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dunilefra · 6 months

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Facts of Liechtenstein's Constitution

Preamble

We, John II, by the Grace of God, Prince Regnant of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau, Count of Rietberg, etc. etc. etc. make known that the Constitution of 26 September 1862 has been modified by Us with the assent of Our Parliament as follows:

Art 3

The succession to the throne, hereditary in the Princely House of Liechtenstein, the coming-of-age of the Prince Regnant and of the Heir Apparent, as well as any guardianship which may be required, are to be determined by the Princely House in the form of a dynasty law.

Art 9

Every law shall require the sanction of the Prince Regnant in order to acquire validity.

Art 13ter

Not less than 1,500 citizens have the right to table a reasoned motion of no confidence in the Prince. Parliament must issue a recommendation on this at its next session and order the holding of a referendum in accordance with Art. 66 Para. 6. If the motion is accepted in the referendum, it must be communicated to the Prince for consideration under the dynasty law. The prince must inform Parliament within six months of the decision reached in compliance with the said Law.

Art 14

The supreme function of the State is to promote the general welfare of the People. For this purpose, the State shall provide for the institution and maintenance of law, and for the protection of the religious, moral and economic interests of the People.

Art 15

The State shall devote particular attention to education and schooling. This must be so ordered and administered that, from the co-operation of the family, the school and the Church, the younger generation may be imbued with religious and moral principles and patriotic sentiments and may be fitted for their future occupations.

Art 16

The whole field of education and schooling shall be under the supervision of the State, without prejudice to the inviolability of the doctrine of the Church.

Education shall be compulsory for all.

The State shall ensure that adequate compulsory instruction in the elementary subjects is given free of charge in public schools.

Religious instruction shall be given by the Church authorities.

All persons with children in their care shall ensure that they receive education of the standard prescribed for public elementary schools.

Annulled

Private education shall be permissible provided that it conforms with the legal regulations governing the period of schooling, the educational aims and the arrangements prevailing in the public schools.

Art 37

Freedom of belief and conscience are guaranteed for all persons.

The Roman Catholic Church is the State Church and as such enjoys the full protection of the State; other confessions shall be entitled to practise their creeds and to hold religious services to the extent consistent with morality and public order.

Art 65

Without the participation of Parliament, no law may be issued, amended, or declared to be in force. For a law to become valid, it must in every case receive the assent of Parliament and be sanctioned by the Prince Regnant, countersigned by the responsible Head of the Government or his deputy and promulgated in the National Legal Gazette (Landesgesetzblatt). If the Prince does not give his assent within six months, it shall be deemed to have been refused.

In addition, a popular vote (referendum) shall be held under the conditions set forth in the following Article.

Art 108

Members of the Government, State officials, and all mayors, their deputies and the treasurers of the communes shall take the following oath on appointment:

“I swear that I will be loyal to the Prince Regnant, that I will obey the laws and that I will strictly observe the Constitution. So help me God.”

by Dunilefra, working for Political Reform

#Liechtenstein #Dunilefra #Politics #Political Reform #World Politics #World Order #Fundamental Rights #Human Rights #Economy #Religion #State Policy #Political Analysis #Constitution #Constitutional Law

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“MANY HISTORICAL GAPS STILL OPEN,” Montreal Gazette. January 14, 1933. Page 3. ---- Value of Old Letters and Documents Shown by Mrs. F. C. Warren ---- PUBLIC CAN LEND AID ---- Work Effected by McCord National Museum in Preserving Records of Canada Explained by Curator ---- Those who are fortunate enough to have chronicles of past times in the form of letters or documents, no matter how trivial they may seem to the possessors, were urged not to destroy them by Mrs. F. C. Warren, assistant curator of the McCord National Museum, in an address on the museum given over Station CKAC last evening, under the auspices of the McGill Graduates Society.

It was the object of the McCord Museum, Mrs. Warren explained, to have a collection which would give posterity a coherent picture of every period of Canadian history. In many instances yet, however, there were great gaps in the material possessed by the museum gaps which might be filled by individuals having old documents which were worth little to them but could be of inestimable service in rounding out a historical collection.

"Sometimes a paper or pamphlet which gives the key to a motive or an action , of the time is thrown away and can never be replaced. The university makes itself responsible for the records giving a truthful story of the life of our country," she stated.

Among the treasures now housed in the McCord Museum, which Mrs. Warren described, were one of the first real estate records of this city. executed when Montreal was 23 years old; Wolfe's diary with his own words written by himself about the siege of Quebec; the keys to the farm of James McGill, founder of McGill University.

"Carefully protected in drawer after drawer in the museum a-e stored articles, documents, costumes and portraits which are waiting to illustrate some crisis in Canadian history or show the gradual development in art or industry," Mrs. Warren stated. “Perhaps in some more fortunate time, space may be added to the museum whereby whole rooms may be given up to the environment of one century."

The next radio broadcast sponsored by the Graduates' Society will be on Monday at 8.30 p.m.. when Dean Ira MacKay, of the faculty of arts, will speak on "The Vocation of a Scholar, or From a College Window."

#mccord museum #montreal #mcgill university #graduate's society #museum collection #museum display #archival records #primary documents #great depression in canada

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libidomechanica · 1 year

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Untitled Poem # 8995

A limerick sequence

You will bet you and narrow gorge, case- mated one. What good turns to the truth the jaundiced eye; eye, to whom remains, nothing sweet. To follow. Has some good fortunes all.

Of my dove and half is his: it will bet you and cling up to a dragons all around us ever, mortal world is diminutive. Oh, that celestial kind.

To be a butcher in Heaven were several English, save the violets cover’d wall and break in measures beneath? And all, the eyes all routes to though but of love.

But she were the wide hall; the arm’d river, with joined hands and grieve. The name day. Blushing wanted me if it means and impious thoughts to peep, to gazette of the fools!

Ask me no more her face is fam’d to flow confusedly—a winning wave? Thou canst find, happy to die, her soul revolves anew its axis you You humble I.

I sent a ring—a little Female Babe is born into treasure: but thought is the nuns! Natural order of morning, all earthly things in sheer witnesse to retreat!

And to be before the Myllers rownde, all as farre past the van. Our phoenix Queen was power between the Tender shoot of Passion were a boy’s? ’Tis your true image.

The crown of love beguile my Nanie, O. The first moment more than Pittsburgh is more and the body and in this Old House stringing wit, and giue hem curds and measure, lo!

The wager thou less unworthiness raised around him, in clothes the sword of my heart. His hand twanging roof and then thy finer fancied sight bringing of a son … You!

Out the silent, if Theotormon’s Eagles at her silver. For, not all my friend and so he says no more I should swell her thro’ the resemblance which I will give right!

Of flower, and the throng’d resort, unless and brick. The kindly earthy mind’s imprint will let that belch incessant, writhing has gone. We fooles, or a traveling shorts.

Hee will show thee will; bearing gales or onto frozen marriage. Cupid and done your names what is the left their thousand wretched wight, as dots now in a curbside pool.

His Children feel. And yet, because of Children bought can jump both sea and win perhaps that brings expansion fixed and siller canna buy; we may be to-night, the soul!

To cease, and their faces fell to trust, fair Madeline. Dearer than this day be a resurrection, which was returnest to know whether, adopted to write down.

Last, captives, your several English greenish hunger-pinch. As balm for any bitter fruit? And I was in my dreams, goodnight The sky above, much grac’d to her breast.

Not here, not to see hopes. What will, even in all, she said and, wretched men like a hawk, an’ wilfu’ folk maun hae their eye an inmate owns: Never once, this patience.

To the prince from the String of the greater blast for? Not one word nature sees her roving eye: but something sweets, but tis not harvest is brought all his life’s a fine boy.

And please, say, that swincke and woe the day, and after both twain, and light, open thine, not to myself—but out loud! That the words that shines the sun and seeks Sol’s palace high.

And ten women in a knot. Midas the Lord of a piece of orient day, first set my plaid an’ out I’ll tell it these thing that which is best, you knowest thou this.

The Bier; his Penmanship, tablet and life in every tree does crush, but feel both cold flood and the kiss that can shows soul! You may be the sweet society to thee.

And day, by various nations’ airy navies grappling in ischskin, ’ ousckin, ’ iffskchy, ’ ouski: of whom spoke the ocean wide scatter’st the sapphire heaven?

Or holla for the other comely face. Then—i never can we go: and better melodie. Thoughts of men, a land of evening clown puff his gross to bed and erasèd.

Be it wherever be so, and woe among the way to inhale but only Laili, ’ yet a Book of Love, rather groan and yet is Prince de Ligne, and leave me thus?

And this horse—his speed-laden pedigree, muscles from Michelangelo, hands and fled. For who died yesterday dropped as balm for an institution bed. Is spent.

As dots now in the still on Menie doat, and beauty’s shaped like an amorously I caressed by the happy regions, gaudy cunning thee? How I know it not me?

Of the Deacon off him of Reserve. Cupid in shape suggested somewhere in our grief, which some few soft remembering eyes. That thou awake when I look on Heaven.

With indiscerning Ignorance perceives fatigued away among the pull of care makes summer as long ygoe, o carefull verse. As if a little versed in thine.

Mine eyes? And laboured lands—the rope that I brought, injurious wreaths: how soon the very long. A voice of merimake. Soul and bone could be the roll of Fame has.

Then—i never growing words, will buy me sheep an’ kye thrives on contract of tenderness, a strange, but oh, alas! On fig skins, melon parings, and I said, No, no.

Seek it in vain to speak the rules by bringing grooves of chalk, the loss, or they have you, in whom frown’st thou being shut, till, wholly in the noble art of existed?

Rough exits into your pocket-book and short: save wings, a God fingers push the fear of our gloomy path. Yes, yes, we know right to choose, and all in a bulletin.

Fu’ is his door. Stiff heels soft bring you to love of the Russians, having known to that none his lineage: not once all-famous oath is to that old wood where to go.

In such a Tyranne fell: the kindest Calmucks, drilling, Oh. Do know, a man become of that were jacks and Gills and fled. On love, has tried, to conquering may prove me.

Heaven, nancy, Nancy; yet I’le at length thereon and so on. I call with more delightful Fairy Prince defy, since I hear and the Night her how, upon St.

Such light, the mark, the power could be. So do our minds that euer went, and others, because he saves thy mind in the stars bedding petals of my grief and great enough!

On such a face and stretch to touch him climbe so hie, and, like a God they take some good heart violent and dare not pluck the tempestuous petticoat—a careless curl.

And yet I come, as coloured chaplets wrought: soothe him with the bliss from time to sea. Every day, a false desire after such Cries of many heart is wae, and hear?

While new emotion; nothing betters! But by time. Make thy birth, and Stella is not enough the dusty floor, can charm is wither bright-eyed Eulalie upturns her down.

Which once in the robes the would have tied these obtain from the law. And beauty hold a fretful realm in grief. This spoil’d child at dead breast, to which fair Madeline asleep.

The bean, and I’ll awa to Nanie, O. A bed of roses, by reasons why this dungeons may call, and cease to glide a sunbeams die. It seems it rich to martial kind.

One sparkles than just to plant dividing life for ever again? I am far and servile to a worthless wars’—I am not of the air, and vermeil dyed?

#poetry #automatically generated text #Patrick Mooney #Markov chains #Markov chain length: 7 #197 texts #limerick sequence

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years

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The awesome destructive power of a billionaire

"Every billionaire is a policy failure": it's a controversial aphorism, but there's an undeniable truth to it.

There's no justifiable rationale for a person to be worth billions: is Jeff Bezos's social value really 14,285,714 times that of his median factory worker?

But moreover, billions of dollars are a force multiplier that magnifies the power of the individual without accountability or check. Everybody makes mistakes and there are crooks everywhere in the social fabric, but billionaire crooks are far more harmful than street muggers.

Woody Guthrie wrote, "Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen," but as great as that line is, it fails to capture just how much harm the fountain-pen bandits can do - the chaos, death and misery their schemes create.

Think of Ihor Kolomoisky, the Ukrainian oligarch whose government has accused of stealing $5.5B from a bank he ran. I first encountered Kolomoisky in the Fincen Leaks, a collection of official warnings that the US Treasury Department chose to ignore.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/21/too-big-to-jail/#fincen

Kolomoisky laundered $240m through Deutsche Bank, who started helping him launder that money *less than one month* after issuing a triumphant press-release announcing that it had cleaned house after its last oligarch money-laundering scandal.

But Deutsche Bank's contribution was a relative trifle. As Michael Sallah and colleagues document in Dirty Dollars, a stunning feature in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Kolomoisky shuffled billions through the US, destroying factories and laying waste to whole towns.

https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/ukraine-money-laundering/

Kolomoisky and his confederate Gennadiy Bogolyubov used compromised bank employees in Ukraine to steal billions by issuing phony loans to shell companies in Cyprus (an EU state and notorious financial secrecy haven) and various Caribbean "treasure islands."

That money came onshore with the help of US enablers like Florida "businessman" Mordechai "Motti" Korf (represented by Trump's personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz). Once in the US, it was used to snap up real-estate and factories across the midwest.

These assets included "13 steel factories, five office towers, a hotel, two office parks, and a shuttered Motorola plant with two heliports." These structures included historically significant US buildings, as well as strategic production facilities.

For example, at one point, Kolomoisky controlled the majority of the US's silico manganese production, a key element in steel production. The fact that he didn't abuse this to deliberately destroy the US's ability to produce steel is somewhat incidental.

Because Kolomoisky destroyed plenty of US productive capacity for other reasons - namely, because he bought giant companies like Warren Steel to use them as money-laundering pass-throughs, running them without regard to their workers or their products.

This resulted in a series of ghastly plant disasters in which workers were killed, maimed, injured and traumatized. After the disasters came waves of closures, which saw plants shuttered and communities shattered by layoffs.

But the force-multiplier effect of Kolomoisky's stolen billions continued to wreak havoc: the shutdown of these plants resulted in environmental devastation, such as dumping waste water directly into Ohio's Mahoning River.

Ohio was particularly brutalized by Kolomoisky's money-laundering: after the 2016 shut-down of Warren Steel, the Ohio AG revealed that the company had illegally dumped vast amounts of "baghouse dust," which causes kidney and liver damage.

The FBI is investigating Kolomoisky's onshore crimes, and Ukrainian authorities are targeting him at home (which could be explosive, as he is closely tied to the lavishly corrupt Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, a former TV comedy actor).

These investigations, as well as the work of the Post-Gazette team, as well as the Fincen Leaks, all throw the meaning of "every billionaire is a policy failure" into stark relief.

The men who rob you with a fountain pen destroy lives, towns, the environment, national resilency, even whole nations.

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path-of-my-childhood · 4 years

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Taylor Swift Starts Frenzy at Indie Record Stores With Surprise Signed ‘Folklore’ CDs

By: Samantha Hissong for Rolling Stone Date: August 10th 2020

Taylor Swift is keeping things indie. On Thursday morning, a multitude of indie record stores across America took to social media to share that signed Folklore CDs “just showed up” - as Chicago’s Reckless Records put it - at the door.

Fans were instructed that the supply was limited to one per customer and that the situation was first-come-first-served. Holds and phone orders were not allowed. According to a Newbury Comics representative, a UMG rep had gotten in touch with the store about the plan earlier this week. “Fan reaction has been through the roof,” the Newbury rep tells Rolling Stone. And that’s not an overstatement, considering that many locations sold out almost instantly.

A representative from Bull Moose, which has locations in Maine and New Hampshire, tells Rolling Stone that one of Universal Music Group’s sales reps offered his team the ability to get in on a “promotional sale for signed CDs by a major artist” late on Tuesday night.

“I said ‘Sure, sounds like fun. Who’s the artist? and he said Taylor Swift,” the Bull Moose representative explains. “And I was pretty floored. The idea, as I understand it anyway, was to partner up with Record Store Day to give something super cool for indie stores to sell to drive some foot traffic into stores to help those affected by the pandemic.”

The short notice incited some “scrambling, overnight shipping, and a lot of online communication,” according to a representative from Zia Records, which has locations in Arizona and Nevada.

“But Folklore is one of those titles that appeals to Swift’s hardcore fanbase and indie heads via the Bon Iver and National connections,” Zia Records rep tells Rolling Stone. “We knew it would be worth it.”

“In the end, we received copies at nine of our 12 locations,” the Bull Moose representative adds. “And it only took about two hours after I tweeted at 11:10 a.m. this morning to sell completely through. Phones rang off the hook in every store. Folks took road trips to try to get one. It was a huge deal! Honestly, I expected it to be big, but this was huger than I expected!”

“Obviously the excitement level was pretty high,” a Reckless representative tells Rolling Stone. “We posted that we had the CDs on our Instagram and they were gone in about an hour. Two of our locations received copies. Everybody was really cool about it, and it was nice to see people excited about anything right now honestly.”

When Rolling Stone asked Reckless about profit splits - and whether or not the store had to purchase the CDs, or if they were gifted - the representative replied simply:

“We sold them like normal CDs, so we were able to make some money.”

While joyful excitement is a treasure during the monotony that is quarantine, some feared the risk of potentially spreading Covid-19.

“That was definitely a concern of ours but everybody showed up pretty sporadically,” the Reckless representative shares. “There was never any line or anything. The most people that were in here together was a family of four.”

Some other recipients of the CDs included Portland, Oregon’s Music Millennium, Cincinnati, Ohio’s Shake It Records, Kansas City, Missouri’s Mills Records, Lexington, Kentucky’s CD Central, Brooklyn’s Rough Trade, Long Island’s Looney Tunes, Dayton, Ohio’s Omega Music, St. Louis, Missouri’s Vintage Vinyl, Arizona’s Zia Records and Grimey’s in Nashville, Tennessee. Swift previously helped Grimey’s at the start of the pandemic by playing employees’ wages for three months and providing them with healthcare.

*** You can also check out an article by Variety: Indie Record Shop Lover Taylor Swift Boosts Local Stores With Shipments of Signed CDs *** Article by AZ Central: How a Phoenix record store became the place to be for Taylor Swift fans in Arizona *** Article by Green Bay Press-Gazette: When entire box of signed Taylor Swift 'Folklore' CDs ended up in her hands outside Exclusive Co., fan does the right thing *** Read about the fan who returned the box of CDs to the store: 'I was all sorts of panicked': Meet the Taylor Swift fan from Green Bay who kept that box of signed 'Folklore' CDs safe

#Rolling Stone magazine #article #indie record stores #taylor swift #folklore album #folklore era #album sales #taylor with fans

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creativerogues · 4 years

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I’m Making a Player’s Guide!

Chapter 0: Welcome to the World!

History of the World: A brief history of the world’s events from the foundings of each country to the sealing away of the gods to the War Underground between the Elves of the West and the Drow of the Himmelblas...

Life on the Continent: A brief section on what it’s like to live in the world as it is today, still recovering from a war over half a century ago, and tensions ever rising in the east as new magics are being created and studied in the west...

Chapter 1-ish: Character Creation

An in-depth explanation of where in the world you might find each race and class from the PHB and other Source Books.

Introducing Gemstone Dragonborn as a new Subrace for Dragonborn, from MCDM’s Strongholds & Followers, as well as an explanation of how the Gemstone Dragonborn came to be in this world...

A List of potential Group Patrons that Adventurers could work for, from the Silver Charge Mercenary Company to the Archmages of Capitol to the State Azures of Zokend...

Chapter 2-ish: Gazetteer of the World!

Nations of the Continent: An explanation of each of Nation, from the high elves of Capitol and Western Carthisia to the small western isle of Mocrait, from the great and ever-spanning Himmelblas Mountains to the mysterious southern Wolfwood and the Shadow Empire that lies buried beneath the world’s surface...

Explore Western Carthisia, Mocrait, the Himmelblas Mountains, the Wolfwood, Valdor, Laumador, Zokend, Unter & Vuul!

Distant Lands: Learn of the forgotten continent of Harac, and the sand-blasted deserts of Rassumurait...

Chapter 3-ish: Faiths of the World...

An explanation of the Core Pantheon, as well as a list of the outlawed gods...

A list and explanations of the many famous cults of the world, from the Cult of the Blue Wyrm King to a strange group calling themselves Mephistopheles...

Learn of new gods and powers within the world, from the Haracan Pantheon to the vast Pantheon of Rassumurati Gods, Lesser Gods and Divine Servants...

Chapter 3-ish: Capitol!

Life in Capitol: A commoner’s perspective on life within the Capitol.

Baron Casmong: A explanation of Baron Casmong and his seemingly endless wealth after his success...

The Archmages of Capitol: A look into the Archmages of Capitol, who they are, and how exactly magic works within the Capitol’s walls...

The Royalty of Capitol: An explanation of the royal drama within Capitol and of how King Randor the Second wishes for nothing more than a successor better than his daughter...

The Edhel Halls: An explanation of the Edhel Halls Library of Excellence, a library famous for being the birthplace of many spells and many famous mages that still roam the history books of today...

The War College: An explanation of the Capitol’s War College and their working into new War Magics...

Important Locations in Capitol: From King’s Street to The Goose & Gander all the way to Bilgrim’s Menagerie of Scrolls and Miscellaneous..

Chapter 4-ish: Building Adventures...

Plot Hooks for every Nation: From the Dullahan of Bluemite to the Ancient Dragon that sleeps beneath the Blackhorn Volcano, from the forgotten Noble of Capitol to missing Archmages, run your own (mis)adventures in the world!

Heroes of the Past: A Section dedicated to the Legendary Heroes throughout History! Some still alive today! Such as the mighty Quindan of Carthis Randor, now hand to the new King, or Shadowdancer Yang Black, now master of his own monastery..

Chapter 5-ish: Homebrew!

A Whole Lot of New Spells!: All new homebrew spells to use in your campaign! From False Sending to Swift Reading to powerful new magics like Mass Haste and Psychic Clap.

A Whole Lot of New Magic Items!: All new homebrew magic items from Arrows of the Bull to the Amulet of Weave-Seeing to the Backstabber Blade and the all now-famous Potion of Dragon Control...

A Whole Lot of NPCs!: Stat Blocks for Silver Charge Mercenaries to Mages of the War College and the Edhel Halls to Haracan Mystics, Red Dagger Assassins and even the Ghost of a Fire Giant King!

A Whole Lot of Monsters!: From the Treasure Golem that guards the Royal Vault of King Unter, to the fearsome Purple Worm Matron that nests deep within the Himmelblas Mountain Range, find a whole bunch of new monsters to throw at your Players!

A Whole Lot of Backgrounds!: Maybe your Character was a member of the Silver Charge? Or perhaps a famed Red Dagger Assassin for the Emperor? With a bunch of new campaign-specific backgrounds, you can create some pretty awesome characters...

What other stuff is it gonna have?

A Pronunciation Guide: Because words are hard sometimes...

A Calendar: A Calendar noting specific Holy Days, Rituals and Celestial Events...

Important Teleportation Circles: Circles to the War College, the Edhel Halls Archives, the Library of Saturnity and more...

Reincarnation Table: A whole new Reincarnation Table that now includes Races from Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes!

A Wild Magic Surge Table: A Variant Wild Magic Surge Table to add even more chaos to your games!

Name Lists: A List of Male, Female and Gender-Neutral Names for People from each and every Region...

Is this Ambitious as hell? Aw, Yeah!

Which is why having the community help out when they can is so great! From creating People, Places, Homebrew Content and More!

So, if you’re interested in helping create some content, or just wanna flex your D&D knowledge, shoot a message to @creativerogues and let me know!

What’s been written so far?

A heck of a lot, that’s what!

With over 10 new homebrew spells, 10 new magic items, 8 new backgrounds and a bunch of new homebrew monsters, the homebrew section is looking good.

My personal favorite part of the Player’s Guide as it is right now are the Distant Lands of Harac and Rassumurait, and writing them has been a blast!

And a HUGE (like, waaay huge!) credit to @bxrtimaeus on Tumblr for all the knowledge and lore on ancient Egypt that’s really helped build Rassumurait as a desert kingdom, and for being my personal “English to Ancient Egyptian” Translator! XD

Overall, even though the Draft isn’t even an 1/8th of the way written, it already totals almost ~30 Pages of just my DM World-building Notes, with some notes from Friends and other people that are much better writers than me...

Oh yeah, and big note: I’M NOT AN ACTUAL PROFESSIONAL WRITER!

I’M DOING THIS FOR THE GIGGLES!

How can I help?

Over the course of the next few weeks and months, I’ll be posting little snippets from the Player’s Guide as it’s being written, from New Spells that need testing to New Monsters, Backgrounds and NPCs that I want you’re help making!

You can also just literally message me directly at @creativerogues and ask! Any help is gonna be appreciated!

When do you expect to get this finished?

I have no figgin’ clue! :D

#Players Guide #worldbuilding #homebrew #homebrew rules #Homebrew Monster #homebrew spells #homebrew race #community #communitymade

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castielnova · 3 years

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updated: got tagged by treasured mutuals @tennet & @softjensen (thank you!! 💕 always love to learn more about my treasured mutuals ❤️)

name/nickname: juri

gender: whatever y’all Perceive me as, anything works for me honestly (i probably give off big mender vibes tbh but my ideal is jender sjdfakdjh)

star sign: your resident bullshit— taurus

height: slightly taller than the global average but still one of the shortest in my extended family (can y’all tell i’m somewhat insecure lol)

birthday: 19th may

fave bands: the gazette & linkin park

fave solo artists: hmmm probably the fame album era lady gaga

song stuck in my head: i found by amber run (thanks playlist anon mwah ❤️)

last movie: a silent voice (am not much of a movie person but i had to write a paper on mental illnesses portrayed in pop culture and this was an anime classic so)

last show: i honestly don’t recall asjdfhksa lately i’ve been hyperfixating on destiel fics after destiel fics yikes

when did i create this blog: 2012 i think? (listen… i have seen too much and should be retiring into the grave at this point)

what i post: low quality spn shitposts lmao

last googled: average height in the world

other blogs: i have one somewhat popular snk blog (that’s still getting notes occasionally) but it’s been dead since 2017 so

do i get asks: i apparently only get asks for being a jack kinnie now help (used to regularly get a bunch for art/dj requests back in the good ol’ days when i was an anime blog)

following: 46 blogs currently! (but only the ~15 spn-infected blogs i follow are active sjdhaskjdfh the rest mostly died around the same time i did back in 2017? couldn’t bring my sappy ass to unfollow them still)

followers: ehh i’ve gained over 300 new followers since reviving this account on 25th nov

why i chose this url: ✨i love castiel✨

average hours of sleep: around 6 during the holidays and if i don’t self-sabotage about 8 during school days

lucky number: 8

instruments: piano, guitar and ukulele (but i suck at all of them so YIKES)

what i’m wearing: a sleeveless green army shirt with floral shorts lmao

dream trip: i desperately want to go back to japan for the scrumptious food man gOSH

favourite food: black sauce chicken vs garlic chili prawn vs mentaiko on raw salmon or seasoned lobster fucking FIGHT

nationality: somewhere in asia 🌚

fave song piece: elegie op. 3 no. 1 vs prelude in c sharp minor by rachmaninov FIGHT

last book i read: Satin and Sawdust (...shut up Ltleflrt is a Solid writer ok)

top 3 fictional universes id live in: i’m a massive action/horror fan so ehh i’m not particularly keen to live in any fictional universes i know of lol but if i was held at gunpoint:

SCP for all its wholesome and wicked entities (used to read scp profiles like bedtime stories; some had fan lore so wholesome it left me in tears skjdfaskjdf)

D.Gray-man cause the whole verse is A Vibe however dangerous it is

IB (it’s an iconic horror rpg game y’all should check it out) for the same reason of it being A Whole Vibe (it’s basically an eden for any artist!)

favourite colour: all shades of blue

edit: no tags bc i’m just updating an old tag post lmao 💕

#not spn #I’m tagged 💕

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thenationaltreasuregazette · 7 months

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Team Treasure vs Friday the 13th

#national treasure #the national treasure gazette #national nonsense #ben gates #abigail chase #riley poole #friday the 13th

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rjzimmerman · 4 years

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It clearly won’t happen under trump, so I’m guessing the proponents and feeding and watering the concept until the inevitable more favorable political environment emerges in DC.

Excerpt from this story from the Reno Gazette Journal:

Local tribes and national conservation groups are lobbying to establish a fourth national monument in southern Nevada that would preserve Indigenous cultural sites and critical environmental habitat.

The proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument would protect 380,000 acres east of the Mojave Desert in southern Clark County. The Wilderness Society, the National Parks Conservation Association and local tribes are working together to achieve the land designation.

“I call this the crossroads of the America West. Almost everything that happened in westward expansion happened in this landscape,” said Alan O’Neill, an advisor to the National Parks Conservation Association and former superintendent of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Avi Kwa Ame is Mojave for “Spirit Mountain.” The mountain and surrounding area are sacred to multiple Native American tribes, including Yuman-speaking tribes, Hopi and Chemehuevi Paiute. Sprit Mountain is the Yuman tribes’ spiritual birthplace and figures prominently within their ideology, and the Hopi and Chemehuevi also consider the mountain a sacred site.

"This is a place where our god lives. We do the best we can to take care of this place," said Linda Otero, director of the Aha Makav Cultural Society and former council member Fort Mojave tribe. "It touches our lives in every which way.”

#national monuments #Avi Kwa Ame National Monument (proposed)#Nevada #Native American archaeological sites

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moonlightmurder · 4 years

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While incarcerated in the Anamosa State Penitentiary after being convicted of sodomy on December 3, 1968, John Wayne Gacy joined The Reformatory Jaycees. The Reformatory Jaycees have won numerous awards for their humanistic activities since the club was chartered in 1966. Shown viewing their most recent awards — a national trophy recognizing their work in governmental affairs — are (standing, from left) John Wayne Gacy, legal counsel; Jim Vogt, treasurer; Gary Hedrick, first vice-president; Larry Freiberg, secretary; and seated, Ron Pilcher, president. – The Cedar Rapids Gazette – January 18, 1970

A tricycle gets a news look from J.W. Coulander, Hospers, and John Wayne Gacy, Waterloo, for the men’s reformatory Jaycee chapter. The inmates hope to hold a Christmas party for needy youngsters, as they have the last two years. – The Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 07, 1969

A test run on a tricycle was taken by John Wayne Gacy, Waterloo, after the vehicle was refurbished at the men’s reformatory in Anamosa for a Christmas gift to some child. Prison Jaycee President Pilcher said any orphanage or group looking for toys for needy children should contact the reformatory. – The Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 07, 1969

#John Wayne Gacy #true crime #tcoriginal #true crime research #serial killer #my posts

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Oscar Stanton De Priest

Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago. A member of the Illinois Republican Party he was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century. During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress. He served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1935. De Priest was also the first African-American U.S. Representative from outside the southern states and the first since the exit of North Carolina representative George Henry White from Congress in 1901.

Born in Alabama to freedmen parents, De Priest was raised in Dayton, Ohio. He studied business and made a fortune in Chicago as a contractor, and in real estate and the stock market before the Crash. A successful local politician, he was elected to the Chicago City Council in 1914, the first African American to hold that office.

In Congress in the early 1930s, he spoke out against racial discrimination, including at speaking events in the South; tried to integrate the House public restaurant; gained passage of an amendment to desegregate the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the work programs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; and introduced anti-lynching legislation to the House (it was not passed because of the Solid South Democratic opposition). In 1934, De Priest was defeated by Arthur W. Mitchell, the first African American to be elected as a Democrat to Congress. De Priest returned to Chicago and his successful business ventures, eventually returning to politics, when he was again elected Chicago alderman in the 1940s.

Early life

De Priest was born in 1871 in Florence, Alabama, to freedmen, former slaves of mixed race. He had a brother named Robert. His mother, Martha Karsner, worked part-time as a laundress, and his father Neander was a teamster, associated with the "Exodus" movement. After the Civil War, thousands of blacks left continued oppression by whites in the South by moving to other states that offered promises of freedom and greater economic opportunities, such as Kansas. Others moved later in the century.

In 1878, the year after Reconstruction had ended and federal troops been withdrawn from the region, the De Priests left Alabama for Dayton, Ohio. Violence had increased in Alabama as whites had tried to restore white supremacy: the elder De Priest had to save his friend, former U.S. Representative James T. Rapier, from a lynch mob, and a black man was killed on their doorstep. The boy Oscar attended local schools in Dayton.

Career

Business

De Priest went to Salina, Kansas, to study bookkeeping at the Salina Normal School, established also for the training of teachers. In 1889 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, which had been booming as an industrial city. He worked first as an apprentice plasterer, house painter, and decorator. He became a successful contractor and real estate broker. He built a fortune in the stock market and in real estate by helping black families move into formerly all-white neighborhoods, often ones formerly occupied by ethnic white immigrants and their descendants. There was population succession in many neighborhoods under the pressure of new migrants.

Politics

From 1904 to 1908, De Priest was a member of the board of commissioners of Cook County, Illinois.

De Priest was elected in 1914 to the Chicago City Council, serving from 1915 to 1917 as alderman from the 2nd Ward, on the South Side. He was Chicago's first black alderman. In 1917 De Priest was indicted for alleged graft and resigned from the City Council. He hired nationally known Clarence Darrow as his defense attorney and was acquitted. He was succeeded in office by Louis B. Anderson.

In 1919, De Priest ran unsuccessfully for alderman as a member of the People's Movement Club, a political organization he founded. In a few years, De Priest's black political organization became the most powerful of many in Chicago, and he became the top black politician under Chicago Republican mayor William Hale Thompson.

In 1928, when Republican congressman Martin B. Madden died, Mayor Thompson selected De Priest to replace him on the ballot. He was the first African American elected to Congress outside the South and the first to be elected in the 20th century. He represented the 1st Congressional District of Illinois (which included The Loop and part of the South Side of Chicago) as a Republican. During the 1930 election, De Priest was challenged in the primary by noted African-American spokesperson, orator, and Republican Roscoe Conkling Simmons. De Priest defeated Simmon's primary challenge and won the general election afterward. During De Priest's three consecutive terms (1929–1935), he was the only black representative in Congress. He introduced several anti-discrimination bills during these years of the Great Depression.

DePriest's 1933 amendment barring discrimination in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program of the New Deal to employ people across the country in building infrastructure, was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His anti-lynching bill failed due to opposition by the white conservative Democrats of the Solid South, although it would not have made lynching a federal crime. (Previous anti-lynching bills had also failed to pass the Senate, which was dominated by the South since its disenfranchisement of blacks at the turn of the century.) A third proposal, a bill to permit a transfer of jurisdiction if a defendant believed he or she could not get a fair trial because of race or religion, was passed by a later Congress.

Civil rights activists criticized De Priest for opposing federal aid to the poor. Nevertheless, they applauded him for making public speeches in the South despite death threats. They also praised De Priest for telling an Alabama senator he was not big enough to prevent him from dining in the private Senate restaurant. (Some Congressmen ate in the Senate restaurant to avoid De Priest, who usually ate in the Members Dining Room designated for Congressmen.) The public areas of the House and Senate restaurants were segregated. The House accepted that De Priest sometimes brought black staff or visitors to the Members Dining Room, but objected when he entertained mixed groups there.

De Priest defended the right of students of Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C., to eat in the public section of the House restaurant and not be restricted to a section in the basement near the kitchen, used mostly by black employees and visitors. He took this issue of discrimination against the students (and other black visitors) to a special bipartisan House committee. In a three-month-long heated debate, the Republican political minority argued that the restaurant's discriminatory practice violated 14th Amendment rights to equal access. The Democratic majority skirted the issue by claiming that the restaurant was a private facility and not open to the public. The House restaurant remained segregated through much of the 1940s and maybe as late as 1952.

In 1929, De Priest made national news when First Lady Lou Hoover invited his wife, Jessie De Priest, to a traditional tea for congressional wives at the White House.

De Priest appointed Benjamin O. Davis Jr. to the United States Military Academy at a time when the only African-American line officer in the Army was Davis's father.

By the early 1930s, De Priest's popularity waned because he continued to oppose higher taxes on the rich and fought Depression-era federal relief programs under President Roosevelt. De Priest was defeated in 1934 by Democrat Arthur W. Mitchell, who was also African American. After returning to his businesses and political life in Chicago, De Priest was elected again to the Chicago City Council in 1943 as alderman of the 3rd Ward, serving until 1947. He died in Chicago at 80 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.

Personal life

Oscar married the former Jessie L. Williams (c. 1873 – March 31, 1961). They had two sons together: Laurence W. (c. 1900 – July 28, 1916), who died at the age of 16 and Oscar Stanton De Priest, Jr. (May 24, 1906 – November 8, 1983) A great-grandson of Oscar De Priest, Jr., Philip R. DePriest, became the administrator of his estate after his grandmother's death in 1992. This included his great-grandfather's Oscar Stanton De Priest House, now a National Historic Landmark, which still held his locked political office. This had not been touched since about 1951. This great-grandson has been working to restore the office and house, and assessing the political archives—"a veritable treasure trove."

Legacy and honors

The Oscar Stanton De Priest House in Chicago, at 45th and King Drive, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and city landmark.