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|Might controls everything, and without strength you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself.
|~ Vergil to Dante.
Vergil, later also known as Nelo Angelo, is one of the main characters in Devil May Cry series, acting as the main antagonist of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. He is the twin brother and father of the protagonists, Dante and Nero respectively, and seems designed to be their opposites. Despite being the antagonist, Vergil rarely acted beside Dante.
Vergil is the complete opposite of his hotheaded and sarcastic twin and son; he is cold, collected, manipulative and cynical. He seeks to obtain power by any means, with no regard for what may happen to others. Vergil also embraces his demonic side and hates his human half. He seems to want power, so as to make up for his failure to protect his mother, as evidenced by his statement "Might controls everything, and without strength you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself". Vergil also seems to desire to be like his father, so much so that he tries to look like him and seeks to have his powers.
Vergil was the son of the Demon known as; Sparda, and a woman named Eva, as well as being the older twin brother of Dante. Very little is known about Vergil's young life, but is implied that he and Dante were close, as well as being close towards their mother. Some time before their 8th birthday, Vergil and Dante were each given half of the Perfect Amulet by their mother. Around the same time however, Sparda disappeared, leaving Eva to take care of their sons. When the twin's turned eight years old, Vergil, Dante, and their mother were attacked by demons, who were hoping to harm Sparda's loved ones for revenge. In the progress, Eva was killed by demons and the brothers were separated from each other, resulting in Dante believing that Vergil was dead. Because he failed to save his mother as well as witnessed his mother getting killed during the demonic assault, Vergil eventually became corrupted and power hungry.
Investigating the Order of the SwordAs he got older, Vergil traveled the world, looking for information about his father. Eventually, Vergil visited the city of Fortuna, where he decided to investigate the local religious society of men and women known as the Order of the Sword. He discovered that the Order was worshipping his father like a god with great reverence. As he was pondering why these humans were worshipping his father who is a demon as a deity, a horde of Scarecrows ambushed him, but were quickly dispatched by Vergil with little to no effort. Shortly after killing the Scarecrows, Vergil then continued deeper into Fortuna, intending to learn more about the Order and what their intentions were.
Vergil continued his investigation, as he went to the Fortuna Castle, the lab hidden underneath the Fortuna Castle, and even the Mitis Forest, then finally the Orders' headquarter.
Most of the boss fight are non-canon (however it is not confirmed):
- While he was traversing in the Mitis Forest, he came in contact with the demon; Echidna. Echidna proceeded to attack Vergil, but Vergil managed to escape.
- When reaching The Order's Headquarters, he came across Sanctus, who was merging himself with The Savior. The two battled each other, with an unknown outcome, though Vergil, Sanctus, as well as The Savior managed to survive the fight.
After learning what the Order was planning, Vergil made his way back to the city of Fortuna. He began to ponder on whether or not one can call the people misguided for worshipping Sparda, a mere demon. As he walks away, Vergil vows that one day the Order will know the true power of the son of Sparda.
Meeting ArkhamAt least one year before the events of Devil May Cry 3, while looking for a book in a library, he met Arkham, who told Vergil about the Temen-ni-gru, a demonic tower that acted as the gateway between the demon world and human world. It was sealed by Sparda after he turned on his demon brethren, using 7 seals, represented by fallen angels, that had to be given their names for them to be undone. Vergil stayed in his mansion, while Arkham sought out the names of the seals, also managing to find out that Dante was in town.
Unsealing the Temen-ni-gru
They eventually managed to undo the first seven seals and while Arkham was sent to draw Dante to the tower, Vergil proceeded to the top. There he waited for Dante to arrive, sending Arkham out at one point to deal with Lady, Arkham's daughter and now a demon hunter.
Dante eventually arrived and he and Vergil dueled one another, in an epic battle between brothers.
Vergil won that battle and took Dante's half of an amulet given to them by their mother and given to her by Sparda, to join it with his own to make the Perfect Amulet, which he needed to unseal the Temen-ni-gru. As he was walking away, Dante's Devil Trigger activated, but Vergil left without finishing their fight, after Arkham stated they had all they needed. They found their way into an area below the tower called the Forbidden Land, until they reached the last door to the sacrifical chamber called the Lair of Judgment, where they would perform the unsealing ritual. However when Arkham unlocked the door, Vergil revealed he knew Arkham planned to betray him and cut him down.
The half-demon proceeded to the Lair of Judgment and commenced with the ritual, after being attacked by the blinded Beowulf, a demon Dante had faced earlier. Since Beowulf could no longer see, he had used his sense of smell to find Sparda's blood and thought he had found Dante.
However Vergil easily vivisected the demon and took his soul to use as a Devil Arm. Then the half-demon united the two halves of the Perfect Amulet and added his own blood, which he thought was all he needed to unseal the Temen-ni-gru. However when Dante came across him later, Vergil had had no luck in breaking the seal and the two fought again. They were interrupted by Lady and their battle ended in a tie, only for Jester to show up and say that everyone had played their part well. Jester began switching between Arkham and Jester as he explained that he had used them all for his own ends. He then completed the ritual and activated the Temen-ni-gru, knocking the trio off the rising tower, sending Vergil into an abyss.
Showdown with DanteDante followed Arkham into the demonic world, with Vergil following him in secret. Eventually he showed up as Dante battled Arkham, after he claimed Sparda's power, and the half-demon brothers defeated him, finishing him off with a combined shot from Dante's handguns. However, Vergil had not given up his goal of obtaining Force Edge, Sparda's sword, and the two ended up in the underworld. Realizing that the fate of the world is determined on who wins, the two battled over the blade. The two battled on equal terms, and in the end Vergil was defeated. Despite Dante wanting his brother to come with him, Vergil refused to return to the human world, and instead went deeper into the demonic world. Dante tried to grab his brother from falling off the edge, but Vergil responded by slicing open Dante's palm.
In an epilogue, Vergil was seen in the demonic world, confronting three glowing orbs, which he recognized as Mundus, the main antagonist of Devil May Cry. Thinking it would be fun to fight the demon emperor, Vergil stated that, "If my father could do it, I should be able to do it too.", before attacking Mundus. However he was defeated and brought under Mundus' control, after being corrupted into a new Devil Trigger; Nelo Angelo.
Serving MundusDuring Devil May Cry, Mundus used Nelo Angelo to fight Dante on Mallet Island. He first appeared in the mirror inside the castle's bedroom, as a reflection of Dante. After Dante placed the Death Sentence in a statue bust, and received the Melancholy Soul, Dante's reflection emerged from the mirror. The reflection then took on it's true form; the dark knight Nelo Angelo. Instead on fighting Dante in the cramped bedroom, Nelo Angelo told his brother to meet him outside in the castle garden, where there was more space to fight. When Dante reached the Castle Gardens, the two fought each other. During the fight, Nelo Angelo managed to pin Dante against a wall, but when he saw Dante's half of the Perfect Amulet, it caused him pain upon remembering his past life, and he fled.
Some time later, Dante encountered Nelo Angelo in the garden near the Coliseum. The two fought each other again, and Dante emerged victorious.
Some time later, Dante encountered Nelo Angelo for one final time. This time at in a hall in the warped castle. Before the two fought each other, Dante questioned his loyalty to Mundus. Nelo Angelo removed his helmet, revealing his true face. However, Dante did not realize who he was. Nelo Angelo challenged Dante one final time, with new abilities. But despite his new powers, Nelo Angelo was still defeated. Upon his defeat at Dante's hands, the dark knight burst into blue flames and disappeared, leaving his half of the Perfect Amulet behind. Upon seeing this, Dante realized who Nelo Angelo was. It is unknown if he is dead or if he was simply teleported away by Mundus.
Some time after Nelo Angelo's defeat, his remains were used by the Order of the Sword to create the Bianco and Alto Angelos.
Many years after Dante's disappearance (who in reality is currently stranded in Demon world), an unknown cloaked man who appears to be a revived Vergil rips Nero's Devil Bringer and take it away from him, leaving Nero to hunt him down a score to settle while fighting off the demons' wide invasion sometimes later.
In this reboot, Vergil is more an anti-hero and sides with Dante to save mankind from Mundus, but was later revealed that he wanted to kill Mundus so he could take over the humans to guide them.
Project X Zone 2
Vergil makes an appearance in Project X Zone 2. He is a playable character with his partner Dante. Nelo Angelo makes an appearance as a non-playable boss character in the crossover video game; Project X Zone 2.
This eventually revealed that Vergil which player used is actually a time-displaced version of himself.
Crosspedia Entry
Dante's twin older brother and, like him, a demon-human hybrid. Having witnessed his mother's murder at the hands of a demon and experienced the bitter torment of powerlessness, he now dedicates himself exclusively to the pursuit of pure power. Cruel and inhumane, he will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
In his search for power, he climbed to the top of Temen-ni-gru and unsealed the door to the Demon World. There he fought many times against Dante, who seeks to destroy all demons. Since he was chosen to live as a demon, he eschews mortal weapons and refuses to use human-made guns.
A master of the art of iaido, his sword and unarmed skills are greater than Dante's and in one instant, he can close with his foe and unleash lethal damage.
Powers and Abilities
- Supernatural Powers: Vergil has similar powers to his biological father Sparda and twin brother Dante. It is believed that Dante's immense supernatural powers comes not just from his demonic blood, but due to his will to never be weak again and protect the ones he cares about. He implies when he is speaking with Dante, that without power you cannot protect anything, let alone yourself. This may mean demons can reach their full potential by having the ability to protect and care for another, but this may only be for his brother Dante and his biological son Nero due to their being part human as well as part demon. So far he has shown;
- Supernatural Strength: Vergil has incredible superhuman strength, due to his demonic heritage. He possesses supernatural strength to the point where he can punch through stone with little effort and overpower demons much larger than him without much difficulty.
- Supernatural Mobility: His super speed is so great that he can move faster than the eye can see and his agility is at a superhuman level, allowing him to perform feats such as running so fast that he appears to be teleporting. This was seen when in Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition's opening, how he instantly dashes from one opponent to the other. His agility was seen seen he sliced up Beowulf's head into four pieces. His reflexes are also similarly enhanced as well. He is able to combat dante in terms of reflexes as well.
- Supernatural Stamina: Even after he was extremely tired by battling Dante, he was able to regenerate his vitality and stamina within a few minutes after Arkham tossed him.
- Supernatural Durability: While not bulletproof, his physical constitution can withstand high levels of physical trauma. Even after being extremely tired by fighting Dante, when Jester overpowered him and attacked him, Vergil showed no signs of fatigue or injury.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Due to his demonic heritage, Vergil possess an astonishing regenerative healing factor. His regenerative abilities are seen while he is fighting Dante for the second time. Even after Jester caused a massive amounts of physical trauma to him, he was able to recover and go just in time for the final battles. Even after Dante dealed a fatal blow to him during their final battle, he was still limbering and not dead.
- Immortality: Due to his demonic heritage, he is immune to the passage of time. It has even been speculated that he is still alive, severely weakened, and trying to fully revive himself.
- Supernatural Senses: He is able to sense oncoming attacks from miles away. His enemies always have an extremely hard time evading him or even sneaking up on him.
- Demonic Energy Infusion: Vergil can channel his demon energies into objects, such as his weapons or even the air itself. He uses these energies to create his Summoned Swords as long range weapons, which are energy swords resembling the Force Edge.
- Devil Trigger: Vergil's half-demon nature allows him to release his demonic powers fully through his Devil Trigger, which increases his speed and increases the potency of his healing factor and even grants him several new abilities.
- Supreme Combatant: The half-demon has also used a number of demon fighting styles, emphasizing mastery of Devil-Arms and their elemental powers. He uses a demonic fighting style known as Dark Slayer style, which lets him teleport & utilize a lot of dark force energy inside Yamato mixed with his skills.
- Swordsmanship: Vergil is a master swordsman with extreme and incredible skill, talent, precision, accuracy and technique. He's a master of Iaido (or Iaijutsu due to their great similarity). Iaido is a Japanese martial art that emphasizes being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack (a quick yet precised counter-attack) then sheathing the sword immediately. His opponents often not realizing they're dead until he sheathes Yamato. His sword fighting skills and feats are considered to be "legendary" and even leading many people to believe they're superior to Dante's or on par with him at least. Combined with his Superhuman strength and speed Vergil is nearly-unmatched in a swordfight perhaps only surpassed by his father, Sparda.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat / Martial Arts: Due to the nature of series (which its primary fighting weapons are swords) Vergil is not shown frequently in fist fights or utilizing unarmed forms of martial arts. However while using Beowulf as a melee weapon for combat, Vergil demonstrated some of his proficiency and skills on martial arts (those demonstrations may be a small part of his skillset), using multiple forms and techniques of punches, spinning kicks, roundhouse kicks, back hand punches, knee strikes and counter attacks which many of these belongs to (but not limited to) : Boxing, Taekwondo, Karate, Kickboxing, Muay Thai and Krav Maga (Remember he uses such techniques which strongly resembles these mentioned martial arts techniques and he necessarily doesn't need to possess master-level skills or/and being familiar with these forms) thus proving he's a master of a large number of fighting and martial techniques/style. Interestingly enough his movesets with Beowulf are smaller than Dante's however they're far more efficent and powerful. Even stranger the reason behind this has never been explained.
- Devil Arms: His primary weapons are Yamato, Force Edge & the Summoned Swords. He wields a katana called Yamato that he inherited from his father, which is a Devil Arm, a weapon made from demonic power. He later gained another Devil Arm, Beowulf, named after the demon he gained it from. It was a set of gauntlets and greaves with light powers, but Vergil lost these after falling into a void, and they were claimed by Dante. Beowulf also gave him a different Devil Trigger, a fact that is true for most Devil Arms..
- Vergil is named after Publius Vergilius Maro, a famous Roman poet. In the Divine Comedy, the namesake of Vergil's brother, Dante, makes Publius his guide to hell.
- Vergil is the first Devil May Cry boss to have a playable role in the games. He is also the most recurring boss character in the series, with six total boss battles.
- Vergil is voiced by Daniel Southworth, who previously played Eric Myers, the Quantum Ranger in Power Rangers Time Force.
- Vergil's outfit is a costume for Stylish Alastor in Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble for the PSP.
- Vergil appears as a playable character in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. If one completes the storymode with Vergil, his ending has him defeating Wolverine to claim his Muramasa Blade, and declaring that both his and the sword's soul cry out for more power.
- His other name, Nelo Angelo, is a misspelling of Nero Angelo, Italian for Black Angel. In UMVC3, this is the name of his Level 3 Hyper Combo.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Look to the Western Sky!
Going Green
~Base card PaperTrey Ink
~Layer of purple cardstock
~Layer of crumpled and sanded Black/Orange Core'dinations Hocus Pocus; wrapped with random layers of purple metallic floss (Transfer of Crap from Sista Gail)
~Digital image by Baby Bud Designs - This is Little Miss Millie - for Halloween she has donned a witch's hat from Dragon Doodles Studios and she borrowed a pair of shoes from a freebie site that I can't name at the moment; her face and dress were colored using Copics; her hair was base colored with Copics then highlighted with Stickles Black Diamond
~Witch hat colored with Copics, band topped with Stickles Frosted Lace, Moon topped with Stickles Yellow
~The sentiment is also digital, punched using Stampin'Up Tag Punch, smudged with purple ink and dotted with Copic orange
~A wad of ribbon completes Little Miss Millie's ensemble (although for tonight you can just call her Elphaba)
Baby Bud Designs- fall/Halloween
Really Reasonable Ribbon - fall theme with ribbon
Paper Sundaes - change in season
Aly's Sunday - Halloween
Cupcake Craft - Scary creatures (Please don't tell Little Miss Mille she's not all that scary)
The Treehouse - Spooky colors: orange, purple, black
Dutch Dare - tag
Here's to falling asleep listening to Christin Chenowith.
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Super cute card :)ReplyDelete
Ooh you live 'over the pond'ReplyDelete
Sorry, but LOL at you coming from Sioux City- I saw a really really funny song on the TV last night .. I think it wwas fate
Loads of people from Sioux City singing a song about living in Sioux City... I don't think it would work where i come from I'd probably be the only one 'up for it'
Must have been fate you commenting on my blog today of all days :)
cool Halloween card. Thanks for joining us at Paper Sundaes this week.ReplyDelete
Oh Nancy, this is a lovely halloween card, really cute and I love the LO. Thanks for joining us at Cupcake this week. xxReplyDelete
How adorable!!ReplyDelete
I'd be willing to bet that Mary Ann will love the fabulous 'witchy' costume you created for sweet little Millie! I LOVE it and especially love her darling little boots. What a fabulous idea and perfect for Halloween!
Thanks so much for joining our very FIRST challenge at Baby Bud Designs. Please be sure to come back on the 29th for a little surprise!
Your card made my day and put a big smile on my face!
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Adorable Halloween Card and witch! Thanks for playing along with the Treehouse Challenge this week!ReplyDelete
Pretty witch on a nice card. thank you for joining us at DDCCReplyDelete
Nancy this is just adorable. Great job on all of those challenges. Thanks for including the Treehouse "spooky color" challenge in your list.ReplyDelete
I don't mind at all, she is adorable!!!! Great image and colors, love her halloween trick or treat costume. thanks for joining our challenge...good luck..ReplyDelete
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Great card! Thanks so much for joining our Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge.ReplyDelete
This is a fabulous Halloween card! Thanks for playing along with us at DDCC!ReplyDelete
Great card, love the colours & the distressed background! Thanks for playing along with this weeks Paper Sundaes Challenge!ReplyDelete
What a cute card you made, really like the little witch on it! Thanks for joining at DDCC!!ReplyDelete

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2. Set a name on the bottom of the window and click ok
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4. Click on the Type Icon on the Left Vertical Menu
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I think it would help if you could take screenshots of the entire workspace/Adobe Premiere window. Some of these are zoomed in on the specific portion of the window that you will be using, which is helpful, but it would be more helpful if I could see where the bins and menus are located in relation to the rest of the bins/menus/entire workspace.
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This tutorial is great! Very simple and precise/concise. The images are so clear and readable without having to click on them. The step by step process allows me to follow along and return to specific reference points.
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The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) has selected Firefly to promote its services following a four-way pitch. The not-for-profit organisation is the largest of its kind in Europe. It confidentially mediates many high-level business disputes and consults with major institutions and NGOs. The Firefly-led campaign, which starts in September, includes PR and digital comms.
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She was previously head of PR at financial firm ETF Securities and, prior to this, spent more than four years at Penrose Financial. Also, Tom Walker joins Bishopsgate's natural resources team as an account executive from an investor relations role at Scandinavian Minerals.
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What's a penguin to think when he wakes up pink?! Patrick wakes up one day to find out he's turned pink overnight! What will his friends think? Believing none of them will want to play with him anymore, Patrick runs away in search of pink playmates. He crosses the ocean where he finds some flamingos – but will they want to play with him? Patrick soon learns that friendship is never black and white, but that real friends will accept you whatever. Lynne Rickards' book is a heart-warming story of learning to be a different, for children aged between four and six.
This edition is published to coincide with Pink! The musical (Hopscotch Theatre Company), on tour to nursery and primary schools throughout Scotland from March 2013.
You can hear the author Lynne Rickards talking about the musical below:
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International Prostate Symptom Score I-PSS
Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find one of our health articles more useful.
See separate related Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men articles.
The International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) is used in the assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men (LUTS)[1, 2, 3, 4].
The I-PSS is free for use by individual clinicians and for non-funded research. It is available on the web from Urology Specialists PC.
I-PSS© 1992 Michael J Barry, all rights reserved. I-PSS contact information and permission to use: Mapi Research Trust, Lyon, France. E-mail see: http://mapi-trust.org/contact-us/, internet: www.mapi-trust.org.
The I-PSS was originally based on the American Urological Association seven-item symptom score (AUA-7).[1]The 'quality of life' question was added by the World Health Organization when it was adopted by the International Consensus Committee as an international questionnaire for evaluating prostatic symptoms. Although the single 'quality of life' question may not capture the full impact of prostate symptoms, it can be used as a starting point for a doctor-patient discussion on management.
Further reading and references
Barry MJ, Fowler FJ Jr, O'Leary MP, et al; The American Urological Association symptom index for benign prostatic hyperplasia. The Measurement Committee of the American Urological Association. J Urol. 1992 Nov148(5):1549-57
Bosch JL, Hop WC, Kirkels WJ, et al; The International Prostate Symptom Score in a community-based sample of men between 55 and 74 years of age: prevalence and correlation of symptoms with age, prostate volume, flow rate and residual urine volume. Br J Urol. 1995 May75(5):622-30.
Wadie BS, Ibrahim EH, de la Rosette JJ, et al; The relationship of the International Prostate Symptom Score and objective parameters for diagnosing bladder outlet obstruction. Part I: when statistics fail. J Urol. 2001 Jan165(1):32-4.
Eckhardt MD, van Venrooij GE, Boon TA; Symptoms and quality of life versus age, prostate volume, and urodynamic parameters in 565 strictly selected men with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Urology. 2001 Apr57(4):695-700.
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Bradley Caliva has been teaching Instrumental Music for the past three years – all of it in the USA. For three years prior to coming to NCPA, Mr. Caliva taught Beginning. Instrumental Music and Intermediate Band at Dailey Middle School in Austin, Texas. While working on his undergraduate degree Mr. Caliva was an active performer on the Euphonium. He was named winner of the Texas Tech University Concerto Competition in 2013 and was runner up in the MTNA Young Artist Competition in 2012.


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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Universal Hint System (UHS)
A few years ago, while looking for some information on a game secret, I came across this very interesting site, the Universal Hint System, and ever since then I use it as much as possible. The general idea is that the site provides walkthroughs for games, but it does it better then all of the competition. For one, and least importantly in my opinion, they are all laid out in the same professional format; Which of course makes using it a lot more enjoyable and efficient. Secondly, the information is laid out in such a way as to easily allow you to use it for a specific puzzle or challenge, instead of the regular step by step guide for the entire game with the steps for any individual puzzle separated and distributed over many pages. Lastly, and most uniquely, instead of just giving you answers and direct instructions all solutions start off by giving you a series of hints until outright telling you the answer. As you might imagine, I love using this website for adventure games in particular and I would credit it for making the genre as a whole better and more playable.
In addition to the walkthroughs, the site does offer a few game reviews, a program that will download the hints and allow offline viewing, and will even pay anyone who writes new walkthroughs for them. It definitely does not have walkthroughs for all games, but it is surprising how often a game I am playing will be one that they have. That is all I have to say about the site myself, but I will leave you with a quotation from the site describing itself.
"The Universal Hint System gives you just the hints you need to solve hundreds of computer games. Unlike traditional walkthroughs, the UHS lets you select specific questions and view only as much information as you want -- from subtle nudges to full answers -- so you can have more fun solving the game on your own. Most of our available hints can be viewed with your web browser or can be downloaded and viewed later with the use of a UHS Reader."
Note: I was not paid, propositioned, or otherwise encouraged to make this post, have the views that I do about the UHS website, or have any expectation of benefiting from the success of the site other then more quality game hints.
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"TANAKA,Yuki, Who? " On the comfort women issue.
Report on "Japanese Military Comfort Women System" by the U.S. Congressional Research Service was delivered to the congressmen on April 3.
The reporter Mr. Larry Niksch cites the book "Japan's Comfort Women" by the person named TANAKA,Yuki as important material.
The doubt "TANAKA,Yuki, Who?" went up in Japan.
'She' is complete unknown new face. ('Yuki' is usually women's name in Japan.)
However, 'her' true colors turned out at once.
'He' is Mr. TANAKA,Toshiyuki, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute attached to Hiroshima City University. Of course, he is male.
I hear that this institute is "famous" in the field of the antinuclear movement of Japan.
They do antinuclear movement. However, they protect the nucleus of North Korea saying "Red nucleus: Nucleus of peace". The institute to which several Korean are on the register acts on an anti-Japan with a very intimate relation in North Korea. (Such a group exists in the public college. This fact shows how Japan is in the abnormal situation. )
The member of such an inclining group, using pen name to misunderstand sex, avoid Japan the "home" of the comfort woman problem and in the United States, publishes the book "Japan's Comfort Women".
You are easily imaginable of the level of the credibility of the content of this book and the true purpose of publication.
I cannot say a determinate thing until the analysis of this book by the researcher in Japan is announced.
However, I think that the possibility is high of becoming a large blunder of the second times following last year's failure that quotes the 'Yoshida testimony' to which it turns out that it is a lie by 1992.
The reporter of Congressional Research Service Mr. Larry Niksch seems to be able to read only the material written in English though he is 'Specialist in Asian Affairs ".
The foundation of the problem might be there.


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Mdantsane housing development gets under way
October 29, 2014, Buffalo City's new housing development will see the construction of 500 houses in Mdantsane Zone 18CC.
The R7.5-million first phase of the project is part of a bigger development which will see 1 500 houses being built over the next 18 months, moving thousands of residents from informal settlements into their own brick-and-mortar houses.
The first phase of the project is expected to accommodate 500 families from Ward 23, with the elderly, disabled people and war veterans being given priority. Wards 21, 22 and 48 to follow.
Buffalo City's Head of Human Settlements, Councillor Nominki Mgezi, visited the community to say; "We really appreciate your patience and we understand that you have been waiting for a house for some time now," Mgezi said.
"Today is a good day for all of us," she adds.


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Made in Nijmegen
'Made in Nijmegen' is a new initiative that offers artists in the region of the city Nijmegen a platform to sell their work on. It is a new label, that showcases a selection of the best work that is being created in this area right now.
I made this experimental launch film, which was used to generate curiousity and set a mood for the new platform.
The film went viral in Nijmegen after it's online launch on Facebook in October 2015. It was shared 48 times and watched around 2.650 times within a week after it went online.
Concept by: Made in Nijmegen & Twan Peeters
Production, cinematography, edit and color-grading: Twan Peeters.
The artists that participated in this film are (in order of appearance):
Hugo van der Kallen
Hella Duijs
Esther Aarts
Anna Treurniet
Joost Seegers


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Two members of the Sequoia String Quartet--first violinist Yoko Matsuda and cellist Robert Martin--will leave the locally based ensemble this summer, violist James Dunham said Monday.
Dunham, with the quartet since its founding at CalArts in 1972, told The Times that he and violinist Miwako Watanabe, also a founding member, would remain to keep the Sequoia alive.
The decision to split up came several months ago, and "was well thought out and carefully done," Dunham said. While refusing to list specific reasons for the unexpected breakup, Dunham cited "the escalation of our career" as playing a major role. "We got to a juncture," he commented, without elaboration.
The violist stressed that the split is an amicable one, noting that Martin (the group's fourth cellist, who joined in 1974) wanted to pursue some of his "multiple interests, to explore his many talents. The chances are his next move won't be in music." Of Matsuda, a key figure in organizing the original quartet, Dunham said that she needed "a change of pace."


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Making Pillowcases is one of my favorite go-to gifts and it's always a great way to freshen up any bedroom. But the last thing you want is your pillowcase to fray or come apart after multiple washings. This tutorial is ideal for making an UBER Professional looking pillowcase that will stand the test of time. The best part – NO Raw Edges anywhere! So enjoy this video – it's super quick and chalked full of amazing information. I really think you're going to enjoy learning the Burrito Roll technique that I have lovingly renamed the Sushi Roll {it's a Seattle thing} plus you get to practice making a French Seam! I hope you love this tutorial and if you'd like to share your pillowcases with the 'It's Just Sewing Community Page' on Facebook – Just ask to Join – HERE .
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Roland Erne is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, where he is part of the project on Globalization and the Possibility of Transnational Actors – The Case of Trade Unions. The purpose of his subproject is to investigate different case studies of translational labour in order to move to a conceptual understanding of the circumstances under which transnational solidarity is possible. In this guest post, he reviews in this respect the book Le salaire, un enjeu pour l'euro-syndicalisme. Histoire de la coordination des négotiations collectives nationales (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2011) by Anne Dufresne.
In the late 1990s European unions started to coordinate their wage bargaining policies at EU level in order to prevent a 'race to the bottom' in wages and working conditions within the Eurozone. However, these attempts were largely unsuccessful. Anne Dufrense's book outlines two reasons for this failure:
1. The heterogeneity of national (trade union) cultures.
2. The problematic nature of 'German leadership' within the European labour movement.
As national cultures do not change very quickly, the prospects of a European coordination of trade unions' wage policies therefore seem to be very bleak.
Dufresne's study ranges from the early 1980s to the late 2000s and covers developments at the European cross-sector level, the European sectoral level, and cross-border initiatives at the regional level. In particular, the book documents the rise and demise of European unions 'inflation and productivity' wage increase benchmarks that were adopted in 1999 and 2000 by European Metalworkers Federation (EMF) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) respectively in order to prevent the adoption of beggar-thy-neighbour wage bargaining policies by its national affiliates. Dufresne' study of European unions' policy documents, participant observations, and expert interviews provide a very detailed description of the development of ETUC and EMF policy in this field. However, the exclusive focus on EU-level experts and documents also has its limits. It is indeed very difficult to comprehend EU level developments without a good understanding of the internal dynamics that are at play within national labour movements.
German unions certainly played a leading role in the establishment of the 'inflation plus productivity' norm as a European wage coordination benchmark in the late 1990s. In turn, 'les Allemands' – or better German wage moderation – also contributed to the demise of the European wage coordination policy benchmark in the 2000s. But does that really mean that 'le leadership allemand' (page 156) is the major explanatory factor behind these contradictory events? As argued previously (Erne, 2008), the rise and demise of European unions' wage bargaining coordination benchmarks in my view first and foremost reflects the contingent outcomes of the policy battles between 'Euro-Keynesian' and 'competitive corporatist' currents within the German labour movement rather than Teutonic trade union culture and leadership.
Dufresne is correct when she emphasizes that many French and Italian unions greeted the 'German' inflation and productivity wage bargaining benchmark with scepticism. On the other hand, one should also note that the traditionally least Germanophile sections of the French and Italian union movement – namely the left-wing of FIOM-CGIL and the French CGT – were the most resolute supporters of the EMF and ETUC wage bargaining coordination benchmarks. This observation, however, would not be so surprising if one associates the promotion of the European wage bargaining coordination benchmark not with the German union movement per se but rather with the DGB's and the IG Metall's left-wing. Conversely, the stagnation of German wages during the 2000s that led to the demise of the European wage bargaining coordination benchmark should not be seen as systemic outcome of the German system collective bargaining, but as the contingent result of the defeat of Oskar Lafontaine within the SPD and the left-wing within the IG Metall.
In turn, a more political reading of the recent history of European collective bargaining coordination would also allow a more positive conclusion regarding its future. The extensive wage moderation in Germany during the 2000s not only created huge economic imbalances within the euro area but also impoverished German workers, especially in the construction and service sectors. Hence, it may still be possible to construct new transnational alliances – for example between FIOM-CGIL and VERDI – to support European workers' wage claims in the future, as political orientations can be changed more easily, by contrast to primordial national identities.
Roland Erne, University College Dublin
This blog post is a based on a longer book review that appeared in: Transfer, European Review of Labour and Research, Vol. 19, No. 3 (August 2013), pp. 433-435.
Erne, R. (2008) European Unions. Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.


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The Partial Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017
Be Safe: never ever look directly at the Sun!
The Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017: On Monday, August 21, 2017, a much anticipated solar eclipse will be visible for people in North-America. This eclipse is dubbed the Great American Eclipse, since it will be a spectacular total solar eclipse -- but only for people in a narrow path that crosses the USA from Oregon to South Carolina. Here in London, we will get to see a nice partial eclipse that will last for about 3 hours. At the maximum of the eclipse, 75% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon.
The Eclipse @Western: The Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), and the London Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada with support from the London Heritage Council and the City of London will host an event to offer the public a safe, fun and informative opportunity to enjoy this celestial event. Our main observation area for this event will be the hill in front of University College, where we will set up several telescopes along the walkway, demonstrate safe projection methods, and hand out eclipse glasses and information sheets. At the Cronyn Observatory, we will project the Sun's image through our 25.4 cm refractor, and present an exhibit celebrating Canada's astronomical heritage. We will show a live stream from the path of totality from the classroom in the Engineering building right next to the Cronyn Observatory.
Rain Check: In case of rain or overcast skies, we will not be able to see the eclipse and we will not set up telescopes on UC Hill. We will still offer our exhibit at the Cronyn Observatory, and broadcast the live stream from the path of totality.
What to expect: The eclipse starts at 1:07pm, when the Moon will first appear to "take a bite" out of the Sun. The part of the Sun that is covered will gradually grow bigger, until at 2:30pm, about 75% of the Sun has disappeared behind the Moon. From then on, the eclipse happens "in reverse" as more and more of the Sun becomes visible again. The eclipse ends at 3:48pm. The sequence is shown (for a different but similar eclipse) in the image above. This will be a nice partial solar eclipse, and there are more phenomena to observe than just the Sun partially disappearing. However, it is a very different experience than a total solar eclipse!
Be safe: The lens in your eye will focus the bright sunlight onto your retina and burn it in a matter of seconds, causing permanent eye damage. Since there are no pain receptors inside the eye, you wouldn't feel a thing, making it even more dangerous. Update: there's been lots to do in the media about unsafe eclipse glasses. The ones we will hand out on Monday are from one of the most reliable manufacturers in the US, we have their ISO certificate, and we have been using them ourselves in our outreach programs without a problem for well over a year now. We cannot offer these for sale unfortunately, but if you attend our event, you will receive your own pair for as long as the supply lasts.
History: The last time there was a total solar eclipse over London was in 1925 -- read all about it on this 1925 Total Eclipse site compiled by Peter Jedicke of the RASC. For more historical eclipse information or to look at Canada's rich heritage in astronomy, please visit us at the Cronyn Observatory! Here you can also step back in time to our 1940s-era director's office, and our newly installed control room as it might have looked on Canada Day 1967. (Find the 1940 and 1967 period rooms through the door at the back left of the observatory; go through the main doors and up the stairs for historical displays in the dome).
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Monday, Aug. 21, 2017
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Free parking at the Medway Parking lot (click for map).
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George Garrett; Critically Acclaimed Novelist and Poet
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
George Garrett, 78, the author of more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, biography and criticism, including an acclaimed trilogy of historical novels set in Elizabethan England, died May 26 at his home in Charlottesville. He had bladder cancer.
Dr. Garrett retired in 2000 from the University of Virginia as the Henry Hoyns professor of creative writing. He earlier had directed the school's creative writing department.
In a multifaceted career, he was regarded by his admirers as a classic man of letters. He wrote poetry and short stories that were deceptively colloquial, deeply moralistic and concerned with one's place in a corrupting world.
He was poet laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004 and the recipient in 1989 of the Ingersoll Foundation's T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, which recognized him as "one of the most inventive and artistic writers of his generation."
He wrote across many genres, from a political drama set in modern Florida ("The Finished Man" (1961) to a Southern gothic tale of a revivalist preacher ("Do, Lord, Remember Me" (1965).
He wrote his Elizabethan trilogy -- "Death of the Fox," "The Succession" and "Entered From the Sun" -- over three decades, and he chose radically different forms of storytelling in what Richard Dillard, a Garrett expert who teaches at Hollins College, called "his quest never to write the same book twice."
"Death of the Fox" (1971) provided Dr. Garrett with his only bestseller. Originally part of his Princeton University doctoral thesis, he spent 13 years writing the book about poet and adventurer Walter Raleigh. Its sweep and authority were widely praised, as were its vivid recreation of the period and its personalities. It was a product not only of his empathy and literary gifts but also of painstaking research.
Critic J.R. Frakes writing in the Chicago Tribune said "Death of the Fox" "illuminates the entire swarmy world of royalty and commoners, jewels and gutter-garbage, politic church and sharkfight state."
"The Succession" (1983) focused on the ascension of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England after the death of Elizabeth I and was told through a variety of characters, including two runaway Catholic priests. Renaissance scholar Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times that the book was "a subtle, complex meditation on the poetry of time."
"Entered From the Sun" (1990) used the device of two detectives, an actor and a spy, looking to solve the stabbing death of playwright Christopher Marlowe in 1593. Raleigh appears at the end, drawing the trilogy to a close.
Many profiles drew attention to Dr. Garrett's devotion to craft, but he was a notably good-humored man who treasured the "Golden Turkey" award bestowed on "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster," a cheapie Hollywood film he wrote as a lark in 1965. He was teaching at U-Va. at the time and named the crazed general in the fright movie after the English department chairman.
He liked to joke that the film, also released as "Mars Invades Puerto Rico," was "the only movie I've ever seen that's greatly enhanced by regular commercial interruption."
George Palmer Garrett Jr. was born June 11, 1929, in Orlando. He was a lawyer's son and had an aunt who wrote children's books and a screenwriting uncle, Oliver Garrett, best known for his "happy ending" adaptation of "Moby Dick" (1930) starring John Barrymore as Captain Ahab.
While attending Princeton, George Garrett won national poetry contests and published 39 short stories in the college literary magazine.
After graduating in 1952, he spent several years in the Army as a field artillery sergeant in Trieste, Italy, an experience that provided the subject and locale of his 1961 novel, "Which Ones Are the Enemy?"
He returned to Princeton to complete his master's degree in English in 1956 and received his doctorate decades later, after the university accepted parts of his Elizabethan trilogy as his thesis.
Dr. Garrett enjoyed telling stories about his early publishing woes, noting that Doubleday only agreed to print "Do, Lord, Remember Me" as a tax write-off for the company. He joked of being "a candidate for the Tomb of the Unknown American Writer."
But he was revered by his peers and won the PEN/Malamud award, earlier bestowed on John Updike and Saul Bellow. He served on literary judging panels and led literary organizations, supported federal funding of the arts and was known for mentoring younger writers, including Madison Smartt Bell and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor.
After other teaching positions, Dr. Garrett rejoined the U-Va. faculty in 1984. He continued publishing short stories, essays and books, including one each about novelists James Jones and Mary Lee Settle.
His final novel was "Double Vision" (2004), ostensibly about an attempt to write a biography of the late author Peter Taylor, his colleague and neighbor. But the book became a meditation on the nature of memory, which Dr. Garrett viewed as fictional because it is subject to constant adjustment.
Dr. Garrett was quoted in the reference book Contemporary Authors as saying that he constantly felt like a novice in his craft.
"Because one is always beginning, always challenged to learn newly," he said. "And what one learns is how you should have done the last book, the last story, the last poem. With that knowledge one commences the next and new ones with innocence rather than experience, with hope and faith and no security."
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Susan Jackson Garrett of Charlottesville; three children, William P. Garrett and George G. Garrett, both of Charlottesville, and Alice Garrett of Havertown, Pa.; two sisters, Rozanne Epps of Richmond and Alice McClelland of Park Ridge, N.J.; and two granddaughters.


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BEIJING — China is graying rapidly: By 2050, one-third of the country will be aged 60 years or older, and, before then, each Chinese worker will have to support two parents and four grandparents — one result of the official policy that, since 1979, has forbidden most Chinese couples from having more than one child and had seen hundreds of millions of women forcibly aborted and sterilized.
Another negative result is gender imbalance: There are at least 37 million more males in China than females, and, by 2020, the government expects to have at least 40 million men of marriageable age with no women to marry.
These dire demographics, according to analysts, are the most likely reason behind proposed revisions of the one-child policy that came out of the Chinese Communist Party leaders' recent conclave on Nov. 15. The extensive reform package includes a small measure to extend the right to have a second child to couples who are both only children themselves.
While mainstream media, including The Wall Street Journal, hailed the policy change as "the most significant adjustment in a policy that has defined Chinese family life for more than three decades," human-rights activists and demographic experts are calling it "too little, too late" for a country whose human-rights abuses have led it on the path of steep demographic decline.
Yi Fuxian, a Chinese doctor-turned-dissident, has been critical of the policy for more than a decade. "In 2010, China's fertility rate was only 1.18 births per woman, "he told Xinhuanet online news agency last week.
The low birth rate has resulted in an expanding senior citizenry and a dearth of workers. The working-aged population of those 15-54 peaked last year, and, already, the country has begun importing cheap labor from Africa and Vietnam to stave off the economic effects.
"It is high time for the country to scrap its one-child policy," said Fuxian.
Policy Still in Place
Yet the sweeping 22,000-page Communist Party report that proposes a raft of changes to the application of the death penalty and prison-labor camps provides few details and no timetable for implementing change.
Reggie Littlejohn, a human-rights lawyer with the American group Women's Rights Without Frontiers, criticized the proposals as "completely overstated" and a "mere tweak" that does "too little, too late" to address the underlying human and reproductive-rights abuses.
What's worse, she added, is that the reporting on the matter has created the impression that the abusive one-child policy has actually been eradicated. "It's created great confusion," she told the Register from Hong Kong last week, where she says she was greeted by a human-rights activist who said, "Isn't it great that China is abolishing its one-child policy?"
"All the reasons for this adjustment are economic or demographic," said Littlejohn. "Completely absent from the discussion is the issue of human-rights violations."
The practice of "gendercide" that sees as many as 160 firstborn baby boys for every girl, and as many as 190 second-born baby boys per girl in some areas, as a result of sex-selective abortion, will be unaffected, said Littlejohn. The resulting skew in the gender ratio, and China's missing tens of millions of girls and women, is the "driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well," she added.
China already allows one-child exemptions for some couples, particularly for rural couples and especially for those who had a firstborn girl, because of the country's deeply rooted cultural and economic preference for sons. And couples who are both only children are permitted to have a second child.
Too Few Babies
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, estimates that the new policy will add only about 2 million births a year to China's current 15 million births.
"This will not be enough to stave off the aging, and eventual dying, of the Chinese population," he told the Register. "Nor will this policy change, if and when it is implemented, end the arrest and forced abortion of women who are pregnant with illegal children."
"Chinese Catholics, in particular, have suffered heavily under the one-child policy, which violates their God-given right to decide for themselves the number and spacing of their children," said Mosher. "The policy violates their freedom of conscience and prevents them from being open to life in the way that their Catholic faith encourages."
Forced abortion is technically illegal in China, but, in March this year, the government boasted that it has performed 336 million abortions under the one-child policy. Eighteen of the country's 31 provincial-level districts currently endorse forced abortion and other unnamed "remedial measures" to deal with illegal pregnancies.
Last July, graphic images of Feng Jianmei lying on a hospital bed next to her bloody7-month-old aborted baby went viral on the Internet and put China's one-child policy under the international spotlight. Jianmei's family accepted an $11,000 payment for her forced abortion from the government as a result, but the practice remains rampant.
Just last month, international media carried a video interview with 33-year-old Liu Xinuen, who was six-months pregnant when Chinese birth-control officials barged into her house in the middle of the night and dragged her to hospital, where they forcibly injected her with an abortifacient drug that killed her baby boy.
The interview showed the devastated mother crying in a bed next to an orange bucket containing her aborted baby on the floor beside her. Her devastated husband, Zhou Guoqiang, wept. The couple was not allowed a second child because they had a 10-year-old son.
All Girls Allowed, an evangelical Protestant group working to abolish the one-child policy, reported on another forced abortion of Li Fengfei, a peasant girl from the Hmong minority group, in July of this year. She was brutally beaten by family-planning officials, who knocked her tooth out before injecting her with an abortifacient and billing her for the cost of the procedure.
In court last month, after she took to the Internet to complain about her abuse by Chinese authorities, Fengfei was reportedly distressed when she yelled at the judges repeatedly that she didn't want to live since losing her baby.
If Fengfei is an indication, the one-child policy may also be the reason suicide is the leading cause of death for rural Chinese women. Throughout the country, 500 women commit suicide daily.
Doomed by Demographics?
While the current proposals hardly spell the end of China's brutal reproductive policy, some experts say the end is indeed inevitable, dictated by the unintended consequences of population control.
"Large-scale demographic changes are now in play," Jackie Sheehan, professor of contemporary Chinese culture and business at University College in Cork, Ireland, told the Register.
The gender imbalance cannot be corrected. Add to that the plummeting urban Chinese birth rate, which some reports put as low as 0.7 babies per woman, and the fact that many urbanized Chinese couples no longer even want a second child, and China's long-term prospects start to look very grim indeed.
The current changes are a very thin edge of a wedge that has been delayed, despite demographic forecasts, by official inertia in dismantling a huge family-planning industrial complex, analysts say, along with a reluctance to let go of $2 billion in annual revenue from reproductive fines on parents of illegal children.
"I expect in the next five years, almost certainly within the decade, we will see a change to a two-child policy," said Sheehan. "And that will really spell the end of it."
Register correspondent Celeste McGovern writes from Scotland.


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Just when I was starting to get used to cooler temperatures, things seem to be heating up again! Yuck. I'm just about ready to put summer away for another year. Today I opted for this lovely light cotton pants. With birds. I love birds. And I figured I might as well rock a crop top while I can!
This might be winding up to my last post for a while, unless I abruptly change my mind. I've gotta pack up all my clothes and then go to school. And then start school. Oh, and get my laptop fixed. Things are gonna be busy!
Top: Free bin, a large from Forever 21
Pants: Dorothy Perkins
Sandals: Anthropologie
Earrings: Thrifted @ Goodwill
Sunnies: Forever 21
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RAHWAY—On Saturday, May 24, Rahway PAL hosted its annual Memorial Day picnic for players, and their families and friends. The day was filled with good food and lots of fun and activities. Our guests were treated to a 65-foot obstacle coarse, bungee basketball, a batting station, and other traditional picnic games.
This year attendance was again in excess of 600. Sgt. Gene DeCarlo, the executive director of Rahway PAL, said, "Three straight seasons of increased attendance is further proof of the PAL extending its reach into the community. Our program is growing with more than just players, more families are now involved and this can only help make our programs more effective."
The next day the players marched in Rahway's annual Memorial Day Parade honoring those who proudly served our country but didn't make it home.
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Before they heard their dead son's screams on 911 tapes, before protesters wearing hoodies rallied on America's streets, before George Zimmerman's trial, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin were taking notes. They wanted to preserve Trayvon Martin's memory.
The parents of Trayvon documented their lives on notepads in the days and weeks after Zimmerman fatally shot their unarmed 17-year-old son in February 2012: the Sanford Police Department's investigation, the wave of national protests, the media appearances, the stress and the despair. These exhaustive notes — an attorney told them to record everything — turned into the new book "Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin," a recounting of the weeks and months before and after Trayvon's slaying and the global outcry it inspired.
"We don't want people to remember Trayvon by the way he was killed, so it was important to show why he was killed, to humanize Trayvon as a child," Martin says in a phone interview. "By us writing a book, it was therapeutic, informative and inspirational."
Fulton and Martin, who will discuss the book Saturday, Feb. 4, at Florida Memorial University and Monday, Feb. 6, at Miami-Dade College's Wolfson Campus, say Trayvon's life, not his death, mattered. To celebrate Trayvon's legacy best, and to prevent other black teenagers from sharing similar fates, the Miami Gardens parents say they're considering a run for public office.
"I've always said that in order to make change, you have to be a part of the change," Fulton says. "We were asked a question about our political aspirations. We want to run for office, start with something on the local level and get our feet wet. And we're still researching it."
Fulton and Martin, who divorced in 1999 but came together as activists after Trayvon's death, have been discussing their political runs this week on national news and "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah." In 2017's uncertain political climate, they say the timing is right: It's been five years to the month since then 28-year-old Zimmerman killed their unarmed son, who was walking home on a rainy Sanford evening carrying fruit juice and a bag of Skittles. After a brief struggle in the grass of a darkened neighborhood, Zimmerman shot Trayvon in the chest. Zimmerman wasn't arrested at first, sparking national protests, and was acquitted of second-degree murder after a short 2013 trial.
Thanks to an orchestrated media blitz by the parents' attorneys, Fulton and Martin write in "Rest in Power," Trayvon's death quickly caught the nation's attention, along with debates and, eventually, inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. But much of the 330-page book relates their immediate anguish, as Fulton, a Miami-Dade government employee, and Martin, a truck driver, are propelled into protest rallies and courtrooms, fighting to preserve Trayvon's image.
"The defense put Trayvon on trial," Fulton writes toward the end of the book, which recaps Zimmerman's trial. "And now our nation had been put on trial by a global community that, like our family, was not willing to accept that an adult man could shoot an unarmed seventeen-year-old walking home from a convenience store in a hoodie and walk away free."
"It doesn't feel like five years for me," says Fulton, who with her ex-husband started the nonprofit Trayvon Martin Foundation, headquartered at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, to advocate for families and to stop gun violence. "I can't say that I've mourned properly."
"I'm going to miss seeing Trayvon go to prom, graduate high school, graduate college, get his first job and get married," Fulton says. "It's just so fresh in my heart, and people think it's going to get easier and easier, but it doesn't. I keep myself occupied with what I'm doing, and that's why it's important to reach out to their mothers, to advocate, to fight. It's taken the sting out of what I'm going through."
Fulton and the Mothers of the Movement, a group of mothers of children killed by gun violence, campaigned for Hillary Clinton last summer at the Democratic National Convention. In an interview with USA Today on Sunday, Martin called out President Trump, whose administration posted on the White House website that "the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump administration will end it."
"It seems like Trump wants to go backwards and not forwards," Martin says. "When [the Trump administration] makes certain comments, when you say we're not being nice to police, think about how we're putting our hands up and still getting shot and killed. We're getting choked out and killed. We need Black Lives Matter. We need these movements. What else can we do?"
Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin will appear 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Lou Rawls Theatre at Florida Memorial University, 15800 NW 42nd Ave., in Miami Gardens, and 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, at Miami-Dade College – Wolfson Auditorium, 300 NE Second Ave., in Miami. Admission is free. Call 305-442-4408 or go to BooksAndBooks.com.
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In the first place, there are nine of you. I can't afford to buy nine cars. Even taking into consideration that I would have quite a few years to save up for those last two.
Secondly, to the best of our recollection, your grandpa and I bought five cars between the two of them for your mothers when they were teenagers. So it's their turn to buy yours.
Better yet! Buy your own! I bought my own first car. Granted, it was a piece of crap and fell apart pretty quickly. But I still bought it with my own, hard-earned money. (And minimum wage was a lot less then). And please don't tell me that you can't get a job without a car. Last time I checked there were 18 legs between you and they all work! Well maybe baby Alex's aren't good for walking yet, but give him time.
Yes, I know, oldest grandson, that I impulsively promised to give you my Nissan Altima when you turned 16 (which you did last year). But fortunately I was saved from having to keep that promise by having that car totaled by a hit and run driver who smacked into me and your grandpa at 75 mph on the turnpike and caused us to roll the car. I'm very sorry. More sorry about my car being totaled, me and grandpa having the crap scared out of us and some physical discomfort and having to buy a new car (that I will not have fully paid for until you are 21) and take on the new car payment. But sorry too that I couldn't keep my promise.
Sorry too that I didn't let you drive that new car that won't be paid for until you are 21 years old for your driver's test. Fortunately you have an aunt who is a much nicer person than I am, who drove over from Tulsa (twice) even though she was sick, to let you drive her car. Although why you couldn't have driven your mom's car, I still don't understand.
I am reminded of a joke I heard a comedian tell on the comedy channel yesterday: "So my 15 year old son walks up to me while I'm in my recliner and says: 'I think I'm old enough to buy my own clothes.' I said: 'I do too!' We stared at each other for a full minute before he said: 'Well??' And I said: 'Well??' And he said: 'I'm going to need some money!' I said: 'Ohhhhh! I misunderstood you! I thought you wanted to buy your own clothes! Not pick them out!"
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All of my adult life I have debated whether it is worth the time and effort to scour store ads and coupon books trying to find the best price on cheese. I've wondered if I drive the fifteen minutes it takes to get to Wal-Mart to save a few bucks am I really saving more than I'm spending in gas when Safeway is just two minutes up the street. Do I really want to change my 15 year standard of buying Prego brand marinara to Barilla just because it is on sale and I have a coupon for it? Now that I have a family of five to feed, which is getting more and more expensive as my toddlers have turned into growing boys and a preteen girl who are always hungry I have had to reevaluate my views on coupons and sales.
A few weeks ago after seeing the results of my sister's almost obsession with coupons I decided to give it a go. She turned me onto a few websites and I took it from there. I visited a website called Wild for Wags (Wags=Walgreen's) and discovered that not only does this woman post all kinds of great deals and links to coupons that can be printed on the web, every Saturday she posts a buying scenario. Her scenarios are very detailed and even include links to certain coupons, prices, and which issue of the coupon booklets you can find certain coupons in. She also runs a site very similar site that deals with Target. This was a great way to dip my toe into the world of coupons. I was so excited when I walked out of Walgreen's that first time and I had a box of Estroven that I actually made $2 on. I kept looking over my shoulder thinking someone was going to follow me outside and tell me I had done something wrong...either because I left the store with essentially more money than I came in with or because I'm not old enough to even need Estroven. As I said earlier, I was excited...so excited I had to tell my husband, who looked at me like I was nuts and asked if maybe I could find deals like that on stuff we actually needed, my mother, who wanted the Estroven, and my sister, who I think might have shed a tear at my succumbing to her corruption.
So is it worth it? I think if you can stay organized and sane, spending time scouring the sales ads and coupons for good deals are worth it. Driving the fifteen minutes to Wal-Mart? Well, if I am going to buy a large amount and will be saving at least $10 buying the same items from a closer store, then yes it's worth it. Ditching Prego for Barilla? Jury is still out on that one ;P
Next Week: Tips on how to get started with coupons including organization and time management. HAPPY MONDAY!


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Kristine Massey is a third-year doctoral student in Cultural Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
With over ten years of experience in education, Kristine spent the first six years of her career working at an urban, public high school in the Bay Area, California, where she taught Advanced Placement and College Prep English and A.V.I.D. (Advancement Via Individual Determination) elective courses. While there, she also managed the school's yearbook program and became the school's A.V.I.D. coordinator. In 2010, Kristine accepted a teaching position at a private high school in Istanbul, Turkey. During her two years there, Kristine was appointed curriculum leader for two grade levels and advised student volunteer projects to Antakya (Antioch), Turkey, Nepal, and Bhutan.
Her experiences teaching in California and in Istanbul, as well as her travel to 28 countries, have contributed to her interest in Cultural Studies in Education at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include global perceptions of culture and how cultural and political values affect curriculum and educational policies.
Kristine received her B.A. in British and American Literature, cum laude, a Single-Subject Secondary Teaching Credential, and a M.A. in Comparative Literature and Composition Studies at California State University, East Bay.


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Central Connecticut claimed its fifth Northeast Conference championship with a 6-3 win over Sacred Heart on Sunday at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, CT. The victory also marked the 500th of head coach Charlie Hickey's career at CCSU. Freshman TT Bowens was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.
The Blue Devils improved to 36-20 with the win and earned their fifth NCAA bid. The NCAA Tournament bracket will be revealed on Monday at 12:00 p.m. on ESPN2.
Bowens was also named to the All-Tournament team with seniors Tyler Coleman, Franklin Jennings and sophomore Tom Curtin.
The Pioneers got a run in the first when they had runners on the corners and freshman Ron Grant was called for a balk to bring home a run and make it 1-0.
The Blue Devils bounced back in the bottom of the first drawing three walks to open the inning and load the bases. Freshman TT Bowens singled to left field to drive in the first run and classmate Buddy Dewaine followed with a fielder's choice that scored a run to make it 2-1.
Junior Nick Garland led off the CCSU second by reaching on an error. He moved to second on a sacrifice and to third on a fielder's choice. Senior Tyler Coleman would deliver a single up the middle to score Garland and make it 3-1.
Sacred Heart put runners on first and second with no outs in the fourth. After a popped up bunt for the first out, Cody Doyle singled through the left side and the runner was sent around third, but Dewaine cut him down at home for the second out. Jake Friar would follow with a single of his own that would bring home Anthony Capaziello from second to make it 3-2.
The Pioneers would load the bases with no outs in the fifth prompting the Blue Devils to bring Curtin on in relief. P.J. DeFilippo grounded into a fielder's choice, but a run came across to tie the score, 3-3, before Central could get out of the inning.
Central regained the lead with a run in the bottom of the inning. Bowens singled with one out and moved to second on a single by senior Franklin Jennings. Junior Nick Garland followed with a single to center to bring Bowens around and make it 4-3.
The Blue Devils added a run in the sixth after junior Dean Lockery led off with a single to right field and took advantage of a misplay to get to third base. Coleman followed with his third single of the day, shooting it past a drawn in infield to right field to score Lockery and make it 5-3.
Bowens ripped a one-out double off the wall in left field in the seventh. He would move to third on a fielder's choice and came across to score on a single by Jennings to make it 6-3 to close out the scoring.
Sophomore Jared Gallagher would come on to get the final out in the eighth, recording a strikeout. He came back out for the ninth and closed out the game with a strikeout to seal the championship.
Coleman would finish the day 3-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored, while Bowens was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI. Jennings added two hits and Lockery scored twice. The Blue Devils finished with 10 hits as a team.
Curtin (3-0) would earn the win, tossing 3.2 innings of shutout relief. He allowed just one hit, while walking one and striking out two. Gallagher got his eighth save of the year, recording two strike outs in 1.1 innings.
Hickey has now won five conference titles with the Blue Devils and has 606 wins, having won 106 at Providence before coming to CCSU. Central won its first championship in Connecticut, having won the previous four times at the postseason tournament in New Jersey.
Bowens batted .636 (7-for-11) on the weekend with two homeruns, five runs scored and three RBIs. He added a double and a triple to hit for the cycle on the weekend.
The Blue Devils will learn their destination for the NCAA Tournament when the bracket is announced at 12:00 p.m. on Monday.


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Every once in a while, Micha will put down whatever he's playing with, walk up to me and place his hand or his head on my belly.
Sometimes he just wants a cuddle from me,
other times he looks up with a grin and says 'dikke buik' ('big belly' in Dutch, uh, thanks buddy),
but lately he also pats my belly, cocks his head to one side and, with a sweet voice and a smile, says 'baby'. And I just melt into puddle.
It's not just that he knows that there's a baby in my belly,
but that he really seems to like the idea of that baby.
I know that once his little brother arrives things won't necessarily go smoothly,
I'm actually certain that Micha will act out in some way,
and I've heard the stories of others mama's who have had a hard time dealing with two boys so closely together.
But those stories don't scare me and Micha will eventually get used to having a baby around.
I'm just so excited for Micha to become a big brother to this little boy that's growing inside me.
I just know he'll be the best big brother there is and I have a feeling he's ready for the task.
Little baby boy is going to be one lucky little dude with a brother like Micha.
I'm so grateful I get to be their mama!
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It also means we only have one week left with Meteor. The pesky reindeer will be collected from under our tree next Thursday night when Santa makes his rounds!!
We cleaned out DD2 room today and her wardrobe and we have a huge bag to be donated and we have all her clean laundered clothes hung up. By the time that was done we were hot and bothered and my back was protesting.
Lunch, shower then over to my Mum and Dads. The next bit you will never guess!! I started knitting. My mum can knit, crochet, sew clothes, all the practical things. Me I am the creative one, you know the sort, can just manage to sew a button. I wanted to learn to crochet several years ago, so mum lent me a hook, some wool and a book. I took it all back, I couldn't follow it and mum couldn't/wouldn't teach me. She doesn't have that sort of patience. So fast forward to today. I remember how to knit (kinda) from when I was a kid. Mum remembers it too, she told me today. So well that she discouraged me then and offered to do it, and tried it again today. But I stuck to my guns and below is my mum''s 4 ply cotton, my mum's number 10 knitting needles and MY KNITTING ATTEMPT!!
The pattern I am doing is one row plain, next row knit 1, purl 1. My inspiration is here, although mine is looking nothing like Inga's! :)


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On Saturday, Sept. 8, one of the biggest nights for art galleries and opening receptions in Los Angeles, a subtly strange and awkwardly stunning show opened in an old airplane hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. In the entrance of the hanger, people were standing around sculptures and installations, wondering, sometimes, what was the art -- and what was just part of the room.
"I hope it comes together in a really awkward and odd way that I like," says Allen Tombello, curator of "Doppelgangster -- The Prequel."
On first walking into Arena 1, gallery-goers notice two red bollards -- the metal poles used to cordon off areas or separate cars in parking lots. And, since they're close to the parking lot, it initially appears that they're not a part of the show.
But upon touching them, it becomes that they're made of cardboard and papier-mâché -- followed by a moment of embarrassment for touching a piece of art.
Then, straight ahead in the Center Gallery, there is a pair of golden parking blocks, chunks of Chicago snow, a bicycle stitched out of vinyl, toilet-paper sculptures and a blank "For-Sale" sign used by real-estate agents. It's all very strange.
"Everything is a little off; nothing is centered," Tombello says. "All of a sudden, you're looking at the plugs on the wall, and you're wondering, is that in the show?"
At first glance, the show struggles to live up to its promise. "Doppelgangster -- The Prequel" was pitched as an expression of the uncanny, doppelgangers and the uncanny valley; installation and sculptures were supposed to create "psycho-spatial displacement" in order to challenge the viewer's preconceived notions of the objects they see every day, forcing the viewer to reflect on their identity in relation to space. Whew!
Here's how Allen Tombello, curator and artist, described "psycho-spatial displacement" in an interview with the Weekly: "It makes you cock your head to an angle and makes you sort of readjust and makes you sort of aware of yourself in space. Because most of the time, we're not aware ... but I think these objects push you back a little. So there is a moment, maybe, of self-awareness. The best I can hope of approaching the uncanny."
Allen Tombello chose the name for his event, "Doppelgangster -- The Prequel" -- because he believes the images and objects are sneaky; they're unsettling to your mind. He hopes the viewers will become suddenly aware of the relationship of their own identity to the objects. And maybe, the observers become aware that they're objects, too, which is the uncanny element.
"So if you get these artists," Tombello said, "and you start to sort of undermine that or change the nature of these objects and these subtle ways or change what they're made of ... they can have an impact on identity, and the way we sense our world around us."
But "Doppelgangster -- The Prequel" is not an event you can rush through. It's quiet and subtle. For example, Margarita Cabrera's Carrizos 2 and Agave 1 initially appeared to be just fake cacti placed in pots throughout the gallery, but on closer inspection, it becomes evident that the cacti is actually put together by intricate needle work and constructed out of border patrol uniforms. On some of the cacti, there are intricate vignettes that tell stories of the immigrant experience.
Then in the East Gallery, there is a "sponge painting" -- though it seems more like a sculpture -- by George Stoll. Picture two of those cheap, neon sponges from your sink. Now put a yellow and blue one together and then an orange and teal together and hang it on the wall. Bingo, art. In a way, though, it's kind of a brilliant critique of color theory and what contemporary artists can get away with; it's also asking the viewer to reexamine an object they see every day -- to look at the colors and the vibrancy in your everyday life.
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And after some time, it starts to hit -- by creating slight variations on the objects being represented, Allen Tombello wants the viewers to feel a sense of wonder in the ordinary. The hope is to curate a moment where the viewer's surroundings, and space, are altered. "All of a sudden when the world tilts a little bit around you," Tombello said, "that's one of the coolest things that can happen to you."
If you're expecting the uncanny to hit you over the head -- like the name doppelgangsters implies -- you might be disappointed by this show. But if approached in another way, a slightly odd and funky way, you will find humor and delight in the ironic take on the minutiae of everyday.
"Doppelgangster -- The Prequel" is on view through Sept. 30 at Arena 1, 3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, (310) 397-7456, santamonicaartstudios.com
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Lucy James has introduced us to this beautiful Amazon with help from her number 11 scalpel, a Jane Fonda work-out session and a whole lot of colour. The wit and technical skill displayed in the work on Monday night, filled everyone with joy and giggles. We had such an enormously great time installing/opening Lucy's wonderful show, we hope to help with many more.
"Janice Darling"
Festooned in a black unitard and an eye patch, Janice Darling was discovered in a Jane Fonda Workout book. Six months before the images were shot for the book, Janice was hit by a car and thrown through a shop window. She lost her left eye, crushed her pelvis and broke both her legs. She maintained that she survived due to her smokingly fit bod. In this collection of collage, painting and artifacts, Janice has been immortalised through rainbows, flowers and bright swirly colours. This woman is obviously invincible, inspiring unfit women of the 80s to get off their arses and work it, Jane Fonda style.
Armed with a medical scalpel and a keen eye, Lucy harvests images from discarded and forgotten books and melds them into carefully composed hybrids of form and meaning. Often floating on a sea of empty white, her works evoke a sense of fantasy emerging from the vast expanse of our collective imagination. Animals, plants and humans morph into and out of each other. Masses of collected and catalogued natural species burst and explode, and laser beams shoot rainbows out of the dead eyes of history. Touching on issues of inherited folklore, the commodification of pets and the exploitation of natural resources, Lucy's work appears playful and visually dynamic, while allowing for deeper interpretative meaning.
Lucy has studied Visual Arts, Fashion and Textiles and most recently completed her Honours degree in Fine Art in 2009. Since then, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, and at times dips her toes into the land of illustration and design.
She wields her number 11 blade from a sometimes-sunny studio in the central highlands of Victoria, where she lives.
For more of Lucy James' work and other information go to her blog thewarmingroom.blogspot.com


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