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Mary (メアリ, Meari) is a student of Oxford Academy who has been assigned to be executed for her role as Mary Stuart, who was historically responsible for assassination attempts against Queen Elizabeth, and Mary Tudor, whose death would trigger the Anglo-Spanish War.
She has been living in hiding under the identity of "Scarred" (傷有り, Kizu-ari), an enigmatic character from England. The nickname "Scarred" stems from the distinguishable mark located on her face, slightly over her nose.
Mary is a very beautiful blue-eyed blonde girl with a large bust and nice figure. She usually wears a traditional England female uniform without the typical neck handkerchief, revealing a set of ties to hold her bosom. Her long braided blond hair ends in a blue patterned hair tie.
As "Scarred" her body is entirely concealed by a green hood and manteau, with only the face, and a small scar just above the nose, visible. Another noticeable feature is a pair of shackles tied to her feet. Her voice is distorted to the point that is very hard to tell her real gender just hearing what she's saying. She also speaks in this "lower" voice using a voice manipulation ability to anyone who doesn't know the secret of her identity.
Mary is a selfless and considerate girl, as she's the type who sacrifice for others. Her general attitude is very different as the one showed by her sister Elizabeth, Mary being nice and polite while interacting with other people.
Once she meets Tenzou Crossunite, she displays a great extent of happiness around him, to the point that her sister believes that he's making her resolution to be executed and their promise between sisters falter. That sacrificing side of hers also brings along a feeling of self-atonement exemplified in her own scars and execution.
She finds in Tenzou some kind of soulmate, as both of them are altruistic, servile, honorable and scarred individuals working for the well-being of other people. The difference between them is the Tenzou's mindset about it is more positive and fulfilled, so she falls for him during their time together in England.
Officially, child of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine, in reality she was the child of Queen Anne and twin sister of Elizabeth. Catherine was supposed to gave birth to Mary Tudor "Bloody Mary", but she was unable to have children even if obliged by History Recreation due to her frail constitution. To deal with it, England come with the excuse that the baby was hidden away by the fairies, as that happened before rather commonly.
Both sisters, hidden in Avalon grew together to the point to because of their mixed parentage and their nature as twin sisters the link through the Ether Pulses between both girls was very strong, to the extent that their minds almost didn't have any individuality during the phase they were still developing a personality, creating very strong bond between Mary and Elizabeth. When that bond began to grown weak, that link turned into trust, so they made the promise "Save you from anything", or in other words, to protect each other. During this time, both of them switched places rather frequently to perform their tasks in History Recreation, but at the time that the Marian Persecutions come, to save her sister Mary took the place as Mary Tudor and intrepreted the historical event in such a way to make herself fight personally against the three hundred members of the Anglican Church to be executed, getting the name of "Bloody Mary". That day covered in scars, she proclaimed these scars were the proof of Bloody Mary own existence, marked forever as Mary Tudor and inheriting shortly after the Mary Stuart name, becoming "Double Bloody Mary".
After that, Mary hid her face and confined herself in the southwest tower of the Tower of London fortress meanwhile her sister, inheriting the name of the Fairy Queen Elizbeth, took the reigns of the country. Waiting at her foregone execution as dictated by her new name, she lives in the tower as Mary Stuart while as "Scarred" she inhabit on the fourth layer of England's multi-layered structure, guarding the cemetery where the people she killed following History Recreation were buried as atonement.
Musashi on English SoilEdit
May 4, 1648 - Testament EraEdit
During the double skirmish encountered by the Musashi against Tres España and England, Mary, as "Scarred", visits the grave where the 300 Protestants she killed for the sake of History Recreation. On her way, she sees a ship careening towards the shores of the fourth layer (which is one of the smaller boats inside the Musashi), and notices that there are children directly at the path of the damaged ship. By instinct, she attempts to divert the path of the incoming vessel using her spiritual ability, but she was intercepted by Tenzou Crossunite, who tackles her to stop her from using the ability. Although Mary was alarmed at what Tenzou did, she was relieved after finding out that the children were safe after a combined effort from Nate Mitotsudaira and Futayo Honda.
May 19, 1648 - Testament EraEdit
May 20, 1648 - Testament EraEdit
Mary is a Versatile Spiritual Ability User (全方位精霊術師, Zenhōi seireijutsushi) just like Elizabeth, exhibiting enormous potential with the power of spirit-based magic and all it's functions.
- Spirit-based Magic (精霊術, Seirei-jutsu) - A technique that manipulates the ether in the air. It is a primitive type of Ability that allows one to borrow its power by communicating with the spirit and will of the ether itself. Between it's many uses, Mary can use her spiritual skills to empowering objects with ether, change her own voice or healing purposes, making it a very multifaceted magic style.
- Divine Weapon: King's Gift Sword Type 1 - E.X. Collbrande / Excalibur Collbrande (王賜剣一型/E.X.コールブランド(エクスカリバーコールブランド), Ō tamamono Ken'ichi-gata/EX kōruburando - ekusukaribākōruburando) - A sword that forms a pair with Elizabeth's King's Gift Sword Type 2 (E.X. Caliburn), its length is roughly 1.5m. Split into two single-edged swords, it can be combined into a single long sword equivalent in performance to EX. Caliburn, turning it into a long sword made out of blue light capable of destroying a warship with a single slash. However, it does not possess the shockwave-crushing ability of EX.Caliburn. Furthermore, its function is limited as the sword was fully charged by the England Earth Pulse, so only after a full ether recharge (that only can be performed on Britain soil) can this level of potential be used again. As a Divine Weapon, Collbrande have his own will and it can be also used as a pair of spinning and floating autonomous swords protecting their master from dangers.
Oxford Academy/EnglandEdit
- Elizabeth: Twin sister/Former rival
Musashi Ariadust Academy/MusashiEdit
- Tenzou Crossunite: Husband
- Toori Aoi: Ally
- P-01s: Ally
- Kimi Aoi: Ally
- Tomo Asama: Ally
- Masazumi Honda: Ally
- Suzu Mukai: Ally
- Naomasa: Ally
- Neito Mitotsudaira: Ally
- Shirojiro Bertoni: Ally
- Heidi Augesvarer: Ally
- Ginji Ohiroshiki: Ally
- Nenji: Ally
- Kenji Itou: Ally
- Kiyonari Ulquiaga: Ally
- Adele Balfette: Ally
- Tenzou Crossunite: Ally
- Persona: Ally
- Margot Knight: Ally
- Malga Naruze: Ally
- Hassan Furubushi: Ally
- Azuma: Ally
- Yoshinao: Ally
- Makiko Oriotorai: Ally
Inherited NamesEdit
Mary inherited the names of two Marys of the Elizabethan era: Mary Tudor, the original "Bloody Mary", who was famous for the execution of Protestants during her reign; and Mary Stuart, who planned to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and take over the throne. The bloodshed connected with the two Marys is responsible for Mary's nickname "Double Bloody Mary".
Mary Tudor (1516 – 1558)Edit
Mary (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catalina of Aragon. It was very important to Henry that his wife should give birth to a male child. Without a son to take over from him when he died, Henry feared that the Tudor family would lose control of England. Catherine gave birth to six children but five died within a few weeks of being born. Only one child, Mary, survived into adulthood.
By 1530 Catherine was too old to have any more children. Therefore, Henry decided he would have to have another wife. His choice was Anne Boleyn, the 20-year-old daughter of Viscount Rochford. Before he could marry Anne, Henry had to gain permission from the Pope.
Henry sent a message to the Pope arguing that his marriage to Catherine had been invalid as she had previously been married to his brother Arthur. When Catalina discovered Henry's plans she informed King Carlos V of Spain. Unwilling to have his aunt lose her position, Carlos warned the Pope that he would be very angry if he granted Henry a divorce. The Pope knew that once he made a decision, he would upset one of these two powerful monarchs. In an attempt to keep the peace, the Pope put off making a decision about Henry's marriage.
In January 1533 Henry VIII discovered that Anne Boleyn was pregnant. As it was important that the child should not be classed as illegitimate, arrangements were made for Henry and Anne to get married. King Carlos V of Spain threatened to invade England if the marriage took place, but Henry ignored his threats and the marriage went ahead.
In September 1533, Anne gave birth to a daughter called Elizabeth. While Henry was furious about having another daughter, the supporters of Catalina of Aragon were delighted and claimed that it proved God was punishing Henry for his illegal marriage to Anne. Catalina became seriously ill in December, 1535. She died at Kimbolton Castle on 7th January, 1536. Her doctor claimed that she had been suffering from "slow poisoning". She was buried at Peterborough Abbey on 29th January 1536.
In January 1536 Anne Boleyn had a son. Unfortunately the child was born dead. Later that year Henry accused Anne of committing adultery with five different men. Anne and the men were all executed. Ten days later Henry married Jane Seymour. The following year, Jane died giving birth to Edward. Henry now at last had a male heir. After her brother became king Mary lived in retirement, refusing to accept the Protestant religion.
During the final illness of Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey was married to Guildford Dudley, fourth son of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, as part of the scheme to make sure of a Protestant succession. Jane Grey was declared queen three days after Edward's death. However, she was forced to abdicate nine days later in favour of Mary. Elizabeth sided with Mary against the supporters of Lady Jane Grey. However, her Protestantism aroused suspicions in her Catholic sister and she was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Thomas Wyatt gave his support to the new queen until he heard she planned to marry Felipe of Spain. In January, 1554, he accepted the invitation from Edward Courtenay, to join in a general insurrection throughout the country against the marriage. Based at Rochester Castle, Wyatt soon had fifteen hundred men under his command.
When Mary heard about Wyatt's actions, she issued a pardon to his followers if they returned to their homes within twenty-four hours. Some of his men took up the offer. However, when a large number of the army were sent to arrest Wyatt, they changed sides Wyatt now controlled a force of 4,000 men and he now felt strong enough to march on London.
On 1st February, 1554, Mary addressed a meeting in the Guildhall where she proclaimed Wyatt a traitor. The next morning, 20,000 men enrolled their names for the protection of the city. The bridges over the Thames within a distance of fifteen miles were broken down and on 3rd February, a reward of land of the annual value of one hundred pounds a year was offered to the person who captured Wyatt.
By the time Thomas Wyatt entered Southwark, large numbers of his army had deserted. However, he continued to march towards St. James's Palace, where Mary Tudor had taken refuge. Wyatt reached Ludgate at two o'clock in the morning of 8th February. The gate was shut against him, and he was unable to break it down. Wyatt now went into retreat but he was captured at Temple Bar.
Wyatt was taken to the Tower of London and on 15th March he was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. At the scaffold on Tower Hill on 11th April he made a speech claiming that Princess Elizabeth had not been involved in the plot against her sister.
These Protestant attempts to overthrow Mary made her feel insecure. To protect her position, Mary decided to form an alliance with the Catholic monarchy in Spain. In 1554 Mary married Felipe II, the eldest son of King Carlos of Spain. The marriage was unpopular with the English people. They disliked the idea of having a foreign king. At that time the English particularly disliked the Spanish as they were seen as England's main rivals in Europe.
Soon after her marriage, Mary declared that the Pope was the only true head of the Church. This was followed by the execution of Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury and other Protestants who refused to accept the Pope as head of the Church. People were also punished if they were found reading bibles that had been printed in the English language.
Mary had always rejected the break with Rome instituted by her father and the establishment of Protestantism by Edward VI. She and her husband wanted England to reconcile with Rome. Felipe persuaded Parliament to repeal the Protestant religious laws passed by Mary's father, thus returning the English church to Roman jurisdiction. Reaching an agreement took many months, and Mary and Pope Julius III had to make a major concession: the monastery lands confiscated under Henry were not returned to the church but remained in the hands of the new landowners, who were very influential. By the end of 1554, the pope had approved the deal, and the Heresy Acts were revived.
Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian Persecutions. Many rich Protestants, including John Foxe, chose exile, and around 800 left the country. The first executions occurred over a period of five days in early February 1555: John Rogers on 4 February, Laurence Saunders on 8 February, and Rowland Taylor and John Hooper on 9 February.
The imprisoned Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was forced to watch Bishops Ridley and Latimer being burned at the stake. Cranmer recanted, repudiated Protestant theology, and rejoined the Catholic faith. Under the normal process of the law, he should have been absolved as a repentant. Mary, however, refused to reprieve him. On the day of his burning, he dramatically withdrew his recantation. All told 283 were executed, most by burning. The burnings proved so unpopular, that even Alfonso de Castro, one of Felipe's own ecclesiastical staff, condemned them, and Felipe's adviser, Simon Renard, warned him that such "cruel enforcement" could "cause a revolt". Mary persevered with the policy, which continued until her death and exacerbated anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling among the English people. The victims of the persecutions became lauded as martyrs.
In 1558 Mary began to get pains in her stomach and thought she was pregnant. This was important to Mary as she wanted to ensure that a Catholic monarchy would continue after her death. It was not to be. Mary had stomach cancer. When Mary died later that year. Henry VIII's other daughter, Elizabeth, a Protestant, became queen of England.
Mary Stuart (1542 – 1587)Edit
Mary (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587) was the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, was born in Linlithgow, Scotland. He father died a few days later and she was immediately made queen of Scotland. James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, was appointed regent. However, his proposal to marry Mary to Edward, son of Henry VIII, was rejected by the Scottish parliament.
Mary was now sent to France where she lived with the family of King Henri II. She was given a French education and in 1558 she married the king's eldest son, Francois. The following year Henri died and Mary's husband became king of France. When Francois died in 1560, Mary returned to Scotland.
The Protestants were not happy having a Catholic queen and a religious riot took place soon after her arrival in Scotland. Mary attempted to reduce tension by accepting two Protestants, William Maitland and James Stewart, Earl of Moray, as her chief advisers.
Elizabeth believed that Mary posed a threat to her throne. To counter this she suggested that her friend, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, should marry Mary. Attempts were made to arrange this but in 1565 Mary married Henry Darnley, the son of Lady Margaret Douglas, the granddaughter of Henry VII. The marriage therefore strengthened her descendants' claim to the English throne.
In 1566 Mary gave birth to a son named James. The marriage was not a happy one and when Darnley was mysteriously killed while recovering from smallpox at Glasgow in January 1567, when the house in which he was in was blown up by gunpowder.
Suspicion fell on Mary and her close friend, the Earl of Bothwell. When Mary married Bothwell two months later, the Protestant lords rebelled against their queen. After her army was defeated at Langside in 1567, Mary fled to England. Mary asked Elizabeth for protection from her enemies in Scotland. However, Elizabeth was highly suspicious of the woman who in the past had claimed she was the rightful queen of England. Elizabeth feared that the arrival of Mary might encourage the Catholics in England to rebel against her rule.
Elizabeth therefore decided to imprison Mary. During the next nineteen years while Mary was in prison, Elizabeth's officials discovered several Catholic plots that attempted to make Mary queen of England.
In December 1585, Gilbert Clifford was arrested in Sussex. While being interviewed, Clifford confessed that he had been involved in a Catholic plot to overthrow Elizabeth I. The man in charge of protecting Elizabeth was Francis Walsingham. He offered to release Clifford if he was willing to work as a double-agent. Clifford agreed and went to his contact in the French embassy telling him that he knew how to smuggle letters to and from Mary. He explained that every week a barrel of beer was sent from Burton to where Mary was imprisoned. Clifford arranged to have letters placed in a waterproof package inside the stopper of the barrel.
Another double-agent, Thomas Philips, who was inside the prison, told Mary how she would be receiving letters in her beer barrel. However, before they were placed inside the beer barrel, they were read by Walsingham. More importantly, Francis Walsingham was also able to read the letters that Mary sent to her Catholic friends in France and Spain. In these letters Mary explained how she wanted France and Spain to help her become queen by invading England.
Walsingham allowed the letters to continue to be sent because he wanted to discover who else was involved in this plot to overthrow Elizabeth. Eventually, on 25 June 1586, Mary wrote a letter to Anthony Babington. In his reply, Babington told Mary that he and a group of six friends were planning to murder Elizabeth.
Walsingham was now ready to act against what now became known as the Babington Plot. Babington was arrested and his home was searched for documents that would provide evidence against him. When interviewed, Babington made a confession in which he admitted that Mary had written a letter supporting the plot.
Anthony Babington and six others were executed for high treason on 18 September, 1586. An attempt to kill the monarch was the most serious crime in England and the punishment was to be hung, drawn and quartered. The men were tied face downwards on a hurdle drawn by horses. They were then dragged through the streets of London. At Tyburn they were hung for a short period. After being revived the men had their intestines cut out.
At the execution the crowd complained about the agonies the men had to suffer before they died. When she heard this Elizabeth gave instructions that the rest of the conspirators due to be executed the next day should be dead before they were cut down.
Elizabeth was also against Mary being executed for her part in the plot, and for six weeks refused to sign her death warrant. Walsingham and Parliament insisted that Mary should die. On 8 February, 1587 Mary was beheaded. Afterwards, Elizabeth claimed that she had not given permission for Mary to be executed. As a result, Davidson, the man responsible for the execution, was fined £6,000 and imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Mary was buried in Peterborough but in 1612 it was moved to Henry VII's chapel at Westminster.
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I last posted Landon's most recent phrase, which is "I love you". There is another phrase that Landon has been saying for a couple of weeks now that continually makes us laugh. When we ask Landon why he did something he responds with an "I don't know". The way he says it is just too cute. We constantly find ourselves asking Landon questions to purposely get him to say "I don't know". You can see for yourself just why we do such a thing:
Now isn't that the cutest "I don't know" that you have ever heard?! The cuteness factor also gets upped when he's in his Buzz towel. Landon loves his Buzz Lightyear towel. He loves it so much that I am contemplating buying him the Woody towel the next time I go to the store. He wears it for hours after his bath. He even insisted on blowing bubbles in it yesterday evening. Landon also learned how to actually blow the bubbles off of the wand yesterday as well.
When he realized that he was able to blow the bubbles onto my leg he couldn't stop laughing.

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´´La Traviata´´ and ´´Yves Saint Laurent´´15:02
On Friday evening I went to L´Institut Français de Madrid to see retransmission of Giuseppe´s Verdi brilliant opera ´´La Traviata´´ directly from el Teatro Real ( Royal Opera). It is really hard to express my feelings into words, I think ´´La Traviata´´ is a masterpiece, a true gem which everyone should see to understand better the influence of society in our lives.
The next day I participated in Documenta Madrid 2015 film festvial. Among many great documentary films, I chosed the one about legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. It was a fantastic way to explore Yve´s character and his immense talent. Yves Saint Laurent famous clothes, Parisian interiors and the great French actors made this film special.
Yves Saint Laurent sans doute était le Roi de haute couture que je n'oublierai jamais.
Yves Saint Laurent undoubtedly was the king of haute couture who I won´t forget.
Bisous et bon week-end!


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Coca-Cola bottles are being used for more than just drinking lately. The world-renowned cola company is repurposing the bottles for its latest campaign called '2ndLives,' which is based out of Vietnam.
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The different functioning caps turn the bottles into things like a paintbrush, a water spray bottle, a pencil sharpener, a lamp and squeeze bottle. According to the soft drink giant, it will be giving away 40,000 of the caps in Vietnam and then move onto other countries, which have yet to be named.
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|11 Sep 2011
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
Unless you know the file extension I think it'll be like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack to search the registry.
You could try booting into Safe Mode and see if you can delete it then.
Disk Cleanup may also be an option.
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|11 Sep 2011
Well there is this, which I am aware of but have no personally used.
How To Add Or Remove Control Panel Applets in Windows 7 and Vista | WinVistaClub
|My System Specs
|11 Sep 2011
Safe Mode does not help as there is still no way to delete the entry.
I am running W7 Home Premium so I don't have the Group Policy editor to modify Control Panel items.
Arg! I know there must be a way!
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|18 Sep 2011
In an attempt to bump this topic, I would also like to add that I've continued to search for a solution online and every forum post and website points to the same few solutions, none of which are applicable in my case. Does anyone have any further ideas? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
|My System Specs
|19 Sep 2011
without a way to trace and identify the errant .cpl I really can't come up with anything.
|My System Specs
|19 Sep 2011
Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
Try running a regular and registry cleanup with CCleaner.
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|19 Sep 2011
Windows 7 Pro 32bit / Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Are not the items in the Control Panel name.CPL files? Most of the main ones, appwiz.cpl (Add & Remove programs), are located in C:\Windows\System32. Using a command window CD \ and DIR *.CPL > CPLlist.txt and go carefully through the list. If there is an icon in your Control Panel, it will have to written to that list.
On my system there is more than one that sits in Program Files. I would say that would be one place to take a careful look. The System32 files, I think, belong to Windows. When looking over the list, check for anything that might be connected to any software you have recently removed from your system.
Good Luck,
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|19 Sep 2011
Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
Control panel/admin tools and see if is int the left column.
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|19 Sep 2011
Windows 7 Premium
Don't know if you have found a fix yet, just a thought, something you could try ... right click start globe > properties > customize > control panel > change to "Display as a link" > ok > Apply > ok >...... Then go back & change to "Display as a menu" again.
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|24 Sep 2011
After tinkering for a few hours (pathetic, I know, for a "problem" like this) I found a solution!
The issue is that with Windows 7 .cpl files do not need to be in the system32 folder, or any system folder for that matter. They can be located anywhere. However, if the namespace registry key points to an invalid location, or no location at all, you will see this totally blank icon in the Control Panel list.
The following registry location was listing a Intel WiFi Connection Utility cpl item that no longer exists and was part of an older driver version. Deleting this key successfully removed the invalid control panel item.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{B9F968 05-88EC-4952-929F-397985D7B2D7}
If anyone else has this problem, you will have to go to this registry location and delete each key one at a time until the invalid item disappears. Make sure to back up this portion of the registry first so you can restore all the valid items later.
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was my 15 month old daughter.
Thank goodness for the times when a good interviewer comes along who expertly pares down my long-windedness and employs some really well done video editing.
In this Inside the Deck Artist Interview, Rich Castle does a fantastic, high quality, and (unlike my answers to his questions) nicely succinct documentary-style video interview with yours truly. My thanks to Rich for making me look like I'm not a completely self-absorbed prima-donna doof!


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The #Meme15 assignment from Jason Strate (Blog/@StrateSQL) for February is to describe how and why we use LinkedIn. I felt this was a little bit of slam dunk, since I have previously described in this space how LinkedIn helped me get my current job.
To me LinkedIn is basically the professional Facebook (with no disrespect intended to either Facebook or LinkedIn); I use it to keep track of the people with which I cross paths professionally - both the people I like working with and the people I prefer to avoid. I originally just connected with people I enjoyed working with, but several people have pointed out to me over the years that it useful to "keep your enemies closer" (I will pause while you argue amongst yourselves whether the quote comes from Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, or Michael Corleone.)
I recently saw a talk from Karen Lopez (Blog/@Datachick) that pointed out something else meaningful about LinkedIn and other professional online networks - keep them updated. Through the early part of my career seeing someone update their LinkedIn profile was basically code for "I'm looking for a new job." Constantly keep your profile updated and post updates (similar to Tweets) to your profile. I use Tweetdeck (even after the redesign) to simultaneously post things to Twitter, to LinkedIn, and sometimes to Facebook as well. Staying constantly updated has two benefits - when you do look for a job, it isn't a major chore to update your network, and if you constantly update your profile, it is easier to hide the fact that you are looking from people you'd prefer not to know.
The biggest downside to LinkedIn is also one of it's purposes (and sometimes benefits) - the fact that you will be stalked (not could be, but *will* be) by recruiters/contractors/etc. looking to offer you jobs that may or may not be relevant in cities to which you may or may not be interested in relocating. This is a minor annoyance and to me an acceptable cost to the benefits of the system.
This is me on LinkedIn - see you there!


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Many multitracks, sound libraries and rare extended versions are available for sale on tradebit:
Time Eurobeat Masters Over 20GB!
145 Original eurobeat master tracks from Time, in wav format, all versions included (extended, acappella, instrumental), no pre-mastering.
List of songs in the package:
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Italo Dance Sound Libraries (WAV) ~3GB
It's a bundle, libraries from Time Records, Media Records, Delta Music sound of eurobeat, techno & italodisco. Also includes a multitrack of Dyva - All The Night in MP3 format.
Eurobeat Rejected
5 songs all rejected by Avex. All versions in wav format, original masters copies from Newfields recording studio.
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2 Fast - Burning Up The Night (Total Fire)
Cherry - Keep Fall In Love
Cherry - Set Me Free
Daniel & Cherry - Bach Is Back
David Essex - Victim Of Love
Delta Queens - Bye Bye Tokyo
Dr. Love - Doctor Love (MP3)
Hitomi Sakuma - Minamijuji No Hoshi
Kevin & Cherry - Chemical Love
Kevin Johnson - Got To Be Your Lover
Marko Polo - Stop Your Self Control
Maximum Power - Go! Rocky Joe
Vicky Vale - Star Heart
You can save money by contacting them at tradebit. They have other multitracks and other stuff not listed for sale, including the Eurobeat Masters series in wav and some Hyper Techno. Tell them that dbmaster sent you.
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I'll wire the remaining 65 dp [dosh points] in 30 days ~ dat Mike Hammer tho ~ ♫
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Great, I can't wait to upgrade my glastron waverunner to ~Xenos mode~!!!!!!!!!??!!
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Holy shit, Max Coveri acappellas!!
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You're just teasing me cause all we have around here is a dried up river.
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@ Danny: Think of the mixing/samples we could do with those things! ♥ ♥ ♥
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You know what saddens me the most of this Time pack? The song "What Kind Of Cure" is absent. Incredibly troubling.
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From what I was told anything written by Newfield he most likely owns, in cases where there were multiple writers you may have to ask him. It looks like he only produced and mixed What Kind of Cure so its unlikely that he has it (you can ask him though).
It may interest you that Club Mix Of Planet Jupiter mix has a clean section of the acappella at the end.
Also, the contents are not exclusive to Time either there is stuff from other labels too:
Disco Energy
High Energy
World Energy Music (Some of the Max Coveri songs)
There are more multi tracks available, list updated!
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Does anybody own some of this master tracks?
I'm looking for Max Coveri ones
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Is the Time Eurobeat Masters set actually still available? I notice that the purchase only gives you a tiny sample ZIP and that you have to e-mail for the full package - which puts me off doing anything.


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Nutella Mug Cake. I have been experimenting with different mug cakes every since I heard about them about a year ago.
None of them have been winners. They were either too chewy, too dry, or not sweet enough. Well, I continued experimenting, and thought why not add some decadent Nutella into the mix. I modified the classic mug cake recipe, added Nutella, and a little more milk and oil than I had been using before. The results were beyond amazing. I made these quick desserts today for my father and sister-in-law. Nutella Mug Cake Ingredients 4 tablespoons self rising flour 4 tablespoons white granulated sugar 1 egg 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 3 tablespoons Nutella 3 tablespoons milk 3 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil Method 1. 2.
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I know, big statement. They're called Slutty Brownies because they're oh so easy, and more than a little bit filthy. They're best served warm from the oven, with good quality vanilla ice cream (devastatingly I didn't have any in the freezer this time, so I guess I'll just have to make them again). They take about 45mins to make, including baking time. The ultimate comfort food, whipped up within the hour. You will need… 1 Box of cookie mix, 1 Box of brownie mix, 2 Eggs, 2 Packs of Oreos (double stuffed ones are even better if you can find them) Some oil & your favourite ice-cream (optional) Preheat your oven to 350F, 180C, gas mark 4. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper. Squidge (technical term) the cookie dough into a lined baking tray, until it covers the bottom.
Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes. Well these naughty little treats are well….naughty but oh so necessary.
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Nationally recognized independent Grand Ole Opry historian Byron Fay offers news and comments regarding country music's premier show.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Grand Ole Opry 1/27 & 1/28
Opry members scheduled for both nights include John Conlee, Mike Snider and The Whites. That group will be joined on Friday night by Jeannie Seely, Terri Clark, Ricky Skaggs, Craig Morgan and Jesse McReynolds, while on Saturday night, the three will be joined by Connie Smith, Bobby Osborne and Riders In The Sky.
As to guest artists this weekend, Friday's list has Sarah Darling, Granger Smith, Ned LeDoux and Trent Harmon on it, while on Saturday night, the scheduled artists include Ray Scott, Ashley Campbell, John Schneider, Shenandoah, Lindsay Ell and Charles Esten.
Friday January 27
7:00: John Conlee (host); Sarah Darling; Mike Snider
7:30: Jeannie Seely (host); Granger Smith; Terri Clark
8:15: Ricky Skaggs (host); The Whites; Ned LeDoux;
8:45: Craig Morgan (host); Jesse McReynolds; Trent Harmon
Saturday January 28
7:00: John Conlee (host); Ray Scott; Mike Snider
7:30: The Whites (host); Ashley Campbell; John Schneider
8:15: Connie Smith (host); Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press; Shenandoah; Opry Square Dancers
8:45: Riders In The Sky (host); Lindsay Ell; Charles Esten
12 artists for each show, with 8 Opry members on Friday and 6 on Saturday.
For Ned LeDoux, this will be his Opry debut. Ned started out as the drummer for his famous father, Chris LeDoux. After his father passed away in 2005, Ned continued to tour with his father's band. Eventually, he began singing, concentrating on some of his dad's songs including "Rodeo Man." In July 2015, Ned came to Nashville with the intention of finishing some songs that is dad had started and in the process he connected with Mac McAnally. Mac became Ned's producer and has worked on the last two studio albums that Ned has released. For the past year, Ned has been touring and opening for Toby Keith, Chris Janson and Randy Houser.
And now, here is the posted Grand Ole Opry line-up from 5 years ago, the weekend of January 27 & 28, 2012:
Friday January 27
7:00: John Conlee (host); Jimmy C Newman; Del McCoury Band
7:30: Jimmy Dickens (host); Jesse McReynolds; Craig Morgan
8:15: Bill Anderson (host); Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press; Casey James
8:45: Mike Snider (host); Ray Pillow; Diamond Rio
Saturday January 28
7:00: Jimmy Dickens (host); John Conlee; Love and Theft
7:30: Riders In The Sky (host); Jim Ed Brown; Connie Smith; Del McCoury Band
8:15: Ricky Skaggs (host); The Whites; John Anderson; Opry Square Dancers
8:45: Bill Anderson (host); Mike Snider; Diamond Rio
Now from 10 years ago, the weekend of January 26 & 27, 2007:
Friday January 26
8:00: Jeannie Seely (host); The Whites; Jimmy Wayne
8:30: John Conlee (host); Jan Howard; Jack Greene; Del McCoury Band
9:00: Charley Pride (host); Danielle Peck; Ralph Stanley
9:30: George Hamilton IV (host); Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press; Darryl Worley
Saturday January 27
1st show
6:30: John Conlee (host); The Whites; Ralph Stanley
7:00: Dierks Bentley; Montgomery Gentry; Rodney Atkins; Josh Turner
8:00: Jeannie Seely (host); Jimmy C Newman; Del McCoury Band; Opry Square Dancers
8:30: Charley Pride (host); Jack Greene; Dale Watson
2nd show
9:30: John Conlee (host); Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys; Rodney Atkins
10:00: Jimmy C Newman (host); The Whites; Ralph Stanley
10:30: Charley Pride (host); George Hamilton IV; Dale Watson; Opry Square Dancers
11:00: Jeannie Seely (host); Del McCoury Band; Dierks Bentley
Finally, looking back 50 years to Saturday January 28, 1967:
7:30: Luzianne
Bill Anderson (host); Ride; Ride; Ride
Skeeter Davis: You Add Fuel to the Flame
George Hamilton IV: The Urge for Going
Del Wood: Down at Papa Joe's
Bill Anderson: Still
Jim Ed Brown: Regular on My Mind
Skeeter Davis: Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Bill Anderson: Get While the Getting's Good
8:00: Martha White
Billy Walker (host): A Million & One
Charlie Louvin: Off & On
Justin Tubb: But Wait; There's More
Osborne Brothers: The Kind of Woman I Got
Crook Brothers: Black Mountain Rag
Bill Walker: Bear With Me A Little Longer
Stringbean: Train 45
Margie Bowes: Enough to Make A Woman Lose Her Mind
Billy Walker: Cattle Call
8:30: Stephens
Bobby Lord (host): Room in the Corner of the House
Bill Carlisle: Same Ol' Tale That the Crow Told Me
Bob Luman: Hardly Anymore
Archie Campbell: Comedy
Bobby Lord: Fall Away
Jean Shepard: Heart, We Did All That We Could
Bobby Bare: The Streets of Baltimore
Grandpa Jones: Stop That Ticklin' Me
9:00: Pet Milk
Roy Acuff (host): Just A Friend
Bill Monroe: The Pretty Fair Maiden
Billy Grammer: The Real Thing
Lonzo & Oscar: Funny Way of Living In This Crazy Mixed Up World
Roy Acuff: The Great Speckled Bird
Dottie West: What's Come Over My Baby
Fruit Jar Drinkers: (?)
Roy Acuff: Glory's Coming; It Won't Be Long
9:30: Kellogg's
Hank Snow (host): Hula Love
Willis Brothers: Bob
Marion Worth: There Goes My Everything
Curly Fox: Casey Railroad Blues
Hank Snow: I've Cried A Mile
Willis Brothers: Give Me 40 Acres
Hank Snow: The Count Down
10:00: Schick
Bill Anderson (host): I Get the Fever
George Hamilton IV: Truck Driving Man
Margie Bowes: There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
Stringbean: Nine Pound Hammer
Bill Anderson: I Love You Drops
10:15: Pure
Jim Ed Brown (host): A Taste of Heaven
Bill Carlisle: Dr. R.D.
Skeeter Davis: The End of the World
Jim Ed Brown: You Can Have Her
10:30: Buckley's
Jean Shepard (host): Many Happy Hangovers to You
Charlie Louvin: He Can Be Found
Del Wood: Cajun Stripper
Grandpa Jones: Old Rattler Left Us Years Ago
Jean Shepard: It's A Man
10:45: Kent
Roy Acuff (host): Meeting in the Air
Billy Walker: Cross the Brazos at Waco
Osborne Brothers: The Kind of Woman I Got
Crook Brothers: Eighth of January
11:00: Coca-Cola
Hank Snow (host): I've Been Everywhere
Bill Monroe: Panhandle Country
Justin Tubb: As Long As There's A Sunday
Fruit Jar Drinkers: Bill Cheatham
Hank Snow: There's A Fool Such as I
Dottie West: Here Comes My Baby
Bobby Bare: Detroit City
Sam McGee: Blackberry Blossom
Hank Snow: I'm Moving On
11:30: Lava
Billy Grammer (host): Gotta Travel On
Lonzo & Oscar: We're Gathering the Hang of it Now
Bob Luman: Memphis
Marion Worth: Touch My Heart
Billy Grammer: The Real Thing
Connie Smith: Walk Thru This World
Curly Fox: Lost John
Bob Luman: Hardly Anymore
Billy Grammer: Under the Double Eagle
There you have it for this week. I hope everyone has a great weekend, and enjoy the Opry!!!!
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- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2017 at 9:26 PM
Interesting to see Jean Shepard hosting a segment in 1967. That was extremely rare back then. Byron, do your records indicate who the first woman to host an Opry segment was, and the date? I'm guessing Jean Shepard was one of the first, if not the first. As much as I love seeing those old Opry schedules, especially from the '50s, '60s and '70s, it makes me sad to see how far the Opry has fallen over the years. Even when I made my first trip to the Opry in 1989, it was light-years ahead of today's show. Keep up the great work!ReplyDelete
Rich Leonard
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Rich, I would have to look up in my records, but if my memory is correct, and if not someone will let me know, there was a tie-in involving Jean and Buckley's at the time.ReplyDelete
Byron - Found an article (from October 16, 1965) that includes a photo that mentions a tie-in between Jean Shepard and Harvey's Department Store (Record Dept.). Article states that the Record Dept. was jointly operated by Harvey's and Louis Buckley, owner of Buckley's Discount Record Shop. - Frank AppersonReplyDelete
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- Nat Hill IVJanuary 27, 2017 at 11:17 AM
Great reading. Thanks!Delete
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Large numbers of pupils still aspire to attend university when they leave school
Thousands of school pupils across the East of England are set to benefit from advice on higher education from expert Anglia Ruskin University staff.
University remains an incredibly popular aspiration for young people across the region and Anglia Ruskin's Roadshow bus will set off on June 3 for a seven-week tour which will take in Essex, Cambridgeshire and part of East London.
A survey amongst pupils visited last year revealed that they were 20% more confident in their knowledge of Higher Education after they had seen the bus than before, and 33% more confident they knew about Anglia Ruskin University as an option for them.
The double-decker bus will be packed with resources designed to arm young people with the information needed to make informed decisions about their future as they prepare for the next step. It will contain information on student finance, university life and advice about the application process. Expert staff will be on hand to answer any questions.
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Think of it as plastic memory, this force within you which trends you and your fellows toward tribal forms. This plastic memory seeks to return to its ancient shape, the tribal society. It is all around you—the feudatory, the diocese, the corporation, the platoon, the sports club, the dance troupes, the rebel cell, the planning council, the prayer group…each with its master and servants, its host and parasites. And the swarms of alienating devices (including these very words!) tend eventually to be enlisted in the argument for a return to "those better times." I despair of teaching you other ways. You have square thoughts which resist circles.
–"God Emperor of Dune, Stolen Journals" by Frank Herbert
I usually try to avoid this particular subject, but sometimes it's worth bringing up sometimes. I wrote about this a year ago, so apologies if this sounds familiar.
Anyhow, I was reading an article on the Japan Times by a famous writer named Debito Arudou about the little insults that foreigners experience in Japan. People who've been to Japan or lived though often get tired of people being surprised that they can use chopsticks and can speak Japanese, or questions about what they think about Japan, etc, etc. Someone else took the time to write a strong counter-point of Arudou's article by the way. I recommend reading both, actually.
I read the Arudou article and had a few thoughts in my head. First, yes, I've had some experiences as well. I remember someone complaining in front of me about foreigners in Sumo wrestling, and I get plenty of stares on the trains in Japan, in cafes or in the neighborhood park where I take my daughter. I try to speak Japanese in public as much as I can with my daughter, so I don't look like a total foreigner, but I don't know how much it helps.
But the second thought was that my wife has all the same experiences, here in the US. I grew up in the US as a generic white-male protestant. I never really had to think about race, even though I knew in my mind that other people in the US face discrimination as foreigners or as minorities but it wasn't something I really had to live with.
Then I went to Vietnam in 2001 as a naive 23-year old and had a bad case of culture-shock. People there at the time still had very little contact with foreigners, especially in Hanoi, and would do all kinds of strange things to me. People would call me ugly, fat, or just walk up and pinch my belly. No joke. Or they would try to scam me of money, because they assumed all foreigners had lots of money and were gullible.
Likewise, my wife in the US gets all the same treatment (without belly-pinching thankfully ). People will stare at her sometimes at the local Starbucks near my grandma's house, or comment how great her English is (she has a really good accent to be honest), or ask her really strange or naive questions about Japan. One time, a Japanese exchange student confided with me that Americans would still ask her if there were still samurai in Japan. No joke. But speaking from experience, I've also seen this kind of thing happen when we lived in Ireland, and I hear it's even worse in mainland Europe.
Seeing this happen to my wife really taught me some important lessons. When people stare at me in Japan, I try to remember it happens to my wife in Seattle, and it helps remind that people are often curious even if they do it in a totally tactless way. Didn't your mom teach you not to stare?! Also, I realized that Americans have plenty of silly stereotypes about foreigners too after seeing Irish co-workers coming here for visits. The Irish co-workers would get peppered with the same questions over and over: Is Ireland still part of the UK? What's the deal with Northern Ireland? How do you say X in Gaelic?1 They were also surprised by some Irish co-workers who didn't drink. After all, Irish people are famous for drinking, right? You can see an American in Japan using chopsticks and surprising people in the same way as non-drinking Irish in America.
It's funny how ignorance is universal.
But imagine if you belong to an ethnic group that people don't trust? Imagine the life of a Muslim immigrant in the US. You could be the nicest guy, and be a wonderful husband and father, but as soon as you put on a turban, or a keffiyeh and you immediately get dirty looks from people. Guaranteed. I have a lot of co-workers from the People's Republic of China, and I know they endure various stereotypes too living here, or some people even assume they're secret agents trying to steal our technology and trade secrets.
However, I don't want to say that America is more racist than Japan, or Japan is more racist than America. It's not the point. In fact, I think people use the term "racist" too often. I do believe there are a lot of naive and ignorant people out there, though.
Ignorance really is a serious problem. It divides into fictional tribes based on language, religion, skin color, and separates us from other people. We belong to this tribe, and they belong to this other tribe, and they do things differently. You can't just will it away, or just reasoning. It's something deeply ingrained in us, and requires a lot of soul-searching.
If there's one think I learned from Buddhism, especially Hosso Buddhism, is that everybody lives in their own distorted world built upon their own narrow life-experiences. Everyone believes their perspective is right, and people around them are ignorant:
When our worldview gets challenged or threatened, we get defensive and we tend to argue or feel ill-will towards the other person.
The truth is, you can't really fight it. Foreigners who live in Japan go through some stage where they realize that they will always be treated as a foreigner and either learn to live with it, get bitter and hate Japan, or isolate themselves in their own community. I've heard over the years that people complain about immigrants in the US the same way ("why do they always keep to themselves"?).
Aradou and people like him believe they can somehow change Japanese society and make it more open-minded by criticizing their behavior and persistently correcting them. I don't agree with the approach myself to be honest. When I am in Japan and get naive questions or comments, I just let it go and move on. If I tried to correct their behavior every time, I would have no rest. As Roger Zelazny writes in Isle of the Dead:
There is a Big Tree as old as human society, because that's what it is….There are names written on those leaves, and some fall off and new ones grow on, so that in a few seasons all the names have been changed. But the Tree stays pretty muchthe same: bigger, yes; and carrying on the same life functions as always, in pretty much the same way, too. I once went through a time when I tried to cut out all the rot I could find in the Tree. I found that as soon as I cut out a section in one place, it would occur somewhere else, and I had to sleep sometime.
I'm kind of leery of one-man crusades because I believe they're fueled by a person's narrow view of the world (i.e. their own personal distortion) and may ultimately come to nothing in the end.
However, there is a happy ending to this post. I have had many experiences with people over the years where I meet someone who's from a different country or ethnic group, and when we find a common interest, the conversation totally changes. Suddenly we get so absorbed in the topic, we forget our stereotypes and "tribal" identities and we just have a great conversation. We're the only two people in the world at that time, and there's a natural bond because we are of like mind.
We build up all these imagined barriers in our mind, but in moments like that, we suddenly side-step them and embrace a wide, new world we didn't know was possible. That world is the mind freed from it's own distortions, even if only temporarily. I think this is why I like KPop so much lately: it's from a different culture, and yet when you hear a good Big Bang song (or whatever), everyone regardless of ethnicity will stop and dance or shake their hips. Music has a nice way of transcending barriers I think.
I believe the solution to the whole problem is to overcome ignorance, but we have to overcome our ignorance just as we help others do the same. As the 14th chapter of the Lotus Sutra says:
When a son of the Buddha preaches the Law,
He is at all times gentle and full of forbearance,
Having pity and compassion on all,
Never giving way to a negligent or a slothful mind.
–trans. Gene Reeves
Just as we learn to be patient and easy-going with others, we have to learn to be not give way to our own ignorance, lest we become the very people we decry.
Namo Shaka Nyorai
P.S. Sorry for the long rant. I wrote this all in one night, and my brain is getting too tired to edit/revise. I have something more fun tomorrow planned anyway.
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Ten years ago Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Washington, D.C., mall, set out with the Confluence Project to punctuate Lewis and Clark's path along the Columbia and Snake rivers with a series of public spaces evoking the land and the time. The reality of every location is two centuries different from what the Corps of Discovery encountered, but Celilo Falls, about 100 miles up the Columbia from Portland, may be the most dramatic -- and certainly the most emotionally explosive.
For thousands of years, Celilo Falls -- with more water pounding over it than Niagara -- was a salmon fishing center and a tribal trading center for the entire region. But in the 1950s, the area was flooded to build The Dalles Dam, leaving an angry scar still vivid in tribal memory.
"Celilo," said Lin last week, "is the place where you say, 'This used to be here.'"
In her first meeting to talk about a Celilo project, she recalls, representatives of seven tribes attended, and they told her the place was still too painful for planning.
Lin was in Portland last week at an event for Confluence contributors, a decade into the effort. The first completed location, Cape Disappointment at the mouth of the Columbia, drew more than half a million visitors last year. Celilo, the last major piece, with a 2015 completion target, is well on its way from the drawing board out into the river.
"You didn't know how it was going to turn out," she recalled. "My greatest fear was that I would start something, and by time we got to the end, there would be no connection.
"That didn't happen."
The six projects, from Chief Timothy Park on an island in Snake River in Clarkston, Wash., out to Cape Disappointment on the Pacific, together pay tribute to what the expedition found -- the natural world, the tribal communities, the earth and water. The projects are also about the strengths of endurance and regeneration.
"The good news is," said Lin, a slight figure who speaks quietly and rearranges landscapes, "if you give nature a chance, it can come back."
It speaks of both nature and the people who lived within in it, and the concept drew in the tribal people who had once thought a project at Celilo would just poke an open wound.
Out on the Pacific, the now-open Cape Disappointment project features two paths out to an ocean viewing, one inscribed with the natural features identified by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their journey, the other with a Chinook tribe's creation song.
"I'm not expecting people to visit all the sites," says Lin. "But it's one experience." The entire experience is to be brought together in a single volume displaying the project, which she sees as evoking the founding document -- the Lewis and Clark diaries that first spread out the Northwest before the world.
"We began with a book," she says, "and we end with a book."
After 10 years, the Confluence Project is coming into view, as the great landmarks of thousands of miles gradually appeared to the canoes of Lewis and Clark. It's a massive effort from a massive concept, depicting an inheritance that will never be the same but will always be with us.
At Cape Disappointment, at the end of the trail, is a carved basalt fish-cleaning table, a more enduring version of a rusted structure Lin saw when she first ventured out to the place. Only later, after she'd settled on the design, did she learn that cutting open a fish is at the center of the Chinook tribal creation story, which is now inscribed into the table.
"Certain things just happen," explains Lin, "and they're magical."
David Sarasohn, associate editor, can be reached at 503-221-8523. See other writing at oregonlive.com/sarasohn


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When Bill Belicheck was coaching the Cleveland Browns a young ball boy impressed him as a hard worker. Bill gave him a job with his coaching staff. That ball boy was Eric Mangini. He spent 9 years with Bill until in 2005 he was offered the head coaching job with the Jets. On the plane ride home from the Patriots last game he was openly recruiting Patriot players to play for him in New York. During the 2006 season the NFL had become aware of teams videotaping opponents practices. As the Jets were preparing to play the Pats Mangini informed the NFL that the Pats were still doing it. As they would say on the street, he ratted Bill out. That was the beginning of Spygate. One coach, Mangini broke the code. There are hundreds of assistant coaches, team managers, etc that could have done what Mangini did but they didn't. That's why the Patriots are at the top of the list when people talk about cheating. Does anybody think the Patriots were the only team to continue spying? No, they were the only team to get told on by a Benedict Arnold who turned in the coach who was responsible for his NFL career. Mangini is scum.
Deflategate is the biggest non story of the season. The Ravens, still smarting from their loss to the Patriots informed the Colts that the Pats footballs were soft. But the referees checked them before the game and they were fine. Has anybody shown any proof that anyone connected to the Patriots took some air out of the balls once they got them back? There are cameras everywhere. There were literally thousands of cameras at Gillette during the game. Surely one person would have a shot of the Patriot bench showing some tampering. Well, not so far. It might just be the balls were inflated at the lowest level and lost air from there which made them under. For the record Brady had a better stats in the second half, after the balls were fixed, that he did in the first half. The Pats outscored the Colts 28-0 in the second half. A little bit of air in the ball makes no difference.
Jimmy Johnson won 5 consecutive NASCAR championships. During that time his crew chief, Chad Knaus was caught 4 times violating NASCAR rules. He was fined and in one case, suspended for 6 races. How many times have you heard people take any credit away from them? ZERO. If anyone thinks all teams, no matter what the sport don't straddle the rules line and sometimes go over it you're being totally naive.
The Patriots aren't any worse than any other team. Belicheck's biggest mistake was hiring a rat to his coaching staff.
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But before I get in to the nuts and bolts let me explain how I became such a fan of futbol. The year was 1979 and I said to my 7 year old son that tomorrow is Little League sign up day. He looked at me and said "Dad, I want to play soccer". You could have knocked me down with the proverbial feather. I never played, I had never heard him express a wish to play, nada, nothing. It seemed his friend Fred who lived across the street had already played a year and he had a net set up and my son had been playing over there. I panicked. I immediately called my Dad and said what am I going to do? Chris not playing…
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I'll steal a line from the Men in Blazers and say if you're looking for technical, insightful hard hitting commentary look somewhere else.
But before I get in to the nuts and bolts let me explain how I became such a fan of futbol. The year was 1979 and I said to my 7 year old son that tomorrow is Little League sign up day. He looked at me and said "Dad, I want to play soccer". You could have knocked me down with the proverbial feather. I never played, I had never heard him express a wish to play, nada, nothing. It seemed his friend Fred who lived across the street had already played a year and he had a net set up and my son had been playing over there. I panicked. I immediately called my Dad and said what am I going to do? Chris not playing baseball?? Well, of course I told my son he could play soccer and I'll take him down when registration opens. The next morning grandpa paid a visit and took his grandson for a ride, to the Little League registration. He played both. As Chris started his soccer career I watched from the sidelines with my wife and infant daughter. 5 years later that infant daughter wanted to play. She started on an under 8 team in our town's recreation league. After 7 games the team was 0-7 and lost every game by the mercy rule. The coach quit and guess who the league recruited to coach? Yup, me. I coached for a very enjoyable 13 years. That included 7 years as a referee in which I officiated youth competitive soccer up to U18, school soccer from middle to high school and I was just starting to get my feet wet in the adult leagues when we moved to Florida and that was it.
Not having a club in my blood like the Boston Red Sox are, my allegiances to premier league teams has changed over the years. When Red Sox owner John Henry purchased Liverpool I was all in. Go Reds!! So of course I'm rooting for Liverpool to win the championship. But there is so much more to enjoy in the BPL. A champion is crowned but there are 3 other competitions that take place within the league. The top 3 or 4 teams participate in the UEFA Champions League, the highest caliber league on the planet. The next 3 or 4 get invited to play in the Europa League, which is a second tier Champions league. Then, there's the fight for survival where the bottom three clubs are demoted to England's Championship division and three teams from there are promoted. Very often this is the most exciting competition come the last day of the season.
At the midseason break it's looking pretty grim for my Reds. After one of their most successful seasons in years, where they earned a Champions League entry, they are mired in eighth place, 17 points from co leaders Chelsea and Manchester City. Last year they had the most potent attack in the league with Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling. All they had to do was add a midfielder, shore up the back line and the sky was the limit. But they lost Suarez in the summer transfer window, Sturridge has been hurt and the signings Brendan Rodgers made haven't panned out. The back line is still bad and Mignolet seems to have regressed in goal.
It's safe to say Chelsea and Man City will fight it out for the championship. Man United has improved recently and they look like a lock for a Champions League spot next year. Now it gets interesting for the fourth position as Southhampton, Tottenham, West Ham, Arsenal, Liverpool and Swansea are all within 7 points of each other. One of them will make the CL, the others probably will fill out the Europa league. Remember the BPL awards 3 points for a win so standings can change quickly. In the relegation battle there are 9 teams who are only separated by 8 points. Aston Villa, Everton, Sunderland, Hull, Queens Park Rangers, West Brom, Crystal Palace, Burnley and Leicester City are all in danger of relegation.
For the first time in my life I can say I am enjoying the BPL more than the NFL. That's a topic for another day but I can tell you one thing for sure. Futbol referees don't take back their red cards. It looks like a great second half for the Barclays Premier League.
Brandon McCarthy signs with the Dodgers for 4 years, $48 million. Obviously he wanted to get away from a team that's going nowhere next season.
Contrary to what I'm hearing from Red Sox fans I love what they've done so far. Ramirez is one of the most exciting offensive players in the game and Sandoval fills a huge need. Porcello is coming off a career best year and at 26 still has a big upside. He's a ground ball pitcher and should fit Fenway well. It was obvious Cespedes didn't want to sign with Boston so getting a solid starter, who is arbitration eligible, not in his walk year in return is a good deal. Signing Masterson to a 1 year deal at $9 million is a low cost, low risk move that gives the team depth. I see his role as a #5 or a spot starter and long reliever.
Boegarts, Betts, Swihart, and Owens are the Sox top prospects. The Red Sox have built one of the most talented farm systems in the league and I don't want them to blow it all up trading for someone like Hamels. Cole is a shade past his peak and hasn't done well when pitching against the American League. I think the reason a deal hasn't been reached is because the Phillies are insisting on two of the four I mentioned. Cherington will be wise to show patience and resist the temptation. If he does it tells me he's pointing for 2016 and hoping for the playoffs next year. Not a bad plan in my opinion. Just about all the kids will be ready by then.
At $200 million Scott Boras has priced Scherzer in a zone only the Yankees could love. I see him going to the Bronx for somewhere around $180 which is still far too much. The Yankees can't sit still with Miller and Dee Dee. The Yankees are looking good with Betances and Miller in the set up/closers role but where else do they excel? Girardi has to work his magic once again or the Yankees will be fighting the Rays for last place in the AL East. Rumor has it it's not if but when Tanaka will need Tommy John surgery. CC is done, Nova is always hurt and Kuroda and McCarthy are gone. Cashman can spend a million dollars and still not be able to fix this mess.
I used to be a huge NASCAR fan but my interest has waned over the last few years. I never liked the Chase but I have to say this year they got me back. I do have to say NASCAR should tweak the system as it is not right for a driver to be able to win the championship without winning a race all year.
Every time I hear humming coming from a certain quarterback's mouth in a Nationwide Insurance commercial I hit the mute button as fast as I can.
Overrated: Cracker Barrel
Underrated: Stevie Ray Vaughn
I'm glad Heyward got traed to St Louis. There were rumors he was coming to Boston and I didn't want to see that.
Don't think for one second that much of anything will change if Hilary is elected President. Corporate America will still have it's stranglehold on our country.
Speaking of that trade I'm shocked the Cards let go of Miller.
How are the Marlins going to pay Stanton $25 mill a year? They draw less than the Rays and have a lousy TV contract.
Derrick Rose is soft.
As far as I'm concerned Horse of the Year is still up for grabs.
As the NHL gets ready to induct 6 new members to their Hall of Fame I'm wondering why Eric Lindross is still on the outside looking in.
As a Red Sox fan I'm happy to hear Boston is backing off trading for Cole Hamels. I want no part of him. Why should Boston give up at least 2 of their best prospects for an over 30 pitcher who has a less than stellar record when he's faced American League teams?
Pagano got schooled last night. Undrafted, practice squad player Jonas Gray had 100 yards and 2 td's before Indy knew what hit them.
I think it's time for the Democrats to elect new leadership. Reid and Pelosi need to step aside and let younger blood lead the party.
I belong to the largest religious group in this country, EX Catholic. But I have to say I love Pope Francis. I know he wants me back.
Ryan Newman is a class act.
As far as I'm concerned Bill Cosby's reaction to recent questions over rape accusations sends out a lot of bad vibes.
Mike Evans is the real deal. Finally the Bucs have an offensive player to build around.
The Republicans aren't even in total control of Congress yet and all I'm hearing from them is appealing the ACA which will take healthcare away from close to 10 million people, impeaching Obama, shutting down the government and running a pipeline full of black slop through the heartland of our country.
With almost a quarter of the NHL season done it doesn't look good for the Bruins. They are getting their butt kicked by the best teams and struggling to win against the bad ones. It also appears this bunch of Canadiens have the Bruins and Rasks number.
With almost a quarter of the NHL season done it appears the Lightning are for real. Bishop is playing just as well as he did last year, Stamkos is still Stamkos but the real difference has been the third and fourth lines that are filled with youngsters from Syracuse's AHL championship team. They are a threat to score every shift. The addition of defenseman Anton Stralman, +13, has shored up what has been the teams weakest area. Cup contenders.


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Madrid, Atletico win to advance in Copa del Rey
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid advanced to the Copa del Rey's round of 16 after dispensing with third-division opponents on Wednesday.
Five-time cup winner Sevilla became the night's only topflight team to be upset by a lower-division team when third-tier Racing Santander won 2-0 in Seville to overturn a 1-0 first-leg loss.
Madrid, which had been held to a scoreless draw by Olimpic Xativa in the first leg, scored twice in the first half to win 2-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Asier Illarramendi put Madrid ahead in the 16th with his first goal since the midfielder transferred from Real Sociedad last summer. Jese Rodriguez set up Illarramendi to end Olimpic's run of keeping a clean sheet in nine consecutive matches.
Angel Di Maria doubled the advantage in the 28th with a penalty that goalkeeper Francisco Solar palmed off his post, only to see it trickle over the line.
Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas had an awkward fall late but finished the game after team doctors examined his back on the pitch.
"We tried to score more goals but we couldn't manage it," said Madrid's Pepe. "The important thing is that the team played well."
Madrid will face Osasuna in the next round in January.
Defending champion Atletico needed a last-gasp header by defender Tobias Alderweireld to edge Sant Andreu 2-1, advancing 6-1 on aggregate.
After Alberto Carroza scored for Sant Andreu in the 15th, Adrian Lopez missed a penalty for Atletico before he set up substitute Hector Hernandez to equalize in the 79th.
The Barcelona-based side still seemed set to celebrate a surprising draw at Vicente Calderon Stadium until Alderweireld flicked in Gabi Fernandez's free kick three minutes into stoppage time.
Atletico will face the winner of the tie between Valencia and Nastic Tarragona, who play on Thursday after 0-0 in the first leg.
Sociedad, Almeria, and Real Betis also finished off lower-division opponents to advance.
Sociedad routed Algeciras 4-0 with goals by Javier Ros, Haris Seferovic, Antoine Griezmann and Carlos Vela, advancing 5-1 on aggregate. Griezmann has scored 13 goals in all competitions this season.
Almeria drew 0-0 with Las Palmas and went through from its 3-1 first-leg win.
Betis let third-tier Lleida Esportiu rally for a 2-2 draw, but held on to advance 4-3 on aggregate.
Sevilla was undone when Stephane M'Bia left it with 10 men in the 62nd after receiving a red card for bringing down Racing's Mariano Sanz with only the goalkeeper to beat.
David Miguelez converted the penalty kick in the 63rd minute to level the tie.
Racing forward Mahamadou Kone snatched the winner in the 90th, heading in a rebound that goalkeeper Javi Varas had tipped onto his crossbar.
"We were facing a trap ... and we fell right into it," said Sevilla coach Unai Emery. "It's a sad night."


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East Harriet and citywide household sizes each averaged in at 2.2 in 1980. The average then declined for the neighborhood over the next two census reports. Minneapolis in contrast remained at 2.2 people per household in 1990 and then rose to 2.3 in 2000.
East Harriet's household composition changed modestly between 1980 and 2000. Family households declined from 51 percent of all households in 1980 to 42 percent in 2000. Households of people who live together but are not related and households of people who live alone and are under the age of 65 increased the most during this time.
East Harriet's percentage of householders living alone increased by 2 percent in the 1990 and 2000 census reports. The 2000 neighborhood figure of 41 percent is 1 percent higher than citywide.
The percentage of seniors living alone in East Harriet has consistently declined over the two-decade period. It has also been lower than the citywide figures. While 37 percent of seniors lived alone citywide in 2000, 19 percent in the neighborhood lived alone. In 1980 the city's figure was 38 percent compared to 28 percent in the neighborhood.
The percentage of families with children under 18 in East Harriet was below the citywide level from 1980 to 2000. The trend lines for the neighborhood and the city mirror each other during this time period; both reported increases in 1990 and 2000. In the last census, East Harriet reported 45 percent of families with children under 18 compared to the citywide figure of 50 percent.
A high proportion of East Harriets population lives in group quarters. These residents are increasing in numbers and also as a proportion of the total neighborhood. Group quarter residents, which made up 10 percent of East Harriet's population in 1980, grew to 18 percent in 2000. The number of people in the neighborhood living in households is declining.
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