#Chandler DuPont

[darkwitch1999]

Stay Tuned: Detective Nino is on the case!

The exciting conclusion to the "Random Headcanons!!!! Why Marc Shouldn’t Have Coffee" series is in production! Join the somewhat overly dramatic Nino Lahiffe as he cosplays detective Sherlock Holmes alongside the unwilling and slightly annoyed Nathaniel Kurtzberg to uncover who gave coffee to Marc Anciel.

Nino: I'll be asking the questions here, Anciel!

Nathaniel: (slightly annoyed) So we’re really doing this, huh?

Marc: (rolls eyes) And I thought Jean was over dramatic....

Meanwhile, Alya leads her own investigation into the mystery as she interrogates the three prime suspects, a.k.a the three people who didn't know why Marc shouldn't have coffee:

Zoé Lee: The younger half-sister to the mayor's bratty daughter, Chloé Bourgeois. Unlike her bitch sister, Zoé is sweeter than honey and is always willing to do whatever she can to help out her friends. Like Rose, her kindness can easily be taken advantage of, and unlike Rose, she would have no possible way of knowing that Marc couldn't have coffee since she had only transferred to DuPont a few months ago and thus, was not around the last time Marc went crazy on coffee.

Devin Nolan: The only son of Chandler Nolan and heir to the Nolan fortune. Acts aloof and very indifferent towards everyone, including his own classmates. Despite being in the same class as Marc and knowing him since Marc first transferred to DuPont, his distant behavior and keeping to himself all the time has isolated him from many social gatherings and activities with his peers, thus he too was not present during any of the two times that Marc was on caffeine. Though he is not known for doing favors for anyone, sometimes its the person that everyone least expects that did the crime.

Noelle Odeja: Another recent transfer student, and again, another person who wasn't around the last time Marc was on caffeine. While she may not be as sweet or innocent as Rose, she still looks out for her friends and will help them whenever they need it. While she was aware of the rule to never give Marc coffee, she was never filled in on the reason why.

(When Noelle was given the warning.....)

Noelle: (holding two cups of coffee) Hey, Jean! You'll never believe this! There's a coffee shop that is giving away an extra cup of coffee with the purchase of your first cup of coffee today!

Jean: Oh, well that's pretty cool.

Noelle: Yeah, I'm planning on giving my extra cup of coffee to Marc since I don't-....

(Jean suddenly slaps the extra cup of coffee out of Noelle's hands with a look of fear on his face. The coffee cup fell on the floor, spilling out its contents. Noelle looked at Jean with a bewildered and slightly irritated look on her face.)

Noelle: Wha-....Jean! What the hell is wrong with you?!

Jean: What's wrong with me?! Have you gone absolutely insane, Noelle? (grabs Noelle by the shoulders and starts shaking her) DO. NOT. GIVE. MARC. COFFEE. EVER!!!!!! HEED MY WARNING!!!!!!

Noelle: (pushes Jean off of her) Ugh...(shakes off her wave of dizziness) What the fuck.....why not?

Jean: (shudders and starts rubbing his arm) Trust me....you don't want to know why.....

Noelle: (raises an eyebrow in confusion) ........

Like Devin, she isn't easily fooled (except when it comes to her B.F.F. Lila Rossi) and her will is strong. She wouldn't bend easily to Marc's desperate pleas for caffeine. Marc would have to come up with a very convincing and reasonable excuse for her to buy him coffee (which wouldn't prove much of a challenge for a writer as talented as Marc).

Either one of these prime suspects could have been responsible for supplying Marc with the coffee. It could also be possible that Marc might have gone to all three of them for the coffee rather than just one person (after all he did have almost six cups). Of course, there is also the possibility that none of these three prime suspects had supplied the coffee and it was, in fact, a fourth person instead. What do you think? Share your thoughts on who you think could've done it.

@nerd-chocolate @artzychic27 @andromeda612 @imsparky2002 @princessbutterflysposts @yourlocalwanderingghost

[affordabledesignerbrands]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Weatherproof Heritage Men's Chandler Duck Snow Boots.

[scenesandscreens]

Clean (2021)

Director - Paul Solet, Cinematography - Zoran Popovic

"The trash man wasn't always a trash man."

[moviesandmania]

CLEAN (2020) Reviews and release news for Adrien Brody crime drama

CLEAN (2020) Reviews and release news for Adrien Brody crime drama

Clean is a 2020 American crime drama about a garbage man who attempts a quiet life of redemption while being tormented by his past. Directed by Paul Solet (Grace; Dark Summer; Bullet Head) from a screenplay co-written with Adrien Brody. Produced by Adrien Brody, Elliot Brody, Paul Solet and Daniel Sollinger. The Fable House production stars Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Chandler…

[vimooz]

Sony Pictures Classics released a teaser trailer for Charm City Kings, a film by Angel Manuel Soto, starring Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Meek Mill, Will Catlett, Chino Braxton, Lakeyria “Wheelie Queen” Doughty, Donielle Tremaine Hansley, Kezii Curtis, Chandler DuPont, with Teyonah Parris, that is set to debut In Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Following the film’s festival premiere, Sony Pictures Classics will release Charm City Kings in select theaters on April 10, 2020, followed by a wide release on April 17, 2020.

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@consideredlilies.    “ darling, what do you think? ” voice carries throughout the apartment to his fiancé as eyes remain trained on the swatches in front of him, head cocked to the side and little tongue poking from his lips, deep in concentration. he’s been staring at the various hues for hours now, trying to narrow down the choices to find the perfect selection of complementary colors for their wedding. “ rose gold or dusty rose? i really do think you’ll look beautiful in a muted pink ------ and what if we did a seafoam green to go with your hair? ”

[vanessadoofwasmygayawakening]

Chapter 1 of my gay mlb text fic

Can be found on ao3 here

Here goes!

Chapter 1

LuckyCharms has created the chat Francois Dupont GSA Club

Wednesday, September 3rd 17:10

cats_meow has been added to the conversation

pocketwatch has been added to the conversation

jasontodd has been added to the conversation

ratgina_george has been added to the conversation

LuckyCharms: Hello. Welcome to the group I guess. Please state y'alls names, pronouns, sexualities, grade level, and anything else you might want to share.

cats_meow has changed chat name to be crime do gay

cats_meow: *le gasp*

cats_meow: a cereal goddess??

cats_meow: can anybody be more lucky???

LuckyCharms: Your names please.

pocketwatch: hand them over :)

pocketwatch: or elsa :))

jasontodd: lmao elsa

pocketwatch: shut

LuckyCharms: Okay. I'll start. My name is Marinette, she/her, and I am the biest bi to ever bi :) also I'm a junior

pocketwatch: hey hey hey thanks for checking in im ✨still a piece of garbage✨

pocketwatch: anyways, im alix, gender is a social construct, fuck romance and i have a fake spider named Gerald. hes 2 years old but im a sophomore

ratgina_george: loving how the only thing you capitalized was gerald

pocketwatch: :)

cats_meow: @LuckyCharms i was hoping for you to actually be a cereal goddess just so i could get a lifetime supply of that cookie cereal with a wolf mascot just to piss off my cousin who thinks that frosted flakes are the best brain fart god has ever had but they're nOT THEY ARE A FUCKING TRAVESTY TO ALL THINGS CEREAL THEYRE SO BLAND

jasontodd: excuse me sir but what the fuck-

cats_meow: *ahem*

cats_meow: excuseh mwah

cats_meow: my name is adrien agreste, my pronouns are he/him, im as gay as a fucking rainbow am poly, a junior, and the first person to go when we finally eat the rich will be my sperm donor, gabriel "asshole" agreste

ratgina_george: ima give that a solid amen

ratgina_george: my name is chloe, my pronouns are she/her, and to deliberately plagiarize off of one adrien agreste, im as gay as a fucking rainbow and a huge theater nerd, evidenced by the name

ratgina_george: also a junior :)

cats_meow: @jasontodd ??? youve been ghosting

cats_meow: also, @ratgina_george rude :(

jasontodd: lmao sorry I was eating

jasontodd: I'm Kim my pronouns are he/him, I'm the straightie here but I'm trans so ig that counts for being able to be here,,, and im a junior!!!

pocketwatch: ohmigod we have a token hetero!!!!

pocketwatch: also you're completely valid you dont need to be gay to be part of the club

pocketwatch: all you really need to do is not be a homophobe and you're eligible

cats_meow: @LuckyCharms see look mom we are already hitting such huge milestones!!!

cats_meow: our very own het!

LuckyCharms: :,) my brain child,,,

LuckyCharms: so proud :,^)

ratgina_george: ew what is that nose-

 

be crime do gay

Friday, Sept. 5th 7:01

 

ratgina_george: yall

ratgina_george: THE SCHOOL MUSICAL IS HEATHERS

ratgina_george: AND AUDITIONS ARE NEXT WEEK

ratgina_george: asdfghjkl

ratgina_george: AAAAHHHH

cats_meow: !!!!!!!!

cats_meow: thats great!!!!!

LuckyCharms: I'm assuming you're auditioning?

ratgina_george: ofc!!!!

ratgina_george: who do you think I am!!?

ratgina_george: a peasant!?!?!?!

pocketwatch: heather chandler? 

ratgina_george: yes

ratgina_george: it's like

ratgina_george: Mean Girl Solidarity™

jasontodd: makes sense

pocketwatch: im auditioning for jd!!!

pocketwatch: me and nath are doing it together!!!!

pocketwatch: because if the teachers wont go for an enby whos biologically female

pocketwatch: then theyll have to go for another enby who's biologically male

pocketwatch: bc fuck gender stereotypes!!!!!

LuckyCharms: praise 🙏

 

be crime do gay

Wednesday, Sept. 10th 15:15

 

mimekinnie has been added to the conversation

pocketwatch: bro @mimekinnie

mimekinnie: bro!!!!!

LuckyCharms: @mimekinnie Please state your name, pronouns, sexuality, grade level, and anything else you want to share

mimekinnie: ok ig

mimekinnie: my name is Nath, I'm a sophomore. I go by he/they, I'm poly and bi and my boyf changed my name to this because I drew myself as a mime one time and always wear berets

cats_meow: oh so youre the hot french guy!!!

cats_meow: ive been wanting to meet you

jasontodd: um sir that's kinda gay,,,

ratgina_george: you get out of here dc superfan

ratgina_george: marvel all the way

jasontodd: *gasp*

jasontodd: you take that back

pocketwatch: things are getting heated in the superhero fandom

cats_meow: lmao yall over here with the justice league and avengers

cats_meow: the only bitches i respect in this house are kid cosmic and the local heros

jasontodd: ok thats fair

 

mimekinnie > redhoodie

 

mimekinnie: asdfghjkl

redhoodie: lmao wassup

mimekinnie: yk that guy who always wears really fucking tight leather pants??

mimekinnie: and who has the greenest eyes anyone has ever seen???

redhoodie: oh yeah the kid who always makes cat puns

redhoodie: what about him

mimekinnie: he called me

mimekinnie: and I quote

mimekinnie: "the hot french guy"

mimekinnie: like

mimekinnie: tf am I supposed to do with that????

mimekinnie: is he flirting??

mimekinnie: is he just being nice???

redhoodie: omg dude calm down

redhoodie: if he is flirting

redhoodie: and let me assure you, he def is,

redhoodie: do you at least have a chance with him?

mimekinnie: yeah he said hes gay and poly

mimekinnie: so ig you have a chance too

redhoodie: flirt with him back

redhoodie: ill come to the next meeting

redhoodie: lets woo us a catboy

[leafvy]

𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝

[ disclaimer: my sincere apologies if there are any spelling/meaning/origin mistakes in any of my name lists, i am by no means a professional in this area, i just like creating lists to help aid storytellers. i do try my best to find each name’s corresponding origin/meaning/spelling but i am a human who is prone to make the odd mistake. p.s, i take requests! ]

Abbot

Abernathy

Abraham

Abrams

Ackerman

Ackroyd

Agather

Alcott

Alderidge

Aldrich

Algarotti

Allgood

Altree

Amherst

Archer

Archibald

Arlington

Armstrong

Astor

Atwood

Augustine

Baldwin

Balfour

Ballard

Barkley

Barnes

Bartholomew

Baskerville

Bass

Bayard

Bechtel

Beckelhymer

Beckendorf

Bellamy

Benton

Berkeley

Berkshire

Berling

Bernard

Berridge

Billings

Birling

Bishop

Black

Blackstone

Bleu

Bonavich

Bonnacci

Borghese

Bousquet

Braddock

Bradford

Bradshaw

Brannigan

Breslin

Bridges

Bristow

Buchanan

Buckingham

Budreau

Burgess

Bynes

Cabot

Caldwell

Calloway

Calvert

Campbell

Cardiner

Carmichael

Carrington

Carver

Cavender

Chadwick

Chambers

Chandler

Chevallier

Cleary

Clement

Clemonte

Coldwell

Conard

Conrad

Coolidge

Coventry

Covington

Crabtree

Craggs

Crisper

Croft

Cunning

Cunningham

Curio

Cusenbary

Dabney

Daddario

Dallesandro

Dalton

Dandridge

Danton

Darcy

Dark

Davenport

Day

De Loughrey

Decarlo

Decker

Delpy

Dempsey

Denver

Devereaux

Dobermann

Donahue

Donovan

Dougherty

Driskel

Driver

Dubois

Dudley

Dukas

Dumont

Dunlop

DuPont

Dwyer

Dyer

Eades

Earwood

Eastwood

Ebersol

Eberstark

Edge

Edwards

Egan

Elder

Eldridge

Elington

Ellerbrock

Elliot

Ellison

Elswood

Elway

Elwell

English

Epps

Eslinger

Etter

Eubanks

Everhart

Everson

Evert

Faddis

Fairchild

Fangio

Farley

Farrel

Farrington

Fassbinder

Faulkner

Fawcett

Fawzi

Fenner

Fenton

Ferber

Ferenz

Ferguson

Finau

Finch

Finchum

Fingermann

Finn

Fishman

Fissolo

Fitzgerald

Fitzpatrick

Flagg

Flair

Flanagan

Fleetwood

Fleiss

Fletcher

Flood

Floquet

Floris

Flynn

Fogerty

Foley

Fong

Fontana

Forbes

Foster

Franklin

Frasier

Freed

Freeman

Freeze

Froning

Frost

Fsik

Fugger

Fuller

Furyk

Gallagher

Gannon

Geller

Glass

Glover

Goddard

Goldberg

Golden

Goodwin

Goulding

Grant

Greenwalt

Greenway

Greenwood

Griffith

Grimaldi

Griswald

Grubbs

Guest

Gundlach

Hale

Halliday

Halliwell

Hancock

Hanover

Harding

Harrington

Harrison

Hastings

Hatton

Hawthorne

Hayward

Hearst

Hembree

Henderson

Henry

Herveaux

Higgins

Hitchens

Hixon

Hollingsworth

Hollis

Hooper

Hughes

Humphries

Huntington

Hyatt

Idelson

Ingram

Irvine

Ives

Jackman

Jackson

Jagger

James

Jameson

Jessup

Jett

Jingle

Kaufman

Keating

Kelleher

Keller

Kensington

Keogh

Kersey

Kershaw

Kestrel

Keys

Kincaid

King

Kingsley

Kline

Lafferty

LaFleur

Lambert

Lancaster

Landsell

Langley

Larkin

Lattimore

Lauder

LeFlore

LeSaux

Lexington

Lincoln

Lipmann

Livingston

Locke

Lockheart

Lockwood

Longwood

Lord

Lords

Lovecraft

Lowell

Lyons

Mannix

Marlborough

Mars

Mathers

Mayhew

McAllister

McCoy

McElvany

McIntosh

McKnight

McNab

Merrick

Middlebrook

Mirabent

Montgomery

Moreau

Morgan

Morrison

Murray

Napier

Niles

Nolan

Norman

Northington

Norwood

Oaks

October

Odenkirk

Oldman

Orton

Overholt

Patterson

Pembroke

Pembrooke

Pennington

Pentland

Pickering

Pickett

Pinckney

Plantaganet

Pomeroy

Prado

Prichard

Pruitt

Purcell

Quartermaine

Quarters

Quint

Quiver

Radcliffe

Rapanatti

Reyes

Rhodes

Richardson

Richmond

Rockefeller

Romanoff

Rosenbloom

Rothchild

Rutherford

Sanders

Sanderson

Schulz

Schwartz

Sheffield

Sinclair

Sloan

St. Hillaire

Sterling

Stryker

Stuart

Sullivan

Sutton

Swells

Talbot

Thorn

Thornton

Townsend

Tremblay

Tudor

Underhill

Van Doren

Vanderbilt

Venable

Viroslav

Voorhees

Vos

Walton

Warren

Washington

Wayne

Wellington

Westmoreland

Westwood

Whittaker

Willoughby

Wilmington

Windsor

Winslet

Winsley

Winslow

Winston

Winthrop

Worthington

Xanders

Xang

Xavier

Yaeger

Yarborough

Yates

York

Zappa

Zeller

Zimmerman

[lobodobem]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖜 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖌𝖔 𝖔𝖓

SEMANA DO DIA 14/06, CANNES/FRA.

Depois de ter um momento eureka lendo os diários da sua mãe, Wolfgang se obrigou a procurar jeitos de se livrar daquela situação. Tinha esquecido o seu celular quando foi à casa dos Glock uns meses atrás e nunca mais o achou. Logo depois que Baptiste Dupont desaparece, misteriosamente pistas contra ele ressurgem e ele é preso pela polícia com base em dicas e no próprio celular que havia perdido. E, claro, qualquer um que o conhecesse poderia dizer que esse não era o tipo dele, e que realmente tinha mandado mensagem para os amigos e contatos avisando que perdeu o celular, mas como Chandler o orientou, isso podia ser apenas uma estratégia e Wolf não tinha provas, enquanto a delegacia tinha seu celular. 

Então, ele precisava criar algumas provas.

ATO I.

Só que não era tão simples quanto parecia. Como ele podia provar que o avô era um babaca que estava há décadas sabotando a própria família? Lembrava de ter tirado fotos das transações para Baptiste, mas tinham todas ficado no antigo celular, então isso estava fora de questão. O homem era extremamente poderoso e sabia que ninguém de alta patente ou influente ia ajudá-lo, porque provavelmente já estavam no bolso dele. Como se derrotar o inderrotável? O evitar o inevitável? O único jeito na cabeça dele era pedir ajuda de alguém que não fosse influente escancaradamente, mas discretamente. Alguém que tinha poder, porém ninguém sabia disso. Alguém que podia descobrir qualquer coisa do seu avô sem que o contrário também acontecesse. Um hacker. O hacker. 

Wolfgang realmente desejou que Cédric ainda ficasse de olho no antigo celular, porque seria um pouco constrangedor ter que ligar para a ex namorada pedindo para falar com o irmão. Felizmente, a sua mensagem de pedido de ajuda foi respondida no outro dia. 

Quando soube que Eloise e Cédric tinham saído de Cannes, Wolf ficou um pouco triste porque tinha criado, ao menos em sua visão, um laço de amigabilidade. Gostava do garoto e não concordava com tratarem ele mal, especialmente porque Martin só fez tudo que fez por causa da família. Ainda assim, ficou feliz que o outro pudesse seguir em frente e que de alguma forma a vida o deu sim a sua irmã de volta... Exatamente por isso achou que não o veria mais. Então foi bem chocante, mas legal vê-lo na sua frente de novo no dia 13 de junho, batendo na sua porta.

❝ — Quem é vivo sempre aparece.❞ — foi seu cumprimento com um sorriso, que surpresamente recebeu de volta. “Eu não posso ir embora por umas semanas e tu já se enfia nessas roubadas”, respondeu ele. Depois disso, ele passou a tarde toda conversando com Cédric e explicando a sua situação. Foi um longo dia.

ATO II.

No fim das contas, o Martin só podia o ajudar até certo ponto. Claro que ele conseguiria puxar dados, conversas e até movimentações bancárias do avô, mas seria muito difícil que um juiz aceitasse isso, pelos meios ilícitos em que foram conseguidos. Ainda assim, os dados que ele extraiu serviriam para sustentar a defesa de Chandler e para que ele arranjasse meios de transformar aquelas provas que não tinham validade jurídica em algo cabal, como procurá-las por outro meios mais juridicamente aceitos. 

Chegaram em concordância de que o melhor jeito de pegar Gastón era fazê-lo confessar. Mas como isso era possível? Primeiro que o homem não se retirava da sua fortaleza lá em Viena e, mesmo que viesse para Cannes, como iam conseguir a sua confissão por meios lícitos? 

Essa parte ficou a seu encargo e, surpresamente, foi toda planejada por Wolfgang, cria de filmes e musicais de todos os gêneros e nacionalidades.

Primeiro, o Mateschitz precisou fazer uma visitinha na Mansão Glock. Precisou, com muito ódio no peito, pedir autorização do juiz para sair do país, mas depois de um acordo com Dietrich e o contato com a polícia, foi possível. Chegou com o rabo entre a pernas, triste, falando da sua prisão, dizendo que suspeitava do avô paterno. Já tinha percebido que falar mal do velho Mateschitz era a chave para o coração dos Glock desde sempre, então se utilizou daquela técnica para manipulá-los a ponto de que pensassem que ele tinha sido ludibriado por eles com muito sucesso. Para pessoas arrogantes, não bastava muito. Comentou sobre sua aceitação em Juilliard e que significaria muito para si que estivessem na peça de primavera que seria encenada no seu colégio, que seria uma forma de ter sua mãe consigo em um momento crucial.

Dito e feito. 

O último passo para que aquilo desse certo era um esforço conjunto de Chandler e Cédric e Wolf ficou nervoso com o combo improvável; ainda existia muito que pudesse dar errado naquilo tudo. 

ATO III.

No dia da peça, Wolfgang estava uma pilha de nervos. Precisava atuar de forma consistente e digna para não decepcionar os colegas e não fazer feio na frente de tanta gente importante (imagina se a Juilliard revoga a aceitação dele?); ainda assim, a única coisa que ressoava em sua mente era tudo o que precisava fazer e falar.

Antes do início do último ato, como combinado com o homem, Gastón veio falar com ele. O garoto respirou aliviado ao vê-lo entrar no camarim, porque chegou a imaginar que talvez não fosse dar certo. O velho o parabenizou e o encheu de elogios. Entrava aí a parte final do seu plano.

❝ — Obrigada. Significa muito a presença de vocês. Gostaria que minha mãe estivesse aqui.❞ — foi como iniciou a coisa toda. Gastón assentiu. “Ela está aqui, do jeito dela”, o clichê usado irritou muito Wolf e ele temeu não conseguir atuar do jeito que precisava. ❝ — Você acha que ela teria orgulho de mim? Sendo aceito na Juilliard? Às vezes fico me perguntando isso, se ela ou meu pai gostariam de quem eu sou e das escolhas que estou fazendo.❞ — declarou, encarando o avô com o que esperava ser um olhar infantil. “Eu tenho certeza que sim, ela se orgulharia de você independentemente de qualquer coisa. E seu pai, bom, não é meu filho, mas era como se fosse. Éramos muito próximos. Ele também teria muito orgulho, porque ele mesmo tomou decisões parecidas com as suas. Ele também notou que seu outro avô não era alguém para se ter por perto. Os dois teriam muito orgulho, filho, ainda mais de saber que você é corajoso e inteligente para entender as coisas e fazer as suas escolhas”, o garoto mal acreditou que um velho inteligente daqueles tinha caído na sua armadilha tão facilmente; achou que precisaria dançar um pouco mais para tal. 

Agora vinha uma parte crucial. Ele precisava agir conforme o plano e não ferrar com tudo. Precisava. Fez uma oração silenciosa e então mexeu nos bolsos, se certificando de que o gravador do celular estava ligado. ❝ — É uma loucura que um avô faça isso com um neto, não acha?❞ — forçou o tom, voltando a encará-lo. Notou que alguma coisa mudou na expressão alheia, mas Glock era mestre em disfarçar. O homem assentiu. “É uma atrocidade da natureza”, afirmou. ❝ — Ainda bem que eu escolhi o lado certo da família. Não ia querer ficar do lado de um criminoso que planta evidências e comete acidentes contra a própria família.❞ — insistiu, e naquele momento o celular gravando quase escorregou da sua mão, de modo que movimentou o bolso e Gastón percebeu. 

Bruscamente o mais velho puxou-o pela mão e tirou o aparelho do seu bolso. Um riso de deboche saiu dele. “Então essa era sua estratégia, garoto? Me arrancar uma confissão. Devo dizer que te subestimei, mas não muito. Isso é extremamente infantil da sua parte se achava que eu ia simplesmente soltar meus segredos para você gravar”, debochou ele. ❝ — Deve ser de família tentar plantar evidências.❞ — Wolf respondeu, olhando-o com raiva. “Bom, pelo menos você descobriu a verdade, o que quer dizer que não é completamente retardado. Pior para você, que vai ter que passar o tempo na cadeia sabendo disso. Me dizem que é pior, mas não sei, porque nunca aconteceu comigo”, o tom dele era enervante e se já não estivesse por um fio, teria agredido aquele velho ali mesmo. “Mas me diga, filho, tenho curiosidade de saber como descobriu”, demandou ele, cruzando os braços e parecendo interessado. ❝ — Os diários da minha mãe. Ela escreveu coisas sobre vocês e... Bom, só conectei os pontos.❞ — contou, fechando as mãos em punho, tentando conter o ódio que sentia por aquele homem bem ali. “Ah, Brigitte. Até quando não está aqui é a pedra no meu sapato. Depois de tudo que passei para fazer isso ter um fim, era de se imaginar que ia ter paz. Mas pelo visto é verdade o que dizem, o fruto nunca cai longe da árvore”, a frieza com quem ele falava aquelas coisas espantavam Wolfgang e o deixavam ainda mais tentado a perder o controle. ❝ — Você é um velho egoísta e ganancioso. Tudo isso pra que, hein? Dinheiro? Que dinheiro compra uma família?❞ — questionou. 

A resposta foi uma sonora risada. “Esse é seu ponto fraco, Wolfgang, pensar desse jeito. Ou melhor, não pensar. Por qual motivo você acha que uma família perdida ia aparecer depois de anos? Com certeza não é porque quer te chamar para jantar. Você é um garotinho burro. O único motivo pelo qual vim aqui hoje foi porque queria ver a sua cara de derrota pela última vez antes de ser preso. Você surrupiou os diários da sua mãe, então imagino que saiba o que acontece com quem se mete onde não é chamado”, foi o tom ameaçador usado pelo mais velho. O garoto respondeu: ❝ — O que tá dizendo, então? Que você, Gaston Glock, mandou matar sua própria filha? Mandou prender seu próprio neto?❞ — questionou ele. Antes de responder, ele riu novamente. “Tem certeza que tem todos os neurônios, filho? Precisa que te desenhem? Você quem deixou seu celular na minha casa e eu seria um tolo de não usar isso ao meu favor. Quem sabe depois de sair da cadeia você aprende a não cair no papo das pessoas tão facilmente”, ironizou Glock; Wolfgang estava furioso. ❝ — Então não foi Baptiste DuPont que me entregou para a polícia...❞ — comentou e o avô balançou a cabeça. “Você acha que aquele covarde ia ter coragem de fazer isso? Ele saiu correndo assim que a coisa ficou feia para ele. Na verdade, é até inteligente da parte dele, pena que você não fez o mesmo, aí eu fui obrigado a fazer as coisas do meu jeito”, — continuou o homem. ❝ — Então você plantou evidências mesmo? Isso é crime!❞ — exclamou o garoto. O mais velho riu novamente. “Muitas coisas são crime nesse mundo e tem gente que liga muito para isso.. É por isso que podemos diferenciar os bilionários das pessoas comuns”, o homem proferiu. Os dois ficaram em sil~encio por uns segundos, e o celular de Wolf, que estava ainda na mão do avô, fez o sinal de mensagem. 

Wolfgang sorriu, o que causou estranheza em Glock. “Perdeu completamente a cabeça, garoto?”, questionou. ❝ — Veja só, Gastón, você tem razão. Eu sou um garotinho inocente na maior parte das vezes. Talvez isso seja porque eu sempre senti muito a falta de uma família, ou sei lá o que, mas eu não sou burro. Como você bem disse, a fruta não cai longe do pé. E isso é verdade, mais do que você imagina.❞ — iniciou o seu monólogo. Agora que fez tudo que podia, precisava ter o seu desfecho naquilo tudo. ❝ — Uma vez eu perdi uma luta super importante, final de campeonato. Cara, aquela doeu. Não só porque ele me nocauteou, mas porque eu fiquei muito feliz quando soube quem era o meu competidor. Um garotinho, dois anos mais novo que eu, 15 centímetros a menos. Tá de brincadeira? Só podia ser a final dos sonhos. Eu fiquei me gabando disso por semanas. E sabe o que aconteceu? Ele me nocauteou com poucos minutos. Sabe por que? Porque eu fui arrogante. Igualzinho à você agora.❞ — foi muito satisfatório falar aquilo e o sorriso do austríaco apenas aumentava. ❝ — Você realmnente achou que eu fosse burro o suficiente pra quase derrubar o celular do bolso enquanto tentava te gravar e isso foi o que garantiu que não percebesse que tinha outra coisa te gravando. Ou pior, projetando a sua voz e imagem lá fora para o público inteiro ver.❞ — declarou, apontando para o macbook de Cédric posicionado em uma cadeira logo ao lado de ambos. ❝ — Game over, grandpa.❞ — disse, sorrindo. O rosto do homem ficou totalmente vermelho, mas antes que pudesse responder ou mesmo agredi-lo (Wolfgang se perguntou se ele não carregava uma Glock por aí), Bernard Chateaubriand abriu a porta. “Gastón Glock, você está sendo preso por suspeita de corrupção, extorsão, lavagem de dinheiro e homicídio”, continuou o homem enquanto fechava as algemas em seus pulsos. “Você tem o direito de permanecer em silêncio. Tudo o que falar pode ser usado contra você no curso do processo. você tem direito a um advogado antes de ser interrogado e durante o interrogatório. se você não puder pagar um advogado, o estado irá lhe providenciar um”.

Enquanto via o homem ser carregado e algemado, Wolf sentiu-se emocionado. E não era por vê-lo finalmente ser preso por suas ações abomináveis, mas porque tinha reconstruído sua relação com Dietrich; porque tinha se reconectado com uma parte dos pais; porque tinha sido aceito pela universidade dos seus sonhos; porque tinha uma namorada incrível que amava muito; e porque tinha vingado os pais e tantas outras pessoas que o Glock insistia em fazer mal — pela primeira vez desde que nasceu, a vida nunca pareceu tão boa de ser vivida. 

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OC Headcanon: Devin Nolan

Here are some headcanons about my OC Devin Nolan, who will be introduced in my upcoming fanfiction: "Icelator", to give you guys a sneak preview of this character and his history.

Warning: These headcanons contain lots of angst relating to childhood abuse and neglect that may trigger some readers. If these themes bother you in any way, please don't read this then.

Devin Nolan

Cisgender fourteen-year-old male

Comes from a wealthy family. The Nolan family fortune rivals the Agreste and Bourgeois families' wealth.

His family’s wealth has often led to many students believe that he was another spoiled, entitled brat like Chloe Bourgeois and several other entitled students at first impressions. Then he sets the record straight through his actions and words.

Student at Collège Françoise Dupont. His homeroom teacher is Ms. Mendeleiev. He used to sit alone in the back of the classroom until Zoe Lee transferred, much to his chagrin. Not because she was Chloe’s half-sister though; he prefers being alone.

His mother, Chandler Nolan, is the very influential founder and president of Nolan Corporation (A large corporation specializing in marketing the female demographics). She is best known for being very active in promoting feminism (Though the reality is that she cannot stand the idea of another man or woman having more power than her).

He had never had a father since his mother had him through In vitro fertilization with the best sperm donor candidate they had.

Lives with his mother, but he practically lives alone with how often his mother is absent.

Devin once ran away from home when he was eight to get his mother’s attention and to prove that she did at least love him enough to go looking for him and tell him to come home. He even wrote a note to his mother telling her that he was running away to go live in one of their vacation homes. 

After six months of waiting by himself, he finally got the message and went back. Turns out his mother never even got the note or even knew that he was gone.

Despite this, his mother has managed to force her ideas of perfectionism onto her son and has him following her expectations and rules to perfection, regardless of how much it is killing him on the inside.

Though his mother doesn’t really care what he chooses to pursue (athletics, technology, music, the arts, etc), she does expect Devin to succeed and be the best at any and all that he chooses to take part in. And academics! Academic succession is mandatory!

Needs glasses, but doesn’t wear them in public since he doesn’t want anyone to know that he has an “imperfection” as his mother would call it.

 Chloe may have mommy issues, but they are TAME compared to Devin's mother issues.

Was raised by his nanny from the day he was born until he was three years old when she died from a terminal illness. Though he did not completely understand death at that age, her death still devastated him since he had lost the woman who became his surrogate mother the second he was born.

His mother never once hugged him or showed him any maternal affection throughout his life. Her strict parenting style derives from her belief that giving her son praise and affection will make him think he is smart and slack off. She FORBIDES her mansion staff from giving her son any praise for his accomplishments or platonic affection under the threat of termination if they dare to even think about disrupting her “parenting”.

The earliest memory that Devin has of his mother physically touching him was during his nanny’s funeral when she slapped him for crying, claiming that the nanny wasn’t worth crying like a baby over and that he was getting “too old” for a nanny anyway.

Acts indifferent and rude towards everyone and everything, including his own classmates but those are just the emotional barriers he's built up over the years since birth.

Suffers from severe haphephobia (or a fear of being touched). Starts to hyperventilate and/or has panic attacks whenever he is being touched or someone approaches him too closely.

Once punched Kim in the jaw when he tried to give him a "bro hug".

Knows that Lila Rossi is a manipulating liar, but chooses to just ignore her and not say anything because he doesn't care. However, that doesn't mean he won't subtly point out inconsistencies or holes in her stories to mess with her.

Secret fan of Kitty Section, but he would sooner swallow broken glass than admit it (or he would spend the day with Lila because it would basically be the same thing).

He also secretly likes to read the “Ladybug and Chat Noir” comics that Nathaniel and Marc create, but again, he would rather swallow broken glass or spend a day with Lila Rossi than admit it.

@andromeda612

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Chandler DuPont and Jahi DiAllo Winston getting director from Angel Manuel Soto on the set of Charm City Kings. West side of Baltimore. 

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Percy Julian

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, plus a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the wild Mexican yam. His work helped greatly reduce the cost of steroid intermediates to large multinational pharmaceutical companies, helping to significantly expand the use of several important drugs.

Julian received more than 130 chemical patents. He was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry. He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted (behind David Blackwell) from any field.

Early life and education

Percy Lavon Julian was born on April 11, 1899, in Montgomery, Alabama, as the first child of six born to James Sumner Julian and Elizabeth Lena Julian, née Adams. Both of his parents were graduates of what was to be Alabama State University. His father, James, whose own father had been a slave, was employed as a clerk in the Railway Service of the United States Post Office, while his mother, Elizabeth, worked as a schoolteacher. Percy Julian grew up in the time of racist Jim Crow culture and legal regime in the southern United States. Among his childhood memories was finding a lynched man hanged from a tree while walking in the woods near his home. At a time when access to an education beyond the eighth grade was extremely rare for African-Americans, Julian's parents steered all of their children toward higher education. Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American students. The segregated nature of the town forced social humiliations. Julian was not allowed to live in the college dormitories and first stayed in an off-campus boarding home, which refused to serve him meals. It took him days before Julian found an establishment where he could eat. He later found work firing the furnace, waiting tables, and doing other odd jobs in a fraternity house; in return, he was allowed to sleep in the attic and eat at the house. Julian graduated from DePauw in 1920 as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian. By 1930 Julian's father would move the entire family to Greencastle so that all his children could attend college at DePauw. He still worked as a railroad postal clerk.

After graduating from DePauw, Julian wanted to obtain his doctorate in chemistry, but learned it would be difficult for an African-American to do so. Instead he obtained a position as a chemistry instructor at Fisk University. In 1923 he received an Austin Fellowship in Chemistry, which allowed him to attend Harvard University to obtain his M.S. However, worried that white students would resent being taught by an African-American, Harvard withdrew Julian's teaching assistantship, making it impossible for him to complete his Ph.D. at Harvard.

In 1929, while an instructor at Howard University, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to continue his graduate work at the University of Vienna, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1931. He studied under Ernst Späth and was considered an impressive student. In Europe, he found freedom from the racial prejudices that had stifled him in the States. He freely participated in intellectual social gatherings, went to the opera and found greater acceptance among his peers. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, after St. Elmo Brady and Dr. Edward M.A. Chandler.

After returning from Vienna, Julian taught for one year at Howard University. At Howard, in part due to his position as a department head, Julian became caught up in university politics, setting off an embarrassing chain of events. At university president Mordecai Wyatt Johnson's request, he goaded white Professor of chemistry, Jacob Shohan (Ph.D from Harvard ), into resigning. In late May 1932, Shohan retaliated by releasing to the local African-American newspaper the letters Julian had written to him from Vienna. The letters described "a variety of subjects from wine, pretty Viennese women, music and dances, to chemical experiments and plans for the new chemical building." In the letters, he spoke with familiarity, and with some derision, of specific members of the Howard University faculty, terming one well-known Dean, an "ass".

Around this same time, Julian also became entangled in an interpersonal conflict with his laboratory assistant, Robert Thompson. Julian had recommended Thompson for dismissal in March 1932. Thompson sued Julian for "alienating the affections of his wife", Anna Roselle Thompson, stating he had seen them together in a sexual tryst. Julian counter-sued him for libel. When Thompson was fired, he too gave the paper intimate and personal letters which Julian had written to him from Vienna. Dr. Julian's letters revealed "how he fooled the [Howard] president into accepting his plans for the chemistry building" and "how he bluffed his good friend into appointing" a professor of Julian's liking. Through the summer of 1932, the Baltimore Afro-American published all of Julian's letters. Eventually, the scandal and accompanying pressure forced Julian to resign. He lost his position and everything he had worked for.

Some happiness for Dr. Julian, however, was to come from this scandal. On December 24, 1935 he married Anna Roselle (Ph.D. in Sociology, 1937, University of Pennsylvania). They had two children: Percy Lavon Julian, Jr. (August 31, 1940 – February 24, 2008), who became a noted civil rights lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin; and Faith Roselle Julian (1944– ), who still resides in their Oak Park home and often makes inspirational speeches about her father and his contributions to science.

At the lowest point in Julian's career, his former mentor, William Martin Blanchard, professor of chemistry at DePauw, threw him a much-needed lifeline. Blanchard offered Julian a position to teach organic chemistry at DePauw University in 1932. Julian then helped Josef Pikl, a fellow student at the University of Vienna, to come to the United States to work with him at DePauw. In 1935 Julian and Pikl completed the total synthesis of physostigmine and confirmed the structural formula assigned to it. Robert Robinson of Oxford University in the U.K. had been the first to publish a synthesis of physostigmine, but Julian noticed that the melting point of Robinson's end product was wrong, indicating that he had not created it. When Julian completed his synthesis, the melting point matched the correct one for natural physostigmine from the calabar bean.

Julian also extracted stigmasterol, which took its name from Physostigma venenosum, the west African calabar bean that he hoped could serve as raw material for synthesis of human steroidal hormones. At about this time, in 1934, Butenandt and Fernholz, in Germany, had shown that stigmasterol, isolated from soybean oil, could be converted to progesterone by synthetic organic chemistry.

Private sector work: Glidden

In 1936 Julian was denied a professorship at DePauw for racial reasons. DuPont had offered a job to fellow chemist Josef Pikl but declined to hire Julian, despite his superlative qualifications as an organic chemist, apologizing that they were "unaware he was a Negro". Julian next applied for a job at the Institute of Paper Chemistry (IPC) in Appleton, Wisconsin. However, Appleton was a sundown town, forbidding African Americans from staying overnight, stating directly: "No Negro should be bed or boarded overnight in Appleton."

Meanwhile, Julian had written to the Glidden Company, a supplier of soybean oil products, to request a five-gallon sample of the oil to use as his starting point for the synthesis of human steroidal sex hormones (in part because his wife was suffering from infertility). After receiving the request, W. J. O'Brien, a vice-president at Glidden, made a telephone call to Julian, offering him the position of director of research at Glidden's Soya Products Division in Chicago. He was very likely offered the job by O'Brien because he was fluent in German, and Glidden had just purchased a modern continuous countercurrent solvent extraction plant from Germany for the extraction of vegetable oil from soybeans for paints and other uses.

Julian supervised the assembly of the plant at Glidden when he arrived in 1936. He then designed and supervised construction of the world's first plant for the production of industrial-grade, isolated soy protein from oil-free soybean meal. Isolated soy protein could replace the more expensive milk casein in industrial applications such as coating and sizing of paper, glue for making Douglas fir plywood, and in the manufacture of water-based paints.

At the start of World War II, Glidden sent a sample of Julian's isolated soy protein to National Foam System Inc. (today a unit of Kidde Fire Fighting), which used it to develop Aer-O-Foam, the U.S. Navy's beloved fire-fighting "bean soup." While it was not exactly Julian's brainchild, his meticulous care in the preparation of the soy protein made the fire fighting foam possible. When a hydrolyzate of isolated soy yuh protein was fed into a water stream, the mixture was converted into a foam by means of an aerating nozzle. The soy protein foam was used to smother oil and gasoline fires aboard ships and was particularly useful on aircraft carriers. It saved the lives of thousands of sailors and airmen. Citing this achievement, in 1947 the NAACP awarded Julian the Spingarn Medal, its highest honor.

Steroids

Percy's research at Glidden changed direction in 1940 when he began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol, isolated from soybean oil by a foam technique he invented and patented. At that time clinicians were discovering many uses for the newly discovered hormones. However, only minute quantities could be extracted from hundreds of pounds of the spinal cords of animals.

In 1940 Julian was able to produce 100 lb of mixed soy sterols daily, which had a value of $10,000 ($86,000 today) as sex hormones. Julian was soon ozonizing 100 pounds daily of mixed sterol dibromides. The soy stigmasterol was easily converted into commercial quantities of the female hormone progesterone, and the first pound of progesterone he made, valued at $63,500 ($543,000 today), was shipped to the buyer, Upjohn, in an armored car. Production of other sex hormones soon followed.

His work made possible the production of these hormones on a larger industrial scale, with the potential of reducing the cost of treating hormonal deficiencies. Julian and his co-workers obtained patents for Glidden on key processes for the preparation of progesterone and testosterone from soybean plant sterols. Product patents held by a former cartel of European pharmaceutical companies had prevented a significant reduction in wholesale and retail prices for clinical use of these hormones in the 1940s. He saved many lives with this discovery.

On April 13, 1949, rheumatologist Philip Hench at the Mayo Clinic announced the dramatic effectiveness of cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis. The cortisone was produced by Merck at great expense using a complex 36-step synthesis developed by chemist Lewis Sarett, starting with deoxycholic acid from cattle bile acids. On September 30, 1949, Julian announced an improvement in the process of producing cortisone. This eliminated the need to use osmium tetroxide, which was a rare and expensive chemical. By 1950, Glidden could begin producing closely related compounds which might have partial cortisone activity. Julian also announced the synthesis, starting with the cheap and readily available pregnenolone (synthesized from the soybean oil sterol stigmasterol) of the steroid cortexolone (also known as Reichstein's Substance S), a molecule that differed from cortisone by a single missing oxygen atom; and possibly 17α-hydroxyprogesterone and pregnenetriolone, which he hoped might also be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis, but unfortunately they were not.

On April 5, 1952, biochemist Durey Peterson and microbiologist Herbert Murray at Upjohn published the first report of a fermentation process for the microbial 11α-oxygenation of steroids in a single step (by common molds of the order Mucorales). Their fermentation process could produce 11α-hydroxyprogesterone or 11α-hydroxycortisone from progesterone or Compound S, respectively, which could then by further chemical steps be converted to cortisone or 11β-hydroxycortisone (cortisol).

After two years, Glidden abandoned production of cortisone to concentrate on Substance S. Julian developed a multistep process for conversion of pregnenolone, available in abundance from soybean oil sterols, to cortexolone. In 1952, Glidden, which had been producing progesterone and other steroids from soybean oil, shut down its own production and began importing them from Mexico through an arrangement with Diosynth (a small Mexican company founded in 1947 by Russell Marker after leaving Syntex). Glidden's cost of production of cortexolone was relatively high, so Upjohn decided to use progesterone, available in large quantity at low cost from Syntex, to produce cortisone and hydrocortisone.

In 1953, Glidden decided to leave the steroid business, which had been relatively unprofitable over the years despite Julian's innovative work. On December 1, 1953, Julian left Glidden after 18 years, giving up a salary of nearly $50,000 a year (equivalent to $480,000 in 2019) to found his own company, Julian Laboratories, Inc., taking over the small, concrete-block building of Suburban Chemical Company in Franklin Park, Illinois.

On December 2, 1953, Pfizer acquired exclusive licenses of Glidden patents for the synthesis of Substance S. Pfizer had developed a fermentation process for microbial 11β-oxygenation of steroids in a single step that could convert Substance S directly to 11β-hydrocortisone (cortisol), with Syntex undertaking large-scale production of cortexolone at very low cost.

Oak Park and Julian Laboratories

Circa 1950, Julian moved his family to the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, becoming the first African-American family to reside there. Although some residents welcomed them into the community, there was also opposition. Before they even moved in, on Thanksgiving Day, 1950, their home was fire-bombed. Later, after they moved in, the house was attacked with dynamite on June 12, 1951. The attacks galvanized the community, and a community group was formed to support the Julians. Julian's son later recounted that during these times, he and his father often kept watch over the family's property by sitting in a tree with a shotgun.

In 1953, Julian founded his own research firm, Julian Laboratories, Inc. He brought many of his best chemists, including African-Americans and women, from Glidden to his own company. Julian won a contract to provide Upjohn with $2 million worth of progesterone (equivalent to $17 million today). To compete against Syntex, he would have to use the same Mexican yam, obtained from the Mexican barbasco trade, as his starting material. Julian used his own money and borrowed from friends to build a processing plant in Mexico, but he could not get a permit from the government to harvest the yams. Abraham Zlotnik, a former Jewish University of Vienna classmate whom Julian had helped escape from the Holocaust, led a search to find a new source of the yam in Guatemala for the company.

In July 1956, Julian and executives of two other American companies trying to enter the Mexican steroid intermediates market appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. They testified that Syntex was using undue influence to monopolize access to the Mexican yam. The hearings resulted in Syntex signing a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department. While it did not admit to restraining trade, it promised not to do so in the future. Within five years, large American multinational pharmaceutical companies had acquired all six producers of steroid intermediates in Mexico, four of which had been Mexican-owned.

Syntex reduced the cost of steroid intermediates more than 250-fold over twelve years, from $80 per gram in 1943 to $0.31 per gram in 1955. Competition from Upjohn and General Mills, which had together made very substantial improvements in the production of progesterone from stigmasterol, forced the price of Mexican progesterone to less than $0.15 per gram in 1957. The price continued to fall, bottoming out at $0.08 per gram in 1968.

In 1958, Upjohn purchased 6,900 kg of progesterone from Syntex at $0.135 per gram, 6,201 kg of progesterone from Searle (who had acquired Pesa) at $0.143 per gram, 5,150 kg of progesterone from Julian Laboratories at $0.14 per gram, and 1,925 kg of progesterone from General Mills (who had acquired Protex) at $0.142 per gram.

Despite continually falling bulk prices of steroid intermediates, an oligopoly of large American multinational pharmaceutical companies kept the wholesale prices of corticosteroid drugs fixed and unchanged into the 1960s. Cortisone was fixed at $5.48 per gram from 1954, hydrocortisone at $7.99 per gram from 1954, and prednisone at $35.80 per gram from 1956. Merck and Roussel Uclaf concentrated on improving the production of corticosteroids from cattle bile acids. In 1960 Roussel produced almost one-third of the world's corticosteroids from bile acids.

Julian Laboratories chemists found a way to quadruple the yield on a product on which they were barely breaking even. Julian reduced their price for the product from $4,000 per kg to $400 per kg. He sold the company in 1961 for $2.3 million (equivalent to $20 million today). The U.S. and Mexico facilities were purchased by Smith Kline, and Julian's chemical plant in Guatemala was purchased by Upjohn.

In 1964, Julian founded Julian Associates and Julian Research Institute, which he managed for the rest of his life.

National Academy of Sciences

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973 in recognition of his scientific achievements. He became the second African-American to be inducted, after David Blackwell.

Legacy and honors

In 1950, the Chicago Sun-Times named Percy Julian the Chicagoan of the Year.

Since 1975, the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers has presented the Percy L. Julian Award for Pure and Applied Research in Science and Engineering.

In 1975, Percy L. Julian High School was opened on the south side of Chicago, Illinois as a Chicago public high school.

In 1980, the science and mathematics building on the DePauw University campus was rededicated as the Percy L. Julian Mathematics and Science Center. In Greencastle, Indiana, where DePauw is located, a street was named after Julian.

In 1985, Hawthorne School in Oak Park, Illinois, was renamed Percy Julian Middle School.

Illinois State University, where Julian served on the board of trustees, named a hall after him.

A structure at Coppin State University is named the Percy Julian Science Building.

In 1990, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

In 1993 Julian was honored on a stamp issued by the United States Postal Service.

In 1999, the American Chemical Society recognized Julian's synthesis of physostigmine as a National Historic Chemical Landmark.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Percy Lavon Julian on his list of 100 Greatest African-Americans.

In 2011, the qualifying exam preparation committee at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was named for Percy Julian.

In 2014, Google honored him with a Doodle.

In 2019, asteroid 5622 Percyjulian, discovered by Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in 1990, was named in his memory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 (M.P.C. 115893).

Nova

documentary

Ruben Santiago-Hudson portrayed Percy Julian in the Public Broadcasting Service Nova documentary about his life, called "Forgotten Genius". It was presented on the PBS network on February 6, 2007, with initial sponsorship by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation and further funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Approximately sixty of Julian's family members, friends, and work associates were interviewed for the docudrama.

Production on the biopic began at DePauw University's Greencastle campus in May 2002 and included video of Julian's bust on display in the atrium of the university's Percy Lavon Julian Science and Mathematics Center. Completion and broadcasting of the documentary program was delayed in order for Nova to commission and publish a matching book on Julian's life.

According to University of Illinois historian James Anderson in the film, "His story is a story of great accomplishment, of heroic efforts and overcoming tremendous odds...a story about who we are and what we stand for and the challenges that have been there and the challenges that are still with us."

Archive

The Percy Lavon Julian family papers are archived at DePauw University.

Patents

U.S. Patent 2,218,971, October 22, 1940, Recovery of sterols

U.S. Patent 2,373,686, July 15, 1942, Phosphatide product and method of making

U.S. Patent 2,752,339, June 26, 1956, Preparation of cortisone

U.S. Patent 3,149,132, September 15, 1964, 16-aminomenthyl-17-alkyltestosterone derivatives

U.S. Patent 3,274,178, September 20, 1966, Method for preparing 16(alpha)-hydroxypregnenes and intermediates obtained therein

U.S. Patent 3,761,469, September 25, 1973, Process for the manufacture of steroid chlorohydrins; with Arnold Lippert Hirsch

Publications

Studies in the Indole Series. I. The Synthesis of Alpha-Benzylindoles; Percy L. Julian, Josef Pikl; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1933, 55(5), pp 2105–2110.

Studies in the Indole Series. V. The Complete Synthesis of Physostigmine (Eserine); Percy L. Julian, Josef Pikl; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1935, 57(4), pp 755–757.

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Clean

Año: 2021

Duración: 94 min

País:   Estados Unidos  

Director: Paul Solet

Guion: Paul Solet, Adrien Brody

Música: Nick Fevola, Steve Juliani, Steve Kempster, Austin Wintory

Fotografía: Zoran Popovic

Reparto: Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Chandler DuPont, Michelle Wilson, John Bianco, Dinora Walcott, Pat Buck, Aaron Callahan, Michael Callahan, Sonia Conlin, Gerard Cordero, Alex Corrado, Antino Crowley-Kamenwati, Andrew Dale, David Fierro, Semaj Grant, David Hadasz, Wayne W. Johnson, Scott Matheny, Frankie Montero, Timothy Mundstock, Catherine Nastasi, Wayne Pyle, Dannielle Rose, James Michael Sama, Bruce Soscia, Shawn Uebele, Jude Washock

Productora: Adrien Brody, Daniel Sollinger  

Género: Action, Crime, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10023022/

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mcconnell family history — headcanons

Edith and Joseph Cadwell parented four beautiful daughters, all close in age. Louisa, born in 1978, Muriel, born in 1986, Marianne, born in 1981, and Elaine, born in 1975. These daughters were raised to become trophy brides, because that was the best way for them to be supported for the rest of their lives. Joseph and Edith took great care in helping their daughters along, raising them with kindness as well as discipline and creating the perfect women. They all grew up absolutely beautiful, and married young. Louisa met and married a twenty six year old named Matthew Davenport at twenty two. Muriel married Richard Kensington, twenty seven, at twenty. Marianne married Isaac McConnell, thirty, at nineteen. Elaine married twenty nine year old Henry Price at twenty three. Edith and Joseph were incredibly proud of their daughters, and continue to be. All of the men these women married were older and rich, and that was the plan from the start. Mr. and Mrs. Cadwell wanted men who would support their little girls, and they found just that. Five years ago, Muriel’s husband, Richard, died in a boating accident. The funeral was painful and heartbreaking, and Muriel was crushed. They’d only been married two years, and had yet to have children. The rest of the daughters didn’t follow in Muriel’s footsteps. Elaine is currently pregnant with a baby boy, yet to be named. Louisa gave birth to Jackson in 2002, and Ellen in 2005. Marianne had Nadia and Jason, twins, at age twenty, in January of 2001. Muriel has yet to remarry, though she’s been dating an older man named Theodore DuPont, and she brings him to family gatherings and such. Louisa and Matthew live in New York state with their children. Elaine and Henry live in Connecticut. Muriel resides in Colorado, but flies in for holidays with Theodore. The sisters are polite and polished, as well as extremely wealthy as of now. They are gossipy and tend to pester and nag things that they view as imperfect. You can expect millions of questions and backhanded compliments from the Cadwell sisters, but it was the way they were raised.

Ruth Bishop and Chandler McConnell raised four children, though if you asked, they’d tell you three. Rosaline was born in 1972, Rowan in 1961, Isaac in 1970, and Helen in 1966. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell had severely different beliefs on how to raise children, and they divorced shortly after Rosaline was born. Ruth was bold spirited and would gladly fight someone if need be. She was strong and independent, and wanted her children to be the same. Ruth Bishop died in 1989 of breast cancer, much to the dismay of all of her children. They all had completely adored her, but Chandler McConnell took this as an opportunity. He retaught his children, getting rid of the free-spirited careless streaks they’d received from their mother. Rowan and Isaac went to business school and grew wealthy. Rowan married a younger woman named Penelope, and had a daughter, Bethany, with her in 2004. Isaac McConnell married Marianne Cadwell, and twins Jason and Nadia were born in 2001. Helen married at twenty five, to a man named Scott Bellamy, and had three children. Elizabeth was born in 1993, Mary in 2003, and Preston in 2006. Rosaline didn’t follow her siblings. She kept the boldness of her mother, and she was kind and gentle, just as she’d been raised. Rosaline married a woman named Alison Lockwood in 1997, and was disowned the same year for her ‘deviant behavior’ and ‘hellish lifestyle choices.’ Chandler would not have a lesbian daughter, for that was entirely trashing the McConnell name. Chandler McConnell is, and always has been, a very right wing, racist, homophobic, sexist, unkind man, and every McConnell has grown used to that and accepted it as fact. Helen is still in touch with Rosaline, but Rowan and Isaac are not, and neither are their children. Jason and Nadia have only met Rosaline once, at Helen’s baby shower, but they love her. She’s intelligent and kind, and admired by those who don’t hate her. Rowan and Penelope live in New Jersey, Helen and Scott in Rhode Island, and Rosaline and Alison in Manhattan.

Jason Isaac and Nadia Elise McConnell were raised in utter chaos. Their parents, Isaac and Marianne, being verbally abusive, and occasionally physical. The twins absolutely adore each other, but they fear their family. Going home for school breaks causes genuine stress between the siblings. The four live in a pristine, large home with a pool, hot tub, and a maid, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The house is beautiful, and so is the family’s exterior, but the surface can only say so much. Marianne mocks Nadia’s weight and appearance, always telling her that slimming down is in her best interest. Isaac forces Jason into sports and business, and yells at or hits either child if their grades slip or if they do something that reflects poorly on the family. The parents and extended family are unkind, prestigious people. Mr. McConnell has been sleeping with his secretary, a young Angelina Evans, for years. Marianne is well aware of this fact, but pretends to be oblivious, as do the twins. Mrs. McConnell doesn’t want her marriage to unravel, although it was never a very good one. The house’s maid is a warm, kind woman from Tennessee, Betty Brown. She cooks and cleans and does the laundry, while Marianne has book club and yoga, and Isaac works. She was Nadia and Jason’s nanny when they were young, and continued her maid duties afterwards. Jason struggles with his sexuality and life goals because of family, as does Nadia with her weight and appearance. They both constantly feel like they’re disappointing someone. The twins were raised Catholic, and have been in private school their whole lives. Catholic elementary and middle, and Saint Cecelia’s boarding school in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania for high school. The way they’ve been taught religion is strict and unforgiving, though, of course, that is not how every Catholic is. The siblings fear much and struggle with things internally because of this. Jason is capable of hiding his emotions, and Nadia is not, but it’s there for both of them.

On holidays, everyone flies or drives to Isaac and Marianne’s home. Big meals are cooked by the maid and several of her friends or by a caterer, depending on the holiday. Holidays are full of personal questions and unkind compliments and remarks, as well as downright mean relatives. Jason is mocked for his lack of a girlfriend, though they don’t pick on him for much else. Nadia is teased for her weight, her grades, her being single. The aunts, having married young, don’t help her in the slightest. Holidays are polite banter amongst adults, unkind remarks about the children and about Rosaline as well as the gay neighbors, as well as food and the occasional night where adults stay late drinking in the hot tub and tell Nadia and Jason to go to bed and the other children to wait inside. Jason and Nadia get along with their cousins alright, though they’re not close, but all of the cousins dislike Preston, except his siblings. He’s a spoiled, fat little kid, and he’s already disrespectful. His sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, are kind and well-mannered, and they’re less rude than much of the family. Bethany is younger, but she’s not hated. She’s somewhat of a goody-two-shoes and will snitch on anyone who says anything, but she means well, and no one blames her for it. Jackson and Ellen are uptight and always overdressed. Ellen is sweet and lovely, and Jackson is geeky and mean, but they’re both tolerable.

The family, in a nutshell, is an absolute mess, and Jason and Nadia wish to be nowhere near it, but it’s what they’re used to. Everyone is used to it, and that’s okay, for now. Jason knows he’d be disowned if he came out, so he plans to get through college first. Nadia barely deals with all the crude comments, but she tries her best. Everyone tries, no matter how hard they have it, and both twins hide their worries and insecurities. Nadia, behind rudeness, and Jason, behind striving for perfection.

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Clean 2022 AkulTalkies.com

Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, Chandler DuPont, John Bianco, Michelle Wilson, Dinora Walcott, Pat Buck, Victory Brinker, Alex Corrado

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