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Baby be my love song..........". So here is a few topics that are important to me. 1. What is your definition of unconditional? 2. Is it Important to be with your family(if possible) during the holidays? 3. Describe your parenting approach(are you a friend or parent)? 4. At some point I would really like to get out of Arizona and move to the country (lower portion of Tennessee maybe), roughly about 1 hour outside of a major city(I do like some things a big city has to offer) on 100 acres of land with farm animals(chickens, piggy's, goats, grow our own veggies etc). A place where I can hunt and fish for good ole mother nature approved food. I need four seasons, greenery, and genuine good valued people with manners) Those are important topics with me to be able to move forward in a relationship but I can compromise on something's. So if you are on the same page with me then continue reading. Ok so I am a country boy originally from South Carolina (accent included at no extra charge lol). I'm a single dad of 2 awesome young men. I love being a Daddy.....its the best thing since peanut butter and jelly. I love anything outdoors...camping...hunting...fishing...just relaxing and enjoying nature.... whenever its not 100 and hell outside!!!!! LOL...I will try anything once as long as we cant go to jail for it. I like eating out and movies...or I can stay at home and be fine too....I am a pretty easy going guy and the slow relaxed life makes me happy, happy, happy...I am a cuddler so if you like that just climb on me and let me wrap my arms around you! I love kids...I'm a big kid sometimes myself.. I can do just about anything that I put my mind too(someone did it before me then why cant I?) I have a touch of OCD and I believe that everything has a place. I try to stay neat and tidy most of the time...Common sense goes a long way with me for sure. I am athletic and competitive at just about everything in life. I love just about any sports.... baseball...football.. hockey ...etc I am a meat and potatoes kinda guy...love my bacon and eggs....but I will eat just about anything too...or at least try it.... I am huge on family ...I talk to my parents almost every day...grandparents and sisters at least once a week......I like to laugh and cut up often....tend to be a smarta$$ at times and can sometimes be taken the wrong way....I have a Alpha personality and have a "take the bull by the horns attitude"...I speak my mind and don't sugar coat it....I call it like I see it....I'm not rude but I am bluntly honest...I make sure that there is no "grey area" in the matter....some people can handle me and some can't...Im like a fine wine...kinda and acquired taste...lol....So who I am looking for...This may sound a little sappy but oh well its what i want...I am looking for my forever...my best friend...someone who would go to hell and back for me...someone who will treat me as good as I treat them...love me unconditionally... someone who has my back regardless of right or wrong...Bonnie to my Clyde...someone who I can do anything with...whether is be shopping one minute or getting dirty the next...Guaranteed that if we are together I will do everything in my power to keep a smile on your face.......I will always make sure that you feel secure....I would never let anything happen to you nor my family.....I am a protector.... Hopefully you can handle a chivalrous man(I open doors and say yes ma'am)......a man that is actually "a man". I am a strong minded man who is very patient but I refuse to put up with BS...I am tough at times to deal with but I don't do immature stupid crap...I can be stubborn but I promise you that I will be worth it....Anyway, the bottom line is I have a big heart and I really want to give it to someone that will take good care of it. thank you and good luck ladies "If you can't handle me at my worst then you don't deserve me at my best!!!
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We've seen some pretty cringe-worthy moments in our lifetime, but these next ten examples of people failing to high five each other might take the cake.
We've seen some pretty cringe-worthy moments in our lifetime, but these next ten examples of people failing to high five each other might take the cake.
Remember 'The Rocketeer?' The movie, which was based on the graphic novel by Dave Stevens, was somewhat of a flop when it came out in 1991, but the tale of a handsome 1930s era test pilot (Billy Campbell) who uses a rocket suit to fight Nazis and mobsters has become somewhat of a cult classic over the years.
The People's Choice Awards are refreshing since they are voted on by the fans. The stars come out to accept their honors, dressed snazzily but in much less formal fashion than, say, the Oscars or the Grammys.
Another year has come and gone, but 2014 has brought several new songs to the airwaves.
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Taylor Swift turned 24 on Dec. 13, and it inspired us to look back at her best red carpet looks of 2013.
We've made it to December and just in time for Christmas, we've got quite a few new songs hitting the airwaves!
If you tried to describe the violent holiday classic 'Home Alone' to someone who had never seen it, they might wonder why it's considered a "must watch" at Christmas time. Watching the precocious, sadistic Kevin McAllister (played by Macaulay Culkin) find new and unique ways to commit assault and battery against two hapless burglars doesn't sound like something that would teach an impressionable child about why the holidays are important.
To an adult, it seems like the simplest task in the world. But to a small child, walking down an aisle and sprinkling flower petals on the ground is apparently totally terrifying. Here are some videos of little girls who just can't handle the pressure of being flower girl

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I have long been a fan of movies and the numerous things they have been able to do for people over the past century. They entertain us, they bring us together and they inspire us.
I've started passively collecting examples of items and products that trivialize stalking. I don't seek out this stuff, it seems to be just out there in the world. Greeting cards, coffee mugs and so much more.
The journey of self-love is a long one, but it is much easier to navigate when you have self-loving actions and ways of being that you can call upon when needed. Here are 25 ways to nourish your self-love so that you can be kinder to yourself and to others.
If you're not happy with your current relationship (and it's not abusive or destructive), do everything you can to shape it into what your heart desires. Only then, walk away peacefully. Ask yourself: 'Have you done everything you could possibly do?'
As my mom sits in a Philadelphia area hospital recouping from open heart surgery, I now see these as the many small moments that gave me strength, a deep sense of loyalty, and a hearty appreciation for the odd.
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I'm 43 years old now, and I still haven't unburied all the pain around my parents' death, or the pain I carry in regard to my relationship with them while they were alive. But I'm digging, and I'm facing it, and I'm healing, and I'm growing.
What works best in terms of performance and results is constantly changing and evolving with each new generation. Those who desire to succeed at the highest levels are always searching for a greater understanding about how this is accomplished.
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To appreciate does not mean you can or should not ever have more, but it does mean that we place things in order, at least in our minds, and remember to be continually grateful.
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The other day, my daughter asked why people read parenting books. I told her that sometimes I read them to understand her better. She responded, "That book isn't about me, it's about somebody else. If you don't understand me, ask me."
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When deciding on the most appropriate space -- including physical and virtual 'places' -- in which to carry out a work activity, a variety of factors must be taken into account but it all starts with awareness of what you need to do and how you feel.
One of the most powerful and pervasive mental models I have found in people of all ages, walks of life and career status -- from presidents of corporations to high school interns -- is this: I believe, deep down, that I am not quite good enough.
There are few better ways to start a new year than picking up some fresh perspectives to put into action. Here's a sneak preview of 15 exciting books on business and behavior that will hit the shelves in the first half of the year.
I'm sure there are probably other signs, but this list covers at least the majority of them. I know we can always do a better job displaying our mature sides. I also know that, by doing so, we lift each other up through our example.
There are many twists and turns along the road to real sexiness that require us to make the right decisions. Live by the ten rules of being a woman and inspire others to follow in your gracefully sexy footsteps.
I picked up my daughter from Kindergarten today and she said, "I just feel so like me today... I love feeling like me."
A new year delivers new hope for improvement. And as much as we dread the effort this entails, we must bear in mind that we're the only ones who can make ourselves better in any and every way. Strive for the right kinds of change in 2015 and broaden your horizon so that it becomes endless.
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Jon Meis is taken from the scene by medics after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014 in Seattle. A 19-year-old man was fatally shot and two other young people were wounded after a gunman entered the foyer at Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University campus and started shooting Thursday afternoon. When he paused to reload, a student building monitor disarmed him. Meis is the student monitor who is credited with stopping the suspected gunman, Aaron R. Ybarra, 26, by pepper spraying him and tackling him. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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This is an awesome place to eat in Cole Valley. The food is delicious and the portions are large. Great to share a few dishes with a partner or to take the leftovers home. You can make two meals out of the portions that they give you. The service has ...
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My husband and I first ate in your restaurant 7 years ago on our honeymoon. A pastor in our church told us we couldn't visit SF without eating at Sears. We loved it!! Three years ago we vacationed in SF with friends and ate at Sears every morning. ...
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Don't get fooled by the road house exterior. The Bonanza has a full bar and serves a great lunch. The seafood and burgers are very good, and Thursday is prime rib Thursday. Lunch is 11 to 3. Steve
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Bungay Two Brewers
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The location and picture show what would have been the Two brewers assuming the Chaucer St numbering scheme hasn't changed.
A report in the Ipswich Journal* in 1849 (Oct-20) when John & Hannah Jermy were landlords and witnesses in a case of the theft of 2 stone of beef. The accussed were found guilty one receiving 7 years transportation the other 12 months hard labour.
Described as "Two Brewers (late)" in the 1909 town Rates book. Since this book was in use until the early 30s, it must have closed some time in that period.
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Unbought and Unbossed
Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation
Trimiko Melancon
Gender and Society posted an online first review of Unbought and Unbossed by Trimiko Melancon. The review read, "In Unbought and Unbossed, Trimiko Melancon weaves an insightful, critical analysis of discourses and literary representations of black women in novels by Gayl Jones, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, Ann Allen Shockley, and Alice Walker. Melancon's central argument is that through depictions of transgressive sexuality, the novels defy traditional race, gender, and sexual representations of black women present in American literature. She smartly interprets expressions of black women's agency and resistance to white mainstream and Black Nationalist expectations.... Unbought and Unbossed is an important text for people interested in race, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality. The book opens up new ways to consider the transgressive sexuality of black women within works of literature."
Consuming Work
Youth Labor in America
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Social Forces posted an online first review of Consuming Work by Yasemin Besen-Cassino. The review read, "Consuming Work is promising in its detailed examination of the intersection of work, consumption, and leisure for middle- and upper-class (mostly white) college students who work in 'cool' but low-wage retail jobs.... Besen-Cassino's focus...[on] the young workers themselves...is both interesting and valuable, as it gives voice to a group of workers from whom we do not usually hear in scholarly accounts of work... Besen-Cassino rightly argues [that] the youth labor market is a fascinating and important site to explore the reproduction of inequality and other key labor-market dynamics in the United States. In its detailed study of affluent youth labor, Consuming Work provides rich data, many answers, and even more provocative questions to explore."
Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
Brooklyn's Sunset Park
Tarry Hum
Reviewed online first in the July 2015 issue of Urban Studies. The review read, "Years of research have poured into this rich book that presents a true neighbourhood case study with topics as diverse (yet related) as street vendors, ethnic banks, gentrification, migrant civil society and environmental injustice.... Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood is recommended reading for all those interested in the intersection of urban and ethnic/racial studies and in particular those interested in migrant civil society, ethnic banks and immigrant growth coalitions."
"I Hear America Singing"
Folk Music and National Identity
Rachel Clare Donaldson
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of CHOICE. The review read, "The best intellectual history to date on the subject, this book treats the part of the US folk music revival that aligned itself with progressive politics from the 1930s through the 1960s. Donaldson chronicles the folk revival's involvement with the Depression and New Deal, WW II and the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement.... [S]he provides an excellent discussion of the Pete Seeger side of the revival.... [T]hose interested in folk music per se and its intersection with progressive politics during these critical decades will find this book valuable. Summing Up: Recommended."
Red War on the Family
Sex, Gender, and Americanism in the First Red Scare
Erica J. Ryan
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of CHOICE. The review read, "[A]rgues Ryan, the Red Scare provided a means of countering the rapid social changes taking place in the late 1910s and 1920s, which included feminism, changing sexual morals, and the rise of companionate marriage. The author has an accessible writing style and convincingly argues her point. The book's nuanced subject matter will enrich research collections and prove most useful to readers at the graduate or faculty level. Summing Up: Recommended."
Senior Power or Senior Peril
Aged Communities and American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Brittany H. Bramlett
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of CHOICE. The review read, "Bramlett employs social science techniques to explore the empirical prevalence of two phenomena that have become journalistic tropes: 'senior power' and 'senior peril.'... The book contributes some modest additional findings to a topic sure to be of increasing importance in American politics in coming years. Summing Up: Highly Recommended."
America's First Adventure in China
Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation
John R. Haddad
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Diplomatic History. The review read, "America's First Adventure in China is an impressive accomplishment. Haddad has crafted an engaging, historically grounded narrative that skillfully bridges the neighboring domains of American cultural studies and U.S. diplomatic history... The chronological signposts in Haddad's story are familiar to many, but in his retelling, the familiar becomes intriguing.... Haddad is a skillful narrator.... [His] coverage is brisk, clear and engaging. America's First Adventure in China is a valuable contribution to the literature on Sino-American relations, and a promising exemplar of postmodern narrative history."
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Bindi V. Shah
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "Shah's book takes what seems to be a very narrow project and makes it a very important and broad one that has much utility for scholars working across many fields: sociology of immigration, intra and interethnic relations, youth and gender, refugee and American identity formation and critical citizenship studies, leadership development and environmental justice and urban activism. Her in-depth account of second-generation Laotian teenage girls in an environmental justice organization succeeds in articulating their struggle to challenge 'what it means to be American and are becoming American in the process.' Last, this book is well written and highly readable, and recommended for teaching in both undergraduate and graduate contexts in sociology."
How Racism Takes Place
George Lipsitz
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "Lipsitz reminds scholars how fundamental white privilege to our society and how white privilege works.... Lipsitz superbly weaves connections from the past into contemporary issues.... The book offers its readers an astonishing look at unknown events that occurred during the era of Jim Crow, and Lipsitz provides evidence on how it applies to the contemporary issues that we still grapple with in this country: poverty, discrimination, white privilege, racism and violence."
Troubling Gender
Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene
Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "Troubling Gender, a monograph focusing on the intersections of sex and cumbia music in contemporary Argentina, straddles quite impressively the difficulty of exploring how those who listen and dance to it negotiate and consume the encoded meanings in this popular music genre.... The book's writing style hits a successful balance between clarity and density, maintaining scholarly sophistication without sacrificing coherence or lucidity. But the most refreshing element of the book is how Troubling Gender is, actually, a textual collaboration.... Vila and Semán's findings stand by themselves solidly, and the historical chapter and postscript excellently complement the authors' arguments."
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Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World
Sherry Cable
Reviewed in the June 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "In this well-researched and accessible volume on our environmental predicament, Sherry Cable asks: To what extent do environmental policies acknowledge ecological principles and enact principles of fairness and justice?... The book is rich in empirical detail, with numerous illustrative case studies and comprehensive inventories of the U.S. environmental policy regime."
Asian American Women's Popular Literature
Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
Pamela Thoma
Reviewed in the Summer 2015 issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. The review read, "Asian American Women's Popular Literature is a pleasurable read and an important contribution to recent scholarship on Asian American popular culture. As the title suggests, the book uncovers the ways in which Asian American women writers of different genres of fiction directly address Asian American women's political subjectivity and problematize contemporary reformulations of US citizenship and belonging under neoliberalism. The novel, Thoma argues, continues to be central to the development of citizen-subjects even as it now integrates with other media within neoliberal consumer culture.... Asian American Women's Popular Literature offers readers an impressively coherent theory of Asian American women's lowbrow literary texts and the important cultural work they do as popular texts."
Conceiving Masculinity
Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Liberty Walther Barnes
Reviewed in the May 2015 issue of the journal Social History of Medicine. The review read, "Barnes' succeeds in providing a vivid account of the so far under researched experiences of men in the infertility encounter as couples are confronted with choices (or lack thereof). Conceiving Masculinity is a very readable story, offering a growing scholarship on the history of infertility and current insights into a gendered order of medical encounters with the body and disease."
Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studiesedited by Anne Enke
Reviewed in Teachers College Record on May 7, 2015. The review read, "Taken individually, each chapter is informative and some are also provocative. Taken as a whole, the volume represents a substantive contribution to the literature on trans theory and practice in higher education and social policy.... There are three primary strengths of this text: the thoughtful navigation of highly contested language, the range of topics covered, and the connections to allied social/academic movements. The nuanced navigation of language that Enke provides is thoughtful and necessarily cautious.... This book has a wide range of audiences within and beyond transgender and gender studies classrooms.... The approachable, accessible writing style of the authors also makes this book useful to many outside of academia as well."
Pimping Fictions
African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
Justin Gifford
Reviewed in the Volume 33, No. 1 of the journal, Clues: A Journal of Detection. The review read, "Justin Gifford's new monograph is impressive. He writes about a genre that historically has been both popular and met with strong critical condemnation. While acknowledging the reasoning for the latter, Gifford argues for understanding well why black crime (i.e., pulp) fiction has had and maintains a robust mass readership.... That dialogue is important for recognizing frankly the complicated legacies of our national past and present. For all the ways that forging a coherent cultural community over time has worked to give succor and strength to blacks in America... Gifford argues compellingly for giving critical consideration to black pulp fiction as a complex literary resource for understanding the complexity of racism and its lingering influences in the United States."
Softly, with Feeling
Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music
Edward Berger
Reviewed in Volume 44, No. 1 of the ARSC Journal (Association for Recorded Sound Collections). The review read, "Softly, With Feeling is first and foremost a very well researched and clearly written biography of a jazz trumpet icon who also distinguished himself in the classical idiom. It is also a book about race in America in the 1930s and the decades that followed, and offers insight into the music business, especially pertaining to the role of African Americans.... Overall this is a fascinating book about a marvelous and remarkable musician who could play jazz, classical, Broadway show music and just about anything else as evidenced by his recordings of bugle calls and a very convincingly idiomatic solo on a recording of 'Hava Nagilah' by an Israeli folk group, the Four Ayalons. There are some wonderful photos in the book, many taken by the author, as well as by the subject (Wilder was an accomplished photographer), and a very useful discography/solography for anyone who would like to check out the music of Joe Wilder. Edward Berger can proudly add this well done work to his impressive body of scholarly monographs."
Blow Up the Humanities
Toby Miller
The blog Public: A Journal of Imagining America reviewed Toby Miller's Blow Up the Humanities along with The Heart of the Matter, by Richard H. Brodhead and John W. Rowe. The review read, "I want to applaud Toby Miller's 2012 book, Blow Up the Humanities, and recommend it as a lively antidote to many of the written and visual platitudes recycled in The Heart of the Matter. Miller is not a kind writer, but he does have a way with words and a deep understanding of the history of debates concerning the value of the humanities and humanistic social sciences, both nationally and internationally."
Laotian DaughtersWorking toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Bindi V. Shah
Reviewed in the May 2015 issue of Contemporary Sociology. The review read, "The book guides readers through dense explorations on the intersection of race, identity, citizenship, and power—but it is the girls' stories that breathe life into the book.... On balance, Laotian Daughters makes a compelling case for the power of critical incorporation. The book offers an engaging account of how a group of disadvantaged girls draws on the resources provided by their social activism on the road to 'becoming American.' Shah provides a thickly described ethnography that shows how environmental activism interacts with a number of forces (family, school, friends, the media) to delineate national, gender, and racial and ethnic boundaries.... [S]cholars of immigration, citizenship, and identity will find much to appreciate in this work."
Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City
Somerville, MA
Susan A. Ostrander
Reviewed in the May 2015 issue of Contemporary Sociology. The review read, "In its best moments, Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City details tensions between [diverse] groups in ways reminiscent of the obvious pleasure that authors of classic community studies took when delving into the complex social fabric of their communities.... [T]he book succeeds in raising important questions and generating critical reflection."
Serial Fu Manchu
The Chinese Supervillain and the Spread of Yellow Peril Ideology
Ruth Mayer
Reviewed in the May 2015 issue of Pacific Historical Review. The review read, "Mayer explores the pervasiveness of the Fu Manchu figure in twentieth-century American popular culture.... Serial Fu Manchu points to the importance of serialization in American popular culture and the common practice of creating and repackaging characters such as Fu Manchu within it. This practice reinforced Asian and Asian American stereotypes and affirmed American imperialist and nativist attitudes and policies in the twentieth century."
The War on Slums in the Southwest
Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965
Robert B. Fairbanks
The Spring 2015 issue of Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, reviewed Robert Fairbanks' The War on Slums in the Southwest. The review read, "[The book] solidifies Fairbanks' reputation: no one knows more about the fraught connections between housing policy and urban development at the local state and federal levels....a brilliant book."
Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity
edited by Jeffrey A. Brune and Daniel J. Wilson
Reviewed in the Spring 2015 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine read, "Granted the careful and sustained engagement... [the essays] introduce eight distinct and richly historicized modes of disability passing.... Disability and Passing is an opportune contribution to disability studies, particularly as these essays approach the social, cultural, and methodological issues raised by disability passing from the full breadth of the field's interdisciplinary reach. One of the most striking features of Disability and Passing, in fact, is how well suited this topic is to the genre of the edited collection. Many of the book's most illuminating insights lie in the surprising affinities that flash up among its otherwise disparate chapters."
Also reviewed in Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2015 of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies read, "[A] fascinating and eclectic collection of essays concerned with the social and cultural significance of passing within disability studies.... Spanning issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class, Brune and Wilson's collection demonstrates the pervasive nature of passing, as a concern that affects all areas of identity politics, and makes for engaging and provocative reading."
Just Queer Folks
Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Colin R. Johnson
Reviewed in the Spring 2015 issue of Agricultural History. The review read, "Johnson's book adds to the growing rural queer scholarship that challenges long held arguments that 'rural' represents a negative foil to American cities for gay men and women.... [H]e challenges our reliance on rural-urban and hetero-homosexual divides to reveal a more complex history of queer America.... Throughout this well-argued book, Johnson connects urban and rural sexuality, dispels long held arguments about sexual identity and behavior, and demonstrates that—contrary to popular and historiographical belief—rural queerness has always existed."
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Laura Martocci
Reviewed in the Spring 2015 issue of Foreword Reviews. The review read, "Martocci's book is both compassionate and impartial, balancing the emotion surrounding bulling with the integrity of her research.... Martocci uses her expertise in sociology to deconstruct the cultural, social, and historical factors that drive bullying—and give those who've been bullied a means to shun shame and reconstruct their identities. Bullying delves into the origins of bullying and identifies the path to healing. Martocci doesn't brush off the problem or resort to pep talks; she proves that the best solutions dig to the root of the problem. By offering deep study and research into the many facets of bullying, she provides hope, showing how narrative writing allows people who've been bullied to structure their experiences and define themselves. For those whose sense of identity has been forced on them by others and whose day-to-day lives are run by shame and avoidance, this approach is powerful and life-giving.... Her tone is compassionate yet impartial, balancing the emotion of the subject and the integrity of research. Her interviews with people who have been bullied are insightful and heart-wrenching."
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
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Claudia Kedar
Reviewed in the Spring 2015 issue of Latin American Politics and Society. The review read, "Kedar's book on the role of the IMF in Argentina is a truly welcome addition. It provides perhaps one of the most comprehensive accounts of the fund's historical interaction with the region since the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutions.... [T]he book is a well-written and thoroughly enjoyable piece of research. It adds an important revisionist perspective to IMF-Argentine relations and depicts a far more nuanced and mutually dependent relationship than is commonly portrayed, both in Latin America and elsewhere.... This is an excellent book, which anyone interested in IMF relations with Latin America, and even the fund more generally, should read."
Atlanta Unbound
Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning
Carlton Wade Basmajian
Featured in the online "Book Notes" section of the journal Environment and Urbanization, April 2015 edition. The review read, "Based on detailed analyses of the post-war development of planning processes and regional institutions, the author makes the provocative argument that the extensive decentralization of Atlanta was a process actively enabled and coordinated across political scales by public institutions engaged in regional planning.... The book is a valuable resource for people with a specific interest in American metropolitan regions and Atlanta. However, there is also an overall argument about recognizing the importance of regional planning agencies relevant to city sprawl as critical actors that bridge local and national level government."
Reviewed in the April 2015 issue of Southwest Historical Quarterly. The review read, "[An] excellent study.... Fairbanks shines the brightest when he is discussing one of the three Texas cities. [He] has done his homework with this volume. His sources are extensive.... The War on Slums in the Southwest is a well-written book that should be a great addition to the literature on the public housing movement."
The Gender Knot
Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Third Edition
Allan G. Johnson
Reviewed in the April 2015 issue of Choice. The review read, "Johnson argues that patriarchy is responsible for the oppression of women and that its core quality—male-identified control—generates a dynamic that promotes competition, oppression, violence, and fear and is as harmful to men as to women.... Clearly written and thought provoking.... Summing Up: Highly Recommended."
The Jazz Society of Pensacola featured a review of Softly, with Feeling by Edward Berger, on its website the week od April 9th. The review read, "Wilder met discrimination because of his race, of course, many times during his lifetime, but he held to his principles of ethical behavior never stooping to the level of some of his detractors. And, as Berger so well documents, Wilder's ground-breaking achievements led the way for many others."
Out in the Union
A Labor History of Queer America
Miriam Frank
Reviewed in the March/April 2015 issue of the Women's Review of Books. The review read, "The book fill[s] a critical gap in queer and labor history.... and tell[s] stories of extraordinary courage and perseverance.... Frank captures the driving courage of LGBT workers as they participate in the labor movement, come out, and help others to do so. She reveals the crucial role they played in organizing campaigns, especially of teachers and public service workers, and in independent, left-inspired initiatives, for example, for gender and racial equality."
The Risk Society Revisited
Social Theory and Governance
Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn and Aaron M. McCright
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of the American Journal of Sociology. The review read, "In the introduction the authors acknowledge the long-term structural and cultural changes that pushed us into a risk society. They argue that since there will always be real risks there is a need for concrete strategies to improve human ability and capacity to manage risk.... The book is timely in providing theoretical support for many calls for more participative approaches in, for instance, risk communication and governance, regional planning, and public policy."
The Politics of State Feminism
Innovation in Comparative Research
Dorothy E. McBride and Amy G. Mazur
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "The Politics of State Feminism is strongest as a synthesis and extension of the insights from the collective comparative efforts of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS).... In tackling big questions of variations in the relationships between women's movements and the state as mediated by women's agencies, McBride and Mazur...make several important contributions.... Among the many innovations that stand out, their lucid summaries of the results of ordinal regression, crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis and case studies make the book both a trove of empirical results and mixed-methods approaches, and an important resource for research pedagogy and practice.... McBride, Mazur and the RNGS network contribute important innovations to comparative research."
Living in the Crossfire
Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "The interviews conducted by the authors and their research team are what give this work strength, and the book shines as Alves and Evanson let the testimonies of their respondents stand on their own.... The stories, revelations, challenges, contradictions, anecdotes and so on these transcripts reveal are truly fascinating.... Alves and Evanson present a dynamic view of Brazil's most recognizable city and, ultimately, are successful in showing the complexities of living in a Rio favela."
Multicultural GirlhoodRacism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education
Mary E. Thomas
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Social Forces. The review read, "Thomas challenges the common belief that multicultural education—whether based on understanding others, getting along and accepting others or developing respect-centered individual and group ethnic identities—can remedy school segregation and conflict.... Multicultural Girlhood is most provocative [when] Thomas shows how the girls unwittingly invest in racial conflict and segregation and how with such investment comes both positive and negative consequences.... Thomas' work is an important read.... It will give scholars and practitioners in the field of education much to ponder."
Music and Social Change in South Africa
Maskanda Past and Present
Kathryn Olsen
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of CHOICE. The review read, The review read, "Written in clear, simple language, Music and Social Change in South Africa is an informative book that will be useful to ethnomusicology students interested in social changes in Africa, in particular South Africa during and after apartheid. Summing Up: Recommended."
Just Who Loses?
Discrimination in the United States, Volume 2
Samuel Roundfield Lucas
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Contemporary Sociology. The review read, "The core argument that discrimination is about the context of social life and damaged social relations is a powerful one. The methodological injunction to measure variation in discrimination, rather than simply observing gross or net inequality, is smart and to be applauded. The movement away from a focus on individuals or, worse yet, individual acts, and to theorize social relations as social context are welcome interventions into the stratification literature.... When it comes to discrimination, the empirical answer Lucas provides is that everyone loses. Discrimination damages social relations and leads to weaker social institutions and a habitual neglect of the humanity of all human beings. This is a profound reformulation of research questions about discrimination, one that is likely to be scientifically and politically fruitful."
Social Justice in Diverse Suburbs
History, Politics, and Prospects
edited by Christopher Niedt
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The review read, "[T]his edited volume offer[s] both historians and planners new ways to think about suburbs. For planners, the book serves as an activist handbook, combining historical examples, contemporary data, and policy proposals into a concise and accessible volume. For historians, the book pushes the historiography beyond any monolithic view of suburbs, presenting the urban fringe in all its complexity.... Taken together, the book is an engaging collection of papers that complement one another, an impressive feat."
Sex and the Founding Fathers
The American Quest for a Relatable Past
Thomas A. Foster
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of American History. The review read, "Foster tells us that each new generation has inquired into the intimate lives of great men and found reflections of its own habits and desires and anxieties....Using the methods of intellectual and cultural history, Foster examines contemporary and scholarly interpretations of the sex lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouvernor Morris. Foster holds that we read and write about our Founding Fathers' intimate habits because we want these icons of masculinity to be relatable. Foster is right; we do seek ourselves in our histories."
Softly, with Feeling
Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music
Edward Berger
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Jazzwise. The review read, "A major strand of this well-wrought biography is a lengthy examination of the mid-century employment possibilities for African-American musicians in commercial and symphonic music.... [I]f ever a book cried out for a bound-in CD...it is this one, for its text is suffused with praise for Wilder's trumpet tone, his lyrical grace and total assurance whatever the musical circumstances."
Out in the Union
A Labor History of Queer America
Miriam Frank
Reviewed in the March 2015 issue of Labor Studies Journal. The review read, "Miriam Frank's Out in the Union pursues a much-needed and highly ambitious project: telling the story of queer organizing within the American labor movement. The sheer scope and level of detail in the book are outstanding. So too are the array of stories Frank has collected in the many years of research and activism that contributed to the book. Frank presents these stories in a style that is erudite, yet at the same time powerful and compelling.... Out in the Union offers an important historical narrative that is needed now more than ever. It's a story that will leave all unionists with a profound sense of pride and inspire hope for the future."


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Not even close, it's just that most of the people who make them use poorly drawn faces as shorthand for "you should now laugh", so most of the content created is **** and gets shot down. Very rarely, one like this shows up which actually seems to use the medium as a means of adding to the story told in it.


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Well,I've determined that my Merv with the 1/10 Castle 5700kv is best suited for speed runs...so I decided that I needed a basher.
I just couldn't have anything stock though.
I had a Rally that I was in the process of converting into a Slash...but switched gears.
Last night I dyed the chassis and rockers.
Here's where it sits as of tonight...
Now I'm waiting on the rest of the parts to come in...
RPM Carriers(green)
Grave Digger Toe Links
Grave Digger Bumpers
4 Merv axles
Merv center shafts
green shock socks
Hopper wheelie bar
T-Bone skids
wing mount and CF or Ofna wing(haven't decided yet)
Merv Pro-Graphics body(going to spray lime green)
I also haven't decided on what tires/wheels I want.
For the time being...I'll be running my Desperado's and Dirt Hawgs.


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Osprey Comet Backpack
With thick, padded, curved straps and an even weight distribution of up to 15 pounds, this pricey pack is pretty comfortable for any student. Its fabric will withstand abrasion and a rainstorm, but may tear easily if it gets caught on a locker. Available in three colors: Mango, Blueberry, and Moss/Black. ospreypacks.com.
Reviewed: August 2010
Price When Reviewed: $89.00
- Has thick, padded curved straps
- Teenagers thought the bag held and distributed the weight of the 15 pounds well
- Fabric had good abrasion resistance
- Held 15 pounds of school supplies
- Weighs 1.55 pounds when empty
- The compression straps got in the way of making this a very comfortable bag for the testers
- Fabric will tear easily if snagged
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The record industry is set to adopt Friday as the global release day for new albums, Billboard reports. The change will take place this summer.
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Johan Liebert
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Johan Liebert is the titular "monster" of Naoki Urasawa's anime and manga series Monster. Despite being the name he is referred to most as in the series, "Johan Liebert" is not his real name, but rather one of the many ones he's used over the course of his life.[4]
Johan was shot in the head at a young age, but operated on and saved from death by Dr. Kenzo Tenma. Because of this, he was very grateful to Dr. Tenma. He has spent portions of his life in different locations under different aliases and possesses an extraordinary level of charisma and intelligence. He uses his gifts to cruelly manipulate and corrupt others, often with no apparent end other than to cause suffering and destruction. His original goal, as he stated when he was young, was to be the last one standing at the end of the world,[5] although towards the height of his acts, he would decide upon a different fate.[6]
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Johan Liebert and his twin sister Anna were the result of a eugenics experiment, the primary goal of which was to create a child who not only had an exceptionally high level of intelligence and a flawless appearance, but could also lead the human race.[7] After their mother, Viera Cerná, was released from confinement, she moved her twins into the Three Frogs Building next to Cedok Bridge in Prague. Their mother dressed them similarly to hide the fact that she had twins.
On one fateful day, Bonaparta and his then assistant Peter Capek appeared to the family to inform them that they would be taking one of the twins to the Red Rose Mansion for experimentation; the other would stay at home. The catch was that Viera was the one who had to make the decision of which twin to give away. At first, she handed Johan over, but quickly changed her mind and gave Anna up instead. It is unknown whether or not she was aware of which child was which. This event would impact Johan for the rest of his life, and leave him questioning whether his mother was trying to protect him or had confused him for Anna.[8]
Anna and Viera were both taken away, and Johan stayed at the Three Frogs by himself. While there alone, he spent a lot of time reading The Nameless Monster, a picture book written and illustrated by Franz Bonaparta under the pen name Emil Sebe which would come to drastically affect Johan in the future. When Anna escaped from the Red Rose Mansion and returned to the Three Frogs, Johan requested that she tell him of her experience. After listening to his sister's story, Johan walked away from the conversation believing that he was the one who had suffered through the events at the Red Rose Mansion.[9]
Later, an unknown individual came to visit the twins to inform them that they would have to live on their own.[10] Johan and Anna then burned down the Four Flags and ran away, directionless with no destination in mind. Some time later, they met a middle-aged couple who temporarily cared for them. One day, while playing in a field of grass, Johan told Anna that he had a plan; this plan was to kill their new caretakers and subsequently wander directionless once more.
On their journey with no destination, Johan and Anna would in time pass out from exhaustion in the mountains by the Czech-German border. A patrol officer by the name of Helmut Wolf rescued them from their near-death experience.[11] He looked in Johan's bag and found one thing: a copy of The Nameless Monster. He decided to name the boy after the monster Johan in the book, and gave the girl the name Anna. Afterwards, he sent the twins to two separate orphanages — Anna to a place called Orphanage 47 and Johan to Kinderheim 511.
Kinderheim 511 massacre Edit
Kinderheim 511 was a secret, East German, experimental orphanage located in East Berlin, with the goal of creating perfect soldiers.[5] When Johan arrived to Kinderheim 511, he was said to have already been beyond their program, naturally arousing the curiosity of the higher-ups and leading to Johan being forced to partake in an interview while under the effects of hypnosis and chemical treatment.[12]
As time passed, Johan no longer desired to be in the orphanage. To escape, he formulated a plan: to take advantage of the tension within the orphanage, or "[throw] a scrap of cloth doused in oil onto an open flame" as he put it,[5] by capitalizing on the hatred born when people come together. This would eventually lead the chaotic event that would forever taint Kinderheim 511's reputation. Fifty children and instructors fought and killed each either, all while Johan simply sat in a chair at the top of a staircase, watching with glee as the massacre ensued and the orphanage burned.[5]
After the massacre was over, Johan found and saved a hungry and parched Christof Sievernich, with whom he formulated a plan and decided to reunite with roughly ten years later.[13]
The Lieberts Edit
Johan and Anna would eventually come to be adopted by former East German foreign trade advisor Michael Liebert and his wife. Originally, the Lieberts only wanted to adopt Johan; however, Johan refused to go anywhere without his sister, so Anna too was adopted and given a place within the family. In April 1986, the four fled to West Germany, specifically the city of Düsseldorf.[14]
Franz Bonaparta, who was living in the south German town of Ruhenheim under the name Klaus Poppe at the time, saw the twins on TV and decided to go pay them a visit. The Lieberts allowed him in, and he looked at twins while under the impression that they were sleeping. Johan, however, was not asleep and thought that Franz Bonaparta, who he coined a "monster", was going to seize hold of him and his sister again, supported by his later statement, "A monster came today... A monster came to take the two of us away."[15] Consequently, killing the Lieberts was his idea of a protective measure. The gunshots woke Anna, and she found her parents' corpses as well as Johan standing armed in a nearby room. He gave Anna the gun, ordered her to shoot him in the head, wipe it afterward, and throw it out of the window afterwards. She followed Johan's request and pulled the trigger, subsequently entering a state of shock herself. The neighbors, who had woke up due to all of the gunshots, called the police. The authorities arrived shortly after and Johan, in critical condition at the time, was sent to Eisler Memorial Hospital to be operated on by Dr. Kenzo Tenma.
Eisler Memorial Hospital Edit
As Dr. Tenma was just about to begin surgery on Johan, he was contacted by the Eisler Memorial Hospital director Udo Heinemann, who demanded that the surgeon remove himself from the boy's operation and attend to Mayor Roedecker instead. After thinking of a similar previous incident he had regretted, Tenma ultimately decided to operate on Johan. Though Johan's surgery was successful, Tenma's decision to operate on the boy instead of Mayor Roedecker resulted in the latter's death. His decision also consequently lead to him being punished: he was stripped of his position and had any chances of career progress ruined.[16]
Filled with rage, Tenma went to a presumably unconscious Johan to vent his anger. Proclaiming that he was not wrong and that Udo Heinemann was not a doctor, but rather a filthy money-mongerer, the angered surgeon wished death upon the Eisler Memorial director.[16] Unbeknownst to Tenma, Johan was not only conscious, but also very gracious for the doctor's decision.[4] As a result, using poisoned candy, Johan decided to repay his debt by granting Tenma his wish; he killed Udo Heinemann and two others, then disappeared from the hospital with Anna.[17]
After escaping Eisler Memorial Edit
On the same day they escaped Eisler Memorial, Johan and Anna ran into Rheinhard Dinger, who had come into trouble with the authorities for attacking a man who was abusing his dog. Johan told the police that Dinger wasn't in the wrong, and that the dog abuser had attacked him first,[18] saving him from potential jail time. Out of gratitude, Dinger offered to drive Johan to his home, but after discovering they he no home, he allowed Johan and Anna to stay at his apartment for a day or two. While eating dinner, Johan, Anna and Dinger watched the news. When Dinger muttered to himself about how depraved the world was and how "the scum should all die," Johan agreed with his notion, stating in agreeance, "We don't need... those people."[18]
Sometime later, the twins traveled on to Heidelberg, where Johan left his amnesia-stricken sister in the care of the Fortners until 1995. Then, he went to Munich and stayed with a family under the name Franz Heineau from March of 1987 to April of 1988. He struck up a good relationship with a blind man who was a former soldier. The veteran told Johan war stories and, per his request, gave him his description of "ultimate fear". He also taught Johan French and English, which he had mastered by the end of that thirteen-month period.[1] After this, Johan stayed with the Reichmanns in Köln for a year, the Schumanns in Hanover, a couple in Hamburg, and possibly Hanna Kemp.
Other Lieberts Edit
Next, Johan went to Bruntal, where he found a new family with the last name "Liebert"; coincidentally, they once had a son named Johan who died as a toddler, giving him the opportunity to jump into the deceased boy's identity. Following a convenient fire where the town's birth certificates were kept, the Lieberts were able to apply for a new application making it seem as though their son had never died. He provided his new family with a nice home in Offenbach Hessen.[19]
Johan used the couple to prove he had an identity and ordinary background. Although he had established a family, Johan didn't spend much time with them. At the age of fifteen, he organized a money laundering business which became very prosperous and well-known in the German underworld.[20] Towards the end of his career, he spent several months living with Halenka Novakova, who was baffled by the extraordinary similarities between Johan and her friend, Viera Cerna. Halenka was the victim of a phantom killing in 1995, presumably related to her association with Johan. Eventually he grew bored of the underground bank, so he took some money and abandoned it. With the president's disappearance and an inevitable end in sight, those involved lost control, wiping away what was left of the organization with a massacre.
Reunion with Dr. Tenma Edit
Starting in 1993 until he abandoned the bank, Johan hired serial killers around Germany to murder his former foster parents. One trio carrying out the executions involved Adolf Junkers and two of his partners.[4]
In 1995, Johan betrayed the group; two were killed on the spot and Junkers was hit by a car after trying to run away, sustaining an injury to the head. He received treatment from Kenzo Tenma and made a miraculous recovery, until one night his paranoia caused him to run out of the hospital in terror. Tenma chased after him and they reached an abandoned building where Junkers was shot to death by Johan. As Johan left the premises, he was observed by Eva Heinemann.
Picking up Anna Edit
Johan went to pick his long-lost sister Anna up from Heidelberg in May of 1995.[21] He began to interact with her anonymously via email, and informed her that he was going to pick up her soon.[22] He would later monitor her as she met a young man named Otto Huberman. Anna, after having spotted him in a crowd from afar, began to question to herself who he was and subsequently fainted.
Some point later, Johan sent Anna a message requesting she meet him at Heidelberg Castle.[23] He payed a gardener at the castle to make sure his sister didn't leave the premises, as he had something to do before he could arrive himself. Dr. Tenma would later arrive at the castle and escape with Anna, foiling Johan's plan.
Targeting the neo-Nazis Edit
Traveling to Frankfurt, Johan began to target an organization led by neo-Nazi leaders "the Baby", Professor Gunther Goedelitz, Peter Capek, and Helmut Wolf, who believed that he would become the next Adolf Hitler.[24] Tenma, meanwhile, arrived in Frankfurt while investigating the murder of the Springers, a family Johan stayed with under the name Erich before arranging to have them killed by unnamed man.[3]
Johan annihilated Goedelitz and his henchmen and left Anna a message telling her to meet him at the ruins of the Hilden & Engels warehouse in Romberg.[25] He then left a message for Tenma on a water tower indicating that he may have split personalities.[26] After these events, Johan left to enroll at the University of Munich.
Closing in on Schuwald Edit
Johan's plan in enrolling at the university was to get close to the former business tycoon Hans Georg Schuwald. If everything went according to the initial scheme, Schuwald would have ended up dead, allowing Johan to gain control over Germany's economy. First, he manipulated murderers to kill those close to Schuwald, creating an empty space he could fill with himself as one of the elder's Latin readers.[27]
He began setting up Edmund Fahren to appear as Schuwald's son, but soon realized the tycoon's real son, Karl Neuman, was available and latched onto him instead, consequently putting Fahren up to suicide.[27]
Private detective Richard Braun was hired to investigate the case, and after suspecting Johan began to draw connections between him and other unsolved murders. In retaliation for Richard's meddling, Johan met and took the man to a bar. There, masked as research for his college thesis, he began mentioning how Richard had executed a 17-year-old serial rapist and murderer named Stefan Jost while supposedly drunk. In conjunction with stating various sections from the "Treaty of Children's Rights", which put the detective in the wrong, Johan was able to rile up the man and suggested that the two take a walk for some fresh air, taking with him a bottle of whiskey. The two eventually made it atop a building roof, where Johan revealed that he knew Richard wasn't actually drunk when he shot and killed Stefan Jost, but rather was sober. After this revelation, Johan offered a then anxious Richard the bottle of whiskey he took from the bar. Richard was found dead the next morning.[28]
Meanwhile, Johan was able to reunite Schuwald with his long-lost son; delighted, Schuwald made him his newly appointed secretary. Karl and Schuwald decided that because Johan had a broad understanding of economics, if anything ever happened to Schuwald he would occupy his position instead of Karl. Johan's plan had run smoothly, and all he had to do was ensure Schuwald's death at the book donation ceremony (which was to be done by Roberto).
While previewing the collection of books Schuwald was donating to the Munich University Library, Johan wandered off and found a copy of The Nameless Monster. Examining the picture book's contents triggered a sudden psychological reaction in him, which caused him to shriek and cry in agony.[29] He was then admitted into a hospital and left the next morning after having recovered from his trauma.
At Schuwald's mansion, Johan was given a letter by Karl sent to him from the "Red Hindenburg", who he knew to be Blue Sophie; he also knew the purpose of the letter: Sophie was attempting to blackmail him in hopes of getting hush money. As a counter to this, Johan had Roberto form a relationship with Sophie in order to obtain her trust before going to meet her himself. He then went to a red-light district where she was located and conversed with her. She informed him of the various things she knew, ranging from his real name not being "Johan Liebert" to his scheme to kill Schuwald, and that if he were to leave, her "boyfriend" behind a door would come out and shoot him. In response, Johan asked her what she thought to be the most frightening thing, and followed up by stating, "I thought I had gotten to the darkest place in the world... but then... ahead of me... I saw an even darker blackness."[30] Claiming to be done with Sophie, he began to leave the premises, revealing that he was no longer interested in Schuwald. To this, Blue Sophie ordered her boyfriend Roberto to come out, who, unbeknownst to her, was Johan's right-hand man. As Johan left the premises, Roberto killed the prostitute.
On the day of Schuwald's book donation ceremony, Johan had prepared to burn down the ceremonial room and had somehow convinced a woman to ignite a trail of oil to initiate his scheme. Unbeknownst to Roberto, who was initially supposed to ambush Tenma on the second floor of the room and use his sniper rifle to kill Schuwald, Johan had changed his mind and instead decided to give his goodbyes by showing the tycoon a scene from Hell.[31][32] During the ceremony, as Johan aided Schuwald to the podium to make his speech, he whispered into the latter's ear, "Many, many people to see you... A huge flock of them."[31] Schuwald picked up on the allusion and ordered all of the visitors to leave the building. It was too late, however, as Johan soon after cued for the swayed woman on the second floor to ignite the oil, thus setting all of the books alight and causing the visitors to panic and selfishly topple over each other.
As the books burned and the visitors tried to escape, Johan calmly stood on the staged with an equally fearless Schuwald, and informed the business tycoon that he no longer wanted to kill him. When Schuwald asked him where he was from, Johan peered into his decrepit eyes and answered Schuwald. He said he was born in a town straight out of a fairy tale, and that he and his other self were the only people in the word, nameless.[32] This act and answer instilled fear into Schuwald, leaving him wide-eyed and frantically shaking. Shortly afterwards, out of the smoke and flames came Tenma. As hopped off the stage and began to walk towards the doctor, Johan pointed to his forehead, tempting Tenma to shoot him. Just as it seemed Tenma was going to perform the deed, Nina arrived and yelled out to the doctor, claiming that he musn't shoot Johan. Unfazed by his sister's presence, Johan simply walked by Tenma into the smoke and flames and disappeared.
Disguised as his sister Edit
Johan later embarked to Prague, where he established his identity as "Anna Liebert" and began emulating Nina by adopting her personality and sense of fashion. First, he murdered Reinhart Biermann, the headmaster of Kinderheim 511 before his enrollment, as he was in possession of a tape from Johan's youth located in an undisclosed safety deposit box. He then tracked Inspector Zeman and two of his subordinates, former members of the Czechoslovakian StB who were trying to obtain the tape for the purpose of selling it, to a factory setting where they were torturing Wolfgang Grimmer for information about the tape's location. Upon interrupting the interrogation, Johan (in his Anna disguise) shot one of the subordinates in the head, before apparently allowing Wolfgang Grimmer to kill the other two by manifesting his "Magnificent Steiner" persona.[33]
Thereafter, Johan began to frequent a local bar, where he connected with Zeman's one-time protege, Detective Jan Suk, who was smitten with him (while in his Anna disguise). However, the courtship was merely a means to an end, as Johan killed Suk's boss and other corrupt policemen involved with the StB who were trying to obtain the tape using poisoned whiskey bonbons,[34] in a manner similar to his previous poisonings, deflecting blame and suspicion for the murders onto Suk.[35][36]
Johan's efforts to acquire the tape led him to Suk's mother, who allowed him to see it and copy over a message for Tenma.[37] Meanwhile, in order to exonerate Grimmer from false suspicion of murdering Biermann, several of the orphans who were previously in his custody banded together to find the "mysterious blonde lady" and one of them, Milosh, found her.[38] Under his Anna guise, Johan invited the boy back to his apartment and told the boy he should find his lost mother, but cruelly imparted that if he couldn't find her, then he had no place in the world; he then sent Milosh to look for his mother in a nearby red-light district, and it was only through Grimmer and Tenma's narrow intervention that the boy didn't commit suicide after failing to find his mother and witnessing several forms of human depravity along the way.
Before departing the city, Johan, with little else left to attend to in Prague, proceeded to burn down the Red Rose Mansion after giving a distant speech to his mother's portrait.[39]
Destruction of the neo-Nazis Edit
Thereafter, he attended a high society gathering back in Germany, where Eva Heinemann, who had encountered him once before, pointed him out to Peter Capek, enabling his reunion with Christof Sievernich.[23] In the weeks following their reunion, Johan manipulated multiple serial killers to murder three people to hide Christof's various scandals.[40]
However, Johan had other matters to attend to as well, and proceeded to send the organization attempting to make him their leader into chaos and disarray. He presumably convinced a stripper named Carmen to garner the Baby's trust and then kill him. Johan would later visit a paranoid Capek at his villa in Idstein to determine Bonaparta's then current area of residence. Capek was able to supply him with the location of Bonaparta's son,[6] Jaromir Lipsky.
Perfect suicide Edit
The last piece Johan needed to get rid of was Franz Bonaparta, but before doing so, he finally met with his sister and told her about all horrible experiences he had supposedly experienced at the Red Rose Mansion. Anna told him he was wrong, revealing to him that the story wasn't his to tell, as she was the one who witnessed the incident. He would then listen to his sister's story, which left him laughing, yet saddened and tearful all the same.[6] He then left the site of he and Anna's reunion, as his sister was unable to shoot him after seeing the expression on his face.
Before executing his final plan, Johan visited Horst Grossman, the last remaining subordinate of Bonaparta aside from those in Ruhenheim. Horst greeted Johan with tea and asked him who they were going to kill next. In response, Johan pointed to his forehead and put a handgun on the table between him and Horst, provoking the latter to shoot him. As Horst took the provocation as a joke, Johan stopped pointing to his forehead and told his associate, "I've awakened from the dream." Angered by this revelation, Horst asked Johan what the purpose was for all of the money he had made and people he had killed. Johan then informed Horst that he had seen the end many times, but now could see a different scene—the true end—and knew where he needed to go. After further elaborating on his revelation, he then killed Horst and left the premises.
Following Grossman's death, he went to Ruhenheim and destroyed the town's peace by instigating a massacre. In the midst of it all, he visited a small cottage on the edge of the town where he found piles of drawings of him and Anna as children. According to his sister, who visited the same place shortly after, he had been crying as he sorted through the unfinished sketches.[10]
Johan traveled back to the center of town to meet Bonaparta and Tenma. After arriving, he was immediately gunned down by Tenma, who was then ambushed and disarmed by Bonaparta from behind. Bonaparta then aimed the gun at Johan and suggested that the two die together. Before Bonaparta could shoot, he was executed by a gravely injured Roberto. Succumbing to his injuries, Roberto collapsed to the ground and requested that Johan let him see the scenery of the doomsday, to which he was inform that he couldn't.
With no one else left to interfere, Johan asked Tenma if he had finally realized that the only thing all humans are equal in is death. He then showed Tenma the scenery to the doomsday, which seemingly temporarily overwhelmed the doctor. Anna would then arrive to the scene and plead with Tenma not to shoot Johan. She then told her brother what she could do for him to forgive him. Johan rebuffed Anna's forgiveness, claiming that some things could never be amended and there was no turning back. He then tried to provoke Tenma into killing him by holding a gun to the head of a young boy, Wim Knaup, but instead was shot by the boy's alcoholic father, who described him a monster with seven heads and many horns.
The End Edit
With urging from both his sister Anna and Heinrich Lunge, Johan was operated on and saved yet again by Doctor Tenma. After having visited his mother, Tenma paid him a visit in the state police hospital, where he had been unconscious ever since the massacre. After being informed that he had name, Johan sat up and began talking to Tenma, retelling the story of his mother's choice and asking which child wasn't needed. It is unclear whether this was a hallucination that Tenma experienced or if it was actually real. Either way, Tenma gave no response and departed shortly after. Johan's fate following this is unclear, but his hospital bed is seen empty in the ending credits, ambiguously implying that he had escaped from the hospital to do as he pleases.
Personality Edit
On the surface, Johan is a well-mannered, charismatic and compassionate young man. He possesses a myriad of favorable traits and can easily overwhelm individuals with his seemingly flawless nature, as seen with Hans Georg Schuwald, who described him as being "too perfect" and "not of this world".[27] This makes it easy for him to make new allies and manipulate them into doing various deeds for him. With such skill in creating this façade of perfection and pureness, Johan can hide his true motives with ease.
Within this contrived exterior, however, Johan is a psychopath who callously delivers destruction and suffering to those who happen to fall prey to his schemes. Even before his tenure at Kinderheim 511, Johan still exhibited psychopathic tendencies. For example, most of his murders, both in childhood and adulthood, have been premeditated and calculated.
Johan is also a nihilist, believing there to be no meaning to life. He claims, "Most of this universe is 'death' anyways," and that to the universe, "most lives are just specks in a corner of the earth, gone in a flash".[41] His fearlessness is a byproduct of his nihilism. While atop the roof of a building with Karl Neuman, Johan, with his eyes closed, effortlessly walked the edge of the building.[42] He also has a habit of pointing to his for head to provoke key individuals into shooting him.[15][6][43]
Sadism seems to be a trait Johan possesses as well, as he sometimes makes his victims experience the worst possible loss and suffering rather than actually killing them himself; this experience tends to lead to the victim killing themselves, however. Helmut Wolf is a known victim of Johan's sadism; instead of simply being killed, Wolf was forced to watch as all of his close relatives and acquaintances died, one after another, all so he could feel what Johan felt – solitude.[11] The orphan Milosh was also a potential victim of this. Disguised as his sister Anna, Johan sent Milosh on a quest to a German red-light district to find his mother. He told Milosh that if no one called out to him, it meant that he was never wanted, and then subsequently asked him what he would do in the advent of this realization.[41]
The root of Johan's actions and general high level of psychopathy is unknown. Though he was sent to the experimental orphanage of Kinderheim 511, Mr. Hartmann informed Tenma that, "[Kinderheim 511] couldn't possibly create a masterpiece like him! He was more than human... He was a monster ever since the beginning."[5] Neither of his parents seemed to suffer from psychopathy or any other mental illnesses. Anna, despite being the twin to experience the horrible events at the Red Rouse Mansion, turned out to be a genuinely loving and caring. However, while she was able to suppress her memories of the Red Rouse Mansion, Johan took her memories as his own, coming to believe that he was the one to experience the events.[9] After the Ruhenheim massacre, while convalescing in a state hospital from his second operation, Johan revealed to Tenma, through unknown means, his memory of his mother's decision,[8] revealing that said memory affected him profoundly.
Abilities Edit
Johan's main attribute is his genius-level intelligence. His elementary and middle school teachers remarked that he maintained good grades.[2] While investigating Johan, Richard Braun also deduced that he had a reputation of being at the top of his class with perfect grades at the gymnasium (school) he went to.[44] He is also multilingual; in addition to the Latin he learned while volunteering as one of Schuwald's readers, at twelve years of age, Johan was also able become fluent in both English and French within a thirteen-month period.[1] At the age of only fifteen, he started and presided over an underground bank,[20] a feat requiring a good understanding of both mathematics and economics. Schuwald's conclusion is further proof of Johan's vast understanding of economics: he decided that if anything were to happen to him, Johan would take over his place as opposed to Karl Nueman, his own son.
He possesses monstrous charisma and an inhuman prowess for manipulation. He is highly proficient at analysis and deduction, especially when it comes to the human psyche, and can gain direct access to people's core, hitting their weak spots, acknowledging their worth, and figuring out their mental processes, with manipulation being easy thereafter. What he's especially good at is unlocking the 'monster' in other people, bringing out their inner darkness and making them accept it like he has.


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