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I WAKE UP BAREFOOT, standing on cold slate tiles. Looking dizzily down. I suck in a breath of icy air.
Above me are stars. Below me, the bronze statue of Colonel Wallingford makes me realize I'm seeing the quad from the peak of Smythe Hall, my dorm.
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.
Teetering, I will myself to be as still as possible. Not to inhale too sharply. To grip the slate with my toes.
The night is quiet, the kind of hushed middle-of-the-night quiet that makes every shuffle or nervous panting breath echo. When the black outlines of trees overhead rustle, I jerk in surprise. My foot slides on something slick. Moss.
I try to steady myself, but my legs go out from under me.
I scrabble for something to hold on to as my bare chest slams down on the slate. My palm comes down hard on a sharp bit of copper flashing, but I hardly feel the pain. Kicking out, my foot finds a snow guard, and I press my toes against it, steadying myself. I laugh with relief, even though I am shaking so badly that climbing is out of the question.
Cold makes my fingers numb. The adrenaline rush makes my brain sing.
"Help," I say softly, and feel crazy nervous laughter bubble up my throat. I bite the inside of my cheek to tamp it down.
I can't ask for help. I can't call anyone. If I do, then my carefully maintained pretense that I'm just a regular guy is going to fade forever. Sleepwalking is kid's stuff, weird and embarrassing.
Looking across the roof in the dim light, I try to make out the pattern of snow guards, tiny triangular pieces of clear plastic that keep ice from falling in a sheet, tiny triangular pieces that were never meant to hold my weight. If I can get closer to a window, maybe I can climb down.
I edge my foot out, shifting as slowly as I can and worming toward the nearest snow guard. My stomach scrapes against the slate, some of the tiles chipped and uneven beneath me. I step onto the first guard, then down to another and across to one at the edge of the roof. There, panting, with the windows too far beneath me and with nowhere left to go, I decide I am not willing to die from embarrassment.
I suck in three deep breaths of cold air and yell.
"Hey! Hey! Help!" The night absorbs my voice. I hear the distant swell of engines along the highway, but nothing from the windows below me.
"HEY!" I scream it this time, guttural, as loudly as I can, loud enough that the words scrape my throat raw. "Help!"
A light flickers on in one of the rooms and I see the press of palms against a glass pane. A moment later the window slides open. "Hello?" someone calls sleepily from below. For a moment her voice reminds me of another girl. A dead girl.
I hang my head off the side and try to give my most chagrined smile. Like she shouldn't freak out. "Up here," I say. "On the roof."
"Oh, my God," Justine Moore gasps.
Willow Davis comes to the window. "I'm getting the hall master."
I press my cheek against the cold tile and try to convince myself that everything's okay, that it's not a curse, that if I just hang on a little longer, things are going to be fine.
A crowd gathers below me, spilling out of the dorms.
"Jump," some jerk shouts. "Do it!"
"Mr. Sharpe?" Dean Wharton calls. "Come down from there at once, Mr. Sharpe!" His silver hair sticks up like he's been electrocuted, and his robe is inside out and badly tied. The whole school can see his tighty-whities.
I realize abruptly that I'm wearing only boxers. If he looks ridiculous, I look worse.
"Cassel!" Ms. Noyes yells. "Cassel, don't jump! I know things have been hard . . ." She stops there, like she isn't quite sure what to say next. She's probably trying to remember what's so hard. I have good grades. Play well with others.
I look down again. Camera phones flash. Freshmen hang out of windows next door in Strong House, and juniors and seniors stand around on the grass in their pajamas and nightgowns, even though teachers are desperately trying to herd them back inside.
I give my best grin. "Cheese," I say softly.
"Get down, Mr. Sharpe," yells Dean Wharton. "I'm warning you!"
"I'm okay, Ms. Noyes," I call. "I don't know how I got up here. I think I was sleepwalking."
I'd dreamed of a white cat. It leaned over me, inhaling sharply, as if it was going to suck the breath from my lungs, but then it bit out my tongue instead. There was no pain, only a sense of overwhelming, suffocating panic. In the dream my tongue was a wriggling red thing, mouse-size and wet, that the cat carried in her mouth. I wanted it back. I sprang up out of the bed and grabbed for her, but she was too lean and too quick. I chased her. The next thing I knew, I was teetering on a slate roof.
A siren wails in the distance, drawing closer. My cheeks hurt from smiling.
Eventually a fireman climbs a ladder to get me down. They put a blanket around me, but by then my teeth are chattering so hard that I can't answer any of their questions. It's like the cat bit out my tongue after all.
The last time I was in the headmistress's office, my grandfather was there with me to enroll me at the school. I remember watching him empty a crystal dish of peppermints into the pocket of his coat while Dean Wharton talked about what a fine young man I would be turned into. The crystal dish went into the opposite pocket.
Wrapped in a blanket, I sit in the same green leather chair and pick at the gauze covering my palm. A fine young man indeed.
"Sleepwalking?" Dean Wharton says. He's dressed in a brown tweed suit, but his hair is still wild. He stands near a shelf of outdated encyclopedias and strokes a gloved finger over their crumbling leather spines.
I notice there's a new cheap glass dish of mints on the desk. My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
"I used to sleepwalk," I say. "I haven't done it in a long time."
Somnambulism isn't all that uncommon in kids, boys especially. I looked it up online after waking in the driveway when I was thirteen, my lips blue with cold, unable to shake the eerie feeling that I'd just returned from somewhere I couldn't quite recall.
Outside the leaded glass windows the rising sun limns the trees with gold. The headmistress, Ms. Northcutt, looks puffy and red-eyed. She's drinking coffee out of a mug with the Wallingford logo on it and gripping it so tightly the leather of her gloves over her knuckles is pulled taut.
"I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend," Headmistress Northcutt says.
"No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
The headmistress clears her throat. "Some students think you are running a betting pool. Are you in some kind of trouble? Owe someone money?"
I look down and try not to smile at the mention of my tiny criminal empire. It's just a little forgery and some bookmaking. I'm not running a single con; I haven't even taken up my brother Philip's suggestion that we could be the school's main supplier for underage booze. I'm pretty sure the headmistress doesn't care about betting, but I'm glad she doesn't know that the most popular odds are on which teachers are hooking up. Northcutt and Wharton are a long shot, but that doesn't stop people laying cash on them. I shake my head.
"Have you experienced mood swings lately?" Dean Wharton asks.
"No," I say.
"What about changes in appetite or sleep patterns?" He sounds like he's reciting the words from a book.
"The problem is my sleep patterns," I say.
"What do you mean?" asks Headmistress Northcutt, suddenly intent.
"Nothing! Just that I was sleepwalking, not trying to kill myself. And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it."
The headmistress takes a sip from her cup. She's relaxed her grip. "Our lawyer advised me that until a doctor can assure us that nothing like this will happen again, we can't allow you to stay in the dorms. You're too much of an insurance liability."
I thought that people would give me a lot of crap, but I never thought there would be any real consequences. I thought I was going to get a scolding. Maybe even a couple of demerits. I'm too stunned to say anything for a long moment. "But I didn't do anything wrong."
Which is stupid, of course. Things don't happen to people because they deserve them. Besides, I've done plenty wrong.
"Your brother Philip is coming to pick you up," Dean Wharton says. He and the headmistress exchange looks, and Wharton's hand goes unconsciously to his neck, where I see the colored cord and the outline of the amulet under his white shirt.
I get it. They're wondering if I've been worked. Cursed. It's not that big a secret that my grandfather was a death worker for the Zacharov family. He's got the blackened stubs where his fingers used to be to prove it. And if they read the paper, they know about my mother. It's not a big leap for Wharton and Northcutt to blame any and all strangeness concerning me on curse work.
"You can't kick me out for sleepwalking," I say, getting to my feet. "That can't be legal. Some kind of discrimination against—" I stop speaking as cold dread settles in my stomach, because for a moment I wonder if I could have been cursed. I try to think back to whether someone brushed me with a hand, but I can't recall anyone touching me who wasn't clearly gloved.
"We haven't come to any determination about your future here at Wallingford yet." The headmistress leafs through some of the papers on her desk. The dean pours himself a coffee.
"I can still be a day student." I don't want to sleep in an empty house or crash with either of my brothers, but I will. I'll do whatever lets me keep my life the way it is.
"Go to your dorm and pack some things. Consider yourself on medical leave."
"Just until I get a doctor's note," I say.
Neither of them replies, and after a few moments of standing awkwardly, I head for the door.
Don't be too sympathetic. Here's the essential truth about me: I killed a girl when I was fourteen. Her name was Lila, she was my best friend, and I loved her. I killed her anyway. There's a lot of the murder that seems like a blur, but my brothers found me standing over her body with blood on my hands and a weird smile tugging at my mouth. What I remember most is the feeling I had looking down at Lila—the giddy glee of having gotten away with something.
No one knows I'm a murderer except my family. And me, of course.
I don't want to be that person, so I spend most of my time at school faking and lying. It takes a lot of effort to pretend you're something you're not. I don't think about what music I like; I think about what music I should like. When I had a girlfriend, I tried to convince her I was the guy she wanted me to be. When I'm in a crowd, I hang back until I can figure out how to make them laugh. Luckily, if there's one thing I'm good at, it's faking and lying.
I told you I'd done plenty wrong.
I pad, still barefoot, still wrapped in the scratchy fireman's blanket, across the sunlit quad and up to my dorm room. Sam Yu, my roommate, is looping a skinny tie around the collar of a wrinkled dress shirt when I walk through the door. He looks up, startled.
"I'm fine," I say wearily. "In case you were going to ask."
Sam's a horror film enthusiast and hard-core science geek who has covered our dorm room with bug-eyed alien masks and gore-spattered posters. His parents want him to go to MIT and from there to some profitable pharmaceuticals gig. He wants to do special effects for movies. Despite the facts that he's built like a bear and is obsessed with fake blood, he has so far failed to stand up to them to the degree that they don't even know there's a disagreement. I like to think we're sort of friends.
We don't hang out with many of the same people, which makes being sort of friends easier.
"I wasn't doing . . . whatever you think I was doing," I tell him. "I don't want to die or anything."
Sam smiles and pulls on his Wallingford gloves. "I was just going to say that it's a good thing you don't sleep commando."
I snort and drop onto my cot. The frame squeaks in protest. On the pillow next to my head rests a new envelope, marked with a code telling me a freshman wants to put fifty dollars on Victoria Quaroni to win the talent show. The odds are astronomical, but the money reminds me that someone's going to have to keep the books and pay out while I'm away.
Sam kicks the base of the footboard lightly. "You sure you're okay?"
I nod. I know I should tell him that I'm going home, that he's about to become one of those lucky guys with a single, but I don't want to disturb my own fragile sense of normalcy. "Just tired."
Sam picks up his backpack. "See you in class, crazy-man."
I raise my bandaged hand in farewell, then stop myself. "Hey, wait a sec."
Hand on the doorknob, he turns.
"I was just thinking . . . if I'm gone. Do you think you could let people keep dropping off the money here?" It bothers me to ask, simultaneously putting me in his debt and making the whole kicked-out thing real, but I'm not ready to give up the one thing I've got going for me at Wallingford.
He hesitates.
"Forget it," I say. "Pretend I never—"
He interrupts me. "Do I get a percentage?"
"Twenty-five," I say. "Twenty-five percent. But you're going to have to do more than just collect the money for that."
He nods slowly. "Yeah, okay."
I grin. "You're the most trustworthy guy I know."
"Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says. "Except, apparently, off a roof."
"Nice," I say with a groan. I push myself off the bed and take a clean pair of itchy black uniform pants out of the dresser.
"So why would you be gone? They're not kicking you out, right?"
Pulling on the pants, I turn my face away, but I can't keep the unease out of my voice. "No. I don't know. Let me set you up."
He nods. "Okay. What do I do?"
"I'll give you my notebook on point spreads, tallies, everything, and you just fill in whatever bets you get." I stand, pulling my desk chair over to the closet and hopping up on the seat. "Here." My fingers close on the notebook I taped above the door. I rip it down. Another one from sophomore year is still up there, from when business got big enough I could no longer rely on my pretty-good-but-not-photographic memory.
Sam half-smiles. I can tell he's amazed that he never noticed my hiding spot. "I think I can manage that."
The pages he's flipping through are records of all the bets made since the beginning of our junior year at Wallingford, and the odds on each. Bets on whether the mouse loose in Stanton Hall will be killed by Kevin Brown with his mallet, or by Dr. Milton with his bacon-baited traps, or be caught by Chaiyawat Terweil with his lettuce-filled and totally humane trap. (The odds favor the mallet.) On whether Amanda, Sharone, or Courtney would be cast as the female lead in Pippin and whether the lead would be taken down by her understudy. (Courtney got it; they're still in rehearsals.) On how many times a week "nut brownies with no nuts" will be served in the cafeteria.
Real bookies take a percentage, relying on a balanced book to guarantee a profit. Like, if someone puts down five bucks on a fight, they're really putting down four fifty, and the other fifty cents is going to the bookie. The bookie doesn't care who wins; he only cares that the odds work so he can use the money from the losers to pay the winners. I'm not a real bookie. Kids at Wallingford want to bet on silly stuff, stuff that might never come true. They have money to burn. So some of the time I calculate the odds the right way—the real bookie way—and some of the time I calculate the odds my way and just hope I get to pocket everything instead of paying out what I can't afford. You could say that I'm gambling too. You'd be right.
"Remember," I say, "cash only. No credit cards; no watches."
He rolls his eyes. "Are you seriously telling me someone thinks you have a credit card machine up in here?"
"No," I say. "They want you to take their card and buy something that costs what they owe. Don't do it; it looks like you stole their card, and believe me, that's what they'll tell their parents."
Sam hesitates. "Yeah," he says finally.
"Okay," I say. "There's a new envelope on the desk. Don't forget to mark down everything." I know I'm nagging, but I can't tell him that I need the money I make. It's not easy to go to a school like this without money. I'm the only seventeen-year-old at Wallingford without a car.
I motion to him to hand me the book.
Just as I'm taping it into place, someone raps loudly on the door, causing me to nearly topple over. Before I can say anything, it opens, and our hall master walks in. He looks at me like he's half-expecting to find me threading a noose.
I hop down from the chair. "I was just—"
"Thanks for getting down my bag," Sam says.
"Samuel Yu," says Mr. Valerio. "I'm fairly sure that breakfast is over and classes have started."
"I bet you're right," Sam says, with a smirk in my direction.
I could con Sam if I wanted to. I'd do it just this way, asking for his help, offering him a little profit at the same time. Take him for a chunk of his parents' cash. I could con Sam, but I won't.
Really, I won't.
As the door clicks shut behind Sam, Valerio turns to me. "Your brother can't come until tomorrow morning, so you're going to have to attend classes with the rest of the students. We're still discussing where you'll be spending the night."
"You can always tie me to the bedposts," I say, but Valerio doesn't find that very funny.
My mother explained the basics of the con around the same time she explained about curse work. For her the curse was how she got what she wanted and the con was how she got away with it. I can't make people love or hate instantly, like she can, turn their bodies against them like Philip can, or take their luck away like my other brother, Barron, but you don't need to be a worker to be a con artist.
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
It was my mother who taught me that if you're going to screw someone over—with magic and wit, or wit alone—you have to know the mark better than he knows himself.
The first thing you have to do is gain his confidence. Charm him. Just be sure he thinks he's smarter than you are. Then you—or, ideally, your partner—suggest the score.
Let your mark get something right up front the first time. In the business that's called the "convincer." When he knows he's already got money in his pocket and can walk away, that's when he relaxes his guard.
The second go is when you introduce bigger stakes. The big score. This is the part my mother never has to worry about. As an emotion worker, she can make anyone trust her. But she still needs to go through the steps, so that later, when they think back on it, they don't figure out she worked them.
After that there's only the blow-off and the getaway.
Being a con artist means thinking that you're smarter than everyone else and that you've thought of everything. That you can get away with anything. That you can con anyone.
I wish I could say that I don't think about the con when I deal with people, but the difference between me and my mother is that I don't con myself.
© 2010 Katy Grant
White Cat
Cassel comes from a family of con artists and grifters, all of them curse workers but him. On top of that, Cassel is plagued by guilt that he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.
When Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila, and what that means about his actions. In Cassel's search for answers about Lila and himself, he realizes that his brothers have been conning him for years, and that the final piece in their quest for power is about to fall into place. Cassel has other ideas. He's going to create an even more elaborate trap and, with Lila's help, con a bunch of magic using conmen.
This "beautifully realized dark fantasy...with prose that moves from stark simplicity to almost surreal intensity in a moment" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is rife with the unexpected. "Readers will be hooked" (Booklist) on White Cat.
- Saga Press |
- 368 pages |
- September 2015
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White Cat and Red Glove of The Curse Workers Series
by Holly Black
About White Cat
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change a person's emotions, memories, or luck with the slightest touch of the hand. And since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He hasn't got magic, so he's an outsider—the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail—he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago. Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat. He's noticed other disturbing things too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he must unravel his past and his memories. To find out the truth, Cassel must outcon the conmen.
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The starting point for White Cat was the fairy tale of that name, written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Ask readers to read the fairy tale and then see what they can find in it that relates to what happens with Cassel and Lila. Or ask them to read the fairy tale and analyze what it says a see more


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MADRID (AP) — Employees at Spain's luxury Parador hotels, which are set in some of the country's most picturesque castles, monasteries and palaces, began a two-day strike on Friday to protest job cuts and possible closures.
The hotel group, which opened the first Parador in 1928, said a drop in demand could leave it with accumulated losses of €107 million ($140 million) by the end of the year. "The company's financial situation is untenable," it said in a statement, adding it intended to cut 644 jobs out of a workforce of 4,400. The company said that if the group did not take measures, losses would reach €139 million in 2013.
Trade union spokesman Antonio Ruda claimed the losses are partly due to the cost of refurbishing hotel buildings that don't even belong to the chain. He said most of the buildings are classified as part of Spain's national heritage and leased to the hotel chain.
"Workers are being asked to sacrifice their livelihoods to justify repairing church-owned buildings likely to be sold." Ruda noted it cost about €48 million to refurbish the Parador in the southeastern city of Cadiz, a sum accounted for as a running cost.
He said that apart from the job losses, 948 other staff would have their duties reduced to part-time work and up to seven hotels would be closed at a time when Spain's tourism industry was "the only one, more or less, surviving the financial crisis."
Government statistics published in September said a record 7.9 million tourists arrived during the peak vacation month of August, 5 percent up compared with the same month in 2011 and around 200,000 more than in the previous record month, July.
Tourism represents around 11 percent of Spain's gross domestic product and the government is trying to boost trade and create employment after the 2008 collapse of the property market, which triggered a deep financial crisis.
There are 94 Parador hotels in historic buildings in some of Spain's most beautiful locations. Among the most famous is the former Royal Hospital in Santiago de Compostela, a stunning palace with four beautiful cloisters built in 1499 to house pilgrims arriving to visit one of Christianity's most venerated shrines.
Another is situated within the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada, the luxurious palace used until 1492 by southern Spain's former Islamic rulers. When Gen. Charles de Gaulle, France's military leader and late president, decided to write his memoirs, he secluded himself in Jaen's Parador, a former Moorish fortress perched atop a mountain overlooking the olive groves and hills of Andalucia.

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Afternoon Everyone, ANTHONY JAPHA wrote: >Bird Admirers, > >I've been reading the bb and feel like I'm emerging from a torture chamber. [snip] > > It's possible that a great deal of this unpleasantness could have been avoided if the folks who are aware of the facts would have made them widely available. > > Exactly, Just as in a marriage, ( a different type of relationship) the number one killer of a marriage is communication. How sad it is, that a group of people that are know as "Communicators" simply do not do so. >The membership is entitled to know quickly when important things change, whether that's a change in approach to getting a new bird up, a fundamental change in design philosophy for a new bird, financial difficulties, or a significant personnel change. We've been given next to nothing, and naturally that breeds discomfort, to say the least. NO MORE PABLUM, PLEASE. > >Unless our leaders have given up completely on HEOs, and I don't think they have, a development schedule is a must. No serious project, whether built by paid pros, volunteers, or elves, can be pursued without one. (Schedules for project components change, it's true, and when that happens, the master schedule is usually adjusted, and a new one is promulgated.) In our case, >because the launch is so uncertain, perhaps the final milestone on our project schedule should be "Ready for Spaceship Integration" or some such. There is widely used computer based project management software available. > >Without a well-known and well-disseminated development schedule, there is no project, and our leadership should understand that. > >What about financial, management, and technical resources? We know that there are serious--possibly fatal--financial obstacles to launch. But what about other constraints? Is there enough money to develop and build the bird or not? I have never heard a statement on the matter. What are the specific areas in which technical and managerial volunteers are needed? > >My sense is that if the outlook for resources is that we'll have enough for everything except the launch, then we should get Eagle and/or the Intelsat thing ready as fast as prudently possible. Everyone--designers, builders, Board, membership at large-- will have a great sense of achievement. Then, if it comes to naught, we'll all know that we did what we could. As it stands, it seems it would take a great deal of time--years-- to be ready even if a launch opportunity appeared. But then again, I'm not at all sure of that, because for information we have available is, well, woefully inadequate. > >One final thought: I'm just as tired of reading posts that come down hard on "complainers and whiners" as I am of the rest of it. We do have very serious unresolved issues that threaten the future of our piece of this great hobby. Why shouldn't people complain about that and urge resolution? Calls to "stop complaining and volunteer" strike me as rather hollow. What is it that we're volunteering for, envelope stuffing (everyone can do it), building something (very few can do it), strategic thinking (many think they can do it)? Again, give us the facts and, with the impressive talent we can draw from, we'll come up with some answers. Without the facts, we won't. > >73, >Tony, N2UN >_______________________________________________ >Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > > > > _______________________________________________ Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Canadiens survive, send Eastern finals back to New YorkBy STEVE ZIPAY
May 27. 2014 11:32PM
MONTREAL -- Get ready for Game 6 at the Garden on Thursday night.
In a wild, high-scoring Game 5 Tuesday night, Rene Bourque's hat trick led the Canadiens, with their backs to the wall, to a 7-4 victory at Bell Centre.
The Rangers still lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals, 3-2, with a chance to wrap up the series at home, but they will certainly need a tighter defensive effort, more shots on goal and better goaltending from Henrik Lundqvist, who was yanked in the second period.
The third period began with the Habs leading 5-4, but Bourque's third goal at 6:33, over the glove of reliever Cam Talbot, provided a two-goal cushion, which proved too much for the Blueshirts to overcome.
Rookie goalie Dustin Tokarski, who had allowed four goals on just 16 shots in the first 40 minutes, kept the Rangers at bay in the final 20.
A frustrated John Moore effectively killed any chances of a comeback with a late, high hit on Dale Weise, drawing a five-minute match penalty, which carries an automatic suspension for the defenseman.
With Talbot pulled, David Desharnais' empty-netter at 4:17 set the home crowd singing.
Down 4-1 in the second period, Lundqvist was pulled for Talbot, making his playoff debut, and the Rangers scored three straight goals to tie it at 4.
The Canadiens had scored the first two goals of the period, and it looked like a rout. Max Pacioretty made it 3-1 on a beautiful pass from Brendan Gallagher at 3:44. And when Mats Zuccarello bounced a defenseman into Tokarski, the Canadiens went on another power play at 4:46.
The Rangers fought that off, but sensing blood, the Habs kept pushing.
Bourque was left alone in front to make it 4-1 at 6:54, and Talbot grabbed his mask on the bench and started stretching. He came in to relieve Lundqvist with 11:02 left in the second.
The Rangers responded to the goalie change with three goals in 4:24. With a quick shot from a bad angle on the left side, Rick Nash banked a low shot off Tokarski and in at 9:48.
Derek Stepan, wearing a plastic guard on his helmet to protect a broken jaw suffered in Game 3, scored his second of the game at 12:06.
And then on a power play, with Tomas Plekanec in the box for embellishment, Chris Kreider capped the comeback at 14:12 from in front, stunning the boisterous crowd.
But Bourque scored his second of the game from the slot at 15:10 for a 5-4 lead. The Rangers, who were called for eight penalties Sunday, got off to the worst possible start Tuesday night. Kreider tripped P.K. Subban at the 22-second mark. The Rangers killed the first half of the power play, but when Zuccarello failed to clear up the boards, Andrei Markov slid the puck cross ice to Subban, whose blast deflected off Alex Galchenyuk, skating by the crease at 1:48.
The goal energized the crowd and gave the Canadiens some confidence.
At 9:14, the Rangers broke in on an odd-man rush and Martin St. Louis fed Carl Hagelin, who fired immediately as Tokarski lunged toward him.
The puck hit the knob of his stick and flitted away. But the Rangers tied the score just minutes later. Stepan took a 45-foot wrister that seemed to dip under Tokarski's blocker and went off the post and in at 10:44.
But the Habs struck again. Plekanec skated into the slot and fired a low shot past Lundqvist's glove for a 2-1 lead at 12:24, a goal that Lundqvist (14 saves) probably wants back.


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Social Work
The Department of Social Work program, which is based on a strong foundation in the liberal arts, prepares students for generalist social work practice and graduate study. The program focuses on ethical behavior and competent practice, following Virginia Wesleyan's honor code and the National Association of Social Worker's (NASW) Code of Ethics.
Through community service and classroom experience, students encounter the relationships and social contexts in which they will learn and eventually practice. Students are immersed in the topics of mental and physical health, human rights, diversity, oppression, and economic and social justice, through a data-driven, outcomes-based curriculum in which critical thinking skills are applied.
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Piaget Emperador Cushion watch
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Piaget Emperador cushion-shaped watch, 42 mm. Case in 18K rose gold set with 136 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 2.6 ct). White mother-of-pearl dial with hour markers in 18K rose gold, set with 164 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.4 ct). Sapphire crystal case back. Manufacture Piaget 850P self-winding mechanical movement with small seconds, date and dual time zone.
- Description
Piaget Emperador Cushion watch
The complex case of the Piaget Emperador cushion-shaped watch magnificently brings out all the skill of Piaget's jewel-setters. It frames a watch-face with refined lines which is itself illuminated by diamonds around a centre in white mother-of-pearl. The complicated movement, intended for travellers, complements its indication of the hours, minutes and small seconds by a large date window and a dual time-zone display complete with day/night indicator.
- Characteristics
Watch product type: Watch
Metal: Rose gold
Metal weight (gr): 75.8
Strap type: Alligator
Strap colour: Brown
Strap buckle: Folding clasp
Wrist size: 210 mm (max), 170 mm (min)
Case shape: Cushion
Case diameter: 42 mm
Case thickness: 8.9 mm
Dial material: Mother-of-pearl, Precious stones
Dial colour: White
Dial finishing: Gem set
Index: Batons
Waterproofness: 03 ATM
Specificities: Sapphire case back
Movement: Self-winding mechanical
Precious stones: Diamond
Other material: White mother-of-pearl
*Piaget luxury watches and jewellery are individually produced and thus the weight and carats of each product can vary from the displayed data.
- The movement
850P movementType: Self-winding mechanical
Shape: Round
Functions: Small seconds at 4 o'clock, Second time zone at 8 o'clock (12 hours), Day/night indicator at 8 o'clock synchronised with the main time zone, Date at 12 o'clock, Hours, Minutes
Technical features: Balance with screws, Double barrel
Power reserve (in hours): Approx. 85
Frequency (vph): 21,600
Frequency (Hz): 3
Diameter (lines): 12.00
Diameter (mm): 26.8
Number of jewels: 30
Thickness (mm): 4
Number of components: 229
Finishing: Oscillating weight engraved with the Piaget coat of arms, Blued screws, Circular Côtes de Genève, Circular-grained mainplate, Bevelled bridges


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Pete Townshend is a perfect example of the adage "rock 'n' roll keeps you young." Although the mastermind behind the Who and some of the greatest rock songs of the 20th century turns 68 this Sunday, May 19, he's in the midst of yet another world tour with his classic band, wind milling through the rock opera Quadrophenia in packed arenas before sold-out multi-generational audiences.
Townshend's electric guitar from the Who's first album, 1965's My Generation, through 1978's Who Are You had an indelible sonic thumbprint — a savage howl of angst, dissatisfaction, anger and ebullient joy discharged through stacks of Marshall, Vox and Hiwatt amplifiers. Of course, his acoustic six-string playing was and is still indelible, too, but it's his formative and most influential electric days that created an entire school of rock rhythm and lead guitar playing.
Several of the things that made Townshend unique were within his physical approach to the guitar. His rhythm playing favors down strokes, with upstrokes often reserved for emotional punctuation. And his hybrid pick-and-fingers approach to striking the strings stems from his early experience playing banjo. That instrument gave Townshend a fundamental grasp of finger-picking and plucking, so he could palm or float a flat-pick on his fingers while tearing out, for example, the stuttering chords of "Who Are You." His skiffle music beginnings also developed the wrist work that defined his signature acoustic guitar strumming on the Gibson SJ-200.
Another part of Townshend's magic is his chord voicings. He used thumb fretted seventh chords and sustained fourths unsparingly, and even added an extra D note — on the second string — for his G campfire chord.
For the Who's first few years Townshend had been forced by poverty to play and plug into whatever he could afford. Initially, with his pre-Who group the Detours, it was a Harmony Stratotone he'd spray painted red, and then his first quality electric instrument, an Epiphone Wilshire he bought from Detours singer Roger Daltrey.
When Townshend heard Cream and Jimi Hendrix, he knew that a new sonic order was being established in rock 'n' roll and that he had to find his place within it. Marshalls did little for him, although he used them for a while and was a driving force in getting Jim Marshall to increase the wattage of his amps and the size of his cabinets.
"I didn't like the sound," Townshend told Guitar Player magazine in 1989. So he turned to Sound City L100 amps beginning in May 1967. Sound City was a British company that competed with Vox and Sunn, the amps Townshend often used while touring the States. Townshend had his Sound City heads, which were similar to Marshall's tops including four jack inputs, modified by Dave Reeves of Hylight Electronics, the company that made Hiwatt amps. They had the same circuit specifications as the Hiwatt CP103 and were given chicken-head knobs, like Hiwatts. Reeves created at least three of these for Townshend until Pete switched to actual Hiwatt amplifiers in 1970. At that point he still used his Sound City's, but some were given Hiwatt faceplates and the Sound City's were often relegated to back-up status.
The other component of Townshend's classic sound — Gibson guitars — began to fall into place in late 1967 when he acquired an ES-345 which suffered a smashing on-stage death at London's Marquee Club in 1968 . In the middle of that year, he switched to the model that would become an indelible part of his history, the Gibson SG Special. His first was in cherry with a black pick guard, white binding, a bound dot inlay neck, rosewood fingerboard, Schaller tuners and two P-90 pickups modified with a stop tail piece verses the original Maestro Vibrola whammy. The guitar debuted with Townshend on stage and then accompanied him into the studio for Tommy.
The SG Special model and the Hiwatts were the rocket fuel for the grinding power chords in the overture for Tommy and tracks like "Pinball Wizard," which also featured Townshend's ferocious pre-bicycle accident strumming. Townsend contends that after he broke his wrist his strumming has never been quite as peppery. His primary guitars through Who's Next and Quadrophenia remained SG specials, joined by a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Junior he was given by Leslie West during the Who's Next sessions. In 1971 he added a Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty for the stage, and in 1972 added a flotilla of Gibson Les Paul Customs and Gibson Les Paul Deluxes to his live and studio arsenal.
Starting in early 1970, Townshend's Hiwatts always had his back on stage and got plenty of studio use as well. His typical live rig included two or three 100-watt powered Hiwatt stacks, which employed 4x12 configured cabinets of 50-watt Fane speakers. These became known as "Super Who 100s," and there were slight differences between their two generations. The first units created in 1969 were essentially Hiwatt DR103 heads, which shared their design with the CP103 model. The second generation customized the circuitry in the CP103 and had a faceplate that read "The Who" over the treble and master volume controls. Townshend used these amps until the early 1980s, when they were sold.
His settings from 1969 to 1972 typically found the gain on 10, the volume for channels two through four switched off, the bass at five or six, treble at nine or 10, and the master volume set to a hearty five to seven.
Townshend continued to make history with the Who after those albums, and to vary his sound by switching to other amps and guitars, but that period from 1969 to 1973 remains the group's golden era.


text: The Complete Idiots Guide to Street Magic by Tom OgdenIts the hip-hop of hocus-pocus. Forget about David Copperfield, cruise ship illusionists, and birthday party magicians. Theyre so twentieth century. Think cutting-edge magickers like David Blaine and Criss Angel. People starting out in magic today want something edgier, grittier, quick, visual, and maybe a little dangerous. This guide will teach you how to do it! What makes The Complete Idiots Guide to Street Magic different from other books is the type of tricks and the thematic presentations that readers will actually learn. Out of the literally thousands of tricks that could have been included, only those that have the greatest impact, both visually and psychologically, appear in this book. It includes:


text: RussiaFeed News French President claims he's 'equal to Putin' – immediately gets shredded on Twitter Macron bombed Syria to prove he's tough like Putin – that's not psychotic at all Published 6 months ago on April 18, 2018 By Matfey Shaheen 0 Views Share Tweet French President Emmanuel Macron felt the need to remind Journalists that he's Vladimir Putin's equal…and how does he do that…by bombing Syria of course! Because that totally represents a man without any form of impotency issues whatsoever. It also inspires in a reasonable individual, the serious question as to whether or not Macron has a Napoleonic inferiority complex? According to Sputnik International, Macron felt the need to demonstrate his perceived dominance – in other words: his desperate attempt to remain relevant – before French Journalists when discussing Syria. He believes himself to be Putin's equal with regards to the situation in Syria, and was quoted by Sputnik as saying: "By the way, Putin understands me. And I decided to strike Syria in order to convey to Putin that we are also part of this," Ipse dixit, as we say in Latin: Macron said it himself. He exposed that his true reason for striking Syria was not a chemical attack, but rather his desire to remain relevant on the world stage, and measure up to Putin. Interestingly enough, Sputnik mentioned that the French President was sharing a drink with journalists at the time; one wonders if that was the cause for not only his bravado, but if it caused him to betray a less "humanitarian" motive for bombing innocent Syria. Of course, Macron would deny this was the reason, and insist he struck Syria in response to chemical weapons use, however that narrative was exposed as a false flag supported by the UK. Still, as always, there is no accountability for such things, but that didn't stop Twitter users from ridiculing Macron: 'I'm the equal of Putin,' #Macron tells journalists over a drink https://t.co/aaNqdIbU1e pic.twitter.com/1GyHq1M1jw — RT (@RT_com) April 17, 2018 Didn't Napoleon say the same thing about Tsar Alexander I? — Info (@Glavset) April 17, 2018 https://twitter.com/GalDoArt/status/986331461740630017 I can't laugh enough at this alone. Somebody please help me. — Bad Budhha (@vicogico) April 17, 2018 Must have been more than one drink. — Jason Bournitski (@JasonBournitski) April 17, 2018 In an Orwellian twist oh-so-common to Modern Politics, Macron went as far as to say he believed his strike on Syria, in coordination with his western colleagues "will lead to peace in Syria." That is very fascinating, for as much as they make fun of Americans, France is embracing the American tradition of "carpet bombing for world peace". He reasoned that the attack would bring peace, because he claimed France helped strike Syria's non-existent chemical weapons labs. It's been a while since we've heard that kind of circular logic: It seems Trump and Macron took a lesson from Barrack Hussien Obama. This tweet from French expert Xavier Moreau, who often appears on RT's Crosstalk with Peter Lavelle says it all: Obama, who is the Macron's model has spent his last years in power explaining he won against Putin. Putin never had anything to do with such comparison.Macron suffers from the same inferiority complex… quite worryinghttps://t.co/TSK2D2Stvp — Xavier Moreau (@xmoreau45) April 17, 2018 It is truly a shame that the French President may feel so inferior to Vladimir Putin, that he possibly felt the need to bomb a country in order to prove they're equals. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 1 day ago on October 22, 2018 By Seraphim Hanisch This piece is reprinted almost entirely from its original posting on orthochristian.com. We hope it offers a clear perspective that shared across the Orthodox Christian world regarding the recent moves by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in regards to the legitimization of two canonically schismatic church communities in Ukraine. A note for US or Western European readers:While Western culture regards church affairs as something middling at best, and "not in touch with the 'real world'", the Orthodox Christian world takes the opposite view. These matters of how the Church's faith and practice are handled are extremely important to millions of believers. The aforementioned actions are profoundly difficult events for Orthodox Christians and have great repercussions that extend into the geopolitical realm of secular politics. It is for this reason that this story is being followed closely on The Duran.Recently, Metropolitan Archbishop Amfilohije of Montenegro gave an interview with Russian Channel One about the decision of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, to grant canonical status to two schismatic communities in Ukraine, pursuant to the creation of a national Ukrainian independent Orthodox Church in that region.This particular set of events also has a geopolitical basis, as the reader will discover as they peruse the interview. Any emphasis in bold is added strictly for the ease of comprehension. The decisions of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew and his Synod concerning the Ukrainian issue, are, in my opinion catastrophic, both for the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and for resolving the Church question in Ukraine, as well as for the unity of the Orthodox Church. We in our Church are simply shocked at how the Ecumenical Patriarch—an expert on the canons—made such a decision, which is without a doubt uncanonical," said His Eminence Amfilohije, Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, and Brda, Archbishop of Cetinje, and Exarch of the Throne of Peć in an interview with the Russian Channel One. Commenting on the canonical aspects of the latest decision of the Patriarch of Constantinople and his Synod, Archbishop Amfilohije explained that the Patriarch of Constantinople "in this decision refers, as other bishops of the Patriarchate of Constantinople have recently referred to, the right to appeal to the Patriarch of Constantinople from other Local Churches. This is the so called "Ekkliton."[1] The body of the interview follows, with all the text except the Interviewer being the speech of Met. Amfilohije: Whenever a problem arises in any of the Local Churches between individual bishops, it is alleged that they have the possibility of appealing to Constantinople, and then Constantinople could make its decision on the matter. "However, do they actually have this right of appeal? Especially in the spirit in which Denisenko applied to it now? The Ecumenical Patriarch validates this with some historical facts, and certain Church canons. For example, the 9th, 17th, and 28th Canons of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, which were written in antiquity, and therefore, which relate to the status of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and its role at that time. "On what basis then, was this right given? First of all, this right concerns the Metropolises under the canonical administration of the Patriarch of Constantinople. It did not apply to the whole Church. Secondly, this right is based on the canons of the Ecumenical Council, according to which the Ecmenical Patriarch received this status as the Bishop of the City of Byzantium—Constantinople—on the grounds that this city, in which this bishop is located, is the Imperial City—the residence of the emperor and the Imperial Council. "Now, however, the imperial capital no longer exists. Constantinople ceased to be the imperial capital in 1453. And therefore, this right to which the Patriarch of Constantinople is referring is questionable. The Orthodox Church does not question its status as the first in honor in the Orthodox church, but this does not give him the right to interfere in this way in the life of any other Local Church, including the Russian Orthodox Church. "The Patriarch is referring here to a certain decision in 1686, in which by economia[2] the right to ordain (appoint) the Metropolitan of Kiev was given to the Patriarch of Moscow, provided that the Metropolitan of Kiev commemorates the Constantinople Patriarch first at the Liturgy. "However, Kievan Rus'[3], and Vladimir Rus'[4], and Muscovite Rus'[5] were one and the same Rus' at that time; so it is impossible to separate Kievan Rus from Muscovite or Vladimir Rus'. "300 years have passed since then, and Constantinople had never raised the question that it had ecclesiastical authority in Ukraine. He first raised this question just now, and it is absolutely impossible to accept. "I am amazed at how the negative reaction of all the Local Churches did not stop him; the ancient Patriarchates of the East—Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch. The Patriarch of Antioch was just recently with us. I am sure that he will give his assessment. "[The Patriarch of Alexandria] recently visited Odessa, and spoke there, together with the Metropolitan of the Polish Orthodox Church, who also quite clearly expressed his opinion. "In general, all the Local Churches—and our Local Church—expressed at a council, a very documented letter in connection with this issue. Constantinople did not respond to our letter concerning this. "Our Patriarch just met with the Ecumenical Patriarch in Thessaloniki. Our Patriarch gave him the position of our Church, and unfortunately, Constantinople answered as they answered. "As it is, however, this decision, as I have already said, is catastrophic, including for the resolution of this important issue of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It does not solve this question, but only complicates it. It creates a radical problem of interference in the life of another Local Church, and not only for the Russian Church, but for absolutely everyone. "This at the same time calls into question the very unity of Orthodoxy. This has already affected Orthodoxy, especially the Orthodox diaspora, after that the conferences of Orthodox Bishops. According to my information, the bishops in Latin America already refuse to participate in pan-Orthodox conferences, and its going the same way in Europe[6]. I am sure that this will happen in the USA. It has partially already begun. "But the role of the first among the patriarchs is not to separate the others, but to unite. "By such actions, the Patriarch of Constantinople in fact separates. He does not solve this problem, but only pushes the problem deeper into the Orthodox Church. "Recently, a lot has been said about the interference in the internal affairs of the Orthodox Church by the great world powers. Can you elaborate on which powers people are talking about, and what these power are trying to accomplish? "Now it is seen in Ukraine itself. It is in fact the Ukrainian government that is the main player in the question of granting autocephaly to a Ukrainian church[7]. It should not be overlooked that the state would previously intervene—in other words, there was cooperation, the so called "symphonia" of the state and the Church in Orthodoxy. "But in those days, this was with regards to Christian states, and Christian rulers. In those days, the state itself defended the Orthodox Christian faith. Rulers, from the Byzantine Emperor to the Tsar of Moscow, to our kings were Orthodox Christians. The statutes of Montenegro even prescribed that the successor of King Nikola I would be an Orthodox Christian. "Now, everything is different. These are all secular states, especially those created after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So the Soviet Union gave birth to these contradictions within the Russian nation, within the Slavic peoples of the former Russian Empire. The theme of a so-called Ukrainian Orthodox Church[8] didn't appear only now. It arose with the creation of Ukraine by the Soviet authorities in the 1920s. It was then that this topic appeared. "Then the so-called "Self-Sanctifiers[9]" arose, who declared themselves Metropolitans of Kiev. "And the [legitimate] Metropolitan of Kiev—Antony (Khrapovitsky), who was buried in Belgrade, was then a candidate for the position of Patriarch of Moscow. Having fallen asleep in the Lord in 1936, he along with more than thirty bishops were forced to leave Russia, and our Local Church helped them to create what was called the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which still exists today. This Church recently reunited with the Moscow Patriarchate. "So it's one thing—contemporary states, modern authority—and a totally different thing—the time when Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, or when Moscow was the capital of the Russian Empire, as the successor of the Byzantine Empire. "But this epoch, the epoch of the symbiosis of the Church and State, the so-called "Constantinian Age," began with Emperor St. Constantine the Great, and it ended—in my, and not only in my opinion—with the murder of the Imperial Family in 1918. "In other words, this imperial period of Christianity is dogmatically fixed in the West in the person of the Bishop of Rome—the Supreme Pontiff. In the East, it was and remains a temptation. "However, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, there was no longer a Byzantine Emperor, who previously provided the Bishop of Constantinople with the status that he had possessed since the time of Emperor Constantine. "And then this role of the Byzantine Empire passed through Kiev, and Vladimir, to Moscow—that is to say—to the Russian Tsars. But the Russian Tsar and his family were murdered in 1918. And this completed the epoch of Constantine in the history of the Church. It has ended. "And now the Church must return to the pre-imperial structure, without imitating what was in past centuries, when there was a symbiosis of the state, Church, nation. It must return to the structure that existed before Emperor Constantine, respecting everything that has happened since then, but not being limited to historical experience. "Thus, the first Rome fell away from the faith, the Second Rome fell, disappearing in 1453, and after the murder of the Imperial Family, the Third Rome had already lost that place in the life of the Church it had occupied in past centuries. Therefore, the way the Church lived and functioned in the imperial period should be left to the past. "From this point of view, Constantinople committed what it had no right to do. "First of all, this state—Ukraine—is the fruit of Leninist-Stalinist communist secularism. And this situation for the people of Ukraine, the Christian people is also the result of the unleashing of the Unia[10] on Ukrainians of the 16th century, and what happened with these people in the 1920s. "It is necessary to keep in mind the meaning of the name itself—Ukraine (Ukraina). It is similar to our word Kraina: a krai / borderland[11]. The question is—the edge or border of what? On the one hand, Kiev was the former Mother Church of the Russian Church, then its center moved to Vladimir (during the period of Vladimir Rus') and then to Moscow. "It is this continuum of the Orthodox Church in Russia, which begins in Kiev, passes through Vladimir, and then ends in Moscow. This is an uninterrupted succession. So what point is there to now appeal to a status that existed in the 15th or 16th century? The Ukrainian question today cannot be resolved on that basis. "In reality, it must be resolved on the basis of the modern structure of this state—a secular state, not dissimilar to all the modern secular states in the West. It's a fundamentally different relationship between a state and a nation, moreover no longer a 'Christian nation;' a similar problem has now manifested itself in Macedonia. "There, the secular authorities, the communists, also created a so-called Macedonian Orthodox Church. The communists, the heirs of the Tito regime, tried here too, in Montenegro, to create a so-called Montenegrin Orthodox Church. The authorities of Montenegro killed 129 priests here during the communist time; the communist authorities killed the Metropolitan of Montenegro Joanikije. "It was these authorities who were first to raise the question of the so-called autocephalous Montenegrin Orthodox Church. The godless authorities, the atheistic powers, the secular authorities in a secular state, where the Church is separate from the state, are interfering in the internal affairs of the Church. The same thing is happening in Ukraine, and in other countries that emerged after the Bolshevik revolution. "The Church should try to unite society, and thereby solve this painful issue for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. "There, under the guise of the "Ukrainian Church," there exist the so-called Uniates—the Greek Catholics—and then the so-called Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, and the self-proclaimed "church" of the "Kiev Patriarchate." "For the first time, Constantinople, on the basis of the alleged "right to appeal" (ekkliton)[12], the right to receive appeals in this way is interfering with the life of another Local Church, even over 300 years after Constantinople's ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Ukraine ended. "Thus, there is talk about these events as being an absolutely incomprehensible phenomenon. Until this very moment I still hope there is an opportunity to refrain from granting this Tomos, which cannot be issued without the consent of the canonical Church. "Constantinople [previously] recognized only the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate as the canonical Church in Ukraine. But now, Constantinople has recognized bishops who were deposed from their positions and excommunicated from one of the Local Orthodox Churches. It's simply inconceivable that the Ecumenical Patriarch could have gone through with this. "As for these interventions, and I'd like to say that these are not only those from the Ukrainian authorities themselves, but it is clear that these interventions are directed against Russia, and in fact—against Orthodoxy. "They were able to separate everyone in these krais[13] (borderlands/marches).[14] Only the Orthodox Church remained united. Now these forces, the demonic forces of this entire world are striving in the end to divide the Orthodox Church. For this they managed to use the ancient Church of Constantinople to apply a canon that belonged to it back in imperial times. "In the battle for Ukraine—that is to say for undermining the foundation of Russia—the hand of America is visible. "They speak about the supposed "Russian intervention," but how can Russia intervene if Russia itself was born there? Kievan Rus' was born there, and continuously developed for 1030 years. The fact that the Western powers, the EU, and above all, America are fueling and supporting fratricidal wars, as they did against us Serbs in Kosovo, reveals that what is happening in Ukraine is the second act of the tragedy of Kosovo: A group of evil-doers and criminals, who dishonor the worthy Albanian folk, have been made the rulers of Kosovo, and they recognized the so-called independent Kosovo—and the Orthodox Church of God, our age-old culture, and the Serbian people were expelled from there. "What the communists began[15], the NATO bloc continued with their bombings of Serbia and Montenegro. "What began in Russia with the arrival of the Bolsheviks and the assassination of the Imperial Family now brings such bitter fruit. I regret that the Patriarch of Constantinople did not understand how deep and serious these problems are. "He went forth with good intentions—to unite—only this isn't the road of unification, but only the deepening of the difficulties that seized Ukraine, as well as the creation of a deep schism in the Orthodox Church—which undoubtedly will not bring forth any good fruits if these efforts are continued. "And this applies not only to Russians and Ukrainians, but also to us [Serbs]. After all, Denisenko[16]was the only one to recognize our Miraš Dedeić,[17] whom the Patriarch of Constantinople deposed and anathematized. "We relayed this to the Patriarch of Constantinople, but he has of yet not answered this question. Of course, he does not recognize Dedeić, but by this act—by accepting as a canonical organization those who support all kinds of schisms in other locations—it involuntarily strengthens schisms that undermine the unity of the Orthodox Church.[18] "And furthermore, this is all based on ethnophyletism,[19] which was previously condemned by the Church. Even the Cretan Council (it's a pity that the Moscow Patriarchate wasn't present, but despite this, it's decisions remain valid) confirmed the decisions of this great council in 1872, condemning ethnophyletism as heresy and serpentine venom, destroying the unity of the Church. "Constantinople confirmed and signed this decision of a large synod, and now a church is created on the basis of the demands of those formed under the influence of Bolshevism (like Macarius[20]), and now worshipers of Bandera[21]—Ukrainian fascists and former Nazis. "Is this normal? Of course not! Not to mention the fact that Denisenko strove, when he was Ukrainian Metropolitan, for the position of Patriarch of Moscow, and when he was not elected, he declared himself Patriarch [of Kiev]. "Such is his madness. How can this be declared normal, without the consent of the Mother Church? And the Mother Church of Ukraine is not the Patriarchate of Constantinople, but for more than 300 years the Moscow Patriarchate.[22]" [INTERVIEWER]: Not long ago, Milo Đukanović (The President of Montenegro) said that the Russian Orthodox Church is the striking fist of Russian Imperial interests. What did he mean by this? "You'll have to ask him. He probably assumed that the Metropolis of Montenegro, which has existed here for over 800 years, still has connections to the Russian Church and to Russia, as it had for centuries, and especially during the time of Metropolitan Danil. "Were it not for this "Imperial Russia," as he puts it, there would be no Montenegro, neither in 1878, nor later. Russian Emperor Nicholas II saved Serbia and Montenegro in 1915 and 1916, when Montenegro was forced to capitulate, and King Petro with the entire Serbian army retreated through Kosovo to the Albanian coast. Then the Russian Tsar gave an ultimatum to the allies, threatening that if they did not help save the Serbian army (the Austro-Hungarian army was in pursuit of the Serbs), then Russia would conclude a separate peace treaty with Germany and Austro-Hungary. So the allies had to send ships for the Serbs. "If Nicholas II had signed a separate peace treaty, he would not have been assassinated nor would his family have been murdered. The German Kaiser sent Lenin, who conducted a revolution in Petrograd in 1916-17. The Emperor and his family were murdered by the hands of the Bolsheviks, but in fact they were murdered by the Germans. The Imperial Family and tsarist Russia paid with their lives to save their brothers—Serbia and Montenegro." [INTERVIEWER]: So what is this all about; what is this "Imperialist Russia?" "Montenegro, since 1700 and to this moment, was created through the efforts of Russia—it's education, and the entire structure before King Nikola in 1918. The metropolia only continues the tradition. And no form of "Imperialist Russia" is interfering here. Russian Bishops visit us, with whom we recently erected a monument to the Royal Passion-Bearers at Duklevo monastery, on which their faces are carved. This may be the most beautiful monument to the Imperial Family. Is this what he calls imperialism? "I sometimes say these are sanctions of the metropolia against Russia. Mr. Đukanović, in his fight against "Russian imperialism" has become a pawn in the hands of the Western European and American Empires, and the NATO bloc—those who bombed Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo, which was part of Montenegro when it was an independent Kingdom. "Now Đukanović recognizes Kosovo, while the Russians tried to save the unity of our nation and state. Unfortunately, Russia was then ruled not by the one who rules today, but by his predecessor, who did not understand this. "Therefore, I do not know what Đukanović implies when speaking of "imperialism." If it's about what I said, then yes. "I would also add further about the decision of Constantinople: This decision is a catastrophe for the Constantinople Patriarchate and for the unity of the Orthodox Church. Therefore, we hope that in the near future, as called for by the Moscow Patriarchate and other Local Churches, which have the full right to do so, we will resolve this issue in a pan-Orthodox format. "The Ukrainian Question cannot be resolved by any single Local Church, because this issue is so extensive that it requires the participation of all Local Churches. This question is more important than all that was discussed at Crete. Therefore, the position of Constantinople is shocking, as he had always turned to other Local Churches (for example, during the schism in the Bulgarian Church in 1994, Constantinople appealed to the representatives of other Local Churches to solve the issue of schism in a canonical way). "And now there has been discussion that based on the Ukrainian precedent—invading the canonical territory of another Local Church—the issue with the Macedonian Orthodox Church could be resolved. "The Ecumenical Patriarchate is prevented from doing so only because of his demand that they abandon the name "Macedonian Orthodox Church" (In Ukraine, the name "Ukrainian Orthodox Church" does not trouble him.[23] He is still a Greek, and I fear that this is how Hellenic ethnophyletism has manifested itself in light of the Macedonian issue. "There is talk that this Macedonia goes back to the time of Alexander the Great and King Philip; that is to say, we are going back to the issue of communist myths. Just like in Montenegro, the neo-communists continue to develop them. They demanded that the Montenegrin Metropolis, that is to say, the Serbian Orthodox Church be re-registered, as if we existed only since yesterday. "A 1987 law requires the registration of only new religious organizations, and not the registration of traditional Churches and religious organizations. But now our neo-communists have began to demand this, and almost begun persecutions. Russian monks and nuns live among us, and priests from the Republika Srpska[24], and from Serbia, and as they are not citizens of Montenegro they do not grant them residence permits. The same approach has been implemented in Macedonia. "The so-called Metropolitan of Montenegro, who was created by the neo-communists—Dedeić—who was deposed by Constantinople, was recognized only by Philaret. For many years he served with him. And what will Constantinople do now if he recognizes Philaret who was deposed for violating the resolutions of the Moscow Patriarchate? Would it not follow that he would have to recognize someone who serves with Philaret, whom Constantinople himself had previously deposed from his position? "This is how poorly our brothers in Constantinople have reasoned. "I pray to the Lord, that He will help them. "And we also pray that the Moscow Patriarchate and our brothers in Ukraine can overcome an unhealthy schism with patience and humility—a schism that is nothing but the fruit of all those political circumstances of the past, especially in the 1920s. "The Church is the only force that united the nations created there, and now the demonic powers of this whole world, and destructive forces inside the Church, and the rulers of the world are carrying out the real imperialistic plans. "The war in Ukraine is already underway, and now Constantinople must confirm that this is in fact a war continuing against the Church, and the unity of the People of God—and against Russia as the largest-ever Orthodox country. "This is not good, and there is nothing good here for Constantinople as well. He had no right to take such a step. 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Authorities arrested more than 100 gang members across Southern California Thursday as part of a massive state and national sweep.
In Los Angeles County alone, 99 gang members were arrested — including several in and around Long Beach — with alleged ties to the Mexican Mafia foot soldiers, Los Sureños. The nationwide sweep included 638 arrests from 100 gangs, according to immigration and Homeland Security Investigations officials.
The Long Beach investigation team made 52 arrests, said Lori Haley, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of those, 45 were arrested for criminal charges and the remainder for immigration violations. The breakdown of arrests by cities was not available Thursday.
The sweep, called Project Southbound, netted 131 arrests across Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. A total of 19 firearms were also seized during the month-long local operation that concluded on April 13.
Membership and cliques associated with the Sureños have grown faster than any other national-level gang in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Gang Intelligence Center's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, The Sureños gang has been linked to a variety of criminal activity, including murder, extortion, narcotics trafficking, human trafficking and prostitution, officials said.
"Sureños members now number more than 30,000 in the continental United States, and their numbers are growing," said Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in Los Angeles in a written statement. "These are ruthless people whose criminal activities and turf wars menace our communities and place innocent members of the public in harm's way."
While Arnold said the operation was a success, he noted that there was still a lot to be done, noting there are more than 150,000 documented gang members in the Los Angeles area including 18th Street and Mara Salvatrucha, both of which are considered Sureños.
"This is gang-central for the country," he said.
A total of 106 accused criminals are facing state prosecution for violations ranging from weapons offenses to drug charges, according to authorities. Some may be facing removal from the U.S.
Through the operation, which ran March 12 to April 13, special agents with Homeland Security worked with 150 federal, state and local law enforcement authorities including Los Angeles, South Gate, Bell, Huntington Park, Bell Gardens, Anaheim, Placentia and Torrance police departments.
The Sureños, also known as Sur 13, is a transnational criminal street gang formed in Southern California. Currently, hundreds of cliques around the nation are associated with the Sureños. The Sureños and their affiliates pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia and the number "13" is their symbol signifying "M" in the alphabet for Mexican Mafia.


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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
Something girlier.... (Side note: Completed first draft)
Edit: Found it: From Now on.... Alex shall be known as..... Anna.... Joan
(ya, really)
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Join Date: Sep 2008
@eratas ,Nope ichika doesn't get the adequate skills the first time he gets the weapon module it more like shoot and pray that it hits something. in short he will suck badly
this will give the girls chance to train him (or have quality time with Ichika ) and to the envy of the other harem members
|2012-01-19, 08:13
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
English name.
You can't get anymore girly name than Anna....could you?
Edit: for a guy.
Moar Edit: Changing to Joan because it is a french name and fit the theme which his father name stuff...
|2012-01-19, 09:41
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: In solitude, where I am least alone...
If you've read it already, you'd know that my OC (Ayasaki Sora) has a military background. I'm still working on a backstory for that. In the backstory of his regular life, his father is nowhere to be found, but supports financially. Has an ill little sister. HAD a mother, "died of birth complications" is what I'm thinking of adding in.
I was thinking of adding some material from 'Crysis'... Since in the first game, they work for the USSF, while in my FF my OC works (worked, once the prologue is finished) for them as well. I was thinking of a character from Crysis meets up with Sora, and do something like a two-man joint operation or something. And in the long run, Sora receives intel on a prototype nano-suit. I'm also adding in an ability that my OC can use. I was thinking of like being able to see a glimpse of the future. The max time only being 1 minute into the future.
If it seems OP, I will strongly consider nerfing it.
|2012-01-19, 10:12
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: In solitude, where I am least alone...
I would like to introduce myself. I am MaRv3n054, I am currently working on Infinite Stratos: The Sky of Tomorrow.
It's good to see some familiar names like StratoSpear with his Athéna series and ZeroXSEED with his Sacred Twins series. I've read both of your works (in the case of StratoSpear, all of your work), I certainly did not waste my time reading them.
Spoiler for EDIT:
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Titans Test Team Pilot
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
Aye! Good to see another writer joining the club!
Nice to meet you!
Though I gotta head to bed since it's pretty late over here and most of the guys/girls are out somewhere else.
Then again, as you may have noticed from the thread, some of us discuss with each other about our fics as we progress, asking feasibility questions and whatnot.
Feel free to do the same!
Ciao~! ^^
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: In solitude, where I am least alone...
I was wondering where I could ask for help in progressing the plot of my fanfic... My friend, who was trying to find my fanfic via Google, just told me today that my fic got tagged here on this forum. Glad he told me about it.
I think I'll do the same. It's almost midnight here, too. Singapore and the Philippines are in the same time zone, after all.
Good night.
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A visit to Medford and Bistro 5
By Margarita Martinez
Most people don't think of Medford as being a culinary destination, but that just adds to the hidden gem appeal of Medford businesses. There is a Modern Pastry location, so those in Medford do not have to endure the North End crowds in order to get great cannoli. If you live in New England and cook Japanese food, then you probably know about Ebisuya Japanese Market, which is a great place to get Japanese ingredients and imports, such as Japanese candy and magazines.
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And there is Bistro 5, an Italian restaurant owned by Chef Vittorio Ettore. Right off of the West Medford stop on the Lowell Line, this restaurant truly feels like stepping into another place and time. The lush gold and red colors and fabrics create a very moody and intimate experience perfect for enjoying the food of Tuscany. The ambience and food make you feel a bit like you're at Carnival, but without the crowds, floats, and parties.
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Like most Americans, I love Italian food. When I speak to people about Neighborhood Kitchens and ask for restaurant suggestions for our show, the most recommended type of cuisine is Italian. I prepare Italian food often, grow lots of basil and tomatoes, and keep lots of good olive oil, pasta, garlic, and vinegar on hand to quickly prepare delicious Italian-style meals - imagine my excitement at traveling to West Medford to learn how to cook Tuscan food with Chef Ettore!
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I loved his tips for making risotto and biscotti. These are items that I make at home, but I learned about the heritage of these dishes and how to make them better from Chef Ettore. For instance, while I have made biscotti, at Bistro 5 I learned how to made cantucci, a drier form of biscotti enjoyed in Tuscany. I am also used to enjoying my biscotti with espresso, but this time I enjoyed it as a lovely dessert by dipping it in a sweet glass of vin santo.
Chef Ettore, a chef with a joyful passion for life and food, truly knows how to include people in the process of cooking great cuisine. Along with Bistro 5, Chef Ettore owns A Tavola in Winchester just north of West Medford. In Winchester, Chef Ettore runs a "Seed to Plate" program at Ambrose Elementary School. He has a garden at the Sandborn House Historical and Cultural Center where he teaches 4th and 5th
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grade students how to plant, harvest, cook with, and compost ingredients. The program culminates with a meal prepared by Chef Ettore and the students and shared with the teachers, parents, and students using ingredients grown throughout the year. It is obvious that Chef Ettore wants to pass on to the younger generation a passion for food, from eating it to growing and sourcing it, just as his family and community did for him while growing up in Tuscany. Those of us who participate in his "Seed to Plate" program and visit his restaurants are reaping the rewards.
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Hey world,
It's me.
yeah I'm, I'm here now, no no don't get up uh,
I gotta go,
I'm not gonna come back this time I don't think.
But I just thought I'd say good by or something.
You know it's hard for me to look at you.
He had your eyes.
So uh, anyways
I post here now
or follow me on fb
https://www.facebook.com/whatweknewintheforest (easiest probably)
I know it was simple before.
but uh, I mean here we are.
You should come by.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about how my health and skin was suffering because I hadn't been taking proper care of myself. I just wanted to update my progress for everyone.
It just goes to show that it really doesn't take that much time to make a few changes in your life to reap the benefits. I am already feeling and looking so much better! And I've shed a few pounds in the process! Making the decision to drink more water and green tea instead of soda, dry brushing before my nightly bath or shower, and cooking up more veggies and snacking on smoothies instead of potato chips is easy and obviously better for me.
I have been going for walks each day – sometimes as short as 20 mins, sometimes as long as an hour or so, depending on how much time I had and that has already given me a lot more energy. Unfortunately I woke up yesterday to about 15 cm of snow on the ground which put a huge cramp in my walking plans. For those of you who are not familiar with Victoria weather – it snows maybe twice a year and rarely drops below freezing, so most of us Victorians do not have the proper footwear or heavy enough coats to venture outside very far. I did not want to hole up at home and do nothing so I had to compromise – a few trips up and down the stairs a few times a day and hauling out my old yoga DVD were nice alternatives to my daily walks.
I always forget that you can reap so many benefits from slipping in just a few minutes of exercise a few times a day and choosing healthier foods – but the last few weeks have set me straight. Just remember – it doesn't take a lot of time or energy to make these changes and your skin and body will benefit – I promise you!


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When it comes to winter activities on ice, there is no such thing as being too safe.
Whether ice skating, playing hockey, going ice fishing or snowmobiling, understanding the condition of the ice can be a matter of life or death.
"There is no such thing as 100 percent safe ice," said Chris Bedore, dive rescue coordinator for Crystal Lake Fire Rescue. "Determining the strength of ice is extremely difficult, especially for an untrained individual."
Temperatures need to be lower than 20 degrees for at least a week to make ice strong enough to be considered safe, Bedore said. That was roughly what the DeKalb area experienced Dec. 6-12, according to AccuWeather.com.
If ice is 2 inches thick or less, stay off. Four inches of ice is safe for ice fishing or other activities on foot. Five inches of ice is safe for snowmobiles or ATVs. Eight to 12 inches of ice can support a car or small pickup, 12 to 15 inches of ice will support a medium truck.
The Red Cross also says the color of ice may be an indication of its strength. Clear blue ice is strongest, according to the Red Cross. White opaque or snow ice is half as strong as blue ice. Opaque ice is formed by wet snow freezing on the ice. Grey ice is unsafe and indicates the presence of water. If you get into trouble on ice and you're by yourself, the Red Cross offers these tips:
• Call for help.
• Resist the immediate urge to climb back out where you fell in. The ice is weak in this area.
• Use the air trapped in your clothing to get into a floating position on your stomach.
If you are with a group and someone falls through the ice, remember that the safest way to perform a rescue is from shore. The Red Cross offers these tips if you are in a group:
• Call for help. Consider whether you can quickly get help from trained professionals (police, fire fighters or ambulance) or bystanders.
• Check if you can reach the person using a long pole or branch from shore – if so, lie down and extend the pole to the person.
• If you go onto ice, wear a personal floatation device and carry a long pole or branch to test the ice in front of you. Bring something to reach or throw to the person.
• When near the break, lie down to distribute your weight and slowly crawl toward the hole.
• Remaining low, extend or throw your emergency rescue device (pole, rope, line or branch) to the person.
• Have the person kick while you pull them out.
• Move the person to a safe position on shore or where you are sure the ice is thick. Signal for help.
• Reach forward onto the broken ice without pushing down. Kick your legs to push your torso on the ice.
• When you are back on the ice, crawl on your stomach or roll away from the open area with your arms and legs spread out as far as possible to evenly distribute your body weight. Do not stand up. Look for shore and make sure you are going in the right direction.
There is much fun to be had with winter activities involving ice. Before you have that fun, take precautions to ensure your safety and the safety of others.


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The Saugatuck Township Fire District recently honored its members and filled the new position of chaplain.
�The appreciation dinner is a favorite event of mine,� said Fire Chief Greg Janik. �It represents a time to recognize the major achievements of our firefighters and first responders. I have the best firefighters and first responders, and I am humbled to work with such a great team.�
During the ceremony, the Rev. Corey Stoppel was appointed department chaplain, the first time the department has had the position in at least 13 years, Janik said.
Stoppel serves at All Saints� Episcopal Church, 252 Grand St. in Saugatuck.
His responsibilities include spiritual guidance for personnel and stress management.
�In addition, Father Stoppel is there for our community during or after any emergency incident,� Janik said.
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� 5 years of service: Kyle Meyer and Dennis Hanson
� 10 years of service: Phil Dalton and Scott Seymour
� 15 years of service: Brent Van Oss
� Achieved full firefighter status: Adam Kerridge and John Mileskiewicz
� Achieved Firefighter Level II status: Dan Diaz, Dane Schreckengust, Linus Starring
� Highest number of runs (paid on call and medical first responder): 136 by Erik Kirchert
� Interim chiefs: Linus Starring and Dane Schreckengust
� Medical first responder of the year (voted by peers): Dan Diaz and Mark Gargano
� Fire officer of the year: Mike Betts
� Award: Jane Verplank, fire board chairwoman. The award reads: �For your continued and unrelenting support of the firefighters of Saugatuck Township Fire District from the chief and fire officers.�
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Saugatuck fire department honors accomplishments
The Saugatuck Township Fire District recently honored its members and filled the new position of chaplain.