#Atlantic Enterprise

[doolallymagpie]

Not sure I’ve ever completed an army before. Interesting feeling.

Such a big project, I couldn’t fit em all in a good group shot.

[baptist-denominations-poll]

Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada

Enterprise Association of Regular Baptists

Image from: Moncton Korean Church, Moncton, New Brunswick (CBAC)

[atsvensson]

Irlands största fiskebåtar 2022

Irlands största fiskebåtar 2022

Fiskebåtarna på Irland är i storlek jämförbara med svenska fiskebåtar. En bit över 1 000 bruttoton. På Irland finns det också några som är kring 2 000 bruttoton. De är alla pelagiska fiskebåtar. I praktiken använder alla stora fiskebåtar på Irland hamnen Killybegs i Donegal på nordvästra delan av ön som hemmahamn även om de har en annan hemmahamn registrerad. Det största fiskeriföretaget på…

[incorrectbatfam]

All the places the batfam was banned from

Dick

Damian's parent-teacher conferences

The HBO writer's room

An almond farm in Manteca, California

Victoria's Secret

Jason

32 U.S. states + Puerto Rico

6 countries

Downtown Tokyo

Comm. Gordon's office

Ra's Al Ghul's hot tub

The Phantom Zone

Other-dimension Jason's safehouse

Every Pizza Hut in Ontario

15 feet of any Confederate statue in South Carolina

The Ford dealership in Tallahassee

Riker's Island

Alcatraz

Club Penguin

Tim

The original Starbucks

Wayne Enterprises boiler room

Brentwood Academy biology department

Madripoor

Damian

Outback Steakhouse

West-Reeve school debate team

Steph's apartment bathroom

USDA regional inspection office

Every BP gas station on the Atlantic seaboard

Duke

Gotham High model rocket club

Gotham High acapella choir

Gotham High ventilation system

Cullen

Harper's work table

A meme subreddit

A furry Discord

A Minecraft battle royale

His part-time job after ghosting instead of formally resigning

Stephanie

Oktoberfest

Every Gotham restaurant requiring a dress code

50 feet of the Mona Lisa

The Manor's wine cellar

Planet Fitness

A Harry Styles concert

Cassandra

A falafel cart

Justice League snack storage

The local tarot reader

A bus stop in Hong Kong

The Vienna Philharmonic

Barbara

The Apple Store

The Microsoft Store

Amazon HQ

The backend of all Google sites

Best Buy

The Pentagon

Twitter

Harper

A Home Depot in Wisconsin

Yellowstone National Park

A free pottery class

Gotham City Hall

Carrie

The Tootsie Roll factory

Boy Scouts (not because of gender)

The duck pond at the park

A Barnes & Noble in Boston

Webkinz.com

Kate

A soccer stadium

A Dairy Queen in Houston

A rest stop near Reno

Death Valley

Alfred

The Kremlin

The British Museum

The Vatican

Selina

Most museums in Gotham

Times Square

Buckingham Palace

A mini golf course

Netflix studios

Bruce

The kitchen

Kate's garage without her present

Mars

Batburger without someone else accompanying

A Justice League conference room

The Batcave when injured

Build-A-Bear

Best Western

Jason's safehouse

Facebook Marketplace

Diana's invisible jet

The GOP

Stark Industries break room mini-fridge

Near any animals on Kent Farm without Clark's supervision

[mariacallous]

In the summer of 2022, when Liz Truss was about to become prime minister, I noticed that she was an admirer of Rick Perlstein, one of the great historians of modern America. 

Aspiring politicians like to tell the media about their favourite writers, even if they barely look at a book from one year to the next. It gives them a touch of class.

But there was no doubt in this case that Truss was sincere, and knew Perlstein’s work intimately.

She told journalists from the Times that she read “anything” Perlstein wrote. An interviewer from the Atlantic magazine saw a copy of Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge on her shelf, the third of his four-volume series on the rise of the radical right in the United States between 1960 and 1980, and said it was just the kind of book you’d expect her to read.

Then there was a weird moment in an interview with the Spectator when  an anonymous spokeswoman for the Truss campaign, who sounded very like Truss herself, explained that her rival Rishi Sunak was failing to win over Tory members because he refused to pander to their prejudices. 

“If people think there is an imaginary river,” the source said, “you don’t tell them there isn’t, you build them an imaginary bridge.”

You can find that quote at the beginning of the Perlstein history of the US right in the mid-1970s that was on Liz Truss’s bookcase.  And it is highly revealing. Perlstein picked it from a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon in the late 1950s. The Soviet leader told the then US vice-president that politicians must create their own reality by pandering to the fear in their supporters’ minds. 

“If the people believe there is an imaginary river out there,” Khrushchev said, “you don’t tell them there’s no river out there. You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.”

Truss, or someone close to her was saying that Tories did not want to face facts. They wanted their fantasies confirmed, which is exactly what she did — at enormous cost to the country.

I contacted Perlstein and asked what he thought of having the UK’s next prime minister as a fan.

Let me put it like this: he may have been her favourite historian, but she was not his favourite politician. Not even close. Not even in the top 1,000. He found her astonishingly stupid.

”Liz. Can’t. Read,” he replied, and began a long – and for British readers frightening – account of how and why our new government of wannabe Reaganites would crash the economy.

As they went on to do.

Truss’s notion that tax cuts for the rich pay for themselves had been developed in the 1970s. The new wealth of the already wealthy was meant to boost the economy and tax base and trickle down to the rest of society.

In the fourth volume of his series, Perlstein covered the grifters who sold the idea of self-funding tax cuts and explained how dubious they were.

And yet here, 50-years on, was his devoted reader Liz Truss reading his history as a guidebook rather than a warning.

Why do terrible ideas refuse to die?

You could say in this case that Truss was so stupid she did not understand the past. This was Perlstein’s point.

Then there’s greed. If you want to proselytise for tax cuts for the rich, you will never be short of a paying audience, as the Tufton Street think tanks well know.

Finally, there’s deceit. Conservatives don’t necessarily believe that they will raise money for public services. The enterprise of pretending tax cuts are self-financing is a con designed to weaken state provision.

All three played their part in the voodoo economics of US conservatism and the disastrous reign of Liz Truss.

Here’s how…

Neo-liberalism was forged in the 1970s as the post-war Keynesian or New Deal consensus fell apart.

One of the new ideas that emerged was trickle-down economics.  Until then, the traditional conservative argument was that you needed to reduce spending or increase growth if you wanted to reduce taxes.

This was the case that Rishi Sunak put in his failed attempt to defeat Truss in the 2022 leadership contest.

But in the mid-1970s hucksters and ideologues maintained that there was no need to cut spending. The growth tax cuts inspired would more than cover the cost.

The Laffer curve suggested that there was a point where tax rises were counterproductive. People would turn down work if the state took too much of their income, although where that point was is always disputed.

Getting into these practical arguments misses the point, however. There was an exuberant eruption of voodoo economics in the mid-1970s, which had no concern for technical accuracy.

Perlstein put it to me like this

“[With] conventional Keynesian – ‘liberal’ – solutions failing, all sorts of intellectual entrepreneurs on the right came forth with their solutions to the problem, as I narrate in Reaganland, a volume Liz claims to have read. [Of the] many solutions on the table, the one that prevailed was the one that all the actually half-way qualified experts on the right knew was nothing but a fairy tale on a par with Jack in the Beanstalk. [It was] devised by a dude whose only economic training, in his own description, came from learning to count cards at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. I wish I were making this up, but I am not.”

Perlstein was referring to Jude Wanniski, a journalist who did indeed coin the term “supply-side economics” in the 1970s after a spell working in Las Vegas. He attracted the attention of Reagan, Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes with his promise that the Laffer curve guaranteed that, if conservative politicians cut taxes, the economy would boom.

As Perlstein notes, Wanniski’s first piece promoting the idea in a 1975 issue of the Conservative journal Public Interest “lacked almost everything that made economic arguments convincing to other economists”. There were only four footnotes. No data. No formal models. Economists thought supply-side economics was a joke. It would take decades to recoup the money lost in tax cuts to wealthy people, they argued.

Milton Friedman, who was hardly a socialist, said the inflation that unfunded tax cuts would produce meant that supply-side economics was merely a “proposal to change the form of taxes” rather than lower them.  They would generate price and interest rates rises as indeed happened during the Truss debacle.

Alan Greenspan, who once again was a man of the right, who hung out with Ayn Rand no less, nevertheless said he knew of no one who believed that Arthur Laffer’s curve would magically turn tax cuts into increased government revenues.

And so it has proved again and again. Ronald Reagan’s administration provided the classic example. It cut taxes but the promised surge in tax revenues did not happen. All that happened was the national debt increased.

David Stockman, Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget admitted that "none of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," as the experiment played out. He rapidly came to the conclusion that the administration needed to cut spending to balance the books. But as he said in his The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed Conservative politicians preferred large deficits and an increasing national debt to cutting programmes their constituents liked.

Under Reagan, Bush and Trump they were happy to keep cutting. One of the features of US politics is that the national debt is as likely to rise under right-wing as left-wing governments,

Obviously, arguing that cutting the wealthy’s taxes was virtuous in itself pleased the wealthy.  It pleased Republican party donors in the 1970s, and it pleased the Tory donors who poured money into Liz Truss’s campaign in 2022.

But there is more to it than that.

In an article for the Wall Street Journal in 1976, Wanniski said the problem with the old right with its insistence on saving money was that it wanted to be Scrooge when it should be Santa Claus. 

It should deliver tax cuts, forget about the national debt, and sit back as a grateful citizenry showed their gratitude at polling stations. Left-wingers wanted to give taxpayer-funded goodies to their supporters. Very well, right-wingers should want to give tax cuts to theirs.

In the 1970s, Irving Kristol, the editor of Public Interest, was explicit that politics must trump economics. The political advantage tax cuts would provide to the Republicans was so historically imperative they should be blasted through whatever the effect on the budget.

“The neo-Conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums,’ he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “He wants to shape the future and will leave it to his opponents to tidy up afterwards.”

We are now in a moment like the 1970s. Taxes keep rising and Conservatives and indeed the rest of us have yet to come to terms with the cost of an ageing society. As anger grows, I doubt that Truss will be the last Tory to try to magic away reality and build an invisible bridge to a fantastical future.

[world-of-wales]

THE PRINCE DIARIES ♚

11 JULY 2023 || DUCHY OF CORNWALL - WISTMAN’S WOOD, DARTMOOR

The Duke of Cornwall visted the Wistman’s Wood on the duchy land after plans were announced to double the woodland's size in Cornwall as they look to achieve the net zero sustainability goal.

The the nine-acre ancient oak woodland site, which is home to very rare Atlantic mosses and lichen is under threat from fire, disease and climate change. It's regeneration and expansion will play a huge part in The Duchy of Cornwall’s vision of Sustainable Stewardship – for Communities, Enterprise and Nature.

Encompassing much of Dartmoor National Park, the Dutchy Estate has been continuing to work to achieve its sustainability goal of a net zero and nature-rich Estate with farming playing an instrumental role in the delivery, driven forward by Prince William.

The Duchy of Cornwall has been working with agricultural tenants, Natural England and the Dartmoor National Park Authority to develop a plan for Wistman's Wood.

It has been announced that the duchy intends to double the cover of the temperate rainforest by 2040.

[judgemark45]

Norfolk naval base, December 20, 2012

From bottom to top, front to back:

Aircraft carrier DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Aircraft carrier GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77)

Aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)

Amphibious assault ship BATAAN (LHD 5)

Aircraft carrier ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72)

Aircraft carrier HARRY S TRUMAN (CVN 75)

Amphibious assault ship WASP (LHD 1)

Amphibious assault ship KEARSARGE (LHD 3)

Amphibious landing platform dock NEW YORK (LPD 21)

A T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship

Amphibious assault ship IWO JIMA (LHD 7)

and various cruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines of the Atlantic Fleet USN image/ Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott

[eyestothe-skies]

Atlantic Ocean (Jul. 18, 2007) - A F/A-18C from the "Knighthawks" of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three Six (VFA-136) launches from the bow of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) on a unit level training mission. VFA-136 is part of Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1) embarked aboard the USS Enterprise, currently on a scheduled six-month deployment in support of Maritime Security Operations and the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Peter Scheu (RELEASED)

Source

[alphaman99]

FORGOTTEN HISTORY

A Daily Dose of History

Suggested for you  · 1d  ·

In 1920 the yacht building business that Bill McCoy operated with his brother Ben was struggling. So, Bill assessed the situation. He knew that he was a good sailor who knew how to make fast boats. And he knew that Prohibition had created a huge demand for liquor in the American northeast. Recognizing the business opportunity that presented itself, Bill McCoy seized it, becoming the king of the rumrunners, one of America’s most celebrated and notorious bootleggers.

McCoy bought a 127-foot fishing schooner capable of carrying 6,000 cases of alcohol and retrofitted it to make it one of the fastest commercial sailing vessels on the Atlantic coast. He registered his ship in Great Britain and renamed it “Tomoka.” He was in business.

He would load his cargo of spirits in Nassau in the Bahamas, then sail to the Jersey shore, anchoring between Sandy Hook and Atlantic City, just outside the three-mile boundary of international waters. Customers would come out to him in small boats that could evade the Coast Guard, and McCoy would sell them the booze in sacks that held nine bottles each. Ben McCoy would bring out supplies to the Tomoka, so that she never had to port.

McCoy made no effort to hide what he was doing. In fact, he welcomed the publicity. He boasted that he never diluted his product (as many bootleggers did), and that he never paid a dime to organized crime or to bribe law enforcement. And no law prohibited him from selling liquor in international waters. His enterprise was so successful that he soon added four more boats. In a little more than two years he sold an estimated two million bottles.

McCoy’s brazenness and his celebrity status infuriated government authorities, however, and they were determined to shut him down. In 1923, after first getting the tacit consent of British authorities, the Coast Guard was ordered to arrest McCoy, and to sink the Tomoka if he resisted.

On November 25 the Coast Guard cutter Senaca steamed out to the Tomoka and sent over a 15-man boarding party. When they were aboard, the commanding officer ordered McCoy to bring his ship into port. Instead, he set sail and raced away, with the boarding party still on board. The Seneca opened fire with her four-inch deck guns and the Tomoka’s crew answered with a machine gun set up on her forward deck. But as the shells from the Seneca started dropping closer to his ship, McCoy realized the game was up. He lowered his jib and surrendered. On board the Coast Guard found $60,000 in cash (about a million dollars in today’s money) and only 400 cases of the original 4,200 case cargo.

Once brought ashore reporters asked McCoy how he intended to defend himself against the charges. He answered with a smile, “I was outside the three-mile limit, selling whisky, and good whisky, to anyone and everyone who wanted to buy.”

But after two years of legal wrangling, McCoy ultimately decided to accept a plea bargain. He pled guilty to violating the Volstead Act and was sentenced to nine months in jail.

After serving his time, McCoy retired from rumrunning, returning instead to the boat building business. He also became a successful real estate investor and when Prohibition ended he cashed in on his notoriety by putting out his own brand of whisky, called “The Real McCoy” and featuring the Tomoka on the label.

William Frederick “Bill” McCoy, the King of the Rumrunners, died in Florida at age 71 on December 30, 1948, seventy-five years ago today.

[rpmemes-galore]

the infernal devices ... sentence starters 

“So he must live.“

“Well, I don't want you to die.”

“I won’t live like this. I’d rather die.”

“I love you so much, so incredibly much.”

“I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”

“You can't love her as I do. No one could.“

“You are human. Never think you are not.”

“Is it because I'm better-looking than you?“

“Who ever said we were owed happiness?“

“He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed.“

“We are all the pieces of what we remember.”

“No one would blame you. He’s very annoying.”

“Every heart has its own melody, you know mine.“

“I can still hear her sometimes, calling out for me.“

“If there is a life after this one, let me meet you in it.”

“What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?“

“They say you cannot love two people equally at once.”

“I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are.“

“I want more than that. You made me want more than that.”

“And I will not be that person. I will not profit from his death.“

“When (name) says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient’.”

“Goodness --- real goodness --- has its own sort of cruelty to it.“

“If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love... then, you are human.”

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read.“

“And I trust you. I don't know why --- I've just met you --- but I do.”

“I was hoping for something more akin to indifference? Tolerance?“

“The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

“I would never let anyone touch a hair on your head. You know that, right?”

“Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.“

“It is the only way any of this can ever mean anything. Otherwise it is only --- “

“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.“

“You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so.“

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.“

“Everyone has something they can’t live without. I’ll find out what it is for you, never fear.”

“I was looking for the opposite, really... something that might put an end to being in love.”

“All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.“

“I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.“

“You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created.“

“Because it will be as if I were waiting for him to die, or took some joy in his death, if it let me have her.“

“Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”

“Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is?”

“Well, I don't want you to die. I don't know why I feel it so strongly --- I've just met you --- but I don't want you to die.”

“You said I am a good man. But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.”

“We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.“

“I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain.”

“If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”

[jackhkeynes]

Britain

Britain (Cambrick Prydein) is a polity of Albion [Great Britain] centred on Wales, containing Devon and Dunclothe [Strathclyde], and extending out to Kernow [Brittany] and parts of Ireland.

History

The Kingdom of Britain was founded in the fifteenth century, formalising the suzerainty of Wales over the tallaths of Devon and Dunclothe. The state profited greatly from the Wars of Fealty of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries which raged across the rest of Albion.

Britain's economic success at this time drove ventures in Africa. Resupply ports along the western coast eventually allowed for the flourishing of direct sea trade between Europe and Asia.

The seventeenth century saw the dawn of British exploration of the Novomund [New World], founding staddomains along the southern Gulf. These would coalesce into several polities known collectively as British Mendeva over the next centuries, the largest of which is Hasiny [1]. Britain here found itself in conflict with Provence's settlements on the east coast; for example, the Sack of Santrafew [2] was undertaken by an alliance of British and Mastoiset [Massachusett] forces.

After the Chrysian [Australian] Landfall, emigration from Britain (along with more formal state-building enterprise from Cathay [northern China]) helped form the modern polity of New Leudong.

In the latter years of the nineteenth century, British Mendeva overtook Britain in population and industry. Nonetheless, Britain retained some cultural prestige over the Novomundine polities. In part this was sustained via migration of many members of the 'new rich' across the Atlantic, and the resultant intertwining of the respective upper-class societies through marriage. It is debated whether this prestige accelerated the export of Household Renovation social mores from Britain to Mendeva.

References

A Cyclopædia of British Persons (third edition), written by Wolfston Potter and published by the Yievle Brethin Primers in 1870

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[1] Hasiny controls the mouth of the Mississippi, and covers territory in eastern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

[2] Capital of New Provence, located near Boston.

[paracunt]

North American Tour (2023)

each link will take you to said shows corresponding tags so you can browse through whichever one you want, for an overall view, check out “ Tour 2023 “ or you can checkout the master-tag.

Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama

The Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina

The State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia

Adjacent Festival in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Boston Calling in Allston, Massachusetts

Madison Square Garden in New York Both Nights | Night 1 / Night 2

Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio

Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana

Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan

Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada

Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio

The PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh

Amway Center in Orlando, Florida

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida

Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennesse

— The Second leg of the North American Tour

The Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana

Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas (i put this as “Night 1” but since this is a stand alone show i fucked up— so my bad)

Moody Center in Austin, Texas

Toyota Center in Houston, Texas

Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado

Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs, California

Viejas Arena in San Diego, California

Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California | Night 1 / Night 2

Chase Center in San Francisco, California (canceled due to illness)

Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington (canceled due to illness)

Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon (canceled due to illness)

Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah (canceled due to illness)

BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri

Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Xcel Energy in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Chase Center in San Francisco, California — rescheduled

Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington — rescheduled

Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon — rescheduled — (canceled due to illness)

Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah — rescheduled — (canceled due to illness)

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actor Alec Newman, born November 27th 1974 in Glasgow.

He may not be a household name, nor has he been in any real blockbuster films, but Alec Newman has quietly made a name for himself with roles in some very good dramas on both sides of the Atlantic.

Alec’s dad was in the Sandy, was in The Chris McClure Section, and since 1973 has been the lead singer and guitarist in Marmalade, Alec’s brother, John James Newman competed in the 2012 season of The Voice UK. Newman considered a life as a football player before breaking his leg playing for Wokingham Town as a youth.

He started out acting with National Youth Theatre aged 16, before enrolling in The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Straight out of there he began cropping up in stage shows and impressing in guest appearances in TV shows like good old Taggart, of course, Heartbeat, Peak Practice and Dangerfield.

In the year 2000 he landed a leading part in Frank Herbert's Dune a three-part based on the novel of the same name, this got him noticed in the US and guest roles in shows there included, Angel, Star Trek Enterprise and Tru Calling, Flitting between stay at home and in the states he has continued to appear in some of the top shows, at home and abroad. Outlander fans might remember him as Joseph Wemyss in Down the Rabbit hole two years ago.

Alec is probably best known at home for playing Headmaster Michael Byrne in Waterloo Road when the series decanted to Scotland. Judge, John Deed, Spooks, Call the Midwife and Casualty at home, 24 Live Another Day, Victor Frankenstein, Shetland Rogue and The Bastard Executioner among many others, as well as stage roles has kept Newman busy in a career spanning around 25 years. Add to that he has voiced numerous commercials, audio books documentaries and Video games.

More recently Alec starred in four episodes of the ITV crime drama Unforgotten, and in the Scottish detective series Karen Pirie, based on the books by Val McDermid. Alec is next on the big screen in The Boys in the Boat directed by Hollywood A lister George Clooney.

Alec Newman married production co-ordinator Heather Stewart after meeting on the set of Waterloo Road. They married in Ayrshire in 2014 and have a daughter together. Newman is a huge football fan and has indulged a love for the outdoors, twice trekking in the Everest region of Nepal.

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Enterprise (CV-6) docks at Staten Island, New York, after her last Magic Carpet Voyage, on January 14, 1946. "Aboard were 3557 GI's, including 212 WACs who had served as human ballast in an attempt to prevent the transport Athos II from capsizing in an Atlantic gale."

source

[kroashent]

kroashent

Dracula and the Law: Who Owns the Demeter? Part II - Jus Naufragii

Dracula has lived a long unlife. Let's start this legal excercise by placing the voyage of the Demeter in an earlier context. We'll assume that the cargo, the ship's point of origin and the makeup of the crew is generally the same, but change the year and where it makes landfall to see what happens.

Jus Naufragii

One of the earliest extra-legal remedies for a wreck came in the form of the Jus Naufragii or Lex Naufragii (The "Right" and "Law" of Wreck, respectively). For much of history, wrecks were treated with the ancient remedy set out in the case of Finders v. Keepers. The inhabitants or sovereign of a territory would lay claim to the wreckage, cargo and even passengers and crew as slaves if a ship wrecked on their shores. Local custom often justified this theologically by declaring that the wreck was God's punishment for the sins of those aboard. The custom was publicly supported by monarchs and nobles across Europe.

Jus Naufragii is not a small enterprise either. Breton Viscount Guihomar IV (1130-1179) once remarked that the right of wreck on a single "most precious stone" yielded 100,000 solidi/year. There is ample evidence of active wreckers taking the opportunity to draw in ships with false lights and other tricks throughout Asia, Europe and the New World.

The Custom was not without opponents, and it was strongly condemned throughout history, and its ban was express in Roman Emperor Justinian I's Corpus Juris Civilis and Digesta (Both ~ 530 CE). The Catholic Church outlawed the custom repeatedly in 1124 (Papal Bull of Clement II), 1127 (Council of Nantes), 1179 (Lateran Council) and 1509 (Papal Bull of Julius II). In the 1180s, Genoa and its neighbors signed treaties with Iberian Muslims to spare its ships from the Jus.

While the direct influence of the Church and seafaring nation-states led to the disappearance of the law in the Med, it lasted longer in the North. France and Brittany signed a treaty with each other similar to the Genoese in 1231, and France and Venice entered an agreement in 1268.

Let's pick the year of 1476, the setting of the Castlevania anime, for our voyage. The Demeter is a Russian ship, with a Romanian crew. Assuming it wrecks in the Med, the right of wreck will not apply, as it had largely and effectively been outlawed. Along the Atlantic or the Channel, (Assuming that Russia is not a party to any protective treaties), its much more likely that the first to arrive will become the proud owners of 50 crates of dirt and one pissed off vampire.

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The 17th Century brought a fairly major changes. A 1625 treaty between England and the Netherlands established a grace period of a year and a day for an owner to claim their wrecked property, while France and the Netherlands agreed that salvagers would be paid a "saviour's fee." In 1663, the Netherlands formally abolished the jus, with Turkey doing so in 1535 and 1740. Jus naufraugii is the custom of Dracula's time, one that would be left behind as the world changed, an ancient custom of divine retribution and opportunistic looting. The right of wreck is a product of Dracula's world. Let's look at how it fits into Mina's soon...

[rphelperblog]

Will Herondale Quote Rp Meme

Based on the victorian era welsh shadowhunter of famed humor, heart, and looks as well as a deep fear of ducks by Cassandra Clare- feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

"Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.” 

"Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence,"

“No, i mean enterprising. When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´” 

“If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” 

“He is my greatest sin.” 

"Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.” 

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?” 

“I think I may be in love with you. Marriage could be in the cards.” 

“How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared it to gazing at the radiance of the sun.”

"Is it because I'm better-looking than you?” 

“If there is a life after this one, let me meet you in it.”

“You said I am a good man,but I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.” 

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that” 

She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.” 

“On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ 

"That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love? Ridiculous."

"Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.” 

“I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.” 

"I have wanted to do this, every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you.” 

"I had come to think i would never love anyone, but I love her.” 

“Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.” 

T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.” 

“since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.” 

Our souls are knit. We are one person,”

“While the society disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.” 

you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?” 

“Who knows your courage better than I?” 

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.” 

“What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?" 

“Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is ‘genuphobia’. It means an unreasonable fear of knees.”

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“Oh, I can never get enough, which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when-"

"You wish to marry me now?"

"Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.” 

“I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?” 

“Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact? Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." 

We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”

"She is my priority!"

"I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." 

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?” 

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.” 

“Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." 

"You do believe everything I say, though, don't you? Do I seem unusually trustworthy to you, or are you just a naive sort?” 

"No, here you'll find all sorts of advice about how to chop off someone else's head if you need to; much more useful.” 

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.” 

“having your annual ‘everyone thinks [your muse’s name] is a lunatic’ meeting, are you? “

“Sometimes,they're even supposed to blow up.” 

“What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.”

“Trains are great dirty smoky things, you won't like it." 

marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.” 

You are not the last dream of my soul.You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.”

“Dear God, I thought she was marrying your brother. I take it all back.” 

“Do you even care where I’m going? What if I were going to hell?”

'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?'”

“I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.”

“Probably all poisoned by parsnips,”

“You made me want more than that. You showed me I was only ever cursed because I had chosen to believe myself so. You told me there was possibility, meaning. And now you would turn your back on what you created.” 

"Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..."

The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.” 

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.” 

Wherever we are, we are as one” 

“What are you doing following me around the back streets of London, you little idiot?”

“I suppose it would depend on whether they cut me a part of the profit.”

“What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.” 

“I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.”

“What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.”

“It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.” 

he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven” 

“Dw i'n dy garu di am byth,” [I love you. Always.]

“Your honorable father has been impugned. Attack, attack!” 

“Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,

“I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.”