#wc1

[bikeaospedacos]

Brasil conquista oito medalhas na abertura da Copa do Mundo de Paraciclismo 2025 em Bruges, com destaques individuais e coletivos.

[homegirllondon]

It's time to check out the Brunswick Centre

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: COMPANY NAME DMV: same customer ordered the above Legacy plate "911 WC2" this is Memorial plate, ok? Verdict: ACCEPTED

[scoringeffects]

fire text the edmonton oilers are wc2 🔥

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

The Hex Files also includes this curious entry for The Wildfire Club. What four magazines did The Wildfire Club produce? Who is the mysterious Miss Fleur Harrington?

[sins-of-the-sea]

//I remember once showing my RL picture to the WoWRP community and I was once told in VC "you're really cute for someone who RPs orcs" and I'm just ASPIFHASFIOH.

Especially hilarious because said orc was in his 80s, a perv, and a warlock.

[eonars]

look wot i made

[evntualities]

i say this as someone who believes vancouver has a good chance of winning the cup, and as someone who is positive that nashville will lose in the first round no matter who they're facing, but i would much rather see them face vancouver than dallas 😭

[alanmalcherhistorian]

British Home Front During World War Two.

Senate House. Senate House in Malet Street, London WC1 close to the British Museum is an Arc Deco building built between 1932 and 1937 and is now the library and administration centre for the University of London. Most days of the week many thousands of people walk past this building and the general public along with students at the University of London are seldom aware of its wartime…

[vintage-london-images]

Centre Point photographed here in 1966, occupies 101–103 New Oxford Street and 5–24 St Giles High Street WC1, with a frontage also to Charing Cross Road close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube Station. 

The building was designed by George Marsh with engineer Pell Frischmann and was constructed by Wimpey Construction from 1963 to 1966, for a cost of £5.5 million. The precast segments were formed of fine concrete utilising crushed Portland Stone and were made by Portcrete Limited at Portland Dorset. They were transported to London by lorry. It is said the site was once occupied by a gallows which was situated on St Giles Street as the tower sits directly over the former route of St Giles High Street, which had to be re-routed for the construction. On completion, the building remained vacant for many years, leading to its being referred to as "London's Empty Skyscraper".

[sergeifyodorov]

who's in a playoff spot?

entering January 5, 2025

Hello everyone! It's just about the halfway point of the season; two teams (NJD, SJS) are past the halfway point. The average team has played thirty-nine and three-eighths of a game. If the playoffs started today, this is what the first round matchups would look like:

Eastern conference:

Maple Leafs - Lightning (A1-WC1)

Panthers - Bruins (A2-A3)

Capitals - Senators (M1-WC2)

Devils - Hurricanes (M2-M3)

Western conference:

Jets - Avalanche (C1-WC1)

Wild - Stars (C2-C3)

Golden Knights - Canucks (P1-WC2)

Kings - Oilers (P2-P3)

Leafs-Lightning and Oilers-Kings look like they're on the table again. We're caught in the time loop and there's nothing we can do about it. Panthers-Bruins, Jets-Avalanche and Wild-Stars would also be rematches -- Florida made it to Boston (you stupid slut) and never looked back. Much to my chagrin.

Devils-Hurricanes would be a really interesting one. The Hurricanes never stop and never slow down, but the Devils, after firing Lindy Ruff and hiring Sheldon Keefe (o7) have taken a step again and are back to Being Out Of The Rebuild (don't look at their losing streak). Two sets of analytics darlings, one fast and spirited and the other... well, they're the Hurricanes. They roll right over you.

Capitals-Senators is a great one, too. The Capitals absolutely stumbled backwards into the playoffs last year and immediately bowed out to the Rangers, and the two of them seem to have traded fates. Now, the Caps are the team to beat in the East, and the Rangers are... well, let's not get into that one. Wow. Anyway, the Senators are the team in this table that (in my opinion) are least likely to stay there. There's a logjam for WC2 right now -- CBJ, PIT, MTL, DET, and PHI are all within a win of the spot. Nothing against the Sens, but they'll have to fight for what might be a meagre reward.

Golden Knights - Canucks is certainly something. The Golden Knights just seem to keep rolling high. If it works, it works. The Canucks are fragile (Quinn hurt, Demko hurt, Pettersson and Miller fighting, almost no one else Good) and they genuinely might implode like the Rangers do. Are we really prepared to have the Calgary Flames in the playoffs? The actively tanking Calgary Flames? I hope they beat the Knights and then we do Battle of Alberta Series Part Two. THAT will be fun.

[panda-wearing-pants]

Most relatively dangerous wildcard for each Wild Life member

Instead of using the wildcard that caused a player's most deaths, this takes the percentage of lives lost to a wildcard, and subtracts the total percentage of lives lost among all players (I may refer to the total percent as the average percent; they mean the same thing)

For example, Pearl was the only person to die to the first wildcard, meaning 1/128, or 0.78%, of the total deaths were caused by WC1, but 1/7, or 14.3%, of Pearl's deaths were caused by it, since the gap between 0.78 and 14.3 is larger than the distance for all other wildcards, WC1 was the most dangerous for Pearl

This includes deaths that occurred in episode 8

WC1: Pearl (lives lost percentage is 13.5 above average) (average: 0.78)

WC2: Mumbo (20.31), Skizz (25.31) (average: 4.69)

WC3: Bdubs (25.78), Scar (20.23), Impulse (25.78), Tango (13.28) (average: 24.22)

No one died to WC4

WC5: BigB (12.76), Martyn (8.59), Jimmy (16.09) (average: 3.91)

WC6: Etho (12), Gem (11.98), Lizzie (11.98) (average: 4.69)

WC7: Scott (8.85), Grian (25.52), Ren (17.19), Joel (8.85), Cleo (8.85) (average: 7.81)

Scott, Gem, Lizzie, Joel, and Cleo actually lost most (relatively) of there lives to things other than wildcards, Gem was 12.76 above average, and everyone else was 29.43 above, which is also the largest gap, the percent of lives not lost to wildcards was 53.91%

[thegildedbee]

:: February 9 :: Selection for Week 7 of 2025 :: 🐝 "the disappearance of lady frances carfax" (1911) from sherlock holmes: a year of quotes* 🖊️

"Where is your warrant?" Holmes half drew a revolver from his pocket. "This will have to serve till a better one comes." "Why, you are a common burglar." "So you might describe me," said Holmes cheerfully. "My companion is also a dangerous ruffian. And together we are going through your house."

I love these kinds of passages: twinkling Holmes' closing in on criminals, with a crackle of electricity snapping between them and their lethally-alert Watsons :-)

John H. Watson, M.D. Dangerous Ruffian 221B Baker Street London, England WC1

My between-the-lines thinking here is that Holmes's mood is suffused with affection for Watson -- I think ACD often leaves emotional connections implied, and is rather miserly with the amount of description he allows for mood-setting (as if he's having to pay out of pocket by the word for such purposes). This interpretation could be countered by noting that the story features a conversation that reveals Holmes being enormously rude and unfeeling to Watson; but again, I think it's one of those between-the-lines things, that if you were a contemporary reader you didn't take the harsh tone at face-value, but assumed a warmth as existing between the two men as a given (after all, this is the 46th Holmes and Watson as partners in crime-solving story . . . )

What happens is this: Watson has been sent to the Continent by Holmes to begin the investigation of Lady Frances's disappearance (one of the reasons that Holmes gives for not being able to leave London at the moment is that "it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes" :-)

When Holmes re-joins Watson in Montpellier, he remarks that "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted," to which Watson answers bitterly, "Perhaps you would have done no better," with Holmes's reply being, "There is no 'perhaps' about it. I HAVE done better." The context, however, offers some perspective on why Holmes may be at least partly exonerated on his judgment of blundering on Watson's part (and, perhaps, upon reflection, so might Watson) in that Holmes' presence is revealed at the moment when an extremely large and strong man is attacking Watson, and, he states, "his hand was on my throat and my senses were nearly gone." Holmes had been on stake-out (in disguise as an unshaven French working-man), ready to protect his friend, running from his hiding place when needed at Watson's miscalculation regarding the man he is tailing, and, explains Watson, "with a cudgel in his hand, struck my assailant a sharp crack over his forearm, which made him let go of his hold."

Interestingly, Watson being on the precipice of expiring is echoed later in the story regarding Lady Frances -- perhaps Holmes' censure is partly meant to alert the reader to the stakes of being in error? Overall, the tone of the story is such, that I really do think it is intentional by Doyle to convey that Holmes is in high spirits, pleased as punch to be in harness once again with Watson, dashing about various nations to solve the mystery. One reason I think that Doyle has imbued the story with these light touches (and assumptions of goodwill), is because the story is a particularly dark one: therefore, the contrast between the gruesomeness of the events as they unfold and Holmes being of good cheer heightens the contrast even further. In some ways "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" is a horror story**, and Doyle is making use of literary technique, in how he tells the story, as well as what he lays out as the narrative of the plot. I think another literary move to heighten the horror is Doyle's choice of a single, 40-year old woman as the individual who disappears, which increases the atmosphere of peril -- although others who have commented on the story see this choice, and how she is introduced, as simply the detective being condescending and unreflexively stereotypical. Holmes describes her Ladyship as belonging to "one of the most dangerous classes in the world...the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. She is helpless. She is migratory...she is a stray chicken in a world of foxes. When she is gobbled up she is hardly missed."

In actuality, there is a large dose of societal rebuke behind the circumstance Holmes describes, as Lady Frances is the "sole survivor of the direct family of the late Earl of Rufton," with the result that some more distant male member inherited the estates, leaving her with limited means (and some valuable jewelry she keeps about her person). And the fact that she has managed well on her own for some time belies the idea that she is a hapless female; but her solitary status, bereft of the protection of family members, puts her in harm's way when crossing paths with a skilled and ruthless con man.

[spoiler alert] The climax of the evocatively Poesian plot involves two circumstances that were particularly frightening to members of Victorian society: being attacked with chloroform, and being buried alive, and both occur in this story. Lady Frances is missing because of being rendered senseless by being doused in chloroform, which will insure against her waking, and then hidden as a second body in a specially-measured coffin to be buried alive (apparently her kidnappers were too squeamish to outright murder her!)

Victorians had a great fear of being buried alive, and there were numerous patents taken out in the 19th century for "safety coffins" with all manner of ingenious technology that would allow for escape via signaling for help, whether through involuntary movement or actual communication, so that if you were only apparently dead and not actually dead you would be rescued. (The only really safe way to conclude that someone was dead at this time was to wait for putrefaction to set in.)

The story is noteworthy for a mistake Holmes makes and the race against time to remedy it -- but that's a set of reflections for another day, perhaps :-) (Although, with the hyper-fear of premature burial for contemporary readers, I'm willing to bet that a fair number of them caught the significance of the slight hints in the story, and may have figured out the solution to the mystery before Holmes did :-) Coda: If you're so inclined, you can learn more about the phenomenon via the Internet Archive: Premature burial, and how it may be prevented, with special reference to trance catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum, 2nd ed. (1905/1896)

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*Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani, eds., U of Chicago Pr, 2019 **There's a nifty little volume that collects those ACD Holmes tales that tangle with terror: Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries [The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sussex Vampire, The Creeping Man, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, The Veiled Lodger, The Devil's Foot, and The Cardboard Box.]

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#re-considering BBC Sherlock by dipping into ACD canon

#quotations

#reading between the lines

#john watson

#sherlock holmes

#sherlock fic

#weekly sherlockian epigraphs 2025

#by me :-)

#thegildedbee

[druidonity2]

These recent Anduin arts are stunning; the inner child art struck me, very well done. I can’t wait to see more! I would love to see your take on the entire Wrynn line (I’m an old Warcraft player from wc1 on).

Thank you!! There will certainly be more!! I have been drawing this man since late 2017 and have no plans on stopping! :D

I've done a few drawings with other Wrynns, mostly taking inspiration from the movie au and personal headcanons. I have this one piece about the deaths of Barathen, Llane, and Varian and how all that weighs down on Anduin. I want to redraw this one someday cuz the canvas I did it on was very small and Id like to redo the stained glass.

I wanna mention that Llane's design is ALL OVER THE PLACE when hes depicted so I took that as an invite to pick the traits I liked best and build-a-llane. (he appears in DF as a kid in a bronze quest and has dark hair, made this reference image before that)

and more art, including Taria , younger Varian, Llane, Barathen, and when looking through wikis I found a page for a 'Landan Wrynn' and it didnt say much nor do I know anything about him so I just made up a design for fun.

I def have more art of Varian (and Tiffin) but as for family beyond him I think this is about it. I should draw them more. And also now that you mention it I've never finished playing Warcraft 3, and I'd love to actually sit and play 1 and 2. My Uncle who got me into WoW in the first place played those c:

[hockeyupdate]

2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs (Round 1) - Eastern Conference

The first-round playoff match-ups in the east are now set as well. It will be:

Washington Capitals (1M) vs. Montreal Canadiens (WC2)

Carolina Hurricanes (2M) vs. New Jersey Devils (3M)

Toronto Maple Leafs (1A) vs. Ottawa Senators (WC1)

Tampa Bay Lightning (2A) vs. Florida Panthers (3A)

[thecardiackids]

And St Louis just lost in the shootout, so we have WC1 for now!