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Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council is a Law Enforcement Union representing some 10,000 plus professionals who work in the Criminal Justice Arena and are granted their collective bargaining rights under the Illinois Labor Relations Act. Our members are Municipal Police Officers, County Sheriff's Deputies, Police Officers who work for Elected Constitutional Officers, University Police Officers, County Correctional Officers, Court Security Officers, Probation Officers, 911 Telecommunicators, Records Personnel and some related Support Staff.
Outside the City of Chicago the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council represents more law enforcement professionals than any other union in Illinois with over 490 bargaining units. Our largest units boast membership numbers in the hundreds, while some of our smallest units consist of only four to five members. We have a presence in some of the most remote parts of the State, such as the Cities of Beardstown and Metropolis and the Counties of Washington and Union, as well as some of the densest regions, such as the Chicagoland Area and Cook County.
The Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council prides itself in representing its membership in the specialized field of public sector/public safety labor representation. With a full time staff of 13 attorneys and 13 field representatives, all responsible for negotiating contracts and representing membership, the FOP Labor Council has 208 years of combined Law Enforcement experience and 475 years of labor experience, collectively.
With offices in Western Springs (north) and Springfield (south), the FOP Labor Council is the only union who can meet the demands of law enforcement professionals 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with 10 administrative staff members and a 24 hour emergency hotline.
The Illinois FOP Labor Council was originally framed as a "Labor Committee" of the Illinois FOP State Lodge back in 1983 in anticipation of police officers gaining the right to collectively bargain. In 1984 collective begging became collective bargaining with the inclusion of police officers and firefighters under the Illinois Labor Relations Act.
With the onslaught of police officers seeking rights under collective bargaining, the Labor Committee quickly evolved into an independent entity known today as the FOP Labor Council. Several active law enforcement officers from across the state left the security of their employment to help form the Labor Council. Their dedication and commitment established the backbone of the Labor Council which today employs labor experts with experience from across a broad range of the labor relations spectrum.


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Lily Allen slowly getting better
HollywoodNews.com: Lily Allen has had a very difficult time lately, but it sounds like things may be getting better for the young singer.
After suffering her second miscarriage, she had to be taken to the hospital to reportedly be treated for septicaemia, a blood-poisoning condition. Now, her rep reports she is allegedly showing sings of improvement and responding well to the treatment, states People.
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Coventry Blaze forward Chris McNamara has revealed that he is retiring from ice hockey.
The popular 26-year-old, who topped Blaze's powerplay scoring charts, had decided that this season would be his last when he came to Coventry in September.
With the option of adding an MBA from Coventry University Business School to his under-graduate degree, McNamara came to Blaze to end his playing days before embarking on a career in business.
Little did he realise then that he would finish on such a high, being on the ice when Ashley Tait completed the Grand Slam for Coventry in the play-off finals in Nottingham.
McNamara said: "To be honest I didn't have a clue about British hockey when I came over here. I'd spoke to a few guys I knew but I didn't know where Coventry was, nor what to expect.
"You couldn't have written the script. Ashley, a British player and the captain, scoring, and us winning all three trophies. It was a great year and something I'm sure will never be repeated.
"I had told the guys that I was going to retire, and it was at the back of my head that weekend. It's a pretty special way to end your career.
"I knew that it would be my final season, and I couldn't have asked for a better one. The game is different to North America -the ice is bigger and there are fewer systems used - but the skill level and the creativity was higher than I expected and it was good to play."
McNamara will remain in Coventry until the middle of the summer before heading home where he will complete his dissertation and look for a job in the Toronto area.
"I think I will start looking for something in sales, I have a couple of options to consider. At the moment I'm concentrating on my degree. I have no regrets about retiring but I would like to say that I've had a great year in Coventry and could not have wished for a better end to my career."


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Upon completion of your "Cash Flow Analysis" for your Business Plan, consulting engineers have a pretty good guess as to your first year's funding needs. To be conservative seek 20-30 % more in business loans
There are two types of funding: Equity & Debt.
This is what you and your partners have saved and are willing to invest in the business. Lenders will expect at least 30 % of your first year funding needs to be "equity" funded.
This is borrowed money that must be paid back; engineering loans. Normally the principal and interest is paid back in fixed monthly payments. Be sure that you have estimated these payments in your "Cash Flow Analysis".
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.
Credit Unions:
A Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative operated for the purpose of promoting thrift and providing credit to its members at competitive rates.
In opening your account at any financial institution, be aware that a local branch manager has less "approval authority", without the need for committee approval, than does a senior manager at the main office.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) program is designed for business owners who may have trouble qualifying for traditional bank loans. The SBA does not give loans; it guarantees a portion of loans. Loans come from banks and other approved lenders who make the final decisions. Also, the SBA does not offer grants to start or grow a business.
If you have saved all that you need to start your Consulting Engineering Practice, I congratulate you as one of the few. If you inherited wealth or won the lottery, I envy you. But, if you are like most of us you are going to need funding. The financial institution that you go to is required to do what is called "due diligence" and will require the following:
A neatly bound copy of your "Business Plan".
"Your Net-Worth Statement" which lists you're assets & Liabilities. It is important that it is not negative and that you have some liquid assets, like savings and investments (in addition to 401Ks & IRAs), and don't have credit card debt that is not paid off monthly. Each partner will have to provide this information.
Know your "credit rating" and be prepared to discuss it.
In addition, expect that a "Credit Check" will be done regarding each of you.
Also, in most cases a "Background Check" will be done.
It is also common, nowadays, to do a "Social Media Check".
It is important that you prepare for the meeting with the Loan Officer. This is one of the most important meetings of your life, but if you are prepared, you will make a great impression. Not only will the bank be evaluating your business plan, but it will be judging your presentation, as it relates to your ability to win clients and projects.
Dress professionally. Try to appear self-confident, enthusiastic, and well informed.
Prepare a 20 minute presentation of your business plan. Assume that the loan officer does not know what type of engineering that your firm does or even what a consulting engineer ensures. Sound professional, but remember that you are talking to a "layperson". Don't talk down to them.
Stress your ability to service the debt; your level of commitment; and your integrity, as demonstrated by your credit history.
Thank the Loan Officer for his time and consideration. A "thank you" note or e-mail is always a good idea.
If your loan is turned down, try to find out why. This may give you the opportunity to correct the problem and reapply. Also, it would be helpful to know what to correct before applying elsewhere. Reasons for rejection include: insufficient collateral; lack of financial commitment on your part; a poor business plan; your character, stability or personality. On the other hand, the problem may be internal to the bank; perhaps they have exceeded their quota of commercial loans for the time period.
"Excerpted from The "Complete Guide" to CONSULTING ENGINEERING © 2015 John D. Gaskell. Used with permission of Professional Value Books, Inc. All rights reserved. Order from http://www.TheEngineersResource.com." Use discount code "paperback" and save.


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Stretching is not only important for maintaining flexibility as we age, but it is a key part of any training program. Stretching increases blood flow to the muscles, carrying oxygen rich blood in and whisking away waste products that can cause muscle fatigue and soreness. However, be careful not to stretch cold muscles, as it can cause injury. Warm up by walking, jogging or riding a stationary bike for 10-15 minutes and then carry out your stretching routine. Work from head to toe, focusing on muscle groups (ie. arms, back, chest, legs); and don't forget your core! Make it a habit to stretch daily, even if you are not doing your full workout.
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The locking paver developed by Paviments Lloseta is designed especially for use in high traffic areas , industrial areas, port areas, airports and large cargo needs. The design of the anchor guide groove of the base, together with a good filling of the joints, makes cobblestone pavement locking fitting together and preventing lateral movement .
This paver, due to the high demands of its scope of work , is made of a special high-strength concrete to get values on the European standard DIN EN 1338. It can be produced in various formats and allows different types of placement .
The NEXUS paver 15X22 , 5X10 cm is available in SILENT finish, which, thanks to its enhanced surface , allows a significant reduction in noise. Comparative tests have on site by certified laboratory , where rolling noise measurement to the passage of a car at 50 km / h passes from 80.2 dBA with cobblestone normal to 69.9 dBA with cobblestone SILENT


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Top Day Of The Dead Quotes
Browse top 130 famous quotes and sayings about Day Of The Dead by most favorite authors.
Favorite Day Of The Dead Quotes
1. "I wish we were dead together to-day, Lost sight of, hidden away out of sight, Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay,Out of the world's way, out of the light, Out of the ages of worldly weather, Forgotten of all men altogether,As the world's first dead, taken wholly away,Made one with death, filled full of the night."
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
2. "I loved killing zombies in 'Day of the Dead.' I basically welcome anything that involves being dirty or bloody or shooting guns."
Author: AnnaLynne McCord
Author: AnnaLynne McCord
3. "Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body... Someone who accepts—as I myself do, taking it on trust—the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit."
Author: Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Author: Arnold Joseph Toynbee
4. "Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave. Deeds and actions that energise others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Saviour is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over the world, both within and beyond the Greek-speaking world, to accept His faith and be obedient to His teaching. Can anyone, in face of this, still doubt that He has risen and lives, or rather that He is Himself the Life? Does a dead man prick the consciences of men...?"
Author: Athanasius Of Alexandria
Author: Athanasius Of Alexandria
5. "This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home."
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
6. "Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot of people wouldn't have even heard he died. They'd be all, "Hey Jesus, what up?" and Jesus would probably be like, "What up? I died yesterday!" and they'd be all, "Uh, you look pretty alive to me, dude..." and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude'd be like "Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro..." And he's not gonna come back on a Saturday. Everybody's busy, doing chores, workin' the loom, trimmin' the beard, NO. He waited the perfect number of days, three. Plus it's Sunday, so everyone's in church already, and they're all in there like "Oh no, Jesus is dead", and then BAM! He bursts in the back door, runnin' up the aisle, everyone's totally psyched, and FYI, that's when he invented the high five. That's why we wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story."
Author: Barney Stinson
Author: Barney Stinson
7. "Daylight fires the ridges green, shifts the colors of the fog, touches the brick streets of Rock Camp with a reddish tone. The streetlights flicker out, and the traffic signal at the far end of Front Street's yoke snaps on; stopping nothing, warning nothing, rushing nothing on. --from The Honored Dead"
Author: Breece D'J Pancake
Author: Breece D'J Pancake
8. "On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the coloful beauty of the sun –the shiny pink cherries full of juice under their transparent skins, the mysterious apricots in whose golden pulp lay the core of long afternoons. And next to that pure poetry of fruit, she unloaded sides of meat with their keyboard of ribs swollen with energy and strength, and seaweeds of vegetables like dead octopuses and squids–the raw material of meals with a yet undefined taste, the vegetative and terrestrial ingredients of dinner, exuding a wild and rustic smell."
Author: Bruno Schulz
Author: Bruno Schulz
9. "He is not a tame lion," said Tirian. "How should we know what he would do? We, who are murderers. Jewel, I will go back. I will give up my sword and put myself in the hands of these Calormenes and ask that they bring me before Aslan. Let him do justice on me.""You will go to your death, then," said Jewel."Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?" said the King. "That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.""I know," said Jewel. "Or as if you drank water and it were dry water. You are in the right, Sire. This is the end of all things. Let us go and give ourselves up.""There is no need for both of us to go.""If ever we loved one another, let me go with you now," said the Unicorn. "If you are dead and if Aslan is not Aslan, what life is left for me?"
Author: C.S. Lewis
Author: C.S. Lewis
10. "The earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one day will drop into nothingness: no humans left for them to scent, no flesh for them to crave. Everything- all of us will simply ceaase to be. They'll find peace only when we're all dead"
Author: Carrie Ryan
Author: Carrie Ryan
11. "From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s."
Author: Charles Frazier
Author: Charles Frazier
12. "One Monday, just for sport, Charlie grabbed an eggplant that a spectacularly wizened granny was going for, but instead of twisting it out of his hand with some mystic kung fu move as he expected, she looked him in the eye and shook her head - just a jog, barely perceptible really - it might have been a tic, but it was the most eloquent of gestures. Charlie read it as saying: O White Devil, you do not want to purloin that purple fruit, for I have four thousand years of ancestors and civilization on you; my grandparents built the railroads and dug the silver mines, and my parents survived the earthquake, the fire, and a society that outlawed even being Chinese; I am mother to a dozen, grandmother to a hundred, and great-grandmother to a legion; I have birthed babies and washed the dead; I am history and suffering and wisdom; I am a Buddha and a dragon; so get your fucking hand off my eggplant before you lose it."
Author: Christopher Moore
Author: Christopher Moore
13. "After some hours, the dogs, exhausted by running round, almost dead, their tongues hanging out, set upon one another and, not knowing what they are doing, tear one another into thousands of pieces with incredible rapidity. Yet they do not do this out of cruelty. One day, a glazed look in her eyes, my mother said to me: 'When you are in bed and you hear the barking of the dogs in the countryside, hide beneath your blanket, but do not deride what they do: they have an insatiable thirst for the infinite, as you, and I, and all other pale, long-faced human beings do.' Since that time, I have respected the dead woman's wish. Like those dogs I feel the need for the infinite. I cannot, cannot satisfy this need. I am the son of a man and a woman, from what I have been told. This astonishes me…I believed I was something more."
Author: Comte De Lautréamont
Author: Comte De Lautréamont
14. "The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones."
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Author: Cormac McCarthy
15. "I focus on my favorite daydream, the one where I return from London at the end of the summer and am all glamorous and drop-dead gorgeous and every girl in my school is completely jealous when Quinn McKeyan asks me to Fall Homecoming because he can't resist my charm. Hey, it's my daydream. I can dream what I want to. The thing is, Quinn's face keeps getting replaced in my head by Dante's. Since I've had a mad crush on Quinn from the time we started kindergarten all the way through our junior year last year, that's saying something. Every daydream I've had for eleven years has been of him. I'm a very loyal daydreamer. And I suddenly feel like I'm cheating on my imaginary boyfriend, a boy who happens to be real, but who has been dating my best friend Becca for the past two years. And no. Becca has no idea that I'm secretly in love with her boyfriend. It's the one secret that I've kept from her."
Author: Courtney Cole
Author: Courtney Cole
16. "I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried "Le Vesconte Point," but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names."
Author: Dan Simmons
Author: Dan Simmons
17. "Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King's X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping up rubbish with a wide broom, drink cartons, cigarette packets with all the dust and filthy scraps of the day which he pushed towards an elegant long black glove that was lying there. I expected him to pick it up as I would have – I thought of picking it up, but was too late. He smothered it in a wide sweep. It seemed to me extraordinary and shocking that he had no feeling for it. Several images went through my mind, a symbolic hand, a dead blackbird, an ornamental bookmark fallen from a lectern Bible – any once-precious relic being tumbled in the dirt. As I went up the escalator I remembered the Tatterdemallion whom I haven't seen for months and thought of his body, if he were to die in the tube, being tumbled about with the rest of the thrown-away rubbish." David Thomson, In Camden Town"
Author: David Thomson
Author: David Thomson
18. "As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them in good order. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so, for it must be very lonely being dead."
Author: Diane Setterfield
Author: Diane Setterfield
19. "Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-niece. For Honorius Hatchard, in the early years of the nineteenth century, had enjoyed a modest celebrity. As the marble tablet in the interior of the library informed its infrequent visitors, he had possessed marked literary gifts, written a series of papers called "The Recluse of Eagle Range," enjoyed the acquaintance of Washington Irving and Fitz-Greene Halleck, and been cut off in his flower by a fever contracted in Italy. Such had been the sole link between North Dormer and literature, a link piously commemorated by the erection of the monument where Charity Royall, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, sat at her desk under a freckled steel engraving of the deceased author, and wondered if he felt any deader in his grave than she did in his library."
Author: Edith Wharton
Author: Edith Wharton
20. "To-day I thinkOnly with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,And the square mustard field;Odours that riseWhen the spade wounds the root of tree,Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,Rhubarb or celery;The smoke's smell, too,Flowing from where a bonfire burnsThe dead, the waste, the dangerous,And all to sweetness turns.It is enoughTo smell, to crumble the dark earth,While the robin sings over againSad songs of Autumn mirth."- A poem called DIGGING."
Author: Edward Thomas
Author: Edward Thomas
21. "There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his words- all about how we were embarked on a great crusade, that the hopes and prayers of a liberty loving people were going with us....I got gooseflesh when he asked for the blessing of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. But how to reconcile that with spilled guts on a beach and flies in the eyes of some dead nineteen year old kid who traded his life for some words on paper?"
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Author: Elizabeth Berg
22. "When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured."
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Author: Ernest Hemingway
23. "The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead."
Author: Fred Armisen
Author: Fred Armisen
24. "Go to the meat market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who naliest geese to the ground and feistiest on their bloated livers in thy paté-de-foie-gras."
Author: Herman Melville
Author: Herman Melville
25. "Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"
Author: Irvin D. Yalom
Author: Irvin D. Yalom
26. "January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive."
Author: Isabel Allende
Author: Isabel Allende
27. "A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket."
Author: J.D. Salinger
Author: J.D. Salinger
28. "And then Tohr said softly, "I'm lucky to have found love, I thank the Scribe Virgin every day that Wellsie is in my life."Wrath's Temper surged, set off by something he couldn't put his finger on. "You're pathetic."Tohr hissed. "And you've been dead for hundreds of years. You're just too mean to find a grave and lie down."Wrath threw the leather jacket on the floor. "At least I'm not pussy whipped."Nice. F*cking. Suit."
Author: J.R. Ward
Author: J.R. Ward
29. "Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?"
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
30. "Latro, California: "Terrible diarrhea, Doctor, and I feel so weak!" "Take these pills and come back in three days if you're not better."Parkington, Texas: "Terrible diarrhea..." "Take these pills..."Hainesport, Louisiana: "Terrible..." "Take..."Baker Bay, Florida...Washington, DC...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...New York, New York...Boston, Massachusetts...Chicago, Illinois: "Doctor, I know it's Sunday, but the kid's in such a terrible state - you've got to help me!" "Give him some junior aspirin and bring him to my office tomorrow. Goodbye."EVERYWHERE, USA: a sudden upswing in orders for very small coffins, the right size to take a baby dead from acute infantile enteritis."
Author: John Brunner
Author: John Brunner
31. "If you had to pick between living on the East Coast or the West Coast, which would you choose?" I never told her what I wanted to give as my answer, that I would choose whichever coast my brother happened to be hiding on or locked in a basement near or buried under. I never told her that even if I did know what I wanted to be, I couldn't bear the thought of leaving Lily as long as I knew my brother might show up one day or that whoever was responsible for his leaving was still out there somewhere waiting to do it again and again and again until a thousand Cullen Witters were seeing zombies of their dead brothers standing by their beds at night. I would need to be there to protect him."
Author: John Corey Whaley
Author: John Corey Whaley
32. "They hacked down trees widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigeon fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. they thinned out the game, killed birds for sport, set accidental fire that would burn for days. their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. hrothgar's tribe made boats to drive farther north and west. there was nothing to stop the advance of man. huge boars fled at the click of a harness. wolves would cower in the glens like foxes when they caught that deadly scent. i was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest."
Author: John Gardner
Author: John Gardner
33. "Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of to-morrow.... In this world — as I have known it — we are made to suffer without the shadow of a reason, of a cause or of guilt.... There is no morality, no knowledge and no hope; there is only the consciousness of ourselves which drives us about a world that... is always but a vain and floating appearance.... A moment, a twinkling of an eye and nothing remains — but a clot of mud, of cold mud, of dead mud cast into black space, rolling around an extinguished sun. Nothing. Neither thought, nor sound, nor soul. Nothing."
Author: Joseph Conrad
Author: Joseph Conrad
34. "Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space."
Author: Kim Harrison
Author: Kim Harrison
35. "For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection."
Author: Laura Furman
Author: Laura Furman
36. "He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not only shame or embarrassment; who accounted for each day in the office and observed public trust as if it were a word of God. But even God was nowhere. The new theology proclaimed him dead. Long live Man! Love live Me!"
Author: Linda Ty Casper
Author: Linda Ty Casper
37. "At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. The first sounds from the street had told me, according to whether they came to my ears deadened and distorted by the moisture of the atmosphere or quivering like arrows in the resonant, empty expanses of a spacious, frosty, pure morning; as soon as I heard the rumble of the first tramcar, I could tell whether it was sodden with rain or setting forth into the blue."
Author: Marcel Proust
Author: Marcel Proust
38. "When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you."
Author: Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
39. "Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept and preserved by an immortal who never forgot them. An immortal who loved and cared for them, dusting them off for an eternity, keeping their dead spirits as alive as he—stuck in their immortal tomb never to find the rest everything must eventually seek. Time had no meaning in this cavern of infinite age."
Author: Michelle M. Pillow
Author: Michelle M. Pillow
40. "The fact that we had independently decided to sweep our apartments on that Sunday afternoon after spending the weekend together, I took as a strong piece of evidence that we were right for each other. And from then on when I read things Samuel Johnson said about the deadliness of leisure and the uplifting effects of industry, I always nodded and thought of brooms."
Author: Nicholson Baker
Author: Nicholson Baker
41. "You know how much Annie loved pearls. She owned some incomparable specimens…the most marvelous, I believe, that ever existed. You also remember the almost physical joy, the carnal ecstasy, with which she adorned herself with them. Well, when she was sick that passion became a mania with her…a fury, like love! All day long she loved to touch them, caress them and kiss them; she made cushions of them, necklaces, capes, cloaks. Then this extraordinary thing happened; the pearls died on her skin: first they tarnished, little by little…little by little they grew dim, and no light was reflected in their luster any more and, in a few days, tainted by the disease, they changed into tiny balls of ash. They were dead, dead like people, my darling. Did you know that pearls had souls? I think it's fascinating and delicious. And since then, I think of it every day."
Author: Octave Mirbeau
Author: Octave Mirbeau
42. "Delaney." "What?" She stuck her key on the lock, then paused with her hand on the doorknob. "I lied to you yesterday." She looked over her shoulder, but she couldn't see him. "When?" "When I said you could have been anyone. I would know you with my eyes closed." His deep voice carried across the darkness more intimate than a whisper when he added, "I would know you, Delaney." Then the squeak of hinges followed by the click of a dead bolt and Delaney knew he was gone."
Author: Rachel Gibson
Author: Rachel Gibson
43. "Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, 'We're remembering'. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steam-shovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up. Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them."
Author: Ray Bradbury
Author: Ray Bradbury
44. "Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up."
Author: Ray Bradbury
Author: Ray Bradbury
45. "These children are our future. We were children once. All of us were. Bad bloods are an evolution. They are a mutation, not a disease, and we will all have these special abilities one day. Are we going to kill all of our children then? Are we going to kill our future? Because that is what we are heading towards. A dead future."
Author: Shannon A. Thompson
Author: Shannon A. Thompson
46. "ParalyticIt happens. Will it go on? ----My mind a rock,No fingers to grip, no tongue,My god the iron lungThat loves me, pumpsMy twoDust bags in and out,Will notLet me relapseWhile the day outside glides by like ticker tape.The night brings violets,Tapestries of eyes,Lights,The soft anonymousTalkers: 'You all right?'The starched, inaccessible breast.Dead egg, I lieWholeOn a whole world I cannot touch,At the white, tightDrum of my sleeping couchPhotographs visit me ----My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs,Mouth full of pearls,Two girlsAs flat as she, who whisper 'We're your daughters.'The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A clearCellophane I cannot crack.On my bare backI smile, a buddha, allWants, desireFalling from me like ringsHugging their lights.The clawOf the magnolia,Drunk on its own scents,Asks nothing of life."
Author: Sylvia Plath
Author: Sylvia Plath
47. "Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day's work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons --- mostly women --- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work: that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper: of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children --- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. The Jungle"
Author: Upton Sinclair
Author: Upton Sinclair
48. "In my profession it isn't a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it's always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won't be discovered for another hundred years? I'll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need."
Author: Walter Moers
Author: Walter Moers
49. "Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure."
Author: Warren Ellis
Author: Warren Ellis
50. "Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,Few come within the compass of my curse,—Wherein I did not some notorious ill,As kill a man, or else devise his death,Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,Set deadly enmity between two friends,Make poor men's cattle break their necks;Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,And bid the owners quench them with their tears.Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly,And nothing grieves me heartily indeedBut that I cannot do ten thousand more."
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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A Trick For Drawing Shallow Curves
Craig Thibodeau demonstrates a simple jig that makes it simpler to draw large single-radius curves
This is an excerpt from Craig's article, "Solid edging for curved tops" in Fine Woodworking #277.
A single-radius arc can be drawn with a long pivoting trammel or long string, but locating the faraway center of the curve is tricky. To draw a shallow, single-radius curve with a known length and width, I use a method demonstrated by Paul Schürch ("Drawing Big Curves," FWW #175). It requires just a few nails and three pieces of plywood.
Set your pivot points. Clamp the veneered panel to a slightly larger plywood panel, and drive finish nails at the beginning and end of the curve.
Nail two scraps together and draw.
Rest two thin strips against the pivot nails, and fasten them so they meet at the apex of the intended curve. To draw a long curve that connects those three points, rest your pencil in the junction of the two strips and slide the strips along the nails.
I cut long curves like this on the bandsaw, staying just outside the line, and then use a disk sander, edge sander, or compass plane to bring the curve close to the line. I leave the pencil line visible so I know I haven't over-sanded. You'll have a chance to fine-tune the panel's curve later when you sand the matching edging.
Saw outside the line
Bandsaw as smooth a curve as possible, staying just outside your layout line.
A disk sander is a great tool for smoothing the curve. Work steadily up to the line without passing it, or you might lose track of the curve and end up with flat spots.
From Fine Woodworking #277


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Copper Box to host National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships
PUBLISHED: 16:00 27 February 2020
Nearly 2000 young people will race at the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC) at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Friday.
NJIRC 2020 returns to the Copper Box Arena for a second time, allowing young competitors to showcase their talent and determination.
And the event promises appearances from Olympic rowing champions Sophie Hoskings and Andrew Triggs Hodge and the Speaker of Hackney, Cllr Kam Adams.
Run by groundbreaking youth sports charity London Youth Rowing (LYR), NJIRC is the biggest junior indoor rowing competition of its kind in the world.
● 147 schools and clubs will take part in six hours of racing, supported by over 200 volunteers
● 53 state secondary schools have been preparing as part of London Youth Rowing's Active Row Programme, which works with schools in the most deprived areas of London
● Diverse and inclusive. Over 50 per cent of participants are girls, over 60 per cent from BAME backgrounds, and the event caters specifically for competitors with sensory, learning and physical disabilities
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LYR aims to enable young people to get active, and open access to rowing for all regardless of background or ability.
NJIRC was born out of offering the excitement of high-level competition to young people who might not normally get a chance to compete at national level.
Martin Smith, of Stepney Green Maths Computing and Science College, said: "NJIRC is simply the best and most accessible National competition for young people. Students of all abilities are given the opportunity to compete alongside each other. "The event has a genuinely supportive and inspiring ethos. I would recommend any school that has never attended to enter a team and experience the event for yourself."
Hams Youssef, a year nine pupil at Kingsbury High School, added: "NJIRC was one of the most fun and amazing days I have had this past year, I really enjoyed competing with my friends and receiving medals at the end. An amazing time!"
London 2012 Olympic gold medalist Hoskings, a LYR board member, said: "NJIRC demonstrates the best of what rowing has to offer. It is an energetic, exciting event that allows young people of all abilities to experience quality racing.
"The whole experience is truly unique, for competitors and spectators alike, and a credit to both London Youth Rowing and the London 2012 Olympic legacy. I'm very much looking forward to supporting this year's event at the Copper Box Arena."
Alongside the race programme, NJIRC hosts a Festival of Careers and Sport featuring up to 20 exhibits and activities from organisations such as West Ham United FC, the London Fire Brigade, Wheelchair Basketball, British Horseracing and more.
The Festival of Careers and Sport offers participants a well-rounded event, opening their eyes to future sporting and careers opportunities.
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Restaurant Sent Sovi — Amazing. Delicious.
Christine and I headed to Sent Sovi Restaurant. We opted for the Grand Tasting Menu. In other words, beyond indicating preferences, allergies, and a wine budget in a pre-consultation, we left our dinner choices in the hands of Chef/Owner Josiah Slone (who, btw, has a weblog!)
We are open minded folk, have no allergies, and went for a modest wine budget (my palate ain't trained for wine — tequila? got it). In other words, the chef pretty much had free rein.
And Chef Josiah did wonders! We will be going back Definitely.
The full menu follows in the rest of the post…
- Chilled Poached Prawns with Chili Hoisin Sauce, coupled with champagne. Perfectly cooked prawns with a dipping sauce of nicely spicy, slightly fruity, sauce served on a bed of arugula shoots.
- Fresh Malpeque Oysters with Sherry Mignonette accompanied by a few drops of lemon. The Sherry Mignonette was actually delivered as the marinade of a dollop of caviar on top of each oyster. First oysters I have had since I became a statistic last year. Good way to get back on the wagon. Damned good!
- Terrine of Artisan FOie Gras with Strawberry and Pecan Salad, coupled with a white Sauternes wine. Most foie gras is seared; slightly crispy on the outside and warm/gooey in the middle. This was completely different. It was a light little cloud of intense foie gras served on a crumbly cracker / cake like thing. To add texture, there was a crispy, slightly aromatically sweet, layer on top — kind of like creme brulée. The wine was intensely sweet, but exactly the right coupling with the savory flavors of the foie gras.
- Mt. Fuji White Sweet Potato Soup, coupled with a Napa Chardonnay. Such an innocent name for an amazing and complex soup. Served with a dollop of something creamy in the center of the soup and served with a bit of essence of lemon. Refreshing. The creamy stuff was still a little chilled while the soup was just the perfect heat. Oh, and they served the soup with a homemade loaf of basil sourdough bread that was just perfect for dipping.
- Lobster Stuffed with Aromatics, coupled with a Russian River Pino Noir. Take a lobster. Half it. Talk the meat, sauté it with a bit of herbs, add some more aromatics, add béchamel sauce, then put it all back into the lobster half. Sprinkle with spiced bread crumbs. End result? Tender juicy hunks of lobster in a rich, buttery, sauce with lots of complex herb flavors. We had no compunction about ripping apart the lobster halves to get to the good bits inside!
- Toast Points with Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Purée stuffed with Dijon Mustard. That pretty much exactly describes it. The salmon was of excellent quality and coupled very nicely with the mild dijon mustard.
- Roasted Gold Beets with Truffle And Apple. A light refresher course before the second entrée. Simply crisp beets and apple coupled with truffle shavings and sprinkled with the tiniest bits of scallions I have ever seen. All with a light and refreshing sauce to tie it together.
- "Surf and Turf" — Porcini Dusted Scallop and 18 Hour Braised Oxtail on a Melange of Spring Mushrooms, coupled with a 1998 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. Oh, where to start. The scallop was perfect. Just a slight hint of Porcini on an otherwise perfectly white cylinder of delicious meat. However, the oxtail was truly spectacular. It was served in a pulled style — shredded — and coupled with a rich and delicious mushroom sauce on top of bit of almost a pie shell and then dusted with tiny crunchy bits made from marrow. Rich, meaty, and off the charts good. I chatted with Chef Josiah and now know exactly what tools to use to do this style of slow braising. I shall be doing my best to try and achieve something as delicious as this dish in my own kitchen.
Stilton with Honeycomb. Stinky Stilton served with honeycomb for which the wax just fell away in your mouth. I don't like stinky foot cheeses, but I'm a complete honey junky. Our excellent waiter noticed my dislike of the stilton and offered to bring me something to my liking. And he did in the form of Purple Haze Goat Cheese, made with lavender and wild fennel seed. Scrumptious! And available on Amazon! Ordered!
- Chocolate "Deluxe" & Fruit Plate. A plate with a beautiful presentation of a chocolate creme, a truffle, and a no-flour warm chocolate cake with a cream sauce. Nice fresh fruit plate on the side. A perfect finish. I had a glass of Bonny Doon Framboise. A port like dessert wine infused with chocolate dust and brandied raspberries.
*whew* Now that was a meal. About 3 hours. Worth every penny. Chef Josiah and the Sent Sovi staff were gracious, generous and struck that perfect balance of personable and professional. They seated us in what was, effectively, a private room for the first two hours of our meal.
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About Texas Turf Tenders
Texas Turf Tenders is a full-service land service, landscape design and land construction company providing our clients a full service turnkey solution to their residential and commercial property needs. We believe that our 32+ years combined experience and knowledgeable crew is what separates the mediocre from the excellent service we intend to provide. To ensure our customers receive a finished product that meets their standards, we avoid cutting corners at all costs, submit ourselves to our time-tested processes, use our self owned & operated equipment and stay compliant with all city ordinances based on the properties location.
With Texas's ever-changing climate, it is to the utmost importance that we properly diagnose all properties before administering service. Terrain and the overall configuration of a property, determine the level of service that will be required to derive a solution.
Our highest aim is to make your property functional, attractive as well as innovative. Achieving this goal requires our depth of knowledge & experience that comes from having designed and completed over 300+ projects over our many years.


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By Glen Hodgson-Founder & CEO of Free Trade Europa
With the European Parliament elections upon us, and a new European Commission set to be installed in the autumn, we stand at a perfect juncture to look Janus-like at what has happened, where we are now and assess where the European Union should be heading. Now more than ever there is a need for an EU that is committed to free trade, openness and personal choice.
The EU: democracy's graveyard?
Within the EU, the belief in liberal democracy and globalisation has been questioned. The 2019 European elections will be held in a climate of uncertainty, discontent and change. The reasons for this are complex and nuanced. All across the EU, voices are being heard on perceived inequalities, falling living standards and reduced opportunities. Ever since the Financial Crisis of 2008, the Euro Crisis of 2010 onwards and the Migration Crisis starting in 2013, voters have been turning to more extreme solutions to local, national and European problems. With national elections across Europe having delivered significant gains for right-wing political parties and nationalists, we need to ask the question: are liberal values, openness and free trade falling out of favour?
From Italy to Poland, Hungary and beyond we are seeing the rule of law diluted and a desire to put up barriers to protect against perceived threats from foreign businesses, labour and money. Many column inches and much ink has been used to describe the decline of liberal democracy in Europe.
Granted the financial crisis of 2008 dented the image of free trade and liberal policies, as has the fact that living standards in Europe are no longer growing at the levels they once did. Elites are seen as out of touch and many feel that popular views are not being expressed in policies. These are serious concerns, and they should be addressed, but it is important to keep a perspective.
Fear the alternatives
After the Second World War, the alternative to fascism was clear and attractive to all. Similarly, during the Soviet occupation of Central and Eastern Europe and the Cold War, liberal democracy was again the natural choice around which to organise states and society. Today, we should once more consider the alternatives. Do European countries really want to install regimes where we see rights eroded and the will of the people increasingly – and counter-intuitively – ignored? Free trade, liberalisation, personal choice and the rule of law need to remain central pillars of our democracies. Just looking at the alternatives underlines this reality.
A new hope
The current period of reflection and soul-searching should be put to good use. One reality is that the smaller states with export-orientated economies who favour free trade, openness and personal choice are losing their champion with the UK leaving the EU. While the UK would take many of these fights in the past, there is now the need for like-minded countries such as the Nordics, Baltics, The Netherlands and Ireland to work together and increase their cooperation to make their voices heard and shape the EU agenda. There has been ad hoc, high-level cooperation on financial issues between these states, but there is a need to expand this across policy areas – from environmental stewardship to the digital single market – while also facilitating a bottom-up approach from business and civil society. In this way, "the new Hanseatic League" as it has been christened will be a vital vehicle in modernising the EU and ensuring that free trade, openness, Atlanticism and personal choice remain front and centre in EU policy-making.
No "Fortress Europe" and no Franco-German closed shop
By contrast, the creation of a "Fortress Europe" would be a disaster for the EU and also send out the wrong signals globally. Despite being faced by a progressively more isolationist and the tariff-wielding US, and a commercially aggressive China, the EU needs to stay true to its liberal democratic heart. After all, there is never a right way to do the wrong thing.
By the same token, the future of Europe cannot be built solely on the outdated concept of a Franco-German axis. The calls to create a European Industrial Policy – with all the terrible trappings of old-style state intervention and French dirigisme – are a worrying sign of what may come to pass if we blindly followed this route. Statism, picking winners and creating national/EU champions would waste resources and ensure that consumers and other businesses lose out. History clearly shows that a lack of competition often leads to higher prices, less choice and poorer products due to a lack of innovation.
In sum, the EU needs to evolve and address an increasing number of internal and external challenges. Free trade, openness and personal choice rest at the heart of the solution to these issues and the Nordics need to partner like-minded countries to promote this agenda.


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Deadpool's long, strange, f*ck-filled journey to the big screen
Deadpool the movie exists because a bunch of different people did things they really shouldn't have.
It all started even before the key players in today's story — co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who spoke to Mashable ahead of Deadpool's Feb. 12 release — got involved. It started, in fact, with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, one of Hollywood's more despised super hero movies.
Fox released X-Men Origins in 2009. The film featured a bizarre, nightmarish take on Deadpool that went against everything the comic book anti-hero was famous for: In this movie, the so-called "Merc with a Mouth" didn't even have a mouth.
In Marvel's comics, Deadpool isn't like his mutant colleagues. He curses excessively. He revels in bloodshed. He breaks the fourth wall as easily as most people breathe. And he's a giant dick. This is about as far from X-Men as a character could get — not that you'd know it from his only previous big screen appearance.
"Hopefully, everyone forgets about Origins' Deadpool," Wernick told Mashable. "I think that's what [Ryan Reynolds] is hoping for. That's what Fox is hoping for. That's what we're hoping for."
Reynolds, a Deadpool fan himself, played the character in Origins — then set out to right the wrongs of that movie. He envisioned a more faithful big screen adapation, which turned into an open assignment for a Deadpool reboot.
Enter Reese and Wernick.
Finding the right writers
"When this opportunity presented itself to us, to audition to write this movie — because that's what you have to do as a writer when it's an open assignment — we had never heard of Deadpool, unbelievably," Reese told Mashable.
He and Wernick read comics as kids, but both had set them aside in favor of other pursuits before Deadpool came along. Instead of letting longtime fans stump for the job, the two picked through samples from the character's long history to learn what makes him tick.
"We got the voice in our head, and we got the nature of the struggles he goes through," Reese said. "And why he's funny, and how he's funny, and what his tragic side is. All those things."
So they auditioned, in all their I-just-learned-who-this-guy-is glory. And they nailed it. Reese and Wernick joined Reynolds' crusade to turn Deadpool into a movie character fans could actually be happy about.
In the years that followed, the writing duo produced multiple scripts — at least one studio-ready draft every year starting in 2009, they said, plus "hundreds" of others with more minute changes. Characters came and went, but the core story — of Deadpool rekindling a lost-love, framed against flashbacks to his superhuman origin story — has remained roughly intact.
Fox never gave up on the writers, despite the studio's unwillingness to pull the trigger on actually making Deadpool. Reese and Wernick stuck around, fine-tuning their idea with Reynolds as a creative partner. This is where most Hollywood development stories would dead end.
Not Deadpool, though. The Merc with a Mouth has some ardent fans, including the film's eventual director, Tim Miller.
The infamous pitch reel
A young up-and-comer with a background in making visual effects for movies and video games, Miller worked with Reynolds to create an all-CG Deadpool test reel in 2011/2012. Their hope was to show Fox what a great Deadpool movie could look like.
"We were just blown away by it," Reese said of seeing Miller's pitch for the first time.
"We'd been trying and trying in various ways to get [Fox] to take notice," he added. "The studio saw it and they obviously loved it, but not ... enough to push forward."
Still, Miller pressured the studio relentlessly to get his vision of Deadpool made. Reese paints him as an "absolute pit bull" who wasn't afraid to enlist powerful friends like James Cameron and David Fincher — both fans of the script — to help him make a case.
"Tim Miller, he kept putting his own company's money into the project to help make it better. He was recruiting his friends, he was just sending unsolicited email after unsolicited email to the point where he was practically a stalker of the brass at Fox," Reese said.
Even with that show of support and a studio-approved test reel, two years passed before Deadpool's next big break. Fittingly, it was all thanks to a real-life, anonymous anti-hero who was willing to break the rules and leak the future director's video pitch onto the Internet.
"People went crazy for it. This was the Deadpool we had always dreamed about," Reese said. "It was just confirmation that, yes, we have something here that audiences will relate to."
It was the leak, and the subsequent near-universal positive response among fans, that convinced Fox to give Deadpool another look. At that point, dominated by Disney's Marvel movies, there wasn't really a market for R-rated comic book super hero stories — but could there be?
An orange among apples
"I do feel like the R rating and the irreverence and the meta quality made it difficult for the studio to see how Deadpool would fit into a larger 'universe,'" Wernick said. The duo even penned a PG-13 script draft at one point — but toning down the film's adult subject matter didn't manage to generate any additional traction.
Wernick pointed to the semi-serious tone tying Fox's X-Men movies together as their big stumbling block. More than anything else, Deadpool didn't feel like those other movies.
But as the creative team told Fox, that was the whole point.
"Our argument was always, 'Let this stand alone. Let the other movies be apples, let this movie be an orange. And then you can worry after the fact about how to cross Deadpool into the other universe,'" he said.
So Fox set aside conventional Hollywood wisdom and greenlit Deadpool, knowing it would never be an all-audiences summer tentpole. The X-universe of other films could factor in — and they do, as evidenced by the presence of Colossus and other nods in the final product — but the movie would be its own thing.
"Studios are generally safe. They make big bets, but they make safe bets. This was the opposite of a safe bet," Wernick said.
"We credit Fox ... for jumping in the pool with us on this thing, because it is a huge risk. This doesn't fit into the traditional studio superhero movie. That's perhaps what took so long to get it made, but thank God it did. It's just a bold choice by the studio to finally do it, and hopefully it'll pay off for them."
The most unlikely passion project
It took five years and an unexpectedly massive response to a pitch that was never intended for civilian eyes — but eventually, Deadpool managed to get made. And it's a passion project unlike most others.
"After six and a half years of getting punched in the stomach, and being told no, told what doesn't work — to see it come to life, to see it on the screen and have audiences react the way we think they may, it's fantastic," Wernick said.
He and Reese are on Twitter daily right now, "mainlining" the excitement they see for the upcoming movie that they've worked so hard on. Wernick feels palpable excitement. Against all odds, a happy ending is in sight.
"People say their passion project is this small, independent movie that's never gonna get made, that sits in a drawer," he said.
"This has been our passion for six and a half years — and we've been told no for six and a half years. And finally, we got told yes. It means everything to us."


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As an artificial tooth root, a dental implant produces long-lasting, aesthetically-pleasing results. With this intricate dental restorative procedure, you and your family should trust in your dentist's skills, experience, and qualifications to exceed your expectations. Dr. Jeff Lynch, who places the implants at McKinney Dentist, earned the prestigious Fellowship status in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. His accomplishments in placing and restoring dental implants awarded him with this great honor. You and your family can undoubtedly trust in his expertise and skills. After a thorough examination, Dr. Lynch will evaluate your case and plan the dental implant procedure. Our dental implants in McKinney, TX, are created using biocompatible titanium screws, which act as the post (the root of your tooth). The procedure involves many strategically planned steps to deliver the results you crave!


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Burgers, Beers Galore at The Moonlighter, And Other Dining News
FireFin Poke Shop closes all locations, Creole restaurant serves up soul food in West Town, and more dining news.
Team Scofflaw's latest, The Moonlighter (3204 W. Armitage Ave., Logan Square), opens tonight. Cocktails (some of which can be ordered by the pitcher-full) are obviously a focus, but Kristofer Nagy has also compiled an expansive list of sour beers. Foodwise, Mickey Neeley (Scofflaw's opening chef) rejoins the group after stints at Dusek's and the Promontory, and offers straight-up bar food: think burgers (a half-dozen of them), mozzarella sticks, and nachos.
Michelin Bib Gourmand Vietnamese spot HaiSous has a new café and bar component in Cà Phê Dá (1800½ S. Carpenter St., Pilsen). By day, owners Danielle and Thai Dang (Embeya) offer banh mi and caffeinated beverages using coffee beans roasted by Thai's family in Vietnam; come evening, there's heartier fare and cocktails.
West Town's Chicago Avenue strip now offers a taste of the South at Soulé (1931 W. Chicago Ave.), a BYO Creole restaurant serving soul food such as fried chicken, shrimp and grits, and fried catfish.
Mere days after opening a fifth location, FireFin Poke Shop has closed all of its stores. Anshul Mangal (Furious Spoon) and Rodelio Aglibot had teamed up on the seafood bowl mini-chain, and this closure comes after a little more than a year in business.
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Harve Bogenn was a 23rd century male Human in the Kelvin timeline. From 2237 to at least 2255, Bogenn served as a detective with the Homicide division of the San Francisco Police Department.
In 2237, the first case Bogenn investigated as a junior-grade detective was that of the serial killer known as The Doctor, who removed victims' internal organs without leaving incisions. Bogenn and his colleagues were stymied by the lack of physical evidence. In 2255, Bogenn was assigned to the case when the Doctor struck again, attacking Starfleet Academy Cadet Gaila and killing another Orion woman. On the recommendation of Commander Spock, Bogenn asked Spock's student Nyota Uhura to analyze the unknown language spoken by the Doctor in 911 recordings from the scenes of the two attacks. When Uhura, Dr. Leonard McCoy and Dr. Patricia Park determined that the Doctor's hideout was the beacon chamber of the Transamerica Pyramid, Bogenn wanted to accompany McCoy and Cadet James T. Kirk to confront the killer, but was instead posted to the building's command center. (TOS novel: The Delta Anomaly)


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The next thing we went to was the Programming Recruitment meeting. We are both thinking of getting more involved in ConCom work, and a lot of this can be done remotely, so we are both considering options.
Then, I was scheduled to be Moderator on the "Fear and Masculinity in SF & F" panel. Panelists Liz Argall, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and Michael Underwood gave a highly literate and very nuanced panel on this topic that I thought was just fantastic. Afterward, I got a couple of compliments on my moderating style from audience members, so I was pleased.
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Georgia House Goes a Step Further to Collect Sales Taxes
Georgia House to Require "Marketplace Facilitators" like Uber, Airbnb, and Ebay to Collect Sales Taxes
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2018 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., a number of states have quickly moved to require out-of-state Internet-based sellers to collect and remit sales taxes on in-state purchases. For example, a new law took effect in Georgia on January 1, 2019, mandating retailers collect that state's 4 percent sales tax for all online sales.
Now, Georgia legislators may go a step further and compel "marketplace facilitators" like eBay, Uber, and Airbnb to collect state sales tax on transactions completed by their users.
House Bill 276
On March 4, the Georgia House of Representatives passed House Bill 276 by a vote of 158-6. HB 276 proposes to expand the definition of what businesses qualify as "dealers" required to collect and remit sales tax. Specifically, the bill states anyone who "[a]cts as a marketplace facilitator to facilitate retail sales" in excess of $100,000 per year is now a dealer.
A "marketplace facilitator," in turn, is any business that provides services designed to "facilitate a retail sale that is taxable" under Georgia law.
This includes but is not limited to the following:
- providing any physical or electronic infrastructure to to bring "purchasers and marketplace sellers together";
- transmitting or communicating any offers (or acceptance of offers) between purchasers and sellers;
- processing and collecting payments from purchasers on behalf of sellers;
- taking orders or reservations on behalf of sellers; or
- providing advertising, marketing, or other promotional services.
To put this in practical terms, HB 276 would likely apply to the following situations:
- A resident of Macon, Georgia, purchases a computer on eBay from an out-of-state seller. HB 276 requires eBay to collect and remit the Georgia sales tax on this purchase.
- A group of friends in downtown Atlanta arrange for a ride via the Uber app. HB 276 requires Uber to collect and remit the sales tax on this sale.
- Out-of-state tourists arrange to stay in a private home in Augusta by making a reservation using Airbnb. Now Airbnb must then make sure to collect and remit the sales tax.
In other words, this Bill shifts the burden of dealing with sales taxes away from the individual sellers; many of whom may be too small to register with Georgia authorities; and places it on the companies that "facilitate" transactions with the purchasers.
GA Stands to Receive Millions from Online Sites
According to a Fiscal Note prepared by Georgia's state auditor and budget director on an earlier draft of HB 276, requiring marketplace facilitators to collect sales taxes would have a significant impact on the state's bottom line. Based on estimates from Georgia State University's Fiscal Research Center, the Fiscal Note said Georgia would collect an additional $78.4 million in state revenue, as well as $64.5 million in local (county and city) revenue during the 2021 fiscal year.
The Fiscal Research Center further broke down its calculations by the type of marketplace facilitator:
- Ride Sharing — $26.1 million in combined state and local sales tax revenue for FY 2021; this is based on estimated growth rates for Uber and Lyft.
- Lodging Network Services — $29.1 million in combined FY 2021 sales taxes; this is based primarily on third-party analysis of Airbnb data.
- Auction Sites for Tangible Personal Property — $87.8 million in combined FY 2021 sales taxes; this is based almost exclusively on estimating the taxable sales in Georgia conducted on ebay.
Awaiting Action from Senate, Governor
Although HB 276 passed the state House by an overwhelming margin, it must still be approved by the Georgia Senate and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. If the bill is approved as currently worded, its provisions would apply to all taxable sales on or after July 1, 2019.
S.M. Oliva is a freelance blogger based in Virginia. He publishes the blog Article 3 Standing (article3standing.com), which focuses on data breach litigation.


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Today's gift is just a good day.
I feel like lately we have been going going going. And while we are going we have had some bumps in the road.
But today it was nice and refreshing to just have a good day.
Physical therapy was a little challenging this morning and caused my daughter to get a little upset, but she turned herself around. She doesn't like it when they "work" her too much...but that is the reason we do physical therapy.
After PT this morning, her walking was a little stressed, but I believe it was due to the fact she was tried from working extra hard first thing this morning. Her school day was great, as well as, her afternoon at home. Her legs shaking were even better...almost no tremors today! I honestly don't get it. One day the tremors are constant and the next non-existent!
I am really happy for my daughter today. I just want all her days to be happy ones. Ones where there is no pain. One filled with no frustrations. One filled with doing whatever she wants to do and not what we ask of her. One filled with joy and not anxiety.
Today was a breathe of fresh air. Today was one of those days you need to fill your spirits back up to help you through any rough patches that are to come your way in the future. Today was a reminder, good days do happen and when they do you must not take them for granted.
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The Veronicas Q&A
Melodic.net caught up with The Veronicas in a Q&A, asking the Brisbane twins about changing their sound from pop rock on their debut to electropop on their second album 'Hook Me Up'. "It was a natural progression for us, just growing as artists and fans of music, we were influence by different bands weve been listening to for the past 2 years," one of the two responded. "In our opinion our latest record is way more rocking than our first one even!"
As for their artistic freedom, one of them said, "We are very hands on with our song writing and getting the sound we want. And have a say in what songs make the record. But of course there are a lot of other opinions that need to be considered, and usually the guys spending the money want the final say.. ha ha ha agghh!!!" Check out the entire interview here.


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The poker training website model is broken for players. Here is why….
1) Incentives are seriously misaligned and training websites do not get paid based on the performance of their clients. Also, Variance often confuses clients as to which website is "helping" their game.
2) Poker training isn't very profitable新开传奇sf and many of them make their "real" money from staking, affiliate income, or some other source. As a result quality dwindles
3) "Buffet" style poker content doesn't allow coaches to distinguish themselves based on quality and be compensated accordingly. As a result much of the content produced is just churned out and not high quality. Some new websites are going with a more a la carte system which is probably better IMO
4) Accountability does not exist in the industry and it is very difficult to determine who to learn from. This is further complicated by the fact that there are several ways to make money at online poker, so coaching styles naturally differ.
5) Falling Revenues has reduced the incentive for poker training sites to invest in the "brand". As a result the quality of content has been reduced. Until we see growth in worldwide poker volumes and the US back in the game it is difficult to see this changing.
A lot of players get wrapped up in their own hand strength; they can't do this or that because of their own hand. I would say this applies to a lot of players who have a terrible redline, they don't fight for nearly enough pots, . Your hand matters not if you can convince your opponent of your ; that is what they think you might have. You just have to tell a . Let's run through a few common spots that you may have been passing up.
Poker leaks are expensive some more so than others of course. We have betting mistakes, calling leaks, passive leaks, aggressive leaks and of course tilt leaks. Whichever leak you have, poker leaks are costly. After years of talking to others players, coaches and having several thorough database analysis's done, I've come up with my top 3 poker leaks. They are big blind spew at its finest and could be the reason the money you are winning is being lost in these common but not so obvious spots, resulting in a break even type of winrate. Most everyone who struggles to win at poker will likely have these following attributes:
Donk Betting has somewhat of a bad reputation. This is likely because donk betting is commonly associated with fish. Fish do this because they don't know any better, but a smart regular uses it as part of his arsenal. However, the donk betting bluff can be extremely effective, as is done betting to induce a raise and donking to price your own draws. Dealing with players who are frequently done betting can be tricky too, so as always, we tailor our bets/raises to the individual for maximum +EV results.
新开传奇sfThe 'Donk' you shall no longer associate with stupidity, idiocy or numb-headedness. The Donk will now be your ally, another string in the bow… you get the idea : )
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has become an increasingly sophisticated beast, both as the raiser and the recipient. The Flop is the most common you will have used and encountered, but and disguising your draws is no longer a simple task. We also have value raising, air-raising, and to apply and contend with. They all have their place in the right situations, so let's delve into the pros and cons in a few common scenarios and our likely responses.
新开传奇sfKey: I'll refer to a 'check-raise' as 'CR' from this point on – it's shorter to write and read : )
CR with no made hand/draw as the Preflop caller
We were taught back in the day to always CR our draws on the Flop and while I check-raise a lot I don't 'auto' CR my draws like many do. I like a CR when I figure to have good Fold Equity either outright or later.
I am excited to announce that my book is now available on Amazon.com. So far the feedback I have received on this book has been very positive.
You can see some great reviews on Exploitive No Limit Holdem , , and . I will continue to sell the book on my own website as well for a discount 🙂 20% off. Here is the link to my product page for Exploitive No Limit Holdem.
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At its best, procurement enables organizations to succeed by providing the right product at the right time at the right price at the right quantity - every time. However, with limited visibility into spend, buying behavior, and supplier performance, managing procurement with that kind of precision is near-impossible.
Celonis enables procurement leaders to deliver strategic value to the business while reducing costs by visualizing how processes really flow - from the sourcing of a contract to the creation of a purchase order to goods receipt and ultimately, payment of the invoice - and proactively intervening to resolve friction before it snowballs into a hit to margins and compliance.
Transition from being reactive to proactive. In this webinar, you'll learn how the best-in-class are preempting - and even eliminating — maverick buying, arming their sourcing organizations with the negotiation leverage they need to save more, and reducing operational costs with Celonis.
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New Year Concert
New Year Concert played by musicians from Symphonic Orchestra of Poznań, is one of the most spectacular and unforgettable events we create! Our experience indicates, that every New Year is best welcomed with music! We always want that our 40-person orchestra was accompanied by the best performers from national and foreign stages!
During the concert we can hear not only the most known classical waltz, uvertures and polkas, but also beautiful carrols, operettas songs and modern hits! There must be "The Blue Danube" waltz, neapolitan song "O sole mio", opera arias, popular music, and "Radetzky March" at the end!
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Audiofeels – Symphony and Rock Concert
Audiofeels – Symphony and Rock Concert is a show that no rock enthusiast can miss!
Combination of classical music's power with rock music's energy is a true treat for all the rock fans!
The artists will bring us to electrifying and stunning world of rock music. We can hear hits from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Guns'n'Roses, David Bowie and U2. There will be strong bits along with beautiful ballads. Audiofeels band is accompanied by Symphonic Orchestra of Poznań and 100-person chorus.
Great artists, fantastic hits, extraordinary show and over 100 people on the stage is a guarantee of stunning musical experience. During the concert we can hear special Guest's performance.
"Audiofeels – Symphony and Rock Concert" is a tribute to the biggest rock stars.
Feel the real sound wall on your skin!
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Requiem in D minor KV 626
Requiem KV 626 by W. A. Mozart is his last, unfinished work. Ordered by mysterious emissary with a letter from anonymous client. Mozart, seroiusly ill already, was delaying the realisation of the order, he was composing a music for "The Magic Flute" opera in the meantime. Work on Requiem was a race with inevitable death of the composer. Soon before his passing away he handed for the score to work on the most touching part "Lacrimosa dies illa"… He died coninced that he wrote Requiem for himself, although no music was played on his funeral.
Requiem d-moll is an extraordinary work, shrouded by legend in which even today it is hard to separate real events from the myth.


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The Almighty Johnsons
Inside each of the Johnson brothers beats the heart of a Norse god. But they can't fulfill their destinies until brother Axl finds his soul mate.
Inside each of the Johnson brothers beats the heart of a Norse god. But they can't fulfill their destinies until brother Axl finds his soul mate.
A wild teenage boy and his late foster mother's cantankerous husband get lost in the wilderness after social services threatens to take the boy away.
Determined to find the woman he loves, a Scottish teenager braves the Western frontier of 19th-century America, with bounty hunters hot on his trail.
New Zealand film archivist Heperi Mita traces the cinematic legacy of his mother and trailblazing Maori filmmaker Merata Mita.
From the idyllic shire of the Hobbits to the smoking chasms of Mordor, Frodo Baggins embarks on his epic quest to destroy the ring of Sauron.
After years of segregation and forced labor, a race of stranded aliens enlists in a resistance movement spearheaded by a rogue government agent.
Peter Jackson's remake of the classic follows a group of adventurous explorers and filmmakers to Skull Island, where they search for a giant gorilla.
Based on actual events, a quirky 67-year-old grandfather attempts to break speed records on his customized Indian Scout motorcycle.
First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.
Race car driver, designer and innovator Bruce McLaren rose from humble beginnings to forever change the world of motorsport.
This 3-D motion capture adapts Georges Remi's classic comic strip about the adventures of fearless young journalist Tintin and his trusty dog, Snowy.
A boy watches an egg he found hatch into something incredible. But how long can he keep such a big secret from his mom -- and the Scottish government?
An American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare soon learns to respect the samurai that he has been ordered to destroy.
In April 1980, gunmen storm the Iranian Embassy in London. Highly trained SAS operatives prepare a counterattack, hoping to end the hostage situation in one swift blow.
When a month-long period of darkness sets in on the tiny Alaskan town of Barrow, the residents are visited by a flock of bloodthirsty vampires.
After a rogue winter wave capsizes their yacht, four men must find ways to survive in the wreckage while adrift in the vast southern Pacific Ocean.
Olympic freestyle skier Jossi Wells learns the dangerous extreme sport of highlining with help from death-defying daredevils the Flying Frenchies.


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For the third year in a row, the Scottish city of Aberdeen is welcoming internationally renowned street artists to enrich the outstanding public art collection of the city. The festival takes place from April 18 to 21.
Born from the acclaimed urban art festival Nuart (Stavanger, Norway), Nuart Aberdeen brings at the other side of the North Sea Nuart's core value of promoting art as part of people's everyday life. The festival produces site-specific murals and urban interventions that will "challenge entrenched notions of what public art is, what it can be and who it is for" says Nuart founder Martyn Reed.
"Street art is popular at the moment, but that shouldn't occlude a more critical exploration of how it fits into the everyday –a space vital for what it can be, not for what it currently is"
– Martyn Reed, Nuart Journal, Vol. 1 N. 1
Nuart Aberdeen 2019
Highlights of this year's line-up are the Portuguese street artist Vhils, who carves large portraits directly into walls; Axel Void's 'uncomfortable' life scenes; Ben Eine and his iconic, bright coloured typography; the large-scale realistic portraits painted by the Australian graffiti artist Smug; and Jan Vormann's urban installations made of lego bricks.
"Murals are an important part of the urban garden, but we also need to understand them as being in symbiosis with, and in debt to, the activist, the graffiti writer, the trickstarter, the sticker, the paste up, the stencil and the tag. In that sense, Nuart is fiercely protective of the term 'street art', no matter how corrupted. The 'street' is the grit in the oyster that creates the street art pearl, if you like"
– Martyn Reed, Nuart Journal, Vol. 1 N. 1
Nuart Plus: the symposium
What makes Nuart different from the street art festivals mushrooming all around the world is the excellent program of academic talks, film screenings, walking tours and public workshops that goes under the name of Nuart Plus. The agenda aims at engaging all kinds of public into a meaningful discussion about street art in all its nuances.
Highlights of this year's Nuart Plus program are the exclusive talk with playwright, designer and celebrated Scottish artist John Byrne; artist and craftivist Carrie Reichardt, who is back in Aberdeen this year as one of the speakers; the premiere of the movie "Imaginary City" by Kristina Borhes; and –obviously- Nuart's traditional 'Fight Club', which sees two teams, composed by both academics and artists, battle upon a hot topic in the current discussion about urban art. Moreover, street art walking tours will be available both on Saturday 20th and on Sunday 21st.
Check out Nuart Aberdeen 2019's full program!
Nuart Aberdeen 2019: Artist line-up
Strøk (NO) | Axel Void (US) | Ben Eine (UK) | Dotmasters (UK) | Ememem (FR) | Evol (DE) | Hama Woods (NO) | Helen Bur (UK) | Hush (UK) | Jan Vormann (EU) | Julio Anaya Cabanding (ES) | Smug (AU) | Vhils (PT)