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Every week we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic book lore. Not major stuff like "the first appearance of Superman," but rather, "the first time someone said, 'Avengers Assemble!'" or "the first appearance of Batman's giant penny" or "the first appearance of Alfred Pennyworth" or "the first time Spider-Man's face was shown half-Spidey/half-Peter." Stuff like that. Here is an archive of all the When We First Met features so far! Check 'em out!
First Time Batman Vanished on Commissioner Gordon
Readers JoeMac and Kieran S. (and I am sure others) have asked me about this over the years. I'll be honest with you, I have not read through the first thirty-plus years of Batman comic books to give you a definitive can't miss answer, but my pal Graeme Burk wrote in with his theory on the first appearance of this particular bit and I think Graeme is correct. If Graeme is incorrect, feel free to write in with a better answer but I am confident that Graeme is on point when he notes that the first appearance of this particular bit was in 1973's Swamp Thing #7 by Len Wein and Berni Wrightson…
As you can see, it is definitely a new bit when it was used in Swamp Thing. Was it BRAND-new, though, is the question. I think so, but if anyone knows of a story before 1973 when Batman vanished on Gordon, please let me know by e-mailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Reader Aaron asked about a couple of first appearances of popular nicknames courtesy of Ben Grimm, the Thing.
First Time the Thing Called the Human Torch "Matchstick" and First Time the Thing Called Mr. Fantastic "Stretch"
Early on, the Thing's go-to nicknames for the Human Torch were "Squirt"…
and "Hot Head"…
And for Mister Fantastic, it was variations on "Rubber"…
and "Big Brain"…
In Fantastic Four #22 (the same issue that the Thing first said "clobberin' time"), the Thing breaks out "matchstick" for the first time…
and the very next issue, he breaks out "stretch" for the first time…
By the way, in Fantastic Four #8, some criminals call the Human Torch "matchstick"…
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Cool stuff on Benji's nicknames.
But wow, Batman didn't vanish on Gordon until '73? And it wasn't even in one of his titles first? It's so ingrained now, you figure it always happened, but wow. It's like how Arkham seems like it's been around forever, but that debuted around the same time, right? (did you cover the first Arkham here? You should if you haven't. I'm thinking you have, though.)
A cool variation on the vanishing trick happened in a recent issue of the digital Batman Beyond series, when Terry did it to Bruce. Bruce turns around mid-sentence to find Terry gone, and he reacts with "Nice."
I laughed out loud on that one.
The Huntress did it to Batman in her first appearance in JLI, which I think may have been the first time the reversal gag was used.
Love Bernie Wrightson!
It sort of happened in the Batman movie (Adam West) when they inconspicuously sneak out through the window while everyone is arguing in the UN – I always figured it was the TV shows version of his vanishing trick.
But I haven't read too many early 60s Batman comics to be sure.
Just goes to show how much the modern Batman we know really begins to take shape in the 70's.
My question is why does Gordon always work in the dark? Trying to save the tax payers some money on the electric bill?
Prior to Swamo Thing, Batgirl routinely disappeared on Batman and Robin in the 1960s TV series.
Thanks for featuring my question, Brian.
I never, ever in a hundred years would have guessed Batman first vanished on Gordon in an issue of Swamp Thing.
The reason I asked in the first place is because the new DC Adventures RPG actually has an Advantage (i.e. special ability but not actual power) called Hide in Plain Sight which mentions the trope in its description:
"You can hide . . . without any need for . . . any sort of diversions . . . You're literally there one moment moment, and gone the next. You must still have some form of cover or concealment within range of your normal movement speed in order to hide.
As Commissioner Gordon will tell you, Batman has this Advantage."
I thought it was pretty funny / telling that this shtick is so ingrained in the Batman mythos, especially in regards to his relationship with Gordon, that it actually one of his stats in a game based on DC Heroes.
Damn, Wrightson drew a great Barman.
And his Batman ain't bad either.
I can't remember the last time the FF comic has featured the old "put out Johnny's flames with a fire estinguisher" move like in that third to last image up there… ahh, the good old days, when a flame hot enough to melt a car could be put out with some foam….
nice always wondered if batman first pulled his disappearing act on gordon in his own book or some one elses featuring him as part of the story and surprise to find its in a swamp thing issue
Really? Batman didn't sneak away from Gordon until '73? That seems REALLY hard to believe for me. It makes me want to start flipping through all my Golden Age Batman reprints to find an earlier instance, but I still have to finish this week's LIID piece…
Batman DOES sneak away from the victim he rescued at the very end of "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate," but it wasn't Gordon. Hmmmmm… To be continued.
It sounds weird, John, but think about it. He obviously didn't do it for the DECADES that he visited Gordon with Robin. Those were just happy exchanges. So that really takes us up to roughly 1963-1964. He didn't do it in the Infantino years. So really, it boils down to "Did he do it in the O'Neil issues?" and it does not appear as though he did. He did it in the Englehart issues, but those were more recent than the Swamp Thing issue. It sounds bizarre, but I think it actually is correct. If it WAS, in fact, somewhere else, it likely would only be a year or so earlier.
While it wasn't on Gordon, Batman pulled his first "disappearing act" at the end of "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from DETECTIVE COMICS #27. I would not be surprised if he didn't disappear on Gordon until 1973, as prior to the seventies, Gordon was not a major character in the comic books. He was a supporting figure, but not on the level of, say, Lois Lane or even Perry White and Jimmy Olsen. I believe it wasn't until the success of the TV show that he became more frequently seen character in the comics. And even then, it seems a majority of his appearances were in Bob Haney's THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD until the late 1970s.
Don't have the issue number, but I think Johnny Storm's flame got doused by the water in a flower vase once. I also like Wrightson's Batman.
@Matthew Johnson: "The Huntress did it to Batman in her first appearance in JLI, which I think may have been the first time the reversal gag was used."
I recall an earlier case of someone disappearing on Batman. The Phantom Stranger vanished while Batman was talking to him–I think this was in an issue of BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo. I remember Batman wondering if it was as unnerving when he does it to other people, and then he said, "I hope so!"
I think my favorite version of the reversal has to be "Kingdom Come". Batman is telling Superman about the turn things have taken, realizes Supes has departed while he was talking and comments, "So that's what that feels like."
IIRC, Batman first disappeared from Gordon's presence around Detective #389 (1969) or so, the period where Neal Adams and Bob Brown started reestablishing the "creature of the night" concept after the 60s tv show was cancelled.
Now I have to go dig out the old longbox…
There was a nice take on this when Azrael was Batman for a while. Gordon is talking and as he turns he is suprised to see "Batman" still there. Azbats' line was something like "I didn't think you had finished talking." The Knightfall books are being reprinted so that scene should be availble soon.
David, I remember that scene from Knightfall, and it was a very nice touch.
Batman seems pretty confident in his hearing. He probably has Gordon's office bugged anyway! No waiting around for "and another thing I just remembered!" It would be fun to see a bit where Batman leaves before hearing something critical, and Gordon spends the rest of the issue trying to find Bats to warn him about whatever it was.
Ganky: yeah, I've also thought of that. It would serve him right since he is so rude
Batman seems pretty confident in his hearing. He probably has Gordon's office bugged anyway! No waiting around for "and another thing I just remembered!" It would be fun to see a bit where Batman leaves before hearing something critical, and Gordon spends the rest of the issue trying to find Bats to warn him about whatever it was.
That's a great idea! I want to put that into a story now!
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Just goes to show how much the modern Batman we know really begins to take shape in the 70?s.
Other than two poignant panels of a young
Bruce crying over his dead parents, the early Batman is devoid of angst.
The angst that we now associate with the character is not present in
1939-40; it is, in fact, a product of the 1970s, extrapolated by writers who felt
a need to give Bruce Wayne an inner darkness to match his original dark
surroundings. (Even then, the 1970s were not fully given over to angst –
Bob Haney and Jim Aparo's Batman of so many adventurous The Brave and
the Bold tales is actually quite a good match for Adam West's interpretation.)
The 1939-40 Batman is a straightforward hero surrounded by darkness but
not dark inside, much as the TV Batman is a straightforward hero in
exaggerated surroundings.
Listen: Bat-angst is a thing of the 1970s. It didn't exist previously. Fans today are made to believe that the brooding Batman, the shadowy figure warring against crime while anguishing over the murder of his parents is all there is, all there ever was—but it just ain't so. That completely ignores more than three decades of the character's stories and development, and that's a crime worthy of our hero's attention.
Angst mostly appeared in the Spider novels by Norvell Page or the Gray Seal tales by Norvell Page.
I've wondered about that too Ganky. How Batman knows that Gordan has said all the important things before he disappears. That's actually not the sign of a very good detective, leaving before the person is done talking, possibly missing an important detail. Imagine Batman capturing the wrong person. Gordan: "But Batman, it couldn't be *. I told you they were….". or "Why didn't you stop the bomb I told you about?" "What bomb, I must have left before you finished, so I could look cool and mysterious". And how does Gordan ALWAYS happen to be turned away from Batman when he does finish giving the important details? Why not at least turn and face him when you are giving him the last of the important details. And what does Batman do if Gordan were to turn and face him before giving that last important detail? "Look over there, a diversion!"
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The driver, Dusko Vucicevic, 46, of Monticello, was extricated by members of the Monticello Fire Department and Mobile Medic EMS, who reported the victim appeared to be highly intoxicated. There were no passengers, and no other vehicles were involved in the crash.
Vucicevic was treated for minor injuries at Catskill Regional Medical Center. After being discharged from the emergency room, he was given field sobriety tests and agreed to provide a blood sample, the sheriff's office said.
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South African private equity firm Basileus Capital has released a statement confirming the death of the firm's chief executive, Julian Williams, after reports emerged in local media of his alleged murder.
The incident is under investigation by local police.
According to the report in the Johannesburg financial publication MoneyWeb, Mr. Williams was engaged in a business dispute with the alleged shooter, Herman Pretorius, himself an investment manager of an unregulated asset management firm called Relative Value Arbitrage Fund. Pretorius is alleged to have turned the gun on himself after shooting Mr. Williams.
According to the MoneyWeb report:
Pretorius had been due to attend a meeting of investors in Moorreesburg on the evening of his death. Investors were informed that the event had been cancelled because Pretorius was in a meeting with Williams.
Mr. Williams and Mr. Pretorius were involved in a company called SA Superalloys. The company had stopped paying dividends earlier this year, after Mr. Pretorius had advised several private investors to back the company. Mr. Williams served on the SuperAlloy board, according to reports.
Basileus Capital had invested in several mining, minerals, and infrastructure companies across South Africa. The portfolio included Ocean's Edge, a distribution company for fresh fish; Kawuleza Connect, a telecommunications infrastructure company; Cash Connect, a payment services and cash management company; Burgan Oil Infrastructure, a provider of oil storage services.
The two founders of Basileus Cpaital, Mr. Williams and James Ngculu, launched the firm in March 2008. The firm employs over 45 people, according to its website.
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The Direct Response Espionage & Assault Department (Shapeways)
Update January 27, 2014
Here is something a little different... It's a project I've been wanting to do a long time now ever since I watched DOTM and loved the idea of the Dreads. Unfortunately the deluxe figure was kinda disappointing, and my attempts to fix it through Shapeways add ons was disappointing as well.
This time round I am going to approach the Dreads again but 'updated' to the TF: Prime aesthetic. The advantage is that the accessories can be made universal and adaptable between different figures, even though I'm concentrating on upgrading one. There are going to be a lot of different parts in these sets and they will be tied under a common theme and backstory so you can pick and choose to customize your own D.R.E.A.D member. For now I've just started on a few components, but there's going to be a lot more in the coming weeks!
On a personal note, the designs here will be fully original even though the aesthetic is inspired from the series. I know many of my previous models are sticklers for show accuracy so this time I want to design something for my own. I hope you guys will like it!
For the gallery of my own D.R.E.A.D. team, click here: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-customs/788152-direct-response-espionage-assault-department-d-r-e-d.html
"The Direct Response Espionage & Assault Department (D.R.E.A.D) is a sinister branch of Megatron's Vehicon
forces. Consisting of the most skilled and ruthless of his soldiers, each D.R.E.A.D member is an expert in
infiltrating enemy bases and conducting assassination missions on high profile targets.
In an odd twist from the standard Vehicon trooper, D.R.E.A.D troops have much forceful personalities and eschew
faceless masks for individual, unique helmets. They also don't mind the use of melee weapons and slagging it out
at close range, but they won't pass on heavy artillery if given the chance."
The Armory
The Spiker
"The Spiker blaster is made to be more powerful than the standard Vehicon blaster,
at the cost of being more wily and unstable. It fires nano-doped rounds at a high rate of fire,
and these devious bullets embed themselves in the targets and consume them from inside out,
corrupting circuits and frying synapses. Repairing such wounds is a long, arduous process.
Amputation is a more expedient solution."
This blaster was to emulate the 'spiky guns' that the Decepticon soldiers were using in
Dark of the Moon, but adapted to the aesthetics of the animated series. Hence, the
main chassis was designed with 3 sides and the spikes and talons develop out of the corners.
Other elements such as the multiple barrels were added to harken back to the original inspiration.
The Spiker Blaster on Shapeways
The Sickles
"The D.R.E.A.D Sickles are uncouth, savage pieces of hyper alloy with a vibranium
super-charger mounted on them to allow them to cut through the toughest of materials.
The high energy coursing through these blades often lead to burnouts, but it rarely stops
the D.R.E.A.D agent from mindlessly hacking away at his prey with a non-functional,
smoldering piece of punishment."
The Sickles store conveniently in the D.R.E.A.D's model 553 backpack.
These blades were meant to recall the 'pincers' on DOTM Crankcase, and were shaped accordingly
with the large, forward leaning curve so they look good both in hand and mounted on the back.
Inspiration was taken from machetes and similar thick bladed weapons, and the spiky tips are
a nod to the swords used by the Uruk-hai from the Fellowship of the Ring.
The Sickle blades on Shapeways.
The Slicers
"The D.R.E.A.D Slicers are interesting weapons indeed. These tri-bladed instruments
exhibit both the capability to deflect blows, disarm opponents and inflict heavy stab
wounds on their own, sometimes all in a swift flick of a servo. Many D.R.E.A.D members
loved to use these Slicers for assassination purposes since even the most unassuming
targets can still defend themselves with a well-hidden energo-dagger."
These Slicers are meant to give "Chet" a more beastly, animal-like appearance in the
simplest solution possible, as I didn't want any modding to be done on the Vehicon
figures for this project. The perk of this is that the Slicer design became very open
and adaptable; usable on lots of other figures. There are multiple ways to wield Slicers
as each comes with one static and one adjustable handle. Vehicons can hold it normally
like a katar or have it integrate neatly into their forearm structure.
The posability and expressiveness of the claws was a happy surprise. I mean, I knew it
was going to be posable, but wow, there's so much you can do with those claws!
The Slicer katars on Shapeways.
The Suppressors
"Even though the Decepticons often outnumber their enemies due to their near inexhaustible
supply of soldiers, the D.R.E.A.D team often find themselves on the other side of the coin,
having to fight off large groups of autobots with little backup. This is why they always bring
along a fire support member armed with a pair of Suppressor miniguns. Not only can
these Suppressors channel unbelievable amounts of ordnance, they can do so independently
due to appropriated Targetmaster technology, effectively simulating three soldiers in place of one.
Each Suppressor is mounted atop a SWIFT swivel arm that allows it to pivot 360º laterally
and 90º in elevation. They can mount on the D.R.E.A.D's model 553 backpack for
maximum killzone exposure."
I added the Suppressors to this project as I felt "Chet" still needed more visual mass on him
to play along with its 'beastly' personality. Besides, this harkens back to the highway chase scene
in DOTM except in this case, "Chet" is the one with the heavy firepower and 'stealth mode'.
The 360º was a nice solution that I implemented as the Suppressors can be mounted anywhere
and yet be effectively positioned and aimed.
The Suppressor miniguns on Shapeways.
The Dreadacles
"Apart from Soundwave himself, the D.R.E.A.Ds are the best hackers and infiltrators among Megatron's
troops. These Dreadacles they use are one of the ways they connect themselves to security systems to
deliver their synergized, brute force attacks. Not many systems are able to withstand their corrupting
touch. In the event of a tussle, these whip-like, vicious appendages can be used as effective weapons
in a pinch."
The Dreadacles, or tentacles are the driving force of inspiration for this project, I believe. These are
what made the Dreads 'Dreads'. I have been trying forever to create balljointed tentacles like these
and it is now that I've succeeded in getting the proportion and thicknesses right so that the tentacles
can hold their shape and not collapse under their own weight, at least not immediately. It was a happy
coincidence that they are nicely proportioned to fit with 3mm pegs; creating matching backpacks and
accessories (the cyber-kunai) was just icing.
Arming of all 6 Dreadacles requires the use of the 6X3 Backpack. However, any other 3mm port
can also be used.
The 6 Dreadacle set on Shapeways.
The 2 Dreadacle set on Shapeways.
The Backpacks
"Being the versatile operatives they are, the D.R.E.A.D team augment themselves with various
modifications to allow them to switch between their huge arsenal of weapons instantaneously. No
autobot can truly anticipate the feistiness of a D.R.E.A.D agent."
It was a happy day when I discovered that the Vehicon backpiece is easily removable. Oh joy!
This is because having a replaceable backpiece is what makes the D.R.E.A.D project come together;
the Dreadacles, Sickles, Suppressors will not work without it. It was great that I was able to fashion
those ports into rocket thrusters too, in order to give them the 'batmobile' treatment. This tied in with
their 'pursuit, intercept, destroy' backstory as well.
For your benefit, the Backpacks shown in the photos above are printed in different materials. The 553
is in White Strong Flexible, and the 6X3 is in FUD. The difference in quality is apparent even under all
the paint.
The 6X3 Backpack on Shapeways.
The 553 Backpack on Shapeways.
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Hi guys!
I'm so sorry to have not been updating this thread for weeks but as you can see I've been working on it behind the scenes...Here's something to show for it!
D.R.E.A.D agents Casúr and Corvus are the first 2 characters I've completed. There will be a ah...third one, coming soon!
The D.R.E.A.D Spiker is the TF: Prime universe version of the Scolex Spiker. They are similar in characteristics, but the Dread version is made to resemble an evolution from the Vehicon blaster as well.
More to come guys! Hope you like what I'm doing!
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Definition of palimpsest in English:
1A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.
Example sentences
- By going back to journal entries in which I initially recorded some of the events that surfaced in the 'written' writing, I was able to locate an initial palimpsest, or precipitate, of the writing.
- Some people used old books as the basis of their scrapbook, leading to a palimpsest of original text and jumbled scraps, with columns overlapping columns and sentences running together.
- In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes.
1.1Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form: Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners
More example sentences
- In subterranean passages, where sedimentation rates are extremely low, endogenous processes are the primary sediment source, and archaeologists must identify artifact palimpsests on ancient surfaces.
- It also reflects the widespread discovery that nothing is so boring and oppressive as the monothematic Modernist masterplan, and that most real landscapes are palimpsests recording layers of history and changes of mind.
- Every city is an urban palimpsest, a used parchment covered with the fragmentary scrawls of its own past.
palimpsestic adjective
- Example sentences
- The palimpsestic jumble created by the network of pedestrian acts in the city, ultimately leaves the detective suspended at the surface, as if the city space were indeed flat.
- Her statement suggests that the wall and her pictures weave a kind of palimpsestic image-memory around her, informing her when she is not looking at them.
- American critics like Gates have used the metaphor of a 'silent second text' to describe the intertextual, palimpsestic dialogue between historically significant works of African American fiction.
Mid 17th century: via Latin from Greek palimpsēstos, from palin 'again' + psēstos 'rubbed smooth'.
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Vandals have damaged the Jane Clark Park sports field in Tacoma. Officials won't know exactly how bad the damage is until they can test the irrigation and drainage systems in the spring. It appears a 4x4 vehicle left deep ruts running from one end of the field to the other.
The park had recently been upgraded as part of the 2005 Park Improvement bond measure. Joy riders also ripped up half a dozen other Tacoma parks this week.
"It's so senseless," said park maintenance supervisor Ron Peart. "The damage they've done will affect a lot of people and they probably did all of this for just a few short minutes of entertainment."
Other parks hit by joy riding vandals this week include Wapato, Alling, Brown Point Playfield, Jefferson, Franklin and Vassault.


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Raven Software teamed up with id Software for the second time in the hit fantasy action game Heretic. Based on a modified Doom engine, Heretic pioneered a revolutionary new inventory system for character item use that has become commonplace in the FPS genre.
Players took on the role of Corvus, an Elven hero whose race was nearly wiped out by the serpent rider known as D'Sparil. The first episode of Heretic was released as Shareware as a precursor to the full version of the game, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders.
Heretic won several awards for excellence and opened many new doors in the computer gaming industry for Raven Software.


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Love It or Leave It: Kim Kardashian's Ever-Evolving Self
8/27/2014 6:30 AM PDT, by Sarah Taylor
Kim Kardashian basically looks great no matter what she does. Despite there being a large contingent of folks who want nothing more than to body-shame her for whatever reason, there's no denying the fact that Kim's got a sensual shape -- and she knows how to work her angles.
Verdict: Love it. Of course, we might not think of Kim much in a personal or professional capacity, but we can't deny that we have strong opinions on girl's physical presence, because DANG.
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M. Weiss , Carleton University
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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICECT.2005.35
Companies need to adjust their business models constantly to changes in their environment. In thii paper we propose a lightweight approach for evolving business models that allows for a quick evaluation of alternatives, whlle preserving investments in existing business processes. The approach is based on the User Requirements Notation (URN) fix modeling and analysis of early requirements in the form of goals and scenarios URN models help us model the strategic options available to a business for evolving its business model, and determine when the right moment to apply them has come. We illustrate the systematic and incremental evolution of business model alternatives for an e-business case study.
M. Weiss, D. Amyot, "Design and Evolution of e-Business Models", CEC, 2005, Seventh IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05), Seventh IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05) 2005, pp. 462-466, doi:10.1109/ICECT.2005.35


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Several students from the Laconia High School have been selected to represent their school on Thursday, Nov. 7 at Plymouth State University in the All New England Choral Festival, conducted by Dr. Dan Perkins.
Choral students from the New England area were selected to represent their schools and participate in this experience. From LHS, the following students have been selected: sopranos — Brittney Pond and Jasmyn Murgatroy; altos — Destiny DeMond and Keisha McCrea; tenor — Bryson Haddock; and basses — Mitchell Bailey and Michael Tarling.
This one day festival will conclude with a concert in the Silver Center at PSU at 7 p.m. The ANECF Chorus will be joined with performances by the PSU Music, Theater and Dance Department. Tickets can be purchased through the PSU Box Office by calling 535-ARTS.


text: Ban Ki-moon UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and resolve issues peacefully after a Pakistani soldier who intruded into the Indian territory was killed by the Indian Army along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Ban's spokesperson Martin Nesirky yesterday told reporters that the UN chief was aware of the latest incident on February 14 at the LoC in which the Pakistani soldier, after intruding into Indian territory in a fresh incident of ceasefire violation, was killed by the Indian troops. "The Secretary-General has repeatedly called on all concerned to exercise restraint and solve issues peacefully," Nesirky said when asked if Ban had a comment on the fresh incident along the Indian-Pakistan border. It was the first fatal exchange between troops in the region since the two armies agreed a ceasefire on January 16. A flare-up along the LoC in early January saw a total of five soldiers killed, three from Pakistan and two from India. Cross-border trade and transport links were also suspended for several weeks although they have since resumed. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir. Each administers part of the territory but claims the whole of Kashmir.


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The Irene Ransom Bradley School of Nursing offers a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree with a major in Nursing. Within the program, students will select from three different emphasis areas, listed below. Those completing the program will be designated as either a Family Clinical Nurse Specialist (by selecting an emphasis in either Family Health Education or Family Health Administration) or as a Family Nurse Practitioner depending upon their choice of emphasis. Graduates are eligible for national certification examinations and to apply to the Kansas State Board of Nursing for Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) status upon completion of their degree.
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More From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, Night Two
As a whole, the second evening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert ran much more smoothly than the previous night, with reasonably seamless transitions between acts and ending before midnight. The night was also chock-a-block with surprise musical pairings.
As noted earlier, Aretha Franklin started off the evening with duets with Annie Lennox for "Chain of Fools" and Lenny Kravitz for "Think."
Next up, Jeff Beck, replacing late drop-out Eric Clapton (for gallstone surgery), had a few surprise musical mash-ups of his own. First, he brought out Sting — who performed with Stevie Wonder the previous night — for "People Get Ready" and then jammed with Buddy Guy, who he says inspired him so much when he first saw him in 1962, on "Let Me Love You Baby." Billy Gibbons later came out for a take on Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady." (Beck also did nice solo work on two salutes to other artists: Ray Charles' "Drown in My Tears" and the Beatles' "A Day in the Life.")
Third act Metallica brought the crowd to its feet, as audience members — well, much of the male half at least — played air guitar and head-banged their way through their set. After charging through Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" — a song James Hetfield said was "one of the songs I wish we would have wroted — and thank my English teacher right now — I wish we had written," he added that the group wasn't "the most jamming sort of band" and that they were "a tight little unit." So they were a bit hesitant about some of their pairings, but felt it all made sense after their rehearsals.
The first dual performance was with Lou Reed, who was greeted by the audiences chanting "Loooouuuu" and then belted out "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat" with the band. Ozzy Osbourne came out next for "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," and finally a spry Ray Davies — who seemed really attuned to the audience — joined the rockers for rousing versions of "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night." The band's last number was a different sort of pairing — they showed video of Yankees closer Mariano Rivera as they played his ballpark-announcement music, "Enter Sandman."
For many in the audience, however, all three previous sets were just a warm-up for the night's last act: U2. Not only did the band perform signature songs like "Vertigo" and "Mysterious Ways," but they also collaborated on two very different pairings. The first was "Because the Night" with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, which Bono introduced by saying was a song the group wished they'd written. (Thanks to some technical flubs the first time around, the group had to perform the song a second time so HBO — which is airing an edited version of the show Thanksgiving weekend — would have a clean cut.)
The second surprise pairing brought out the Black Eyed Peas for a "Where is the Love/One" mashup, which transitioned into a performance with the previously unannounced Mick Jagger. Jagger shook his hips at Fergie while dueting on "Gimme Shelter," and stuck around after the Peas exited the stage to rock out with Bono on a genuinely fantastic back and forth rendition on "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of."
The only real flaw was that unlike the previous night, the evening ended on a U2-only version of one of the group's biggest hits– no performer-wide call to the stage tonight, a la yesterday's group sing-along to "Higher and Higher."
Still, U2′s "Beautiful Day" isn't a bad way to end a beautiful night.


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"The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that for
Latinos living in the U.S. for long periods of time, the odds of
developing mental disorders increases, accompanied by a dramatic
increase in rates of alcohol, antidepressants and other chemicals"
I think that it is counterproductive to include use of antidepressants as a problem akin to use of alcohol and other substances. People on antidepressants are seeking treatment. These medicines are not perfect but they can be extremely helpful to people with depression and anxiety.
There is a problem with access to mental health treatment which is particularly problematic for the Latino community because of the number of people without health insurance and the language barrier.


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Work and pleasure are so synonymous to Casey that getting him to suggest anything else he might do with more time in the day was harder than expected. Finally, after a long pause, he offered, "I think I'm . . . disruptive by nature, so I'd be looking at, what can I break next, and what can we do better?"
There's no way to know what the next disruption will bring, to Ireland, to China, or to your own front doorstep. I asked Casey to reflect on his own surprising course, from the farm in County Cork to his present-day mobile, global identity.
"It's not a clean arc, there's been a bit of meandering. To me it's a journey, and often the journey is more fun than the destination."
I thought again of the Pacific Coast Highway.
"The longer you can keep the journey going," Casey smiled, "the better."
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To be considered, you will need a track record of developing cutting edge campaign concepts for leading national/international brands. Naturally, you will be happy collaborating with designers, creative directors and other creative teams.
If successful, you will be joining one of the most talented creative departments outside of London, working across truly integrated marketing campaigns, covering TV, radio, press, outdoor, DM, SP, POS, online, mobile and social media. You should be able to show a similar variety in your portfolio.
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The Acoustic Tearoom was originally located at Rattan and Rush, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, in the beautiful Eden Valley. We started our live music evenings some years ago with some dear friends who were in the music business, and as a result have met some lovely people in the process, without whom none of this would have been possible. A couple of years later we moved the live venue to The Masonic Hall, just a stones throw from the shop.
It is an ideal venue for the up close and acoustic artists who take a pride in their craft and who love an intimate atmosphere with their audience, this makes for a very special evening.
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Acquacotta (Vegetable Soup)
Serves 6
Acquacotta means "cooked water," but that doesn't begin to describe how delicious this soup is! It also freezes beautifully, so double the recipe if you like. Adding a Parmesan cheese rind to the soup while it's cooking is a clever Italian method for deepening flavors.
- 1 lb. Swiss chard or kale
- 4 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 1 large yellow onion, finely chopped
- 2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 stalks celery, finely chopped
- ½ tsp. salt, or to taste
- ½ tsp. crushed red pepper, or more to taste
- 2 Tbs. tomato paste
- 1 cup tomato purée
- 2-inch Parmesan rind
- 6 1-inch-thick slices Italian bread
- Grated Parmesan cheese for garnish


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SAUGERTIES — Officers arrested a Saugerties woman who allegedly stole a cashmere sweater from a local store, then returned it after discovering she was recognized in a surveillance photo posted on Facebook, Saugerties police said.
Heather Wilber, 39, returned to the DIG store on Partition Street nearly four hours after she allegedly stole a $250 cashmere sweater and the store's owners had posted a photo from their surveillance video, police said. Wilber left the sweater on a counter and tried to flee, police said.
"A lot of friends called her and said, 'You better bring that sweater back,'" DIG owner Daisy Bolle said . "People were messaging me with names of who they thought it could be."
Wilber is accused of stealing the sweater about 2:30 p.m. The theft set off a security tag that is part of a new security system DIG recently installed to deter chronic thefts, Bolle said.
The shop reviewed its security video and posted a photo of the suspect on "Dig Saugerties," a personal Facebook page, Bolle said. Bolle and Saugerties police said they got calls and text messages from people who thought they recognized the suspect. Eventually, Wilber learned of the online post and returned to the store about 6:15 p.m., police said.
"We actually had the person's name before she went and did this," Saugerties police Chief Joe Sinagra said. Wilber was charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. She was released after being issued an appearance ticket and is due back in court on Jan. 28.
Bolle decided to press charges despite getting the sweater back. She is also keeping the Facebook post up for now, because she wants potential thieves to know that having a photo circulated online "could last for your life."
"It makes me sad that people are stealing from little stores like this. It's not just the cost of the sweater, but the cost of this expensive security system we had to buy," Bolle said.
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Swire Properties is better known for its offices and shopping malls — think Pacific Place in Hong Kong's Admiralty District — but this weekend the company will mark its latest foray in residential property.
Fifty-one residential units in a new Mid-Levels District high-rise in Hong Kong will go on sale Saturday. The asking price is 22,288 Hong Kong dollars per square foot (US$2,875). The building, called Azura on 2A Seymour Rd., is expected to be completed at the end of 2012 and includes 126 units on 53 floors. The remaining 75 units will be sold at an undetermined date depending on market response, said Alex Tsoi, sales manager of Swire Properties.
Swire generally develops one or two residential listings a year. Past residential projects in Hong Kong include the Albany in Mid-Levels and the Orchards in Quarry Bay.
Azura's floor plan places three units in a fan shape on each level, with a larger 1,600-square-foot four-bedroom unit sandwiched between two three-bedroom 1,300-square-foot units. Prices for the units on sale Saturday –- apartments on the 19th to 38th floors –- range from HK$32.7 million to HK$52.5 million.


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With all of the talk about baby foods.. I am getting overwhelmed.
Today was my LO's 6 month appointment and we are going to start solids now. Ive given her banana and applesauce but nothing consistant. I feel the pressure to do everything natural, organic, or make the food myself. But I just dont see that working into my schedule with working full time and spending as much time with baby as possible. Im also trying to be more consistant with the gym every day, which takes more time.
Is it so bad to feel jarred baby food? What about the natural jarred?
I really want to do baby led weaning, but for the first month or two I want to get LO used to the different tastes and taking in more food.
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Definition of tuba in English:
1A large brass wind instrument of bass pitch, with three to six valves and a broad bell typically facing upwards.
Example sentences
- She plays the violin, viola and piano, while Antonin plays the viola, cello, double bass, tuba, guitar and recorder.
- While they were eating, a small jazz band in the corner, made up of only a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, flute, and drums, provided music.
- Exhausted musicians huddle in doorways puffing on cigarettes and cradling warm coffee, trying to work the feeling back into limbs gone numb from nearly six kilometres of marching and holding heavy white tubas and bass drums aloft.
1.1A powerful reed stop on an organ with the quality of a tuba.
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- The ensuing fugue is more dramatic - some quite powerful playing here, using both a concert pianist's finger technique and the orchestral sounds available to the romantic organ, complete with pedal solos and tuba stop.
- The Tuba Stop is a significant stop as it is a loud reed stop.
- This piece was originally written to showcase the tuba stop on the organ at Liverpool cathedral.
Mid 19th century: via Italian from Latin, 'trumpet'.
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To Melancholy
by Charlotte Smith
The River Arun
Symbol Analysis
The poem takes place on the banks of some body of water, and the epigraph tells us specifically that it's the River Arun (which is in southern England). Let's think about the symbolic power of rivers for a moment… They're around for a long time, right? So rivers can connect past and present because you can imagine someone sitting and looking at the same river hundreds of years earlier.
- Epigraph: The poet takes care to give us the specifics of where and when she wrote "To Melancholy." It seems like it was important to her that her readers know exactly what river the poem is about. Why do you think this is? Would it have changed your reading to imagine that it was a river or creek in your own neighborhood or area?
- Line 1: The speaker gives human characteristics to the season Autumn—that's a classic case of personification. And the metaphor gets extended when the speaker says that Autumn is wearing a "veil." (See the theme of "Women and Femininity" for more on this).
- Line 2: The "grey mist" rises off of the water almost like a stream of ghosts. This may be what sparks the speaker's imagination. The ghosts of poetry past are beginning to haunt her!
- Line 9: The speaker imagines that she could meet the ghost of Thomas Otway, a seventeenth-century poet and playwright, because the Arun is his "native stream," too. In other words, he grew up around the same area, so she imagines that he might have looked at the river for inspiration, too.


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State police said they are investigating the death of a man Monday afternoon.
Police said they received a 911 call regarding two people who needed medical attention at a home on Sugar Hill Road.
Crews found a 50-year-old man dead at the home. A 53-year-old woman was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Detectives were called to investigate. As of Monday afternoon, the man's death appears to be an isolated incident, police said. Troopers said there are no signs of foul play.
The relationship between the man and the woman is being withheld pending notification of family, police said.
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Police dash cam(Recently released)TEXT FROM SOURCE:TALLAHASSEE,Florida... Saying he was placed in an "impossible situation," a state disciplinary panel on Tuesday exonerated a Marco Island police officer who faced charges of battery and excessive force surrounding a February on-duty scuffle at an island comedy club.
Accompanied by his police chief, Stephen Mariani stood silently as the panel for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reviewed the Feb. 16th incident that brought criminal charges and department sanctions against the 22-year veteran.
"I can appreciate this officer being placed in an impossible situation," said commission Chairman Keith Durkin.
The FDLE Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission then proceeded to reject a staff recommendation to hold further formal proceedings, which could have forced Mariani to turn in his badge.
But he did not get off scot-free. Panelists agreed to issue a letter of guidance, a probation-like directive that if successfully followed would mean a slate clean for the police officer who joined the force in 2006 after 20 years as a New York City cop.
Mariani, 50, declined comment after the verdict but Marco Island Police Chief Thom Carr said the panel's action was good news that hopefully will be the final chapter of an incident marred by multiple errors.
"With the fact that he never denied doing this but lost control for the first time in 22 1/2 years, we were looking for a letter of guidance from FDLE," Carr said after the hearing. "Fortunately, we got it."
Mariani was suspended for two weeks without pay and placed on six months probation for an February 2008 altercation he had with three suspects who were part of a boisterous busload of visitors at a Marco Island comedy club.
While transporting the verbally abusive suspects to Collier County's jail, a video camera installed inside the police cruiser showed Mariani stopping the vehicle, opening the driver's side rear door and punching two of the suspects. When one suspect tried to escape, Mariani pepper sprayed all three.
Carr, who testified on Mariani's behalf, said the officer erred when he lost control with the belligerent suspects but also said several mistakes were made during and after the arrest that likely led to the altercation and the charges.
Mariani should not have been dispatched alone to deal with a busload of rowdy partygoers from Miami without proper backup. And after he and an off-duty officer scuffled with some of the revelers, Mariani should not have been ordered to drive the suspects to headquarters after the row.
"The whole thing was bad from the get-go," Carr said of the events surrounding the February arrest. "There were several errors made. Some of that has been corrected, people have been disciplined, I don't see that ever happening again."
The panel could have accepted the staff recommendation and ordered a formal hearing, a legal proceeding in which witnesses would be called and a ruling is made. Mariani could have lost his position as a law enforcement officer.
Nearly three-quarters of the 120 cases against law enforcement officers that have come before the panel this year have resulted in findings of probable cause, according to FDLE statistics. Of the 106 disciplinary actions taken by the FDLE this year, the officer had their certification revoked or voluntarily relinquished it in more than 60 percent.
But commissioners appeared to agree with Matt Ward, a Police Benevolent Association attorney who represented Mariani at the hearing. With the suspects jailed for their part in the brawl, Mariani already disciplined for his role, and changes made to prevent a similar incident from happening, Webb said the system of internal review worked.
"At the end of the day, this was a tough night for everyone involved," Webb said.
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"The shortage of water is the biggest threat that Iraqi agriculture has ever faced," an employee in the directorate-general of irrigation for Diyala province, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. "It threatens not only food but also employment in this city (Baquba, capital of the province).
"But this suggestion was rejected because people know that the Diyala river carries the bodies of those killed in the sectarian fighting," said Abdul-Qadir Omran, a now unemployed trader. "It is not good for drinking, and psychologically it is unacceptable."
"It is shocking that the individual who is primarily responsible for investigating federal whistleblower complaints would be the target of an investigation in which he and his staff are suspected of obstructing justice."
"The Bush administration must take whistleblower protection seriously, relieve Mr. Bloch of his position, and appoint a Special Counsel who possesses the necessary qualifications and integrity to do the job right."
ATLANTIC FREE PRESS - A national coalition of over 50 local, state and national organizations are participating in walk from Tucson to Phoenix beginning May 2 to call for an end to racially fomented hate crimes. The ten-day peaceful walk will end with a rally in downtown Phoenix on Mother's Day, May 11, honoring mothers for teaching children to treat all human beings with equal dignity.
"We walk in support of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and join them in seeking the indictment and prosecution of any who willfully abuse the constitutional rights of citizens," states organizer Jay Johnson-Castro. "American values and the future of our country are at stake when people live in fear and are terrorized.
Among the more than 50 organizations endorsing the event are:
LULAC National; Cesar Chavez March for Justice; National Indian Treaty Council;
Border Angels; Freedom Ambassadors; National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights; Veterans for Peace; Derechos Humanos; Humane Borders; Gente Unida;
American Indian Movement; International Indian Treaty Council; Texas Indigenous Council; Border Ambassadors; Border Network for Human Rights; Southwest Workers Union; No Mas Muertes; LUPE; Somos America, the 42 member Phoenix coalition;
IUE-CWA/AFL-CIO; Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIO;
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law; Dallas Peace Center and MADRES.
Groups as well as individuals are invited to participate in the walk for an hour, a mile, a day or whatever circumstances allow. The walk will begin immediately after a 10 a.m. rally on Friday, May 2 in downtown Tucson at the Plaza on South 6th Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets.
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"One technique the CIA officers could use under circumstances without fear of prosecution was strapping a subject down and making him experience a feeling of drowning," the Times reported.
We have had great demand for screenings of MISTAKEN IDENTITY as "A Celebration of Cultural Diversity" from mainstream British viewers, across the UK and EU. Especially, in places where there are large communities of British Sikhs. It is a documentary film anchored by 22-year old Amanda Gesine, from Greenwich, CT, who discovers her Sikh neighbors after 9/11 for the first time. She never had a Sikh friend in school or college and strongly felt that racial profiling starts with ignorance and fear.
"Police chief Ghanim al-Qureyshi gave orders to control the fighting in this district very secretly," a policeman in the 2nd battalion told IPS on condition of anonymity. "The 2nd battalion of Iraqi police moved to Hwaider, whose people witnessed severe military clashes between the Mehdi Army and police."
"More troubling, 11 blanket NSL's issued by [FBI] Headquarters officials in 2006 that sought telephone data on 3,860 telephone numbers did not comply with the Patriot Reauthorization Act requirements respecting these provisions, internal FBI policy, or both. We are concerned by the failure of senior Counterterrorism Division officials to comply with statutory requirements and internal policy regarding the issuance of NSL's and their failure to consult legal counsel."
"The FBI continues to make grave errors within its counterterrorism program. These mistakes threaten both individual civil liberties and national security. It is unacceptable that over six years after the 9/11 attacks the FBI still does not understand basic rules governing counterterrorism operations. The FBI and Department of Justice have refused to listen to internal whistleblowers who have documented numerous problems within the counterterrorism program which threaten the safety of every American. Although the Inspector General has again documented problems with the abuses of the NSLs, they have refused to order changes in basic FBI policies which caused the NSL violations."


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How Verizon Could Make TV Entrepreneurial Again
As the WSJ's Shalini Ramachandran reports today, Verizon is looking to do something that is genuinely radical in the pay-TV industry and completely normal in the rest of the business world: pay the TV channels it carries on its network based on how many people actually watch them. In the process, it could make the pay-TV industry a more interesting place for the kind of entrepreneurs that currently gravitate to the web.
In plenty of industries, the idea of paying a supplier based on how much of their product is used or consumed wouldn't be seen as anything other than flamingly obvious, but that's not how the pay-TV industry works: providers like Verizon currently pay a fixed fee for each household a channel is distributed to, no matter how many households actually watch it.
The cable companies negotiate over the per-household fee, but once that fee is agreed on, it doesn't matter if one person or a million people are watching: you're still getting paid for every single house able to tune into it.
That's what Verizon wants to change, Ramachandran reports:
Instead, Verizon would like to offer broad distribution of a "significant number of channels," including independent networks and smaller outlets. But each channel would be paid solely according to how many subscribers tuned in each month for a "unique view," or a minimum of five minutes, Mr. Denson said. Viewership would be measured by Verizon's set-top box data, not Nielsen ratings.
"If you are willing to give a channel five minutes of your time, the cash register would ring in favor of the programmer," Mr. Denson said. For smaller and independent channels that often aren't widely distributed, he said, this model would provide much broader exposure.
It's a "disruptive model," said Verizon's chief programming negotiator, Terry Denson. It's also one that would sound pretty familiar to almost all new internet-based media companies: cheap access to a distribution platform, with revenue coming in based on how many users you can attract.
Big media companies like Disney or News Corporation (owner of the WSJ, etc), which own most of the popular channels on cable, will resist this system, because the way things work right now is a very nice deal for them. They negotiate based on a take-it-or-leave-it approach: if you want ESPN, you also need to take the other channels Disney is pushing, even if some of them are only marginally popular among viewers.
This can end up meaning that some channels get paid disproportionate to their popularity, while others get a raw deal. Via analysts at Nomura, here's that disparity in chart form: channels like Disney, Fox News and CNN spinoff HLN, take a big share of total affiliate fees paid by providers despite relatively low ratings, while others like the History Channel or the Food Network seem like they're getting paid less than they deserve:
So while the bosses at Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting, owner of CNN and HLN among others, will likely not be keen on per-viewer payments, the new model could be more attractive to smaller independent channels. Verizon could give them free access to a larger number of households, and it's up to them to find the viewers. If they do, they get paid accordingly.
That sounds like a pretty good recipe for startup TV channels, particularly ones built on the same assumptions that drive web-native media companies: start small, keep costs under control, and grow alongside your audience. The current model requires almost the exact opposite — and that goes a long way to explaining why genuinely offbeat or innovative little start-up TV channels on cable are so few and far between.
See also:
The Numbers: Cable TV's Most Expensive Channels – Corporate Intelligence
Cable Companies Won't Free Your TV, But Washington Might – Corporate Intelligence


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Definition of consigliere in English:
noun (plural consiglieri pronounced same)
A member of a Mafia family who serves as an adviser to the leader and resolves disputes within the family.
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- Other than advise the Corleones, what does a consigliere do on radio?
- A malign version of myself, more outrageous and more cunning, he became the godfather and I the consiglieri of our two-man 'mob'.
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MOUNT VERNON—The Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM) at Brewton-Parker College hosted a hoedown fundraiser Oct. 20 at Brady Farms in Soperton. More than 30 BPC students enjoyed country music, skits, raffle games, prizes, chili and cornbread, square dancing and hay rides.
"The reason for hosting the hoedown was so that we could raise money for some of our mission trips for the years to come," said Glenn Wallace, student campus minister.
BCM at BPC has organized several local mission trips in the past year, including a recent weekend trip to Savannah.
Brewton-Parker students get into the country spirit of BCM's Hoedown Oct. 20 with some line dancing. From left are Junior Kimberly Knighton, Senior Suzanne Emeott, Junior Amanda Durr, Freshman Rebecca Brady and Erin Bower. (Photo by Nicole Mathis)


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Betrayal Quotes in Freedom
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And a neutral bystander he [Walter] remained all through the spring and summer of Joey's sophomore year and into the following fall, when Jessica went off to college in the East and Joey moved out of his parents' house and in with Carol, Blake, and Connie. (1.1.120)
One could make the argument that the entire book pivots around this one fateful decision. What do you think Joey's motives are? Is it just to share a bed with his girlfriend? Or to get out from under his parents' thumb? Or to flex his freedom muscles? Or just to spend time in Blake's awesome room? Does he even understand how betrayed his parents will feel? Does he consider the consequences of his actions?
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"No, seriously, I can see why you don't respect us. If all you ever see, year after year, is girls who want you to betray your best friend. I can see that's a weird situation." (2.2.781)
Is this an accurate description of Richard's view of women? Is this why he doesn't respect them? Or do you think it inflates his view of himself to deny these temptations?
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That she could say all this, and not only say it but remember it very clearly afterward, does admittedly cast doubt on the authenticity of her sleep state. But the autobiographer is adamant in her insistence that she was not awake at the moment of betraying Walter and feeling his friend split her open. Maybe it was the way she was emulating the fabled ostrich and keeping her eyes firmly shut [...] (2.3.393)
Again, that italicized word: "adamant." Patty's highest priority is to absolve herself of blame for betraying Walter. That is, she totally gets what an unforgivable betrayal it is, but in order to live with herself she needs to do whatever she can to make it seem, um, less bad.


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