with SOEs, the government can also change the management and the company's assets and business lines.Assuming investors opt for HAO over FXI to satiate their China exposure needs, the former is notably low on telecom exposure. Additionally, although HAO maintains some technology exposure at 12% of assets, I feel that a Chinese ETF should cover this fast-growing sector to a greater degree. With telecom restructuring in the rearview mirror, investors can focus on the future: smartphones. Here's what's developing in the China smartphone market. Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek, a top 10 holding in iShares MSCI Taiwan (EWT), is targeting the low end of the consumer market in China with a new Android chipset. Whereas iPhone 4 will cost a Chinese consumer more than $1,000 dollars (The minimum wage in Shanghai, China's richest city, comes to about $2,000 per year), the Mediatek chips will be in phones that cost one-tenth that amount, yet carry nearly all the same functions and applications. Android is an open-source operating system, and China Mobile has worked on making the Android operating system more hospitable to China's market, dubbing the operating system OPhone. Lenovo is already selling a device called the OPhone in China and Motorola (MOT) has also launched a phone using this software.
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We could easily spend a day at this Sutton Place triple threat, which features a high-end boutique, full-service spa and café over two expansive floors. The fun starts downstairs at the ritzy spa, which offers basic manicures and pedicures ($25–$40) amped up by Chanel and Christian Dior polish, medical-grade facial peels ($175–$225), laser hair removal ($95–$695) and private slate-tiled showers to rinse off in after your Swedish massage ($135). Though you can have the Continental bistro fare served at the upstairs eatery delivered to you in the elegant spa lounge, we prefer to fuel up on our spinach salads with figs and feta ($12) and sesame ginger chicken wraps ($14) in the long dining room with plush leather benches. Decadent desserts like the Oreo cheesecake ($6) might be tempting, but you'll want to steer clear if you intend to fit into the sexy looks sold in the super-sleek adjacent women's boutique. Nearly all of the contemporary designer pieces are big-night-out-appropriate, like Olive Olivia embellished silk tops ($160), J.J. Winters crocodile leather clutches ($168) and Givanno studded platform pumps ($170), and you can't go wrong with the solid collection of LBDs from labels like Issue ($350) and Faith Connexion ($200). Top off your new look with costume jewelry displayed on shelves in the back, where you'll discover statement pieces such as killer green onyx cocktail rings ($127).
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