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# Weeds (short story)

"Weeds" (also known as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill") is a darkly humorous short story by Stephen King. It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976.

## Plot summary

On Independence Day, a backwoods hick farmer in New Hampshire named Jordy Verrill thinks his newfound discovery of a meteorite will provide enough riches to pay off the remaining $200 (equivalent to $1,071 in 2023) of his bank loan, but instead finds himself overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that arrives in the meteorite when he ends up coming in contact with it. It is mentioned that Jordy doesn't have much good luck.
After a rainstorm, Jordy sees that the organism has grown roundish grass around where the meteorite struck. Not only are the plants growing on anything he touches that is wet, but there are also plants growing on his fingers, his left eye, his penis, and his tongue, where he starts to get itchy. He can't go to his usual doctor, who is out of town on a fishing trip. Upon hearing the words "cold water" in his mind, Jordy gives in to the temptation and takes a bath to relieve the itching caused by the growing plants; however, the water only serves to accelerate the plants' growth on his body.
The next day, Jordy now resembles a plant creature with a roundish head with no visible neck and round shoulders. He can even hear the plants (that are now on his property) talking. Loading his shotgun, Jordy kills himself, saying he's "lucky at last". The grass continues to grow across his property and is making its way into the nearby town.

## Publication

"Weeds" was first published in Cavalier in May 1976. In 1979, King revised the story. In 2020, "Weeds" was included in a deluxe edition of Night Shift published by Cemetery Dance Publications.

## Adaptations

The story was adapted into the second segment of the anthology film Creepshow in 1982. The segment was titled "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", a reference to the Bob Dylan song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Stephen King himself plays Verrill in the adaptation, and the location of Verrill's farm is changed to Maine. The story includes Verrill's humorous daydreams about trying to sell the meteor to an imagined "Department of Meteors" at the community college and his decision not to seek medical attention, as he fears a doctor (portrayed by Bingo O'Malley) would amputate his fingers. Plant growth affects everything Jordy touches. As Jordy prepares a bath to soothe his itchy skin, the plants are covering his hands, jawline, chest, back, and an area that causes Jordy to declare, "Oh no, not there!" He is then visited by the ghost of his father (also portrayed by Bingo O'Malley), who appears in his mirror and warns him not to get in the tub as it is the water that the plants want. Believing he is doomed anyway, Jordy gives in. Over several hours, Jordy is transformed into a plant creature. He kills himself with a shotgun. A radio forecaster predicts long periods of rain and sunshine as the camera pans across Jordy's farm, now overrun with monstrous vegetation as some of it is starting to go down the road.
# Hip-hop skit

A hip-hop skit is a form of sketch comedy that appears on a hip-hop album or mixtape, and is usually written and performed by the artists themselves. Skits can appear on albums or mixtapes as individual tracks, or at the beginning or end of a song. Some skits are part of concept albums and contribute to an album's concept. Skits also occasionally appear on albums of other genres.

## History and style

3 Feet High and Rising, the 1989 debut album by De La Soul, is generally regarded as the album that popularized the hip hop skit. Prince Paul, producer of 3 Feet High and Rising, has described the group's intent with their skits as follows:
   Rap records always had some dialogue in them, like, 'Hey, man, I'm gonna smack you in the face,' or, 'Yo… let's get it!' but they weren't sketches with a whole vibe to them. We did it to fill that void, to give our album some structure. It was just something we tried out and it evolved. We never thought it would become a rap album staple.
Skits came to be widespread in hip hop albums throughout the 1990s. They were frequently employed to help establish an album's prevailing mood, or to contextualize the artist's background and lifestyle. Common categories of skit include violent confrontations, sexual encounters, and "answering machine vignettes". Skits have also been seen as a venue to add levity to albums, especially as the rise of gangsta rap made humor less common in the songs themselves. Despite their prevalence, skits have been controversial with audiences. They have often been accused of being filler designed to pad out an album's runtime and tracklist. The humor in skits has also been criticized as being frequently crass or offensive.
Skits have declined in popularity in the twenty-first century. The advent of the MP3 format is widely attributed as being responsible for this decline, since the move from album-based listening to shuffleable music libraries made the presence of skits less desirable.

## Notable skits

* De La Soul's 1991 album, De La Soul Is Dead, has been praised for its "postmodern" series of skits in which a group of bullies steal the album and deride its content.
* The "Deeez Nuuuts" skit on Dr. Dre's The Chronic has been recognized for its lasting popularity.
* The "Torture" skit at the start of the Wu-Tang Clan's song "Method Man" has been heralded for its over-the-top dark humor. This skit was later referenced in a Chappelle's Show sketch.
* Kendrick Lamar's 2012 album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, has been acknowledged as a twenty-first-century album that uses skits effectively. Throughout the album, these skits are presented as a series of voicemails from Kendrick's parents, which help to shape and contextualize the album's sequencing.
# Ulysses "Seen"

The Ulysses "Seen" project uses a digital comics adaptation of James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses as a gateway to comprehension, exploration, and explication of the great novel. Using a patent-pending digital screen structure, the comic provides an organizing principle for other kinds of content (including and especially various learning resources) by layering that content behind each page of the comic. In addition to minimizing the disruption to narrative posed by traditional footnotes and endnotes, the layering structure serves an intuitive indexing function as well, providing a searchable concordance for general readers, students and scholars. Although the project began life as a web-based platform, the project has been praised for its ability to leverage the functionality of tablet devices in delivering visual content in a way that makes the deeper forms of content readily accessible.
The project currently consists of three layers—the comic, a Reader’s Guide, and a user comment section. A fourth layer, consisting of the full text of the novel with links to scholarly resources embedded in hypertexted links, is in development.
The Ulysses "Seen" project has attracted the attention of the academic, technology, and popular culture communities. At the 2013 International James Joyce Symposium, Melissa Higgins presented a paper “Ulysses ‘Seen’: Re-visioning Modernism in the Digital Turn,” and the project was discussed in several other presentations. The project has been profiled in numerous online publications and blogs, such as the Huffington Post and OpenCulture, and was the subject of a local PBS program highlighting arts initiatives.
The project’s notoriety has led to collaboration with the James Joyce Center in Dublin, Ireland, where the project serves as a “front door” to the Center’s Ulysses-related programs—.
The Ulysses "Seen" project is produced by Throwaway Horse LLC, a Pennsylvania-based limited liability company, which owns the copyright in the comic and Reader’s Guide content, the pending patent application relating to the platform, various trademarks, and holds licensing relationships necessary to deliver the project. Ulysses "Seen" is a 2012 graphic novel by Robert Berry. It is an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The project is expected to take ten years to complete.
Originally developed as an online comic, it was released as an iPad app in 2010. Apple asked the publisher, Throwaway Horse, to censor several panels which contravened their policy on nudity, but reversed their decision later in the year.
# Filingué Department

Filingué is a department of the Tillabéri Region in Niger. Its capital lies at the city of Filingué, and includes the towns of Kourfey, Bonkoukou, Tabala, and Tondikandia. As of 2012, the department had a total population of 306,726 people.

## Communes

* Filingué
* Imanan
* Kourfeye
* Tondikandia
# NCIX

NCIX Computer Inc. (formerly known as Netlink Computer Inc.) was an online computer hardware and software retailer based in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1996 by Steve Wu (伍啟儀).
The company is notably tied to the early career of Linus Sebastian, a former NCIX employee who went on to found Linus Tech Tips (LTT). Linus initially worked at NCIX as a product manager and later created and presented the company’s YouTube channel to market its products.

## Outlets

It had retail outlets in Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond and Langley, British Columbia, as well as Markham, Mississauga, Scarborough, Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario. At one point, NCIX had 3 shipping facilities, one in Richmond, British Columbia, another in Markham, Ontario, and one in City of Industry, California. By July 17, 2017, NCIX had closed the Mississauga, Toronto, and Ottawa retail locations. NCIX declared bankruptcy with the Supreme Court of British Columbia on December 1, 2017, and liquidated all stores and processing orders.

## Demise

As one of the few surviving PC retail chains in Canada, the company "invested heavily in large walk-in retail outlets… all of which were expensive to run", rather than further online sales assets to compete more effectively against Amazon and Newegg. Furthermore, the company prioritized "sales of individual computer parts over complete systems" at a time when consumers and "millennial gamers with relatively high disposable incomes" opted for built systems from trusted brands while "the number of hobbyists who want to build their own hardware is dwindling".
In July 2017, NCIX closed all their Ontario retail outlets in Ottawa, Mississauga, and Toronto and shortly after its Markham headquarters office.
In November 2017, NCIX closed its Vancouver, Burnaby, and Coquitlam stores. Canada Computers then announced they had taken over the leases on these locations.
On November 30, 2017, the last retail store located in Lansdowne Mall, Richmond closed, with only their headquarters in Richmond left.
On December 1, 2017, NCIX filed for bankruptcy with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, under File Number 170816.

### Server data breach

On August 1, 2018, a Craigslist ad listed as “NCIX Database Servers - $8500 (Richmond BC)” was found by Travis Doering of Privacy Fly, indicating unerased servers and data from NCIX operations were available for sale containing user data dating back 15 years. Employee data, including social insurance numbers, was also leaked. Doering stated that in one database alone there were 3.8 million Canadians' information. The data was obtained from an abandoned warehouse where NCIX stored servers before their bankruptcy after the servers were sold to make up for the $150,000 rent fees owed to the owner of the warehouse. This prompted an investigation by the RCMP and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, and the police seized the servers. Despite this, the data on the servers had been copied and sold multiple times before the servers were seized. Software engineer Kipling Warner since sued NCIX and their auctioneer for failing to properly protect the information.
# Goldwyn Prince

Goldwyn Terrence Prince (born 18 June 1974) is a former Antiguan cricketer who played for the Leeward Islands in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a right-arm fast bowler.
Prince made his senior Leeward Islands debut in the 1999–00 Red Stripe Bowl, a limited-overs competition. He took eight wickets from four matches at the tournament (including 4/46 against Trinidad and Tobago), which was the most of any pace bowler and behind only Guyana's Neil McGarrell overall. A few weeks later, based on this form, Prince was selected for West Indies A, playing two first-class games against India A. He made his first-class debut for the Leewards later in the season, and subsequently spent the 2000 English season playing for Worcestershire in the Second XI Championship. In the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl, Prince was again of the leading bowlers in the competition, taking 11 wickets (including 4/22 against Bermuda) to place third for overall wickets. The following season, he played for Antigua and Barbuda (competing separately for the first time), but appeared only once. Prince took his first and only first-class five-wicket haul in the 2001–02 Busta Cup, 5/96 against Barbados, in what turned out to be his second-last game for the Leewards.
# Dany Bédar

Dany Bédar is a francophone Québécois singer from Val-d'Or in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada. At the age of 19, Bédar moved to Montreal, where he played bass guitar with the local band La Chicane from 1999 to 2007, quickly demonstrating his talents as a composer with "Tu m'manques," which earned three Félix Awards and one Juno Award.
Bédar was the bass player for the group Sex Solution, along with follower members, Richard Gibouleau (percussionist) and Karl Coderre (singer/guitarist). Bédar launched his solo career in 2002. He has also written for several artists, including La Chicane, Boom Desjardins, Marie-Chantal Toupin, Nolwenn Leroy, Annie Villeneuve, and Marc Dupré. He also had a bilingual (French/English) hit with Joel Kroeker entitled "Déjà Vu".

## Discography

* 2002: Fruit de ma récente nuit blanche
* 2004: Écoute-moi donc
* 2004: La Tournée Boombox (with Boom Desjardins and Richard Pelland)
* 2006: Acoustique... en studio !
* 2007: Y'a du monde DVD
* 2011: L'avocat du Yab
* 2012: On a tous une histoire a cont No. 40 CAN

## Awards and nominations

* 28th ADISQ awards, 2005 – Pop rock album of the year Écoute-moi donc
* 28th ADISQ awards, 2005 – Best male artist
* Juno Awards of 2005 – Best Selling Francophone Album (nominated) – Écoute-moi donc
* Felix Awards - to honor achievements in Quebec music in 2020
# Tom Godal

Tomas Godal (born 6 July 1953) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Norway. He earned two caps for the Norway national speedway team.

## Biopgraphy

Born in Notodden, Godal gained his early experience in Norway, and finished fourth in the Norwegian Championship in 1975.
In 1977 he signed for Halifax Dukes, moving on to Leicester Lions in April 1978. Never averaging above 5 points in a season, his last year in British speedway was 1979.
# Cool Christy

Cool Christy is a 2002 double-CD compilation of recordings by jazz vocalist June Christy from 1945 to 1951.

## Disc one

* "Tampico" (Gene Roland)
* "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn)
* "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
* "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis)
* "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll)
* "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill)
* "Hay Lawdy Papa" (Gene Roland)
* "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Andy Razaf, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb)
* "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
* "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
* "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler)
* "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert)
* "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman)
* "September in the Rain" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
* "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)
* "Make Love to Me" (Paul Mann, Stephen Weiss, Kim Gannon)
* "Supper Time" (Irving Berlin)
* "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke)
* "I've Got a Guy" (Marion Sunshine)
* "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
* "This Is Romance" (Vernon Duke, Edward Heyman)
* "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills)
* "I'm Thrilled" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
* "You're Blasé" (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Siever)
* "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Walter Hirsh, Benny Goodman)

### Personnel
## Disc two

* "The One I Love" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)
* "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange)
* "How Long Has This Been Going On? (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
* "Rika Jika Jack" (Eric Dawson, Maxine Sullivan, Walter Hagen)
* "I'd Be Lost Without You" (Sunny Skylar)
* "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight" (Billy Reid, Mack Gordon)
* "His Feet Too Big for the Bed" (Hernan Brana, Dick Sanford, Sammy Mysels)
* "Don't Want That Man Around" (Joe Rizzo, Sam Braude, Sam Volk)
* "Across the Alley from the Alamo" (Joe Greene)
* "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
* "Skip Rope" (Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee)
* "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn)
* "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
* "Curiosity" (Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney, Sam Ward)
* "He Was a Good Man as Good Men Go" (Teddy Powell)
* "Lonely Woman" (Benny Carter, Zola Sonin)
* "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
* "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair)
* "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye)
* "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
* "A Mile Down the Highway (There's a Toll Bridge)" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard)
* "Do It Again" (George Gershwin, Buddy DeSylva)
* "He Can Come Back Anytime He Wants To" (Johnny Lehman)
* "Easy Street" (Alan Rankin Jones)
# Adrian Amstutz

Adrian Amstutz (born 2 December 1953) is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss National Council from the canton of Bern from 2003 to 2019.

## Life

Amstutz was born and lives in the rural village of Sigriswil. As a young man, he served in the elite parachute reconnaissance unit of the Swiss Air Force and won the 1978 Parachuting World Cup in the parachuting/giant slalom combination discipline. Trained as an architectural draftsman and head mason, he had to abandon plans for an academic education after marrying his girlfriend, and founded his own construction planning company instead.

## Career

In 1993, Amstutz entered politics as mayor of Sigriswil, joining the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP). In 1998, he was elected to the Grand Council of Bern. He joined the National Council in 2003 and was re-elected in the 2007 elections, garnering more votes than any other candidate in the canton. In 2011, he won a close runoff by-election against the Social Democratic candidate, Ursula Wyss, to succeed Simonetta Sommaruga in the upper chamber, the Council of States. He failed to defend this seat in the general election later that year, but was elected again to the National Council.
Unlike most of his colleagues from the Bernese branch of the SVP prior to the spin-off of the Conservative Democratic Party, Amstutz's politics match the conservative course of the national party, which in 2007 caused him to be considered as a potential candidate for the Swiss Federal Council.
# Baojun E200

The Baojun E200 is a battery electric city car manufactured by SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) since 2018 under the Baojun marque. It is a two-seater car with two doors and a hatch at the rear. It is the second vehicle in Baojun's electric microcar series, after the E100 and before the E300. Since 2021, it is also known as the Wuling Nano EV.

## Overview

The Baojun brand of the General Motors-Chinese joint venture known as SAIC-GM-Wuling, commenced production on the model in September 2018 and from February 2018 the E200 was available to order at market launch throughout China. It is the second Baojun electric car following the Baojun E100.
The E200 has two different range variants with 270 kilometers (167 miles) and 210 kilometers (103 miles) respectively under the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) on a single charge. The battery system has increased density compared to the Baojun E100, enabling the 24 kWh battery to store more energy with the same volume. The ranges represent a 6-mile improvement over the E100 and the energy consumption of the E200 is 10.3 kWh/100 km. The E200 is powered by a 29 kW (39 hp) electric motor that accelerates the car up to a top speed of 100 km/h or 63 mph. 0 to 100 km/h acceleration of the E200 is 15.8 seconds. The E200 is priced at 54,800 yuan ($7,697) and 64,800 yuan for the two range variants after government incentives.
The Baojun E200 has a list of feature including a 7-Inch colour instrument cluster, LED headlamps, dual-channel speakers and a remote interactive system that shows information on the charging status, parking navigation, power supply status and vehicle inspection. Antilock Brakes (ABS) plus Electric Brakeforce Distribution (EBD) and Electronic Stability Control (ESC) are the main E200 safety features. No airbags are equipped. The E200 comes standard with 12 inch wheels, and the curb weight of the E200 is 830 kg or 1830 lbs. The maximum operating weight 980 kg or 2 161 lbs for the E200.

## Wuling Nano EV

The Wuling Nano EV electric city car is a rebadged and restyled version of the Baojun E200, made for the SAIC-GM-Wuling joint-venture, and launched at the Tianjin International Auto Show with two limited editions based on characters from Disney's Zootopia.