#Humphrey Campbell

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🇳🇱 Humphrey Campbell - Wijs me de weg

[brokehorrorfan]

Vice Press will release prints of Graham Humphreys' original UK key art for The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II tomorrow, March 14, at 2pm EST. Each 36x24 lithograph is limited to 350 for £39.99 (approx. $51).

[jazznoisehere]

Graham Humphreys: Army of Darkness

[liverpoolfcw]

The LFC Women's Show - September 2022

Link to YouTube

with Rachel Furness, Rachael Laws, Katie Stengel, and Carla Humphrey + a Hot or Not section with Leighanne Robe, Megan Campbell, and Katie Stengel

Highlights / Topics

The Euros - Furney's experience playing in it and the others' experiences as fans/viewers

The Celebration Parade around the city for both the women's and the men's team and what it felt like being on the bus

How Katie and Carla started playing football

Coffee shops around Liverpool City

The upcoming WSL season (22/23) including pre-season, goals/focus, and the Merseyside Derby that will be held at Anfield

[bokearns]

[allpromarlo]

i'm so glad marlo & kyle are friends bc imagine having two favorite players on a team and they never talk to each other

[livesunique]

Ms Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida OMRI (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023)

Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Ms Lollobrigida was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. She studied sculpture at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts, and started her career with minor Italian film roles before coming third in 1947’s Miss Italia pageant. 

After refusing a contract with Howard Hughes to make three pictures in the United States in 1950, Ms Lollobrigida gained for starring turns in 1952’s “Fanfan la Tulipe” and 1953’s “Bread, Love and Dreams,” the latter of which netted her a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actress.

Ms Lollobrigida’s first American film was “Beat the Devil,” a 1953 adventure comedy directed by John Huston that cast her opposite Humphrey Bogart. Over the course of the ’50s and ’60s, she starred in numerous French, Italian and European-shot American productions, with highlights including “Trapeze” with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as Esmerelda, “Solomon and Sheba” with Yul Brynner, “Never So Flew” with Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen, “Come September” with Rock Hudson, and “Woman of Straw” with Sean Connery, and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” with Shelley Winters.

Her roles made her a major sex symbol of Italian cinema; in 1953, she won Italy’s David di Donatello award for Best Actress for her performance in the opera star Lina Cavalieri’s biopic “Beautiful But Dangerous,” known in Italian as “The World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” 

She later won two more David di Donatello Award for “Imperial Venus” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” a Golden Medal of the City of Rome in 1986, a 40th Anniversary David in 1996 and a 50th Anniversary David in 2006. In 1961, she won the Golden Globes’ Henrietta Award for “World Fan Favorite,” and received nominations for “Falcon Crest” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell.”

After the ’60s, Lollobrigida’s career began to slow down, but she continued to act intermittently, including in the 1995 Agnes Varda film “Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma,” and in ’80s TV shows such as CBS’ “Falcon Crest” and ABC’s “The Love Boat.” 

Ms Lollobrigida also developed a successful second career in photojournalism during the ’80s. She obtained an exclusive interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and also photographed many famous film stars, as well as publishing a number of books of her photographs.

In 2011 she made her final film appearance, playing herself in a cameo for the Italian parody film “Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films.”

The screen legend sale of some of her 23 jewels from her Bulgari  collection at Sotheby’s in 2013 to help fund an international hospital for stem-cell research. 

On 16 October 1999, Lollobrigida was nominated as a Goodwill Ambassador of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Ms  Lollobrigida won the Berlinale Camera at the Berlin Film Festival in 1986, Karlovy Vary Film Festival special prize in 1995, and the Rome Festival’s career prize in 2008. In 2018, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ciao, Gina, Riposa in Pace

(Armando Pietrangeli, “Light and Shadow,” Gina Lollobrigida,1960, Trapeze 1956, Woman Of Rome,1954, Salomon & Sheba,1959, Come September, 1961,Un Bellissimo Novembre,1968, The Hunchback of Notre Dame,1956, In London to publicise her book of photographs titled Italia Mia,1974, Fidel Castro shot by Ms Lollobrigida,1974, Gina Lollobrigida pictured on July 11, 2022 in Rome).

[frithwontdie]

Do white Americans owe reperations to blacks? NO!

In America, Reparations have already been paid. To the point that it’s beyond ridiculous. Whites have gone out of their way to artificially boost Nonwhites at every turn. Trillions of tax dollars and donations have been spent over decades trying to boost non-white achievements and social status. Also dept relief, Crt, affirmative action, first step act, donations for past wrong doings, school degrees, food stamps, welfare programs, etc.

Alot of whites and some jews through out American history tried to help blacks become a separate & self-reliant people (the pursuit of Booker T. Washington) through education.

The Freedman's Bureau (1865 to 1872) :

The Freedman’s Bureau (officially known as ‘The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands’) was created by Americans to feed and provide other life necessities to the Negro population of the South after the Civil War ended in 1865. However, well before the end of the Civil War, Americans organized all over the North various organizations to feed, clothe, educate and provide other needed necessities for the newly freed Negro people Note: according to W.E.B Du Bios, more than 50 organizations were active in relief capacity for the southern Negro by 1866.

"The First white people in America, certainly the first in the South to exhibit their interest in the reaching of the Negro and saving his soul through the medium of the Sunday-school were Robert E. Lee and 'Stonewall Jackson'. ...Where Robert E. Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson have led in the redemption of the Negro through the Sunday-school, the rest of us can afford to follow. " - Booker T. Washington 1910

The Tuskegee Institute:

This icon of Black education was founded by the great Booker T Washington and was also the brainchild of an Alabama prominent banker by the name of George W. Campbell (White man). Another White man, an Alabama state senator named W.F. Foster, spearheaded the necessary funding for the Institute through the state legislature. The result was a yearly appropriation of $2000.

The following white Americans, all self-made millionaires, gave small fortunes - their own hard earned money - to this Negro self-sufficiency school over their lifetime:

--Andrew Carnegie

--John D. Rockefeller

--Henry Rodgers

--Collis Huntington

And,

--Julius Rosenwald*

--Anna T. Jeanes*

* Julius Rosenwald was an immigrant Jew and self-made millionaire.

* Anna T. Jeanes, a white woman, was not a self-made millionaire, but inherited her money from her husband.

Howard University

Howard University was chartered in 1867. It was championed by an American Civil War General, Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909), and the school hence bears his name. Howard University is also the ONLY higher education school ever to be directly funded by the US taxpayers (it still is).

Lincoln University

Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) was an exclusive college for Negroes and was created in 1854 by a white man named John Miller Dickey, who also became its first president. Lincoln University was originally named Ashmun Institute. The first Black president of the university was not elected until 1945.

Fisk University

Fisk University was an all-Negro college that was established by three whites, Erastus Milo Cravath, John Ogden and Edward Parmelee Smith in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1866.

Wilberforce University

Wilberforce University, located near Xenia, in Ohio, was an all-Negro college created by whites from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1856. It was named after a white man, William Wilberforce, who was an 18th century abolitionist.

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was an all-Negro school established in 1837. A white man named Richard Humphreys had bequeathed $10,000 in his will (10% of his estate) in 1832 for the sole purpose of creating a place of education for the Negro race.

Atlanta University

Atlanta University was founded by whites associated with the American Missionary Association, in 1865. Around 1866, its survival then shifted to, and depended upon, the Americans associated with the Freedman’s Bureau.

In 1922, the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Memorial gave $25,000 each to create the Journal Of Negro History.

In 1924, George Eastman (Kodack Co.) gave Tuskegee Institute $1 million dollars.

John D. Rockefeller

Mr. Rockefeller donated almost $180 million dollars to the General Education Board, which was chartered by Act of Congress in 1903. Much of this money was spent supplying educational aid to the Negro people, specifically in the southern states (Mr. Rockefeller‘s $180 million translates to almost 2 billion dollars in today's dollars!)

George Peabody Education Fund for poor Southerners

George Peabody Education Fund was established by a white man named George Peabody, and was designed to help Negro colleges in the South at the turn of the century.

The Slater Fund

The Slater Fund was established by white, James Fox Slater, in 1882. Its primary purpose was to support southern Negro schools. Around 1915, this fund was worth about $1.75 million.

The Jeanes Fund (Jeanes Foundation)

A white woman named Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quaker, created 'The Fund for Rudimentary Schools for Southern Negroes’ in 1907 from the monies left to her by her late husband. The purpose of the fund was to help Negroes create teachers for their people. It was endowed at one million dollars (a staggering sum at the time).

The Southern Education Board: In or around 1900, whites created the The Southern Education Board. It's funding was initially provided by the Slater Fund and the Jeans Funds. Americans, trained in the area of farming, would go to rural farms (Negro and American) and educate them on better farming techniques. The Southern Education Board was also very concerned with the high southern Negro illiteracy, which was, in 1900, almost 50% (for southern Americans, around 11%).

Phelps-Stokes Fund

Established in 1911, a white philanthropist and self-made millionaire Anson Phelps Stokes created this fund for the purpose of improving Negro life through education. Its endowment was approximately $900,000.

Minor Fund

This fund was established by a white female, Miss Myrtilla Minor, in 1851. Its purpose was to provide aid to schools who would teach Negro girls to be teachers for their people.

In 1910, according to the US census, 50% of Negroes (about 4.8 million) lived in urban centers (all created by white males). That means there would be approximately 2.4 million Negro males living in the urban centers of America. About 1/3rd would be too young to work, so that means there were about 1.6 million Negro males of working age living in American-built cities in 1910. Of those 1.8 million Negro males, 350,000 (almost 20%!) worked in a factory job (all factory jobs for the Negro were supplied by White men i.e. not ONE factory job in America was created by a Negro male --so, concomitantly, no white man was employed by a Negro male in a factory job. Note: At this time in American history, you worked or you starved. (source: Chronological History of The Negro pg. 358)

Naturally, with whites, being so generous supplying jobs to black men, naturally, more black men were encouraged to come to the American-built urban areas.

Julius Rosenwald

Without question one of the most generous of the Euro race toward the black people was Julius Rosenwald (Jewish). Most of his charity was gifted through the Rosenwald Fund (depleted in 1948)

Cushing Fund

A white woman, Miss Emeline Cushing, established this fund in 1895 for the purpose of financially assisting colored schools.

Whites Create Special School - In Mississippi. - For Negro Boys To Own Land

Daniel Hand Fund

A white self-made millionaire, Daniel Hand, established the Daniel Hand Fund in 1888. It was endowed at $1 million dollars (two-thirds of Mr. Hand’s entire personal wealth!). Mr. Hand stipulated that all of the Fund would be directed toward Negro education in the former slave states. When Mr. Hand died in 1893, he bequeathed the rest of his remaining wealth to this fund.

Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Carnegie, when he retired, was considered the richest man in the world. He also became the biggest philanthropist in America and gave generously to Negro educational causes, which included giving $600,000 to the Tuskegee Institute in 1903.

Harmon Foundation

The New York City Harmon Foundation was established in 1922 by an white man named William Harmon (1862-1928). Its purpose was to aid and assist Negro art, artists, businesses, education for Negroes, farming needs, music, and other causes for the Negro.

Garland Fund

This White-male-established fund was used to help the NAACP through the Great Depression.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Mr. Rockefeller, Jr. built the Dunbar Apartments in New York City, a mammoth complex consisting of six buildings - 511 apartments - specifically to house low-income Negroes in Harlem. He also built and funded a bank in NYC solely for Negroes.

Katharine Drexel

Katherine Drexel was born November 26, 1858 and died March 3, 1955. She was an American female, a nun, philanthropist, educator and later canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

"She became a nun, and took the name Sister Katharine, dedicating herself and her inheritance to the needs of [non-occupational ranking] Native Americans and African-Americans in the western and southwestern United States, and was a vocal advocate of racial tolerance. She established a religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. She also financed more than 60 missions and schools around the United States, and founded Xavier University of Louisiana[1] - the only historically Black, Roman Catholic university in the United States to date."

The United Negro College Fund

In 1944 the United Negro College Fund was created. Almost all of the funding for its initial operation was provided by the General Education Fund and the Rosenwald Fund.

Mr. William Trent, a black man, in the course of his 20-year tenure as its first executive director, raised over $78 million for this fund, almost all of it coming from generous white liberal Americans (Senator John F. Kennedy gave all of the profits from his book ‘Profiles in Courage' to this fund).

Also American Jews also gave money to black people. Before 1950, it was mostly coming from the Rosenwald fund.

Minority scholarships:

Low income:

It’s open to illegal immigrants, too, but white people? Forget it. And when we learn that “800 Compton residents to get guaranteed income in two-year pilot program,” since Compton is only 2 percent white – yes, just 2 percent – white people won’t get that money.

Having to change the requirements of mental retardation, because too many blacks IQ's were that low.

https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/pdf/90s/99/99-MRI-MLW.pdf

[missmielyhoran]

How I imagine my MCs

1. Autumn, 17 (Little Freak)

2. Y/N, 22 (Smoke or Gangleader!Dbf!Harry verse)

3. Y/N, 25 (Demonrry)

4. Y/N, 22 (Only Angel or Rockstar!Harry verse)

5. Y/N i forgot how old she's supposed to be😭 (Baby Honey)

7. Annabeth, 23 (Viridescent) FC- Ana de Armas

6. Y/N Monet, 33 (Stages of Grief) FC- Lily James

8. Y/N, 17 (Humphrey High)

in my head she's Naomi Campbell

9. Y/N, 24 (Lone or Werewolfrry verse)

10. Y/N, 26 (Ceorry verse)

(I find it funny that irl there are only 2-3 out of these women he would actually date lmao)

Don't ask me why I did this. I was bored.

[ginevrastilinski-ocs]

Gossip Girl OCs Masterlist

Name: Anissa Vanderbilt

Pronouns: she/her

Story: Untitled

LI: Dan Humphrey

Quote: Do it because they said you couldn't.

Pinterest: TBD

FC: Victoria Pedretti

Name: Alexander Archie Archibald

Pronouns: he/him

Story: Crying In The Club

LI: Blair Waldorf & Chuck Bass

Quote: Yeah, they all say it gets better, it gets better, but what if I don't?

Pinterest: TBD

FC: Colton Haynes

Name: Dawn Fleet

Pronouns: she/her

Story: Beautiful Things I Regret

LI: Blair Waldorf

Quote: I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted.

Pinterest: X

FC: Olivia Rodrigo

Name: Hillary Winslow

Pronouns: she/her

Story: Untitled

LI: Jenny Humphrey

Quote: I wish that I could be like the cool kids 'cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.

Pinterest: TBD

FC: Lucy Hale

Name: Nellie Waldorf

Pronouns: she/her

Story: Untitled

LI: Nate Archibald

Quote: Change can be sunshine if you let it in.

Pinterest: X

FC: Danielle Campbell

Name: Rochelle Vallance

Pronouns: she/her

Story: Untitled

LI: Blair Waldorf & Serena Van Der Woodsen

Quote: You win some, you lose some. Except for me. I always win.

Pinterest: TBD

FC: Sophia Bush

Name: Oliver Waldorf

Pronouns: he/him

Story: Untitled

LI: Eric Van Der Woodsen

Quote: To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Pinterest: TBD

FC: Jacob Elordi

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Reatha Clark King (born April 11, 1938) is a chemist, the former VP of the General Mills Corporation; and the former president, executive director, and chairman of the board of trustees of the General Mills Foundation.

She was born in Pavo, Georgia. Her parents were Ola Mae Watts Campbell and Willie B. Clark. She graduated as valedictorian from the Moultrie High School for Negro Youth. She earned her BS in Chemistry and Mathematics from Clark College. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. She earned an MBA From Columbia University.

She was hired by the National Bureau of Standards, becoming the agency’s first African American female chemist.

She married N. Judge King II (1962-2014) and the couple had two sons.

She became the associate dean for the Division of Natural Science and Mathematics at York College.

She has served on numerous corporate boards including the Exxon Mobil Company, H.B. Fuller Company, Wells Fargo & Company, Minnesota Mutual Insurance Company, and Dept 56. She has served on not-for-profit boards including Allina Health Systems, the University of Chicago, the American Council on Education, the Council on Foundations, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She has served as a trustee of Clark Atlanta University and Carleton College, and she is an emeritus trustee of the University of Chicago. She is the emeritus board chair of NACD and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige Program for Excellence.

She has received many awards including the National Association of Corporate Directors Director of the Year; Defender of Democracy Award from the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc.; the Exceptional Black Scientist Award from the CIBA-GEIGY Corporation; International Citizen Award from the International Leadership Institute; the Louis W. Hill, Jr. Fellowship in Philanthropy at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center of the University of Minnesota; and Ebony Magazines Top 50 Black Executives in Corporate America. She has been recognized with 14 honorary doctorate degrees. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

[dailydeathinparadise]

DEATH IN PARADISE SPIN-OFF SERIES BEYOND PARADISE IS COMING TO BBC ONE AND IPLAYER ON FRIDAY 24TH FEBRUARY 2023.

CO-COMMISSIONED BY THE BBC AND BRITBOX INTERNATIONAL, BEYOND PARADISE FOLLOWS DI HUMPHREY GOODMAN (KRIS MARSHALL) AND HIS FIANCÉE MARTHA LLOYD (SALLY BRETTON) AFTER THEIR NAIL-BITING WILL-THEY-WON’T-THEY ROMANCE REACHED ITS EMOTIONAL FINALE IN SAINT MARIE IN 2017. VIEWERS WERE DELIGHTED WHEN HUMPHREY TOOK CONTROL OF HIS DESTINY AND FOLLOWED MARTHA BACK TO LONDON TO DECLARE HIS UNDYING LOVE FOR HER.

A new adventure awaits as we find them arriving in Shipton Abbott, Martha’s hometown near the beautiful Devonshire coast, having left London. As they embark on their new life whilst temporarily living with Martha’s mum Anne Lloyd (Barbara Flynn), the couple are quickly thrown in at the deep end as Martha sets out to pursue her dream of running her own restaurant and Humphrey joins the local police force. Quickly making an impression on the somewhat eclectic team; DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi), PC Kelby Hartford (Dylan Llewellyn) and Margo Martins (Felicity Montagu), Humphrey sets out to help crack a host of baffling cases, with the Shipton Abbott squad witnessing a whole new approach to police work...

Each week the team will face a new crime with a unique puzzle at its heart. The not-so-sleepy town of Shipton Abbott will be rocked by an entire family disappearing without a trace, a woman claiming she was attacked by a suspect from the seventeenth century, the robbery of a highly prized painting, a body bizarrely discovered in a crop circle and a serial arsonist with a seeming distaste for local businesses.

As Humphrey gets stuck into his new job, he and Martha must also navigate life’s ups and downs, as faces from the past, the decisions they make and challenges of setting up life in a new town put their relationship to the ultimate test.

Created by Robert Thorogood and Tony Jordan, Beyond Paradise is a co-commission between the BBC and BritBox International and is produced by Red Planet Pictures, part of the Asacha Media Group.

Founder and Executive Chairman of Red Planet Pictures, Jordan, acts as showrunner, leading a team of writers – Amy Guyler, Ian Kershaw, Chloë Mi Lin Ewart - working across the 6x60 series. Tony Jordan, Tim Key and Belinda Campbell are executive producers for Red Planet Pictures, and Diederick Santer and Tommy Bulfin are executive producers for BritBox International and BBC respectively. The series is produced by Lindsay Hughes, directed by Sandy Johnson and Matt Carter. BBC Studios brokered the co-production deal with Britbox International and handle international distribution.

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Sophie Goodchild

Published: Nov 12, 2000

Bruised and battered husbands have been complaining for years and now the biggest research project of its kind has proved them right. When it comes to domestic confrontation, women are more violent than men.

The study, which challenges the long-standing view that women are overwhelmingly the victims of aggression, is based on an analysis of 34,000 men and women by a British academic. Women lash out more frequently than their husbands or boyfriends, concludes John Archer, professor of psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and president of the International Society for Research on Aggression.

Male violence remains a more serious phenomenon: men proved more likely than women to injure their partners. Female aggression tends to involve pushing, slapping and hurling objects. Yet men made up nearly 40 per cent of the victims in the cases that he studied - a figure much higher than previously reported.

Professor Archer analysed data from 82 US and UK studies on relationship violence, dating back to 1972. He also looked at 17 studies based on victim reports from 1,140 men and women. Speaking last night, he said that female aggression was greater in westernised women because they were "economically emancipated" and therefore not afraid of ending a relationship.

"Feminist writers say most of the acts against men are not important but the same people have used the same surveys to inflate the number of women who are attacked," he said. "In the past it would not even have been considered that women are violent. My view is that you must base social policy on the whole evidence."

His views are supported by Dr Malcolm George, a lecturer in neuroscience at London University. In a paper to be published next year in the Journal of Men's Studies, Dr George will argue that men have been abused by their wives since Elizabethan times. He uses examples such as the actor John Wayne, beaten by his wife Conchita Martinez, and Humphrey Bogart battered by his wife Mayo Methot, as well as Abraham Lincoln whose wife Mary who broke his nose with a lump of wood.

His research is backed up by historical records which show that men who were beaten by their wives were publicly humiliated in a ceremony called a "skimmington procession". The procession was named after the ladle used to skim milk during cheese making.

Dr George has also unearthed a plaster frieze in Montacute House in Somerset that depicts a wife hitting her husband over the head followed by a "skimmington" ceremony.

"It's a complex argument but we do get more women aggressing against male partners than men against female partners," said Dr George. "The view is that women are acting in self-defence but that is not true - 50 per cent of those who initiate aggression are women. This sends a dangerous message to men because we are saying they are not going to get any legal redress so their option instead is to hit back."

Terrie Moffitt, professor of social behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, admitted that women do engage in abusive behaviour and said the Home Office should fund research into the issue in the UK. "If we ask does women's violence have consequences for their kids then the answer is 'yes'," she said. "There is also an elevated risk of children being victims of domestic violence if there is central violence between parents."

However, Dr Anne Campbell, a psychologist at the University of Durham, said that women should still receive the most support because they were the greater victims of domestic violence. "The outcome of violence is that women are more damaged by it and need the bulk of resources," she said. "But women's violence has become increasingly legitimised. There is a sense now that it's OK to 'slap the bastard'."

==

Question: what motivation does society give women to not be violent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charivari

Charivari (alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called a skimmington) was a European and North American folk custom designed to shame a member of the community, in which a mock parade was staged through the settlement accompanied by a discordant mock serenade.

[..] Skimmingtons are recorded in England in early medieval times and they are recorded in colonial America from around the 1730s. The term is particularly associated with the West Country region of England and, although the etymology is not certain, it has been suggested that it derived from the ladle used in that region for cheesemaking, which was perceived as a weapon used by a woman to beat a weak or henpecked husband. The rationale for a skimmington varied, but one major theme was disapproval of a man for weakness in his relationship with his wife. A description of the custom in 1856 cites three main targets: a man who is worsted by his wife in a quarrel; a cuckolded man who accepts his wife's adultery; and any married person who engages in licentious conduct. To "ride such a person skimmington" involved exposing them or their effigy to ridicule on a cart, or on the back of a horse or donkey. Some accounts describe the participants as carrying ladles and spoons with which to beat each other, at least in the case of skimmingtons prompted by marital discord.

[..] Charivari was sometimes called "riding the 'stang", when the target was a man who had been subject to scolding, beating, or other abuse from his wife. The man was made to "ride the 'stang", which meant that he was placed backwards on a horse, mule or ladder and paraded through town to be mocked, while people banged pots and pans.

We're constantly told that it never happens, and yet history has recorded parties held to mock and harass the victims. Nothing much has changed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12061547/How-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-often-end-up-getting-arrested-themselves.html

Dr McCarrick, said his account was not uncommon adding: “Within my research, the predominant experience is of men being arrested under false charges and their disclosures of being the victim are not taken seriously, despite having evidence.”

[polikszena]

Ficlet advent calendar - December 9

Title: Christmas gifts Fandom: Top Gun: Maverick Characters: Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw Relationships: Hangman & Phoenix, Hangman/Bob Word Count: 925 Rating: Teen and up audiences Songs: Last Christmas by Wham! Summary: Being a notoriously bad gift-giver, Jake "Hangman" Seresin asks Phoenix's opinion on his Christmas present to Bob. However, she doesn't react in the way he has expected it. Notes: This chapter is loosely related to my other Top Gun fic, Dancing on the clouds below. And again, apologies for those who love Last Christmas.

December 9 – Christmas gifts

Natasha “Phoenix” Trace was sitting in the canteen, stirring her coffee, and reading something on her phone when Jake “Hangman” Seresin sat down on the chair next to her. He looked around and once he made sure no-one was watching, he pulled a pyjama set out of his bag: a long-sleeved blue top with snowflakes and reindeer on it. The bottom was a pair of blue and white plaid pants. Phoenix raised a brow, not being sure why he was showing this to her.

“What do you think?” he asked.

“Good morning to you, too, Bagman,” she said then took a sip of her coffee.

“What do you think?” he repeated the question.

He rarely asked for her opinion, and whenever he did, he mocked her for it. However, this time he seemed serious. Not to mention that he didn’t even comment on her calling him ‘Bagman’.

“Are you okay?” Phoenix wondered.

“Of course, why wouldn’t I be?”

“You want my opinion on a Christmas pyjama set,” Phoenix said. “That’s unusual.”

“Do you think Bob would like it?” Hangman wondered.

Phoenix’s eyes widened with surprise, and she had to press her lips together to supress her laughter. A giggle still escaped her mouth.

“What?” he asked.

“Well, it’s definitely the best present you’ve ever got,” Phoenix said with a small smile, knowing that the other aviator was notoriously bad at gift-giving.

She still remembered the soccer ball he gave to Syd Humphrey-Campbell who was at the basketball team of the Base. Or the razor set he had bought for her. Compared to those, the reindeer pyjama set was perfect. Especially because Bob did sleep in pyjamas instead of wearing a pair of boxers. Or nothing at all.

“I know, right?” he grinned at her, gaining back his confidence. “And it’s not the end of it yet!”

“Please tell me you didn’t buy a pair of those thongs that look like a bow,” she sighed, trying not to imagine Hangman in nothing but a big red bow in the crotch area, lying on his bed, chewing on a toothpick.

Oops. Too late. This would haunt me in my sleep, she thought with a grimace.

“No, but that’s actually a good idea,” he smiled and the picture that appeared in Phoenix’s head flashed in his mind as well. Only that he imagined Bob’s reaction to it as well: his blue eyes darkening with desire, his cheeks turning red, then he’d bite on his lower lip as he’d walk to the bed to unwrap his present.

“It’s not,” Phoenix’s voice pulled him back to reality. “Trust me,” she added, struggling with laughter as she saw the dreamy smile on his face.

Most probably Bob would laugh at it, too, Hangman stated in mind. Not in a bad way, though. And afterwards he’d still unwrap the present. The thought made him smile again. No matter what Phoenix said, he might still give it a try.

“What else did you have in mind?” the other aviator asked.

“Check this out!” Hangman pulled out a postcard from his bag.

It had ‘Merry Christmas’ written with colorful letters, and when she opened it, it started playing Last Christmas by Wham! That was the last straw: she couldn’t hold it back any longer and started laughing.

“What?” Hangman asked, genuinely having no idea what was wrong.

“Last Christmas, really?” Phoenix burst out. “Couldn’t you choose any other Christmas song?”

“What’s wrong with it?”

“’Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away?’” Phoenix quoted. “Are you sure you want to give this to Bob?

Hangman thought about it for a moment, and as the lyrics hit him, he realized that giving this card to Bob would be a huge mistake. However, Phoenix wouldn’t have to know this.

“I wanted to send it as a joke,” he said with a small shrug.

“I wouldn’t even send it to my worst enemy,” she admitted. “It’s so horrible. If I were you, I’d choose another postcard,” she told him.

He definitely wanted to, but he wouldn’t have told it to her for the world.

“And what is he getting from you?” he wondered.

Phoenix smiled. He had the perfect answer for that question:

“A pair of red underpants.”

Hangman couldn’t believe his ears.

“What? Why?”

Of all the people, it was him, Hangman, who should give underpants to Bob! He was his boyfriend after all.

“It’s an inside joke,” Phoenix told him, still smiling, then she finished her coffee and got up from the table. “See you around, Bagman!”

“Wait, what inside joke?” he asked, but she was already too far to hear it. Or just didn’t want to.

Actually, it was a reference to the movie Miss Congeniality, one of Phoenix’s favorite films that they watched together not long after they moved into Dolphin 7, the house assigned to them by the Navy. In the film, Miss Rhode Island stole a pair of red panties from the store because her mom refused to buy it, saying those were Satan’s panties. The next day she did a dance number twirling a fire baton and after that Sandra Bullock’s character told her that now she could wear Satan’s panties. That was Bob said to her once she got out of the jet after the mission. However, Hangman didn’t have to know that.

Two days later Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw found a Christmas card in his locker from an unknown sender, and when he opened it, the card started playing Last Christmas.

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch:  “Bonafides”

The basics:  When Lance Hamilton’s partner is murdered, he teams up with Sam and NCIS for justice.

Written by:  Kyle Harimoto wrote “Omni”, “Merry Evasion”, “Chernoff, K”, “Command and Control” as episode 150, “Granger, O.”, “Ghost Gun”, “Kulinda”, “767”, “Se Murio El Payaso”, “Assets”/“Liabilities”, “Venganza”, “Superhuman”, “One of Us" (Lance Hamilton episode), “Let Fate Decide” (season 11 premiere), “Decoy” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Answers” , “Watch Over Me” (Lance Hamilton episode), “Cash Flow” and "Fukushu".   He co-wrote “Three Hearts”, “Leipei”, “Humbug”, both ends of the “Matryoshka” two-parter, “Smokescreen” part two, “Searching” (Lance Hamilton episode), “A Fait Acompli” and “A Tale of Two Igors” (season 12 finale).  

Directed by:  Terrence O’Hara directed "The Only Easy Day”, “Brimstone”, “The Bank Job”, “Borderline”, “Tin Soldiers”, “The Job”, “Backstopped”, “Crimeleon”, “Blye, K.” Part Two, “San Voir” Part Two, “End Game”, “Paper Soldiers”, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Fish Out of Water”, “Blaze of Glory”, “Command and Control” (episode 150), “Matryoshka” Part Two, “Belly of the Beast”, “Payback”, “Mountebank”, “Asesinos”, "Searching", “Yellow Jack”, “Raising the Dead”, “Overdue", "Red Rover, Red Rover" and "All the Little Things".

Guest stars of note: Bill Goldberg returns as DOJ Agent Lance Hamilton for the first time since season 11’s “Watch Over Me”.  Christian George returns from “Head of the Snake” as Henrik Vuksan.  Well-known Navy SEAL Jocko Willink plays Noah “Herbie” Herbert.  Ski Carr as Percy Vander.  Duncan Campbell is back from “Murmuration” as Agent Castor, Cindy Dolenc as Ryan Logue, Traci Belushi as Ms. Wilson, Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund plays Rexford Blake, Gregory Shelby as Scott Reid, Bradley Dodds as Bohdan Amantas, Eugene Young as Navy Seaman Harold Forest, Chris Mathieu as Humphrey and Beckett Gunderson is the latest “Young Callen”.  

Our heroes:   Welcome Lance Hamilton back under sad circumstances.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Staking out a former foster mom.   Sam:  Switch. Kensi:  Not sharing her card with Amantas. Deeks:  Sharing his card with Amantas Fatima: Not around much in this episode. Rountree: Personalizing his desk because he’s sentimental.   Kilbride:  Worried about Sam’s time as Switch.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Reminds Sam that the carport parking spot is a community spot.   Sam:  Reminds Callen that it is his parking spot. Kensi:  Country music fan.   Deeks:  Open to country music but more West Coast fan. Fatima:  Learns to take a man down by the small bones in his wrist. Rountree: Could buy the entire town where he was born for $10 million. Kilbride:  Sharing his Challenge Coin.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  In the back of a limo when young Callen is stolen from his happy foster home.

Who's down with OTP:   Solid hour for America’s sweethearts.

Who's down with BrOTP:  It was the Sam and Lance show today and they’re always good, even in rough times.  The Admiral and Rountree made an entertaining pair.

Fashion review:  Callen wore a pale blue polo – more a Chris O’Donnell look than a G. Callen look.  Sam starts the day in a long-sleeve black tee.  Sam as Switch wears the same tee with a ton of jewelry.  Kensi is wearing a long-sleeve grey and white sweater.  Deeks is in a super pale blue long-sleeve tee-shirt.  Fatima is training in a red and black zip-up jacket.  In the office, she’s wearing a red and white stripped turtleneck under a pale green sweater.  Rountree trains in a long-sleeve green workout shirt.  In the office, he’s wearing a grey hoodie with a black sleeves and a black pouch.  Admiral Kilbride in his typical dark blue three-piece suit with a pale blue

Music:  Kensi and Deeks have “Chicken Fried” by the Zac Brown Band on the radio.

Any notable cut scene:  No.

Quote:  Vuksan:  “This is, like, a big ask. Amantas is never gonna forgive me for - bringing the fuzz to his house.  Never.  Which means I could lose my biggest client.” Deeks:  "Fuzz?" Vuksan:  “You know I had a ten-month plan for going completely legitimate? Then you guys had to walk up the driveway.” Deeks:  “ This guy never stops talking.” Kensi:  “Oh, that's a big statement coming from you.” Deeks:  “That's my point.”

Anything else:  On a parking lot roof, a young man on a skateboard is having some fun until he’s nearly hit by a car as the driver looking for a spot.  Making his way into the parking structure, the skateboarder is also once again nearly hit by a vehicle.  This time it is an SUV leaving a parking space.  The driver yells “hey” to the skaterboy by he’s long gone.  Taking a deep breath, the driver takes a second to steady himself when he’s shot twice in the chest.  The gunman comes up alongside the open driver’s window with his gun drawn.  Reaching into the SUV, the gunman takes a notebook while the driver struggles to breathe.

As the driver is losing consciousness, a sedan races up to his spot.  Lance Hamilton runs over to see “Reid” dying in the car.  Asking about the notebook and the shooting, Hamilton is told in Reed’s dying breath that “Vander” was the shooter.  

Sam pulls up to the office.  He’s arguing with Callen on the phone.  The Admiral told Callen that if he doesn’t use his leave, he’ll lose his leave.  Realizing that Sam isn’t driving, Callen asks if Sam is at work – 20-minutes earlier than usual.  Before Sam can answer, Callen asks if Sam is in so early so he can get his old space back.  “It’s my spot.”  In his car, Callen tells Sam he’s waiting for Anna outside of Eggslut before the two of them go to a motion picture museum.  That’s not true.  Callen is staking out an elderly woman as she gardens.

Driving to the office, Kensi is bopping along to some country music while Deeks is trying to keep an open mind to her driving music choices.  She’s singing along to some Zac Brown Band music, Deeks is wondering why.  Kensi can’t believe he doesn’t like country music.  He reminds her that he grew up totally on the West Coast.  His music of choice is more Sublime, Pennywise, Dr. Dre and Jack Johnson when he feels like he needs to be “herbally enhanced.”

Willing to evolve, he wants to know why this music works for her.  If Deeks was just some rando in a bar, Kensi would tell him that she grew up on military bases where this was the music of choice.  But since he’s not some guy in a bar, she tells him the music just makes her feel good.  She isn’t being told she needs a $3,000 purse to be happy.  The two sing on their way to the office.

In the gym, a hand-to-hand trainer is using Sam as part of a demonstration for Fatima and Rountree.  The trainer wants to see what Fatima can do.  As she engages with Rountree, Sam wanting to see what Rountree can do.  Fatima gets Rountree to the ground and Rountree can’t get up.  The trainer puts a stop to things.  When Rountree is asked what happened, he is explains the tactics Fatima used.  Instead of going after Rountree’s strengths – his arms, his legs, his core – she grabbed the small bones in his wrists and was able to position herself to take him to the ground.  Fatima loved the exercise, she wants to do more like this.  

“Herbie”, the trainer, was a SEAL with Sam.  They would train for 18-months sometimes for one six-month assignment.  The Admiral pops up on the screen and Herbie goes into full sailor mode.  After an “As you were Commander Herbert”, the Admiral was grateful for the training session.  He’d also like to see Sam immediately.  While Sam leaves, Fatima and Rountree continue their work with Herbie.

In the fishbowl office, Lance Hamilton’s ID photo is on the plasma screen.  Sam asks if he’s working with Hamilton.  While he doesn’t have all the details, Hamilton was working a case investigating dirty federal agents.  Yesterday, his partner Scott Reid was killed.  Sam is bothered by this.  It gets worse when the Admiral tells Sam that a target of the investigating was a Percy Vander, an undercover asset when Sam is Switch.   Sam tells the Admiral that Vander was Switch’s mentor who gave Sam the bonafides to work in his criminal enterprise. 

Reviewing the Switch file, the Admiral is impressed with all the good work Sam as Switch got done.  The Admiral asks if the Switch persona is still viable.  Sam isn’t sure – he’d have to check with King.  “I don’t know if she kept quiet on the inside or if she told people who I was.”  Hamilton believes Vander was responsible for Reid’s death.  Sam knows where this is going – Switch would lure Vander out.  The Admiral is worried about the person Sam is and the persona of Switch opened themselves to Vander.  “Can you hunt this man Vander down?”  The Admiral is worried Sam is too invested.  Sam tells the Admiral, “I got this.”

In the boatshed, Sam and Hamilton share greetings.  Sam learns Reid had a two-year old son.  Reviewing the case, there is a notebook with the names of dirty federal agents from Texas, Mississippi and Alabama kept by a wealthy Texas ranch owner with ties to the Dixie Mafia.  The ranch owner died.  His son Luke Gilroy sold the notebook to Reid.  The sale went through without incident – Luke Gilroy was even arrested – but someone came and shot Reid.  As back-up, Hamilton is wrecked that he didn’t make it to Reid in time.  Reid set up the purchase of the notebook in a hurry so no other buyers would be involved.  

Sam asks where Vander fits in all of this.  Hamilton explains Reid’s dying word and asks Sam about Vander.  Saying that Vander was used to launch Switch, Sam tells Hamilton it was his most successful undercover operation ever.  It was a bicostal set-up, New York and LA.  

In Ops, Kensi, Deeks, Fatima and Rountree are reviewing a new case.  Ryan Logue, a civilian airspace engineer at EXEC Aerospace stole highly classified Navy schematics.  Fatima and Rountree aren’t sure what the schematics are for but the thought is that she’s going to sell them to a Ukrainian national named Bohdan Amantas.  He’s been selling legal and illegal weapons for years.   Kensi thinks this is an FBI case.  It would be but Amantas has been in contact with an old friend of NCIS OSP – Henrik Vuksan, “Omni’s man in LA.”  

After Rountree is brought up to speed on Vuksan’s past with NCIS, Rountree shares that Vuksan is now out of prison on parole for over a year.  The FBI wants to know if Vuksan is involved.  Is he helping Amantas buy the schematics or is using Amantas as a go-between to buy the schematics for Omni.  Using social media, Fatima found Vuksan in a pricy neighborhood.  Everyone stunned by the pricy real estate – Rountree thinks $10 million would buy the entire town where he was born.  “Welcome to LA” is Fatima’s reply.  

Checking with King, and admitting to Hamilton that he has some history with “Dana”, Sam tells Hamilton that King did not blow his cover.  Hamilton asks if Sam trusts her.  “We have no choice but to trust her.”   Working on the plan, Sam tells Hamilton that Vander has a big personality that covers a very calculating man.  Thinking that Sam as Switch is working out of Mexico City, Vander won’t trust Switch just showing up.  Sam thinks he as to get something done for Switch instead.

Outside a mansion, Vuksan is showing around possible buyers, pointing out the features of the home.  The buyers aren’t impressed.  They had four “must haves” and the house only has three of them.  Saying that the house is priced accordingly, the other real estate agent working with Vuksan calls the buyer friendly price “Grand Theft Mansion”

As the possible buyers drive off, Kensi and Deeks arrive.  He recognizes them immediately, saying “NCIS!”.  His real estate agent buddy thinks NCIS is a “tacky” real estate firm in the Valley.  Kensi pulls her badge and Vuksan decides to send real estate agent buddy Rexford back to his office.  Before he leaves, Rexford asks if Kensi and Deeks are looking for house.  Deeks asks for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house near the beach.  Rexford has a fixer-upper for $3.7 million.  Kensi and Deeks have shocked faces.  Rexford leaves, Vuksan wants to talk.

As the older woman leaves her house, Callen flashes back to a holiday with her.  They are making cookies with a Christmas tree behind decorations all over the house.  Ms. Wilson is proud of Callen’s cooking-making skills.  He’s likely 12.  Back in the present, he watches her get in her car and drive off.  Callen follows.

In Sam’s car, Hamilton wants to know what’s the plan.  Vander, Sam explains, has made his name by providing protection for illegal shipments throughout LA.  Never lost one.  Hamilton thinks that’s a “lucrative market to have cornered.”  Sam agrees but there is a new young crew – a Korean biker gang – looking to infringe of Vander’s territory.  Hamilton thinks they are going to team up with the crew to go after Vander.  No, Sam tells him, “we’re gonna rob ‘em.”  Hamilton likes it.

Ready to go, Sam is getting geared up as Switch – lots of gold chains, a big gold watch, a black puffer coat – as Hamilton gets into place.  

Arriving at their desks, Rountree asks Fatima if she found Ryan Logue.  She has not.  Rountree is holding a football – one he was awarded in college as the game ball.  He is going to put it on his desk.  Fatima thinks it is cute he’s personalizing his workspace.  “Maybe I’m just more sentimental than you.”  Fatima gets a hit on Logue’s ATM card – she maxed out her daily withdrawal limit.  There is a hotel next to the ATM.  Rountree is going to check it out with Castor, Fatima is going to talk to the Admiral about the case.

As members of the Korean gang leave their HQ, Sam as Switch pulls up.  He speaks Korean to the leader – Sang.  Sang wants to do some business with Switch.  Things have changed since Switch left town.  Sam says he knows Sang and his men are moving on Vander’s business.  Thinking Vander is an old man, Sang wants to move on.  Sam doesn’t so he pulls his gun on the four gang members.  The gang members are also armed with pistols.  Hamilton shows up with a much bigger gun than any of them are carrying so Sang orders his men to put their weapons down.   Taking away their ill-gotten games, Sam and Hamilton clean out the gang members.  When Sam and Hamilton leave, the gang members all jump on their motorcycles to follow.  Hamilton chained them all to a wall – nobody is going to follow.

Walking from the mansion, Vuksan explains that he’s done with Omni, he’s opened a new chapter in his life.  Omni gives him contacts and money to buy LA real estate with cash, everything is on the up-and-up according to Vuksan.  When Kensi asks about Bohdan Amantas, Vuksan is evasive until  he admits Amantas is a real estate client looking for two homes.  Deeks asks if Vuksan is supplementing his income by selling military secrets.  Vuksan says he makes far more selling real estate than he ever would selling military secrets.  Kensi and Deeks are enlisting Vuksan to help them find Amantas.  

In the Armory (was Hamilton ever in the super-secret office before?  That goes for Herbie too – this place should be on the Hollywood Map of Stars at this point), Sam and Hamilton document their ill-gotten, ill-gotten gains for evidence.  Sam is sure Vander had to hear about the robbery when his phone rings – Vander wants to meet with Switch.

In interrogation, the Admiral relieves Castor as Ryan Logue is sitting on the wrong side of the table.  Rountree remains.  Logue finds being detained ridiculous.  She’s in a hurry to leave. Reviewing a file, the Admiral asks why she checked into a hotel not far from her home.  Claiming her neighbors were doing construction, she wanted to get some sleep.  The Admiral asks if she needed to sleep so much that she didn’t report to work in two-days.  She tells him yes.  Rountree asks why didn’t she contact the office and tell them she was sick. She wasn’t sick, just tired.   She can’t believe she’s been brought in to answer these questions.  

Closing the file, the Admiral asks if she’d rather speak about Navy Special Warfare N9 schematics?  Saying there is a lot of physics and engineering involved, Logue doesn’t thinks the Admiral or Rountree did more than state schools with undergrad degrees so she doesn’t think they’ll understand.  Rountree chuckles.  The Admiral stands and tells Logue, “I don’t think this is a day you’re going to remember fondly.”

Hamilton asks about Vander and Sam talks about the good times he had with Vander.  Telling Sam that if Vander was involved in Reid’s death, he needs to know Sam has his back.  Sam does.

The older woman is reading in the park with Callen watching from his car.  Callen once again flashes back to time with Ms. Wilson reading “The Wizard of Oz” to him with a fire going in the fireplace.

As Logue paces around the interrogation room, Rountree asks the Admiral how long are they going to “sweat” her out.  The Admiral says answers a while – Logue is a thinker.  Rountree mentions the FBI has proof she’s been downloading the schematics.  She has but they can talk to her about that down the road.  He’s happy to wait until they have proof she was trying to sell the schematics.  As a thinker, the Admiral thinks Logue is going over everything she said to them to find the perfect answer to her dilemma.  Logue looks into the security camera in interrogation and tells them she’s willing to talk.

Walking down a pier with the drugs stolen from the Korean gang, Sam hears from Hamilton that he’s in the overwatch vehicle in about 30-seconds.  On his boat, Vander sees Switch and welcomes him back to LA – he already heard about the robbery.  Sam as Switch isn’t happy that someone is muscling in on Vander’s territory.  Switch asks permission to come on board the boat – permission is granted.

In the Audi, Vuksan is complaining about what he’s been asked to do – bringing the “Fuzz” to Amantas’s house.  Vuksan could lose his biggest client.  Deeks chuckles at “Fuzz”.  Luskin goes on about his 10-month plan to go legit and Deeks has had enough of his talking.  Kensi thinks that is funny coming from Deeks.  Deeks thinks that’s the point.  Vuksan complains that working with law enforcement is making it harder for  him to go legit.  

On the boat, Sam and Vander are sharing some champagne on the top deck of the boat, talking about Switch’s business in Mexico City.  There is a bodyguard nearby Vander and a woman in bikini near the bodyguard.  Vander wants to hear more about Switch’s business and drink some more champagne.  

Logue admits to downloading the schematics, which the Admiral says they already have proof of her actions.  Rountree asks Logue how she thinks she’ll survive in federal prison.  She asks what they want?  Bohdan Amantas is the answer.  Crying, Logue says she met Amantas after a night in a sports bar.  He threatened her – if she didn’t steal the schematics, they’d kill her family.  Her only family is her father, who lives in a care facility in Minnesota – Shore Lake - that Logue doesn’t know its address.  Barely knows the name.  As the Admiral leaves, he asks her what game was she watching at the sports bar.  She talks about the Minnesota Wild.

Outside of interrogation, the Admiral knows the Minnesota Wild didn’t play that week.  Checking out Shore Lake, Rountree finds it is a hospice.  Everyone there is already dying.  The Admiral thinks Logue believes she enhanced her story with the details.  She just made it easier to take her story apart.  

In a  park, Amantas is sparring with a trainer and two bodyguards watching him.  Kensi, Deeks, Vuksan approach and introduce themselves.  Amantas dismisses his bodyguards and ends Vuksan’s crime-free future by firing him as his real estate agent.  Vuksan is dismissed by Amantas – offering him sushi with the bodyguards - leaving him with just Kensi and Deeks.  

Kensi asks Amantas about Ryan Logue.  He doesn’t know why he’d have to answer until Deeks brings up the three homes Amantas has in escrow.  If Amantas doesn’t keep them busy with answers to their questions, they’ll be busy looking to see where Amantas got the money to buy the houses.  Deeks is going to need tax returns for the last three years.

Told that he threatened Logue if she didn’t steal the schematics, Amantas tells a different story.  Logue contacted him, not the other way around.  Amantas’s people shut her down – they don’t do business with people they don’t know.  Kensi and Deeks asks why should they believe Amantas story and not Logue’s?  Asking if NCIS has good computer people – they do – Amantas provides a site on the dark web for them to investigate.  Logue is open for business.  As they’re about to leave, Amantas wants Kensi’s card in case he remembers anything useful.  He gets Deeks’s card instead before Deeks grabs some sushi with Vuksan and the bodyguards.

Laughing and having a good time, Vander wants to do right by Switch for helping with the Korean gang.  Sam asks about the notebook – he wants in.  It would be a big help for his business in Mexico.  Vander is unhappy – he liked Switch, he trusted Switch.  Another bodyguard appears and they pull their weapons on Sam.  Hamilton does not have a shot.  

When Vander orders his bodyguards to search Sam, the one who approaches gets knocked out by Sam for his trouble.  The movement allows Hamilton to take out the other bodyguard.  Sam runs after Vander, who went to the lower deck.  Sam approaches Vander, telling him to put the gun down.  Saying that only the police knew he had the book, Vander won’t go down like this.  Sam offers to help while Hamilton tries to get a shot on Vander but can’t.  Vander accuses Sam of being a cop.  Sam tries to warn Vander that there is a sniper waiting for him to move – surrender and he’ll live.  “I loved you like a son, how are you going to do me like that?” Vander asks.  Sam asks Vander to put the gun down again.  Vander walks into Hamilton’s line of sight and raises his gun.  Hamilton makes his shot.

As Vander dies, Sam holds his hands.

Fatima confirms Amantas’s story.  Logue was selling the schematics on the dark web but not having much success.  Thinking that she did the hard part by stealing the schematics, Logue didn’t understand that criminals don’t go into business with people they don’t know.  Deeks wants Fatima to call the Admiral and tell him what is going on.  

Asking if NCIS looked after her dad, the Admiral tells Logue they didn’t even try.  Rountree says everything she told them was a lie.  Logue tries to sell being railroaded – this is why everyone hates law enforcement.  The Admiral is pretty sure not everyone hates them.  He also wants her copies of the schematics she stole since she approached Bohdan Amantas not the other way around.  He’s willing to go on the record for that.  Rountree is feeling pretty good about his state university undergraduate degree.

At the docks, Sam watches the EMTs wheel Vander’s body away.  Hamilton says he’s sorry but Sam blames himself for getting so attached to Vander.  Hamilton thinks that’s what makes Sam a human being.  While listing what Vander did  and his plans for taking the names of the dirty feds from the notebook and make them work for him, Hamilton gets a call.  The DoJ found the notebook in Vander’s Tarzana apartment.  Sam admits Vander’s death hurts.  Hamilton understands.

Packing up his gear, Herbie is greeted by the Admiral.  Explaining he can only take LA in 30-hour chunks, he’s is returning to San Diego.  The Admiral agrees.  Herbie is grateful for the opportunity the Admiral offered his new training company.  Herbie has put a lot of his family’s money into getting the company off the ground.  The Admiral stops the thank you’s.  After Ramadi, the Admiral can’t do enough for Herbie.  NCIS will be employing Herbie’s company for all of the agents under the Admiral’s command and the Director plans to roll it out to all offices.  Herbie is thrilled.  The Admiral gives Herbie his Challenge Coin.

At night, Callen is still watching the older woman in her home from his car.  In a flashback, Callen is being removed from Ms. Wilson’s care.  He’s crying.  The man taking young Callen from Ms. Wilson wants him to meet someone – Henrietta.

What head canon can be formed from here:  I’ll stop complaining about the Callen backstory debacle at some point but not today.  Early episodes had Callen moving from place to place sometimes only last a day or two but he blanked out on Ms. Wilson whose kindness and decency would be the thing you think he’d remember.  Earlier this season Callen had memories of a foster father who built furniture and let Callen help but a woman who seemed to genuine care for him is only now a memory.  Feh.

The cases of the week mirrored each other.  Sam as Switch was able to work his way right back into Vander’s trust circle by once again proving his worth.  Logue could not get Amantas to give her a second of his time because there was no trust there.

Episode number:  This is the Munsters episode – 1313 (season 13, episode 13).  It is episode 293 overall.1  

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first dance to come to mind when you hear these words? back, effect, version, hill, love

Oo I love anons!!

Back - Mariah Humphrey It's All Coming Back To Me Now

Effect- Campbell Clark- Scarlett Effect

Version- I honestly don't know

Hill- Maya Zevulonv- The Climb (You Climb Hills)

Love- Berk- L-O-V-E