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fanartbyherd · 2 years ago

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Onward updates

So I have been working that world building rework. I just wanted to do some general update information before I start uploading the pictures and such.

Once again this is a project where I elaborate on the information that is provided in the movie. Then on things that are not in the movie but things I could find in deleted scenes and extra materials. Finally there is things I added either due to it made sense with the idea of “things you would find in an 80s fantasy novel” or things I found rooting around in the fandom (those places of dread I rarely venture /j) .

Cannon- things that are seen, said, or implied by the film itself (Intended or unintentionally).

- Elves: I counted 9 elves in the old time, and 189 elves in modern times. They seem to have a Vikings and barbarians thing going on.

- Cyclops: 4 cyclops in the old days, and 80 in the modern day. There is an illustration in the background of cyclops wearing Roman like armor. Also there apparently exists something called the cyclops islands from a poster in one of the class rooms.

- Sayter: 32 for old times, 139 for the modern time making them the second most populous in the modern day and age.

-Trolls: 3 in the past, but 23 in the present.

-Goblins: 11 in times of yore and 48 in the modern day. They do appear to have their own language. Making them the only group that do not only speak English.

- Gnomes: 7 in opening, but 63 in the modern era.

- Centaurs: 40 centaurs where running in that herd at the opening of the film. But in the modern day there where only 4 I saw. One was officer colt. And I only saw one guy who was casually hanging out in the background. The rest where in that opening times change montage.

-Mermaids: I counted 14 mermaids in the past. Meanwhile the only mermaid I saw for the modern era was 1. The one that shows up in the promotional material.

-pixies: 6 where seen in the past and 45 in the modern day. All except one where members of the pixie dusters.

-manticores: we only see one in the movie. That is corri. Apparently she is a thousand years old and only middle aged for her species… which I think seems like a bit excessive.

-skeken: ok seriously what is this thing? Apparently this is what the pawnshop owner is. There’s only one of her and for my understanding of Everything she is a hybrid of some kind. When o first saw the movie I thought she was a goblin.

If my assumption of her being a hybrid is correct that means I saw a total of two hybrids in the film. Her, and a little cyclop/sayter girl in line at the plain scene in the opening.

Animals

- song birds of various types

- beetles, at least three species purple, mycenmind, and green.

- slimes, jelly cube

- two headed ravens/ eagles. Three headed raven.

-krakens

- dragons

-griffons

-Horned owl

- hydra

-snail

-crane

-giant spider

-unicorns, Pegasi, and alicorns (or as me and my sister like to call them, unipegs)

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Cannon Adjacent- things either implied to exist, or shown to exist in delete scenes, cut content or in extra materials.

- Sirens: have alluring songs. Show up in a deleted scene.

- Minotaurs: show up in concept art and in some extra materials. Where intended to be mall cops of the labyrinth. I got to say I do not like the design of them in the concept art. So I have changed it to fit my own aesthetic sense abilities.

- pixies: though not seen in extra materials such as bonus features. The fact that the pixie dusters are called pixie dusters implies that they know about the consept of pixies.

- unidentified teddy bear deer.

-Giant Bat?

- bog beast.

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Extras- material that I feel fits

- lamia: cat like centaurs. They can have scales. They are basically extinct.

- werewolves: no shapeshifting. They are related to the sayters.

- vampires: mutant elves. They have bat wings.

- fairies: mutant elves, they are incapable of being wizards but have wings.

- imps: mutant elves native to volcanic areas. Inspired by the ocs of the fandom.

- harpies- man so just a quick search over onward fan OCs there’s a lot of winged elves in the search results. Angel looking things. But I think adding angels would be inappropriate with the “80 trash fantasy novel” so I added harpies instead.

- sphinxes- manticores and sphinxes are relatively similar in concept.

- selkies: there are two kinds selkies. Selkies are sometimes called sea wolfs, sometimes called the sayters of the sea.

-Gargoyles: relatives of the goblins. They have wings that they use for gliding. Also ripping off another Disney property. They originated as hybrids of trolls and goblins

- Gremlins: hybrids of gnomes, and goblins.

- capercorns: occurs when a sayter and a mermaid, silkie or siren have a kid together. Also with cyclops and those combinations.

This is the different species I will be showcasing in my re-work I have also made elaborations on cultures, history, interspecies relations.

As my previous post outlined the lack of diversity for a film that wanted diversity.

Hopefully I go a half decent job as I don’t intend to spend a lot of time on this project.

#onward #fan work #rework #whyyyy #anyways this is a start #unicorn #pegasus #elves #cyclops #saytr #harpies

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kenkaodoll · 2 years ago

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Kamiya Dojo Monogatari Tale 63 (JUMP SQ 23/03)

About Kamiya Dojo Monogatari:

Tales of Kamiya dojo is written by Kaoru Kurosaki and published along with the “Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido” arc in JUMPSQ. The tale involves the Rurouni Kenshin character in daily life that takes time between Kenshin and Kaoru marriage until the epilogue chapter in the original manga before the Hokkaido Arc. Until this month (March 2023) there are a total 64 chapters in Tales of Kamiya dojo. This is an unofficial translation.

Previous Story: https://www.tumblr.com/kenkaodoll/706523661597835264/kamiya-dojo-monogatari-tale-62-jump-sq-2302

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“If the people at Hanami party are dancing, they’ll have less time to drink, and thus be less likely to get drunk and out of control?”, Miyako asked.

“Huh? What’s that?”

Everyone, including Yahiko, turned their heads at Miyako's suggestion.

“Is it like *Bon Odori dancing, that it is?”

Kenshin used Bon Odori as an example to ensure what Miyako meant with "People dance at Hanami".

However…

“Bon odori? What's that?”

Yahiko seemed to have never heard of Bon Odori.

“It's Bon Odori. During the *Obon Festival, everyone in the village dances together.”

“?”

Yahiko looked at Megumi with oddly eyes.

“What? Usually you dance during Obon, don't you?”

Yahiko immediately shook his head at Megumi's words.

“We don’t dance..”

“Eeeh!” Megumi was truly surprised.

“What is that? In Tokyo, they don't even have Bon Odori because of the Europeanization policy? Not only have all the men changed from *chonmage to short haircut, but they also have to switch from Bon Odori to ballroom dances? Is it like a conspiracy by the Meiji government?”

”This is probably not related to Europeanization policy or a conspiracy or anything like that.”

Kaoru answers Megumi's question.

“Bon Odori had been banned under Edo Castle since long ago. I'm sure it's because it would be unsafe when too many people get too excited. So I don't think the Meiji government had anything to do with it.”

“We do it in Kyoto! You know, the one where they set up a portable shrine and dance around it?”

Megumi looked happy with what Misao said and replied, “Yes, that's it!”.

“Um…”

Tsubame timidly interrupted.

“My father served the Nagaoka family, they had Bon Odori, but we didn't have such events at the Edo residence.”

“Is that right?”

Yahiko replied Tsubame.

“I have wandered in many places, but I had never thought about Bon Odori. There are different ways of spending Obon in different regions, aren't there?”

Kenshin was deeply affected.

“Ah, but that doesn't mean there aren't any events during Obon, like offering *kyuri no uma (cucumber horses) or *nasu no ushi (eggplant cows).”

Kaoru added.

“So, are we going to do something like that Bon Odori dance at Hanami?”

Yahiko asked Miyako.

“Yeah, but if we do it the way Misao said, 'set up a shrine and dance around it,' it will really be a Bon Odori. I was thinking of something different.”

“What did you have in mind?”

I was thinking of having a stage for *Mikagura on the shrine grounds, so the dancers would go up there and everyone would dance together while watching the dancers. Those who are not good at dancing can join in by waving hand fans.”

“It’s going to look like an eel restaurant.”

“No,no! We cheer them on with our cute hand fans. Then… for example… when someone on stage claps his hands, everyone claps along with her.”

“How could that possibly work?"

Yahiko was skeptical of Miyako's idea.

“I wonder if the guests at Hanami want to participate in such an event.”

“We'll just have to give it a try, won't we?”

Misao said optimistically.

“If the village is divided in half, why don't we just get the people who are in favor of Hanami on our side and get everyone to actively participate in the dance?”

Kaoru gave her opinion.

“Struggling alone won't solve the problem, that it won't. As Kaoru-dono said, it would be a good idea to find an influential person who will join our side.”

Kenshin agreed.

“I wonder if dancing is enough to prevent the guests from getting drunk at Hanami.”

Megumi was a little skeptical, like Yahiko.

“But you can't start something until you've tried it.”

“Daaah!”

Kenji followed Megumi and spoke up to join the conversation.

“Do you think so too Kenji?”

Kaoru picked up her son.

“Look, he says, ‘I'm up for the challenge.’”

“He's babbling.”

“Does Kenji want to dance too?”

Misao takes Kenji's hand and makes him clap his hands and dance in a strange way.

“So cute!”

The ladies shouted.

“Huh?”

Misao suddenly uttered a question.

“So, who dances on the Mikagura stage? Who does the choreography? The *shamisen player?”

“I haven't thought about it yet,” Miyako answered immediately, “because it's just an idea that just came to me.”

“I know, right?”

Misao nodded.

“After I played with Kenji and made him dance, I realized that if an amateur dancer were to do the choreography, it would only result in a weird dance. The reason this was so cute was because Kenji was a baby.”

“Indeed.”

Miyako nodded.

“How about we ask Tae about that. It would be good for her business to open a stall and the waitresses have a dance performance as their advertisement.”

Yahiko's idea brought a smile to Miyako's face.

“That’s really good!”

“Drinking on an empty stomach can lead to drunken frenzy and tend to act violently. I think opening an Akabeko stall is a good idea from a health standpoint.”

Megumi gave her approval.

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The next day.

First, they had to talk to the Shinto priest about borrowing the stage for the Mikagura performance. So Yahiko, Miyako, and Misao immediately went to the shrine.

Even before they entered the shrine office, they heard a man yelling. There was something disturbing about this.

“I, Jūyūemon, let me be in charge of the Hanami’s seating.”

“No, no, no. The village council has decided to hold a lottery to determine fair seating for this year's Hanami.”

“What's this council meeting? Why don't we just go on as usual?”

Hearing the loud voices from outside, Miyako whispered to Yahiko and Misao.

“Jūyūemon-san is one of the troublesome ones who had been quiet for a while after being beaten to a pulp by Zanza before.”

The loud voices in the shrine office could still be heard outside.

“We don't want people to get drunk and swing their wakizashi around as usual. Just cut down the cherry tree!”

Miyako whispered again.

“That voice is Yosaku-san. There's a quarrel between Jūyūemon-san, who wants to view the cherry blossoms, and Yosaku-san, who wants to cut them down.”

The "dispute that split the village in two" that was mentioned earlier seems to be the quarrel between Jūyūemon and Yosaku.

“Don't be silly! How much time and effort do you think it takes for a cherry tree to grow so beautifully and bloom?”

"What are you talking about? How about *Hana yori dango? You've always been on a drunken rampage and didn’t enjoy the cherry blossom at all.”

“What! My sakura love is not like that, it's real!”

“Ha! Sakura love! Are you stupid?”

“You're so extreme! You're willing to let the cherry blossoms disappear just because you can't do the village play anymore.”

“I'm just trying to keep the peace.”

“Bullshit!”

Rattle, rattle, rattle! A loud noise rang out.

“Hey, stop!”

“Calm down!”

“No violence!”

As Yahiko, Miyako, and Misao trudged into the shrine office, the large man was holding the slender man’s chest. The slender man was flailing his hands in an attempt to get away from him, and the Shinto priests were moving left and right, trying to separate the two men. On the floor, hail from the tea ceremony was strewn all over the floor. It hurt when someone stepped on it with his bare feet.

Jūyūemon was a large man and it looked as if he was in charge in this area. However, such a large man with a rough atmosphere was talking about his love for Sakura trees. There was a big gap between what he looked like and what he said.

“What is this, Miyako? What are those little guys doing here!”

Juyuemon glared at Yahiko and the others without releasing his grip on Yosaku's chest.

“This year there will be no village play, so we've suggested other events!”

Yahiko shouted out.

“What? A stranger is replacing the village play?”

Yosaku looked at Yahiko,while his chest was still being held.

“I want you to lend us the Mikagura stage!”

Juyuemon finally released Yosaku at Yahiko’s words.

“Let's hear what you think you're doing.”

“If it's something stupid, I'll get you for it!”

Yahiko was pressed by Juyuemon and Yosaku, and began to talk about their plan.

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Meanwhile, Tsubame was at Akabeko. She did her usual job as waitress and she also must tell Tae about their plan to open the stall.

But Tsubame was so nervous to talk with Tae on her own.

“Well, you know... Um, well... Tae-san.”

There are two things she had to tell her. One, they would like to have a stall at the Hanami party, and the other is that they would like to have the waitresses singing and dancing at the Mikagura performance.

“What is it?”

Tae sensed that Tsubame was fidgeting and held her words.

“Well, I would like to perform on the shrine's Mikagura stage…”

Tsubame spun the words as hard as she could.

“Oh my!" Tsubame, you want to do an offering to Mikagura? I think it's good that you are religious.”

“Well, not that, but I'd like to perform the song and dance we've been practicing to promote Akabeko at the Hanami party.”

“Oh! I didn't think Tsubame-chan would be so active in promoting Akabeko through singing and dancing. I'm so happy.”

No... I'm not that aggressive.

Tsubame exclaimed in her mind. But there was no way she could actually say it out loud.

“I see. Tsubame-chan is a shy girl, so I thought she might not like this kind of thing, but I'm glad to hear that she seems to be pleased with it!”

Tae was in a good mood.

“I'd like to dance with everyone, is that okay?”

“Of course, yes. It would be good publicity for Akabeko. We can have any number of dances, so let's have Ichiwaka-neesan think of one where Tsubame-chan plays the leading role!”

Tae left in high spirits.

“Leading... role…”

Afterwards, Tsubame was left with an unexpectedly large role to play.

Notes: *Hanami: Literally flower viewing, when people gathering to see cherry blossom

*)Bon Odori: "Bon-Odori," as the name suggests, refers to a dance (odori) held during Obon. One of the folk arts held dear by Japanese, there are various explanations, but the dance is performed all over Japan in order to receive spirits and send them off again.At the present day, the religious aspect of the event has been mostly lost, and the dance is held as an event to liven up summer festivals and so on.

*)Obon : Festival of the dead. Obon (お盆) is an annual event in Japan for commemorating one's ancestors, whose spirits are believed to temporarily return to this world in order to visit their relatives during Obon.

*) Chonmage: Samurai traditional hairstyle

*)kyuri no uma (cucumber horses) or nasu no ushi (eggplant cows): cucumber carved like horses and eggplants carved as cows meant to carry the ancestors’ spirits to and from our earthly realm.

*)Mikagura: Mikagura is a form of Japanese ceremonial music and dance which originated in rituals first conducted more than 1,000 years ago by Shinto shrine priests for the Imperial Court of Japan.

*shamisen: Three stringed traditional instrument

*)wakizashi: Short sword

*)Hana yori dango: friendship is more important than flower

.…..to be continued in chapter 64…… https://www.tumblr.com/kenkaodoll/711955324274458624/kamiya-dojo-monogatari-tale-64-jump-sq-2304

TLnote(1): translating Japanese is so hard because the sentence structure is very different compared with English. Also the style of writing is different, plus there’s a lot of figurative, poetic language and things that don't make sense if it’s directly translated into english. So forgive me if this is very weird to read, and please tell me if you want to give corrections.

TLnote(2) I will provide the original Japanese text for correction if any of you who read have better knowledge of the Japanese language. Just dm and I’ll send the file.

TLnote(3) Dtninja had translated some earlier chapters on his website. You can go and check on there

Read the rest of the story here: https://www.tumblr.com/kenkaodoll/686193523858538496/rurouni-kenshin-tales-of-kamiya-dojo?source=share

#Kamiya Dojo Monogatari #Tales of Kamiya Dojo #Rurouni Kenshin #Ruroken #Himura Kenshin #Kamiya Kaoru #Himura Kaoru #Himura Kenji #Takani Megumi #Makimachi Misao #Myoujin Yahiko #Sanjo Tsubame #Himura Family #unofficial translation #Kaoru Kurosaki #Kurosaki Kaoru #kenkao

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moreofthatdrowse · 4 years ago

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Beatles Survey Part 2

Part 2 has arrived! Don’t forget to reblog so everyone who did the survey can take part of the results and send me a message if you have a question you’d like me to feature in another Beatles survey!

Paul: 63 (28.8%)

George: 50 (22.8%)

John: 45 (20.5%)

I didn’t have one: 37 (16.9%)

Ringo: 24 (11%)

My opinion has not shifted: 80 (36.5%)

George: 47 (21.5%)

John: 37 (16.9%)

Paul: 35 (16%)

I don’t have a favourite: 16 (7.3%)

Ringo: 4 (1.8%)

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63 people had Paul as their favourite when they were new fans. 17 of these have since switched to George, two have swapped for Ringo, and 14 are now fans of John. Three people don’t have a favourite anymore but 26 stayed with Paul.

George was the favourite for 50 people when they were new fans. 27 stayed with him and four let go of him but didn’t seize anyone new either, they don’t have a favourite. One person switched to being a Ringo fan, nine swapped to Paul and ten for John.

45 people favoured John in the beginning and 19 stayed with him. Four became impartial, eight swapped to Paul, eight to George as well and no-one for Ringo.

Ringo had 24 stans in the beginning of which only seven stayed with him. Eight people started favouring George, six Paul and no-one John.

Those who favoured Paul, George and John in the beginning were most likely to stay with him, but the ones who liked Ringo were more likely to start favouring George.

George was the one who gained the most new fans: 33 in total. John got 24 new ones, Paul 23 and Ringo only three.

Through family: 78 (35.8%)

Internet/Social Media: 66 (30.3%)

Through friends: 16 (7.3%)

I don’t know: 14 (6.4%)

Some people (44) filled in their own answer:

a class i took in high school

it was like 3 am and i was like hehe beatle bug and randomly decided to listen to all their music for really no reason

looking at apple music playlists

Grew up on their music.

across the universe

watched a hard day's night

School music competition with a Beatles theme

In 2009 when they were everywhere (all the remastered albums were being released)

it has been engrained in my soul since i was a child

Always been. Just started to do my own research after visiting Harry Benson’s exhibition in Moscow and watching ‘Once upon a time in a Hollywood (because of the 60s).

Listening to other classic rock

I had heard that the beatles made multiple movies and decided to watch all of them on a whim in quarantine

Growing up I've heard of them here and there but it wasn't until the release of the Beatles 1 album back in 2000 when I actually became interested and eventually a fan. The more I saw the ad for it, the more interested I became. And here I am.

Sheer luck

grew up on yellow submarine

Through other bands that cited them as an influence

Through family, school AND social media

I heard the taste of honey vinyl (I know that no one has ever hard of it but i am pretty sure that it exists )

Spotify playlists

8th grade music teacher

Grew up with them

A college class I took specifically on The Beatles

Through curiosity

It was both my family and the internet

I started listening to Queen and I saw so many other Queen fans were also fans of The Beatles, so I decided to give them a shot.

Through my drunk neighbor belting Here There and Everywhere at 3 am on karaoke

My family of course, but they were all casual and I deep dived on my own

i heard their music on the radio

I’ve just heard them all my life!

Reading fanfiction

Paul is dead theory

A random dream.

So like it was a very warm night and i was bored of my music so i went "fuck it" and decided to listen to this strange album i had downloaded for awhile but never listened to... yeah that was the white album. Additionally, I believe Here Comes The Sun was the first song I had ever listened to. Not even counting the Beatles just the first song.

I said fuck it one day and decided to listen to abbey road out of nowhere because I was bored and had nothing to do

Lifetime commercials

I found their album in a flea market

The Muppets

Worked in Mendips while volunteering for the National Trust

#BeatlesSurveyResults #the beatles #george harrison #paul mccartney #john lennon #ringo starr #beatles #60s #classic rock #60s music #george martin #brian epstein #jane asher #linda mccartney #pattie boyd #olivia harrison #barbara bach #cynthia lennon #yoko ono

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the-bejeesus · 4 years ago

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To Those Who Say “I’m not gonna catch up on One Piece until it’s finished. Why would I watch/read 1000+ episodes/chapters when I don’t even get to know how the story ends?”

Now for the past few years, when I came across somebody who said this, my rebute would be something like “Well the series is great already. It doesn’t really matter if I don’t know how it ends, because the journey itself is enjoyable.” or “Man if that’s your excuse, who you gonna explain why you read/watch stuff like Berserk, Hunter X Hunter, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and My Hero Academia? Newsflash, they aren’t done yet.” But it came across my mind that I can now apply a completely different approach:

“If you start watching/reading at this pace right now, it will be over by the time you catch up.”

If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll know that for awhile now Oda has been saying that he plans to end the series in just 5-4 years. Now he’s made lots of claims in the past that turned out to be ridiculous. However, many One Piece researchers have compiled his claims and found out that they only get more accurate as time goes on, with the most ridiculous claims being found to be myths. And with the most recent claims of ending the series in less than 5 years, even his editors who are usually skeptical have started to trust that he can do this. After all, he has officially set there to be only one more saga (which isn’t necessarily one arc, but it’s either going to be 1-2 major arcs or an anthology of 5-6 shorter arcs). And now that we can trust this claim, we can essentially extrapolate how many chapters/episodes are left and what pace we have to binge to catch up at just the right time.

If you plan to read the manga (black and white):

The manga in black in white is a perfectly fine way to enjoy One Piece. It’s what Oda draws, it’s how he intends it to be viewed, and best of all, it will be the first version of publication to finish.

Out of the 1223 weeks since the first chapter published in July 19, 1997, 1000 chapters have published, meaning on average he publishes 42 chapters per year, or in other words, there are only 10 hiatuses per year (including holidays where WSJ does not publish). Now if I wanted to be more accurate, I’d only look at the chapters published this year, to exclude outliers like how he had no hiatuses for the first 200 chapters, or how he had a 4-week hiatus during the timeskip, but 2020 has been a bit crazy, so we’re not doing that for this or any of the others.

Going off of this, the final chapter would be chapter 1212 in December 28, 2025 (yes, the 28th would be a Sunday again.) So here’s how you’d calculate the pace in which you need to read One Piece, and really this is how we’ll calculate it for every version)

Now I know math is boring, but the reason I’m showing this to you is because the amount of weeks until One Piece ends will vary based on when you start this binge. Chances are you aren’t going to start the day you see this post, and there’s an even greater chance you won’t see this post the day it’s posted. For every example I’m going to assume you started binging on December 28, 2020. Now let’s try to use it for this example.

And there’s your answer, just read 4-5 chapters per week. By the end, One Piece should be nearly over or have very recently ended. To put that into a different perspective, you could purchase and read just two volumes per month and you’ll be at prime pace. Or you could read one chapter every day, but only on weekdays. If you want to, you can see this calculation in action in graph form.

While this is a very rudimentary graph, it’s a basic visualization of what we’re calculating here. We’re calculating what speed we need to binge to catch up at exactly the right moment. I say exact, but ultimately no one can predict how many chapters there will be exactly, nor how many hiatuses Oda will go on during it. It will be important, as you’re nearing the end, to find a spoiler-free way to keep up on how close One Piece is to ending. To know whether you ought to speed up or slow down.

If you plan to watch the anime (subtitled):

For years now people have hated on the anime “terrible animation!” “terrible pacing” but at the end of the day, it’s the more popular version. Or the more viewed version I should say. And personally, I think that once you acknowledge its problems and learn how to deal with them, it’s a perfectly fine experience. There’s enough good voice acting and enough good storytelling that you’re easily able to ignore the problems. Plus, the animation has substantially improved since Wano.

Now for this we’re going to have to change a lot of variables to get this right. We’re going to have to adjust when publication started, and recalculate when One Piece will end by looking at how slowly the anime adapts the manga, and how behind it is. The anime aired on October 20, 1999, and has aired 956 episodes since then. This means on average they air 44.9 episodes per year, meaning there is pretty much only 7 breaks the entire year. With these 956 episodes, they have adapted 955 chapters, making the pace almost exactly one chapter per episode. However this is really inaccurate, considering all the better-paced arcs earlier on in the story. Looking solely at episodes 2012 and onwards, the anime adapts at a pace of 0.65 chapters/episode.

Knowing that there are roughly 212 chapters left, and Toei adapts at 0.65 chapters per episode, we can assume that there are going to be roughly 324 episodes left. That sounds like too many, but keep in mind that there will be several, several instances where the manga will be on hiatus whereas the anime will keep on airing. Knowing there are approximately 324 episodes left, and that the anime only takes about 7 breaks a year, we can assume that it will take 7 years, or 374.49 weeks before the anime will end. So now we have the information we need to do the math again.

x = 1280/374.49

x = 3.417 episodes/week.

It may seem like a more relaxed binge, since you get a whole 2 extra years to binge, and you only have to do 3-4 episodes per week, compared to the 4-5 chapters. But keep in mind that these episodes are 24 minutes each. Still not at all bad, but you will be spending more time on it overall.

If you plan to watch One Pace:

One Pace is a fan project that edits the anime so that filler and padding is cut, other edits will be made to make the anime more manga-accurate, such as reorganizing scenes, or adding title cards where absent. Originally only used by a niche number of One Piece fans, One Pace has grown in popularity, and has tried to improve its quality to accommodate more fans, such as making their episodes Dual Audio (meaning you can switch between the dub and original Japanese audio tracks), and including Spanish subtitles.

You’d think we’d have to adjust for when One Pace began, how slowly One Pace catches up, and the works, but there’s not much to calculate. Fortunately for us, no matter how far behind One Pace is on editing the current arc, they always like to wrap things up just a few weeks within when an arc ended, if not the very same week. So really all we have to calculate is how many One Pace episodes there will be by the end of all this, so that we know how many you’ll need to watch per week.

Looking solely at what they’ve covered so far, One Pace has taken 573 episodes and condensed it down to 259 episodes. That’s a pace of 2.21 anime episodes/ paced episode. Earlier we calculated that there would be 324 episodes of the anime left, making for 1280 episodes total. This would mean that there would be around 578 One Pace episodes by the end. And One Pace would probably wrap up in, let’s say 376 weeks, because as I said, they’ll probably finish editing the final arc a week or two after the last episode airs.

x = 578/376

x = 1.53 episodes per week

Now that’s a relaxed pace. 1-2 episodes per week? That’s so slow, I’m not even sure if I’ll remember what I watched last week next time I watch some episodes. The only problem is some of the pre-timeskip still haven’t been edited. They’ll probably be done by the time they finish the final arc, but that’s not gonna work out fast enough. You’ll hit your first roadblock about 7 weeks in when you need to watch the Baratie arc and it’s not done. And don’t even get me started on how many arcs aren’t done in dub or Spanish sub yet. Hopefully you could just switch to the anime or manga when you hit these arcs, readjusting how many episodes/chapters you need to watch/read when you do. But that’s a bit of an excessive amount of math for something that’s supposed to be fun. So yeah, if you’re still convinced you shouldn’t get into One Piece until it’s ended, maybe this is the option for you.

If you plan to read the manga (Colored):

Since 2012, Shueisha has made a colorization of One Piece. It’s not a fan coloring, it’s as official as it gets. Many consider the color schemes portrayed in this version as the most canon, as the majority are pulled straight from whatever colored illustrations of Oda’s they can find. And quite frankly it makes the manga at least 10 times more beautiful. It’s especially great if you have trouble interpreting dense, small black and white panels.

This one is a doozy. You’d think all I gotta do is calculate how far behind the colored manga usually and just adjust from there, right? Wrong. Because how far behind the colored manga is, or how frequently they release volumes in full color, is one of the most inconsistent things I have ever seen. You wanna see what I’m talking about? This is how they’ve chosen to release each volume since 2012:

Volume 1-12: July 15, 2012

Volume 13-23: September 28, 2012

Volume 24-63: December 4, 2012

Volume 64-65: April 4, 2013

Volume 66-68: December 20, 2013

Volume 69-70: August 25, 2014

Volume 71-72: September 16, 2015

Volume 73-75: October 4, 2016

Volume 76: December 2, 2016

Volume 77: March 3, 2017

Volume 78: July 2, 2017

Volume 79: September 4, 2017

Volume 80: December 4, 2017

Volume 81-82: March 3, 2018

Volume 83: October 4, 2018

Volume 84-86: August 2, 2019

Volume 87-92: September 16, 2020

How I am supposed to find out how long it will take for Shueisha to colorize the final volume of One Piece is beyond me. I guess the first step would be to look at how far behind the manga each release was on average, but I’m going to ignore all the ones before 2013, because those were clearly just Shueisha catching up really fast cause they just started and didn’t want to be dozens of volumes behind forever. So of the 14 publications between 2013 and now, on average the last chapter of the last volume they colored was 97.78 weeks after that chapter had published in Weekly Shonen Jump. This means that if the final chapter of One Piece is chapter 1212 on December 28, 2025, then you can expect the final colored volume to publish November 14, 2027.

x = 1212/359

x = 3.37 chapters/week

So if you prefer the manga but don’t want to read 5 chapters every week for 5 years, this might be a better option for ya. But yea, I have no doubt my prediction is at least a little off for this one.

If you plan to watch the anime (dubbed):

Unlike the 4KidsTV and Odex dubs of One Piece, the FUNimation dub is a perfect way to enjoy One Piece. The DVDs come with enjoyable commentary and a marathon mode, great for binging.

FUNimation’s releases of the dub are inconsistent, although not nearly as erratic as the colored manga release. However, there was recently a 2-year hiatus we only just got out of. Since Episode 1′s dub in May 27, 2008, the dub has gotten as far as Episode 614. But that’s only looking at the DVD releases. If you’re willing to stream on FUNimationnow, the dub is as far as 641, and if you’re willing to digitally purchase it from an e-shop such as the Microsoft store, it goes all the way to Episode 654. With that being said, that would mean that on average, FUNimation dubs 1.004 episodes per week. Although if we go back to before the two-year hiatus so as to exclude it from the average, it’s actually 1.10 episodes per week. Not a huge difference, actually. And then if we look solely after the two-year hiatus, it’s actually 2.25 episodes per week, which is insanely faster. It’s hard to tell what the future of the dub will be. I can’t assume they’ll go this fast forever, so I’m just going to take the average of all 3 and say it’s 1.45 episodes per week. Don’t know if that’s the best mathematical approach, but the number seems about right.

So knowing that the dub is at Episode 654 and looking at our previous guesstimation that the anime will be 1280 episodes long, we can predict that it will take 431 weeks before the dub catches up and ends. That would be in 2029! Sounds quick at first until you notice it’s 4 years behind!

x = 1280/431

x = 2.96 episodes per week

Looks like it’s almost exactly 3 episodes per week. Not as much less of a workload as I expected, compared to catching up to the sub. You know, I figured those 4 extra years would make you binge a lot slower.

Final Thoughts:

There’s a lot of my math that was estimation, approximations, extrapolations. Feel free to correct me or fact check me, especially if you plan on using this. I figured this would be a fun thought excercise. There’s also a lot of smaller variables I simply didn’t want to take into account because of how long this is already. For example, reading the black and white manga. The calculation can vary slightly depending on if you read it the day it’s published (which I assume would have to be a fanscan unless you can read Japanese), reading the weekly publication legally on Viz.com, waiting for the physical volume release. The dub can also vary depending on whether you buy from Microsoft, wait for the FUNimationnow release, wait for the DVDs, or wait for the Collection sets. So feel free to take this into account.

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Tagged by @invisiblesocks literally,,,,,,,,, SO long ago, tysm sorry it took me forever!

rules : spell out your name and url using only song titles and tag 10(ish) people.

E: Eleanor Rigby - the Beatles

M: The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana

M: My Lover - Birdtalker

A: Alexandra - Allie X

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S: September - Earth, Wind & Fire

H: Here's A Health - Cara Dillon

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A: Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene - Hozier

S: Stand By Me - Ben E. King

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P: Perfect Day - Lou Reed

E: Enigma - Lady Gaga

R: Real Love Baby - Father John Misty

G: Good Kisser - Lake Street Drive

E: everything i wanted - Billie Eilish

E: End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys

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2. Cooking and eating delicious food and sharing it with people!

3. My family and pets!

4. Reading for fun!

5. My little garden!

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Last song: "Here, There, and Everywhere" by the Beatles

Last series: M*A*S*H

Last movie: I don't remember, I haven't seen one for a few months

Sweet savory or spicy: I have such a bad sweet tooth AND I love savory. Spicy only sometimes

Tea or coffee: tea

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Rules: list three facts about your self then tag a few people

1. I really want to write a book someday but all I can ever think of are character concepts, not a remotely cohesive plot

2. I'm gonna be a history teacher when I grow up!

3. I need to be stopped from overflowing my back deck with plants. I want to be a garden lady and grow veggies n stuff in addition to my tiny butterfly garden. Someday

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suitofvibraniumarmor · 5 years ago

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** Writing Challenge **

I know, I know, my next one isn’t quite wrapped up yet, buttttt this idea came to me when my cousin and I were taking a walk down a ridiculous part of Memory Lane and I got excited. I’m guessing this has been done before at some point -- that’s not stopping me from presenting to you:

I love fluff. And I wanna see more of it!

Below the cut you will find some prompts that, in the context of Twilight, are absolutely cringe-worthy. My challenge to you is to take that prompt and make it something we can love.

Disclaimer: I’m not Twilight-shaming ANYONE. I literally sat and watched all of Eclipse and now want to watch both Breaking Dawns. It’s more about sentiment, and the occasional girly giggle for me, but ... yeah. No judgement here, friends.

Guidelines, prompts, and tags are below the cut! (Yes, I copied and tweaked from my last writing challenge. I’m being efficient, thank you! :P )

Please read all of the information carefully!

Rules, Guidelines, Important Dates:

Sign-Ups start when this post is live and will go through to December 30, 2020. I will accept two people for each prompt, one prompt per author.

Please send your sign-ups to my ask box so they’re easier to keep track of. I will answer them privately so I’m not flooding anyone’s dash!

In your ask, please include your preferred prompt and a backup option, as well as your pairing (so I don’t take the same pairing for the same prompt). Also, please let me know if you’ll be posting from a URL other than one you’re asking from.

To be included in the challenge masterlist, please post your fic (or the first part, if it’s a series) by Decemeber 31, 2020.

Please include an author’s note tagging me and mentioning the challenge in your fic post; include #BetterThanTwilightWC in the first five tags. If the tag doesn’t work, you may DM the link to me, also. If you decide to write a series, please tag me in the masterlist.

Please give me up to 48 hours to read your fic before checking if I have seen it. If I have not liked it after 48 hours, please DO check. (You know, since we’re all aware of how unreliable tumblr is. And how unreliable my mind can be. Yikes.)

The challenge masterlist will be posted between January 1 and January 4, 2020.

There are no word count limits, but please use the Keep Reading feature if your story goes beyond 500 words. Additionally, if your fic goes beyond 5000 words, please consider splitting it into multiple parts. This is not a requirement, only something to think about.

Yes, this is a FLUFF challenge, so you MUST have fluff as your main genre. You’re more than welcome to include other genres, but you MUST have a happy and/or hopeful ending.

You’re welcome to think outside of the box! Just because I’m talking Twilight and love stories, doesn’t mean there has to be romance! Give me amazing friendships or strong family bonds or self-love. Or romance! Whatever you’d like.

You're welcome to change pronouns in the prompt as necessary! Heck, I tweaked a few of ‘em so they’re not Twilight-specific.

For personal reasons, I do not read and will not accept into the challenge (which means I will not reblog or add to the masterlist) stories that include: non-con/dub-con, underage sex, adult-child romantic/sexual relationships, spouse-bashing, child abuse – I could go on, but I think you get the idea. If you’re not sure about something, I’m always happy to answer questions!

Bring on the ships, OC’s, reader pairings – I’m trying to be more open-minded as of late, but I can’t promise that I will read everything. Again, for personal reasons. But I will reblog everything!

Characters and RPFs from Marvel/MCU are both welcome.

If you need an extension or need to drop out, please know that I am extremely flexible when it comes to that deadline/due date. In the words of Captain Barbosa, “It’s really more of a guideline.” Just shoot me an ask or a message and we’ll work something out, no worries!

Prompts:

1. “I have always loved you, and I will always love you.” 2. “The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.” 3. “I know what you are.” 4. “You held out your hand and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing.” 5. “You have a connection with her that I’ll never understand.” 6. “I’m glad she has you.” 7. “It will be like I never existed. I promise.” 8. “I knew who I wanted to be. I wanted to help people. Brings me happiness.” 9. “That will take a while to get used to.” “We have a while.” 10. “What if I’m not the hero? What if I’m the bad guy?” 11. “I’d rather hear your theories.” 12. (sarcastically) “Super. That makes me really happy.” 13. “You’re like my own personal brand of heroin.” 14. “Maybe I shouldn’t be dating such an old man. It’s gross. I should be thoroughly repulsed.” 15. “It’s an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and they’ll accept you for what you are.” 16. “I’ve been waiting for what seems like a very long time to get beyond what I am.” 17. “I feel like I can finally begin.” 18. “He’s totally gorgeous, obviously. But apparently nobody here is good enough for him.” 19. “He did say I couldn’t step inside the door. I came in through the window.” 20. “I know things. Like how to hunt somebody to the ends of the earth. And I know how to use a gun.” 21. “Now I’m afraid.” “Good.” 22. “I’m not afraid of you. I’m only afraid of losing you.” 23. “About three things I was absolutely positive ...” 24. “You’re so stubborn.” 25. “Do you know how worried I’ve been?” 26. “I can’t even think about someone hurting you.” 27. “The only thing that can hurt me is you, and I don’t have anything else to be afraid of.” 28. “Don’t antagonize her. She’s the strongest one in the house.” 29. “All right. That’s enough experimenting for one day.” 30. “It never made sense for you to love me.” 31. “I wish there had been someone to vote no for me.” 32. “It’s just a little baby.” 33. “How strongly are you opposed to grand theft auto?” 34. “I’m not missing another fight!” 35. “No one can hide like me.” 36. “If I asked you to stay in the car, would you?” 37. “I have one condition, if you want me to do it myself.” 38. “I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.” 39. “How did you get in here?” “The window.” 40. “I love a happy ending. They are so rare.” 41. “You should put your seatbelt on.” 42. “Can you talk about something else? Distract me so I won’t turn around.” 43. “I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist.” 44. “After all the thousand times I’ve told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me?” 45. “Maybe that’s why they kicked me out.” 46. “All of my best nights have happened since I met you.” 47. “You know everybody’s staring?” “Not that guy ... no, he just looked.” 48. “She wishes she was that awesome.” 49. “Does he visit often?” “Yeah, all the time.” 50. “Lie ... Lie better.” 51. “I’m Switzerland.” 52. “That should have been our first kiss.” 53. “Would you like to hear my story? It doesn’t have a happy ending -- but which of ours does?” 54. “Another party?” “It’ll be fun.” “Yeah. That’s what you said last time.” 55. “You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. I will always be yours.” 56. “The way he watches you. It’s like he’s willing to leap in front of you and take a bullet or something.” 57. “Kill me! Not him!” 58. “Stay.” “Give me one good reason.” 59. “Yeah, it’s and off day when I don’t get somebody telling me how edible I smell.” 60. “Damn it! You’ll be the death of me, I swear you will.” 61. “If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not afraid of it.” 62. “Do I dazzle you?” 63. “I’m tired of trying to stay away from you.” 64. “Bring on the shackles, I’m your prisoner.” 65. “You are my life now.” 66. “And then we continued blissfully into this small, perfect piece of our forever.” 67. “Nobody’s ever loved someone as much as I love you.” 68. “I don’t know what happened.” “You love him.” 69. “All of sudden it’s not gravity holding you to the planet, it’s her. Nothing else matters. You would do anything, be anything for her.” 70. “You really love her?” 71. “I don’t see the whole point of the rest of the world without her.” 72. “Then I found a promising site ... I waited impatiently for it to load, quickly clicked closed each ad that flashed across the screen. Finally, the screen finished -- simple, white background with black text; academic-looking. Two quotes greeted me on the homepage:” 73. “I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” 74. “I’ll be fighting for her, too, and I’ll be fighting twice as hard as you will.” 75. “It’s always been him.” 76. “You don’t know how long I’ve waited for you.” 77. “They’re coming for her.” “They’re not gonna touch her.” 78. “Doesn’t he own a shirt?” 79. “You know, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.” 80. “You have disappeared. Like everything else.” 81. “The absence of him is everywhere I look.” 82. “I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.” 83. “Your number was up the first time I met you.” 84. “We all like to drive fast.” 85. “It’s too easy to be myself with you.” 86. “I’ve never given much thought to how I’d die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.” 87. “Don’t tempt me too far. My patience isn’t that perfect.” 88. “His tone questions my sanity, but it only made me more suspicious. It was like a perfect delivered line by a skilled actor.” 89. “What’s he mad about?” 90. “No measure of time with you will ever be enough.” 91. “I promise to love you forever, every single day of forever.” 92. “We’re gonna be great friends!” 93. “If I had my way, I would spend the majority of my time kissing him.” 94. “Until your heart stops beating.” 95. “I touched the cool miracle of his ski, and I was home.” 96. “Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” 97. “This isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions. This is the time to make mistakes.” 98. “Leave it to you ... you have to start hanging out with the first weirdos you can find.” 99. “I love him much more than I should, and yet still nowhere near enough.” 100. “I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes.”

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@captain-s-rogers @star-spangled-man-with-a-plan @letsgetfuckingsuperwholocked @hurricanerin @horsesandbandsforlife @im-not-an-armrest-im-short @captain-rogers-beard @shynara51 @sea040561 @pinknerdpanda @xtina2191 @jackryanplz @beakami @heartsaved @fullprunerebelstatesman @blackwidowismyhomegirl @the-murder-strut-murdered-me @shield-agent78 @jennmurawski13 @okay-maybe-i-like-marvel-too

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pamphletstoinspire · 4 years ago

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The Season of Septuagesima Are you ready for Lent?

Definition Septuagesima and Lent are both times of penance; Septuagesima being a time of voluntary fasting in preparation for the obligatory Great Fast of Lent. The theme is the Babylonian exile, the “mortal coil” we must endure as we await the Heavenly Jerusalem. Sobriety and somberness reign liturgically; the Alleluia and Gloria are banished

“The Sundays of Septugesima are named for their distance away from Easter:

The first Sunday of Septuagesima gives its name to the entire season as it is known as “Septuagesima.” “Septuagesima” means “seventy,” and Septuagesima Sunday comes roughly seventy days before Easter. This seventy represents the seventy years of the Babylonian Captivity. It is on this Sunday that the alleluia is “put away,” not to be said again until the Vigil of Easter.

The second Sunday of Septuagesima is known as “Sexagesima, which means “sixty”. Sexagesima Sunday comes roughly sixty days before Easter.

The third Sunday of Septuagesima is known as “Quinquagesima,” which means “fifty” and which comes roughly fifty days before Easter. Quadragesima means “forty,” and this is the name of the first Sunday of Lent and the Latin name for the entire season of Lent.

Throughout this short Season and that of Lent (next Season) you will notice a deepening sense of penance and somberness, culminating in Passiontide (the last two weeks of Lent), that will suddenly and joyously end at the Vigil of Easter on Holy Saturday when the alleluia returns and Christ’s Body is restored and glorified.”

From The Liturgical Year by Abbot Gueranger

The season of Septuagesima comprises the three weeks immediately preceding Lent. It forms one of the principal divisions of the liturgical year, and is itself divided into three parts, each part corresponding to a week: the first is called Septuagesima; the second, Sexagesima; the third, Quinquagesima.

All three are named from their numerical reference to Lent, which, in the language of the Church, is called Quadragesima, that is, Forty, because the great Feast of Easter is prepared for by the holy exercises of forty days. The words Quinquagesima, Sexagesima, and Septuagesima, tell us of the same great solemnity as looming in the distance, and as being the great object towards which the Church would have us now begin to turn all our thoughts, desires, and devotion.

Now, the Feast of Easter must be prepared for by forty days of recollection and penance. Those forty days are one of the principal seasons of the liturgical year, and one of the most powerful means employed by the Church for exciting in the hearts of her children the spirit of their Christian vocation. It is of the utmost importance that such a season of grace should produce its work in our souls – the renovation of the whole spiritual life. The Church, therefore, has instituted a preparation for the holy time of Lent. She gives us the three weeks of Septuagesima, during which she withdraws us, as much as may be, from the noisy distractions of the world, in order that our hearts may be more readily impressed by the solemn warning she is to give us at the commencement of Lent by marking our foreheads with ashes.

This prelude to the holy season of Lent was not known in the early ages of Christianity: its institution would seem to have originated in the Greek Church. Besides the six Sundays of Lent, on which by universal custom the faithful have never fasted, the practice of this Church prohibited fasting on the Saturdays likewise; consequently their Lent was short by twelve days of the forty spent by our Savior doing penance in the desert. To make up the deficiency, they were obliged to begin their Lent many days earlier.

The Church of Rome had no such motive for anticipating the season of those privations which belong to Lent; for, from the earliest antiquity, She kept the Saturdays of Lent as fasting days. The Gallican liturgy, it is true, had retained the Greek custom; but it was abolished by the zeal of King Pepin and St. Karl the Great.

At the close of the 6th century, St. Gregory the Great alludes, in one of his homilies, to the fast of Lent being less than forty days, owing to the Sundays which come during that holy season. It was therefore, after the pontificate of St. Gregory, that the last four days of Quinquagesima were added to Lent, in order that the number of fasting days might be exactly forty. As early as the 9th century, the custom of beginning Lent on Ash Wednesday was of obligation in the whole Latin Church. All the manuscript copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary, which bear that date, entitle this Wednesday In capite jejunii, that is to say, the beginning of the fast. But, out of respect for the form of divine service drawn up by St. Gregory, the Church does not make any important change in the Office of these four days. Up to the Vespers of Saturday, when alone She begins the Lenten Rite, She observes the rubrics prescribed for Quinquagesima week.

Peter of Blois, who lived in the 12th century, tells us what was the practice in his days: “All religious begin the fast of Lent at Septuagesima; the Greeks, at Sexagesima; the secular clergy, at Quinquagesima; and the rest of Christians, who form the Church militant on earth, begin their Lent on the Wednesday following Quinquagesima.” The secular clergy, therefore, were bound to begin the fast two days before the laity – that is, on Monday, as we gather from the Life of St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, written in the 10th century. Quinquagesima was then called Dominica carnis privium sacerdotum, that is, priests’ carnival Sunday, when the announcement we made that the abstinence from meat was to begin on the following day.

This usage, however, soon became obsolete; and in the 15th century, the secular clergy, and even the monks themselves, began the Lenten fast, like the rest of the faithful, on Ash Wednesday.

There can be no doubt that the original motive for this anticipation was to remove from the Greeks the pretext of taking scandal at the Latins, if they did not fast fully forty days. Whilst faithful to Her ancient practice of fasting on Saturdays, the Roman Church gladly borrowed from the Greek Church the custom of preparing for Lent, by giving to the liturgy of the three preceding weeks a tone of holy mournfulness. Even as early as the beginning of the 9th century, the Alleluia and Gloria were suspended in the Septuagesima Offices. In the second half of the 11th century, Pope Alexander II enacted that this custom be everywhere observed, beginning with the 1st Vespers of Septuagesima.

Thus was the present important period of the liturgical year, after various changes, established in the cycle of the Church. It has been there for more than a thousand years. Its name, Septuagesima (seventy), expresses, as we have already remarked, a numerical relation to Quadragesima (the forty days); although in reality, there are not 70 but only 63 days from Septuagesima to Easter. This is partly to represent a profound mystery connected with the number 70. St. Augustine speaks of two times: the time before Easter, representing our sojourn on earth, and the time after Easter, representing eternity. The Church often speaks of two places corresponding to these two times, Babylon and Jerusalem. Now the Babylonian captivity lasted 70 years; and it is to express this mystery that the Church, according to all the great liturgists, uses the name Septuagesima for this season.

Again, the duration of the world itself, according to the ancient Christian tradition, is divided into seven ages. The human race must pass through seven ages before the dawning of the day of eternal life. The first age included the time from the creation of Adam to Noah; the second begins with Noah and the renovation of the earth by the deluge, and ends with the vocation of Abraham; the third opens with this first formation of God’s chosen people, and continues as far as Moses, through whom God gave the Law; the fourth consists of the period between Moses and David, in whom the house of Juda received the kingly power; the fifth is formed of the years which passed between David’s reign and the captivity of Babylon, inclusively; the sixth dates from the return of the Jews to Jerusalem, and takes us as far as the birth of our Savior. Then, finally, comes the seventh age; it starts with the rising of this merciful Redeemer, the Sun of Justice, and is to continue until the dread coming of the Judge of the living and the dead. These are the seven great divisions of time; after which, eternity.

Holy Mother Church reminds us during this season that we are sojourners upon this earth; we are exiles and captives in Babylon, that city which plots our ruin. The Church wishes us to reflect on the dangers that beset us; dangers which arise from ourselves and from creatures. During the rest of the year She loves to hear us chant the song of Heaven, the sweet Alleluia; but now, She bids us close our lips to this word of joy, because we are in Babylon.

The leading feature, then, of Septuagesima, is the total suspension of the Alleluia, which is not to be heard again upon the earth until the arrival of that happy day, when, having suffered death with our Jesus, and having been buried together with Him, we shall rise with Him to a new life. Perhaps we could not better show the sentiments, wherewith the Church would have her children to be filled at this period of Her year, than by quoting a few words from the eloquent exhortation, given to his people at the beginning of Septuagesima, by the celebrated St. Yvo of Chartres in the 11th century: ” ‘We know,’ says the Apostle, ‘that every creature groaneth, and travaileth in pain even till now: and not only it, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body’ (Rom. 8: 22, 23). The creature here spoken of is the soul, that has been regenerated from the corruption of sin unto the likeness of God: she groaneth within herself, at seeing herself made subject to vanity; she, like one that travaileth, is filled with pain, and is devoured by an anxious longing to be in that country, which is still so far off… During these days, therefore, we must do what we do at all seasons of the year, only we must do it more earnestly and fervently: we must sigh and weep after our country, from which we were exiled in consequence of having indulged in sinful pleasures; we must redouble our efforts in order to regain it by compunction and weeping of heart… Let us not become like those senseless invalids, who feel not their ailments and seek no remedy. We despair of a sick man who will not be persuaded that he is in danger. No, let us run to Our Lord, the Physician of eternal salvation. Let us show Him our wounds, and cry out to Him with all our earnestness: ‘Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak’ (Ps. 6: 3). Then will He forgive us our iniquities, heal us of our infirmities and satisfy our desire with good things.”

Brian Williams, from the “Liturgy Guy blog”, says “Thankfully, as more are introduced to the Traditional Mass of the Roman Rite, the brief season of Septuagesima is being reintroduced into the life of the Church. As this means more of the faithful can better prepare for, and enter deeper into, the season of Lent, it is an objectively positive development.”

#septuagesima season

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spellsthename · 4 years ago

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Catch up and Update :)

Alright, I’ve been dead for a hot minute and I want to update everyone and also promise that this is going to be a good thing!

Okay, so I’ve been through a lot in the last few weeks and it’s been really difficult, but I’ve gotten through all of that and I’m very proud! So, no news on my lump yet, I see the doctor next week, but so far we aren’t too alarmed so I’ve nick named it Fergie because it’s a lovely lady lump. As for the car accident. I am totally fine, and the man who caused the accident can’t make a claim against my insurance so thankfully that won’t be an added expense for me! Beyond that, it will cost about $2200 to get my car fixed up but thankfully that is the discounted amount from just over 4k.

Further good news! I’ve been looking at my ED head on and have been working hard to stop tracking food, exercise for fun and wearing what I call “Scary clothing” so that I can combat my body dysmorphia. It’s been going well and I haven’t binged through out the last rough week!

Another fun thing, and I only mention this because its totally legal. Because I have my covid shot my dispensary gave me a free pre-roll which was a fun little treat!

(All questions are answered on April first and therefore are going to be time stamped for that lol)

57. Mon. March 22: What are you grateful for today? Head phones, my neighbors have work being done and their workers are WILDLY loud so I’m glad I can drown them out.

58. Tue. March 23: What are you proud of yourself for? I got dressed today! In a “scary” shirt and a skirt! I’m very excited to try and be more normal like other’s.

59. Wed. March 24: Favorite sweet? wafer cookies

60. Thur. March 25: What makes you happy? music, my sister, coffee, feeling accomplished

61. Fri. March 26: What are your strengths? perseverance. I always try to do better than I did yesterday and frankly, today I’m feeling good about that.

62. Sat. March 27: How did this week go for you?LMAO my accident was on this day. it was no bueno

63. Sun. March 28: What’s the plan for next week? survive.

64. Mon. March 29: What is your weakness? I get overwhelmed and become catatonic.

65. Tue. March 30: Can’t pour from an empty cup! How do you refill your cup? meditation, therapy and knitting.

66. Wed. March 31: What was the last compliment you got? My dad about twenty minutes ago when I came down in my outfit. He asked if I was looking extra nice to go anywhere. I said it is fighting the depression monster. He said I looked nice and he was happy for me.

67. Thur. April 1: When do you feel most at peace? Listening to my queer cottage core play list, laying in the grass with my dog and smoking a pre-roll. It is an ultimate relaxation that makes me feel connected to the earth and my body. I don’t want to come off as a stoner but honestly it’s fantastic for my anxiety!

#studyblr #cici speaks #high academia

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comicreadingorder · 5 years ago

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X-Factor by Louise Simonson Reading Order

When this series started the main X-Men team was full of all new people while Angel, Iceman and Beast had left to bump around between college and groups like the Champions, Defenders and Avengers. Jean was dead, and Cyclops ceded leadership of the team to Storm before retiring to Alaska with his wife and newborn son. ...But fans missed the originals so Marvel jumped through some silly hoops and retconned everyone back to their original versions.

The basis of the team is that X-Factor advertises themselves as humans who hunt down mutants, taking advantage of prejudice to get people to call on anyone they suspect of being a mutant. Once alerted the team would confront the person and, if they actually were a mutant, try to help them by inviting them back to base to stay and learn their powers.

While I wrote lists for other X-Men runs, each is supposed to function by itself rather than part of some master list. I’m sure you could piece them together easily enough if you wanted, but this is made with the mindset of someone only reading X-Factor. Bold=important or official part of the story Italics=optional with a note to let you decide for yourself

Avengers 263, Fantastic Four 286 -- These issues set up the return of the main team and lead into X-Factor 1.

X-Factor (V1) 1-4

XF Annual 1

XF 5-8 -- Louise Simonson takes over with 6 and lasts through 62.

Mutant Massacre

This was the first of the big 3 crossovers uniting the X titles. Despite being the newest, it really thrived during these crossovers, telling such big stories that they almost felt like the main title.

Uncanny X-Men 210, XF 9, UXM 211, XF 10, NM 46, Thor 373, Power Pack (V1) 27, UXM 212, Thor 374, XF 11, UXM 213

XF 12-16

Thor 377, 378 -- A big change to Iceman that lasts through the entire run.

XF 17

XF Annual 2

XF 18-20

Incredible Hulk 336, 337 -- XF 20 leads into these 2 issues. It doesn’t lead back into their title or get mentioned again but they ARE a significant part of the story.

Fall of The Mutants

The second “crossover” of X-titles, except they all pretty much tell their own story in different, unrelated parts of the world so I didn’t include everything. Hulk is just a transition issue for UXM, PP shows an extended XF fight, Cap closes up a loose end, FF is an epilogue. The UXM issues are there because they’re mentioned in Inferno, where the two titles come together.

XF 21-23, UXM 220-224, Incredible Hulk 340, XF 24, 25, PP 35, UXM 225-227, Captain America 339, XF 26, FF 312

XF 27-29

XF Annual 3 -- Part of the Evolutionary War Annuals crossover but each annual’s story is pretty self-contained to their title.

XF 30-34

Inferno

Here the titles cross-pollinate heavily, ending up with some characters jumping over to other books. New Mutants also tells a significant part of Inferno that mostly precedes the XF/UXM issues, but I felt like the X-Terminators miniseries explained enough of that story. Plus there’s already so much convolution in this event that I wanted to narrow the view. UXM 239, X-Terminators 1, XF 35, XT 2-3, XF 36, UXM 240-241, XF 37, XT 4, UXM 242, XF 38, UXM 243, XF 39

XF 40

NM 76

XF 41, 42

XF Annual 4 -- Part of Atlantis Attacks, works as one-shot, follows up on the previous NM issue.

XF 43-58*

Days of Future’s Present: FF Annual 23, NM Annual 6, XF Annual 5, UXM Annual 14

XF 59

XF: Prisoner of Love -- Self contained one-shot about Beast. Mostly just adding to let you know it exists; as far as I know it’s never mentioned again.

X-Tinction Agenda: UXM 270, NM 95, XF 60, UXM 271, NM 96, XF 61, UXM 272, NM 97, XF 62 -- The last big X-over of the three titles during the Claremont era, also the last issues written by Simonson.

XF 63-64**

UXM 273 -- X-Tinction Agenda epilogue by Claremont, also the last issue of his original run where he did both the plot and script.

Kings of Pain: NM Annual 7, New Warriors Annual 1, UXM Annual 15, X-Factor Annual 6 -- Story across annuals about NW and X-Force with backups about Freedom Force. Totally skippable if you’re not reading those. Put here for breathing room between it and the Muir Isle saga.

XF 65-68

Muir Isle Saga: UXM 278-279, XF 69, UXM 280, XF 70

X-Men (V2) 1-3 -- This serves to show all the characters together before they split into teams.

At this point Peter David takes over writing and creates an entirely new team, starting a run that’s popular in its own right.

To follow Cyclops and Beast continue with the Blue team in X-Men (V2) 4.

For Jean Grey, Iceman and Archangel jump to the Gold team starting with Uncanny X-Men 281. See Also:

*X-Men Legends 3, 4 -- X-Men Legends is a 2021 anthology title that had original creators return to tell stories set during their era. The Simsonsons wrote this to take place immediately “before 43″ but like every prequel type thing it spoils later stuff.

**X-Factor Forever 1-5 -- Out of continuity mini from 2010 by Simonson set after her departure in XF 64, it allowed her to show what her future plans for the team were before leaving. Best read after you've finished everything, like a deleted scene or bonus content.

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fortysevenswrites · 4 years ago

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all the odd numbers <3

Alllllllll the odd numbers? Okayyyyy then.

1. when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?

It’s been a loooooong time since I’ve had cereal, but definitely more cereal, added milk as needed. The last thing I can handle is soggy cereal.

3. what random objects do you use to bookmark your books?

I’m that asshole who dog-ears her book pages. Sorry not sorry.

5. are you self-conscious of your smile?

Not really.

7. do you name your plants?

Lol I’d have to keep plants to name plants. The closest I’ve gotten is when I was house-sitting for my sister and thought I murdered her strawberries last summer. Turns out, I didn’t.

9. do you like singing/humming to yourself?

Not really. I do most of my singing to myself in my head.

11. what’s an inner joke you have with your friends?

Too many to count.

13. what’s something that made you smile today?

I bought these sour gummy snakes at the market today. Had them for brunch. Meal of champions.

15. go google a weird space fact and tell us what it is!

According to the great google and Arizona State University, there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (100-400 billion). That’s a lot.

17. what color do you really want to dye your hair?

Overtone, the hair dye company, has been advertising this color blend called Merlot, which is a mid between red and purple and it’s SO my vibe.

19. do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it?

I try to, but by the time I’m done with my day, I forget to journal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

21. talk about your favorite bag, the one that’s been to hell and back with you and that you love to pieces.

answered here

23. what’s your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?

answered here

25. what’s the weirdest place you’ve ever broken into?

answered here

27. what’s your favorite bubblegum flavor?

I don’t chew gum.

29. what’s something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing?

My best friend does this nose crinkle thing that is adorable.

31. what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks.

I wish they would just FUCKING FIT. So I don’t wear socks unless I have to.

33. what’s your fave pastry?

Chocolate croissants. Hands down.

35. do you like stationary and pretty pens and so on? do you use them often?

I have the handwriting of a twelve year old boy, so stationary is wasted on me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

37. do you like keeping your room messy or clean?

I am blind to most messes. My closet is on the floor, pretty much.

39. what color do you wear the most?

Black. Hands down.

41. what’s the last book you remember really, really loving?

Any book in the Sigma Series by James Rollins. I am trash for a good military thriller.

43. who was the last person you gazed at the stars with?

Probably not since I was still working at the summer camp I grew up at, so, years ago, and probably with my campers.

45. do you trust your instincts a lot?

Yeah. My instincts are always right.

47. what food do you think should be banned from the universe?

I don’t do bananas.

49. do you like buying CDs and records? what was the last one you bought?

Oh man, I used to LOVE buying CDs. The last record I bought was a vinyl of Haley’s Badlands when she did a club concert around the corner from where I live. It was SO much fun. Do I have a way to play said vinyl? No.

51. think of a person. what song do you associate with them?

I recently got news about a person who I used to work with back in the ye olde. The song I’m thinking of is Fuck You Very Much by Lily Allen. So, uh, take from that what you will.

53. have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers? beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them?

Beetlejuice is one of the best movies of all time. I’ve actually never watched RHPS all the way through. And I’ve never seen Heathers or Pulp Fiction.

55. what’s the most dramatic thing you’ve ever done to prove a point?

Quit my job.

57. go listen to bohemian rhapsody. how did it make you feel? did you dramatically reenact the lyrics?

Like I could conquer the damn world. And yes, I did sing along. Duh. And now I want to listen to Radio Gaga. So thanks for that.

59. what’s your favorite myth?

I’ve always been a huge fan of the story of Serenity and Endymion. Goes back to my Sailor Moon phase. As one does.

61. what’s the stupidest gift you’ve ever given? the stupidest one you’ve ever received?

I don’t think any of the gifts I’ve given, gag or not, are stupid. Even the socks I’ve given (and gotten).

63. are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organized or kinda leave them be?

Not really. I like knowing where the books I go back to regularly are, but that’s really it. I used to be really organized about my music back when iTunes was a thing. Now I really just listen to music via YouTube.

65. is there anyone you haven’t seen in a long time who you’d love to hang out with?

Yes, and that’s as far as I’m going to go on that nonsense. It’s been nine damn years. Ugh.

67. how do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel?

SO FUCKING GOOD. Love days like that.

69. what are your favorite board games?

Uhhhhhh....I haven’t played board games in years.

71. what’s your favorite kind of tea?

I used to drink green tea before I realized caffeine gave me serious anxiety.

73. what are some of your worst habits?

A great many things.

75. tell us about your pets!

My four-legged roommate Bishop. She’s the black cat I’ve always wanted and she’s the biggest, brattiest baby and she screams when she wants me to pay more attention to her. I am also the the aunt to four dog nieces, Belle (black lab mix), Raven (beagle mix), Ivy (miniature aussie), and Cora (husky/german shepherd mix), and two dog nephews, Sebastian (miniature schnhauzer) and Sven (husky/german shepherd mix).

77. pink or yellow lemonade?

Pink when I’m feeling fancy.

79. what’s one of the cutest things someone has ever done for you?

Someone I know, two years ago, the day after he met me, snuck me a cookie from the leftovers after team meal. It’s been a problem ever since.

81. describe one of your friend’s eyes using the most abstract imagery you can think of.

They change colors, but most often, somewhere between fanfiction yellow, and the color of dead moss. And they’re the best.

83. what’s some of your favorite album art?

I don’t really have thoughts on album art? But I have my Halsey Badlands vinyl right in front of me and it’s pretty cool.

85. do you read comics? what are your faves?

Not often, but I have a giant pile of Power Rangers comics that I’ve been meaning to read through for like...ever.

87. what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?

Blazing Saddles, Pacific Rim, Beetlejuice, Crazy Rich Asians

89. are you close to your parents?

Well that’s a complicated question. Let’s just leave it at that.

91. where do you plan on traveling this year?

Well I was supposed to go to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding this summer, but she pushed it back to 2022, which makes sense. Other than that, California at some point to see my grandparents because I haven’t seen them in over a year because of the pandemic.

93. what’s the hairstyle you wear the most?

Either a ponytail or a messy bun. Sometimes I’ll wear it down, but it depends on which day I am between shampoos. My hair is, well, finicky at best.

95. what are your plans for this weekend?

I have a module for a course I’m taking that I need to watch and do the homework for. Maybe go up to my sister’s house once my niece gets back from her dance tournament

97. myer briggs type, zodiac sign, and hogwarts house?

MB is steeped in eugenics so, no thank you, and also I just don’t have time to take the quiz. I’m a Taurus, and damn straight am I a Taurus. And I’m a Slytherin, full stop (though apparently I’m also a Ravenclaw, which makes sense).

99. list some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them.

marjorie by Taylor Swift, any song on Halsey’s Badlands album, The Pit by Silversun Pickups, Jet Pack Blues by Fall Out Boy, and Save Rock and Roll by Fall Out Boy, to name a few.

these are actually hella fucking cute y'all (except, you know, all the odds)

#asked and answered

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years ago

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LIZ THE MATCHMAKER

November 18, 1949

“Liz The Matchmaker” (aka “Katie and Mr. Negley”) is episode #63 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on November 18, 1949.

Synopsis ~ After dating Mr. Negley the postman for three years, Katie feels that their relationship is not going anywhere, so she enlists Liz's help!

This was the 12th episode of the second season of MY FAVORITE HUSBAND. There were 43 new episodes, with the season ending on June 25, 1950.

Although similarly titled and themed, this radio episode is not the basis for the “I Love Lucy” episodes “Lucy Plays Cupid” (ILL S1;E15), “Lucy is a Matchmaker” (ILL S2;E27), “The Matchmaker” (ILL S4;E4), or “Lucy, the Matchmaker” (HL S1;E12) in 1968. Safe to say that meddling in the romantic affairs of others was a trait of all of the Lucy characters!

“My Favorite Husband” was based on the novels Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945) by Isabel Scott Rorick, which had previously been adapted into the film Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). “My Favorite Husband” was first broadcast as a one-time special on July 5, 1948. Lucille Ball and Lee Bowman played the characters of Liz and George Cugat, and a positive response to this broadcast convinced CBS to launch “My Favorite Husband” as a series. Bowman was not available Richard Denning was cast as George. On January 7, 1949, confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat prompted a name change to Cooper. On this same episode Jell-O became its sponsor. A total of 124 episodes of the program aired from July 23, 1948 through March 31, 1951. After about ten episodes had been written, writers Fox and Davenport departed and three new writers took over – Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, and head writer/producer Jess Oppenheimer. In March 1949 Gale Gordon took over the existing role of George’s boss, Rudolph Atterbury, and Bea Benaderet was added as his wife, Iris. CBS brought “My Favorite Husband” to television in 1953, starring Joan Caulfield and Barry Nelson as Liz and George Cooper. The television version ran two-and-a-half seasons, from September 1953 through December 1955, running concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” It was produced live at CBS Television City for most of its run, until switching to film for a truncated third season filmed (ironically) at Desilu and recasting Liz Cooper with Vanessa Brown.

MAIN CAST

Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon.

Richard Denning (George Cooper) was born Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger Jr., in Poughkeepsie, New York. When he was 18 months old, his family moved to Los Angeles. Plans called for him to take over his father’s garment manufacturing business, but he developed an interest in acting. Denning enlisted in the US Navy during World War II. He is best known for his roles in various science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. Although he teamed with Lucille Ball on radio in “My Favorite Husband,” the two never acted together on screen. While “I Love Lucy” was on the air, he was seen on another CBS TV series, “Mr. & Mrs. North.” From 1968 to 1980 he played the Governor on “Hawaii 5-0″, his final role. He died in 1998 at age 84.

Ruth Perrott (Katie, the Maid) was also later seen on “I Love Lucy.” She first played Mrs. Pomerantz, a member of the surprise investigating committee for the Society Matrons League in “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25), as one of the member of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3), and also played a nurse when “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16). She died in 1996 at the age of 96.

Bob LeMond (Announcer) also served as the announcer for the pilot episode of “I Love Lucy”. When the long-lost pilot was finally discovered in 1990, a few moments of the opening narration were damaged and lost, so LeMond – fifty years later – recreated the narration for the CBS special and subsequent DVD release.

Gale Gordon (Rudolph Atterbury) and Bea Benadaret (Iris Atterbury) do not appear in this episode.

GUEST CAST

Jay Novello (Mr. Negley, Postman) appeared on “I Love Lucy” as superstitious Mr. Merriweather in “The Seance" (ILL S1;E7), Mario the gondolier in “The Visitor from Italy” (ILL S6;E5), and nervous Mr. Beecher in “The Sublease” (ILL S3;E31). He also appeared on two episodes of “The Lucy Show,” but Novello is probably best remembered for playing Mayor Lugatto on “McHale’s Navy” in 1965.

Frank Nelson (Police Officer) was born on May 6, 1911 (three months before Lucille Ball) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He started working as a radio announcer at the age of 15. He later appeared on such popular radio shows as “The Great Gildersleeve,” “Burns and Allen,” and “Fibber McGee & Molly”. Aside from Lucille Ball, Nelson is perhaps most associated with Jack Benny and was a fifteen-year regular on his radio and television programs. His trademark was playing clerks and other working stiffs, suddenly turning to Benny with a drawn out “Yeeeeeeeeees?” Nelson appeared in 11 episodes of “I Love Lucy”, including three as quiz master Freddy Fillmore, and two as Ralph Ramsey, plus appearance on “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” - making him the only actor to play two different recurring roles on “I Love Lucy.” Nelson returned to the role of the frazzled Train Conductor for an episode of “The Lucy Show” in 1963. This marked his final appearance on a Lucille Ball sitcom.

Rolfe Sedan (Malt Shop Waiter) first worked with Lucille Ball in the 1934 film Kid Millions. When Lucy Ricardo ate snails in “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18), Sedan played the Chef who was outraged that Lucy wants to put ketchup on his food. He is probably best remembered as Mr. Beasley the mailman on “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.”

EPISODE

ANNOUNCER: “As we look in on the Coopers it’s morning and Liz and George are at the breakfast table.”

George spits out his eggs and wonders why his breakfast is so badly cooked. Liz says that Katie’s romance with Mr. Negley the mailman is not going well, so she’s distracted. Even the toast is burned!

Liz tells says she wants to help bring the maid and the mailman together but George warns her to stay out of it! Instead, George wants to warn Mr. Negley that Katie is trying to get a “wedlock headlock” on him! George makes Liz promise not to meddle, no matter how difficult it is.

In the kitchen, Katie is crying and singing: “I gotta right to sing the blues. I got a right to moan and cry.”

"I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show Earl Carroll's Vanities (1932) starring Milton Berle. The song became a jazz and blues standard. Popular recordings were by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holliday.

Liz comes up with a loophole about her promise to not get involved in Katie’s romance: she will just listen, while Katie talks. Katie says that she and Mr. Negley go on several dates a week to the drive-in movie. Unfortunately, he drives a motorcycle. They also go to the park, where Mr. Negley plays canasta with the cop on the beat. Mr. Negley lives at the YMCA so she has no hopes of being invited over to dinner. Liz comes up with the idea to take George out to a movie that night, so that Katie and Mr. Negley will have the Cooper living room all to themselves.

Mr. Negley arrives to deliver the morning mail. Katie is too nervous to ask him to come over that evening, so Liz agrees to do it for her.

LIZ: “I thought I was Mr. Anthony, now I’m John Alden.”

Mr. Anthony (aka John J. Anthony) was the pseudonym of Lester Kroll, who from 1937 to 1953 dispensed marital advice on the radio through “The Good Will Hour”, later renamed “The John J. Anthony Hour.”

In "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Alden was asked by his friend, Miles Standish, to act as matchmaker for him with Priscilla Mullins. Priscilla made the classic response "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

Mr. Negley finally agrees to the date and merrily goes off singing “Some enchanted evening, you will see a stranger...”

"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been described as "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." Billboard Chart Records for “Some Enchanted Evening” in 1949 alone included Ezio Pinza (#7), Perry Como (#1), Frank Sinatra (#6), and Bing Crosby (#3).

That evening, Liz and George are at the movies. George wants to leave, but she must keep George out till 11:30 and it is only 9:30! Liz pretends to lose a shoe, which George dutifully searches for in the darkened theatre to no avail.

At 10:15, Liz and George are at the malt shop and Liz keeps ordering to kill time, despite getting gradually sick to her stomach. The Malt Shop waiter (Rolfe Sedan) tempts her with an “Eagles Nest”.

WAITER: “It has a base of pound cake and macaroon. On top of that, a scoop of mocha, black walnut, pistachio, peppermint, burnt almond, and tutti-frutti. And then a layer of whipped cream. A layer of chopped nuts. A layer of marshmallows. A layer of cherries. And then you flood the whole thing with hot fudge!”

Liz’s stomach churns!

They drive home. It is a quarter to eleven. Liz blurts out that they can’t go in until 11:30. She makes George promise not to mad, and tells him the truth. He breaks his promise. Liz reminds him that in their courtship, it would be blissful to stay in the car an extra half hour with Liz, but that was a long time ago. He tries to kiss her, but logistics interfere.

GEORGE: “That’s funny. I can’t turn around. The steering wheel’s in the way. In the old days the cars were built different.” LIZ: “In the old days, the stomach was built different.”

Liz and George manage a smooch - one that lasts until 12:30!

Liz wants to be sure Mr. Negley is gone, so she peers through the living room window. A policeman (Frank Nelson) is watching them and wants to know what they are doing. He doesn’t believe they are the homeowners or that they were in the car smooching, not staking out the place! He hauls them down to the police station!

At 4:30 in the morning, George and Liz finally get home, exhausted from their ordeal. A worried Katie greets them. It turns out something came up and Mr. Negley didn’t come over after all!

LIZ: “Oh, no!!!”

End of Episode

#My Favorite Husband #Matchmaker #Lucille Ball #Richard Denning #Frank Nelson #Ruth Perrott #John Alden #South Pacific #Mr. Anthony #Some Enchanted Evening #I Gotta Right to Sing The Blues #1949 #Radio #Rolfe Sedan #Jay Novello #I Love Lucy #Bob LeMond #Desi Arnaz #Lucy

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Laura upgraded to Category 4 hurricane (CNBC) Hurricane Laura, a major Category 4 storm, is set to hit near the Texas-Louisiana border on Thursday morning as local officials scramble to evacuate thousands of residents. The storm’s rapid intensification shocked scientists and prompted forecasters to issue warnings of “unsurvivable storm surge” in Texas and Louisiana. “Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal City, Louisiana, including Calcasieu and Sabine Lakes,” the National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday. “This surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland from the immediate coastline.” The storm battered the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Haiti over the weekend, knocking out power for more than 1 million people, collapsing some homes and killing at least 23 people. Laura is headed toward an area that comprises more than 45% of total U.S. petroleum refining capacity and 17% of oil production, according to the Energy Information Administration. As of Tuesday, producers shut down roughly 84% of offshore production in the Gulf as many refinery plants along the Texas and Louisiana coasts shutter in anticipation of life-threatening storm surge.

Extreme weather (Washington Post) Across the United States, there are signs of climate disaster. In California, two of the worst wildfires in the state’s history took place simultaneously, scorching more than a million acres of land, including a beloved forested national park. On the Gulf Coast, residents of Louisiana and Texas braced for an unprecedented double-hurricane event churned up by exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. In other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, the summer has already seen its toll of heat waves and heavy rains. Record-breaking temperatures in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad this July had my colleagues blistering their hands simply by touching the handle of an office door. The coastal Indian metropolis of Mumbai experiences seasonal flooding every year, but was hit by a year’s worth of rain in the space of a month this summer. Higher-than-average rainfalls in the past weeks led to an arc of destruction from central Europe to the Turkish Black Sea coast to southern China, where, in a grim omen, rising waters submerged the toes of a towering Tang dynasty-era statue of the Buddha that has stood for more than 13 centuries. “This year’s flooding has unfolded not as a single natural disaster, with an enormous loss of life and property,” noted the New York Times, “but rather as a slow, merciless series of smaller ones, whose combined toll has steadily mounted even as official reports have focused on the government’s relief efforts.” Experts are broadly convinced that a steady uptick in extreme weather events of recent years is at least in part the result of man-made climate change. “It seems like every year re-ups the previous year in terms of pushing the envelope, in terms of how much fire we’re seeing in the landscape and how severe that fire is,” Neil Lareau, an atmospheric scientist, told the Guardian about the California wildfires.

Lawyer says Blake paralyzed, protests erupt for 3rd night (AP) Jacob Blake, the Black man shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin, is paralyzed, and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again, his family’s attorney said Tuesday. The shooting of Blake on Sunday in Kenosha—apparently in the back while three of his children looked on—was captured on cellphone video and ignited new protests over racial injustice in several cities, coming just three months after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police touched off a wider reckoning on race. Some demonstrations devolved into unrest, including for a third night in Kenosha, where three people were shot and two people were killed during the protests overnight, according to Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.

US crackdown on nonessential border travel causes long waits (AP) A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours to get into the U.S. An employee at a company that provides support for businesses with Mexican operations saw the huge lines Sunday night from his home in Tijuana, Mexico. A U.S. citizen, he lined up at midnight for his 8 a.m. shift Monday in San Diego and still arrived 90 minutes late. U.S. citizens and legal residents cannot be denied entry under a partial ban that the Trump administration introduced in March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Going to work, school and medical appointments are deemed essential travel but going to shop, dine or socialize is not. The crackdown comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it surveyed about 100,000 travelers coming from Mexico by car or on foot and found 63% of U.S. citizens and legal residents traveled for reasons that were not essential.

Mexico struggles to get in shape (AFP) With martial arts training on rooftops, virtual exercise classes and outdoor workouts, Mexicans are getting creative as they try to slim down during the pandemic in one of the world’s most obese countries. Mexico has the world’s third-highest coronavirus death toll—and the government says poor diets and health problems including obesity, hypertension and diabetes are partly to blame. Social distancing measures mean gyms remain closed in much of the country six months after the outbreak began, posing a major hurdle to efforts to get Mexicans in shape. “It’s incredible that the bars are open and exercise is almost going underground, because there are gyms that open secretly,” Romero, a 27-year-old physiotherapist, tells AFP. Mexico has the world’s highest obesity rate among children and the second-highest among adults, according to the government.

German Town Fears Ruin by U.S. Effort to Stop Russian Pipeline (NYT) Sitting on the Baltic Sea, the small eastern German town of Sassnitz has been working for years to revive its enormous port, including taking on a role supporting a Russian pipeline being laid offshore to deliver natural gas to Germany. But the port, one of the last great infrastructure projects undertaken by the former East Germany, now finds itself caught up in a geopolitical competition between the United States and Russia, a clash that local officials and residents say is threatening the town and region with economic ruin. At issue are so-called secondary sanctions being proposed by powerful U.S. senators to target companies doing business with Russia and the Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom to finish the pipeline, Nord Stream 2, which is 94 percent complete. The port would fall under the sanctions because of the role it plays supplying provisions to a Russian pipe-laying ship involved in the project. The penalty, if the sanctions are imposed, would mean being cut off from the United States “commercially and financially,” and effectively excluded from the global financial system. The port would essentially be turned into an international pariah, with all its business drying up—not just its work supplying the Russian ship. To German officials and residents in Sassnitz, the sanctions against the port and the company that owns it, Fährhafen Sassnitz, are puzzling and infuriating. They threaten to turn Sassnitz into collateral damage as the town struggles to create enough jobs to keep young people from leaving. “They are firing their cannons at sparrows,” said Edgar Taraba, as he unloaded a morning’s catch of flounder and sole from his dinghy. “There is nothing left here to take.”

Greece battles coronavirus resurgence after early success (AP) Workers in bright yellow vests stand on the dock in Greece’s main port of Piraeus, greeting hundreds of masked ferry passengers with fliers and the occasional temperature check. “Would you like a coronavirus test? Yes, it’s free. Right over there, in the white structure, you’ll see the signs,” they tell disembarking passengers. Free on-the-spot tests for travelers returning from Greek islands where outbreaks have occurred is the latest in an arsenal of measures authorities are using to tackle a resurgence of COVID-19 in a country that has so far managed to dodge the worst of the pandemic. New localized restrictions, including a midnight curfew for bars, restaurants and cafes and a ban on large gatherings have been imposed, mainly in popular tourist destinations such as the Aegean Sea island of Mykonos. The number of confirmed virus cases and deaths in Greece remains lower than in many other European countries, but have been increasing.

France joins military exercises in east Mediterranean (Reuters) France is joining military exercises with Italy, Greece and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean amid a worsening dispute between Turkey and Greece over energy resources in the region, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Wednesday. Tensions between Turkey and Greece escalated after Ankara sent its Oruc Reis survey vessel to disputed eastern Mediterranean waters this month, a move Athens has called illegal. “The eastern Mediterranean is turning into an area of tension. Respect for international law must be the rule and not the exception,” Parly said on Twitter, adding that it “should not be a playground for the ambitions of some.” Relations between France and Turkey have soured in recent months over Ankara’s actions in NATO, Libya and the Mediterranean.

Army helicopters to pluck people from flooded Karachi city (AP) Pakistan’s military said Wednesday it will deploy rescue helicopters to Karachi to transport some 200 families to safety after canal waters flooded the city amid monsoon rains, displacing scores of people, officials said Wednesday. Although rains have lashed many parts of Pakistan, the southern port city of Karachi, located near the Arabian sea, has been the hardest-hit. Streets were flooded Tuesday with sewage water. Sewage and drainage systems in the city are outdated.

Indian lawyer in court over critical tweets (Foreign Policy) Prashant Bhushan, a prominent public interest lawyer from India, was due to be sentenced yesterday over two tweets he posted criticizing the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In one tweet, Bhushan accused Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde of hypocrisy after he posed with a motorcycle without a mask, despite having put the Supreme Court in lockdown due to coronavirus concerns. In the other post, he said the Supreme Court’s recent activity showed “how democracy has been destroyed in India” under Modi. The Supreme Court has called the tweets a “calculated attack on the very foundation of the institution of the judiciary,” but the case is emblematic of the authoritarian slide India has taken since Modi first assumed power in 2014.

Russian Evangelicals Fined for ‘Missionary Activity’ During Pandemic (Christianity Today) Anatoly Chendemerov was handing out tracts that said “You must be born again!” in the Volga Federal District in southeastern Russia. He was fined 6,000 rubles, the euqivalent of about $80. Sergey Krasnov was passing out Christian newspapers and New Testaments in Krasnodar, a city in the South. He was fined 5,000 rubles, or about $65. Seo Jin Wook, a South Korean, met with about 10 people in a private home in Izhevsk, in the Western Ural Mountains, to talk about the good news of Jesus Christ. He told the people they should come back and bring friends. He was fined 30,000 rubles (about $400) and deported. More than 40 people have been charged with violating a Russian anti-missionary law in the first six months of 2020, according to a new report from Forum 18, a religious liberty news service based in Norway. Government lockdowns and pandemic stay-at-home orders did not substantially slow the multiyear crackdown on unauthorized religious activity. Russia passed a 2015 law that said all religious meeting places needed to be registered and followed it in 2016 with an anti-missionary law. The bill was labeled as anti-terrorism legislation, meant to prevent foreign extremist from exerting influence in the country. Local police, sometimes supported by the Federal Security Service, have fined roughly 100 religious people per year for practicing their faith. Baptists distributing tracts and Muslims teaching people the language skills necessary to read the Qur’an are prime targets, alongside ongoing efforts to completely rid the country of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

US-China trade disputes (South China Morning Post) China should weaponize its exports of medicines and drug precursors if the US cuts the country’s access to computer chips, a prominent Chinese academic and government adviser says, as supply chain security emerges as a key theme in the upcoming American presidential election. The United States is heavily reliant on imported medicines from China, something both US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have vowed to address after the coronavirus pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in the nation’s pharmaceutical and medical device supply.

With Hacks and Cameras, Beijing’s Electronic Dragnet Closes on Hong Kong (NYT) To get onto his Facebook account, the police used Tony Chung’s body. When officers swarmed him at a Hong Kong shopping mall last month, they pulled him into a stairwell and pinned his head in front of his phone—an attempt to trigger the facial recognition system. Later, at his home, officers forced his finger onto a separate phone. Then they demanded passwords. “They said, ‘Do you know with the national security law, we have all the rights to unlock your phones and get your passwords?’” Mr. Chung recalled. Emboldened by that new law, Hong Kong security forces are turning to harsher tactics as they close a digital dragnet on activists, pro-democracy politicians and media leaders. Their approaches—which in the past month have included installing a camera outside the home of a prominent politician and breaking into the Facebook account of another—bear marked similarities to those long used by the fearsome domestic security forces in mainland China. Not accustomed to such pressures, Hong Kong lawmakers and activists, and the American companies that own the most popular internet services there, have struggled to respond. Pro-democracy politicians have issued instructions to supporters on how to secure digital devices. Many have flocked to encrypted chat apps like Signal and changed their names on social media.

Workations in Japan (Nikkei Asian Review) Workations are a reliable way that Japanese companies are getting workers to relax in a new environment on the company dime, and also support a tourist industry that’s been devastated by national shutdowns. The Japanese government launched a 1.3 trillion yen ($12.6 billion) travel campaign, angling to get people moving around the country which saw a 99.9 percent year-over-year decline in foreign visitors in the four months leading up to July and business down at travel companies 92.9 percent in June. One solution has been basically a surge in corporate retreats, where companies will send groups of employees to work on the beach on the cheap to lift morale while encouraging some R&R, and the government is actively encouraging it. Japan’s domestic tourism industry struggles because most people tend to travel at specific times—summer and year-end—and workers take the fewest paid holidays of 19 countries and regions and just half their allotted vacation on average.

Outbreak in Gaza (Washington Post) The Gaza Strip has been under degrees of lockdown since 2007, when Israel and Egypt imposed blockades after the militant group Hamas took control of the impoverished Palestinian territory. The same conditions that make life a daily struggle there, and that have obstructed even the most basic preparations for the looming threat of a coronavirus outbreak, have perhaps made it harder for the virus to find a toehold. That could be about to change. The coastal enclave’s few points of entry were largely shut in March. But Tuesday, the territory of nearly 2 million people imposed a 48-hour lockdown after authorities reported the first four confirmed cases of the virus in the general population. For months, aid agencies have warned that the silent spread of the virus through the conflict-weary strip could be calamitous. Gaza has one of the densest populations on Earth, a collapsed health-care system, and small supplies of electricity and clean water. Health-care workers are bracing for further signs of a wider outbreak among already vulnerable communities.

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Summary of Franklin D. Cossitt’s Claim by the Southern Claims Commission for His Losses During the Civil War, December 4, 1876.

No. 20.459, 43.163,

CLAIM of Franklin D. Cossitt

Fayette Co.,

Tennessee

SUMMARY REPORT.

Amount Allowed $14,102.00

SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS

December 4, 1876

BY THE

COMMISSIONER OF CLAIMS

UNDER

Act March 3D, 1871

No. 20459

The Claim of Franklin D. Cossitt, of Fayette Co., in the State of Tennessee

42 items. Amount of claims as per 1862. Statement in petition—hereto

Nov & Dec. annexed in detail.

Amount claimed: 31620.00

Amount allowed: 14102.17

Amount disallowed: 17516.83

Mr. Cossitt was a native of Connecticut. At the age of fifteen he went to Tenn. He there became a merchant & planter. He owned four plantations, vis, “Myrick”, “Urquhart”, “Sykes”, and “Adams,” and 127 slaves. He never held any civil or military office in the Confederacy & it does not appear that he ever gave any aid or comfort to the Confederacy. In the summer of 1862 he went to Bolivar where Generals Grant & McPherson were camped with their Army & told them that the Confederate forces did not amount to much & that they would have no difficulty in coming into and taking possession of the country. They had supposed that the Confederate force was large. The next day Genl. McPherson came to La Grange & took possession of the country. In Exhibit No. 2, Genl. McPherson, under date of Nov. 13, 1862 says “Mr Cossitt has rendered good service at different times & deserves compensation for articles taken from him.” Genl. McPherson also under date of Nov. 5 ’62 “certifies that Mr. Cossitt has shown himself a good loyal man & has rendered important services to the Federal cause” &c.—

Genl. Hamilton, who for 6 weeks in Oct & Nov. ’62 had his headquarters at his house, says—“I have known Mr. Cossitt since Nov. ’62,—have at all times found him a reliable & thoroughly loyal Union man, from whom I have received much useful information at times & have always found his sympathies with the Union Gov’t & Armies.”—Genl. Hurlbut, under date of Nov. 18, ’62 says—“Mr Cossitt has been known to me since June last as a reliable Union man,--I became acquainted with him at La Grange on the first occupation of that place by Union troops. I have reason to believe that he has always been loyal to the Gov’t & have received from him valuable information.”

Genl. Hurlbut was examined orally before us & his evidence is very full & satisfactory to prove claimant’s loyalty. We deem it sufficient to refer to it.—Many other papers are filed to show that other officers of our Army in 1862 regarded him as loyal.—He was threatened and molested by the rebels, & in April 1863 was obliged to leave. He went to Chicago where he has since resided. In regard to the necessity of his leaving Genl. Hurlbut says—“his life would not have been worth a straw outside of the range covered by the U. S. troops.” In June 1862 he was extracted by Genl. Sherman with the charge and repair of trestle work, which service he faithfully performed. See Genl. Sherman’s letter. Exhibits 6 & 7.—

Loyalty fully proved.—

As to the taking of the property. Genl. Hamilton encamped on the Myrick place with a large body of troops in Oct. ’62 & staid about 7 weeks.—At the same time Genl. McPherson with a still larger body of troops camped on the Urquhart place. The first 11 items & the items from 26 to 42 inclusive were all taken from the Myrick place, by the troops of Genl. Hamilton in Nov. 1862. Items 1 to 11 are shown by the evidence of Mr. Myrick, the superintendent of the Myrick place, also in part by Mr. Cossitt, & by the papers filed in the case which fully corroborate the testimony. Items 26 to 42 are proved by receipts by receipts given at the time and which are proved & filed in the case. But a small part of the property taken from the Myrick place was receipted for. Exhibit 1 is a statement drawn up by Mr. Cossitt in Nov. ’62 from the declarations made by Mr. Myrick at the time. The Myrick place contained about 1000 acres of cultivated land.

1862

1st to 30th Nov.

1 10 mules. 1500.—

2 90,000 lbs. fodder. 900.—

3 10 stacks, 15000 lbs. hay. 150.—

4 2625 bu. corn, taken from field. 2100.—

5 1125 bu. corn, taken from cribs. 1125.—

6 150 bu. sweet potatoes. 150.—

7 150 fat hogs, 150 lbs. ea. 2250.—

8 17 beef cattle. 714.—

9 250 lbs. brown sugar. 40.—

10 1/2 bbl. 20 galls. molasses. 20.—

11 100 stock hogs. 500.—

[Above amounts taken by Gen. C. S. Hamilton, U. S. vols. from “Myrick’s Place”]

12 63 stacks, 94500 lbs. fodder. 945.—

13 46 stacks, 46000 lbs. hay & pea vines. 460.—

14 7 stacks, 7000 lbs hay & pea vines. 70.—

15 400 acres corn, 10,000 bu. 8000.—

16 16 mules. 2400.—

17 150 fat hogs, average 150 lbs. 2250.—

18 100 stock hogs, average 150 lbs. 500.—

19 66 cattle, cows & calves, 50 cattle. $2000. 10 cows. $300. 6 calves. $60.}2360.—

20 25 bu. corn meal. 25.—

21 2 sacks salt. 20.—

22 13 bags, 13 bu. dried peaches. 13.—

23 1200 bu. sweet potatoes. 1200.—

24 17 sets [qeer? geer? green?]. 85.—

Total: $27,777.

[Above was taken from “Urquhart Plantation” by Gen. J. B. McPherson, from 1st to 13. Nov./1862]

(See Exhibit #2.)

Subtotal: 27,777

1862 Nov. 7

25 19 mules.

26 2 loads, 30 bu. corn.

27 2 loads, 2000 lbs. fodder.

[Above taken by Lt. Conynham [Cunningham?], Actg. Q. Mr., 16th Iowa Vols., under command Gen. J. McArthur, 6th Divis, Army of Tenn. See exhibit No 4]

28 3 loads, 4500 lbs. hay. 45.—

29 7 loads, 7000 lbs. fodder. 70.—

30 8 loads, 200 bu. corn. 200.—

[Above taken by Capt. E. D. Ostrand, Comdg. Co. “A”, 4 Ills. Cavy. See exhibits 5 & 6]

31 2 loads, 30 bu. corn. 30.—

[Taken by Lieut. Jones, Q. M. 16 Wis. Vols. See Exhibit No 7]

32 255 bu. corn. 255.—

33 1600 lbs. fodder. 16.—

[Taken by J. F. Stouffer, wagon master, 2 Iowa Cavy. See Exhibit No 8]

34 4 loads, 1200 lbs. fodder. 12.—

35 5 loads, 75 bu. corn. 75.—

[Taken Nov. 6. 7. 8. 10. & 12 Nov. 1862 by B. S. Williams Lt. & A. R. Qr. Mr. 8th Wis. Vols., Col. J. M. Loomis, Comdg 2 Brig. 2 Div. Army of Tenn. See Exhibits 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. & 14.]

36 4 loads, 1200 lbs. fodder. 12.—

37 3 loads, 45 bu. corn. 45.—

Subtotal: $31,437.—

38 300 lbs. hay. 3.—

[Taken Nov. 6, 7, & 10, 1862 by Lt. Spring, Qr. Mr. 26th Ills. Infy. Command of Col. J. M. Loomis, 2d Brig. 2 Div. Army of Tenn. See Exhibits 15, 16 & 17]

39 2 loads, 30 bu. corn. 30.—

[Taken by R. Kennedy, Qr. Mr. 13 Iowa Infy as per certificate of Leslie Bassett, 1st Lt. Co. “K,” 13th Iowa Infy. See Exhibit No 18]

40 10 loads, 80 bu. corn. 80.—

41 2 stacks, 3000 lbs. hay. 30.—

[Taken by Enos P. Searls, wagon master, 5th O. V. C. See Exhibit 19]

42 1 steer. 40.—

[Taken by Lt. Joshua Ricketts, Co. “C”. Eng. Reg. of the West. See Exhibit No. 20]

Total: $31,620.—

The other items from the Urquhart place are proved and therefore are allowed, except item 22 & a part of No. 23 of which the Estimate is too large.—The prices of pork & beef were very low in Nov. ’62.—

We allow as follows:—

Items 1. 16. & 25 For mules—$4000.00 & reject the rest.

2 For fodder—562.50 & reject the rest.

3 For hay—105.00 & reject the rest.

4 2625 bus corn in field—1050.00 & reject the rest.

5 1125 bus corn in cribs 562.50 & reject the rest.

6 150 bus potatoes—75.00 & reject the rest.

7 150 fat hogs—750.00 & reject the rest.

8 17 Beeves—340.00 & reject the rest.

9 250 lbs Sugar—17.00 & reject the rest.

10 1/2 bbl. Molasses—10.00 & reject the rest.

11 100 stock hogs—200.00 & reject the rest.

12 63 stacks of fodder—309.37 & reject the rest.

13 46 stacks of Hay & pea vines} 140.00 & reject the rest.

14 7 stacks of Hay}

15 400 acres of standing corn 3200.00 & reject the rest.

16 Included in item 1

17 150 fat hogs (Urquhart)—750.00 & reject the rest.

18 100 stock hogs (Urquhart)—200.00 & reject the rest.

19 66 head of cattle—980.00

20 25 bus corn meal—25.00

Amount carried over $13276.37

Amt. brot. forward—$13276.37

21 2 sacks salt—$10.00

22 13 bags dried peaches—

22 1200 bus sweet potatoes—300.00—

24 17 setts of Gear—85.00

25 Included in item 1.—

26 30 bus corn—15.00

27. 28. 29 Hay & fodder (receipts) 25.20

30. 31. 32 Corn as per receipts—202.50

33. 34. Fodder as per receipts—21.00

35 Corn as per receipts—37.50

36. 37. 38 Hay, corn, fodder as per receipts—33.60

39. 40 Corn as per receipts—55.00

41 Hay as per receipts—21.00

42 A steer—20.00

$14,102.17

Making in all fourteen thousand one hundred and two dollars and seventeen cents—and rejecting the rest of the claim.

A. O. Aldis

J. B. Howell

O. Ferriss

Commissioners of Claims

On the hearing Col. McAllister of Counsel for Clmt. moved that an item for 6375 bus. of corn taken from the field on the Myrick place be added to the petition & claim, as that amt. at 25 bus per acre would be equal to the “255 acres corn gathered” named in No. 1 (2 by Audem) which was filed when the petn. was, & is referred to in it.—But many other items in Exhibit 1 are not included in the petn., & unless specially named in the petn. can not be considered as a part of it. The exhibit is referred to as proof of the items of claim stated in the petn., but not as being intended to present other claims than those named in the petn.—Again the claim now is for 6375 bus corn taken from the field, while the Exhibit speaks only of “255 acres corn gathered.”—So the “45 acres gathered” agrees exactly with item 5. at 25 bus per acre.—We have no doubt that the Army took as much corn from the Myrick place as is charged in items 5 & 6 & in the items from 26 to 41 for which receipts were given & so allow. For corn in cribs in Nov. ’62 we have always allowed 50 cents per bus, & we do so here though the receipts estimate it only at 25 cents. Mr. Cossitt is entitled to that fair price which in all other cases has been allowed claimants. For corn in the field we allow 40 cents per bus., about the difference the clmt. makes in his charges.— The Urquhart place contained 1600 acres of which about 1000 acres were cultivated. The witnesses say there were about 600 acres in corn, & that deducting what was trodden down by the Army there were at least 400 acres gathered by the troops.

Exhibit No. 2 (marked 2A by Mr. Audem) is a paper which clmt. drew up from a statement made at the time by Gilchrist, the Supt. Of the Urquhart place under Myrick, & which he then presented to Genl. McPherson, who then, Nov. 13, 1862 referred it to Qr. Mr. Burr for investigation saying—“Mr. Cossitt has rendered good service at different times & deserves compensation for the articles taken & damages done him. This contemporary claim made & thus certified by Genl. McPherson is entitled to much weight as evidence. It is sustained by the testimony of his foreman Wm. Cossitt, a colored man, and to some extent by Mr. Myrick who had a general supervision of the place tho residing 6 miles off. The other papers strengthen the proof of the claim. We are satisfied that the “400 acres of corn” claimed in Exhibit 2 must have yielded to our troops at least 10,000 strong who were camped on the place for several weeks at least 8000 bus of corn & for which as taken from the field we allow $3200.00

The items from 12 to 25 inclusive were all taken from the Urquhart place & are all named in Exhibit 2 except the item 25 for 19 mules.

As to item 1 for 10 mules taken from the Myrick place it is fully proved by Myrick, & Cossitt & is in Exhibit No. 1.—

As to items 16 for 16 mules, & 25 for 19 mules all taken from the Urquhart place: in all 35 mules. There is no proof that these mules were taken from any other place than the Urquhart place. There were mules on the Sykes place but there is no proof whatever as to their taking. These two items make up 35 mules, & that is just the number mentioned in Exhibit No. 3, the paper given by Genl. McPherson.—In that paper he says—“Mr Cossitt has permission to retain for the present the 3 mules which he obtd. From the Qr. Mr. Dept. He has had 35 mules taken from him by our Army & the above 3 mules are required by him to secure his crops.”—The clmt. assumes that the 35 mules do not include the 10 taken from the Myrick place. But we think this statement, made on the 20th Nov., after all the mules had been taken, was made at an interview between clmt. & Genl. McPherson, & referred to all the mules taken from clmt. whether from the Myrick, the Urquhart or any other place.—Clmt.’s object was to keep the three by showing how many had been taken & that none were left;—and without reference to any particular plantation.

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