#( clark + june : 001 )

[scarletsxnss]

starter for @screamiingsiilence loosely based on this!!

what's better than impressing your date with a couple of prizes from the carnival? their relationship had ELEVATED in the last few dates. he's constantly convincing her to stay the night and try more and more things. clark liked to believe that he was pushing her limits and making her BETTER for it. better woman? maybe. better pet? DEFINITELY. every time they were together, he slowly tiptoes around the suggestions but has never fully dove into what he really wants. 

he knows she's a nice girl. sweet and PURE. at least she was, before he CORRUPTED her. all day he's flaunting her—holding her close, dangerously slipping past the line of GROPING. a big stuffed bunny is her REWARD for being a good girl. the toy is almost as large as her, he carries it around the venue, happily seeing how much she loves it. on their way home, he lets his hand slip onto her thigh. "check the glove box." clark hums. "i have one more surprise for you."

perfectly chosen—EXPENSIVE in all the ways possible. only the best for his girl. a pretty collar, in her facorite color, and his name BRANDED into the charm. to top it all off, there's a perfect LOCK that he has they key to, of course.

[latibvles]

SAD, BEAUTIFUL, TRAGIC.

ronald speirs x medic! ofc

* returns December 2nd, 2023, 12am EST

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losing someone is one thing. losing someone that you don’t think you ever had is an entirely different matter entirely. but losing someone you never had, only to see them again two years deep into a war tearing the world apart? it’s the worst luck of the most terrible draw. and it’s the only lot that Ronald Speirs seemed to pull.

OR . . . in which Daisy Clarke sees Ronald Speirs again in Europe, after completely disappearing on him a year into his military training.

a slow-burn Ronald Speirs-centric fanfiction FEATURING : childhood friends-to-strangers-to-lovers, “what if they made nurses into combat medics?”, alongside triggering topics such as violence, death, war, etc. chapters will be organized in two categories : THE PAST ( those which take place before the invasion of Normandy ) and THE PRESENT ( those which take place on D-Day and thereafter ).

Please forgive any historical & military inaccuracies — however there will be references to stories of the 128th Evacuation Hospital told from the U.S Army Nurse memoirs And If I Perish, which i have used to gain better understanding of what it was like to be a nurse serving in Europe and North Africa specifically. I am not writing about the real life Ronald Speirs, I am writing the fictional portrayal featured in Band of Brothers.

BEAUTIFUL MAGIC. what came before.

everything up until June 6th, 1944

001. all wounds heal. ( may 1937 ) 002. what it’s like. ( october 1935 ) 003. no children. ( november 1936 ) 004. hitting the ground. ( august 1943 ) 005. a heart's first flutter ( april - december 1942 ) 006. any way the wind blows. ( january 1944 ) 007. to be lionhearted ( may - june 1944 ) 008. to you, three years from now. ( march 1942 )

BEAUTIFUL, TRAGIC. the here, and the now.

everything from June 6th, 1944 onward ( save for our prologue )

001. what it means to depart. ( april 1942 ) ⠀ ⠀↳⠀bonus ! : the impulsivity of truth. ( april 1942 ) 002. d-day plus six. 003. keep pushing' forward. 004. dear john. 005. the weight you carry. 006. bark and bite. 007. hello and goodbye. 008. an upward climb. 009. ronnie and the olive tree. 010. winds of change. 011. when the shoe falls. 012. no hard feelings. 013. what we can mend. 014. raging storm / foreign war. 015. temper the courage. 016. the triumph of life over death. 017. the black tags. 018. finders keepers. 019. hyacinthus. 020. can't go back. 021. daisy and the fountain pen. 022. word on the street. 023. earn your stripes. 024. a raw wound. 025. one hundred and seven miles. 026. the tongue is a graveyard. 027. in your hearts shall burn. 028. the burden of atlas. 029. takes a village. 030. amen, amen, amen. 031. what remains. 032. a twisted knife. 033. what fear had wrought. 034. let it all go. ⠀ ⠀↳ : can’t sweeten a bitter heart ( 12/42 - 01/43 ) 035. craving humanity. 036. onward, beside you. 037. what comes down. 038. look at us now. 039. i wouldn't ask you. 040. sink or swim. 041. unravelled. 042. not yet burned. 043. lean on me. 044. to be in it with you.

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CHOIR UPDATE: 3/25/2020

03/18/2020

BY JESSE RATCLIFFE

CHOIR UPDATE: 3/25/2020In This Update…

Service Music & Choir Anthems to Practice UPDATES

Zoom Meeting – 4/2/20 at 7PM

Holy Week:

Looking Ahead:

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There’s much uncertainty about what we will be able to accomplish as a choral community for Holy Week, and I will keep you updated as best possible without overwhelming your inboxes.

The Requiem: Regardless of the season, this piece is an effective work for the current world status.  Please continue to practice at home–the group e-mail contains all the tracks as attachments. Let me know if you’d like to collect your score–I can make “hands-off” arrangements for you.

If we are able to return to normal by mid-April, please listen to the music I’ve selected for 4/26, and pencil-in a Saturday rehearsal and celebration for 4/25 from 10AM – 12:30PM.  This is very much subject to change, but it doesn’t hurt to have a plan.

Below the listing for May 17 you’ll see a link for tentative summer anthems–I’ve listed these pieces as a guide for Ryan, whom will be the interim director and Rene, the interim organist. Take a listen and let these pieces guide you through this season towards a, hopefully, healthy summer.

Choir Anthems To Practice

When practicing on your own time, don’t forget about the

“10 Things” list

MARCH 29

Processional 495 – Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus Anthem: When Jesus Wept – arr. Arlen Clarke Communion Hymns: 314 – Humbly I Adore Thee 641 – Lord Jesus, Think on Me Recessional INSERT – Lord of the Dance

HOLY WEEK: PALM SUNDAY – EASTER DAY

Click HERE to view music listings

APRIL 19

Processional: 208 – Alleluia! The Strife is O’er, The Battle Done Sequence: 209 – We Walk By Faith, and Not by Sight Offertory Hymn: Insert – He Lives! Communion Hymns: 318 – Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face 691- My Faith Looks Up to Thee Recessional: 212 –Awake, Arise, Lift Up Your Voice

APRIL 26 – MUSIC APPRECIATION SUNDAY

Processional: 525 – The Church’s One Foundation Psalm: 116: 1-3, 10-17 – Anglican Chant Sequence: 420 –When in Our Music, God is Glorified Anthem: Coronation – C. Courtney Communion Hymns: 306 – Come, Risen Lord, and Deign to Be Our Guest 335 – I Am the Bread of Life Recessional: 492 – Sing, Ye Faithful, Sing with Gladness

MAY 3 – GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY & CHILDREN’S EUCHARIST

Processional: Insert – Lord of the Dance Hymn of Praise: This is the Day Sequence: Insert – Precious Lord, Take My Hand Anthem: Children’s Choir Sanctus & Fraction: Land of Rest Setting Communion Hymns: Insert – You Satisfy The Hungry Heart Insert – Jesus Loves Me 711 – Seek Ye First Recessional: 304 – I Come With Joy to Meet My Lord

MAY 10

Processional: 366 – Holy God, We Praise Thy Name Sequence: 484 – Praise The Lord Through Every Nation Anthem: The Call from Five Mystical Songs – R.V. Williams (baritone solo) Communion Hymns: 51 – We The Lord’s People, Heart and Voice Uniting 455 – O Love of God, How Strong and True Recessional: 594 – God of Grace, and God of Glory

MAY 17 – BLUEGRASS MASS

Processional: Insert – He Lives! Hymn of Praise: To God Be the Glory Psalm: INSERT – Paraphrase of Psalm 66: 7-18  (using “Land of Rest”) Sequence: 8 – Morning Has Broken Anthem: How Great Thou Art (using the LEVAS harmonization) Communion Hymns: Blessed Assurance I Sing the Mighty Power of God (using the tune “Cleansing Fountain” ) Recessional: I’ll Fly Away

SUMMER ANTHEMS

June 7 – Aug 30

[fratboykate]

There's a picture in the SM part of the fic  where the kids are having fun at the beach, are we going to read more about their trips or vacations? Also, I thought Roa was gonna be the "painter" of all the kids, she has a very vivid imagination. Or maybe "the writer", since she makes up stories and things. And Aden is still to little, but I can see him working as a chef! Hahaha

I think I’ve talked about two vacations so far? Maybe three? I know we did their vacation to the DR when Lexa trashes his room, and we obviously saw them at The Hamptons, but I feel like I may have brought up another one at some point? I may have not published that chapter yet??? IDK there’s too many for me to keep track of what’s published and hasn’t been published yet tbh. 

The picture at the beach could be from the vacation in the DR. They’re all about the right age there. I don’t know how many more vacations are going to be mentioned in the main plot, but I know I have one or two vacation chapters on my phone. 

Roa is definitely a creative. She’s into music like Costia, but does she follow that path??? I don’t know. I haven’t decided. Whatever she does is creative though. Anya loves writing and she’s a pretty good writer, but she’s also the most sensible one of the bunch so she’ll end up going for what people call a “real” job. Most likely to follow in Lexa’s footsteps. Aden can be a naked chef lol. 

Also, I haven’t talked about this because I’m still pissed at myself/literally heartbroken but now that you bring SM AU posts…I don’t know if there will be any more of those coming. Why? I used to have a folder on my desktop with not only over 7k photos but also all the custom PSD files I’d created for each social media platform. Being the OCD nutjob that I am, they were split into folders by characters and within each folder the photos were separated by age. I had folders for kids with the dogs, for separate holidays, the wedding, birthdays, school, work events, etc. You named it, there was probably a folder for it and inside that folder there were probably subfolders for subfolders where I got really specific. Honestly if anyone had asked me something super random like “Give me a picture of Costia on 4th of July when she was 4” or like “Clarke at age 34 with Anya” it would’ve taken me maybe 30 seconds to find something to match that description. I started amassing visual references for story this last June. It was basically a full year of very detailed work. Weeeeell, somefuckinghow that folder accidentally ended up in my trash on Sunday or Monday and then I didn’t need to look for anything in it and I didn’t notice. I cleaned my trash Monday afternoon. When I was emptying it I thought “wow…I wonder why it says there’s over 8k files to delete” but I was writing the new chapter and I didn’t think too much about it. Huge mistake! Like 2-3 minutes later something in my brain went off because the number of files to delete was too high and I was like “Noooo…it can’t be!” and I went to check my desktop and indeed the folder was gone. The trash was still clearing and I instantly stopped it, but most of the folder had been deleted by then. I bought data recovery programs and I think I was able to get maybe half of the pictures back but they’re all renamed to like “File 001″ and my folders/organization system most definitely went out the window. The data recovery only got back the pics so all my PSD files for the templates are gone. I could try and organize the pics I recovered but just the idea of sorting through like 3k pics and figuring out my labeling system again gives me a headache. I’ll also know all the shit that I’m missing and it’ll make me angry if I want to make a post but don’t have that pic anymore. So yeah………..I think the SM AU is all but deceased at this point lol. Sad face. I know. I had a billion ideas left to make still. Trust me, I still can’t think about it without wanting to cry lol.

[goldeagleprice]

Archivist turns up counterfeit $100 tale

By Peter Huntoon and Eric Head

Occasionally large size U.S. counterfeits turn up, but usually virtually nothing is known about them. Here we have a case where at least the final victims of the fraud are identified.

Eric Head is an Assistant Archivist at the Knox County Archives, which is a division of the Knox County Public Library in Knoxville, Tenn. One mission of the archives is to preserve the non-current permanent records created by the county government since its founding in 1792.

County Archivist Doris Martinson was processing old court records dating from the 1870s when she came across the counterfeit $100 1862 legal tender note illustrated here. It was among court documents that placed it into its historic context. This is that tale.

Front and back of the counterfeit $100 1862 legal tender note at the center of a court case between a fertilizer company based in Savannah, Ga., and a Knoxville, Tenn., bank. (Image courtesy of author)

The spurious note is a well-known counterfeit from that era. However, unlike its known brethren, it is in unusually good condition.

The Archives staff was surprised to find it, because they have processed other court records pertaining to counterfeits that contained only facsimile drawings of the subject notes.

The case file providing the paper trail was for N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co. vs The People’s Bank of Knoxville, filed April 6, 1870, in the Knox County Circuit Court as docket #13623. The Hardee firm was located in Savannah, Ga.

There were two county courts at the time, the Knox County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions and Knox County Circuit Court. The former was a civil court that heard cases involving small sums. The latter dealt with criminal cases and civil matters involving larger sums as well as appeals that bounced up to it from the lower court.

The case of our $100 was first heard before Justice of the Peace R. D. Jourolmon in the lower court. The records from the lower court did not survive, but the essence of what transpired is revealed in paperwork attending an appeal that moved the case into the Circuit Court.

The counterfeit was part of a cash payment of approximately $950 sent to N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co. by C. A. Michell. Co-author Head has been able to identify Michell as Clifton Armstrong Mitchell, a watchmaker/jeweler in Knoxville.

Mitchell had obtained the cash from the People’s Bank of Knoxville. He sent the cash by Southern Express to the Hardee firm in Savannah, where it was received on or about May 12, 1868. The payment consisted of nine $100s, two $20s and some lesser notes, along with a letter transmitting same. John L. Hardee received the payment from the messenger as a sealed package. Hardee opened the package, verified the amount, and turned the cash over to Edward Pape, the firm’s cashier and bookkeeper. Pape immediately took the cash to The Merchants National Bank of Savannah, where he attempted to deposit it. The receiving teller condemned the note in question as counterfeit, and undoubtedly it was he who clipped the two right corners from it in order to kill it.

It was standard practice during this era to cancel counterfeits by any number of means such as writing, stamping, or branding the words “counterfeit” or “bad” on them, or punch canceling or clipping them. Then they were simply returned to the depositor, who was stuck with them identically as with a returned bad check.

Obviously, what happened is that the Hardee firm brought suit in Jourolmon’s court in Knoxville against the People’s Bank of Knoxville, which had furnished the bad note to Mitchell. The suit was filed April 1, 1870, and the demand of the Hardee firm was that the bank make good on the note. Someone scrawled “Exhibit A” on the back of the note as the case developed.

$100 in 1868 dollars represented almost $1,700 today, so it wasn’t an inconsequential hit.

Jourolmon ruled in favor of the Hardee firm, causing the bank’s attorney to lodge an appeal with the Circuit Court on June 17, 1870, challenging the ruling. The appeal centered on depositions ordered on April 2, 1870, of John Hardee and Edward Pape at the Hardee firm by J. P. Jourolmon. This moved the case up to the Circuit Court before Judge Elijah T. Hall.

On June 6, 1871 – over a year later – the lawyers for the People’s Bank filed an exception with the court protesting the admittance of the deposition. The People’s Bank claimed that they had informed Jourolmon they were not ready for an April 1870 trial and were told by him that depositions therefore would not be taken until May 25, 1870. In fact, the depositions were taken April 26, 1870, and were the basis for the verdict issued against The People’s Bank.

The lawyers for N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co. then filed an appeal to the exception with the clerk of the Circuit Court on Feb. 22, 1872.

By then, the claim of the Hardee firm against the People’s Bank was more than two-and-a-half years old. The lawsuit was withdrawn the same day, so it appears that an out-of-court settlement was reached, the details of which are lost to history.

  Some Historic Connections

N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co., Bay Street, Savannah, Ga., were agents and purveyors of fertilizer for cotton and other crops that was supplied by Clark’s Cove Guano Company of New Bedford, Mass. It was packaged in sacks labeled Hardee’s Cotton Boll ammoniated super-phosphate.

The president of The People’s Bank of Knoxville at the time of the lawsuit was Charles McClung McGhee. He was a member of the prominent McClung family of Knoxville that produced Lee McClung, who went on to become the 22nd U.S. Treasurer between 1909 and 1912. Charles McGhee was a prominent businessman who organized the merger of a number of railroads to create the East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia Railroad. The railroad merged with the Richmond and Danville Railroad in 1894 to became the Southern Railroad.

The McClung family produced local benefactors who established the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture on the campus of the University of Tennessee and the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection in the Knox County Public Library. Calvin was Treasurer Lee McClung’s brother.

As these things go, the cashier of the People’s Bank from 1869 forward was one Joseph R. Mitchell. He happened to be the brother of jeweler Clifton Mitchell, who obtained the counterfeit from the People’s Bank the previous year.

  The Counterfeit

Hessler & Chambliss (2006) state that “There is a well-known counterfeit [that] has a slightly inferior engraving of the spread eagle, but the most obvious defect is on its back.  On the genuine notes the tiny ‘100’ digits are rightside-up on the right and inverted (thus reading ‘001’) on the left.  On the counterfeit these are reversed, thus ‘100’ on the left and ‘001’ on the right.”

The subject note is one of these and simulates Fr. 165a. No one has definitively identified the counterfeiter.

  References Cited and Sources of Data

N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co. vs The People’s Bank of Knoxville, Knox County Circuit Court docket #13623: Knox County Archives, Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, TN. N. A. Hardee’s Son & Co.: http://ghs.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/view?docId=ead/MS%202203-ead.xml (Georgia Historical Society).

Hessler, Gene, and Carlson Chambliss, 2006, The comprehensive catalog of U. S. paper money, 7th edition: BNR Press, Port Clinton, OH, 672 p.

Inflation calculator: https://www.officialdata.org/1860-dollars-in-2017?amount=1

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[unbreakabletrust]

Mixcloud GO! 1971 (20/24): 1AM to 2AM

https://www.mixcloud.com/epicharmus/mixcloud-go-1971-1am-to-2am/

Gene Clark "With Tomorrow" From White Light (A&M) Recorded and released in 1971

Robbie Basho "Roses and Snow" From Song of the Stallion (Takoma) Recorded in 1968; released in 1971

Crow Dog's Paradise "Song For Him Who Do Not Return" From Songs of the Sioux (Elektra) Released in 1971

Barbara Benary “Exchanges” Performed by Barbara Benary, Malcolm Goldstein, and Naaz Hosseini From From the Kitchen Archives–1979 (Orange Mountain) Composed in 1971; recorded live in June 1979; released in 2004

Supersister "No Tree Will Grow (On Too High a Mountain)" From To the Highest Bidder (Polydor) Recorded and released in 1971

The Firesign Theatre Excerpt from "Side .001" From I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus (Columbia) Recorded and released in 1971

Tangerine Dream "Ultima Thule, Teil 2" 7" single B side (Ohr) Released in 1971

Bismillah Khan "Ghazal" From Shehnai Nawaz (His Master's Voice) Released in 1971

Alice Coltrane "Hare Krishna" From Universal Consciousness (Impulse!) Recorded and released in 1971

Wilson Pickett "Don't Knock My Love–Pt. 2" From Don't Knock My Love (Atlantic) Released in 1971

The Modern Lovers "Roadrunner" Recorded live circa late 1971; never officially released

Photograph by Edgar D. Mitchell.

The Bismillah Kahn track was sourced from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2VHkltJ9E

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Discourse Community Research Paper Final Draft

Estella Ma UWP 001 Discourse Community Research Paper Final Draft June 7th, 2018 Cover Memo: In this draft, I further developed the interview and revised the genres of communication and the conclusion parts of the research paper. Also, as Prof. Obrien suggested, I abandoned the bullet point form and combined my arguments into a more formal, paragraph form.  Also, I added an explanation for the attached pictures and adjusted the references into alphabetic order.

A discourse community, generally, is a group of people with common interests involved in communication about a specific topic or field.  Many discourse communities are present according to different interests, backgrounds, and purposes.  For instance, Harry Potter Fans may be considered as a discourse community as they all have the same interest in the book series and are able to intercommunicate with each other about the contexts and details in the book.  It is important to distinguish discourse communities from speech communities.  A speech community is typically a sociolinguistic grouping based on communicative needs, such as citizens of Davis.  Although they all understand each other and follow similar linguistic norms, they may belong to many separate discourse communities because of different interests and field of study.  On the contrary, although it may be hard for many to believe, taxonomy biologists all across the world indeed do form a discourse community even though they may not conduct face-to-face communication.  This paper will introduce taxonomy biology, demonstrate that taxonomy biologists form a discourse community, and use it as an example to discuss the characteristics and mechanisms of discourse communities. Taxonomy biology, by definition, is the phylogenetical analysis and classification of organisms.  Basing on either morphological or genetical analysis, all organisms are classified into different groups with other similar ones and given scientific names.  Eight distinct taxonomic categories are present, following the sequence from the broadest to the smallest are: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. With each step down the taxonomy, organisms are further split into more specific groups, and a species’ formal name is determined by its genus and species groups according to binomial nomenclature method.  As an example, the taxonomic classification of humans is: Eukaryota domain, Animalia Kingdom, Chordata phylum, Mammalia class, Primates order, Hominidae family, Homo genus, and Sapiens specific epithet, thereby having the Species name of Homo Sapiens.  Taxonomic biology is the foundation of all biological studies which provides a universal classification and naming system, helping biologists to understand the evolution and physiology of certain species and the relationships between them. Taxonomy biologists form a discourse community, a giant one with worldwide but interconnected and functional communicating system.  Many may argue that taxonomy is not a discourse community as it is a very broad idea and individuals involved in it disperse globally and may never truly communicate with each other.  However, different from speech communities, a discourse community, by definition, often used to represent or signal written texts. As a result, scientific papers are published and translated online, reaching each taxonomy biologist’s laptop via internet simultaneously to accomplish information exchange and intercommunication.  It is, in fact, a highly efficient communicating system.  Furthermore, the group formed by taxonomy biologists fulfills all six defining characteristics of discourse communities, first proposed by John Swale (1990). According to Swale (1990), to be identified as a discourse community, a group must fulfill six defining characteristics.  First, “a discourse community has broadly agreed common public goals.” Taxonomy biologists obviously have common public goals of collecting and analyzing data, developing the most convincing phylogenies and theories, and testing them repeatedly to reduce bias and increase accuracy.  Second, Swale claims that “a discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication within the group.” This is also true for taxonomy biologists who accomplish whole group intercommunication via multiple means including but not limited to publishing papers online to contribute their new findings and theories and, at a smaller scale, periodical conferences and telecommunications. Third, “a discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to exchange information.” Taxonomy biologists publish papers online or cite others’ articles to share their new findings and experiments or to express their thoughts, thereby accomplishing information exchange.  Having the same common public goals, taxonomy biologists almost exclusively focus on academic findings and studies. Fourth, “a discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.” Basing on my observation and interview results, the taxonomy biology community possesses multiple genres of communication.  To maximize communication efficiency, they are changed and applied to different situations including communication between members with high expertise and between core members and entry-level members.  Both situations and genres will be further explained. Fifth, “a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis.” The taxonomy biology community is established on terminology.  Despite the scientific naming of all species and organism categories, there are numerous vocabularies using experimental methods to create and test phylogeny models.  The description of morphological characters and gene expression of species requires the even greater amount of terminology.  As an example, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor), a theoretical organism placing at the root of the entire phylogeny, is a term with extremely high exposure among taxonomy biologists, yet an abbreviation that does not make any sense to anyone outside the community.  In addition, there is lexis which exists in other communities but with completely different meanings.  Keystone is a vocabulary that appears frequently in architecture, representing a central stone at the apex of an arch structure.  However, for taxonomy biologists, it means a species with relatively small biomass but a great impact on the ecosystem. Last but not least, “A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.” This requirement is also fulfilled by taxonomy biology since this community is an academic group with a relatively high requirement of discoursal expertise.  Individuals without sufficient related educational backgrounds would fail to participate in this community because of lack of related knowledge and terminology understanding.   Fulfilling all six defining characteristics, the group formed by taxonomy biologists around the world should be identified as a discourse community.  To provide further supporting evidence, I interviewed three students. Greta Wang is a sophomore from Lewis and Clark College, Portland, majoring in anthropology; Kevin Zhou is a fourth-year biological science student at UC Davis; Amaris Cudia is a first-year evolution, ecology, and biodiversity major.  One of the questions I asked was about the genres of communication among taxonomy biologist.  Greta is not a participant of this community because her major focus mainly on social sciences instead of biological science, so she provided opinions and perspectives from outside the community.  She believes that the communication within this discourse community is formal and academic, whereas understandable to most individuals with college-level educational backgrounds because they always explain things clearly and define the abstract terminology.  Amaris offered an interesting view about having two distinct genres within the discourse community.  As a first-year biological science major, she entered this discourse community not long ago.  She mentioned that she was able to understand the textbooks and lectures about taxonomy and construct simple phylogenetic model using provided data yet fail to comprehend many related academic papers found in Google Scholar. She believes this is caused by the difference of genres and vocabulary choices between lectures and scholar papers.  “My professors primarily use the common names of species and illustrate things clearly with oral language, but many research articles prefer the formal binomial nomenclature and do not explain their statistics at all. They simply assume that you understand everything!” she said.  Last but not least, Kevin, as a fourth-year biological science major, agreed with Amaris idea of having different genres within the community.  He points out that this is due to difference in level of expertise within the community. Part of the interview and discussion between Kevin and I is summarized below. Multiple genres are present in the communication between members of the taxonomy biology discourse community.  Two of the main genres Kevin discussed are the lectures in universities like UC Davis and research articles published on academic websites and magazines.  Those distinct genres serve different purposes and have unique attributes and benefits in communication. Though participating in the same discourse community, individuals may present unidentical level of expertise due to the difference in length of participating time and individual experience.  The system of communication applied by taxonomy biology discourse community appears to be very efficient and successful in dealing with this problem.  Through publishing research articles and books, members with high level of expertise are able to share information and respond to each other in very short time; during lectures, those core members of the discourse community “translate” this information into more casual language and add explanation to make them more accessible and digestible to entry-level members, lowering the threshold mentioned earlier and contributing to the sustainable development of the community.  As an example, a research article about a bat species was published last week.  My professor for the course WFC 110 read it at the same it was published and added it to the lecture slide we used the next day.  By using different genres including lectures and research articles, communication efficiency within this huge community of taxonomy biology is maximize and sustainable development of the community is facilitated.   The difference in opinions of the three interviewees is most possibly due to the difference in their experience related to the taxonomy biology discourse community.  Amaris entered the taxonomy biology discourse community not long ago; she primarily participates in the community by attending lectures and reading textbooks.  Kevin, as the most experienced participant in the interview, participates in more genres of communication, so he was able to provide a relatively accurate overview of the communication within the taxonomy biology discourse community.  The articles Greta read about taxonomy biology is, in fact, not serving for communication within the discourse community but public education purpose.  It is also a critical type of communication for a discourse community which connects the members and outsiders and lowers the threshold to allow the joining of more new members, ensuring sustainable development of the community. Clearly, taxonomy biologists form a discourse community which has common public goals and distinct mechanisms of communication within the group, uses participatory mechanisms primarily to exchange information, utilizes specific lexis and genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims, and has a threshold level of relevant content and discoursal expertness.  The discourse community of taxonomy biology is a giant with members having different language preference and academic backgrounds.  To maximize communicating efficiency and connects all members having different levels of expertise, it possesses distinct genres of communication including published research articles and lectures. Although there may be bias because only three individuals were interviewed and all of them are college students on the west coast of the United States, this research provides an insight towards the genre of communication of the taxonomy biology discourse community.

The two graphs provide examples of phylogeny diagrams which indicate the relationship between species and history of their evolution.  

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for so many nights, he leaves their dates with STIFF needs. multiple nights he jerks off to her pictures—feeling PERVERSE but finds comfort in his filth. it was beyond scary to reveal his TRUTH to her: he was a PERVERT. the modern era has done nothing to curb his urges. but her innocence makes him want to LOVE her more than anything. he's torn between intimacy and pure LUST. any fear drops away when she calls him MASTER.

"yeah?" clark moans, loving the soft touches. her body is EXPOSED and the mirror reflects the SIN that they're ready to perform. but he's committed to letting the moment STRETCH. his fingers gently move the hair out of her face. eyes look into hers, through the reflection. "i've wanted to give you EVERYTHING for so long." the older male admits. as if to add to the moment, he moans softly. "it's so CUTE to see you like this..." 

his eyes then scan her body—finally able to see ALL of her. "how do you feel, baby?" he asks. "tell master everything going through your head."

she was barely able to catch her breath when he pulled her into a kiss. it felt like his hands were everywhere on her body. he was touching her in places that he hadn't before. then again they were places that no one had. all that she could do was let him take the stuffed bunny and he was throwing it across the room. that wasn't what had her focus though. she found herself smiling at his words," i'm glad that it is." there was so much that she felt like she didn't know.

she didn't bat an eye lash when he placed her hand back on his cock. her curious nature always seemed to get the best of her. sometimes it got her in trouble but clark was different. clark told her what she felt was natural, normal even. she returned every single i love you with one of her own.

somehow they managed to get in front of a full length mirror. one that she didn't remember being there the last time she was. the bunny was right in front of it. she was so focused on the feel of him that she barely realized what he was doing. at least until she found herself down on the floor," i know you won't hurt me."

she reached for the large stuffed bunny in order to pull it closer. her petite frame climbing atop it like he asked. her heart was racing like mad but she was going to do as he asked. her hands reached to begin to pull her dress up and off. it was set aside but she felt warm all over. even with all of her skin exposed as she went to undo the clasp on her bra. she was nervous but she knew she could trust him and that was why she listened.

june glanced up when she realized that he had started to undo his pants. quickly she shook her head at his question," no, master." it felt different to refer to him as that but right. her hand reached up without her realizing as she allowed her finger to drag along the head of him," only ever wanted to see yours."

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once the door shuts, he pulls her in for a ROMANTIC kiss. hands wander all over her body, slowly reaching places that he's never EXPLORED before. he knows he no longer has to worry about clothes and PRIVACY with her—she's his. "i knew this would be perfect." clark breathes, taking the stuffed animal and pulling it from her. the toy is tossed across the room, hitting a standing mirror—a brand new one, that he bought for this very occasion. 

his hand tugs hers again, placing it on his BULGE again—slowly forming her mind and helping her UNDERSTAND what her new place is. between each kiss are soft words; sweet nothings and romancing praises as he basks in their new RELATIONSHIP. with each statement came an "i love you" or "i'm so happy that we can be together FINALLY." his cock was throbbing with her touch. 

so often he had DEPRAVED fantasies about having her. he knew she was a VIRGIN which only made him want to BREAK her more. all she would know after tonight was his body. slowly he moves them towards the mirror. it's like a DANCE, if dancing included such perverse touching and groping. "tonight we're going to do a lot of special things... just remember that this is so important to me." his kisses begin to lessen, though he sneaks a couple in.

"i'm gonna take care of you throughout the whole things, okay? you're mine now... i'd never do anything to hurt you." as his instructions slip out, he pushes her down, looking at how PRETTY she is in the mirror. "sit on the bunny. both legs straddling it..." he takes careful lengths to instruct her, looking at her through the mirror and slowly angling her so that her CUNT rests perfectly against the fabric of the toy. "take off the rest of your clothes... let your MASTER see everything... you can keep your underwear on if it makes you feel more comfortable."

waiting on her to take instruction, he unzips his own pants. the jeans drop to the ground and he kicks it to the side and slips his THROBBING penis from its fabric confines. "you've never seen a penis in person, have you?" gentle fingers run through her hair as he lets her get CLOSE enough—not forcing, but letting her admire him. 

everything about their relationship was unexpected. she knew that she was meant to be there with him. everything that he had shown her and done proved that. it was why she hadn't thought twice about putting the collar on. it was locked in place and it felt so right. especially since he had told her what it meant. her head tilted down as he reached for the collar. her face turned bright red as he tugged on it but she didn't mind it. she knew that he wanted to see if she had snapped it fully around her neck. there was no way that she wanted to take it off.

"i love it," she cooed, gasping as his hand slid along the expanse of her chest. shivers shot up her body as she realized that she was finally getting everything that she wanted. quickly she nodded since she knew that he was right," i know." her eyes widened as he reached for her hand and she found her hand running along the outline of his length. he was hard as rock but she was shocked that he had gone to her father," i can't believe you went to him!" happily she kissed him back, realizing that she was never going to be happier than she was with him.

the kiss was slow but passionate and she dared to run her tongue along his lips. she had been so curious but had been so afraid. now she knew that she had no reason to be. part of her was shocked at his words but she knew she would do it," i'll move in." her eyes widened when she realized that she was going to be going inside. she nodded slowly as she went in for another kiss. after that she was going to climb from the car only to grab the stuffed bunny.

her arms wrapped around it as she began to walk up the front path. her heart was racing as she realized that she was about to walk into what was going to be her home. the blonde was going to wait for him to open the door and together they went inside. she was going to slip off her shoes before she was turning towards him," how are we going to celebrate?"

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clark watched her every movement. like she was PREY. from their first date, he knew she was NAUGHTY. her eyes would wander and he could feel her body warm up with his soft touches. everytime they got close, he tested the waters—seeing what EXCITED her. her devout disposition always kept them from crossing the line, but now he had her in his grasp and he refused to let go. his other hand reaches up to tug on the collar. to his surprise, it's truly LOCKED. no hesitation. she didn't even blink twice before becoming his. this had to be LOVE. if not this, than what was?

"i promise. this is MORE than being engaged." his hand move from the collar, down her chest. he doesn't GROPE her, though he wants to. his fingers merely feel her body before holding onto her soft hand. "our SOULS belong to each other. okay?" slowly his hand guides her to his bulge, softly replacing his own hand with hers. "i've already asked your father about marriage... he says it's sudden, but he understands that love like ours is one in a MILLION." clark leans in for a kiss, hiding the white lie—he did ask her father for permission. he just decided to omit any information about a collar and submission when he asked.

the kiss is long and slow. it isn't the normal sweet and quick kisses. this kiss is fueled by PASSION and the heat of two twin flames finally willing to be together. "you move in tomorrow." now that the collar was on, he decides not to toe around anything. he doesn't ask; now she listens to his every command. "we'll talk more about what all this means later... but tonight i want to celebrate." his lips are still close to hers, like he's pulling her into his SIN. "let's go inside... bring the stuffed bunny."

everything about clark had been so unexpected and it was all new. she had been following his lead ever since their first date. she remembered the first time that she had seen him. he had been hired by the church to take photos. never did she imagine that she would be lucky enough to have found the one god wanted her to be with. he had shown her so many things and had always promised that it was what she was meant to do.

she had worried it was sinful how much she craved him but he had told her that it was pure. that it was natural and she found herself doing things that once she had believed to be wrong. that was why she was practically over the moon about the collar. it would match anything she wore since her wardrobe consisted of bright colors. she felt warm all over as he spoke about marriage.

"this is you promising that?" she asked, eyes widening," that we'll be married?" she loved the idea of being at his home, waiting for him and taking care of everything. june barely realized they were on his street once he spoke in that tone. the one that always caused her to shiver in delight even if she denied it. she went to lift her hair up and away from her neck to place the collar around it.

it clicked into place and a sense of peace washed over her. she couldn't resist looking at her reflection in the side mirror. her teeth catching onto her lip at the sight of the pink against her skin. clark's name on the heart in the very center. though all of her attention went to him when she realized they were in his driveway. she couldn't help but stare when she realized he was stroking his cock through his jeans.

"you said this is like being engaged," she breathed, realizing what he meant and she wanted nothing more then to please him," and you promise we'll be married and i know god wants me to be with you." her stomach tightened but she timidly nodded," i want-want to feel you," she breathed," want to belong to you, fully."

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small steps. clark reminded himself. he'd never PUSH her to do anything that wasn't pure and pristine. though he did take pride in the way he altered her mind; how he would slowly convince her that certain things were okay. sometimes he'd convince her to sit in his lap. or other days he'd let her feel his ERECTION (through his jeans of course). now she let him hold her and TOUCH her, whenever he wanted. but, to clark, he knew what he wanted was so much MORE.

his eyes leave the road for only a moment to see her TEASE the image of her with the collar on. its beautiful to see. "wow." he speaks, almost stunned at how cute she is about the whole thing. clark knew there wouldn't be much resistance, but to see her so READY for it warms his heart—and hardens his cock. "you're always talking about marriage and BELONGING to each other... I felt like this was a good compromise, since your father would KILL me if we got engaged so soon into our relationship." 

he can't help but adjust his cock in his pants, before looking back on the road as he begins to pull into his neighborhood. "put it on." the request is a little more DOMINANT that his other words, this persona he seems to slip into whenever they were alone. usually he commands her to kiss him or how to touch him—but tonight he had other plans. 

pulling into his driveway, he looks at her, not touching her anymore—waiting until she accepts her new PLACE as his. "i know you're waiting until marriage..." his hand still stroking himself through his clothing as she watches her. he has no issue being this PERVERSE with her, not anymore, especially now that he knows that she'll let him do almost anything. tonight he hopes she'll drop the almost and let him do EVERYTHING.

"but i was hoping this would pursuade you to give into me finally... we've gotten so close over the last few months... it's only right. isn't it obvious that god wants us together?"

a carnival had been the last thing that she expected for a date. then again, dating in general wasn't something she had done a lot of. her father had always told her to focus on two things, her studies and church. only clark had come along and her entire world had been rocked. she adored him and wanted nothing more than to make him as happy as he did her. even if she was nervous about sleeping at his place and everything else he wanted. she couldn't exactly bring herself to say no to him because she loved how he made her feel.

she couldn't remember smiling so much the entire time they were there. he was constantly touching her in some way and showing her off. it was the first night she dared wear a dress that only came mid thigh. it wasn't a respectable length but she didn't think it mattered. he had even won her a giant stuffed bunny that he was nice enough to carry. it was almost disappointing to leave but she knew that it was getting late.

her gaze went towards his hand that slid onto her thigh. shivers shot up her spine at the contact but he had he full attention," you do?" eagerly she reached to pull open the glove box only to pull the collar out. her eyes widened at the sight of the soft pink collar that was clearly expensive. there was a charm that had his name engraved and her stomach filled with butterflies," it's so pretty!" eagerly she leaned over to press a kiss to his cheek before she went to hold it up against her neck," everyone will know i'm yours," she breathed," i'll never want to take it off!"