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New to Hallmark Movies Now - November

November 

Redemption in Cherry Springs (2021)  Starring Rochelle Aytes, Keith D. Robinson, and Frankie Faison.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries 

Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe (2016)   Starring Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven, Lisa Durupt, Gabriel Hogan, Juliana Wimbles, Toby Levins, Kristen Robek, and Viv Leacock.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 4 of 5 

Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder in D Minor (2018)  Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strane, Steve Bacio, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, and Matthew Harrison.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / movie 15 of 16 

Garage Sale Mysteries: Search & Seized (2019)  Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strane, Steve Bacio, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, Matthew Harrison, Johannah Newmarch, and April Telek.  Movie 16 of 16 

Baby, It’s Cold Outside (2021)  Starring Jocelyn Hudon and Steve Lund.  Hallmark Channel 

Mystery 101: An Education in Murder (2020)  Starring Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha, Robin Thomas, Preston Vanderslice, Caitlin Stryker, David Jame Lewis, and Steve Bacic.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 5 of 7 

Just in Time for Christmas (2015)  Starring Eloise Mumford, Michael Stahl-David, Christopher Llyod, and William Shatner.  Hallmark Channel / Hallmark Hall of Fame / Countdown to Christmas 

The Christmas Secret (2014)  Starring Bethany Joy Lenz, John Reardon, and Susan Hogan.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / The Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas 

Paper Angels (2014)  Starring Josie Gresiuk and Matthew Settle.  UPtv 

A Holiday in Harlem (2021)  Starring Olivia Washington, Tina Lifford, and Will Adams.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

November 2 

Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery (2020)  Starring Dylan Neal, Brooke V+Burns, Matthew Kevin Anderson, and Bruce Boxleitner.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 5 of 5 

Our Christmas Love Song (2019)  Starring Alicia Witt and Brendan Hines.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

The Perfect Catch (2017)  Starring Nikki DeLoach and Andrew Walker.  Hallmark Channel / Spring Fling 

Christmas Encore (2017)  Starring Maggie Lawson and Brennan Elliott.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / The Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas 

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Presents: the Ghosts of Christmas Eve The Best of Two and More 

A Cookie Cutter Christmas (2014)  Starring Erin Krakow, Miranda Frigon, David Haydn-Jones, Jill Morrison, and Lara Soltis.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

November 3 

Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday (2021)  Starring Kimberly Williams-Paisly, Ashley Williams, Mark Deklin, Keith D. Robinson, and Kevin Nealon.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas / Movie 1 of 2 

Christmas in Dollywood (2019)  Starring Danica McKellar, Niall Matter, Krystal Lowe, and Dolly Parton.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019)  Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Lexa Doig, Marilu Henner, Peter Benson, Miranda Frigon, Dylan Sloane, Ellie Harvie, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Kristen Robek, and Matthew James Dowden.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Movie 12 of 18 

Once Upon a Christmas Miracle (2018)  Starring Aimee Teegarden, Brett Dalton, Lolita Davidovich, and Steve Basic.  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries / Miracles of Christmas 

A Gingerbread Romance (2018)  Starring Tia Mowry-Housley-Hardrict, Duane Henry, and Giles Panton.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Three Weeks, Three Kids (2011)  Starring Anna Chlumsky and Warren Christie.  Hallmark Channel 

Holiday Engagement (2011)  Starring Bonnie Somerville, Jordan Bridges, Shelley Long, Sam McMurray, and Haylie Duff.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

Love, Of Course (2018)  Starring Kelly Rutherford and Cameron Mathison.  Hallmark Channel / Fall Harvest 

November 10 

Christmas in Harmony (2021)  Starring Ashleigh Muray, Luke James, and Loretta Devine.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

November 17 

Under the Autumn Moon (2018)  Starring Lindy B both and We Brown.  Hallmark Channel / Fall Harvest 

A Christmas Melody (2015)  Starring Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Kathy Najimy, and Mariah Carey.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls (2021)  Starring Robert Buckley, Ana Ayora, Jonathan Bennett, Brad Harder, Treat Williams, Sharon Lawrence, Michelle Harrison, Matthew James Dowden, and Teryl Rothery.  Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Christmas 

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The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Four, edited by Christopher Philippo, Valancourt Books, 2020. Info: valancourtbooks.com.

A Valancourt Yuletide tradition returns, this time with rare 19th-century tales from U.S. newspapers and magazines. The Christmas ghost story tradition is usually associated with Charles Dickens and Victorian England, but-apparently unknown to historians and scholars-Christmas ghost stories were extremely widespread and popular in 19th-century America as well, frequently appearing in newspapers and magazines during the holiday season. From legends of old New Orleans and strange happenings on the plains of Iowa and the Dakota Territory to weird doings in early Puerto Rico and ghostly events in Gold Rush-era San Francisco, the tales collected here reveal a forgotten Christmas ghost story tradition in a bygone America that is both familiar and oddly foreign. This collection features eighteen stories and nine poems, including entries by women and African American writers, plus extra bonus material and an introduction by Christopher Philippo. “He turned and beheld a low black figure, with a body no higher than his knees, with a prodigious head, in the brow of which was set a single eye of green flame like a shining emerald, and with hands and arms of supernatural length.” — J. H. Ingraham, “The Green Huntsman; or, The Haunted Villa” “The latch lifted​, the door swung open​-and then​-my God! what a spectacle! Through the open door there stepped a figure, not of Mrs. Hayden, not of her corpse, not of death, but a thousand times more horrible​, a thing of corruption, decay, of worms and rottenness.” — Anonymous, “Worse than a Ghost Story”

Contents: Introduction – Christopher Philippo The Green Huntsman (1841) – Joseph Holt Ingraham Burt Pringle and the “Bellesnickle” (1853) – Bill Bramble Worse Than a Ghost Story  (1857) – Anonymous The Christmas Ghost  (1857) – Lucy A. Randall The Frozen Husband  (1869)  – Frank Ibberson Jervis A Sworn Statement (1881) – Emma Frances Dawson The Snow Flower of the Sierras (1884) – Anonymous The Devil’s Christmas  (1885) – Julian Hawthorne Harlakenden’s Christmas (1887) – Thomas Wentworth Higginson The Ghostly Christmas Gift (1887)  – F.H. Brunell The Blizzard (1888) – Luke Sharp Warned by the Wire (1895) – Louis Glass Poor Jack (1892) – H.C. Dodge Christmas Wolves (1897) – Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi The Werwolves (1898) – Henry Beaugrand The Haunted Oak (1900) – Paul Laurence Dunbar The Anarchist’s Christmas (1901) – Anonymous Camel Bells (1903) – Hezekiah Butterworth The Ravings  (1903) – Anonymous Out of the Depths  (1904) – Robert W. Chambers Old Nick and Saint Nick (1906) – Wallace Irwin The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) – Robert W. Service Xmas (1908) – Amorel Sterne A Cubist Christmas (1913) – Kate Masterson Desuetude: A Ghost Story (1914) – Anonymous The Christmas Ghost (1915) – Anna Alice Chapin Merry Christmas  (1917) – Stephen Leacock

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My Ideal Bionicle Game

This might be a long post... Strap in!

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Since November 14 of 2006, I have always loved Bionicle games. I went back and played Bionicle Heroes again and thought to myself: "What if I were to redesign the game for modern day, as if Bionicle never ended?"

Well, that's the reason I'm making this post. I want to come up with a concept for a Bionicle game that should've happened if Bionicle never ended and still ran on.

So let's state the obvious, I don't own the Lego Corp or have a license to create such game. I do not own Eidos or the other companies responsible for the release of many of the Bionicle and Lego videogames.

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The Story and Plot

So, when I thought about the previous games in Bionicle history, and the more recent Phone app: Mask of Creation, I never seemed to think about what the story might be. But I settled on a list and chose from the top listed, biases aside.

I chose:

. The Voya Nui saga

. The Mahri Nui saga

. The Phantoka/Mistika saga

I chose these because it is the most consistent piece of stoeytelling Bionicle ever did. The Ignition trilogy would make an absolutely great and lengthy game, plus the characters would flourish and lots of old story plots would be tied together, like the Dark Hunters and the Piraka or The story of Karzahni.

I also planned on making this game follow the canon story instead of the goofy storyline in Bionicle Heroes. This would be canon in the sense that it would start at the arc where the Toa, Turaga and Matoran have all migrated BACK to Metru Nui, and there on into the Voya Nui story and so on, following exactly how it was supposed to go. This would also have to be said that some items in the game would obviously be either non canon or simply created to add story and character. It's the case with a lot of games.

The Type of Gameplay

I want the gameplay to not just be action, but semi-open world, where Rahi thrive and the island of Voya Nui is completely explorable, almost like Skyrim but on a MUCH smaller scale. In terms of how the actual combat would play out, it would be a mix of third person shooter and Hack and Slash, using the weapons given to the various Toa as either a gun/launcher (whatever you wanna call it) and a sword or other tool, with some differences now and then because exceptions such as Toa Mask powers, Mental attacks, eye beams from Thok/the other piraka etc.

I feel like this style of gameplay fits the game better as we never really played around the Island or explored to a big extent in Bionicle Heroes or the Original Bionicle the Game. I feel giving the world a more fleshed out and large scale would be better for exploration, which obviously would be heavily relied on.

If you can't the already, I'm kinda using different examples of games to form my thesis here, for example: the open world concept was taken from Far Cry, the gun kata from Devil May Cry, and obviously enough the story from Bionicle.

I also would make no random boss battles by high level enemies, nothing early on like Brutaka or Vezon. If a mini boss comes around, such as maybe Umbra or Irnakk or some kinda big rahi, then it would make more sense to fight it.

There would be a level system for each character, where as you proceed in the levels, you unlock better upgrades and adjustments such as Sharpness for blades or more control for your Kanohi. Your character would also have a bar for health, stamina and Energy, which is crucial in some characters.

Your character would also write in a journal, visible through an in-game tab or notification. These would just be simple ramblings or story pieces or cool references. They would also write down the creatures they have fought or defeated, their stats and the like. This is also where you can change the currently selected Armour, weapons and Attack setup.

Your setup looks like this

Basic attack: Sword swings, jabs, punches, etc.

Power attack: Sword blasts, laser fire, eye beams etc

Advanced attack: Mask Powers and or weapon powers not present.

Elemental Attack: an Attack relating to your element. For water, it's a torrent of water that runs with your energy bar, the longer you use it the more Energy it takes up.

However, each Toa can only have their current Kanohi in that part of the story, for example: you can't give Kongu Mahri Nuparus Inika mask (despite the fact he deserves it). But, each can be upgraded with different abilities, such as sonar pulses or extra attack power.

The Voice Actors

I'm not asking for a lot of high value actors, but have selected a few notable ones.

The Toa Nuva

. Tahu - his Mask of Light actor

. Gali - Emily Rose (Uncharted 4)

. Pohatu - Chris Hemsworth (Thor)

. Onua - Idris Elba

. Lewa - Kevin Miller (Sly Cooper)

. Kopaka - Nolan North (Uncharted 4)

The Inika/Mahri Toa

. Jaller - Andrew Francis, his original voice actor

. Hahli - Kate Higgins (Sakura in Naruto)

. Hewkii - Matt Mercer (MCree from Overwatch)

. Kongu - Ryan Reynolds

. Nuparu - Warren Kole (also Uncharted 4)

. Matoro - Alessandro Juliani (Vakama in the original LOMN movie)

The Piraka

Zaktan - Darin Da Paul (Reinhardt in Overwatch)

Reidak - Christopher L. Parson (Junkrat in Overwatch)

Thok - Courtney Leacock (From the Island of Doom fan movie and yes, is perfect for the role)

Hakann - Noah Productions (The creator of that Movie, and who I think fits the character)

Avak - Jackson Trent (Again from that movie bc he fit the character so well)

Vezok - Fred Tatasciore (Soldier 76, Nikolai from Call of Duty)

Not including Vezon bc he is a boss character.

The Barraki

Kalmah - Jeremy Davies (Baldur from God of War 2018)

Takadox - Michael Dobson (Pythor from Ninjago)

Karapar - Josh Petersdorf (Roadhog from Overwatch)

Mantax - Kevin Silverstein (Torbjorn from Overwatch)

Ehlek - Paul Dobson (Nhidiki from LOMN)

Pridak - Noah Productions (again)

The Makuta

. Chirox - Paul Dobson

. Vamprah - Steve Blum (Star scream)

. Antroz - Warren Blackie (From the same movie as Noah Productions)

Not including Teridax bc he's a boss character

The Titans/Boss Battle Characters

Axonn - Christopher Judge (Kratos in God of War 2018)

Brutaka - Mark Oliver (Garmadon from Ninjago)

Umbra - Warren Kole

Irnakk - Scott McNeal (The Overlord from Ninjago)

Karzahni - Jeremy Davies

Vezon - Steve Blum

Teridax - Christopher Judge

The Matoran

Garan - The voice of Matoran Onewa (From LOMN)

Balta - Nolan North

Piruk - Yoshihisa Kawahara (Genji from Overwatch)

Kazi - Jackson Trent

Velika - Yoshihisa Kawahara

Dalu - Cherami Leigh Kuehn (Lucy from Fairy Tail)

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and that's it! Obviously not the best idea ever, but I wanted to jot it down bc it's a pretty cool idea to have an actual canon Bionicle game, and I like to think of the future.

Thanks for reading!

[drlibertybell]

Non-TT peeps coming to AAA

Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant 2017

Submission deadline: September 1st, 2017

In 2013, SANA introduced a new prize, the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Award. Building on SANA’s history of support for those whose work and/or identities places them outside the disciplinary mainstream, this prize provides support for conference travel for the rapidly increasing number of scholars who labor in positions outside the tenure-track system.

Eligible candidates for the award include independent scholars and contingent and community college faculty (details below). To apply, submit your paper abstract, university affiliation, and contact information to Alaka Wali (awali@fieldmuseum.org) or Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz (rgombergmunoz@luc.edu)  by September 1st, 2017. Please also include a brief summary – no more than 100 words – illustrating that your current employment is in accordance with the award’s guidelines (see below).

About the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant

This grant honors Eleanor “Happy” Leacock’s outstanding career as an independent scholar and her labor as a semi-employed faculty member prior to securing full-time employment at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1972, she was appointed Professor and Chair of Anthropology at City University of New York’s City College, where she was instrumental in rebuilding the department. Leacock simultaneously assumed her position at CUNY’s Graduate Faculty, training and inspiring a new generation of activist anthropologists.

Submissions should relate to the study of North America and, in keeping with Leacock’s contributions to feminist, urban, and activist anthropology, address issues of inequality based on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and/or sexuality. The first recipients of the award were Pem Buck (Elizabethtown Community and Technical College) and Christopher Carrico (Independent Scholar), who attended the spring 2013 SANA meetings in Durham, NC. Independent Scholar, Leni M. Silverstein, received the Leacock Award for travel to the 2013 AAA meetings in Chicago.

Additional guidelines:

Applicants must work as Independent Scholars, as faculty at community colleges, and/or in a contingent capacity for a college or university. This includes part-time instructors, adjunct instructors, and full-time, non-tenure-track instructors.

This travel grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of members from the SANA board. SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages everyone eligible to apply for this grant regardless of society’s labels or anthropology’s disciplinary boundaries.

However, applicants must be SANA members presenting at the current year’s AAA conference. Please find information about how to join here: http://www.sananet.org/about-sana/

Since the SANA St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant funds currently enrolled graduate students, they are ineligible for this grant, even if they meet the qualifications.

Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual more than once.

Preference will be given to those who have applied in the past and have not yet received a Leacock Award.

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“Technologists and creatives have to work hand in hand” Christopher Leacock music producer @majorlazer - talking about The business of being creative during #WebSummit2018 @websummit (presso Websummit Lisbon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwHzGSsFQGA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17u21l0fpc6be

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BARBADOS (Naked Departure) — LAST WEEK IN PHOTOS from Barbados and around the world!   Naked Departure

Andrew Foster

ac/dc Deleon Ward

ac/dc Deleon Ward

ac/dc Deleon Ward

Caribbean Export Development Agency and its Executive Director Pamela Coke Hamilton and her management bringing the organization into disrepute

A jaundice-looking Leacock, Guyanese running things in Barbados

Bullying is part of Barbadian Culture

Lord Evil marries

Lord Evil marries….–not her though….

Christopher King, Kiddie Porn PRIEST

Hope Hamilton

Travel ban overturned by Federal Court. Appeals court upheld court’s decision.

Tabari–Got a young teenager pregnant?

Can you vouch for her?

Can you vouch for her?

Can you vouch for her?

Chante Natasha Yarde decided to hang herself. The lack of more suicides in Barbados show how people can get accustomed to mediocrity

Delacey Walters raped his gf’s three daughters. They were under 10 years of age.

Photos on Chante Yarde’s page

re: Chante Natasha Yarde

Ryan Spencer Delano Coppin, accused rapist

Ryan Antonio Oneal Bullen admitted to killing 14 year old Kalifa Downes

Barbados under Spirtual Curse

Damian Edmund’s obsession with underage boys

Omarosa foot injury in WH?

Little savages

Poor Cheryl, her watch is not up to snuff! Cheryl Broome Webster

Kekesweetss drama

Michael Edwards REST IN HELL!!! GOOD RIDDANCE!!

Michael Omar Edwards — GO TO HELL!! GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!

Nordstrom drops Ivanka Trump’s line

Shineka Gray 15, killed in Montego Bay

Tameisha scantlebury Massy Card Service. Blog was so vulgar it was not posted, but you need to play fair with people

Tameisha scantlebury Massy Card Service needs to play fair with people — Blog was too vulgar to be published

Jamel Layne, Porn Star, at work in Barbados

Jamel Layne porn star

Jamel Layne

Jan and Cyndi Oster — Robbed in Barbados

Tracia Nicole Eastmond Pounder — keep an eye on her and your money

Why are some children in South Africa not dying from AIDS?

Salters accident

Salters accident

Salters accident

Salters accident

GIS — workers who sexually abused child under their care

Barbadians reduced to eating Ramen and sardines

Ramen Noodles is not FOOD

Ramen Noodles=Poison

Bajan jockey drama

Bajan jockey drama

Bajan jockey drama

Bajan jockey drama

Bajan jockey drama

Bajan jockey drama

Richard ‘Rickey’ Parris’ Memorial Service

Prisoners used as training property for dogs

Grave digger Sharon. The child belongs to the grave digger!!!!

Jason Leacock police constable

Lisa Kerri Ann Koeiman

Lisa Kerri Ann Koeiman

Tamron Hall FIRED

Winston Errol Bovell RAPIST

Paul Maxwell, BPWCCUL and Capita Financial – CORRUPTION

Guyanese women breeding for Bajan men.

Pastor Jermaine Gibson accused of having sex with 12 year old girl. Jamaica

The Thornes from Salisbury, St. George

The Thornes from Salisbury, St. George

BARBADOS: TRANSPORT BUS turns over in ST. PHILIP and one person from CHRIST CHURCH was on board. Driver was hurt.

Street Vendors

Fatal accident in Barbados

Dave McGregor and Johann Greaves, Canada/Barbados Light & Power

Last King and KekeSweetss

Lastking and Kekesweetss

Lastking and Kekesweetss

Lastking and Kekesweetss

Lastking and Kekesweetss

Michael Howard’s book, The Development of Barbados, charts novel territory.

Owen Arthur

Lieutenant Colonel Glyne Sinatra Grannum, BDF’s new chief

Darien Harewood

Ryan Trevor Clegg, 43, Evil 8 — Pedophile

Shane Campbell, 26, SAVAGE JAMAICAN, killed 3-year old for soiling herself

Jermaine Simmons caught inside man’s wife

Grave digger drama

adriel brathwaite, fire HIM, fire THEM

Ally Yates weak link. YOU ARE FIRED!!!!

Blair Richards accused rapist

Kerri-Ann Greaves, maneater

Kerri-Ann Greaves, maneater

Peter Harris and Human Trafficking

In love with my dentist

Kerry Forde

Kerry Forde

Sasha

Sasha

Blair Richards, Serial Rapist, Barbados

Deadbeat woman who breed for deadbeat man

Dexter, deadbeat father

Kathy Bailey

Allan Foster has a 15 y/o boy

Patrick Bennett cheap bulle

Chron Atkins

Condom Mishap

Orville Roachford, doctor and Rapist

Magic Johnson has talk for trump

Trump in the White House

Trump Tower

Magic Johnson’s son

Thankfully, his father was rich

Donald Trump’s children

Mercy Mokeira, Miss World Kenya, dead at 23 from unknown disease

Miss Haiti at Miss Universe

Miss Haiti

Miss Universe 2017, Miss France

Miss Barbados – LOSER

Miss Kenya at Miss Universe

Miss Haiti at Miss Universe

Terror attack in Canada

Pig head left outside of Islamic Centre after terror attack in Quebec City, Canada

David Ramsey in QEH, Barbados

David Ramsey was in QEH, Barbados

David Ramsey in QEH, Barbados

Blood on the floor

Dylan and Dylano

FOUR DEAD The three Vincentian victims of this morning’s fatal crash. From left, 19-year-old Aziza Awanna Dennie, 18-year-old Carianne Lee-New Padmore and 17-year-old …

FOUR DEAD: Andre Jabarry Gittens

FOUR DEAD The three Vincentian victims of this morning’s fatal crash. From left, 19-year-old Aziza Awanna Dennie, 18-year-old Carianne Lee-New Padmore and 17-year-old …

Kayla

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wickham

Four dead

Four dead

THE LIST: Andrew Foster

Richard Sealy – Slave Economy not working!!!!

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Collision and Jillionaire

Jillionaire

3 May 2018; Christopher Leacock, Major Lazer, on the Musicnotes stage during day three of Collision 2018 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Collision via Sportsfile

A new Collision is rapidly approaching, and the events of Collisions past seem to pale in what Collision 2020 in Toronto offerings. In preparation, my recollections went…

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JILLIONAIRE ABANDONA MAJOR LAZER

JILLIONAIRE ABANDONA MAJOR LAZER

El hasta ahora miembro del trío de dancehall americano, de nombre Christopher Leacock, ha decidido seguir su propio camino y dejar Major Lazer para enfocarse en sus proyectos en solitario.

A poco tiempo de la salida del cuarto y último álbum de Major Lazer, “Music is the Weapon”, la salida de Jillionaire presenta una nueva era para el grupo, permitiendo la llegada del americano Eric Alberto…

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How to become a tech star according to Christopher Leacock a.k.a Jillionaire

The Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn talks to Christopher Leacock (a.k.a. Jillionaire of Major Lazer) at the Collision Conference about what it takes to launch a successful startup. Read More from Financial Post http://bit.ly/2wepyQr via IFTTT Blogger Mortgage Tumblr Mortgage Evernote Mortgage Wordpress Mortgage href="https://www.diigo.com/user/gelsi11">Diigo Mortgage

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How to become a tech star according to Christopher Leacock a.k.a Jillionaire

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How to become a tech star according to Christopher Leacock a.k.a Jillionaire

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Bajan Newscap 8/29/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers. Here is your daily news cap for Tuesday, August 29th, 2017. There is a lot to read and digest so take your time. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

UPP CHARGES THAT POLITICIANS PROTECTING CRIMINALS - United Progressive Party (UPP) leader Lynette Eastmond has charged that some politicians are protecting people involved in crime, making them untouchable. And she has called on Barbadians to reject that kind of behaviour and to take a stand against the criminal elements in society.While not pointing fingers in any specific direction, the UPP leader, who served as Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs in former Prime Minister Owen Arthur’s Barbados Labour Party (BLP) administration, suggested that corruption was common even  during the BLP reign. She further suggested that Customs officers were also prevented from doing their jobs properly as she contended that “there are people in Barbados trying to do their job, ready to burst open a container and someone calls and says, ‘do not touch it’.She charged that the crime situation in the country was such that innocent people who were not involved in crime could easily lose their lives. The UPP leader pointed to the shooting death of 58-year-old Colleen Beresdean Payne as she used an automated banking machine in Black Rock, St Michael last month, as an example. She charged that every Barbadian had to take responsibility for Payne’s death.She told the small audience that with general elections around the corner, voters would have an opportunity to tell candidates they would not get their vote unless they were committed to changing the current situation. (BT)

Bees targeting four DLP seats - ONE OF THE high-ranking members of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has given the green light to a proposed general election strategy targeting four constituencies, including the ones held by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance.  Chairman George Payne said he was all for the plan to pump more funds and other resources into St Michael South held by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, St Michael North West represented by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler, St Lucy which has been long held by Minister of Housing Denis Kellman, and St John held by Mara Thompson. He revealed the plan at a BLP Christ Church East meeting Sunday night at St Christopher’s Primary School where 21 people were awarded for their contribution to the community. Payne was clear that the BLP wanted to win all 30 seats in the House of Assembly, but said they needed to specifically ensure the removal of the four Democratic Labour Party members. (DN)

NOT ME - MINISTER OF COMMERCE Donville Inniss will not be taking part in any boycott of Cost-U-Less. Instead, the outspoken Inniss has determined he will wait to hear all sides of the matter before involving himself. He spoke to the DAILY NATION yesterday, days after Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) president Toni Moore called for a boycott of the retail giant, which is located in Welches, St Thomas. Her bone of contention surrounded “union-busting tactics”, which she said were being used by Cost-U-Less. These “tactics” included victimising workers for joining the union and even calling the police for union officers who went to the business to represent workers. (DN)

HIGH PRICED DWELLINGS - (BT) The much talked about housing solutions are coming to Barbadians at a hefty cost, with a recent study showing that Barbados is the second most unaffordable place to buy a house when house prices are measured against average income ratio. The findings place Barbados ahead of countries like the Maldives and Venezuela as countries with the least affordable housing. However, one local policymaker says he is not entire sold on those findings, instead insisting that there was a housing price to suit various income levels, while one private sector official is predicting that prices could fall in coming years. According to the Australian-based moving company Assured Removalists, Barbados was the second least affordable place to live with a house price to income ratio of 133.77. This means that the average house price is just over 133 times the average wage in Barbados. Papua New Guinea takes the number one spot of being the least affordable place to buy a house, with a house price to income ratio of 181.6. According to the findings people were paying more for housing around the world, with average house prices up 6.5 per cent in the last 12 months. The company did not say when the study was carried out, but said it combined data on average annual salary, income tax and house prices to produce a ratio that shows the measures of housing affordability around the world.Solomon Islands, Maldives, Bhutan, Vietnam, China, El Salvador, Venezuela and Tajikistan rounded off the top ten. Conversely, the Bahamas was identified as the fourth most affordable place to buy a house with a ratio of 3.42, while Jamaica placed eighth with a house price to income ratio of 5.03. (BT)

PLAN FOR HUMAN MILK BANK - OFFICIALS OF THE Ministry of Health are exploring options for women who are unable to breastfeed naturally. They are participating in a week-long workshop exploring the benefits of creating a Human Milk Bank. This could see lactating mothers supply breast milk, which would be stored for babies. “This discussion beginning here today will see us moving away from formula feeds and non-breast milk products to more human milk formula. It will serve the country better if we see an uptake in human milk,” said director of nursing services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Henderson Pinder. He spoke to the media on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Brazilian Association of Cooperation-led workshop on Human Milk Banks for CARICOM under the theme, The Right To Human Milk As A Life Safeguard: A Fundamental Right. It was held at the Brazilian Embassy in Hastings, Christ Church.(DN) 

Burst main in The City - On SUNDAY, a Barbados Water Authority (BWA) crew assigned to clean one of the sewage mains in The City discovered a burst main by accident. The main, just outside City Centre Mall, had been leaking for an unknown period. “One of the jetting trucks was clearing this sewer [Sunday] morning and the road under the truck just gave way,” said one of the workers at the site. “So when the truck dropped in, we had to get a crane to lift out the truck.” BWA workers then had to dig close about 15 feet deep and 12 feet wide to find the burst main. “So from that time till now we were trying to fix the problem, so hopefully by this (Monday) evening we will get it finished,” the worker said. (DN)

TWIN SURPRISE - PAUL “IWAH” LEACOCK was on his land picking breadfruits one day recently when he got a twin surprise.  “I mostly sell breadfruits and whatever is in season. I was picking breadfruits with a stick and all of a sudden it drop and I see it was a twin, so I brought it here [to the NATION],” said the farmer who sells in Lower Green, Bridgetown. “I had a twin before but it was green, but now I have another, a full one. This is very unusual, the first time I’ve seen a twin full one,” he added. Leacock said the discovery was a “pleasant uncertainty”, as he did not know whether it was a good or bad omen. Nevertheless, he said if he could not get it sold, it would end up in his oven. (DN)

CRIME WILL WORSEN - A former Barbados Government criminologist is predicting that the crime situation will get worse if the authorities fail to adopt a different approach to crime fighting. Declaring that she was not surprised at the worrying level of gun violence in the country, Yolande Forde today said the continued reliance on jailing young people was not the answer to the crime problems. In fact, the 24-year veteran who has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the Cayman Islands government, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), said Barbados was now reaping the results of failing to introduce proper early intervention strategies. Forde, who in 1997 produced a report entitled Criminal Risk Factors containing 20 recommendations which she submitted to Government, said this afternoon in an extensive interview with Barbados TODAY that those involved in the gun crimes and other acts of lawlessness did not wake up one morning and decide to do so. “You asked if it [the report] is still relevant. To a large measure it is and in large measure a lot of the recommendations there seem not be have been implemented because I would see other areas of the press calling for the same things that I called for 20 years ago. If your priority recommendations have not been addressed then why are we expecting a different result?” Forde said. The noted criminologist said the report dealt with what the inmates told her during indepth interviews about their community life, their moral and spiritual exposure, educational and school experiences, their criminal profile dating back to juvenile delinquency and family life. Contending that crime was first and foremost a behavioural problem, she warned that crime would only be reduced by addressing all of the components essential for an effective crime reduction strategy. (BT) 

GIVE CRIMINALS THE MAXIMUM - BARBADOS’ JUSTICE SYSTEM must send a message to criminals that they will not get a free ride after committing heinous crimes. Anglican priest Canon Wayne Isaacs made the call from the pulpit on Sunday, insisting the punishment meted out to perpetrators of the violence which Barbados had been witnessing in recent weeks must be such that criminals understood their behaviour would not be tolerated. “Justice demands that those who are involved in these heinous crimes; the perpetrators of violence; those who bring guns into our country illegally; those who rent guns; those who employ persons to hit persons, [be made to understand] that they cannot flourish in our land,” Isaacs declared. “Justice demands that they be given the maximum sentence.” In his sermon at St Paul’s Anglican Church, the cleric described much of the current violence as “the work of criminal-minded persons who have no respect for people’s lives or property”. (DN)

SAMAUNG LEADER JAY Y. LEE GIVEN 5 YEAR JAIL SENTENCE FOR BRIBERY - The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery on Friday in a watershed for the country’s decades-long economic order dominated by powerful, family-run conglomerates. After a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the then president, Park Geun-hye, a court ruled that Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favours from Park.  The court also found Lee guilty of hiding assets abroad, embezzlement and perjury. Lee, the 49-year-old heir to one of the world’s biggest corporate empires, has been held since February on charges that he bribed Park to help secure control of a conglomerate that owns Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading smartphone and chip maker, and has interests ranging from drugs and home appliances to insurance and hotels. (DN)  

THREE ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING POLICE - Several accused men, including three charged with committing offences against police officers, were granted bail when they appeared in a Bridgetown Court over the weekend facing separate offences. Among them was 30-year-old labourer Jerome Renaldo Small of Edey Village, Christ Church who was accused of having 11 grammes of cannabis in his possession on August 25. He was not required to plea to the charge as it allegedly occurred in the District ‘B’ jurisdiction. As such, the case against Small, who was granted $1,500 bail, will be heard in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court on September 1. Also appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Douglas Frederick was Corey Jamal Omar Bayley of #15 St Barnabas, New Development, St Michael. The 31-year-old labourer is charged with assaulting Police Constable Jabarie Roach and resisting Police Constable Stephen Ross in the execution of their duties on August 25. Bayley, who was represented by attorney Naomi Lynton, denied the charge as well as that of damaging a motor van, property of the Crown, on the same day. He was released on $2,500 bail and ordered to return to court on a December 7. Shawn Mario Gill of Hampton Court, Tweedside Road, Carrington Village, St Michael is also alleged to have assaulted and obstructed a police officer – in this case, Police Constable Renaldo Downes – in the execution of his duties on August 26. However, the 38-year-old security officer told the magistrate he was not guilty of the allegation leveled against him. He was granted $2,500 bail and told to return to court on December 7. Also expected to reappear in court on that date is Rodney Ricardo Toppin who is alleged to have assaulted and resisted Constable Downes in the execution of his duties. Toppin, a 36-year-old bartender who resides at Block 6C Bonnets, Brittons Hill, St Michael, admitted to the resisting charge but said he was not guilty of assaulting the officer. He was granted $2,000 bail after there were no objections to bail from the police prosecutor. Dario Kamalh Gill of Ginger Works, St Joseph is also expected to reappear before Magistrate Frederick on the same date on a charge that he unlawfully and maliciously wounded Romario Hall on July 22. The unemployed 26-year-old, who has Dr Waldo Ramsey as his legal counsel, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on $3,000 bail.  (BT) 

TEEN ON AMMO CHARGE - Eighteen-year-old Shakeem Ryan Dawson will on Friday appear before the District ‘F’ Magistrates’ Court on an ammunition charge. The unemployed teen from Branchbury#1, St Joseph is currently on remand at HMP Dodds accused of possession of five rounds of ammunition on August 25. He was not required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court over the weekend. Magistrate Frederick transferred the case to District ‘F’ Court as it was outside his jurisdiction, but ordered a presentencing report into Dawson’s life after he pleaded guilty to assaulting Ashley Herbert. According to the prosecutor, Herbert was walking through Hardwood Alley, The City, with her boyfriend on July 22 when Dawson and another man squeezed between the two of them. The move led to a verbal altercation between Dawson and Herbert’s boyfriend and that turned physical. The woman intervened in a bid to stop the attack on her partner but Dawson held her from behind and pushed her against a door frame, hitting her face. He was later arrested and charge. Magistrate Frederick ordered the report on Dawson after having a conversation with the young man who is not known to the criminal justice system. He returns to the No. 1 District ‘A’ Court on September 22. (BT)

LETTING IT SLIP - Bowling coach Roddy Estwick conceded yesterday that West Indies had failed to properly negotiate the big moments on the penultimate day of the second Test but warned pundits not to write off the Caribbean side ahead of what could be a tense final day today. West Indies entered the day in a strong position with England on 171 for three – only two runs ahead – but let the advantage slip, allowing the hosts to pile up 490 for eight declared in their second innings at Headingley. Set a challenging 322 for victory, the Windies finished the day on five without loss. “We didn’t play the big moments well at all today [yesterday]. When the captain Joe Root got out they were 40-odd for four [overall] and we then dropped a catch soon after, so the big moments we didn’t play well at all,” Estwick told reporters. (DN)

WINDIES LOSE GRIP - A day which began with much hope for West Indies ended in frustration as the tourists were left facing a massive task to win the second cricket Test after England seized the ascendancy with a dominant batting display at Headingley yesterday. At the close of the penultimate day, West Indies were five without loss in their second innings, requiring a further 317 runs on today’s last day to win a Test in England for the first time in 17 years.  England had earlier converted their overnight 171 for three into 490 for eight declared in their second innings, putting the Caribbean side under pressure for the first time in the match. Moeen Ali top-scored with 84, leading five players with half-centuries, as captain Joe Root (72), Chris Woakes (61 not out), Dawid Malan (61) and Ben Stokes (58) all got stuck into the Windies attack in conditions that offered little to the bowlers.  (DN) 

ROCKING SIGN OFF - The CARIFESTA XIII planning committee seemed to have pulled out all stops to ensure the closing ceremony ended in grand style on Sunday night. And it certainly paid off, because the event did not lack style or flair. The curtain came down on the festival just after 11 p.m. as thousands watched the fantastic performances by Barbadian cultural ambassadors Alison Hinds and Red Plastic Bag (RPB).  Both Hinds and RPB were backed by the ZigE Wallcott-led Azucar band, who helped to make great performances excellent.(DN)

TIME TO CELEBRATE - It wAS A CELEBRATION of seven. The Mount Pisgah Spiritual Baptists’ “pilgrimage” (excursion) to Foul Bay, St Philip, on Sunday, marking the Roebuck Street, Bridgetown church’s seventh year of existence, saw more than 200 people dancing to the beat of the drums, chanting hymns and choruses, and presenting offerings of fruit, vegetables and herbs. The colourful and highly spirited ceremony caught the attention of many curious onlookers at the St Philip beach. (DN)

That’s all for today folks there are 130 days left in the year Shalom! #thechasefiles #dailynewscaps Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram for your daily news. #bajannewscaps #newsca psbystephaniefchase

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

New to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries - January

January 

A New Year’s Resolution (2020)  Starring Aimee Teegarden and Michael Rady.  Hallmark Channel - New Year New Movies 

Love at First Dance (2018)  Starring Becca Tobin and Niall Matter  Hallmark Channel - June Weddings 

One Winter Weekend (2018)  Starring Taylor Cole, Jack Turner, Rukiya Bernard, and Dewshane Willimans  Hallmark Channel - Winterfest 

Autumn Stables (2018)  Starring Kevin McGarry and Cindy Busby 

Date With Love (2016)  Starring Shenae Grimes-Beech, Andrew Walker, and Bailee Madison  Hallmark Channel 

Wedding Bells (2016)  Starring Danica McKellar, Kavan Smith, Tammy Gillis, Christopher Russell, and Bruce Boxleitner  Hallmark Channel - June Weddings 

Hailey Dean Mystery: 2 + 2 = Murder (2018)  Starring Kellie Martin, Vivi Leacock, Chad Lowe, and Matthew MacCaull  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries - 4th in the series 

Hailey Dean Mysteries: A Marriage Made for Murder (2018)  Starring Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock, Chad Lowe, Matthew MacCaull, and Christine Chatelain  Hallmark Movies & Mysteries - 5th in the series 

The Lost Valentine (2011)  Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Betty White, and Sean Faris  Hallmark Hall of Fame - CBS 

When Calls the Heart - Season 8 (2021)  Starring Erin Krakow, Pascale Hutton, Jack Wagner, Kavan Smith, Eva Bournbe, Aren Buchholz, Andrew Brooks, Paul Greene, Chris McNally, Kevin McGarry, Jamda Lily Miller, Kayla Wallace, Viv Leacock, Natasha Burnett, Martin Cummins, Loretta Walsh, Johannah Newmarch, Hrothgar Mathews, Ben Rosenbaum, and Teryl Rothery Hallmark Channel - New Episodes Every Thursdays  

January 2 

Snowkissed (2021)  Starring Jen Lilley and Chris McNally  Hallmark Channel - New Year New Movies 

One Winter Proopasal (2019)  Starring Taylor Cole, Rukiya Bernard, Jack Turner, and Dewshane Williams  Hallmark Channel - Winterfest 

January 9 

A Winter Getaway (2021)  Starring Nazneen Contractor and Brooks Darnell  Hallmark Channel - New Year New Movies 

June in January (2014)  Starring Brooke D’Orsay, Wes Brown, and Marilu Henner  Hallmark Channel 

January 16 

It Was Always You (2021)  Starring Erin Krakow and Tyler Hynes  Hallmark Channel - Love Ever After 

January 23 

Mix Up in the Mediterranean (2021)  Starring Jeremy Jordan, Jessica Lowndes, and Callum Blue  Hallmark Channel - Love Ever After 

[esprit-de-corps-magazine]

THE MAN UNDER THE UNIFORM: Part 1: Young Art Curry: The first 25 years

(Volume 24-01)

By Bob Gordon

General Sir Arthur Currie. The Canadian Corps’ first and only Canadian commander. The first full general in the Canadian Army (1919). Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Britain); Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Croix de guerre (France); Knight of the Order of the Crown and Croix de Guerre (Belgium); Distinguished Service Medal (United States).

A century later, the accolades still echo. Royal Military Academy Sandhurst instructor Christopher Pugsley describes Currie as “perhaps the most brilliant corps commander of the war,” who led “the most effective fighting formation among the British armies on the Western Front, superior in performance to its vaunted Australian contemporary in terms of organisation, tactical efficiency and staying power.”

This “most effective fighting formation,” the Canadian Corps, first took to the gas-soaked fields of the Ypres salient in April 1915. During the last hundred days, they spent three months at the sharp end as the shock troops of the Empire. Their route from novice to master of the arts of Ares was once seen as a simple, linear progression with the Canadian forces consistently and persistently growing in combat effectiveness. More recently, the variability, inconsistency and irregularity of change have been emphasized. Evolutionary dead ends, explored and abandoned, have been identified. Periods of sudden and revolutionary change (January to April 1917) are also evident. Today, historians concur the march to the final Hundred Days Offensive was anything but straight for the Canadian Corps.

Its leader, General Sir Arthur Currie, the man under the uniform, has never been granted a similar, measured reappraisal. In the immediate wake of the Great War, former Minister of Militia Sam Hughes slagged Currie, all but branding him a vainglorious butcher. Initially, much attention was directed at dismissing these accusations as baseless. More recent analyses have focused on his achievements as he progressed from brigadier to corps commander. The narrow focus has been on his military career, and one such assessment is even subtitled “A Military Biography.” Moreover, as was once the case with the corps itself, they suggest an unvarying and inexorable rate of ascent: A career simply destined to greatness.

From whence this apparent military genius arose has remained unexplored or, like an elephant in the room, been politely ignored. Was he a failed land developer and embezzler? A frustrated lawyer? A dedicated militia officer and daring entrepreneur? A chance confluence of man and circumstance? Was he all of the above or none of the above?

This series will tack this way, exploring Currie’s civilian life from his youth in Ontario through his financial coming of age in Victoria. This portrait of Currie to age 40 in 1914, when his military, as opposed to militia, career commenced will provide a lens through which his military biography will be reinterpreted. Currie was hardly wet behind the ears when he went to war. He was approaching 40. He was on the verge of retiring from the militia. He was a self-made man of considerable influence socially, politically and financially, precarious as the latter may have been by 1914. These life experiences were foundational to Currie’s success with the Canadian Corps.

According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography: “Arthur Currie’s paternal grandparents, John Corrigan and Jane Garner, a Roman Catholic and an Anglican, fled religious intolerance in Ireland to farm in Adelaide Township, Upper Canada. Upon their arrival in 1838, the Corrigans changed their name to Curry and became Methodists ... The elder son, William Garner Curry, married Jane Patterson in 1868.” William Curry was relatively affluent and held numerous local government positions. Born from this union on December 5, 1875, on the family farm near Napperton, six kilometres west of Strathroy, in Adelaide Township, was William Arthur Curry. He would not change his name to Currie until he was a militiaman and, reportedly, tired of the jokes about spicy food that were told at his expense in the mess and orderly room.

Curry began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Napperton, Ontario. Apparently a promising student, he moved on to Strathroy Collegiate at the age of 14. On October 23, 1891, 15-year-old Arthur’s father, William, unexpectedly died from an “inflammation of the bowels” at the age of 46. The [Strathroy] Age, describing William Curry as “well known” with “numerous friends,” noted that “the funeral on Sunday last was one of the largest ever seen in the township, 165 rigs being in the procession.” Not surprising, considering that William had served as a township councillor, school board trustee, was deputy reeve at the time and owned a 300-acre farm.

In the wake of this tragic event Curry left Strathroy Collegiate and entered the Model School, earning a 3rd Class Teaching Certificate. His biographers imply that this abandonment of his dream of becoming a lawyer was necessitated by strained financial conditions following his father’s death.

However, circumstantial evidence tends to undermine this assertion. The Currys were a reasonably affluent family and they seem to have remained financially stable and secure following William’s death. Crystal Loyst, Museum Collections and Research Coordinator at the Museum Strathroy-Caradoc, has stated that, “As for the farm, the original plot was divided into two – William Currie [an older brother of Arthur’s] lived on the west half of the west half of lot 15 con 5 SER and his brother T.O. Currie lived on the east half of the west half of lot 15 Con 5 (by the map, however other records state Lot 14) … Arthur’s cousin Harold owned the property next door.” Under these conditions, it is difficult to see penury driving Arthur out of school.

Regardless, leave he did, only to discover positions for a novice pedagog with a 3rd Class Teaching Certificate were few and far between. By November 1892, he had returned to the Collegiate hoping to achieve his honours and qualify for admission to a university.

As treasurer of the Strathroy Collegiate Institute Literary Society he took an active role in debates as both a disputant and a judge. In November 1892 he failed to demonstrate that “The Indian in North America has suffered more injustice than the Negro.” Four months later, Curry decided against the resolution, “War has caused more destruction and misery to the human race than intemperance.” A story published in his hometown newspaper, The Age Dispatch, on February 27, 1930, headlined “Sir Arthur Retreated Like a Good Soldier,” affirmed his debating prowess. It details his youthful determination to finish his arguments leading him to depart the podium, but circumambulate the room at a slow march, spitting out arguments, before resuming his seat.

Other schoolmates’ reminiscences, published in the Age Dispatch on April 17, 1919, affirm young Curry’s energetic and independent disposition. The article describes him as “the recognized star of the large class of which he was a member,” taking note of both his wit and pugilistic prowess. Proof of the former is provided by the pleasure he took, in later life, as Principal of McGill University, sharing a dram with an economics professor on the faculty by the name of Stephen Leacock. Coincidentally, as a young student teacher Leacock had done a brief placement at Strathroy Collegiate and taught Curry in the early 1890s.

Between Curry’s grades and his extracurricular activities, biographer, and former subordinate on the staff of the Canadian Corps, Hugh Urquhart asserts that the principal regarded his attaining “honours” as a given. Regardless, in May of 1894, weeks shy of graduation, Arthur Curry dropped out and headed west to Vancouver Island. Purportedly, the rather rash decision was precipitated by a dispute with a teacher. Contradicting himself, Urquhart then asserts that it was a premeditated excursion with a total of six young men participating. What is clear is that enough planning was required for Curry to have secured the $25 train fare.

While the timing of Curry’s exodus may have been impetuous, it was hardly Quixotic: he left with a well-defined destination. In Victoria he had arrangements to stay with a maternal great-aunt, Mrs. Orlando Warner, and her husband, a master shipwright from Pugwash, Nova Scotia. He promptly settled into their large house on Alston Street, overlooking the harbour.  The welcome was warm enough that Curry remained for 16 months while he qualified for a BC teaching certificate at which point he took a position teaching in Sydney that paid $60/month. The local trustees were impressed with his abilities, noting particularly his classroom management along with his students’ deportment and discipline.

As soon as possible, upon securing a job at Victoria Boys’ Central School, he returned to the city. One year later he moved to Victoria High School. This apparently lateral move was actually a step up for Curry as the high school had a more prestigious reputation and drew its students from the most affluent and influential families in Victoria. Curry would remain there into a fourth school year. It was during this period that he began spelling his name Currie.

In the winter of 1899–1900, Currie’s teaching career was interrupted by a prolonged illness. Apparently, Currie used the down time to contemplate his future. Probably with an eye to marrying, he left teaching, concluding it offered prestige but not pounds sterling. In the spring of 1900, presumably capitalizing on connections made with students’ parents, Currie reinvented himself as an insurance salesman joining Matson and Coles, a prominent Victoria firm.

Liberal Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier claimed the new century for Canada: “As the 19th century was that of the United States, so I think the 20th century shall be filled by Canada.” Currie, a life-long Liberal, set out to personify this dictum in the century’s first dozen years.

 Next month: Currie’s affluence, influence and profile all grow exponentially. Ascending to the top of Victoria society, Currie is staring into a financial abyss when European rivalries and violence erupt into global war in the summer of 1914.