Whether a person has a soul ...

But rather, everyone issoul ...

We are all soul ...

Then the question comes ... "What kind of human experience will you, as soul,have?"

PASSING ...

My father recently passed away ...

Theconcept that we aresouls and we are sharing a human experience,has made it easier to process hispassing.

My father was an artist ...

Now that he is gone, his art means much more to ourfamily ... than ever before.

ART ...

The ability to share who we are ...

Or who we strive to become ...

Can be achieved through art.

This expression comes in all forms ...

FILMMAKING...

One of theloves withfilmmaking, is that giddiness we get whenwhat is stuck in our heads ... comes to life.

If we are indeed souls ...

Then, what sort of human experience do we want to have ... whichwill enrich our soul?

How do the films we want to create add to this human experience?

THE GIFT ...

One of the unforeseen benefits of creating Film Trooper is being able to meet so manyamazing gueststhroughthe podcast series.

But there is one particular episode that has greater significance than any other ...

On the one-year anniversary of the Film Trooper podcast, I was invited to participate along with other fellow podcasters to feature a veteran for the Voices for Vets week.

I chose to interview my father ...

Although, the episode was to focus on veterans, I did my best to steer it towards filmmaking.

Looking back ...

The opportunity, unintentionally allowed me to record an hour long conversation with my father.

I can only recall having short conversations with him ... that werespread throughout my lifetime ...

But, I've never taken the time to sit down and listen to his storiesin such detail before ...

Until now ...

IMMORTALITY ...

A few days after my father passed, I went back and listened to that episode.

To hear his voice again was tough, but therapeutic ...

And now ...

I have this gift of immortality.

Perhaps you've done this with your family already ...

If not?

Then maybe filming interviews of them can be a gift of immortality that is worth keeping ...

I'm certainly grateful to have this opportunity to capture this moment forever ...

Please enjoy this interview with my father, Kevin McMahon (click here for podcast episode) ...

Here are some of my father'spaintings ...

They have been part of my familylives for as long as I can remember ...

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Judaism believed in the resurrection of an individual from death in the middle of history. Rather, their understanding was that their entire nation alone would rise from death together at the end of history. William Lane Craigs lengthy studies of the resurrection of Jesus Christ culminated in the publishing of two scholarly books on the issue.26 Craig asserts:

Jewish belief always concerned a resurrection at the end of the world, not a resurrection in the middle of historyThe resurrection to glory and immortality did not occur until after God had terminated world history. This traditional Jewish conception was the prepossession of Jesus own disciples (Mark 9:913; John 11:24). The notion of a genuine resurrection occurring prior to Gods bringing about the worlds end would have been foreign to themJewish belief always concerned a general resurrection of the people, not the resurrection of an isolated individual.27

What difference does it make when people are suffering and dying to believe that Jesus conquered death and because of him so can other people?

26. Craig spent two years as a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation studying the resurrection of Jesus Christ at the University of Munich. See William Lane Craig, The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (Lewiston, ID: Edwin Mellen, 1985), and Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus (Lewiston, ID: Edwin Mellen, 1989).27. William Lane Craig, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? in Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, ed. Michael J. Wilkins and J. P. Moreland (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996), 160, emphases in original.

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CommentsComment by MilandasThe other Trinkets from Darkmoon-Cards are:

The Cards for the Decks are created by Darkmoon Card of the Legion, Darkmoon Card of the Legion or Darkmoon Card of the Legion.

Comment by AkecheI'm a little confused about this one. Isn't bonus armor as a stat removed in Legion?

Darkmoon Card of the Legion is reward for Demon InkTechnique: Darkmoon Card of the Legion (Rank 2) is from Professor Thaddeus Paleo for 5xDarkmoon Prize TicketTechnique: Darkmoon Card of the Legion (Rank 3) is from Professor Thaddeus Paleo for 35xDarkmoon Prize Ticket

Here is my main Legion Scribe post.You can find more info about the profession there.

Comment by Morrigan99/11/16 - It seems this this was buffed and the armor values doubled. 580 (Ace) to 1740 (Eight).

With some investment into Ironfur buffs through artifact traits, such as Reinforced Fur, you will further improve benefits from this trinket at it's best proc.

Comment by ArurggCan it be upgraded in dalaran forge by obliterum or its just trash item for leveling

Currently the armor supplied by this trinket is not multiplied by bear form, is not multiplied by Ironfur. It is affected by the +5% Iron Claws trait on the artifact weapon.

(Based on testing on Live, 15th Oct 2016)

Comment by nZainThe special darkmoon card effects do not work in PvP - all item effects (set bonus, trinket effects, on-use items, etc.) are disabled in PvP. Only the item level counts towards your templated PvP stats, which has some relevance: your overall ilvl +10 means +1% stats. Thus, for PvP you can get an ilvl 855 trinket, but it does not matter which one you actually pick (patch 7.1 at the time of writing).

4.67 million hp and 5,334 armor. With boneshield up his HP is quite a bit higher.

So that means he is at 41.92% reduction, which gives him an effective health of 8.04 million.This trinket would give him an average of 46.93% reduction through armor, giving him an effective health of 8.80 million.

That means this offers him a constant bonus of around 9.44% effective health, which is also easier to heal as it is armor.

So basically this trinket is totally bonkers at what it does. It passively gives him around 800k HP that is easily healed, in the form of damage reduction that Blood DK's don't have. With bone shield up (which is up at all times), it is giving closer to 1 mil effective HP added. Very good item, but obviously super expensive, and I'd imagine gets eclipsed by the higher trinkets in Nighthold.

Comment by NatsuyoAs of 7.1.5 this can be upgraded to 865 with Obliterum raising the maximum amount of extra armor quite a bit to 700-2101 🙂

Comment by wowheadskNow as of 7.2.5 upgrades to 900? back to BiS?

List of proc amounts @ item level 900:

Ace of Immortality - 970Two of Immortality - 1214Three of Immortality - 1455Four of Immortality - 1699Five of Immortality - 1940Six of Immortality - 2183Seven of Immortality - 2425Eight of Immortality - 2912

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The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website!

It serves 2 main purposes:

It maintains a WoW addon called the Wowhead Looter, which collects data as you play the game!

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In this book, a compilation of a series of articles first published in Hetq between 2010 and 2019, Melkonian dismantles the neoliberal slogans and buzzwords that have dominated public discourse in the Republic of Armenia for decades. At the same time, he introduces a very different vocabulary for describing the passing scene--a more coherent, accurate, and open vocabulary, and one that is indispensable to the voiceless majority in countries like Armenia.

What a load of lunatic Marxist cr*p ... from top to bottom.

--Online Comment

Hit the nail head-on!

--Online Comment

True, honest, intelligent, and too horrible.

--Online Comment

A great, if sad, record of the ravages of the shuga [the market].

--Levon Chorbajian, Prof. of Sociology, University of Massachusetts

About the Author

Markar Melkonian is a teacher and author. His books include Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (Humanities Books, 1999), and two recent college textbooks: The Philosophy of Death Reader: Cross-Cultural Readings on Immortality and the Afterlife (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), and The Philosophy of Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).

In English (Armenian edition forthcoming)

Sardarabad Press, 18 February 2020

ISBN-10: 1949618226

ISBN-13: 978-1949618228

Perfect-bound paperback, 186 pp., $19.95

Available from Abril Bookstore, and Amazon.com.

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By TNH Staff March 4, 2020

Meeting of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece.(Photo by Eurokinissi/ Christos Bonis, File)

ATHENS The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece issued an announcement recommending to the faithful that they remain calm, follow the prescribed preventive measures and, of course, pray to Jesus Christ Who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light.

Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece and asked for the Churchs assistance in informing the faithful. Archbishop Ieronymos reassured Prime Minister Mitsotakis that the Church of Greece stands by the Greek State and will lend all its support to the progress of the Greek people.

The Holy Synod in an encyclical, calls on the faithful to intensify all our prayers to Jesus Christ, Who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light, in order to safeguard His creation in a healthy and complete way.

In addition, the Holy Synod recommends that those who have symptoms of the disease temporarily refrain from public activities as well as from embracing and kissing other people for the sake of public health.

Finally, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece points out that that every difficulty even disease can be an opportunity for cohesion and highlights the positive side of human relations, which can be expressed with courage, calmness, and solidarity, adding that all Orthodox Christians are called to serve the will of God, knowing that the divine and dignified treatment of illness constitutes peoples participation in the martyrdom of conscience and sacrifice before God[their] essential help and co-operation in order to prevent the diseases transmission leads to love.

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Steve Atwater can be forgiven for his apprehension. A year ago, he waited in his hotel room and received the knock, and was met with cruel disappointment.

It was the maid, Atwater told Denver7, shaking his head.

Saturday, the tap came on the door and opened to football immortality. David Baker, Hall of Fame president, informed the former Broncos hard-hitting safety he had received pro footballs highest honor. Atwater is headed to the Hall of Fame as a member of the 2020 class.

Atwater, who had been battling his emotions during the lead up to this announcement after his mother passed away three months ago, wept tears of joy. As a third-time finalist, Atwater had long been a qualified candidate, but remained overlooked because of the 48 voters historical reluctance to select safeties.

The numbers screamed of Atwaters worthiness.

Prior to Saturday, 24 players in NFL history had started three Super Bowls and been selected to eight Pro Bowls, Atwater among them. Of those 24, 20 were in the Hall of Fame. Two will be first ballot locks: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.

Another statistic hard to ignore. There were 66 position players named to the NFLs All-Decade team in the 1970s, 80s or 90s. Of that group, Awater was one of three not in the Hall of Fame.

In other words, it was time. Or past time.

He had been ignored for too long. Atwater, humble and modest, defended his career to Denver7 last week after a season as working on a Friday Broncos Minute segment with the station.

His career, sometimes forgotten nationally, represented more than one thunderous hit on Kansas City running back Christian Okoye. That smash was the Cliffs Notes version of the two-time, first team All-Pros resume.

A lot of people see that hit on Christian Okoye. They know about it, and that was absolutely the highlight of my career. A lot of times I don't think people remember that I was in the right place where I needed to be. I played good zone coverage, played good man-to-man coverage. I do think some of those receivers thought twice about coming across the middle," Atwater said with a smirk. "I have talked to some guys from other teams who said they kept their heads on a swivel when they played against us. We won back-to-back Super Bowls. People can judge, but I think I played well in both those games."

While Atwater received the knock, former Broncos and Buccaneers safety John Lynch did not make the Hall.

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I didnt know Kobe. But I watched him playAnd I loved him.

A schoolteacher once called a radio talk show to complain that Kobe Bryant made 40 times as much as she did, to which the host replied, Yeah, but nobody pays to watch you teach.

Brutal, yes, but also true.

And a lot of people, myself included, paid a lot to see Bryant play.

Little did I know that the one and only time I saw him in person, would be the last. I saw him lifting weights at the Golds Gym mother ship in Venice, California, when he still had that geeky beard and wasnt yet Celebrity Kobe.

Related: The House That Mamba Built: Kobe Bryant, More Than An Athlete

I didnt say a word to him, because in LA, the only way to treat famous people is to pretend you dont see them. Before he became a petulant celebrity, he embodied creativity, spontaneity, and freedom with his play above and below the rim.

Sometimes his coach would chastise him for making a particular play, and Bryant would respond, sincerely, that hed had no idea of what he was going to do before he did it.

And now hes gone.

Poof.

In a foggy Malibu mountain breakdown.

And its one of those things that you struggle to believe is true.

The standard response is that his passing, at 41, shouldnt matter so much to the rest of us.

He didnt teach school, after all.

He was an athlete.

As if being an athlete were something that somehow didnt matter.

He brought excitement and pride to tens of millions, including a whole lot of teachers.

And now hes gone.

So why should it matter so much to those who never met him?

To those over whom he flew in his private helicopter from his Newport Beach home to his workplace in Los Angeles, the Staples Center, to those who never saw him play in person?

Why is that tens of millions of people will never forget the moment they looked at their phones and saw the headline that he was gone?

For the answer, I would turn to one of the most important books I ever read, The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction the following year.

Becker wanted to understand the fascination people have with celebrities, and he wanted to understand why we tore down celebrities not long after we worshipped them.

He wrote that human beings are half god-like, because of our ability to create, and half-mortal, and that we were reminded of our limited time on earth every time we went to the bathroom.

He called humans gods who s.

Celebrities have more power than the average person, he wrote.

They are richer, prettier, more talented, more famous, morewell, more everything than the rest of us.

So we attach ourselves to them, as fans (a word we forget is short for fanatics), as patrons, moviegoers, voters, followers, or worshippers.

By so doing we believe, we can achieve our greatest goal:immortality.

And then when we discover that these celebrities are human, like us, with feet of clay to go along with their feats of strength, we become angry, and we turn on them.

Kobe Bryant lived long enough into the social media era to be vilified by those who didnt like his egotism, his immaturity (good luck to anyone world-famous at 17), the way he essentially broke up the Lakers by factionalizing the locker room and getting Shaq traded, the dismissal of his sexual assault trial in Eagle, Colorado, the tough guy tattoos he got in his silly quest for street cred, or the goopy, mawkish, public apology to his wife afterward (replete with a $3 million diamond ring apology gift, according to reports).

I actually saw Kobes first Lakers game after the case was dismissed, a preseason affair in Orange County, California.

Thousands of fans, including children, were wearing Bryant jerseys, and whooping and hollering for him, indicating that a whole lot of people werent bothered in the least by anything he had allegedly done in the hotel room back in Colorado.

Bryant upended Beckers theory, because, despite all the negatives, he never lost the admiration of millions who may not have achieved immortality through him but never turned on him for his failing to provide it.

And now Kobe has done the one thing an individual can do to insure immortality for himself and his admirers:dying young, doing an utterly Kobe-like thing, helicoptering his daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant to her basketball practice.

Related: Like Father, Like Daughter: Gianna Bryant Was a Basketball Star on the Rise

I will tell you my truth.

I loved Kobe Bryant, the early, exuberant, unguarded Kobe, who knew he was going above the rim but had no earthly idea of what grandeur he would create once he got there.

And now he will spend eternity in the same place: above the fray; above the criticism; above the rim.

No, I didnt know Kobe.

But I watched him play.

And to you reader, I loved him.

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Lord Edgar, the diminutive but mighty nobleman and recreational Egyptologist has recently remarried, three years after the death of his beloved wife and son. The new bride is the handsome Lady Enid, an actor of no small renown who's finding life at the country estate Mandercrest to be a little lonely. The stately pile that is her new home is haunted by a wolf in the night, whose howling drowns out the wind from the moors, and that distasteful Nicodemus the swineherd creeps around the house trying get a good look at her. It doesn't help Lady Enid's state of mind that the only other woman present is the maid, Jane, who is openly hostile to Enid from behind her mustache.

Yeah, about that mustache. Lord Edgar and Jane are both played by Esteban Andres Cruz, while Lady Enid and Nicodemus are played by Tommy Everett Russell. Every character in the play is performed by these two men, who change outfits and demeanors quicker than you would think possible. Both men are also pretty handy with a costumed dummy and a hasty exit. The Mystery of Irma Vep, currently being produced by the Repertory Theatre St. Louis, is a mostly successful campy comedy that's at its best when Cruz and Russell are both on stage indulging in gleefully ridiculous antics. It loses its momentum when the actor onstage has to carry the load while the other is racing around behind the scenes to get in position for the next entrance, a hindrance no doubt exacerbated by the size of the Loretto-Hilton Center's Mainstage Theatre. With a running time of two hours, the comedy occasionally sags rather than sings.

Still, when they're on, Cruz and Russell are on. Charles Ludlam's script pays homage to Hitchcock's Rebecca, Victorian melodramas and the horror films of Hammer Studios. Indeed, scenic designer Michael Locher has created an imposing manse with a steep staircase, a parlour with a fireplace and several exits. Above it all looms a portrait of Irma (unfortunately visible only from one side of the theater) surrounded by red roses and surmounted by a massive, grinning skull. Lighting designer Marie Yokoyama douses it all in eerie green and menacing red lights, and her stylized lightning bolts are impeccable.

Cruz's Lord Edgar is a man of action who stalks the moors in search of that damned wolf and is fond of a dramatic pose and a wide stance but still releases a coquettish squeal when Lady Enid hoists him up in the air and spins. Russell's Enid has the charming wiles of a girl-detective, who subtly grills Jane for information about Edgar's first wife (Irma) and son. According to Jane, Edgar believes the wolf killed his small family, hence the hunting. Jane implies that she believes it may not be so clean-cut a mystery, which spurs on Enid's investigation. Before the play ends we'll all go to Egypt, revive a long-dead mummy and witness one character transform body part by body part into a werewolf right before our eyes. (Russell performs this metamorphosis with guile, panache and a magician's sense of misdirection. It's one of the best moments in the play.)

Despite the antics happening onstage, the play ends on a serious, albeit hopeful note. Charles Ludlum wrote The Mystery of Irma Vep during the 1980s AIDS crisis, and he himself succumbed to the disease. In the play's final moments, Lord Edgar and Lady Enid ascend the staircase to their bedroom, discussing the ancient Egyptians' bid for immortality. All the while, they slowly draw closer to that leering skull atop the set. Make fun while you can, for we all take that walk some day.

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The Mystery of Irma Vep Is Campy Fun When the Spirit Moves It - Riverfront Times

The reason I enjoy science fiction so much is because these stories are, more often than not, harbingers of the future. Arthur C. Clarke famously foretold the existence of a global communications network well before the first commercial satellites were launched, and, to this day, I am not entirely sure that the gritty cyberpunk future that William Gibson writes about doesnt already exist.

One of the recurring tropes in science fiction is the radical stratification of societies of the future. In Time, an Andrew Niccol movie starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake, tells the story of a society where everyone has just one more year to live after the age of 25. As a result, the world has stratified itself into the poor, on one hand, who are forced to trade the time they have left to eke out a living, and the extremely wealthy on the other, who can afford to buy time from the poor, achieving virtual immortality and consequently growing wealthier. In The Hunger Games, the affluent live in Panem, a bohemian, sybaritic society whose members spend their time extravagantly accessorizing their look while watching the ultimate life-or-death reality TV contest. All the while, the poor live in abject squalor in The Districts, the sole purpose of their existence being to supply Panem with everything it needs.

As dystopian as this future sounds, I am increasingly convinced that the world we inhabit is steadily moving in this direction. The net worth of the richest among us is so vastly disproportionate to the cost of food, housing, travel and other essential expenditures that, to them, these essentials are free for all intents and purposes. They dont ever have to spare a thought for what anything they want to buy might cost. As a result, they can afford to care for their health in ways that will wipe out those less fortunate, indulging in preventative treatments that others will think extravagant. They can insulate themselves from pollution and the effects of climate change in ways that the poor in their ghettos simply cannot afford.

Authors such as Steven Pinker are at pains to point out that, as a matter of fact, things have never been better. We are healthier than we ever have ever been, and far fewer people across the world live in abject poverty. However, though things might have improved, those global metrics belie the increasing stratification of society that is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots by the day. As much as things have overall become better compared to even half a century ago, the difference between the truly wealthy and the just moderately well-off is widening so rapidly that the dystopia that science fiction peddles is no longer just a fantasy.

You dont have to look very far to see signs of this. Today, the wealthy among us live in plush apartment complexes and gated communities, safe in carefully crafted bubbles of comfort whose main purpose is to shield them from life outside. These mini-cities are equipped with their own electricity, water supply and security, and often offer shopping facilities so that residents never have to leave their cocoon.

When they do get out, it is in luxurious climate-controlled cars that shut out the noise, smells and sights of the world they are compelled to pass through. If they have to travel longer distances, they do so in chartered planes that take off from their own exclusive airports. On the rare occasions that they have to use commercial airlines, it is usually in first or business class, which, on the gigantic Airbus A380 aircraft, is on an exclusive upper deck accessed through a completely separate aerobridge directly from the lounge, ensuring that they dont even accidentally come in contact with their less fortunate co-passengers crushed together in the economy section below.

Technology has, if anything, exacerbated these differences.

Back when workers were the primary means of production, the wealthy depended on them to run their factories and their shops. This allowed the working classes to leverage this dependence to negotiate better conditions of livelihood. With the growing automation of production, however, societys dependence on people has virtually vanished, denying the working classes the leverage they once had.

As commerce has become more digital, interactions between different classes of society have reduced to the point where the wealthy no longer have any reason to remind themselves of how the other half lives.

Even if the world we occupy is not so different from the dystopian futures of science fiction, it might still be possible to avoid the stratification that these stories foretell. More often than not, the technologies that have perpetuated societal stratification are proprietary products available only to the elite, the few who can afford them. If we could, instead, redesign our technologies so that they are delivered over platforms that ensure these can be widely accessed on the public internet, the benefits they offer would spread more equitably across all strata of society.

Societal platforms tend to democratize population scale technologies. As we build new digital technologies for various sectors of the economysuch as the financial, medical and agricultural sectorswe would do well to ensure that they are designed to be accessed by all.

It is only in this manner that we will be able to achieve a more equitable distribution of benefits across all segments of society.

Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal and author of Privacy 3.0: Unlocking Our Data Driven Future

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After Jonah and Charlotte Barnes learned about research linking childrens knowledge of family history to their general well-being, the couple vowed to teach their own kids about their roots.

The Vancouver couples new book, Turning Little Hearts, seeks to help other families do the same. The workbook contains 90-some activities to connect children to their ancestors.

The point of the book is to help parents share stories in short, sweet, fun, engaging ways so children can learn the stories and not get bored by them, said Charlotte, 34.

The effort doesnt have to be complicated for the parents, either.

Im terrified that people will think they have to be family history freaks or genealogists, said Jonah, 36. The point is just to tell more stories.

The couple have six children, all younger than 10. They moved to Vancouver, where Jonah grew up, in 2017 after purchasing the Sunrise Bagels wholesale business. The books origins, however, date to when the family lived in Arizona.

Jonah was working at his desk job when he felt his heart start to race and pound. At just 28, he thought he was having a heart attack.

As a young guy, the illusion of invincibility and immortality vanished in an instant, Jonah said.

He was diagnosed with paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, a type of irregular heartbeat thats not generally life-threatening.

But I kept thinking, What if I died? Which made me think of my children. I wrote a history of who they are, Jonah said. I started looking at family history because I didnt know anything, and it changed the way I think.

Charlotte noticed that their kids were keenly interested in the family tales. The children could recite these stories to every detail, she said.

Then Charlotte and Jonah happened upon Bruce Feilers New York Times article The Stories That Bind Us.

The article cites research by Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush. The psychologists developed a Do You Know? scale based on 20 questions, including: Do you know how your parents met? Do you know which person in your family you look most like? Do you know some things that happened to your mom or dad when they were in school?

Duke and Fivush found that kids who know more about their family history have greater self-esteem and resilience.

When we read that article, thats when it took off, Charlotte said. We started covering every wall with pictures.

Charlotte and Jonah, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, already had experience researching their family histories. They met in the library at Brigham Young University doing just that. She thought he was cute, went up and said hi. A month later, they were engaged.

After his health scare, Jonah worked on a book about how family stories shape children, and he sent it to three publishers. One publisher was interested but didnt want the bulk of the book, just more activities like the 10 at the end that Charlotte developed. So she created many more.

My sweet wife churned out over 90 of these things, Jonah said. And those activities became the Turning Little Hearts workbook, published this month by Utah-based Cedar Fort ($14.99).

Some activities might be more pertinent for Latter-day Saints, for example the Mission Map, to mark where ancestors served as missionaries. But most activities would work for any family drawing a map of ancestors immigration routes, researching a namesake, or celebrating an ancestors birthday.

Charlotte and Jonah stress that these activities can be easy. They are not about achieving Pinterest-levels of perfection.

For example, Charlottes father, Robert Judson Clark, a Princeton University professor emeritus, died in 2011. To celebrate his birthday in August, the family ate his favorite treat, Pepperidge Farm Geneva cookies.

Youre always looking for things to do with your kids anyway. This is something thats meaningful. I have gained so much insight myself, Charlotte said.

As she and Jonah delved into the benefits of knowing family history, they learned that ancestors stories fill our need for belonging, while also lending a sense of uniqueness and strength. They show how ancestors decisions affected their lives and even those of descendants, which can help young people develop forethought.

Its even good for kids to learn about the black sheep of the family, Jonah said. Whats powerful is hearing about both ups and downs.

Parents get hung up on teaching a lesson, he said. Dont overthink it. You dont have to have a great moral. Its letting kids know, Youre part of a bigger story. Youre a chapter in a long book. Youre more than some lonely kid in middle school.

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. In the hoursafter winning his second Cup Series title Sunday night, Kyle Busch was well aware of the fact that he could be even more successful than he is.

Buschs win in Sundays race made him just the second active driver alongside Jimmie Johnson with multiple Cup Series titles and just the 16th driver in NASCAR history to have more than one Cup Series title. Hes in rarified company. Yet Busch, when asked about being the first multi-time champion in NASCAR since Johnson won his second title in 2007, said he wanted to be talking about more than just a second title.

I would love to be sitting here right now talking about eight, Busch said.I've been in the sport for 14, 15 years, whatever this season is for me, and so we're only talking about two. It's nice to have the success that we have, take it when you get it, but there's certainly a few missed opportunities for sure.

Eight titles would be, of course, a Cup Series record. Johnson, Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty all have seven. Yes, Busch indirectly brought up the specter of NASCAR immortality on Sunday night. Thats how motivated he is as a race car driver.

Sundays win was Buschs 56th career Cup Series win and his 40th from 2010-19. He closes out the 2010s as the winningest driver of the decade. Hes also won 208 races across NASCARs Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series. Thats the most combined NASCAR national series wins of any driver.

That motivation is why he races and wins as often as he does. Busch would certainly have more than 208 wins if NASCAR hadnt added strict participation limits for Cup drivers in the Xfinity and Truck Series.

And while Busch, 34, is the winningest driver of the decade, hes also indisputably the best driver of the past five seasons. He has two championships in that span and is the only driver to make the Cup Series final four in each of those five years.

Fortunately for us and our group, we get these opportunities every year, five in a row. But you know, what's I think it's what [crew chief Adam Stevens] said best earlier, is that we prepare as hard as we can prepare and do everything that we know how to do and be ready for this moment. And sometimes you just kind of miss it somewhere, someway, somehow, and other times you're like we were in 2015 or this year, Carl [Edwards] was in 2016, we were in 2017, it just didn't come to us.

Buschs increased success over the last five years can be tied to the arrival of Stevens as his crew chief. The two have won 27 races in that span and Buschs average finish in each of those seasons is better than 12. It was never better than 12th in any of the first 10 full-time seasons of Buschs career.

The ability to consistently churn out good finishes in addition to winning races has turned Busch from an enigmatic talent capable of a bad finish at any time to a driver youre surprised to see finish outside of the top 10 at any given race.

Stevens is also unafraid to learn from his mistakes. Busch missed out on the title in 2018 despite eight wins thanks to a car that fell far from the lead in the final stage.

This is the Game 7 for us, Stevens said. First off, you have to get to the Game 7. And second off, you want to be at your best.Last year we weren't at our best.

I felt like not necessarily the car we brought but some of the approach that we had coming into it wasn't right for my team, wasn't right for Kyle, and I wanted to remedy that situation in the best way possible, and that's to get here, number one; and number two, perform at a high level.

NASCARs winner-take-all format doesnt look like its going anywhere. And, one could argue, its small sample randomness makes it harder to win titles than in the full-season points format that existed when Petty and Earnhardt dominated and the cumulative 10-race playoff where Johnson won six of his championships.

Its a stretch at the moment to think that Busch could get to eight titles. Its a conversation better had after his fifth or sixth championship. But at 34, Busch still has plenty of time to rack up more championships. Johnson had five titles at 34. Petty had four. Earnhardt had one.

With half of his 30s to go, Busch enters the next decade as the driver to beat. At least one more championship seems likely as long as he and Stevens are working together.

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When Adam was slated to come on over and be my crew chief, I was not apprehensive about it, but you know, him and I had worked together on the Xfinity side and grown a relationship for a couple of years and we had success over there, Busch said.Sometimes that success works and sometimes it doesn't. You just never know.

But obviously I'm very fortunate and thankful for [Joe Gibbs] and making that decision and putting us together and having us to have the success we've had has been really, really good. Could it have been better?Sure.Could it have been worse?Probably.But it's good right now.

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Nick Brombergis a writer for Yahoo Sports

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Rental property management is a growing business and has become attractive for many new companies. Therefore, competition in property management will increase in2020. Established property management companies that want to continue being successful and grow their business will need to be more strategic and monitor the opportunities and threats that will be created by this competition.

Now is a great time to take a strategic look at property management trends that are expected to appear in 2020 in order to be prepared for business growth. Here are six trends that will be important to look for and monitor in 2020

New technology trends

Technology is rapidly evolving and having a significant impact on many industries and the real estate industry is no exception. Savvy investors, landlords, agents, and property managers are capitalizing on opportunities that come with new technology entering the real estate and specifically the property management market.

Today, technology plays an integral role in every part of the property management industry. Technology amenities are key factors in marketing to and satisfying tenant desires in their rental units. Tenants are looking for: increased ways to connect with their landlord; online payment; charging & docking stations; keyless door entry; enhanced security; enhanced and free Wi-Fi; energy conservation; social communities and hi-tech fitness. Smart technology, using sensors and integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), is having a significant impact on meeting tenant wants.

Property management software

Lead generation has and always will be the most important part of growth for any property management business. New software has created additional paths of generating property management leads. Property managers need to identify the right investment for their clients and get more properties under their management. New software technologies help facilitate the search and the due diligence efforts related to those properties.

Generation Z is a big focus

Baby Boomers have been the big influencer in the marketplace for a long time, but this is changing with the aging of the Millennials and Generation Z, which will grow from 8 million to more than 55 million in the US workforce in the next decade. Generation Z has experienced technology their entire lives and this means leasing and marketing campaigns must incorporate technology to reach Generation Z where they are most active, on apps and the Internet.

Generation Z places a high priority on trust, equality, and more casual, personable messaging that speaks to them like a friend. Therefore, real estate businesses in the rental housing industry will need to use casual messaging, rather than very formal language, to successfully reach Generation Z prospects.

It also is important to also remember that Millennials and the generations before them have become more tech-savvy and sometimes they will not appreciate the old school way of doing business.

Apartment rental demand will remain high

Monitoring rental demand is an important trend in the property management industry. Over 80 percent of renters still believe that renting is more affordable than owning even though rents have increased in the recent past. There is a high demand for rental units as seen by an 11 percent increase in apartment demand this year, and even more demand projected for 2020. Affordable housing is a very significant issue for many people across the United States. Demand for rental units, as well as rising rental prices are still increasing annually.

New and different competition

Real estate investment continues to gain momentum, especially with new and different players buying up rental properties and managing the properties themselves rather than using a property management company. Established property management companies need to carefully monitor what is happening in the marketplace.

Many rental property owners will become competitors as they realize and understand that being a landlord is a business. They operate the business themselves, without the help from off-site managers, and this gives them a good segue to enter the property management business. The more entrepreneurial real estate investors will eventually start expanding by growing their portfolio. This creates new and different competition.

New marketing strategies

There will be a stronger focus on digital marketing through the Internet because of the market segment property managers must reach. An effective way to do this is to produce informative content regarding important topics for people in real estate. Creating a Frequently Asked Questions page or writing a Blog that answers some of the widely asked questions by clients can generate traffic to the property management company website.

Google is the Go-To source for most people if they have a question about anything. Property management companies that provide a blog, infographic, or video answering that question will show a potential customer that the company is knowledgeable about the subject matter of the question asked. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is important for property management companies for any content the company posts online. This kind of marketing is a popular trend in the property management industry.

Relationships are critical and challenging in all businesses and especially in property management.

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. George William Russell, Irish writer, editor, poet, partner and Irish nationalist.

Glenn Ebersole

Glenn Ebersole is a professional engineer and is the Business Development Manager for CVM and CVMNEXT Construction in King of Prussia. He can be reached at gebersole@cvmnext.com or 610-964-2800, ext. 155.

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Villanova Basketball announced on Tuesday that as a part of its 100th season, it would be retiring two jerseys of former Wildcat legends. The two players who will receive the honor include Ryan Arcidiacono, who will have his ceremony Feb. 12th vs. Marquette, and Kyle Lowry, who will have his jersey retired Feb. 26th vs. St. Johns.

Each point guard had a profound impact throughout their tenure at Villanova. Arcidiacono, widely known as Arch, sported the number 15. Throughout his four years at the university, he averaged 11.1 points, 2.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists, and 1.2 steals per contest in 144 career games. Arcidiacono was dominant from start to finish during his time as a Wildcat. Entering his freshman year in the 2012-2013 season, he was named team captain, and immediately productive and made the Big East All-Freshman team. In his junior season, Arcidiacono received the 2014-2015 Big East Player of the Year award. During his senior season, the 63 point guard excelled as a player and a leader. Arcidiacono led the team to go 27-4 throughout the regular season, then win the schools first National Championship in 31 years. He memorably brought up the ball and dropped off a pass to a trailing Kris Jenkins, who hit the game-winning shot to win the title. In addition to being on the 2015-2016 All-Big East second team, Arcidiacono was on the 2016 NCAA All-Tournament team, 2016 NCAA Tournament All-Region team, and was named the 2016 Final Four Most Outstanding Player. Arcidiacono had an outstanding impact at the university and helped bring the Villanova basketball program to another level. As a result, his well-known 15 will not be worn by any other mens basketball player and will hang proudly in the rafters.

Lowry, who donned number 1 at Villanova, played only two seasons with the team before moving on to the professional level. However, throughout his brief period as a Wildcat, he played a critical role to the teams success. Lowrys freshman year was in the 2004-2005 season. The 6 guard averaged 7.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2 assists per game, as he was named to the Big East All-Freshman team. In the following season, Lowry improved his overall game, and emerged as one of the best players in the conference. He played six more minutes per game, and averaged 11 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game. Lowry also improved defensively as he averaged 2.3 steals per gameincreasing from 1.3 steals per game from the season prior. Lowry was named to the 2005-2006 All-Big East second team, and declared for the 2006 NBA Draft. He was selected as the 24th overall pick and has since built himself a well-rounded NBA career. Today, Lowry is a five-time NBA All Star, and recently made history by helping the Toronto Raptors win their first NBA championship last season. After excelling in his two years as a Wildcat, Lowry has proudly represented Villanova basketball throughout his professional career. Hence, the former Villanovan will be honored as one of many great players to have contributed to the program.

Being given this honor solidifies players as all-time greats within a program. Arcidiacono and Lowry made enormous contributions to the school which have helped shape what it is today. Their jerseys will hang in the rafters, as their legacies will forever be engrained at Villanova University.

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Death is no excuse for celebrities to stop working. James Dean, despite being dead since 1955, has recently been cast in a new Vietnam war movie, Finding Jack. His co-starring role will be computer generated from old footage and photographs and voiced by another actor. The dead are now rivals with the living for parts in movies.

This controversial casting decision has been met with outrage by many actors on Twitter. Complaints have circulated about puppeteering as well as being disrespectful to the dead movie idol.

Dean is by no means the first dead celebrity to continue to perform after death. Nat King Cole sang with his daughter Natalie on her 1991 Grammy Award-winning album, Unforgettable With Love, and performed on stage with her via a video screen.

Meanwhile, Tupac Shakur sang on stage with Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre in 2012 and Michael Jackson performed as a hologram at the Billboard Music Awards in 2014.

If, as Dean stated: Immortality is the only true success, then success is achieveable for a growing number of high profile dead celebrities who have remained productive and valuable after death.

But some dead celebrities are more valuable than others.

Both in life and death, celebrities wield significant power as a catalyst for cultural meaning. They possess symbolic and economic value that extends into death through the traces they leave behind. These traces continue the dead stars celebrity power as a brand and include such things as photographs, films, signatures and recordings of their voice, as well as their celebrity persona (the character or personality they presented to fans).

But this posthumous celebrity varies in value. For many high profile celebrity women, the traces they leave possess sexualised value, much as they had in life related to their youth, beauty and sensuality. A great deal of their symbolic and economic value is about their bodies, so the way in which their traces are put to work after they die reflects gendered inequality.

Dead women celebrities are put to work selling feminised products such as chocolate or perfume. Meanwhile, Steve McQueen sells Ford Puma cars and Einstein promotes Genius Bread.

The way in which gender inequality reaches beyond the grave is clearly revealed by Forbes magazines publication of its Top Dead Earning Celebrities List every October since 2001. Affectionately referred to as the Dead Rich List, it reveals distinct gender inequality. Of 52 celebrities who have appeared on the list in nearly two decades, only five have been women: actresses Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, 1950s striptease artist and pin-up model Bettie Page, and singer-songwriters Jenni Rivera and Whitney Houston.

Men including Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Charles Schultz (of Peanuts fame) consistently dominate the top positions on the Dead Rich List. Their earnings after death are staggeringly high compared to those of the women who appear.

First place has been held by Michael Jackson every year since his death (excepting 2009 and 2012) helping buck the trend of the underrepresentation of black and minority ethnic performers. Jacksons earnings have been immense, rising to US$825 million in 2016 due to the sale of his half of the Sony/ATV Music catalogue which owned much of the Beatles music, before dropping to their lowest point in 2019 with US$60 million.

In contrast, Monroe was the highest female earner with US$13 million in 2019, allowing her to maintain eighth place on the list for a second year.

Forbes suggests that to achieve a financially successful posthumous career it helps to be a white man from either the US or UK, although black and minority ethnic people (BAME) are more likely to make the cut now than in 2001 as illustrated by Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Prince and Whitney Houston making recent lists.

But even if they make the rich list, the posthumous career earnings of Monroe, Taylor, Page, Rivera and Houston illustrate how women and black and minority ethnic people continue to be underrepresented among those who achieve high incomes after death. They reveal that celebrity value, in terms of symbolism and economics, is heavily gendered after death.

Dead celebrity womens posthumous careers are limited by being valuable due to their bodily capital. Men have a good track record of making wealth through the books they write or the music and lyrics they compose and own. In contrast, celebrity women are less likely to be a source for the production of wealth but a means for generating wealth for others.

But the 21st century, in particular, is witnessing the emergence of perceptive and well-informed celebrity women who own the sources of production of wealth and are not restricted to their bodily capital. Women such as Oprah Winfrey, the Kardashian sisters and JK Rowling are in firm control of their economic and symbolic value which is something they can take forwards into death.

Pretty much all of the possible women candidates for future lists have long lives ahead of them hopefully, barring illness or accident meaning it will be many years before this gendered inequality in death is properly challenged. As it stands, gendered inequality of bodily capital means that for celebrity women, death is not the last great equaliser inequality continues in death.

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On Monday, Nov. 18, Hayley Wickenheiser will become the seventh woman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Wickenheiser is entering the hallowed hallswith Guy Carbonneau, Vaclav Nedomansky, Sergei Zubov, and builders Jim Rutherford and Jerry York. Needless to say, Wick is the only woman in the 2019 Class.

In 2010, Cammi Granato and Angela James became the first two women to enter the Hall. Nine years after Granato and James made history, were still waiting for another HHOF class that honors two women who changed the game as we know it. Nevermind the fact that there is a bylaw that allows a maximum of four men and two women in the players category each year. Were also still waiting to see a woman be inducted by the Hall as a builder, despite there being strong cases for builders like Hazel McCallion, Fran Riderand Manon Rheaume.

With all of that being said, Wickenheiser is the third woman in the last three years to enter the Hall. That, along with the presence of Cassie Campbell-Pascall and Brian Burke on the selection committee, could mean we will see more women entering the Hockey Hall of Fame in the near future.

2019HHOF class: Carbonneau | Nedomansky |Wickenheiser |Zubov | Rutherford |York | Brown| Hughson

There are several active players who seem destined for HHOF immortality, including Finlands Jenni Hiirikoski, Team USAs Hilary Knight, and Team Canadas Marie-Philip Poulin; but the Hall is not for active players. In order to be eligible for nomination by a member of the selection committee, a player must not have participated in a professional or international game for a minimum of three years. Of course, exceptions have been made for legends of the mens game like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orrand Gordie Howe.

Here are five women who could and should be the next women in the HHOF.

Considering what Wickenheiser accomplished in her career and the impact she had on the game as a whole, she should have been given exceptional status and inducted immediately following her retirement. The same could be said for Finlands Sallinen.

Sallinen is the highest-scoring European skater in IIHF Womens World Championship and Olympic history, despite the fact that she missed two Olympics (2006, 2010) and 11 Worlds due to retirement and injury. Her decade away from the game kept her off the ice during many of the prime years of her playing career, yet she still earned seven medals at the Worlds and two Olympic medals. Before she made her return to hockey in 2013 to prepare for the Sochi Olympics, she became the first European woman inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2010 at the age of 37.

The greatest center in the history of Finnish womens hockey hung up her skates after Finland shocked the world and won silver at the 2019 Worlds. There is perhaps no better way to summarize Sallinens excellence than to cite the fact that she was the highest-scoring skater in the 1998 Nagano Olympics with 12 points in six games (Granato and Wickenheiser each had eight points in six) and had four assists in seven games at the 2019 Worlds at the age of 45.

If the selection committee does not grant Sallinen exceptional status, she will not be eligible for nomination and selection for three more years. Considering the fact that we are still waiting for our first European-born womens hockey player to be welcomed into the Hockey Hall of Fame, its unlikely that shell get in before 2022.

Ouellette is just one of three womens hockey players to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals; the other two Wickenheiser and Jayna Hefford are already in the Hall of Fame. She also won four Clarkson Cups (CWHL), six gold medals at the Womens Worlds and an NCAA national championship in 2003 with Minnesota-Duluth.

In other words:Ouellette should be French for champion.

Aside from being an offensive engine for HockeyCanada in three different decades, the 5-11 forward from Montreal just might be the greatest pro womens player in the history of North American hockey. Ouellette is the CWHLs all-time leader in scoring (315) and assists (184). If Ouellette never scored a single goal in her CWHL career, she would still be fourth all-time in points think about that. And if those numbers werent impressive enough, she is also tied for fifth all-time in scoring at the Worlds and is sixth all-time in scoring in Olympic play.

Ouellette played her last season of pro hockey with Les Canadiennes de Montreal in 2017-18, which means shell be eligible for nominationin 2021.

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There is a case to be made that Switzerlands Schelling is the greatest goaltender of all-time in international play. Dont believe it? Try naming another goaltender who helped elevate her national team to the heights that Schelling did for the Swiss womens national team.

Schelling made her debut for Switzerlands senior national team at the age of 13,representingher country in four Olympics and 11 World Championships. She holds the record for the most shutouts in Olympic competition (five), most wins in Worlds competition (21) and is the only goaltender to be named MVP of an Olympic tournament (2014). Her performance in the Sochi Olympics might be one of the greatest in the history of the game; she posted a .913 save percentage against a rate of 45.69 SA60 (shots against per 60 minutes) to earn Switzerland its only bronze medal in the womens games to date. Its worth noting that the Swiss mens team hasnt won an Olympic medal since 1948.

Schelling was also brilliant in her collegiate and professional career. She posted a .940 save percentage and a 1.74 GAA in 98 games for Northeastern University and was a finalist for the 2012 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. After a year in the CWHL, Schelling played pro mens hockey in Switzerland before taking her skills to the SDHL, where she earned honors as Goalie of the Year in 2018.

What makes Schellings amazing career all the more exceptional is the fact that she retired at the age of 29 after competing in the 2018 Olympics. To say that her resume is impressive enough to make her the first female goalie in the Hockey Hall of Fame would be a gross understatement.

Rooth is an icon in both her native Sweden and in the State of Hockey. In 2015, she became the first and (remains the only) Swedish woman inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. She isalso the first European player in NCAA Division I history to have her number retired by her college, the University of Minnesota-Duluth and is an SDHL champion.

A prolific goal-scorer, Rooth buried 119 goals in 124 games as a Bulldog during her collegiate career. She remains the programs all-time leader in goals scored and is second in career points. The 2000 WCHA Rookie of the Year led the Bulldogs to three consecutive national titles (2001, 2002, 2003) and earned honors as MVP of the Frozen Four in 2001.

Rooths blend of strength and speed transformed Team Swedens offense for over a decade. She buried 21 goals in 44 gamesat the Womens Worlds and was the first Swedish player (mens or womens hockey) to score 100 goals in international competition. Before the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, Rooth was Swedens all-time leading scorer in Olympic competition (nine goals, nine assists in 20 games).

She'll forever have a place in hockey history for the role she played in what might be the greatest upset in the history of womens hockey in Olympic competition. On Feb. 17, 2006, Sweden wasa heavy underdogagainst Team USA in the semifinal. Rooth scored back-to-back goals to tie the game (including a shorthanded tally) and added another goal in the shootout to pave the way to Damkronornas first silver medal in womens hockey on the Olympic stage.

Why Botterill isnt in the IIHF Hockey Hall of Fame is something of a mystery, but it could have something to do with her somewhat modest production on the Olympic stage. Mind you, 15 points in 21 games is far from modest by most standards, but it does pale in comparison to the numbers that other elite North American forwards piled up in that era.

Of course, theres more to being great than putting up points. Botterill, a natural leader, played a crucial role for Canada on the Olympic stage, winning three consecutive golds after claiming silver in Nagano in 1998. She was also an essential ingredient to Canadas success in World Championship play, where she won eight medals (five gold, three silver) in her career.

One of the games great power forwards, Botterillis one of only two players to be named MVP of two different World Championships (2001, 2004). Her offensive prowess was at its peak in the first half of the 2000s; she led the 2001 Worlds in goals (eight) and the 2004 Worlds in assists (eight) and points (11). The 59 points that Botterill amassed in 40 games of World Championship competition gives her a higher average Pts/GP (1.48) than Wickenheiser (1.41), Hefford (1.38)and Knight (1.42) those three players represent three of the four top-scorers in the history of the Womens World Championship.

Botterill was equally brilliant in her collegiate career at Harvard University. Shes the only player in the 22-year history of the Patty Kazmaier to win the award twice. The 112 points she scored in her senior season to secure her second Patty Kaz remains the second-highest scoring season in NCAA history. Following college, Botterill helped establish the CWHL after playing in the Canadian NWHL. She retired as the CWHLs second-highest scorer, putting up 154 points in three seasons of hockey.

Five more women who belong in the HHOF: Kim Martin-Hasson, Karyn Bye-Dietz, Erika Holst, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Jenny Schmidgall-Potter

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It's those rock and roll hours, early graves without flowers

Please, please darlin' put my mind at rest

I'm beggin' please darlin' put my mind at rest

So it seems that the world keeps on turnin' but so what

I don't doubt it, it just keeps on the move

You're a dream, and that's all that I ask for

So well now, I'm wonderin' just how I'm gonna tell it to you

Skin It Back Paul Barrere, Little Feat

Among musicians, skin it back means go for it, and as a band, Little Feat did just that. Endlessly funky, tight as a drumhead, syncopated, country blues-tinged and punctuated with wry lyrics, the band formed by Lowell George and Billy Payne in 1969 became a staple in my college years.

Marylanders really took a shine to the Feats when they recorded the brilliant Feats Dont Fail Me Now at Blue Seas Recording Studio near Baltimore, in Hunt Valley, Maryland, in 1974. By the time I hit my job at the University of Maryland Record Co-op in 1975, Little Feat was held in high regard. And, between my jobs at the co-op and the college daily, concert tickets were plentiful. Ive seen Little Feat live more than any other band in my life, including one of the Lisner Auditorium gigs, where the band recorded a number of tracks for its fantastic live album, Waiting For Columbus. The band is in my DNA.

Thats why the recent death of guitarist and songwriter Paul Barrere was a kick in the gut. He wrote Skin It Back, my favorite Little Feat song in a catalogue of enduring and brilliant songs, many written by the superb slide guitarist and former Mother of Invention, George. Barrere and guitarist-mandolinist, Fred Tackett, often paired up for tours, and in 1986, maybe 1987, played Tellurides legendary Fly Me To the Moon Saloon. Barrere signed my battered copy of Feats Dont Fail Me Now, mentioning in writing that more than a decade after its release, it had gone gold.

That record was always gold in my book. It features not only Skin It Back, but Spanish Moon, Rock and Roll Doctor, Oh, Atlanta and the dance-frenzy-inducing medley Cold, Cold, Cold/Tripe Face Boogie.

After George died in 1979, his undoing his poor health and propensity to enjoy the rock n roll lifestyle in all its excessiveness, the band took a hiatus. Imagine my joy when, shortly after making Telluride my home, a reunited Little Feat with Lowell sound-alike, Craig Fuller, performed at Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 1988.

In 2012, the Feats returned, this time for Telluride Blues & Brews. I was part of KOTOs live broadcast team, and Barrere and Tackett said yes to an interview. By the end of the interview I was walking on air. Tackett was warm, effusive and woo-y, while Barrere was taciturn but quietly friendly. Both men kissed me farewell before heading back to the bus. Talking music and life with those guys is a precious gift of a memory.

Payne said this about his departed bandmate: Paul touched many hearts and minds by sharing the gifts he possessed. We have the songs, his voice and all the inflections he commanded, his incredible musical sense as a player, whether playing a searing and soaring slide part or a gentle acoustic guitar. He was a master at rhythm and creating stellar parts to songs of almost any genre.

Ill add this. Barrere had two degrees in be-bop, a PhD in swing, he's the master of rhythm, he's a rock n roll king.

This rock musician death thing just keeps coming at me. The mathematical reality that our (my) musical heroes are going one step beyond with increasing regularity leaves me wondering, whos next? Could be most anyone, as Damon Linker wrote in his clear-eyed story in The Week in August, The Coming Death of Just About Every Rock Legend. Theres a long list of 70-somethings well be mourning before too long Dylan, Pete Townsend, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters, Paul and Ringo, and Mick and Keef are just a sampling of rockers whose time is gonna come.

Like all monumental acts of creativity, the artists were driven by an aspiration to transcend their own finitude, to create something of lasting value, something enduring that would live beyond those who created it, Linker wrote. That striving for immortality expressed itself in so many ways in the deafening volume and garish sensory overload of rock concerts, in the death-defying excess of the parties and the drugs, in the adulation of groupies eager to bed the demigods who adorned their bedroom walls, in the unabashed literary aspirations of the singer-songwriters, in mind-blowing experiments with song forms marked by seemingly inhuman rhythmic and harmonic complexity, in the orchestral sweep, ambition, and (yes) frequent pretension of concept albums and rock operas. All of it was a testament to the all-too-human longing to outlast the present to live on past our finite days. To grasp and never let go of immortality.

He concludes: When we mourn the passing of the legends and the tragic greatness of what they've left behind for us to enjoy in the time we have left, we will also be mourning for ourselves.

And so I put Little Feat on the turntable as I did with Petty and Harrison and Cohen and Casal and Becker and, and, and and dance and let myself be flung back to my younger self, when there were few cares, fewer pounds and an irrational belief that the feeling would last forever, my ineffectual way of never letting go of immortality. Linkers right. I cry for me, too.

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Bram Stokers literary legend Dracula is the most frequently adapted fictional character of all time. His 1897 novel, which has now been translated into 29 languages, inspired a staggering 272 iterations of the Prince of Darkness in film and television. Some are faithful adaptations of the story, about solicitor Jonathan Harker and his dealings with the Count between Transylvania and London, while others choose to take a different approach by putting Dracula in a modern setting.

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The character has been used as a prestigious guest star, or as a powerful adversary to elevate episodes of everything from The Brady BunchtoBuffy the Vampire Slayer. When given his own series, both the tragedy and the allure of his immortality has been explored, as well as the origins of his curse. Hes been portrayed as either the ultimate villain or a sympathetic victim of circumstance, a charismatic and cultured aristocrat or an animistic and aggressive hedonist. To prepare for BBC's three-part adaption of Draculadue on Netflix Dec. 20th, 2019 here arethe 10 best TV versions of Dracula, ranked.

Despite being the most powerful vampire of literary legend, Dracula isnt all that impressive in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when he suddenly arrives in Sunnydale. He can transform into a bat or turn into mist, but these are abilities discredited as nothing more than parlor tricks by Spike and the rest of the Scoobies. He attempts to hypnotize Buffy several times but routinely fails, making us wonder if Dracula has been de-fanged.

Hes portrayed as every bit the mysterious and seductive Prince of Darkness by Rudolf Martin, complete with pale arched cheekbones, long nails, and dark hair, but the series makes Dracula out to be just another uber vamp, not even as powerful as a Vengeance Demon. At the end of his stay in Sunnydale he has two choices; get staked or scram, and he chooses the latter.

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The classic British actor Denholm Elliot, who you might remember fondly as Marcus, the trusty traveling companion of Indiana Jones in Spielbergs classic adventure trilogy, donned the cape and fangs to portray Dracula in a television serial called Mystery and Imagination in 1968. His version was very operatic and melodramatic, calling to mind Bela Lugosis original film version in the 30s.

Denholm Elliot is an accomplished thespian, but perhaps hes simply too likable and too congenial to accurately pull off the Count. While we could believe that anyone would accept an invitation from his Dracula to have a nice dinner, we couldnt believe that he would make anyone into a nice dinner. He was all bat and no bite.

In 2006, because there hadnt been a Dracula film in a few years, the BBC decided it was about time to have a go at Bram Stokers famous vampire story. The master of producing period films, BBC was always going to create a sumptuous story around the Count, but where would it differ from the version directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 90s with Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder?

Marc Warrens Dracula is young, brash, and arrogant. Hes a caged beast waiting to break free, which has more in common with the Wolfman than Dracula (who has in the past weaponized the Wolfmans uncontrollable impulses for his own uses). This Dracula isnt terrifying nor is he charismatic - he simply exists for the purpose of pouting for the post-Twilight crowd.

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The atmospheric fantasy series Penny Dreadful,about a group ofuniquely skilled individuals hunting supernatural creatures in Victorian London, featured several famous horror legends of literature. Dr. Frankenstein and his Monster, Dorian Grey, the Wolfman, and of course, Dracula himself.

Posing as Dr. Sweet, he befriended Ms. Vanessa Ives, a clairvoyant in Sir Malcolms employ. They bonded over their mutual love of ancient artifacts, literature, and poetry. With such an intellectual fascination, it was only a matter of time before a physical one manifested, but his identity was discovered before he could make her into a meal.

While this version of Bram Stokers Dracula doesnt tread any new ground, it does include a scenery-chewing performance by Jack Palance, whom most will know from his various roles in Westerns as a tough-as-nails outlaw heavy. Its easy to believe he can overpower Jonathan Harker in this film and seduce his fiance Mina once he travels to London.

Palances Dracula is a brooding and aggressive hunter, and his bold physicality makes it feel like hed just as soon brawl you as he would bite you. It was directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, and is atmospheric, violent, and bloody, as any good Dracula film should be.

Shortly after he appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rudolf Martingot another chance to playDracula in a made-for-tv movie about Vlad the Impaler, the historic figure that inspired Bram Stokers novel. It traces his origins at the start of the Turkish conflict against the Ottoman Empire, and what the Count sacrificed to protect his people.

This sympathetic portrayal of the Count, which has more in common with the origins film Dracula: Untold starring Luke Evans, is a gripping story that is well-acted for its medium and offers a unique insight into the ethnic culture that Dracula came from. Its easy to see how the myths of vampires were born in the folklore of the region from this brutal and engaging tale.

Though billed as a comedic series, the fun of Dracula in Young Dracula comes from the Prince of Darkness taking himself entirely too seriously. Hes fled Transylvania with his family and moved to a small English town, where his children must enroll in the local school and try their best to blend in, despite living in a spooky castle and having a dad that looks something between a vampire and a rock star.

His son Vlad tries to juggle homework and dating with his studies of the dark arts. As Draculas son and heir, its his duty to unite all the vampire clans. Unfortunately, Vlad hates blood, killing, and anything to do with his heritage. The Count spends the series wreaking havoc on the townspeople, spouting hilarious catchphrases, and trying to thwart his sons every effort to be more like pathetic breathers.

It was like a stake to the heart of viewers when NBC canceled Dracula after only one season. The period series took a different path from Bram Stokers novel, and instead of Dracula arriving in London in 1897, he arrived in New York City at the dawn of the new century. He lets a grand house and poses as American entrepreneur Alexander Grayson, studying advancements in technology by day and hunting for victims by night.

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Dracula has more in common with Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, presenting intriguing questions about modern science in Victorian society. He also has his own personal bodyguard Renfield, who is much more like Batmans manservant Alfred than he is like the cockroach-eating minion of past incarnations.

Considered one of the most faithful adaptations of Bram Stokers novel, Count Dracula was a three-part mini-series that aired on the BBC in 1977 and starred Louis Jourdan as the titular antagonist. The Count once again leaves his castle in Transylvania after meeting with English solicitor Jonathan Harker to wreak havoc on London, and take Harkers fiance Mina as his new bride.

Jourdan is credited with creating one of the most enigmatic embodiments of the legendary horror icon, combining Continental etiquette with an icy coldness that is the best amalgamation of cinematic Dracula performances by Bela Legosi and Sir Christopher Lee.

In the hit anime series Castlevania, based on the popular manga and video game series of the same name, Vlad Tepes is a tragic figure tortured by his immortality and imprisoned by his powers. He watched as the woman he loved was murdered for witchcraft, and sold his soul to the Devil in order to command the powers needed to take his revenge upon her killers.

Not only do we see Draculas origins, but we also see what became of his family lineage, as a dynasty of immortals ends up shaping the landscape of medieval Europe. The series shows Dracula at his most insanely powerful, as well as at his most vulnerable. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently streaming on Netflix.

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"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"

Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Creeping Man

Immortality, at least for normal humans, is often seen as just plain wrong. Especially if they used to be mortals who actively wanted to be immortal. The rationale goes:

This trope focuses on immortality viewed by others as a bad thing, as distinct from Who Wants to Live Forever?, which focuses on the immortal character feeling that eternal life is a curse rather than a blessing. It may come up in discussions of The Singularity, as immortality and moving beyond traditional principles of human thought are seen by some as some of its defining characteristics.

The trope may result in a Broken and/or Anvilicious Fantastic Aesop. Expect anyone going ahead with these plans to become Enemies with Death. Also expect them to believe that Living Forever Is Awesome because why else they would commit such a heinous action except for something they want?

Also note that there are generally many kinds of immortality: Biological immortality (live "until killed", like Tolkien's elves) is usually natural, and full immortality rarely is (except for gods). A person actively seeking the latter is almost always evil (The Epic of Gilgamesh being a notable exception, although even there the same basic Fantastic Aesop of "Mortal Man should not seek to rise above his station" was enforced).

See also Immortality and its subtropes.

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...having been all but immortal from birth, never knowing vulnerability, far too many of them never developed notions of empathy or restraint, or found them far too late.

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Kumori: Can you imagine if da Vinci had continued to live, to study, to paint, to invent? That the remarkable accomplishments of his lifetime could have continued through the centuries rather than dying in the dim past? Can you imagine going to see Beethoven in concert? Taking a theology class taught by Martin Luther? Attending a symposium hosted by Einstein? Think, Dresden. It boggles the mind.

"Her only sin was that she loved life and all the meanings of life," said the Stygian girl. "To win life she courted death. She could not bear to think of growing old and shriveled and worn, and dying at last as hags die. She wooed Darkness like a lover and his gift was lifelife that, not being life as mortals know it, can never grow old and fade. She went into the shadows to cheat age and death "

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Narrator: [singing] Oh Marceline! Why are you so mean? Marceline: '[singing back] I'm not mean, I'm a thousand years old, and I just lost track of my moral code.

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"Immortality" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on June 6, 1995 as the third single from the band's third studio album, Vitalogy (1994). Although credited to all members of Pearl Jam, it was primarily written by vocalist Eddie Vedder. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 19912003).

The lyrical interpretation of "Immortality" can be disputed, as many feel it may be about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death, although vocalist Eddie Vedder has denied this. He stated:

No, that was written when we were on tour in Atlanta. It's not about Kurt. Nothing on the album was written directly about Kurt, and I don't feel like talking about him, because it [might be seen] as exploitation. But I think there might be some things in the lyrics that you could read into and maybe will answer some questions or help you understand the pressures on someone who is on a parallel train...[1]

In a later interview, Vedder talked about how he thought of Cobain and himself as "parallel trains." He said, "You look at it objectively and you think, 'What could be so fucking hard about being in a band?' But if you're coming from a place that's real, it's much harder."[2]

"Immortality" peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 31 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Outside the United States, the single was released commercially in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. In Canada, the song reached number 62 on the Canadian Singles Chart, and later it charted on the Canadian Alternative Top 30 chart where it reached number ten. "Immortality" reached the top 30 in New Zealand.

In Allmusic's review of the "Immortality" single, it was stated that "Immortality" is "the best ballad from the otherwise spotty Vitalogy."[3] Jon Pareles of The New York Times called it a "sullen Neil Young-style march" in which Eddie Vedder "ruminates over suicide as an end to pain."[4] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly said that "the sulking, lashing "Immortality" appears to be a Big Statement song about death, yet you'd never know that from its obtuse lyrics."[5]

"Immortality" was first performed live at the band's April 11, 1994 concert in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Garden.[6] The lyrics that appeared in the first live version of the song were altered before release. Live performances of "Immortality" can be found on various official bootlegs and the live album Live at Benaroya Hall.

The alternate version played in Boston in 1994 featured first-person lyrics, as opposed to the third person lyrics on the studio take, ending in what could be thought of as a reference to the Neil Young song, Hey Hey My My, where Vedder sang the lyrics "Hey hey, this is my last day... my my, know how hard I try/Hey hey, I wouldn't love to stay, my my, I wish I could get high". For years, this version was only available through bootlegs, but a large portion of the concert, including Immortality, was included on a bonus disc of the Vs/Vitalogy reiussue.

A live acoustic version of "Immortality" by the band Seether can be found on the band's 2006 live album, One Cold Night.

All songs written by Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder.

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