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Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, 1951)

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw, Marjorie Reynolds, Raymond Burr, Leslye Banning, Jim Backus, Philip Van Zandt, John Mylong, Carleton G. Young. Screenplay: Frank Fenton, Jack Leonard. Cinematography: Harry J. Wild. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Frederic Knudtson, Eda Warren. Music: Leigh Harline. 

His Kind of Woman starts out as a tough-talking film noir and ends up as a knockabout action comedy. The credit or blame for that belongs to Howard Hughes, the RKO studio head and executive producer, who waited until John Farrow had finished the movie and then had Richard Fleischer re-shoot it, even recasting the villain, originally played by Lee Van Cleef, with Raymond Burr. The New York Times reviewer hated it, partly because of the shift in tone, but most people like it. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell were never going to outdo Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in dialogue like "They tell me you killed Ferraro. How did it feel?" "He didn't say." But they're good enough at it that they give the movie a core that the flurry of oddball characters and the loony setup for the plot needs. Vincent Price is wonderful as an Errol Flynnish movie star who spouts tags from Shakespeare as he joins Mitchum in taking on the bad guys. Hughes made sure that Russell's gowns, designed by Howard Greer, were as revealing as possible, and Mitchum spends a lot of the film without his shirt, looking a little thick in the waist to contemporary viewers used to gym-toned physiques. The end product probably wasn't worth the money Hughes lost on it, but it's still fun.  

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Prometeo americano

El 16 de julio de 1945, en el desierto de Nuevo México, se detonaba en secreto la primera bomba atómica. Impactado por el poder destructivo de su creación, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director del Proyecto Manhattan, se comprometería desde entonces a luchar contra el desarrollo de la bomba de hidrógeno y contra la guerra nuclear. Sospechoso de comunista para los Estados Unidos de la era McCarthy, fue perseguido por el FBI, calumniado como espía de la Unión Soviética y obligado a dimitir de cualquier función pública. Su vida privada fue arrastrada del mismo modo hacia el esperpento; su casa fue allanada con micrófonos ocultos, y su teléfono, intervenido. No sería hasta 1963 que el presidente Kennedy lo rehabilitaría y, con ello, su figura obtendría otro cariz para los ciudadanos del mundo entero. Treinta años de entrevistas a familiares, amigos y colegas; de búsqueda en archivos del FBI; de análisis de las cintas con discursos e interrogatorios, y de hallazgos de documentos privados del físico nuclear dieron como resultado este monumental libro. Una biografía de una enorme minuciosidad que ofrece una visión íntima del científico más famoso de su generación; una de las figuras icónicas del siglo xx para quien el triunfo y la tragedia se unieron en un nudo gordiano. "Princeton (New Jersey), 25 de febrero de 1967. Pese a la amenaza de mal tiempo y el frío crudo que helaba el noreste de Estados Unidos, seiscientos amigos y colegas —premios Nobel, políticos, generales, científicos, poetas, novelistas, compositores y conocidos de toda clase y condición— se reunieron para recordar la vida y llorar la muerte de J. Robert Oppenheimer. Para unos fue un amable profesor al que llamaban con cariño Oppie; para otros, un gran físico, el hombre que en 1945 se convirtió en el «padre» de la bomba atómica, héroe nacional y símbolo del científico al servicio del pueblo. Y todos recordaban con profunda amargura que, nueve años después, la Administración del presidente republicano Dwight D. Eisenhower lo declaró individuo peligroso para la seguridad nacional, haciendo de él la víctima más destacada de la cruzada anticomunista estadounidense. Así pues, todos acudieron con pesar en el corazón para recordar a un hombre brillante cuya extraordinaria vida estuvo marcada por el triunfo y por la tragedia. Entre los premios Nobel se contaban físicos de renombre internacional como Isidor I. Rabi, Eugene Wigner, Julian Schwinger, Tsung-Dao Lee y Edwin McMillan. La hija de Albert Einstein, Margot, hizo acto de presencia para honrar al hombre que había sido el jefe de su padre en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados. Robert Serber, alumno de Oppenheimer en Berkeley en los años treinta, amigo íntimo suyo y extrabajador de Los Álamos, también estaba allí, así como el gran físico de Cornell Hans Bethe, el premio Nobel que descubrió el funcionamiento interno del Sol. Irva Denham Green, una vecina de la tranquila isla caribeña de Saint John, donde los Oppenheimer se habían construido una casita en la playa, que les sirvió como refugio después de la humillación pública de 1954, estaba sentada codo con codo entre dirigentes ilustres y poderosos de la política exterior del país: el abogado y eterno consejero presidencial John J. McCloy; el jefe militar del Proyecto Manhattan, el general Leslie R. Groves; el secretario de la Marina, Paul Nitze; el historiador, ganador del Premio Pulitzer, Arthur Schlesinger hijo, y el senador por New Jersey, Clifford Case. En representación de la Casa Blanca, el presidente Lyndon B. Johnson envió a su consejero científico, Donald F. Hornig, otro antiguo trabajador de Los Álamos que había estado con Oppenheimer cuando se llevó a cabo la Trinity, la prueba que se hizo el 16 de julio de 1945 de la primera bomba atómica. Repartidos entre los científicos y la élite de autoridades de Washington había literatos y hombres de cultura: el poeta Stephen Spender, el novelista John O’Hara, el compositor Nicolas Nabokov y el director del Ballet de la Ciudad de Nueva York, George Balanchine." Read the full article

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Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Jesslyn Fax, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport. Screenplay: John Michael Hayes, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. Cinematography: Robert Burks. Art direction: J. McMillan Johnson, Hal Pereira. Film editing: George Tomasini. Music: Franz Waxman. 

REAR WINDOW (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954).

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So all the students -- 124, btw, not 88 -- who were at Bob Jones College in that first year are as follows:

Perry Bestor Allen from Crichton, Alabama

Ella Louise Buckner from Headland, Alabama

Henry Seymour Blocker from Sandusky, Ohio

Mary Evelyn Brannon from Headland, Alabama

I. D. Barton from Andalusia, Alabama

Olin Comer Cleveland from Hartwell, Georgia

John Andrew Cherry from Dothan, Alabama

Hilary Herbert Clements from Pinckard, Alabama

Henry Mallory Chandler from Grady, Alabama

Dorothy Maxine Ceruti from Millville, Florida

Virgil Miller Culpepper from Ensley, Alabama

Asa Lee Carter from Ramer, Alabama

Leonidas Littlebury Colley from Brundidge, Alabama

Nollie  Dykes from Ariton, Alabama

LeGare  Day from Abbeville, Alabama

Dorothy  Dowling from Enterprise, Alabama

Leonard LeRoy Dunlap from Meridian, Mississippi

Cecil Marvett Ellisor from Andalusia, Alabama

Bessie Ruby Enfinger from Skipperville, Alabama

Rawdon Lee Gallman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Samuel Willard Gates from Carrollton, Alabama

Johnnie  Goare from Slocomb, Alabama

Joseph Leon Goodin from Opp, Alabama

Henry Edward Grube from Mobile, Alabama

Ariana  Haymaker from Winona Lake, Indiana

Nellie Pauline Hallford from Slocomb, Alabama

Dorothy Vivian Harris from Valdosta, Georgia

John William Hightower from Brundidge, Alabama

Russell Clifford Hobbs from Lynn Haven , Florida

William Jennings Hughes from Brewton, Alabama

James Ottis Hays from Red Level, Alabama

Ottawa Grace Hall from Blountstown, Florida

Fannie Mae Holmes from Fort Deposit, Alabama

Bonclie  Howell from Hartford, Alabama

Evenly  Howell from Hartford, Alabama

Lonnie Coleman Henley from Ramer, Alabama

James Welborne Johnston from Panama City, Florida

Anna Louise Johnson from Lynn Haven , Florida

Frank Milner Jones from Daleville, Alabama

Isaac Godfrey King from Sneads, Florida

John Clifford Lewis from Red Level, Alabama

Marvin M. Larrimore from Dickinson, Alabama

Bertha Eloise Long from Clio, Alabama

Lillia V. Long from Clio, Alabama

Ruth  Mowbray from St. Andrews, Florida

Margaret  Massey from Luverne, Alabama

Kate  McMillan from Wausau, Florida

Minnie Eunice Monk from Lynn Haven , Florida

Matha Virginia Monk from Clio, Alabama

Ruth Doris Mahan from Montgomery, Alabama

Ruth Ellen Miller from Vernon, Florida

Frances Eudora Moseley from Sylacauga, Alabama

Homer  Napier from Dothan, Alabama

Laura Frances Porter from Sylacauga, Alabama

Frank Norris Pitts from Montgomery, Alabama

Graff  Parish from Dozier, Alabama

Jesse Lamar Price from Eufala, Alabama

Jesse Lee Riley from Enterprise, Alabama

Eugene Clower Smith from Port St. Joe, Florida

Randolph Aenon Sparks from Aucilla, Florida

Miriam Burnett Sellers from Slocomb, Alabama

Eva May Silent from Slocomb, Alabama

Robert Paul Stough from Dothan, Alabama

James Monroe Strickland from Dothan, Alabama

Illah May Smith from Olustee, Florida

Gladys Alma Trawick from Skipperville, Alabama

Bowers Shipp Sandusky from Marianna, Florida

Evelyn Avery Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Virginia  Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Alvine Herman Vanlandingham from Hartford, Alabama

Walter Bowden Venters from Chipley, Florida

Florrie Love Williams from Panama City, Florida

Ruby  Woodham from Slocomb, Alabama

Lynwood Henry Wilson from Crewe, Virginia

Hugh Emmette Wilson from Sweetwater, Alabama

John Wesley Wilson from Goodwater, Alabama

Daniel Cleveland Whitsett from Abbeville, Alabama

Anthony Hamilton Warner from Montgomery, Alabama

Paul Jennings Ward from Geneva, Alabama

Marguerite  Ward from Panama City, Florida

Bessie Lou Ward from Slocomb, Alabama

Alvin Lewis Walden from DeFuniak Springs, Florida

George J. Leslie Amos from Andalusia, Alabama

Olin B. Brooks from Birmingham, Alabama

Selden Temple Bristow from Lynn Haven , Florida

James Carl Bowden from Tennille, Alabama

I. Z. Bowden from Tennille, Alabama

Minnie Pearl Canterbury from Montgomery, Alabama

Oma Leonteen Cain from Panama City, Florida

Lucy Belle Canterbury from Panama City, Florida

Dora Lee Canterbury from Panama City, Florida

J. C. Dean from Ponce De Leon, Florida

Morrison Mosley Davis from McClenny, Florida

Charlie Herns Edenfield from Altha, Florida

Mildred  Edwards from Dothan, Alabama

Maries  Edwards from Dothan, Alabama

Annalee  Folks from Panama City, Florida

Pat  Hall from Thomasville, Alabama

Frances Catherine Glover from Panama City, Florida

James Lafayette Houston from Comer, Alabama

Steadman Eugene Hobbs from Panama City, Florida

Mrs. W. J. Hughes from Hartford, Alabama

Max Darby Jones from Port St. Joe, Florida

Bob Jr. Jones from College Point, Florida

James Walter Kelly from Slocomb, Alabama

Annie Louise Lee from Panama City, Florida

Lenna Elizabeth Leonard from Lynn Haven , Florida

Andrew Paul McKenzie from Panama City, Florida

Minnie Lois Mayers from Panama City, Florida

William Leonard Peters from St. Petersburg, Florida

William Hubbard Reynolds from Montgomery, Alabama

Gaston  Robinson from Clanton, Alabama

Helen Kathryn Sims from Panama City, Florida

Howard William Sapp from Panama City, Florida

Martha Jane Surber from St. Andrews, Florida

Rea  Steele from Panama City, Florida

Herbert Patton Sapp from Panama City, Florida

Minnie Beatrice Seay from Bartow, Florida

Mabel  Thompson from St. Andrews, Florida

Graves Sim Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Marion Kenneth Vickery from Flomaton, Alabama

Mike Litton Whaley from Ozark, Alabama

Edward Meredith Wilson from Goldwater, Alabama

Alcus Addis Walden from DeFuniak Springs, Florida

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Wales Bonner. Lovers Rock, AW2020.

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Walter Washington

Walter Edward Washington (April 15, 1915 – October 27, 2003) was an American civil servant and politician. He was chief executive of Washington, D.C. from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first home-rule mayor of the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1979.

After a career in public housing in Washington, DC and New York City, he was appointed as mayor-commissioner of Washington, D.C. in 1967.

Congress had passed a law granting home rule to the capital, while reserving some authorities. Washington won the first mayoral election in 1974, and served from 1975 until 1979.

Early life and family

Washington was the great-grandson of enslaved Americans. He was born in Dawson, Georgia. His family moved North in the Great Migration, and Washington was raised in Jamestown, New York, attending public schools. He earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University and a law degree from Howard University School of Law. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

Washington married Bennetta Bullock, an educator. They had one daughter together, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, who became a sociologist. His wife Bennetta Washington became a director of the Women's Job Corps, and First Lady of Washington, D.C. when he was mayor. She died in 1991.

Career

After graduating from Howard in 1948, Washington was hired as a supervisor for D.C.'s Alley Dwelling Authority. He worked for the authority until 1961, when he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the Executive Director of the National Capital Housing Authority. This was the housing department of the District of Columbia, which was then administered by Congress. In 1966 Washington moved to New York City to head the much larger Housing Authority there in the administration of Mayor John Lindsay.

Mayor of the District of Columbia

1967-74: Mayor-Commissioner

In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson used his reorganization power under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 to replace the three-commissioner government that had run the capital since 1871 under congressional supervision. Johnson implemented a more modern government headed by a single commissioner, assistant commissioner, and a nine-member city council, all appointed by the president. Johnson appointed Washington Commissioner, which by this time had been informally retitled as "Mayor-Commissioner." (Power brokers such as Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, had supported white lawyer Edward Bennett Williams.) Washington was the first African-American mayor of a major American city, and one of three blacks in 1967 chosen to lead major cities. Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana and Carl Stokes of Cleveland were elected that year.

Washington inherited a city that was torn by racial divisions, and also had to deal with conservative congressional hostility following passage of major civil rights legislation. When he sent his first budget to Congress in late 1967, Democratic Representative John L. McMillan, chair of the House Committee on the District of Columbia, in an unconscionable act if racism, responded by having a truckload of watermelons delivered to Washington's office. In April 1968, Washington faced riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Although reportedly urged by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to shoot rioters, Washington refused. He told the Washington Post later, "I walked by myself through the city and urged angry young people to go home. I asked them to help the people who had been burned out." Only one person refused to listen to him.

Republican President Richard Nixon retained Washington after being elected as president in 1968.

1975-79: Elected Mayor

Congress enacted the District of Columbia Self-Rule and Governmental Reorganization Act on December 24, 1973, providing for an elected mayor and city council. Washington began a vigorous election campaign in early 1974 against six challengers.

The Democratic primary race—the real contest in the overwhelmingly Democratic and then-majority black city — eventually became a two-way contest between Washington and Clifford Alexander, future Army Secretary. Washington won the tight race by 4,000 votes. As expected, he won the November general election with a large majority. Home rule took effect when Washington and the newly elected council–the city's first popularly-elected government since 1871–were sworn into office January 2, 1975. Washington was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Although personally beloved by residents, some who nicknamed him "Uncle Walter," Washington slowly found himself overcome by the problems of managing what was the equivalent of a combination state and city government. The Washington Post opined that he lacked "command presence." Council chair Sterling Tucker, who wanted to be Mayor, suggested that the problems in the city were because of Washington's inability to manage city services. Council Member Marion Barry, another rival, accused him of "bumbling and bungling in an inefficiently run city government." Washington was also constrained by the fact that then as now, the Constitution vested Congress with ultimate authority over the District. Congress thus retained veto power over acts passed by the council, and many matters were subject to council approval.

The Washington Monthly noted that Washington's "gentle ways did not move the city's bureaucracy. Neither did it satisfy the black voters' yearning to see the city run by blacks for blacks. Walter Washington was black, but many blacks were suspicious that he was still too tied to the mostly white power structure that had run the city when he was a commissioner." During his administration he started many new initiatives, for example, the Office of Latino Affairs of the District of Columbia.

In the 1978 Democratic mayoral primary, Washington finished third behind Barry and Tucker. He left office on January 2, 1979. Upon his departure from office, he announced that the city had posted a $41 million budget surplus, based on the Federal government's cash accounting system. When Barry took office, he shifted city finances to the more common accrual system, and he announced that under this system, the city actually had a $284 million deficit.

Later life

After ending his term as mayor, Washington joined the New York-based law firm of Burns, Jackson, Miller & Summit, becoming a partner. He opened the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

His first wife, Benneta, died in 1991. In 1994, he married Mary Burke Nicholas, an economist and government official. She died November 30, 2014 at age 88.

Washington went into semi-retirement in the mid-1990s. He fully retired at the end of the decade in his early eighties. Washington remained a beloved public figure in the District and was much sought after for his political commentary and advice. In 2002, he endorsed Anthony A. Williams for a second mayoral term. Washington's endorsement carried sufficient weight to be noted by all local news outlets.

Washington died at Howard University Hospital on October 27, 2003. Hundreds of mourners came to see him lying in state at the John A. Wilson Building (City Hall), and also attended his funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

Legacy and honors

13½ Street, the short alley running alongside the east side of the Wilson Building, was designated Walter E. Washington Way in his honor.

A new housing development in Ward 8 was named the Walter E. Washington Estates.

In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia named the Washington Convention Center at 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, as the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

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Ryan Reynolds for Gin and George Clooney for Tequilla, Are female celebrities investing in wine?

Only the baby boomer generation prefers wine to beer and liquor. The wine business has failed to attract millennials and is suffering with Generation X, as cocktails prepared with spirits such as whiskey and tequila are booming, stealing market share from wine in a saturated market.

However, numerous female movie and music stars, like Elizabeth Banks, Mary J. Blige, The Chicks (originally The Dixie Chicks), Cameron Diaz, and Reese Witherspoon, are endorsing wine labels.

Celebrities have traditionally exploited their names and faces to promote alcohol products, but when George Clooney sold his tequila company Casamigos to drinks conglomerate Diageo for roughly $1 billion in 2017, he established the modern model for cashing in on spirits.

"Acting used to be how I paid the rent," Clooney told The Sunday Times when the arrangement was announced.

This sparked a gold rush of celebrity entrepreneurs wanting to replicate his success and cash in on the premium spirits and cocktails boom, from David Beckham's scotch to Ryan Reynolds' gin and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's tequila.

However, it has primarily been male celebrities who have benefited from this recipe. Despite outliers like Vera Wang's Chopin Vodka and Kendall Jenner's 818 Tequila, the brands remain largely male, following a pattern seen in the broader alcohol business.

Now, a new generation of female celebrities is attempting to revitalise an ailing beverage: wine.

Now, a new generation of female celebrities is attempting to revitalise an ailing beverage: wine.

The Covid-19 pandemic advanced numerous developments in the alcohol industry, but expensive spirits in categories often promoted by celebrities were among the biggest winners.

According to the Distilled Spirits Council, luxury spirits rose 43 per cent in the previous year, led mostly by tequila and American whiskey, with a 2021′s growth rate finishing at more than double the prior five-year average rate.

Although the United States has the world's largest wine industry, and products such as prosecco and champagne continue to prosper, American consumers are drinking less wine overall than they were twenty years ago.

According to Rob McMillan, executive vice president of Silicon Valley Bank and a well-known wine industry expert, the wine industry has remained committed to techniques that have historically been successful without adequately addressing how the consumer has fundamentally transformed.

"That's the main threat," McMillan explained. "You can't replace this group of folks who think wine is absolutely beautiful." It is their favoured alcoholic beverage, and everyone who follows them does as well to some extent, but they classify wine alongside beer, spirits, ready-to-drink cocktails, and weed."

Female celebrity-backed wine brands have sought to distinguish themselves from other wine products by emphasising aspects that appeal to younger consumers.

Female celebrities have sought to develop a niche within the wine market that caters to younger customers by emphasising size, reduced alcohol content, online purchasing, price point, and brand ownership that includes women as well as BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals.

With organic white and rosé wines in four-packs of 250ml cans that don't require a corkscrew or glassware, Diaz and Katherine Power, co-owners of the Avaline wine brand, have leaned trends in accessibility and portability, as well as health and wellness.

Along with being more environmentally friendly, the canned wine concept, with its smaller quantities, makes it easier to consume wine alone, as there is no need to open a 750 ml bottle, following in the footsteps of the thriving RTD (ready-to-drink) market.

With her canned wine effort, Archer Roose wine, actress and producer Elizabeth Banks promote sustainability as well as packaging and price accessibility.

The Chicks, who are known for standing up for themselves as women in the music industry and challenging the established quo, have recently entered the wine market with their Gaslighter Wine label, which has received outstanding industry ratings for their rosé. The marketing campaign begins with phrases like "own your power," "say your truth," and "tell your truth." "Don't let them deceive you," even the corks said.

According to Marco Fantinel, CEO of the winery that produces Mary J. Blige's label, the Sun Goddess label emphasises variety. Fantinel stated that Sun Goddess "hopes to throw a light on the wine industry" by offering "greater chances for women and BIPOC representation."

Celebrity women in wine can provide the exposure and financial backing needed for fresh growth in a wine business that is becoming more approachable, inexpensive, and forward-thinking while preserving quality.

Though the day has not yet come for this star side hustle to rival its alcohol counterpart's billion-dollar headline.

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NBA Christmas is here. Here’s a catch-up on everything that has happened so far

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If you’re just tuning into the NBA for the first time this season on Christmas, we have you covered with the league’s most important storylines so far.

Christmas day is traditionally considered to be the first time casual sports fans start tuning into the NBA. Dec. 25 is the marquee day on the NBA’s regular season calendar, with great games stacked from the early afternoon through late at night. This season’s Christmas day schedule is as follows:

Atlanta Hawks at New York Knicks, 12 p.m. ET, ESPN

Boston Celtics at Milwaukee Bucks, 2:30 p.m. ET, ABC

Golden State Warriors at Phoenix Suns, 5 p.m. ET, ABC

Brooklyn Nets at Los Angeles Lakers, 8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN

Dallas Mavericks at Utah Jazz, 10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN

What should be a celebration of the NBA’s best teams and biggest stars has instead devolved into another sobering reminder of how bad the ongoing pandemic continues to be. Covid has torn through the league, but several top stars including Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant, and James Harden are expected to be back in action on Christmas. The games will still go on, even when there are replacement players from the G League taking the court.

If you’re trying to get caught up on the 2021-2022 NBA season so far, we have you covered.

Covid is rampaging through almost every team

More than 100 players have tested positive for Covid in Dec. alone. The Chicago Bulls have already had three games postponed. The Hawks have nine players in protocol ahead of their Christmas matchup with the Knicks. Rosters are being compromised around the league, and the teams that are currently healthy have a massive advantage on their competition. Meanwhile, fans are still in arenas and the NBA doesn’t have any plans to take a break. The recent Covid outbreak is the biggest story in the league at the moment.

The NBA is calling up former players during the outbreak

As teams scramble to piece together enough healthy players to compete, several former players have been given another shot in the league.

Joe Johnson is back!

Free agent guard Joe Johnson is signing a 10-day deal with the Boston Celtics, sources tell ESPN. Johnson is returning to the franchise that drafted him 20 years ago and is expected to play tonight vs. Cleveland.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 22, 2021

Brandon Knight is back!

The Dallas Mavericks are planning to sign free agent guard Brandon Knight on a 10-day hardship deal, source tells ESPN. Knight has been playing for Sioux Falls of the G-League, where he had 25 points on Tuesday night. Knight, 30, is a nine-year NBA veteran.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 22, 2021

Lance Stephenson is back, too.

Lance Stephenson got the call. He’s joining the Hawks on a 10-day contract, source confirms. @TheSteinLine on it first. It reunites Lance with coach Nate McMillan for a third time. As I often say, he’s misunderstood by those outside his team and appreciated by those on it.

— Scott Agness (@ScottAgness) December 21, 2021

And that’s just on teams playing on Christmas. DeMarcus Cousins is back, too, signing with the Bucks after an injury to starting center Brook Lopez.

We’re still waiting for Jamal Crawford to get the call, because buckets are forever.

The Lakers look nothing like championship contenders

The Lakers entered the season as the favorites in the Western Conference. After two months, LA is fighting just to stay out of the play-in tournament. LeBron James has already missed 10+ games due to injury, Anthony Davis will be sidelined for a month because of a knee sprain, and Russell Westbrook — the team’s big addition over the offseason — has been bringing his typical mixed bag of positives and negatives all season. The Lakers’ biggest issue is the rest of the lineup: LA just doesn’t have the ability to put enough good two-way players next to their three stars. The Lakers will probably make the playoffs, but this team just isn’t even close to good enough to win the title right now.

The Nets haven’t been the powerhouse we were expecting, either.

The Brooklyn Nets were the overwhelming favorites to win the championship going into the season. The Nets were so talented that they were still considered the favorites even after Kyrie Irving took himself out of action by refusing to get the Covid vaccine (New York has a law that requires players to be vaccinated to play). Irving still hasn’t played a game yet, but he’s reportedly ramping up to return for road games. Of course, he tested positive for Covid as soon as he came back to practice. Get your shots, people.

The Nets are still in first place in the conference thanks to the brilliance of Kevin Durant, but they really don’t look like a shoo-in to win or even reach the NBA Finals anymore. James Harden’s play has fallen off a bit as he recovers from a hamstring injury and adjusts to the league’s new foul drawing rules. Sharpshooter Joe Harris is out after having surgery on his ankle. Brooklyn’s defense has been surprisingly awesome — going from No. 23 last year to No. 5 this year — and it will be fascinating to see if that holds.

The Nets are definitely one of the league’s best teams. They just don’t seem like as much of a lock to win the championship this season as we thought.

The Warriors are incredible, and they’re getting Klay Thompson back shortly after Christmas.

The Warriors missed the playoffs last year despite Stephen Curry finishing top-three MVP voting and Draymond Green being named First-Team All-Defense. Golden State revamped its roster with veteran role players over the offseason, and suddenly they look like a juggernaut again. Golden State is top-five in both offensive and defensive efficiency at the moment. Curry is the front-runner for MVP. Veterans like Andre Iguodala (who returned to the team this summer), Otto Porter Jr., and Nemanja Bjelica have added stability to both ends of the floor. Young players like Jordan Poole and Gary Payton II have made a big impact, too.

The best news for the Warriors? Klay Thompson is coming back soon after missing the last two seasons with a torn ACL and torn achilles. While he won’t be in the lineup on Christmas like they hoped, he should be playing in January. A team that’s already arguably been the league’s best is about to get even better.

The Suns’ NBA Finals run last season was no fluke

The Suns went 10 consecutive seasons missing the playoffs before finally making the postseason last year. Once they got there, all they did was reach the NBA Finals, and come two wins short of a championship. If you thought the Suns got lucky last year, think again: this team is even better this season, and just might be the championship favorite right now.

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— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) December 20, 2021

The Suns are led by their awesome backcourt of 36-year-old Chris Paul and 25-year-old Devin Booker. Mikal Bridges and Deandre Ayton are also emerging into stars. Monty Williams remains one of the league’s best coaches, and he has an entire roster buying into his egalitarian schemes. The Suns have never won a championship in franchise history, but this could be the year.

Everyone is sleeping on the Bucks

The Bucks were down 0-2 to the Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals before running off four straight wins to capture the championship. All Giannis Antetokounmpo did was drop 50 points in Game 6 to clinch the title. Coming off the short offseason, Milwaukee had co-stars Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday in and out of the lineup at the start of the year. Maybe that’s why it seems like everyone has forgotten about them.

The Bulls are back

The Bulls had the worst record in the NBA over the last four years entering this season. Chicago underwent a bold remodeling led by new front office tandem Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley over the offseason, and the result has been a team near the top of the Eastern Conference standings all year. DeMar DeRozan is playing at an All-NBA level, Zach LaVine remains a three-level scoring dynamo, Lonzo Ball is offering elite defense and impressive shooting, and Alex Caruso is making the Lakers regret letting him go.

There’s only been one team in the league that’s a bigger surprise than Chicago.

The Cavaliers are shockingly good

The Cavs have been one of the worst teams in the NBA since LeBron James left for LA after the 2018 NBA Finals. The Cavs were expected to be outside the playoff picture again this season. Instead, Cleveland has been the league’s most pleasant surprise. Here’s how Cleveland has done it.

Drafting Evan Mobley at No. 3 overall. The Cavs took the 7-footer out of USC with the No. 3 overall pick, and he’s been incredible so far. He’s the favorite for Rookie of the Year, and he looks like a future superstar playing the four next to Jarrett Allen. Speaking of ....

Trading for Jarrett Allen and then re-signing him. The Cavs jumped into the multi-team James Harden trade last season to grab young 7-footer Jarrett Allen. Cleveland then re-signed Allen to a $100 million contract over the summer, which was questioned by some. Not anymore: Allen is playing the best ball of his career at 23 years old, and is helping anchor a top-five defense next to Mobley.

Developing Darius Garland. Garland was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft despite barely playing during his one-and-done season at Vanderbilt because of an injury. The Cavs took a shot on the 6’1 point guard, and it’s paying off in a big way. Garland is a very good pull-up shooter and passer who has been the lead decision-maker for Cleveland’s halfcourt offense.

Trading for Ricky Rubio. Rubio has turned into one of the best pickups of the offseason. The veteran guard is adding some much needed playmaking and perimeter defense to Cleveland, and he’s been logging even more minutes than expected because of Collin Sexton’s injury.

The Knicks have come back down to Earth

The Knicks were expected to be one of the league’s worst teams last season before enjoying a fantastic first year under head Tom Thibodeau that saw the team grab homecourt advantage in the East playoffs. Once they got there, the Hawks humbled New York in five games to eliminate them in the first round. If the Knicks were expected to build off last year’s success, it hasn’t happened: New York enters Christmas at 14-18 overall, and would miss the play-in tournament if it started today.

Julius Randle has taken a step back after his All-NBA season last year. New additions Kemba Walker and Evan Fournier have been torched when playing together. Derrick Rose was helping keep New York in games, but he just had ankle surgery. The only silver lining? After being pulled out of the rotation earlier this season, Walker returned to drop 44 points in the Knicks’ last game.

The Kings fired their coach and made their fans puke

Warning: this video is extremely gross. Just like the Kings for the past 15 years. At least Luke Walton doesn’t have to be around to see this.

Yes, Ben Simmons is still out for the Sixers

We have a full explainer on how the Philadelphia 76ers and Simmons got to this point here. Nothing has changed since the end of last season when Simmons famously struggled against the Atlanta Hawks in the playoffs.

NBA MVP power rankings for 2021-2022 so far

5. Chris Paul: CP3 is averaging a career-low 14.3 points per game, but he’s also leading the league in assists at 10 dimes per night. More importantly, he’s the engine that makes everything go for the league-best Suns.

4. Kevin Durant: Durant is putting up nearly 30 points per game to lead the league in scoring. He’s also posting the highest assist rate of his career in Year 14.

3. Giannis Antetokounmpo: It feels like Giannis is the game’s most dominant defender. He’s also the most unstoppable scorer alive at the rim. It’s hard to doubt him after seeing the way he rose to the occasion in the NBA Finals last year.

2. Nikola Jokic: The Nuggets have fallen apart around him with significant injuries to Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Jr., and P.J. Dozier, but Jokic continues to be arguably the greatest player alive. After winning MVP last season, Jokic is putting up even better numbers this season. He’s unlikely to win because he’s team is too beat up to compete for the championship, but Jokic is basically unstoppable.

1. Stephen Curry: Curry turns 34 years old in March, but he’s still playing like he’s in his prime. He’s taking more three-pointers than ever (13.4 per game) while remaining a 40 percent shooter from deep. Given the Warriors’ gaudy record, Curry feels like the favorite right now to take home MVP honors for the third time in his historic career.

If you had to make an NBA Finals prediction right now ....

I’d go Suns over Nets.

If you’re looking for a sleeper pick ....

The Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls each feel like they could make the NBA Finals in the East with the right draw. The Bucks and Nets remain the favorites, though.

Could this finally be the year the Utah Jazz breakthrough in the playoffs? The Suns and Warriors are the favorites, but Utah is maybe the only other team with the talent and scheme to compete with them.

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Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

Cast: Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Butterfly McQueen. Screenplay: David O. Selznick, Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a novel by Niven Busch. Cinematography: Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Harold Rosson. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Hal C. Kern. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

This is a bad movie, but it's one distinguished in the annals of bad movies because it was made by David O. Selznick, who as the poster shouted at moviegoers, was "The Producer Who Gave You 'GONE WITH THE WIND.'" Selznick made it to showcase Jennifer Jones, the actress who won an Oscar as the saintly Bernadette of Lourdes in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943). Selznick, who left his wife for Jones, wanted to demonstrate that she was capable of much more than the sweetly gentle piety of Bernadette, so he cast her as the sultry Pearl Chavez in this adaptation (credited to Selznick himself along with Oliver H.P. Garrett, with some uncredited help by Ben Hecht) of the novel by Niven Busch. Opposite Jones, Selznick cast Gregory Peck as the amoral cowboy Lewt McCanles, who shares a self-destructive passion with Pearl. Both actors are radically miscast. Jones does a lot of eye- and teeth-flashing as Pearl, while Peck's usual good-guy persona undermines his attempts to play rapaciously sexy. The plot is one of those familiar Western tropes: good brother Jesse (Joseph Cotten) against bad 'un Lewt, reflecting the ill-matched personalities of their parents, the tough old cattle baron Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his gentle (and genteel) wife, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish). Pearl is an orphan, the improbable daughter of an improbable couple, the educated Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) and a sexy Indian woman (Tilly Losch), who angers him by fooling around with another man (Sidney Blackmer). Chavez kills both his wife and her lover and is hanged for it, so Pearl is sent to live with the McCanleses -- Laura Belle is Chavez's second cousin and old sweetheart -- on their Texas ranch. It's all pretentiously packaged by Selznick: not many other movies begin with both a "Prelude" and an "Overture," composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in the best overblown Hollywood style. It has Technicolor as lurid as its story, shot by three major cinematographers, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, and Harold Rosson. But any attempt to generate real heat between Jones and Peck was quickly stifled by the Production Code, which even forced Selznick to introduce a voiceover at the beginning to explain that the character of the frontier preacher known as "The Sinkiller" (entertainingly played by Walter Huston) was not intended to be a representative clergyman. There are a few good moments, including an impressive tracking shot at the barbecue on the ranch in which various guests offer their opinions of Pearl, the McCanles brothers, and other things. Whether this scene can be credited to director King Vidor, who was certainly capable of it, is an open question, because Vidor found working with the obsessive Selznick so difficult that he quit the film. Selznick directed some scenes, as did Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, and Josef von Sternberg, all uncredited. The resulting melange is not unwatchable, thanks to a few good performances in secondary roles (Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey), and perhaps also to some really terrible ones (Lionel Barrymore at his most florid and Butterfly McQueen repeating her fluttery air-headedness from GWTW).

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Top Books by Monat Founders

Let me know which ones you’ve read and what’s next on your list :)

A compilation of top book suggestion by Monat’s Founders  Success is something you attract by the person you become ~Jim Rohn   BasicNetwork Marketing Principals

Dare to Dream & Work to Win by Dr. Tom Barrett www.amazon.com

The 5th Principal by Michael Clouse www.nexera.com

Go Pro by Eric Worre http://networkmarketingpro.com/gopro/

The Four     Year Career  by Richard Bliss Brooke www.amazon.com

Rock Your     Network Marketing Business by Sarah Robbins www.amazon.com

Beach     Money by     Jordan Alder www.amazon.com

 Prospecting,Recruiting & Sales

Attracting Perfect Customers: The     Power of Strategic Synchronicity by Stacey Hall & Jan Brogniez www.amazon.com

Influence / The Psychology of     Persuasion     by Robert Cialdini www.amazon.com

How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or     Losing Your Friends     by: Michael Oliver www.amazon.com

Financial literacy

ALL of the "Rich Dad"     series     by Robert Kiyosaki www.richdad.com  

The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach www.amazon.com

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason www.amazon.com

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J Stanley     & William Danko www.amazon.com

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - Harv T. Ecker www.amazon.com

A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron Gikandi www.amazon.com  

The Business School For People Who     Like Helping People - Robert Kiyosaki www.richdad.com

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy www.amazon.com  

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill www.amazon.com

 Mindset/ Attitude / Belief 1.   Who Are You Really and What do You Want - Shad Helmstetter www.shadhelmstetter.com2.   What to Say When You Talk ToYourself -Shad Helmstetter www.shadhelmstetter.com3.   The Success Principles – Jack Canfield www.amazon.com 4.   The Power of your Subconscious Mind - Joseph Murphy www.amazon.com 5.   The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwartz www.amazon.com 6.   Ask and it is Givin - Ester & Jerry Hicks www.amazon.com 7.   The Power of Now  - Eckhart Tolle www.amazon.com 1.   Twelve Pillars – Jim Rohn www.amazon.cm2.   As A Man Thinketh - James Allen www.amazon.com 3.   Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson www.amazon.com 4.   The 4 Agreements - Dr. Miguel Ruiz www.amazon.com 5.   Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting - Lynn Grabhorn www.amazon.com 6.   The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon www.amazon.com  7.   The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson www.amazon.com  8.   Make It Happen by Laura Casey www.amazon.com  9.   The Noticer by Andy Andrews www.amazon.com  10. The Travelers Gift by Andy Andrews www.amazon.com  Communication/ Leadership

ALL of John Maxwell's Books www.amazon.com

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective     People     - Stephen Covey www.amazon.com

Crucial Conversations - Tools for     Talking When the Stakes are High, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph     Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzer. www.amazon.com

How to Win Friends and Influence     People     - Dale Carnegie www.amazon.com

Starts With Why – Simon Sinek www.amazon.com  

Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek www.amazon.com  

Appreciation Marketing by Tommy Wyatt and Curtis Lewsey www.amazon.com  

Tribes by Seth Godin www.amazon.com

GoalSetting

The Power of Focus - Jack Canfield www.amazon.com

Visoneering – Andy Stanley www.amazon.com  

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Conquest of Space (Byron Haskin, 1955).

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Top 15 Dog-Friendly Colleges in the US

Are there any dog-friendly colleges?

Heading to school, leaving family and friends is hard enough, except for many college students, leaving their four-legged ally is even harder.

The good news is that there are several colleges which will allow students to bring their dog alongside them.

Today, we’ll mention the highest colleges which will welcome your dog, too!

TOP DOG-FRIENDLY COLLEGES within the US

Note: Pet policies and requirements will vary from college to school.

Colleges may have limitations and/or restrictions on things just like the breed of the dog, the dimensions (weight) of the dog, the age of the dog, the number of dogs allowed and the way long the scholar has had the dog.

Students will get to show proof that their dog is current on their vaccinations, that their dog has been spayed or neutered which their dog is licensed with the local city, town, and/or county.

Now that we’ve cleared all of that up, let’s check out those dog-friendly colleges!

Related: Pros and Cons of Dogs on College Campuses

1. LYON COLLEGE

Lyon College may be a private humanistic discipline college in Batesville, Arkansas.

According to their Pet Policy, students are permitted to possess dogs in Bryan Hall, a pet-friendly dormitory for upper-class students.

In an attempt to become more pet-friendly, the school recently opened the on-campus Schram Memorial Bark Park, a fenced-in dog park.

2. UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO

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The University of Northern Colorado may be a public research university in Greeley, Colorado.

According to their Pet-Friendly Housing Program, students can have their pet accept them on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of Laurenson Hall, the campus’s suite-style, pet-friendly dormitory.

3. ECKERD COLLEGE

Eckerd College may be a private humanistic discipline college in St. Petersburg, Florida. consistent with their Pet Policy, students can have a pet on campus, after living on campus for a minimum of one semester.

The college has 11 designated pet-friendly housing complexes where students can reside with their pets.

Of the 11 complexes, 4 (Nu, Omega, Sigma, and West Lodge) allow pets altogether units, while 7 (Beta, Delta, Epsilon, Gamma, Iota, Kappa and Zeta) allow pets in select units only.

4. STETSON UNIVERSITY

Stetson University may be a private university in DeLand, Florida.

According to their Animal Housing Manual, students can reside with their pet in one among their 3 animal-friendly housing options

Stetson Cove Apartments (residential apartment complex with 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments)

University Hall (residence hall with 2-person rooms)

Building 300 of University Village Apartments (residential apartment complex with 4-bedroom apartments).

Stetson Cove Apartments features an outside, fenced-in dog park.

5. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign may be a public research university within the Twin Cities of Champaign and Urbana.

According to their Pet Policy, students are allowed to measure with their dog at Ashton Woods, an apartment-style dormitory.

On-campus, dogs are allowed on the grounds (not any of the buildings) of the Arboretum on campus, as long as they're on a leash.

2 dog parks are on the brink of the campus. The Urbana Dog Park is 2.9 miles from campus and therefore the Champaign Bark District is 5.4 miles from campus.

6. ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Asbury Theological Seminary is an evangelical, multi-denominational, graduate institution in Wilmore, Kentucky.

According to their Townhouse Pet Policy, single students and students with families are allowed to stay their pets within the campus’s pet-friendly, on-campus, designated housing option.

This housing is that the North Maple Townhouses formerly called the Beeson Townhouses.

7. Harvard University

Harvard University may be a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University offers 12 Pet-Friendly Apartments.

Of these 12 apartments, 9 of them allow dogs altogether units, while the opposite 3 only permit dogs in select units.

Students wishing to possess their dog with them on campus must submit the campus’s Pet Authorization and Policies Rider.

8. STEPHENS COLLEGE

Stephens College may be a private women’s college in Columbia, Missouri.

Stephens College features a Pet Program that permits students to possess pets in one of the campus’s 5 residence halls (Pillsbury Hall, Prunty Hall, Roblee Hall, Searcy Hall (known as Pet Central) and Tower Hill.

The program also features an on-campus doggy daycare.

NEW YORK

9. ALFRED STATE COLLEGE

Alfred State College may be a public college in Alfred, New York. the school is one of the 8 Colleges of Technology within the State University of the latest York (SUNY) system.

According to their Pet-Friendly Residence Policy, students are permitted to possess their family pet to accept them on campus.

There is one pet-friendly on-campus property- Robinson/Champlin Hall, a corridor-style dormitory.

NORTH CAROLINA

10. LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE

Lees-McRae College may be a private college in Banner Elk, North Carolina.

According to their Pet Policy, students can bring their dog to measure with them on campus, after they’ve lived in college housing for two semesters.

Pets are allowed in 2 pet-designated residence halls (Baldwin Hall and McMillan Hall), as wells as on-campus apartments and main campus houses.

PENNSYLVANIA

11. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY

Lehigh University may be a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

According to their Pet Policy, pets are permitted in either one among the 14 fraternities or one among the 11 sororities. there's just one cat or one dog allowed, per house.

12. WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE

Washington & Jefferson College may be a private humanistic discipline college in Washington, Pennsylvania.

According to their Pet House Manual, students can accept their dog in Monroe Hall (nicknamed “Pet House”), which is a component of President’s Row Community, which offers 10 different housing options for upper-class students.

RHODE ISLAND

13. JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY

Johnson & Wales University may be a private career-oriented university in Rhode Island.

There are 2 campuses related to the university- the Downcity Campus is found in Providence and therefore the subsidiary campus, Harborside is found in nearby Cranston.

According to their Pet and Animal-Friendly Community Living Guide, pets are allowed to measure in 4 of the campus’s residence halls.

These include Harborside Village (Building F), Harbor View (Ground Floor), Renaissance Hall (3rd Floor), and Snowden Hall (1st Floor).

WASHINGTON

14. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

The University of Washington may be a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

The university has one pet-friendly housing option- Radford Court, an on-campus apartment complex for undergraduate students, graduate students, married students, and students with children.

15. WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY

Washington State University may be a public research university in Pullman, Washington.

According to their Pet Policy, pets (dog or cat) are permitted in 2 on-campus apartment complexes.

At Nez Pearce Village, unfurnished pet-friendly units are available in buildings D, F, H, J, and K. At Steptoe Village, pet-friendly units are available in buildings A, B, D, E, and G.

While there could also be other dog-friendly colleges out there, these came up the foremost often in our research.

One thing to remember: once we say “dog-friendly,” we’re talking about colleges that allow you to bring your pet dog.

Service dogs, by law, can go just about anywhere that their humans go, including college.

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Not sure if you mean FCs or Characters but I will happily provide both!

— FCs: 

female: ZOE KRAVITZ, kylie bunbury, emma stone, emma watson, tinashe, KIKO MIZUHARA, AJA NAOMI KING, jessica chastain, mila kunis, jessica sula, antonia thomas, SHAY MITCHELL, amandla stenberg, vanessa hudgens, adele exarchopoulos, gal gadot, SKY FERREIRA.

male: ross butler, boyd holbrook, REECE KING, JOE KEERY, dacre montgomery, CHADWICK BOSEMAN, chris pine, chris pratt, keith powers, alfie enoch, joe jonas, JACK FALAHEE, austin butler, STEVEN YEUN, miles mcmillan, francisco lachowski, bob morley, RAMI MALEK, AVAN JOGIA, trevante rhodes, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, aaron johnson, aaron tveit, patrick j. adams, dev patel, ryan gosling, JAKE GYLLENHAAL.

— Mythological Characters:

gods/goddesses/demigods/mortals: achilles, nemesis, MEDUSA, ZEUS, EURYDICE, Amazonian Women, ICARUS, Hermes, POSEIDON, CALYPSO, ariadne, theseus, perseus, HERA, HERACLES, Helen (of Troy), Paris, DIONYSUS, IRIS.

ADMIN NOTE:

There is an Orpheus already ready to be played and would LOVE an established connection with a Eurydice!

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History of Lyons: La Grange (1884)

History of Cook County, Illinois, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Complete in One Volume

By A. T. Andreas

Chicago: A. T. Andreas, Publisher. 1884.

History of Lyons

La Grange

This beautiful suburb, attested by large boards along the line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad to be the “garden spot” of Cook County, is situated on that railroad about fifteen miles from Chicago. It has two depots on this line, one situated at Fifth Avenue and the other at Stone Avenue, the old depot, however, which was called West Lyons, was situated a short distance west of the Stone-avenue depot. At this point the first settlement was made, although it comprised but a few persons. The land upon which Kensington Heights, and subsequently La Grange, was laid out was a part of four hundred and forty acres owned by Robert Leitch. 

Robert Leitch was born in Orleans County, N. Y., in 1820, of John and Catherine Leitch, and came to Cook County May 2, 1837. He worked by the month as a farm-laborer for nearly four years, and for the same length of time for Wadsworth, Dyer & Chapin, of Chicago, in the packing business. He came to the section of country where La Grange now is, purchasing four hundred and forty acres of land. At that time there was no one resident of the immediate vicinity, except Thomas Covell, who resided in the timber, and he has stood upon the porch of his house and shot wolves and deer. Mr. Leitch followed farming for a number of years in connection with cattle-dealing and stock-raising and shipped a great many cattle to New York. He was the first man to settle on the prairie and broke the first land between Lyons and Brush Hill. In 1844, he married Miss Mary A. Wilder, daughter of Colonel Benjamin and Elizabeth Wilder. They have eight children—Maria F., Benjamin J., Robert, Belle, Edward B., Zephaniah G., Walter B., and Dollie F. Mr. Leitch was Commissioner of Highways for eight years and also served on the school board for eight years. In 1870, he moved to Chicago and engaged in the distillery business; the distillery burned down in 1872, after which he was connected with the Garden City Distillery. Mr. Leitch sold the tract of four hundred and forty acres to Mrs. Breed, and sold part thereof to Franklin D. Cossitt, who laid out the town. He now, however, resides on a portion of his original tract, having returned to La Grange in 1881.

In this connection, it is germane to remark upon the adventitious booms that elevated the prices of real estate temporarily, as some locality would seem especially favored by the suburban fever, or an imagined right of way, and under such speculative conditions a great deal of money was realized and lost in real estate. In the vicinity of La Grange some much mutations have been experienced, and also in that vicinity settlement has been retarded because of tenacious holding of real estate for speculative prices instead of being willing to accept a fair price from actual settlers. Franklin D. Cossitt and D. B. Lyman, however, have manifested a liberal and public spirit in their transactions and by their exertions La Grange is a garden spot; the natural bleakness of the prairie transformed by the liberal planting of thousands of deciduous trees, and the grassy waste made into a garden; the landscape testifying to the enterprise of the projector and the hundreds of handsome dwellings manifesting the appreciation of the property buyers.

To revert to the antiquities of the town. Mr. Leitch states that the first road that ran through there was about a mile wide, and was called the Chicago & Dixon road; the road traversing the same route, although circumscribed in its width, is now designated Ogden Avenue. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad came through about the year 1862, being opened on June 1st. The depot at West Lyons was established about 1868, the agents being J. J. Kimmons, W. E. Smith, W. F. Billings, A. Potter, J. A. Bryden, John Unold, A. McMillan, W. E. Stanger, E. O. Smith, A. W. Ladd, and E. O. Smith. John Van Ottrick, who was president of the road at the time, predicted that it would never pay. “A prophet come to judgment!” The road then ran to Aurora, and thence to Batavia, intersecting the Chicago & North-Western at Turner Junction. Prior to this, the stages of Frink & Walker ran to Doty’s at Lyons, thence to Naperville, and from there to Aurora. The first school was established about 1852-53, and was taught by Miss Gertrude Smith.

Samuel Vial, one of the oldest living settlers of Lyons Township, lives in the vicinity of La Grange; he was born in Chester, Orange Co., N. Y., in 1819, son of Joseph and Louisa (Smith) Vial; he came to Chicago with his parents in the fall of 1833, the family locating in Lyons Township in the spring of 1834. Mr. Vial was married in 1846, to Miss Margaret McNaughton, daughter of George and Jane McNaughton; she died in 1856, leaving four children, Jane, George M., Joseph and Louisa. In the fall of 1856 he married Mrs. Gertrude North, who died in 1879. Mr. Vial was Supervisor of Lyons Township for five years.

The subdivision of La Grange was made by Franklin D. Cossitt in 1871, and since that time its progress has been steady and material. Before this subdivision there was a little coterie settled where John Unold’s store now is, but there was no extended settlement.

On May 26, 1879, a petition was filed for the incorporation of La Grange as a village, and upon June 11 of that year an election was held to ascertain whether Section 4 and the east half of the east half of Section 5, Township 38 north, Range 12 east, of the third principal meridian, should be thus incorporated; and the following vote was cast:

For village organization forty-two votes, against village organization, thirty-four votes.

On July 10, 1879, the election for town officers resulted: F. D. Cossitt, L. L. Bassford, P. G. Gardner, J. D. Myers, E. B. Clark and T. W. McMillan, Trustees, of which board Mr. Cossitt was subsequently elected President; William G. Little, Police Magistrate, and Benjamin T. Lewis, Clerk.

July 24, 1879, D. B. Lyman was appointed village attorney, and the Trustees divided themselves by lot into holders of one and two year terms of office, as follows: One year, L. L. Bassford, P. G. Gardner and T. W. McMillan; two year, F. D. Cossitt, J. D. Myers, and E. B. Clark. J. K. Philo was also made Village Treasurer. The poll-tax was declared to be $1.50, for which two days’ labor could be substituted.

August 27, 1879, the prohibitory four-gallon measure became one of the ordinances of the village, and there is not now (1884) a saloon within its limits. The same day David C. Crain was made constable.

Election of April 26, 1880 resulted: P. G. Gardner, T. W. McMillan and F. H. Vallette, Trustees for two years, B. T. Lewis, Clerk and Gustaf A. Johnson, Constable. P. G. Gardner was made President of the board, and J. K. Philo continued in office as Treasurer. William Walmsley was elected to fill the place of J. D. Myers, Trustee, on June 19, 1880, removed from the village, and Samuel Lewis was made Postmaster. The annual appropriation bill for 1879-80 was $350.00—not a very lavish expenditure. The office of village marshal was created August 20, 1880, and Charles P. Amet appointed thereto for two years.

Election April 19, 1881, resulted: William Walmsley, W. W. Weatherstone and E. B. Clark, Trustees, and J. A. Brydon, Clerk. P. G. Gardner was made President of the Board of Trustees, and J. K. Philo, re-appointed Village Treasurer. The office of pound-master was created in May, and George D. Unold appointed thereto; he declined the office, and Gustaf A. Johnson was thereupon appointed.

Election April 18, 1882, resulted: F. D. Cossitt, E. G. Squire, James Travis, Trustees, and J. O. Metcalf, Clerk. E. B. Clark was elected President of the board. The Board of Trustees is composed of six members, three being elected each year for two years. On November 1, 1882, George D. Unold resigned as village marshal, and William LeBerge was appointed.

Election April 17, 1883, whereat one hundred and forty-four votes were cast, resulted: G. M. Fox, H. B. Parker and William Walmsley (President), Trustees; B. T. Lewis,* [*To the courtesy of B. T. Lewis, the collaborator is indebted for an inspection of the village records.] Clerk; Charles Thornton, Police Magistrate—commissioned by the Governor, April 17, 1883—and W. W. Bowker, Constable. J. K. Philo was continued in office as Village Treasurer, and on June 20, 1883, Herbert Morgan was appointed village marshal and pound master.

The post-office is managed by J. K. Philo, Post-master, who thinks the office was established about 1867. To provide the inhabitants, who number about one thousand, with news, the Suburban News is published every Saturday morning by Whitney & Clevinger at 53 and 55 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The Suburban News is also published in the interest of other suburban towns on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.

It is contemplated to erect a high school at La Grange, very shortly, the present scholastic facilities being composed of a common school and a kindergarten. Of the former, Miss Dora Winds is principal, and Miss Lillie Winds and Mrs. Emily H. Stuart, assistants, and the kindergarten is taught by Miss Mary F. Fox. The number of pupils in both schools is about one hundred. The school directors of the district, which includes Western Springs, are W. B. Wickersham, president; D. B. Lyman, clerk, and John Unold.

Emanuel Episcopal church is an elegant edifice, constructed in the rural English style of architecture. It is built of stone, and presents one of the prettiest exteriors of any church in the county, outside Chicago. Ground was broken in the spring of 1875, and the corner-stone was laid June 5, of that year. The church cost $8,000, and is out of debt. The vestry are deliberating upon the purchase of an organ, subsequent to which the interior of the church will be embellished and architecturally re-modeled to comport with the exterior. The vestry is composed of D. B. Lyman, senior warden; A. W. Mitchell, junior warden; J. K. Philo, treasurer; Franklin D. Cossitt, W. Walmsley, R. F. Ludwig, H. B. Parker and J. Travis.

The Congregational Church is situated at the corner of Cossitt and Fifth avenues and has a congregation of thirty-six members, and an average attendance of eighty-five persons. The church cost $3,000, is a neat and pretty edifice, and was dedicated in September, 1882. The pastor is William Barnes Frazelle, and the deacons are J. E. Snyder and W. E. Little.

There is also a Baptist Society, numbering about forty members, that meets at Masonic Hall, whose pulpit is supplied by theological students.

La Grange Lodge, Under Dispensation, A. F. & A. M., was inaugurated September 1, 1883. The officers are P. G. Gardner, W. M.; E. G. Stiles, S. W.; E. I. Sackett, J. W.; J. H. Borwell, S.; T. W. McMillan, T.;—Howard, S. D.; C. E. Thornton, J. D., and Charles Thornton, tyler.

La Grange Lodge, No. 693, I. O. O. F., was instituted in May, 1881, with the following officers: L. W. Briggs, N. G.; D. M. Roberts, V. G.; Charles Thornton, secretary; George D. Unold, treasurer, and Charles E. Thornton, P. G. The present officers are G. B. Walker, N. G.; J. W. Darnley, V. G.; Richard Vorpahl, secretary; W. G. Little, treasurer, and W. W. Bowker, S. P. G. The members are thirty-eight.

There is one manufacturing establishment at La Grange, where silversmithing and manufacturing for the jobbing and wholesale trade is performed under the management of J. P. Weatherstone.

The existence of one other institution has to be noted, an unfortunate parenthesis in the history of La Grange, the home of Mrs. Anna Schoeck, particulars whereof can be studied at length in the newspapers of the present year.

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