#92nd generation

[jgroffdaily]

JONATHAN GROFF SETS 2025 BROADWAY RETURN WITH ‘JUST IN TIME’

by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: Newly minted Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff will play the 1950s and ’60s crooner Bobby Darin in a staged reading next month, ahead of a planned Broadway opening in spring 2025, people familiar with the musical said.

The reading of Just in Time will be directed by Alex Timbers (Moulin Rouge!). On Broadway, Tom Kirdahy and Robert Ahrens are set to produce the show, which tells the story of the short but eventful life of the popular performer, whose hits included “Mack the Knife,” “Dream Lover” and “Just in Time.”

Born Walden Robert Cassotto in East Harlem, Darin had rheumatic fever as a child that damaged his heart. He lived, he acknowledged, as if on borrowed time before his death at 37.

He led a new generation of swinging singers into the rock revolution of the 1960s. He also acted in movies, composed music, married the actress Sandra Dee and as an adult discovered that the woman he thought was his older sister was his mother.

“I went on YouTube,” Groff told reporter Elysa Gardner before a rehearsal of an early version of the show, presented as part of the 92nd Street Y ‘s “Lyrics and Lyricist” series in 2018. “I watched all these TV performances, from the beginning to the end of his career, and I was blown away by his versatility. The rock & roll and the standards, the dancing, the folk songs. The duets with George Burns and Judy Garland. His life was insane.”

Darin spawned many imitators, including Kevin Spacey, who played him in the biofilm Beyond the Sea. The ballad “Just in Time” was composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden for the musical Bells are Ringing. It became a hit for Dean Martin, among others, who was in the 1960 movie adaptation directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Besides Groff, casting wasn’t available. The reading isn’t affected by the monthlong Actors’ Equity strike intended to pressure the Broadway League to improve its Development Agreement with the union. Actors will be working under a contract negotiated with the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of nonprofit theater companies.

Although the reading will be in New York, it’s under the aegis of Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, which is a LORT member.

In a charmed career, the 39-year-old Groff has performed in the Frozen films, the TV series Glee and three acclaimed Broadway blockbusters — Spring Awakening, Hamilton and most recently Merrily We Roll Along — each of which earned him a Tony nomination. (He won for Merrily.)

Groff was also the first Seymour in the hit off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, produced by Ahrens, Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold. Andrew Barth Feldman is currently playing the role.

In his moving acceptance speech at the Tony awards in June, Groff spoke about his love of the Broadway community and how “musical theater is still saving my soul.” Just in Time will aim for multigenerational appeal, as the young Broadway star sings 65-year-old standards.

Since the pandemic, older audiences have been slow to return to Broadway. If Just in Time is well received, Groff may be just the man to help bring them back.

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Source: Philip Boroff in Broadway Journal.

Jonathan led a reading of the show on 15 March 2024 after rehearsing for a couple of weeks with the cast. Details below:

[scotianostra]

On February 25th 1411 Bishop Henry Wardlaw established St Andrews as a university.

This is not the official date for St Andrews inauguration there are a few other dates I have found.

Teaching began in the community of St Andrews in 1410, but the University wasn’t formally constituted by the issue of a papal bull in 1413, even the University’s own webpage says it was founded between 1410 and 1414, I’m simply putting today date down as a marker and definite significant date init’s history. Whatever the date, it is generally accepted that it is the third oldest University in the English speaking world and 19th in the whole of the world.

Bishop Henry Wardlaw was educated in Oxford and Paris and spent a lot of time on the continent of Europe, notably at Avignon during the time of division in the Catholic church. On Wardlaw’s return to Scotland he was made Bishop of St Andrews, he was a very important figure in Scotland at the time and was tutor to King James I, who he went on to crown in 1424.

He issued the University’s charter of foundation in February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, dated 28 August 1413. The university was to be “an impregnable rampart of doctors and masters to resist heresy.”

With the declaration of St Andrews Priory on 4 February 1414, the University of St Andrews may be said to have come fully and formally into existence. There were six bulls included the bull of foundation and a bull confirming Wardlaw’s charter, although the text of all six is known, only the confirmation of Wardlaw’s grant survives in the original and still bears its bulla or lead seal, so again this is why February 25th is given as a date of it’s foundation.

Regardless of what date you believe the University of St Andrews is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. Recently St Andrews was ranked 3rd in the British Isles and the only Scottish university in the top 20 of the 119 universities ranked. It was also ranked 92nd in the world. When size is taken into account, St Andrews ranks second in the world out of all small to medium-sized fully comprehensive universities.

[heartsoftruth]

https://www.tumblr.com/heartsoftruth/756727015033438208/i-view-landos-relationship-with-lewis-just-like

Sorry i am new. What was lando’s comment on Lewis’s 92nd win?

"I'm just happy for him (Lewis), nothing more," he said.

"It doesn't mean anything to me (the record), really. He's in a car which should win every race, basically.

"He has to beat one or two other drivers, that's it. Fair play to him, he's still doing the job he has to do." ____ He did apologize for it. On Twitter (a bit too general for my liking) and later on in the press conference he said: "They were more the comments about Lewis and him reaching his 92 wins. Which I have a lot of respect for and I didn't choose the right words to put it into context," said Norris. "I apologised [on Twitter] but I also apologised to Lewis himself, I messaged him. I don't know if he knew about it at the time but I never meant to say something like that in a bad way or put any bad light on him at all. I respect everything he's done to achieve what he's done." Norris added: "It was all done off my own back. No one pressured me. I woke up in the morning, I looked on social media, and there was a lot more bad comments than good about the things I said." But then he backtracked it a little in THIS interview I feel (around 50:30)... So yeah...

It's also funnier now, because man IS in the fastest car since Miami; yet only converted it into 1 win so far.... Shows him how 'easy' it is huh?

[ummick]

Mick Schumacher Fully Lives His Adventure At the 24 Hours of Le Mans With Alpine

Mick Schumacher is preparing to make his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For this 92nd edition of the Le Mans classic, he is driving the Alpine A424 #36 from Alpine Endurance Team entered in the Hypercar category. He shares his impressions at the start of this great adventure.

After having competed in single-seater championships, first and foremost the Formula 1 World Championship, Mick Schumacher (25 years old) entered endurance and therefore the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The German driver joined Alpine's hypercar program last winter. He pilots the A424 #36 alongside Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere. He approaches the biggest endurance race in the world after showing strong performances in the previous three rounds of the FIA ​​WEC World Endurance Championship. "When we arrive at Le Mans, it's always with the ambition to shine and do the best possible. Being with Alpine, which is a French brand, gives another dimension," recognizes the man who competed in 43 grands prix between 2021 and 2022. Schumacher experienced the previous rounds of the FIA ​​WEC as preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. "Everything is new to me. What is obvious is that people come here because of their passion for car racing, and that's a real pleasure. On a more personal level, I can't wait to race, to see what it's like to be on the go for 24 hours, because I've never had this experience. There is always something happening here, there is constant traffic, so being in the wrong place at the wrong time can be costly. This is an additional challenge. You have to constantly have a strategy in mind to be sure you can finish your relay."

One of the many special features of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is night driving, a new experience for Schumacher and one that he appreciated last night during the second free practice session. "Frankly, I didn't find the exercise that difficult," he tempers. "During the tests we conducted in Jerez, it seemed much harder to me than here. To be honest, I really liked it. This gives different sensations. My teammates have experience of night driving and I'm going to learn a lot from them. The race is going to be exciting, that’s for sure." He can count on the valuable advice of Nicolas Lapierre, who has sixteen participations. "We spend a lot of time with Mick. With the other drivers, we talk about traffic or slow zones, which can be quite tricky. The point of alertness that I specifically pointed out to him is sunrise. I advised him to stay focused because, seeing the day dawn, you almost have the impression that the race is over, so much so that attention is relaxed and that's when we see a lot of errors occurring," explains the leader of the drivers of the brand with the A arrow.

Given his experience in Formula 1, Mick Schumacher cannot escape the comparison with endurance. He is categorical: "It's not comparable. I strive to separate the two, not to create a bridge in terms of driving style, to be 100% on one side or the other. A hypercar is heavier, but it's still fun to drive. The car is made for Le Mans, so every time I get behind the wheel it's a joy." Schumacher is therefore preparing to add a new string to his bow. Between technical challenges, adaptation to night driving and constant learning, this race promises to be a decisive step in the young pilot's career. Remember that his father, Michael, took part in the Le Mans classic in 1991 at the wheel of a Sauber Mercedes C11 which he shared with Karl Wendlinger and Fritz Kreutzpointner. This unique participation resulted in fifth place in the general classification and the best lap in the race. We bet that Mick would happily sign up for such an assessment next Sunday at 3 p.m.

[todaysdocument]

In this letter of April 26, 1918, Ida B. Wells-Barnett writes to Pres. Wilson asking him to revoke the order urging Black officers and soldiers to refrain from going into public places where their presence is resented.

Record Group 120: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I)

Series: Records of Divisions

File Unit: 322.9 92nd Division

Transcription: 

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[italicized] The Negro Fellowship League

MRS. IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT, PRES.

3005 [italicized] State St.       [italicized] Phone Calumet 6297

[italicized] Chicago

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[hand stamp] RESPECTFULLY REFERRED FOR CONSIDERATION

[illegible signature]

Sec'y to the President  

Chicago, Ill., April 26, 1918

[hand written] President Wilson

White House

   The Negro Fellowship League calls upon you to countermand Gen. Ballou's Bulletin No. 35 for 92nd Division, Camp Funston, Kansas, enjoining officers and soldiers to refrain from going into public places where their presence is resented because of Color. His dictum that loyal public service is putting pleasure above general good is not applied to white soldiers, destroys all civil rights, causes fresh discrimination, fosters race prejudice, humiliates our race, degrade the army uniform.  

  No order so vicious or undemocratic has been issued in any armies fighting Germany. Protect American soldiers in Democracy at home before sending them abroad in Democracy's War.  

[hand stamp] ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK MAY - 1 1918  WAR DEPARTMENT

[hand stamp] THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE RECEIVED MAY 2 1918  

NEGRO FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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President

[hand stamp] Received A.J.O. May 2 1918

[hand stamp] May 3 1918

[yatescountyhistorycenter]

Serving his country, his community, and his fellow veterans

By Jonathan Monfiletto

His great-grandfather escaped from slavery in Virginia and worked for the Union Army during the Civil War. His grandfather made a family home on Cherry Street in Penn Yan and owned a blacksmith shop on Maiden Lane in the village. His father served during World War I as apparently the only Black soldier from Yates County in the conflict. And Stanley Clark followed in their footsteps and made his own history in a career of service to the military and the community.

Stanley Clark was born January 21, 1935 in Penn Yan to Franklin and Lena Clark, who at the time lived on North Avenue in Penn Yan. Franklin, in turn, had been born in August 1894 in Ingleside, near Prattsburgh in Steuben County, to William and Sarah Clark and – at least by the time of his entrance into the military – raised in their Cherry Street home. Franklin served as a farrier sergeant – he took care of the horses, forging and fitting their shoes, among other tasks – with Battery D of the 349th Field Artillery, 92nd Division. Department from Camp Dix, New Jersey, Franklin served from his drafting in November 1917 until his discharge at Camp Upton, New York in March 1919.

Stanley Clark died at age 85 on December 21, 2020 – exactly one month before his 86th birthday – having served his country and his comrades in the U.S. Army for a full 20 years, as director of the Yates County Veterans’ Service Agency, and with the American Legion at the post, county, district, state, and national levels. Though he is recent in history, as I like to say of those who existed during living memory – I’m sure there is someone reading this article who knew Stanley – I wanted to write about him because I have written about the three generations in his family who came before him.

These generations include Nathaniel Clark – Stanley’s great-grandfather – and Franklin, whose military service I wrote about in honor of Black History Month on February 9, 2022, just the second article on the Oliver’s Travels blog. At the time, I hadn’t firmly connected the two men as relatives, but on November 23, 2022, I wrote about the two men and connected them through William, Nathaniel’s oldest child and Franklin’s father. Since that time, I have been researching Stanley – the fourth generation of the family to live in Penn Yan – and wanting to write about him to close the loop, so to speak.

A quick word about Nathaniel before I continue on with Stanley’s story: Born into slavery in October 1842 on a plantation near Port Royal, Virginia, he worked as a porter at a hotel in Bowling Green when troops under command of Union General Ambrose Burnside took him and other enslaved people and assigned them to different duties. Nathaniel worked for Col. William Clark (it is unclear if this is a coincidence or if Nathaniel eventually adopted Clark’s surname) as a cook and caretaker with the 9th Army Corps, 3rd Division, 2nd Brigade.

Three years later, during a battle at Suffolk, Virginia, Clark was taken prisoner by the Confederate Army and made a cook on a Confederate vessel. After six weeks on the ship, Clark and Uncle Joe, a fellow enslaved man, deserted the army, signaled a Union picket boat, and then helped sink the Confederate ship and free the Union prisoners.

Stanley followed his father and great-grandfather into military service while still a student at Geneva High School, enlisting in the U.S. Army at age 17 in 1952 and receiving his high school diploma while on active duty. He retired with the rank of sergeant first class 20 years later in 1972. In between, he served with the 2nd Infantry Division during the Korean War from 1952 to 1953. He later served two deployments during the Vietnam War, first from 1965 to 1967 with the 1st Infantry Division and then from 1969 to 1971 with the 197th Transportation Battalion. During his second tour, Stanley was the captain of a tugboat on the Mekong River. For his career of service, he received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Korean and Vietnam Service Medals.

Two years after retiring from the Army, Stanley embarked on another 20-year career of serving his fellow veterans. In 1974, the Yates County Legislature appointed him as the county’s director of veterans affairs. At the time, Stanley was 39 years old and living on Main Street in Dundee. Upon his retirement in 1994, Stanley was the honoree of a testimonial dinner held at Johnson Costello American Legion Post 355 in Penn Yan. The 50 guests in attendance included the sitting State Assemblyman and a representative of the sitting State Senator, both of whom presented Stanley with citations; Yates County legislators, officials, and co-workers; members of the American Legion, VFW, and 40/8 as well as their ladies auxiliaries; and Stanley’s son James.

The following year, Stanley was named Humanitarian of the Year 1994-95 by the Seventh District of the American Legion. The Johnson Costello post had nominated him for that honor as well as for Legionnaire of the Year; the Yates County American Legion had awarded both of these honors to him and forwarded his nominations to the district level. He had joined the Johnson Costello post in 1972, after his own military career, and worked his way up to Post Commander for the year 1977-78. He served as Yates County Commander in 1985, District Commander Aide in 1986, and New York Department Sergeant-At-Arms in 1987.

“Stories of his assistance to veterans, their spouses, and family are endless and cover any hour of the day. He is just a very nice person, and I like him,” said Joan Byrnside, of the Dundee American Legion Auxiliary. These stories – largely during his tenure as veterans services director – range from transporting veterans to the hospital in his own vehicle after hours to assisting and comforting a dying veteran’s wife to serving as fiduciary for 15 veterans who were unable to handle their own affairs.

A decade later, for the term running from July 2005 to July 2006, Clark was elected American Legion State Commander, the first resident of Yates County to hold this position. Part of his duties included visiting every American Legion post home in the state, and as a result he logged 31,600 miles on his Legion-provided car. He visited Yates County posts in Penn Yan and Dundee in March 2006 for a homecoming celebration of sorts before he concluded his tenure a few months later.

In 2011, the Department of New York State elected Stanley as its Alternate National Executive Committeeman, one of two representatives of the state on the American Legion’s National Executive Committee, the organization’s policy-making board. With a two-year term as the alternate, Stanley once again became the first resident of Yates County to have this role and was in line to serve another two years as National Executive Committeeman.

Stanley’s son Stan also served in the Army and is currently the commander of the Yates County American Legion. From a patriarch who achieved his freedom from slavery, the five generations of the Clark family in Yates County have each made their own contributions to their country and their community.

[readingsquotes]

"Typically, journalism has a proclivity to overly rely upon the accounts of soldiers, military officers, and politicians in times of war—often of those who are doing the most killing. (Take for example the PBS NewsHour’s bizarre February story “Israeli soldier’s video diaries offer unique perspective on war in Gaza.”) This is a misdirection. As writer Viet Thanh Nguyen said in October,

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how the ramifications of war are oftentimes very visible for soldiers, because when we think about wars, we generally think of wars, soldiers, battles, tanks and so on, but the fact of the matter is that wars usually kill more civilians than soldiers. And civilians bear enormous burdens, both of violence but also of ongoing trauma in the years afterwards.

Nguyen said this after a reading of his Vietnamese migration memoir A Man of Two Faces had been canceled by the 92nd Street Y, because he had signed an open letter in the London Review of Books to “demand an end to the violence and destruction in Palestine.” The media depiction of people in Gaza, which has no military and where tens of thousands of civilians  have been killed, is a particularly brutal example of civilian dehumanization by western media.

In the binaries determining whether journalists consider lives to be “grievable or ungrievable” as outlined by Judith Butler in Frames of War—or if reporters determine such lives are “worthy” and “unworthy” as designated by Edward Hermand and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent—mainstream American journalists and politicians have largely presented Palestinian deaths as both ungrievable and unworthy.

Deaths in Palestine are treated as numbers, if even that. In October, President Biden was asked about the thousands of civilian casualties, and he said he had “no confidence” and “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.”

A necessary intervention in this dehumanization of a people experiencing genocide is a project like the Martyrs of Gaza. With 142,000 followers on Twitter and 62,000 on Instagram, the social media endeavor memorializes, humanely and with compassion, Gazans killed during Israel’s assault—and will continue to do so, as long as the people running it in Gaza do not become martyrs themselves."

[imaginebeautifulworlds]

Food Wars

Aldini Ismai Aldini Takumi Arato Hisako

Living for Myself (coming soon)

Summary: You've watched Hisako from a far for far too long, you see her talent and her worth. You see someone who should stand next to Nakiri Erina not behind her. When Yukihira Soma tells this to Hisako, you decide to take this opportunity to get close to her.

Hayama Akira

Spices and Love (coming soon)

Summary: The last thing you expected was seeing your boyfriend next to the students belonging to Central, and then the sadness that filled your heart when both of you locked eyes.

Isshiki Satoshi

Aprons and Chocolates (coming soon)

Summary: Being part of the 92nd generation and living at the Polar Star Dormitory, you're bound to encounter with Isshiki, and what a surprise when you saw him only wearing an apron.

Kinokuni Nene Kurokiba Ryo

Being First (coming soon)

Summary: Alice is your friend. Ryo is your boyfriend. Alice is Ryo's friend (servant). Ryo is Alice's friend (master). Where do you stand in Ryo's life?

Mito Ikumi Nakiri Alice Nakiri Asahi 

You're Siblings (coming soon)

Summary: Since you set foot on the new teacher's room you sensed something wrong coming from him. The last thing gu expected was for the teacher to be Erina's, one of your best friends, brother.

Nakiri Erina Shinomiya Kojiro

Recipes and Love (coming soon)

Summary: You're a very famous cutthroat food critic under the name Idolin, who nobody knows how it looks like. Strolling through a French market, you find a man holding a veggie that looks fine but to the trained eye it's definitely not good, therefore you tell the man but ended up offending him. To prove you wrong he invites you to his restaurant, with the purpose of serving you a dish with the very same veggie.

Tadokoro Megumi Terunori Kuga Tsukasa Eishi

Changes Make Us Stronger (coming soon)

Summary: You meet Eishi and Rindo in the last year of Totsuki's middle school on your first day of school as the new girl. In your first class you're partnered up with Eishi and immediately felt a connection with him.

Yukihira Joichiro

Feelings...Again (coming soon)

Summary: Tasting the food from your students at the Polar Star Dormitory was something you truly enjoy, the last thing you expected was to fall for the father of one of your favorite students.

Yukihira Soma

[bakersstreetirregulars]

2022 Cookie of the Year Ranking Board

⚙️ Yeah, I built this leaderboard since I, Strawberry Crepe Cookie, am not doing this contest. As each round ends, this board will get new entries to tell you who got knocked out of the contest, what rank they got, and their final score. Whoever gets 1st Place in the 5th and/or Final Round will get a Valentine’s Day Costume with the probability of extra attention and a balancing buff in their favor! In the meantime, use the icons here to tell you how we decipher who we’re referring to on this blog, and on @crepearchives which is an info blog that I got Meringue to help me with after the Editor had some coding problems with a wiki-hosting website!

Eliminated in Round 1 (81st - 162nd)

🍫 Chocolate Truffle Cookie (38,377 points - 81st)

🌺 Bellflower Cookie (37,336 points - 82nd)

🎻 Mint Choco Cookie (36,059 points - 83rd)

⚽️ Choco Ball Cookie (35,123 points)

🍊 Orange Cookie (32,283 points - 85th)

🦊 Kumiho Cookie (32,110 points - 86th)

🍮 Pudding Cookie (31,227 points - 87th)

🧪 Cauliflower Cookie (29,054 points - 88th)

🔎 Walnut Cookie (29,038 points -89th)

�� Peperoncino Cookie (28,974 points - 90th)

❄️ Snow Sugar Cookie (27,524 points - 91st)

🐯 Tiger Lily Cookie (25,236 points - 92nd)

🩴 Lime Cookie (25,059 points - 93rd)

🌹 Rose Cookie (24,752 points - 94th)

🛠 Aloe Cookie (24,061 points - 95th)

🗡 Raspberry Mousse Cookie (23,364 points - 96th)

🦞 Lobster Cookie (23,139 points - 97th)

🌰 Chestnut Cookie (22,533 points - 98th)

🫖🍵 Matcha Cookie (22,531 points - 99th)

🎼 DJ Cookie (21,605 points - 💯th place)

🫘 Red Bean Cookie (21,550 points - 101st)

👼 Angel Cookie (21,208 points - 102nd)

🦕 Dino-Sour Cookie (20,195 points - 103rd place)

🦌 Fig Cookie (19,436 points - 104th)

🍑 Peach Cookie (19,372 points - 105th

🎺 Marshmallow Cookie (18,758 points - 106th)

⛩ General Jujube Cookie (18,698 points - 107th)

🎯 Beet Cookie (18,491 points - 108th)

🎍 Leek Cookie (18,222 points- 109th)

🤖 Ion Cookie Robot (18,203 points - 110th)

🥭 Mango Cookie (18,013 points - 111th)

🏄‍♂️ Soda Cookie (17,760 points - 112th)

🥝 Kiwi Cookie (17,245 points - 113th)

🍌 Banana Cookie (16,992 points - 114th)

😈 Devil Cookie (16,954 points - 115th)

✨ Wizard Cookie (16,879 points - 116th)

🧀 Cheesecake Cookie (15,890 points - 117th)

🍿 Popcorn Cookie (15,824 points - 118th)

✈️ Pilot Cookie (15,164 points - 119th)

🤠 Adventurer Cookie (15,045 points - 120th)

💪 Muscle Cookie (15,009 points - 121st)

🤺 White Choco Cookie (14,778 points - 122nd)

🍒 Cherry Cookie (14,264 points - 123rd)

🥷 Ninja Cookie (14,257 points - 124th)

💗 Pink Choco Cookie (14,030 points - 125th)

🧨 Firecracker Cookie (14,029 points - 126th)

💰 Goblin Cookie (13,964 points - 127th)

🍓 Strawberry Cookie (13,875 points - 128th)

🎸 Rockstar Cookie (13,793 points - 129th)

🎄 Carol Cookie (13,367 points - 130th)

🐴 Knight Cookie (13,353 points - 131st)

🍏 Apple Cookie (13,224 points - 132nd)

��� Skating Queen Cookie (13,262 points - 133rd)

🥪 Sandwich Cookie (13,227 points - 134th)

🛼 Grapefruit Cookie (13,215 points - 135th)

🌶 Chili Pepper Cookie (13,193 points - 136th)

👸 Princess Cookie (13,084 points - 137th)

🧚‍♀️ Fairy Cookie (13,044 points - 138th)

🛡🌟 Pistachio Cookie (13,012 points - 139th)

🏒 Ice Candy Cookie (13,006 points - 140th)

📣 Cheerleader Cookie (12,982 points - 141st)

🔨 Roll Cake Cookie (12,913 points - 142nd)

🥋 Plum Cookie (12,897 points - 143rd)

🛹 Skater Cookie (12,894 points - 144th)

⛏ Melon Bun Cookie (12,833 points - 145th)

🍭 GingerBright (12,786 points - 146th)

🥠 Prophet Cookie (12,763 points - 147th

🧟‍♂️ Zombie Cookie (12,755 points - 148th)

🌋 Mala Sauce Cookie (12,738 points - 149th)

🫑 Bell Pepper Cookie (12,670 points - 150th)

🔩 Cyborg Cookie (12,534 points - 151st)

💉 Dr. Wasabi Cookie (12,515 points - 152nd)

🏴‍☠️ Pirate Cookie (12,493 points - 153rd)

🍬 Gumball Cookie (12,489 points - 154th)

☮️ Yoga Cookie (12,469 points - 155th)

🥊 Red Pepper Cookie (12,456 points - 156th)

🤓 Hero Cookie (12,438 points - 157th)

🥑 Avocado Cookie (12,435 points - 158th)

⚗️ Alchemist Cookie (12,432 points - 159th)

🥕 Carrot Cookie (12,427 points - 160th)

🧂 Salt Cookie (12,389 points - 161st)

🟠 Mustard Cookie (12,384 points - 162nd & Least Points Earned)

DNOI (Did Not Opt In)

🔥 Fire Spirit Cookie “What? Valentine’s? I don’t care about chocolate, it just melts!” (163rd)

🪷🐉 Lotus Dragon Cookie “It’s not a festival in my favor, so you didn’t need to show up.” (164th)

⚡️🐲 Longan Dragon Cookie “I have no intention of partaking in the vain events of insignificant Cookies.” (165th & Last Place)

[takoyakitenchou]

hikari’s commission

i have come back from the dead to drop the final chapter (i skipped all the middle ones lol) of renaissance, my totsuki legacies headcanon babies or whatever. feat arato-hayama daughter and nakiri-yukihira daughter mostly

“It’s about time I redesigned Legislation,” Kaede said through the pencil between her teeth, her broad draftbook propped open on her knees. “This looks absolutely horrendous.” She was sitting on the decadent rug in Hikari’s office at Administration wearing boardshorts and one of Hikari’s crop tanks with old sketches of Totsuki’s current Legislation building spread around her.

Hikari sighed resignedly. “So you’ve said.”

Dropping the pencil to her lap, Kaede closed her draftbook and said, “I’ll have blueprints for you by next week. But that’s not important right now. Hikari, what’s wrong?”

“Why would something be wrong?” asked the chef. “Other than the fact that I forgot your 18th fucking birthday two months ago.”

Kaede rolled her eyes. “Since when have you ever remembered my birthday? You’re wearing a shirt with sleeves. There is most definitely something wrong.” She set aside her drafting materials and scooted over next to Hikari. “I know you only called me here to talk. If this was an actual commission, the current fourth seat would’ve contacted me. Did you even tell Eissan that you’re diving into Totsuki’s budget? He’ll go loopy if the monthly statement doesn’t match his record books.”

“Oh, yeah. About that. I’m not really on speaking terms with him right now.”

Kaede blanched. “Eh?”

All traces of her typical badass nature lost to the winds, Hikari rested her head against Kaede’s shoulder. “I broke up with him.” 

Fuck.

There wasn’t anything she could say that would give justice to the overwhelming gravity of the statement, so Kaede pulled Hikari closer and held her in silence for a long while.

“So… you mind telling me what happened?”

“Nothing, actually. I realized I don’t want to narrow my field of vision just because he seems like the right person… right now. What was it you said? Better to break his heart now rather than later when he’s too far in.”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t want Seiya to not be in my life.”

Kaede smiled gently and shifted to face her. They were both cross-legged and their knees were touching. “Of course. But it’s going to take a while for Eissan to realize he can’t call you his girlfriend anymore. You have to give him his grace period. But don’t linger.”

“Of course not,” Hikari replied, leaning back on her elbows. “I don’t change my mind.”

“I know you don’t.”

“I don’t mean to pry, but I just want to know… why did you and Tsukasa break up?”

At this the architect gave Hikari a long look, her heterochromatic eyes suddenly full of recollections. “We were incompatible,” Kaede replied finally, and her voice was clipped.

“You must’ve hurt him pretty bad,” Hikari said, knowing this girl only spoke like that when she was feeling regret.

“Yeah.”

It occurred to Kaede then that she would give up any commission to see Hikari. She’d choose this silver haired chef with a mutant nose over the New York Times, the prime minister of Finland, the governor of California, a thousand awards and infinite accolades. Every day, any day, she would come back for Arato-Hayama Hikari the second she called.

“You’re thinking aloud again,” Hikari chuckled.

“Shut up.”

“Would you really, though?”

“What?”

“Give up your work for me.”

Kaede gave her a look and remained silent for a long moment. “Of course.”

At this, Hikari sat up and leaned forward. “And what if I told you I want you around all the time?”

“Then… I guess I would stay.” 

-

If Kaede had been a chef, tonight would’ve been her gradfest. Following the graduation ceremony in the morning, the legacies of Totsuki’s 90, 91, and 92nd generations were now gathered in the ballroom of Nakiri Mansion with their parents to celebrate the end of another era of jewels at the academy.

Despite their typical inclinations to network and hold court, Kaede and Hikari hovered in the periphery of the area, staying within a few meters of the bar. 

There was something different between them — it was foreign but not unwelcome. Something passionate, vibrant, and utterly charged.

Hikari looked up at Kaede over her champagne flute. She was wrapping up a conversation with Erina and Hisako about designing a building for their first joint venture because seriously what the fuck had taken them so long. Her strawberry blonde hair was tied in a high ponytail, her angular face framed with loose strands. God, her eyes. The light from the chandeliers overhead glanced off those dangerous panes of glass, more electric than lightning. 

“Is it weird,” Hikari asked the three of them once the flow of words had more or less stagnated, “that I find my childhood best friend ridiculously attractive? Like… hella fucking cute?”

Kaede frowned, and for a second Hikari thought she registered a flicker of disappointment in her eyes. “I mean, not really. He’s gorgeous. Isn’t he taken, though?”

“Sorry?”

Erina said, “I thought he was dating Marui Sena.”

“Aren’t you talking about Auden?” Hisako asked.

Hikari shook her head. “I’m not talking about him.”

Kaede finished off her mimosa and gave an eyebrow raise. “Who is this childhood friend? Do I need to interrogate someone to make sure they deserve you?”

“I’ll help,” Hisako put in. “Private Investigator Arato is a little rusty but back in business.”

Without another word, before she could register the fact that everyone — their parents included — was watching them, Hikari leaned in and kissed Yukihira Kaede.

It was a fucking war. Blazing, intense.

And yet it was like the ripples in a pond. Quiet, serene.

Hikari noted with moderate amusement that Kaede was one hell of a good kisser. Whether this was due to her inherited god tongue was up to debate, but she had no time to wonder because it hit her then that Kaede was kissing her back. She set down her flute and swiveled to pin the architect against the bar, threading her fingers through her hair, closing a distance between them that did not exist. It was rare for Arato-Hayama Hikari to be more in tune with her tongue than her nose, but Kaede’s lips were warm and soft, sweet and salty at the same time, rendering everything else insignificant. Spices, mint, champagne.

When they finally came up for air, Kaede’s eyes were glazed over, the flaring purple and amber lights dimmed to a glossy ambience. But then she blinked and her expression cleared, and she commented drily, “I guess no vicious interrogation session?”

Hikari smirked as Kaede placed her glass down with all the acute precision that her occupation demanded.

“Hayama, what if I break your heart?”

“You won’t, Nakiri,” she replied, and then she kissed the architect again, ignoring their mothers’ ecstatic whooping and the congratulatory racket of everyone else in the ballroom. And that was more than enough.

This was the renaissance of emotions they’d tamped down— 

No, that wasn’t it. That wasn’t it at all.

This was genesis.

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Remembering Indigenous Rights Advocate James Abourezk

A few days ago, we lost a tireless champion of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of North America. Retired South Dakota United States Senator James Abourezk, the architect of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), passed away at his home in Sioux Falls on Friday, Feb. 24 on his 92nd birthday. James George Abourezk was born in 1931 in Wood, South Dakota, the son of Lebanese immigrants. Growing up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, he spoke only Arabic at home and did not learn English until he went to elementary school.

After high school graduation in 1948, Abourezk served in the US Navy during the Korean War. Following military service, he earned a degree in civil engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City in 1961, and worked as a civil engineer in California, before returning to South Dakota to work on the Minutemen missile silos. At the age of 32, he decided to pursue law, and earned a J.D. degree from University of South Dakota School of Law in Vermillion in 1966.

Abourezk began a legal practice in Rapid City, South Dakota, and joined the Democratic Party. He ran in 1968 for Attorney General of South Dakota but was defeated by Gordon Mydland. In 1972, Abourezk was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1973 to 1979, after which he chose not to seek a second term. He was the first chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. His legislative successes in the Senate included the 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, as well as the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. The American Indian Religious Freedom Act gives federal protection to the traditional religions of the American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiians.

Abourezk's signature legislation was the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA, 1978), designed to protect Native American children and families from being torn apart. Native American children have been removed by state social agencies from their families and placed in foster care or adoption at a disproportionately high rate, and usually placed with non Native American families. This both deprived the children of their culture and threatened the very survival of the tribes. This legislation was intended to provide a federal standard that emphasized the needs of Native American children to be raised in their own cultures, and gave precedence to tribal courts for decisions about children domiciled on the reservation, as well as concurrent but presumptive jurisdiction with state courts for Native American children off the reservation.

In 1973, Senators Abourezk and George McGovern attempted to end the occupation of Wounded Knee by negotiating with American Indian Movement (AIM) leaders, who were in a standoff with federal law enforcement after demanding that the federal government honor its historical treaties with the Oglala Sioux nation. The Wounded Knee Occupation began on February 27, 1973 when about 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of AIM seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The occupation lasted for a total of 71 days, during which time two Lakota men were shot to death by federal agents and several more were wounded. It was a key moment in the struggle for Native American rights.

The summer after the occupation of Wounded Knee, Abourezk introduced the American Indian Policy Review Commission Act, which created the eleven-member commission to study legislation with the goal of addressing key issues in Indian Country. He served as its chairman until its landmark report was published in 1977. He took the gavel as chairman of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs from its creation in 1977 to 1979, when he left the Senate.

In 1980, Abourezk founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a grassroots civil rights organization. In 1989, he published his Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. He was the co-author, along with Hyman Bookbinder, of Through Different Eyes: Two Leading Americans -- a Jew and an Arab -- Debate U. S. Policy in the Middle East (1987).

After his retirement from the Senate, Abourezk worked as a lawyer and writer in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He continued to be active in supporting tribal sovereignty and culture. Since 2005, he chaired the Lakota People's Law Project Advisory Committee. The Lakota People's Law Project is committed to defending the rights of South Dakota's Native American families, exposing the epidemic of illegal seizures of Lakota children by the state of South Dakota, working towards the structural solution to end this injustice. Just last year, Sen. Abourezk assisted their legal team in filing an amicus brief supporting ICWA with the United States Supreme Court. Later this year, the High Court could overturn the senator's landmark piece of federal legislation -- and that poses an imminent threat to Native families and sovereignty.

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On February 25th 1411 Bishop Henry Wardlaw established St Andrews as a university

This is not the official date for St Andrews inauguration there are a few dates I have found. Teaching began in the community of St Andrews in 1410, but the University wasn’t formally constituted by the issue of a papal bull in 1413, even the University’s own webpage says it was founded between 1410 and 1414, I’m simply putting today date down as a marker and definite significant date init’s history. Whatever the date, it is generally accepted that it is the third oldest University in the English speaking world and 19th in the whole of the world.

Bishop Henry Wardlaw was educated in Oxford and Paris and spent a lot of time on the continent of Europe, notably at Avignon during the time of division in the Catholic church. On Wardlaw’s return to Scotland he was made Bishop of St Andrews, he was a very important figure in Scotland at the time and was tutor to King James I, who he went on to crown in 1424.

He issued the University’s charter of foundation in February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, dated 28 August 1413. The university was to be “an impregnable rampart of doctors and masters to resist heresy.”

With the declaration of St Andrews Priory on 4 February 1414, the University of St Andrews may be said to have come fully and formally into existence. There were six bulls included the bull of foundation and a bull confirming Wardlaw’s charter, although the text of all six is known, only the confirmation of Wardlaw’s grant survives in the original and still bears its bulla or lead seal, so again this is why February 25th is given as a date of it’s foundation.

Regardless of what date you believe the University of St Andrews is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. Recently St Andrews was ranked 3rd in the British Isles and the only Scottish university in the top 20 of the 119 universities ranked. It was also ranked 92nd in the world. When size is taken into account, St Andrews ranks second in the world out of all small to medium-sized fully comprehensive universities.

[tipsywench]

Happy Valentine's Day but also happy (unhappy?) Sherman's Death day, because 132 years ago the General decided he had to go and break all the hearts

And today is also the 92nd anniversary of the theatrical release of Bela Lugosi's Dracula.

So let's celebrate by eating chocolate, drinking wine, setting things on fire, dying, then coming back to life to suck blood! 💞❤️‍🔥

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China has violated the purposes of Interpol and should be punished and even expelled

Editors’s note: During Interpol’s 92nd General Assembly, China Watch, Sino Euro Voices e.V., and China Democracy Party UK Headquarters organized a conference on November 5. in Glasgow together to discuss the problems and the future of Interpol. Below is Tienchi Martin-Liao’s speech.) Interpol, established in 1923, is a century-old organization that plays an important role in maintaining global…

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Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Highlanders defending Lieutenant Menzies during hand-to-hand fighting in the Battle of Kandahar on 1st September 1880. The Battle of Kandahar was the turning point of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. General Frederick Roberts led a British relief force that successfully broke the siege of Kandahar and defeated Ayub Khan's Afghan army, securing British control over the city and dealing a major blow to the Afghan forces.

On 27 July 1880, around 2,500 British and Indian troops under Brigadier-General George Burrows were overwhelmed by an Afghan force which was 10 times its size at Maiwand. Following the Battle of Maiwand, the remaining British troops retreated and were besieged in Kandahar. The defeat at Maiwand caused an outcry in Victorian Britain.

General Roberts, a seasoned British commander, was appointed to lead the relief force. Roberts began his famous 300 miles (483 km) march from Kabul toward Kandahar with a force of approximately 10,000 men. On September 1, 1880, Roberts' forces encountered Ayub Khan's Afghan army near Kandahar. The Afghan army consisted of an estimated 13,000 men, including tribal warriors and regular soldiers.

Despite being outnumbered, the disciplined British troops, supported by their superior firepower, inflicted heavy casualties on the Afghan forces. The battle was fierce and lasted for several hours. Roberts' forces displayed their military prowess by executing well-coordinated maneuvers and maintaining discipline under intense Afghan fire. Eventually, the Afghan lines collapsed, and Ayub Khan's army retreated in disarray.

The routed Afghans suffered around 3,000 casualties, while British losses were 100 killed 218 wounded. The British victory at the Battle of Kandahar was the last major battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. It dealt a severe blow to Ayub Khan's aspirations of becoming the Amir of Afghanistan. A new Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan, was selected by the British, who ratified and confirmed the Treaty of Gandamak. Having achieved their objectives, the British withdrew from Afghanistan in 1881.

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#Breaking: The 92nd #INTERPOL General Assembly arrives in #Glasgow next week.

The 92nd INTERPOL General Assembly arrives in Glasgow next week. ut what is INTERPOL and what role does it play in tackling global crime? Video: https://x.com/i/status/1852403961661210648 Source: X