Ravenband (The Midgard Chronicles Book 2)

If they didn't then that's another form of malpractice. When I told them I was an investigator for attorney's, and friends with a woman I believed was D. Told me they'd get me a bus ticket to Kansas "They are good with autism in Kansas" says Dr. Even though they have the Thompson Center, here. Not that it's any good They refused a ticket because Beth O. Instead they falsely wrote that a friend in AZ was sending me a bus ticket.

Obviously to cover their asses in case I actually got into that car. The friend they wrote this about was Virginia, the human trafficking investigator, who knows damn well I did no such thing. Didn't even have her new number until I got out. I didn't tell Virginia that, either. I had to maintain a social firewall between us to be able to do my work.

She probably ultimately taught me the basics via whomever taught my U. Navy father during Vietnam. I just took it to a different level before i was a teenager They got the basics by sending in feds to hospitals, homeless shelters, and drug treatment clinics and present with what looks like a valid needs for services.

Now, I need to teach them how to do multiple interviews and rapid mathematics applications. Virginia is smart enough to get it, and teach it. The doctors are going to blame Kristy L. Jacoby, or Rachel Skrall? Rachel eats Cheetos in bed while she plays on her iPad, and iPhone, and then bitches about the mice in her bed.

The house is literally covered in mouse turds. And stinks like funky ass dog sweat. I had safer, more sanitary sleeping conditions on the church porch during my street investigation that got a missing 15 year old boy identified as a trafficking victim. I emailed a contact at CPD, and Ruth. Louis, and his junkie side-kick the bullshit 'rape' victim K2 Junkie 'Baby' Barbara who everyone refused to fuck because she refused to bathe.

That pussy was cuttin' up, too. As was her breath. After they've all snitched each other out, and they and the doctors have all confessed to malpractices via trying to blame me somehow the audio is going to prove priceless, here they'll all write me checks. The same way white folks felt threatened by 'negro's' back in the day, saying stupid shit about how they smelled, and sweated profusely, as a reason to make them drink from different water fountains, use different bathrooms, and set at the back of the bus.

Again, Podunk perceptions are not reality. If I were a white male, they'd be placing a Nobel Prize around my neck. But, I'm a homosexual female Kristy had a responsibility to actually examine ME. Alicia Ludden, and Dr. Megan Cates, Kristy refused. I tried to tell her the truth and save face.

She refused to pick up the phone. So, "I didn't know" isn't a valid excuse. Willful ignorance is a deliberate choice. Jacoby was about to get married into a 'Keeping up with the Jones' LGBT wedding with a baby head shrink with the ass the size of a 13 year old who tweets stupid shit. If Kristy shot her mouth off, she also violated H. No exam, no claim of a clinical evaluation. However, she chose to maintain a clinical approach so she chose to violate H.

They charged me for having done this, yet the audio, and LACK of tests, ultrasounds, etc. Then they stuck a stamp on it and dropped it into the U. That made it federal criminal offenses. Besides the Chapter 12 criminal A. Kristy's indiscretions were in the interest of preserving the integrity of her marriage. Therefore her fuck-ups are forgiven. I'd certainly defend my marriage to her, or any future female, passionately, regardless of who got pissed. Kristy never could 'hold her nuts' when it came to me I was only 28 and you were a super-cute prodigy!

Plus, from ' I was forced to take the now famous criminally marketed they plead guilty suicide drug Neurontin, now called gabapentin. Even WITH the bullshit letters to maintain my cover she was still obligated to do a thorough evaluation before making any clinical assertions. Robin McCartney complained that I was lying to the junkies They don't deserve my respect, my trust, or for me to turn a blind eye to protect them..

I have kids to protect Even though she, and her wife Kristen Clark, has likely sat on most of these doctors faces. Possibly at the same time. I dubbed Kristy as the most beautiful, and sexiest woman on the planet. That was based on when she made smart decisions. She screwed the pooch on that. She climbed into her prejudices, ignorance, and climbed up Kristen Clark's teeny weeny teenager ass and thereby hogtied the entire medical community over a piece of pussy. I never dubbed Kristy to be the smartest woman on the planet. But, one must be S. Which sounds like addictive behavior, per the literature on it Those who see addictive behaviors in everyone are usually linear thinkers with addiction disorders.

I see happy, healthy, smart, well-meaning, ethical people. Like myself, and my best friends Darla, and Virginia. Whom I get along with perfectly. It's only after individuals have repeatedly done S. At that point, depending on the amount of damage, collateral damages, and potentially irreparable harm that these fucking bozos cause usually formally educated rednecks-lesbians included I start low, and come high with my systems analysis. By the time I'm half-way up their begging me to stop.

However, unlike them I do nothing half-assed. I complete the tasks they have pushed me into, despite their pleas for mercy, and dispense social justices as I damn well see fit. Making the offenders recoil, motivating them to change their approach, and thus 'correcting' their destructive behaviors is the ultimate goal. I was trained to be a U. Navy Officer as a child. I was married to a corrections officer for about a decade. Whom I never 'cheated' on. Females have a tendency to periodically change the definition of 'cheating' for me My prodigious passion brings a superhuman dynamic with it.

So, when I'm told "Heather! Kristy has been associated with several properties. Another with a Melissa K. Anyway, I'll sell it, and build two much bigger custom homes. I'll then let her and her wifey-poo live in one. If my new wife let's me. I am not remarried, however, I will be before I start building houses regardless of how much cash I have accumulated in an untouchable trust account from multiple settlements.

That retaliation that I recorded counts as discrimination. That had been planned by another dilettante volunteer, according to her. She was recorded stating as much. That 'manipulative' angling in organizations promising help to survivors really pisses me off. I damn sure won't hear that "We are all on the same team Longer than many of them have been born onto this planet.

I've certainly made more in the way of personal sacrifices. I sacrificed personal relationships, lovers, friends, my civil liberties, housing, food, cold water, MY own personal safety to insure the safety of children and cops, not to mention a glorious career as a lecturer, mathematics prodigy, physician, attorney, musician, vocalist, and anything else I may have done had I NOT survived child sex trafficking. Teammates are as teammates DO.

At that point, I will assert the 'I' that exists in Team Captain and set your ass straight for the benefit of my 'kids'. Let's not forget to say "I can't breathe! Jacoby but you can still set on my face if I'm still single when you get froggy , your wife the oral sex invitation does NOT extend to her as I am not a pederast, and an "I can't breathe! Oh, yeah, "I can't breathe", too, Dr. Megan Cates, and Chris Hartigan R. Parks at Family Health Center. I will let Chris do my breast exam. I won't have to worry about ejaculating in my shorts when he puts his hands on my boobs He's too fucking ugly to make my G-spot swell up, and collapse around my Skene's gland Not that it would matter, he's probably never seen female ejaculate as he most likely has no idea how to get a woman relaxed enough to get aroused enough to get an erect G-spot.

He's too fucking stoned on gabapentin A proper approach would have been:. How are you, today? I see you're in distress, do you need any medical attention? Can we get some paramedics here for you? Can we do, or not do anything, to assist your breathing discomfort in any way? I know there are those who fake symptoms, however, those of us with real medical issues don't have to pay for the stupid crap that others do! Protocol advises that you err on the side of caution. They picked up where he left off due to 'personal' issues.

Chad's a gifted legal scholar, and specialist in A. Chad got his masters in Birmingham TianLiang Maa, alternative spelling: TianLiang Maa is a naturalist, occultist, Buddhist and Taoist. Maa staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions around Taiwan, who was the first exhibitor around Formosa. TianLiang Maa possesses both Taiwanese and German surnames from birth. Moreover, he often teaches and educates younger generations based on the methods of the Far Eastern teaching he experienced when he was young, though he does not oppose the Western ways of teaching and thinking.

They are non-Chinese people; it was long a Chinese and Japanese pirate base. Fighting continued, between its original inhabitants of Taiwanese and the Chinese settlers, into the 19th century. This result was made by the Treaty of Shomonoseki in and remained under Japanese control until the end of the Second World War.

Early on, Taiwan was conquered by the Qing in and for the first time became part of older China dynasty. He put his professional and precise knowledge to good account in business management. A formal business management with business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other commercial transactions and deed. He had many customers having a business and credit relationship with his firm then he was a successful engineer. Afterward, Maa immigrated into the United Kingdom in the early year of However, human beings failed to control themselves, deliberately went against the law of nature, and resulted in disasters, which we deserved.

He also is an occultist, a Taoist, and a Buddhist; but in Britain, he frequently goes to Christian and Catholic churches, where he makes friends with pastors and fathers as well as churchgoers. He is always a freethinker, does not accept traditional, social, and religious teaching, but based on his ideas: If people have not come across eastern classics and philosophy, we are afraid that people would never understand TianLiang Maa. People cannot judge an eastern philosopher based on western ways of thinking. He studies I Ching discovering eastern classics of ancient origin consisting of 64 interrelated hexagrams along with commentaries.

The hexagrams embody Taoist philosophy by describing all nature and human endeavour in terms of the interaction of yin and yang, and the classics may be consulted as an oracle. Back in the s when Maa just arrived at England, he had been offered places to do Ph. During his time at Oxford, he learnt a lot of British culture and folk-custom while carrying out research with many British and Western professors, experts, and archaeologists. This proves that Maa understands various aspects in British society, culture, and lifestyles.

Of course, he does not fully understand about the perspectives of thinking of a typical British. For example, what would be the most valuable in life for a British person? What would a British want to gain from life? What is the goal in life for a British? Is it fortune or a lover? On the other hand, maybe being able to travel around the world and see the world?

Maa ever studied judicial review and governmental action, the impact of law and legal techniques, constitutional mechanisms for the protection of basic rights, and ensuring the integrity of commercial activity, the impact of law and legal techniques on government, policymaking, and administration, as well as the creation of markets. He tries to understand these critical trends in the political development of modern state.

He is also sure law and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate like clocks; they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. The government issues a decree - an authoritative order having the force of law, which charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions. Any of the officials promulgate a law or put into practice relating to the government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws then they announce and carry out the creation of any order or new policy that will be responsible for the people.

Maa had knowledge in connexion with construction law; he also understands architectural arts, and as well learnt the forms by combining materials and parts include as an integral part concerning modern construct. I ever built urban buildings and rural architecture in different styles under new housing and building projects by the governmental administration and construction corporations. Right now, Maa studies the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society resulted code of mixed civil and criminal procedure.

He wishes an agreement or a treaty to end human hostilities - the absence of war and other hostilities around the world. The interrelation and arrangement of freedom from quarrels and disagreement become harmonious relations living in peace with each other. Actually, erect peace in more friendly ways of making friendships for modern human society is comfortable in my ideal.

It is like building monolithic architecture: In the ethnic disagreement and armed conflicts as concerning the poor people and children notwithstanding they live through a bad environment on any of poor or crowded village or town in a particular manner - lived frugally. However, after years of industrialisation as a more educated population, becomes more aware of global plenum, continuing to be alive. Environmental groups are increasing and lobbing government will legislate to stop bad environmental and social practices.

And as well the poor people shall meet and debate sustainable development and for a concerted government led action towards sustainability is an example that the younger generation are concerned for the future. It shall be making the younger easier for their life and make better on their lives, and help them to build a better future.

It represents those rules or principles by which men and women live and work in a spirit of mutual confidence and service. Without going into the question of how an ethical code was formulated or why anybody should obey it, we can look at the matter in a common-sense fashion with reference to its influence upon our legal affairs. In brief, from the law point of view, a reputable ethical code embodies the qualities of accuracy, dependability, fair play, sound judgement, and service.

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It is based upon honesty. An honest regard for the rights of others is an essential element of any decent code of ethics, and one that anyone must observe if anybody intends to follow that code. After all, ethics is not something apart from human beings. Indeed, there is no such thing apart from our actions and us. It is the duty, therefore, of every man and woman in legal affairs to see that his daily associations with others are truly in conformity with the plain meaning of the Ten Commandments: In an interval regarded as a distinct period of s, he studied mixed civil and crime, and the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure for the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society.

He was especially one who maintains the language and customs of the group, and social security in Taiwan. Since 30 July of , Maa settled himself in law as a chief executive and scrivener at Central Legal, Real Estate, and Accounting Services Office; it is in the equivalent to a solicitor of the United Kingdom. The Office provided full legal, accounting, real estate, and commercial services to the public. He did his job as a person legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs and defendants in legal proceedings and affairs.

The company offered services to the public in response to need and demand in the area of credit information. Maa had excellent experiences in political and law work was pertaining to mixed civil and crime, the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure, construction, and commercial law abroad.

The experiences of legal services related to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished. In the criminal proceedings, he did many cases for the defendants. Although an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction; but he also laid legal claim, required as useful, just, proper, or necessary to the defendants under the human rights in the meantime. This provision ensures to the defendant a real voice in the subject.

The men whose judgement we respect are those who do not allow prejudices, preferences, or personalities to influence their decisions. Profit and self-aggrandisement are likewise ignored in their determination to reach an equitable and fair settlement. What are the basic principles upon which good judgement is founded?

A keen intellect, a normal emotionally, a through understanding of human nature, experience of law work, sincerity, and integrity. In November of , Maa was year-old, he instructed many professors and students of National Taiwan Normal University in photography of abstract impressionism and rayonnisme in Taipei, Taiwan. Maa was the first exhibitor around the country. All of the invited displays were by the Chinese Government, cultural and artistic organisations, and sponsors.

It spreads rapidly through academic circles, and was broadly accepted as a means to reform society. During the late 19th century, as late Manchu dynasty was confronted on all sides by foreign aggression, voices throughout society debated the most effective means to reform and strengthen the country. Taiwan was at the centre of these waves of reform. In a role just like that of a gardener wanting to create a rich and fertile environment for the seeds of culture, one in which Maa may sprout, grow and bloom.

Maa aims to provide an educational stimulus for society by introducing his works - Maa can express the neo-romantic spirit deftly from various creations and supporting international artistic exchanges. Maa believes that the first step in creating such a new and independent state is the real emergence of culture and arts, for which the art and science of designing and erecting buildings, and fine arts including photography and motion picture of the civilization is a good measurement of success.

It was all started when Maa was just year-old. Many of which have been very influential. These have been quoted by Western and Eastern scholars many times in the last few years, making Maa one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the world in the late 20th and early 21st century. Today, Maa is a professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, and a photographer, film director, and computer engineer now live and work in London.

Revised Edition on 8 May , Languages: Chinese traditional , and English language. Album of Academic Work for News Publication: Commissioner of the cinema, photography, radio, and television committee of The Culture and Arts Association Chinese Writers and Artists Association of Taiwan ever since September Classic member, the membership is equivalent to a doctorate membership of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering since 23 March Classic member, the membership is equal to a professor or associate professor of The Chinese Institute of Engineers since 30 September Computer Engineering and Network Services.

The Sonate composed on 3rd April then Maa was year-old. On Sunday, July 19th, , over guests including top media, influencers and buyers, attended the WET Lounge, at the W South Beach, to experience a rocking runway show. By definition a collage is assembling different elements to create a new whole, and the designer, Libby Desantis, showcased her new vision with various looks inspired by different eras: Pops of painterly prints and bright hues are contrasted well against darker styles.

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True to the old adage, the show did go on thanks to the somewhat cohesive efforts of the affected brands, production companies and publicists. Kicking off on July 15, this year's Swim Week has appeared entirely unblemished — or the collections have, anyway. Old pros like Mara Hoffman and Mikoh delivered even more desirable swimwear for spring , while a few less established names — in the swim world at least — brought some newness to the event. Maxim magazine, for one, showed its first-ever swimwear collection, inspired by Brigitte Bardot and chock-full of high-waisted bottoms and floaty coverups.

Others, like Colombia-made Maaji Swimwear, went the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show route, going all-out on a kooky theme, this year's being a tousled, bohemian-era road trip. But whether it was inspired by Bardot or Route 66, the common thread between each collection was an abundance barely-there, Brazilian wax-requiring swimwear. As with every year, some looks were so nude, so thinly-covered A week spread between the sweaty Miami heat of three separate trade shows - Swim Show, Cabana and Hammock - of various personalities, with relevant brands occupying space in the show that suit their vibe.

All of these shows are situated within walking distance of each other. Brands also have parties or fashion shows throughout the four days at nearby hotels and pools, making Miami Swim Week super busy and a whole lotta fun. There's hot, Miami energy and it's awesome to be seeing a preview of swim collections from the hottest brands for This is the boutique show where the brands showcase in two big, cabana-style tents near the beach with coconuts issued to buyers, media and guests on entry.

Situated in the W Hotel, with the coolest brands of today occupying the luxury suites to showcase their latest collection with their marketing teams and a bevy of hot models. The history of the bikini can be traced back to antiquity. Illustrations of Roman women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events have been found in several locations.

The most famous of them is Villa Romana del Casale. French women welcomed the design, but the Catholic Church, some media, and a majority of the public initially thought the design was risque or even scandalous. Contestants in the first Miss World beauty pageant wore them in , but the bikini was then banned from the competition.

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Actress Bridget Bardot drew attention when she was photographed wearing a bikini on the beach during the Cannes Film Festival in Other actresses, including Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, also gathered press attention when they wore bikinis. During the early 's, the design appeared on the cover of Playboy and Sports Illustrated, giving it additional legitimacy. Ursula Andress made a huge impact when she emerged from the surf wearing what is now an iconic bikini in the James Bond movie Dr. The bikini gradually grew to gain wide acceptance in Western society.

According to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard, the bikini is perhaps the most popular type of female beachwear around the globe because of "the power of women, and not the power of fashion". As he explains, "The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women. By the 's, necklines plunged at the back, sleeves disappeared and sides were cut away and tightened. With the development of new clothing materials, particularly latex and nylon, through the 's swimsuits gradually began hugging the body, with shoulder straps that could be lowered for tanning.

Women's swimwear of the 's and 's incorporated increasing degrees of midriff exposure. Coco Chanel made suntans fashionable, and in French designer Madeleine Vionnet offered an exposed midriff in an evening gown. They were seen a year later in Gold Diggers of The Busby Berkeley film Footlight Parade of showcases aqua-choreography that featured bikinis. Dorothy Lamour's The Hurricane also showed two-piece bathing suits. The film, Fashions of featured chorus girls wearing two-piece outfits which look identical to modern bikinis.

In , a National Recreation Association study on the use of leisure time found that swimming, encouraged by the freedom of movement the new swimwear designs provided, was second only to movies in popularity as free time activity out of a list of 94 activities. In American designer Claire McCardell cut out the side panels of a maillot-style bathing suit, the bikini's forerunner. The invention of the Telescopic Watersuit in shirred elastic cotton ushered into the end the era of wool.

Cotton sun-tops, printed with palm trees, and silk or rayon pajamas, usually with a blouse top, became popular by Wartime production during World War II required vast amounts of cotton, silk, nylon, wool, leather, and rubber. To comply with the regulations, swimsuit manufacturers produced two-piece suits with bare midriffs.

Fabric shortage continued for some time after the end of the war. By that time, two-piece swimsuits were frequent on American beaches. The July 9, , Life shows women in Paris wearing similar items. Pin ups of Hayworth and Esther Williams in the costume were widely distributed. The most provocative swimsuit was the Moonlight Buoy, a bottom and a top of material that weighed only eight ounces. What made the Moonlight Buoy distinctive was a large cork buckle attached to the bottoms, which made it possible to tie the top to the cork buckle and splash around au naturel while keeping both parts of the suit afloat.

Life magazine had a photo essay on the Moonlight Buoy and wrote, "The name of the suit, of course, suggests the nocturnal conditions under which nude swimming is most agreeable. American designer Adele Simpson, a Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards winner and a notable alumna of the New York art school Pratt Institute, who believed clothes must be comfortable and practical, designed a large part of her swimwear line with one-piece suits that were considered fashionable even in early 's.

This was when Cole of California started marketing revealing prohibition suits and Catalina Swimwear introduced almost bare-back designs. Teen magazines of late 's and 's featured designs of midriff-baring suits and tops. However, midriff fashion was stated as only for beaches and informal events and considered indecent to be worn in public. Hollywood endorsed the new glamour with films such as Neptune's Daughter in which Esther Williams wore provocatively named costumes such as "Double Entendre" and "Honey Child". Swimwear of the 's, 50's and early 60's followed the silhouette mostly from early 's.

Keeping in line with the ultra-feminine look dominated by Dior, it evolved into a dress with cinched waists and constructed bust-lines, accessorized with earrings, bracelets, hats, scarves, sunglasses, hand bags and cover-ups. Many of these pre-bikinis had fancy names like Double Entendre, Honey Child to maximize small bosoms , Shipshape to minimize large bosoms , Diamond Lil trimmed with rhinestones and lace , Swimming In Mink trimmed with fur across the bodice and Spearfisherman heavy poplin with a rope belt for carrying a knife , Beau Catcher, Leading Lady, Pretty Foxy, Side Issue, Forecast, and Fabulous Fit.

According to Vogue the swimwear had become more of "state of dress, not undress" by mid's. French fashion designer Jacques Heim, who owned a beach shop in the French Riviera resort town of Cannes, introduced a minimalist two-piece design in May which he named the "Atome," after the smallest known particle of matter.

The bottom of his design was just large enough to cover the wearer's navel. He noticed women on St. Tropez beaches rolling up the edges of their swimsuits to get a better tan and was inspired to produce a more minimal design. He trimmed additional fabric off the bottom of the swimsuit, exposing the wearer's navel for the first time. He introduced his design to the media and public on July 5, , in Paris at Piscine Molitor, a public pool in Paris. His swimsuit design shocked the press and public because it was the first to reveal the wearer's navel.

To promote his new design, Heim hired skywriters to fly above the Mediterranean resort advertising the Atome as "the world's smallest bathing suit. He also initiated a bold ad campaign that told the public a two-piece swimsuit was not a genuine bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.

Only women in the vanguard, mostly upper-class European women embraced it. Bikini sales did not pick up around the world as women stuck to traditional two-piece swimsuits. Only women in the vanguard, mostly upper-class European women embraced it, just like the upper-class European women who first cast off their corsets after World War I. Bikinis were banned from beauty pageants around the world after the controversy. In the Los Angeles Times reported that Miss America Bebe Shopp on her visit to Paris said she did not approve the bikini for American girls, though she did not mind French girls wearing them.

Actresses in movies like My Favorite Brunette and the model on a cover of LIFE were shown in traditional two-piece swimwear, not the bikini. In , Time magazine interviewed American swimsuit mogul Fred Cole, owner of Cole of California, and reported that he had "little but scorn for France's famed Bikinis," because they were designed for "diminutive Gallic women". Australian designer Paula Straford introduced the bikini to Gold Coast in Despite the controversy, some in France admired "naughty girls who decorate our sun-drenched beaches".

Brigitte Bardot, photographed wearing similar garments on beaches during the Cannes Film Festival helped popularize the bikini in Europe in the 's and created a market in the US. Photographs of Bardot in a bikini, according to The Guardian, turned Saint-Tropez into the bikini capital of the world. Cannes played a crucial role in the career of Brigitte Bardot, who in turn played a crucial role in promoting the Festival, largely by starting the trend of being photographed in a bikini at her first appearance at the festival, with Bardot identified as the original Cannes bathing beauty.

In , she wore a bikini in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini released in France as Manina, la fille sans voiles , a film which drew considerable attention due to her scanty swimsuit. During the Cannes Film Festival, she worked with her husband and agent Roger Vadim, and garnered a lot of attention when she was photographed wearing a bikini on every beach in the south of France. Like Esther Williams did a decade earlier, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot all used revealing swimwear as career props to enhance their sex appeal, and it became more accepted in parts of Europe when worn by fifties "love goddess" actresses such as Bardot, Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren.

In Spain, Benidorm played a similar role as Cannes. Shortly after the bikini was banned in Spain, Pedro Zaragoza, the mayor of Benidorm convinced dictator Francisco Franco that his town needed to legalize the bikini to draw tourists. In , General Franco agreed and the town became a popular tourist destination. Interestingly, in less than four years since Franco's death in , Spanish beaches and women had gone topless. The swimsuit was declared sinful by the Vatican and was banned in Spain, Portugal and Italy, three countries neighboring France, as well as Belgium and Australia, and it remained prohibited in many US states.

It's at the razor's edge of decency. Writer Meredith Hall wrote in her memoir that till one could get a citation for wearing a bikini in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. In , the first Miss World contest, originally the Festival Bikini Contest, was organized by Eric Morley as a mid-century advertisement for swimwear at the Festival of Britain. The press welcomed the spectacle and referred to it as Miss World, and Morley registered the name as a trademark. The bikinis were outlawed and evening gowns introduced instead.

Bikini was banned from beauty pageants around the world after the controversy. Catholic-majority countries like Belgium, Italy, Spain and Australia also banned the swimsuit that same year. The National Legion of Decency pressured Hollywood to keep bikinis from being featured in Hollywood movies. The Hays production code for US movies, introduced in but not strictly enforced till , allowed two-piece gowns but prohibited navels on screen.

But between the introduction and enforcement of the code two Tarzan movies, Tarzan, the Ape Man and Tarzan and His Mate , were released in which actress Maureen O'Sullivan wore skimpy bikini-like leather outfits. Film historian Bruce Goldstein described her clothes in the first film as "It's a loincloth open up the side.

You can see loin. The girl in the bikini was allowed in Kansas after all the bikini close ups were removed from the film in In reaction to the introduction of the bikini in Paris, American swimwear manufacturers compromised cautiously by producing their own similar design that included a halter and a midriff-bottom variation. Though size makes all the difference in a bikini, early bikinis often covered the navel. When the navel showed in pictures, it was airbrushed out by magazines like Seventeen.

Navel-less women ensured the early dominance of European bikini makers over their American counterparts. By the end of the decade a vogue for strapless styles developed, wired or bound for firmness and fit, along with a taste for bare-shouldered two-pieces called Little Sinners. But, it was the halterneck bikini that caused the most moral controversy because of its degree of exposure. So much so as bikini designs called "Huba Huba" and "Revealation" were withdrawn from fashion parades in Sydney as immodest.

The appearance of bikinis kept increasing both on screen and off. The sex appeal prompted film and television productions, including Dr. They include the surf movies of the early 's. By , the movie Beach Party, starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, followed by Muscle Beach Party , Bikini Beach , and Beach Blanket Bingo that depicted teenage girls wearing bikinis, frolicking in the sand with boys, and having a great time. The beach films led a wave of films that made the bikini pop-culture symbol.

In the sexual revolution in 's America, bikinis became quickly popular. Pin-up posters of Monroe, Mansfield, Hayworth, Bardot and Raquel Welch also contributed significantly to its increasing popularity. In , Playboy featured a bikini on its cover for the first time. Two years later, Sports Illustrated featured Berlin-born fashion model Babette March on the cover wearing a white bikini. The issue was the first Swimsuit Issue.

It gave the bikini legitimacy, became an annual publication and an American pop-culture staple, and sells millions of copies each year. In , a woman told Time it was "almost square" not to wear one. She showed a fair amount of her inch 1, mm bust, as well as her midriff and legs, in the leopard-spot bikini she wore for her stage shows.

Here she preens in leopard-print or striped bikinis, sucking in air to showcase her well noted physical assets. The scene has been named one of the most memorable of the series.

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Channel 4 declared it the top bikini moment in film history, Virgin Media puts it ninth in its top ten, and top in the Bond girls. The Herald Glasgow put the scene as best ever on the basis of a poll. It also helped shape the career of Ursula Andress, and the look of the quintessential Bond movie. Andress said that she owed her career to that white bikini, remarking, "This bikini made me into a success.

As a result of starring in Dr. No as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent. That white bikini has been described as a "defining moment in the sixties liberalization of screen eroticism". Because of the shocking effect from how revealing it was at the time, she got referred to by the joke nickname "Ursula Undress". The poster image of the deer skin bikini in One Million Years B. Welch was featured in the studio's advertising as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the bikini was later described as a "definitive look of the 's".

Her role wearing the leather bikini raised Welch to a fashion icon and the photo of her in the bikini became a best-selling pinup poster. One author said, "although she had only three lines in the film, her luscious figure in a fur bikini made her a star and the dream girl of millions of young moviegoers". In , Time listed Welch's B. The costume was made of brass and was so uncomfortable that actress Carrie Fisher described it as "what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.

In , 51 years after the bikini's debut, and 77 years after the Miss America Pageant was founded, contestants were allowed wear two-piece swimsuits, not just the swimsuits nicknamed "bulletproof vests" traditionally issued by the pageant. Two of the 17 swimsuit finalists wore two-piece swimsuits, and Erika Kauffman, representing Hawaii, wore the briefest bikini of all and won the swimsuit competition. In , the International Federation of Bodybuilders recognized Bikini as a new competitive category.

Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore appeared in a bikini in An Evening in Paris , a film mostly remembered for the first bikini appearance of an Indian actress. She also posed in a bikini for the glossy Filmfare magazine. The costume shocked the conservative Indian audience, but it also set a trend of bikini-clad actresses carried forward by Parveen Babi in Yeh Nazdeekiyan, , Zeenat Aman in Heera Panna ; Qurbani, and Dimple Kapadia in Bobby, in the early 's.

Wearing a bikini put her name in the Indian press as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses of all time, and was a transgression of female identity through a reversal of the state of modesty, which functions as a signifier of femininity in Bombay films. By , it became usual for actors in Indian films to change outfits a dozen times in a single song — starting with a chiffon sari and ending up wearing a bikini. But, when Tagore was the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification in , she expressed concerns about the rise of the bikini in Indian films.

As skin cancer awareness grew and a simpler aesthetic defined fashion in the s, sales of the skimpy bikini decreased dramatically. The new swimwear code was epitomized by surf star Malia Jones, who appeared on the June cover of Shape Magazine wearing a halter top two-piece for rough water. After the 90's, however, the bikini came back again. On one hand the one-piece made a big comeback in the 's and early 's, on the other bikinis became briefer with the string bikini in the 's and 80's. The "-kini family" as dubbed by author William Safire , including the "-ini sisters" as dubbed by designer Anne Cole has grown to include a large number of subsequent variations, often with a hilarious lexicon — string bikini , monokini or numokini top part missing , seekini transparent bikini , tankini tank top, bikini bottom , camikini camisole top and bikini bottom , hikini , thong , slingshot , minimini , teardrop , and micro.

In just one major fashion show in , there were two-piece suits with cropped tank tops instead of the usual skimpy bandeaux, suits that are bikinis in front and one-piece behind , suspender straps, ruffles, and daring, navel-baring cutouts. To meet the fast changing tastes, some of the manufacturers have made a business out of making made-to-order bikinis in around seven minutes.

Actresses in action films like Charlie's Angels: PETA used celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Traci Bingham and Alicia Mayer wearing a bikini made of iceberg-lettuce for an advertisement campaign to promote vegetarianism. By the end of the century, the bikini went on to become the most popular beachwear around the globe, according to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to "the power of women, and not the power of fashion".

According to Beth Dincuff Charleston, research associate at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The bikini represents a social leap involving body consciousness, moral concerns, and sexual attitudes. The bikini has boosted spin-off services like bikini waxing and the sun tanning industries. The bikini remained a hot topic for the news media. In May , Barcelona, Spain made it illegal to wear bikinis in public except in areas near the beaches.

Violators face fines of between and euros. In , two students of St. Theresa's College in Cebu, the Philippines were barred from attending their graduation ceremony for "ample body exposure" because their bikini pictures were posted on Facebook. The students sued the college and won a temporary stay in a regional court. In June , actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who also is interested in fashion, produced a bikini for her clothing line that is designed to be worn by girls 4 to 8 years old. She was criticized for sexualizing young children by Claude Knight of Kidscape, a British foundation that strives to prevent child abuse.

He commented, "We remain very opposed to the sexualization of children and of childhood Four women were arrested over the Memorial Day weekend in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for indecent exposure when they wore thong bikinis that exposed their buttocks. In June , the British watchdog agency Advertising Standards Authority banned a commercial that showed men in an office fantasizing about their colleague, played by Pamela Anderson, in a bikini for degrading women.

Odin's ferry boat from beneath Sept 15th. It shows some remnants of the orange-red glaze. One of these is a big hot-spot of reddish possibly iron-bearing varnish. Upon all the seven levelled planes of the stoneware can be found traces of this warpaint. On Wednesday, August 29th , one day after the full august moon, between sunset It was strikingly wedge-shaped.

I was somehow happy to have found anything. Why did it have these three longsides? An underside, an outside and an inside. Was it possibly a hand axe or something like that? I stayed alone upon the hill and took some photos of the nightlighted Berlin-Silhouette. The Moon of Alabama had risen up through the clouds over the horizon and was shining brightly.

So I could make notes into my rough book. Next day deciphering what I had scribbled under the pale shimmer of the moonlight I was taken aback recognizing it as a grapholalia: Four days later on a sunday afternoon, September 2nd , I began to investigate the architecture and design of the beautiful piece again. Suddenly I was recognizing with delight: With the proximal phalanx of the thumb at the hilt, you can use it as a little pestle triangular area: But preeminently you can use it as a hand hammer to stun birds or little animals by a blow, subsequently turn the hand-palm by 90 degrees and you get a hand knife with a 3-cm-blade between the tips of thumb and index - to cut the throats of your already dazed victims.

The back quarter of the artifact has been shaped slightly bent to customize it to the fist 'claw' of a right-hander that must not have had very long finger-digits to provide firm and tight handholds. At the knife head there is a cutting edge that has a length of approximately three centimeters.

It lies between two flattened triangular planes having obviously served as handles for the tip of the index finger 2cm x 2cm x 2cm and and the tip of the thumb 3cm x 3cm x 1,5cm. A third flattened area is even larger. This one is not triangular but rectangular 4cm x 2,5cm and gave hold for the thumb ball. The blade has one big flake scar 1,3 x 0,7cm upon the outside and many little flake scars upon the inside 1,1 x 0,5cm. At first sight the piece looks a little bit like a meteorite. It has an oblong shape.

The colour is darkly brown. At some parts it is covered with something that looks like rust. This maybe partly caused by iron oxide from the impurities of the fired clays used to produce the stoneware " Darker clays often contain iron and other metal oxide impurities " but more likely these spots are the remnants of the red varnish that was used to mark the stoneware as destined for war. The texture of the surface is vitrious, hence it is astounding water repellent and hygrophobic. Possibly this impregnation was achieved by firing it two times, the second time with a much lower temperature and spread with a special glaze.

Circumstantial phenomena give evidence that the piece is not a rough-hewn stone or a earthenware but a fired stoneware. Additionally stoneware is in contrast to earthenware freeze resistant! If I touch with my nose the stoneware in order to inhale the flagrant gas which it is still exuding I can smell the New World Odour that had to take place as soon as these serendipitous people which have made this warhead in their smelting furnaces had discovered how to extract iron from their clays.

The Hellenics reported the invention of iron originated from Scythia but possibly those Scythians were or received it from the ethnicities living at that time just where I have found this weapon - around the rivers Wuhle, Spree and Havel. I guess this ingot was forged on the verge of iron age. This would mean it was hiding for about years upon the summit of that germanic cradle hill. The Ground Plan of the underside was wedged in the shape of a lune. But then the potter had to take into account mythological considerations: At the backside of the stone the broken off apex of the moon sickle lune, crescent moon shall remind us to the broken off hammer-shaft.

The bow is bent to the port side, and the stern is bent to starboard. But there is a much simpler answer to the problem of this winding ground line: The stoneware is shaped like a boat, has a winding ground line and scales like a snake, - and therefore reminds us to the serpent-raft of Quetzalcoatl. The scales of the fishes transformed to the scales of the reptiles and the scales of the reptiles transformed to the feathers of the birds.

There are 4 levelled smaller planes: It has presumably a higher Fracture Toughness than granite. The trisided stoneware has a handle that is bent 'Boomerang' and somehow 'broken off'. With its phallic shape, it could have had easily represented a 'Mjolnir'. There are some scratchers upon the surface. Mit der Hand der War weiht uns zusammen!

Das Herz im Leib lachte da Thor, als der hartgemute den Hammer sah: Einst stahl Thrym Thor seinen Hammer, als dieser schlief. Beide reisen in Verkleidung als Braut und Brautbegleiterin zu Thrym. The English meal, mill and maul are direct relatives, while mallet and molar arrived via Latin. It has been suggested that although the name reflects Mjolnir's awesome powers it might also allude to Thor's agricultural nature, as he was primarily worshipped by farmers.

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This second theory parallels with the idea that Thor, being a god of thunder, therefore might have used lightning as his weapon. It is often referred to as either a club, axe, or hammer, and is capable of toppling giants and destroying mountains with a single blow. Consequently, many Norse polytheists believed that lightning strikes were a manifestation of Mjolnir on earth.

Mjolnir is often represented with a bent handle. Mjolnir may also mean fertility, the phallus that impregnates the earth. Sometimes Mjolnir is compared to a boomerang , due to its ability to return to its thrower. Usually, it is used as normal war hammer. There may be a connection between Thor's throwing hammer and the francisca throwing axes of the Franks.

He [Thor] would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.

She is usually seen as a Norse fertility goddess. Freya Scandinavian Mythology the goddess of love and of the night, sister of Frey. Often identified with Frigga. In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors In Norse mythology, Odin 's spear Gungnir is an embodiment of lightning. In addition, his son, Thor is specifically the god of thunder and lightning, wielding Mjolnir. The quieter and darker it is the lighter the flash and the louder the thunder. Valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles. The symbol appears on Scandinavian rune stones in connection with Odin.

The Valknut symbol plays a role in modern Germanic neopagan faiths drawn from Germanic paganism , particularly. The symbol is also called: If the ship is very small, it is called a boat grave. This style of burial was used in the Vendel era and by the Anglo Saxons, the Merovingians, the Vikings and occasionally the Ancient Egyptians.

This burial was seen as a way for the dead to sail to Valhalla, ship burial was a high honour. In his description of the funeral of a Scandinavian chieftain, a slave girl volunteers to die with her master. After ten days of festivities, she is stabbed to death by an old woman a sort of priestess who is referred to as 'Angel of Death' and burnt together with the deceased in his boat. The larger ones langseax were probably weapons, the smaller ones hadseax tools, intermediate sized ones serving a dual purpose. First and foremost is its distinctive "broken back" blade shape. Its sharp wedge shape gives it great—even armour-piercing—strength.

A cutting blow would smash flesh and bone beneath mail. On an unarmoured body, a cut would prove to be crippling or deadly. Likewise, its needle point would make thrusts devastating to the human body. Charlemagne enforced Christianization upon Saxons on the continent — The word 'Saxon' is believed to be derived from the word seax , meaning a variety of single-edged knives. The Saxons long resisted both becoming Christians "they are much given to devil worship," Einhard said, "and they are hostile to our religion," as when they martyred the Saints Ewald , and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns, the Saxon Wars — During Charlemagne's campaign in Hispania , the Saxons advanced to Deutz on the Rhine and plundered along the river.

With defeat came the enforced baptism and conversion of the Saxon leaders and their people. Even their sacred tree, Irminsul, was destroyed. Baptism Vow After the defeat against the Franks in the 8th century every saxon warrior had to forsake "Thunaer ende Uoden ende Saxnote ende allum them unholdum", i.

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It's not only demonizing and breaking down the old deities and replacing them by the new ones but denouncing polytheism by naming any old gods. Saxony in the names of states existing in the FRG today: King Edgar orders to extinguish heathendom 10th century. Lightning and thunder are weapons given to Thor from the one-eyed Odin.

The gods in ancient polytheistic religions are not simple entities like the prophets or saints in our monotheistic religions. The symbol that was named 'valknut' by modern scholars stands for the perplexity of the polytheistic pantheon. Knox, Cambridge [LSJ]. Reinach Cultes, Mythes et Religions 4,, ff. Picard, RHR 25, , ff. Dey Palingenesia, NTA 17,5 , 41ff..

Wie Rohde und R. Abel Orphica, , Kern, AM 16, , 7. Tochter Mise auf den anatolischen Raum. Im Zusammenhang damit ist das von E. But with the book I wrote, I thought, 'The people who are writing reviews of this book, man, they know what the hell they're talking about. The reviews of this book, some of 'em almost made me cry—in a good way. I'd never felt that from a music critic ever. Noted Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin has shown skepticism concerning the factualness of the book: I enjoy Chronicles as a work of literature, but it has a[s] much basis in reality as Masked And Anonymous , and why shouldn't it?

He's not the first guy to write a biography that's a pack of lies. Volume One , and believe that the book appropriates phrases, anecdotes, and descriptions from numerous authors. The pair also believe that Dylan cribbed phrases from less-likely sources, such as a TIME article from , and a travel guide to New Orleans.

A number of these plagiarism and inaccuracy concerns were detailed in David Kinney's book about hard-core fans of the artist, titled The Dylanologists: That's all I can say. If it was planned I'd tell you. The last Chronicles I did all myself. The abridged audio version of the book is read by actor Sean Penn. The unabridged version is read by Nick Landrum. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Chronicles disambiguation. Adventures in the Land of Bob. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 May The Rock and Roll Report.

Discography Awards Bibliography Songs written by Dylan. The Complete Album Collection Vol. The Royal Albert Hall concert Vol.