Zach Handlen of " The A.V. Club" gave the episode a "B+", praising it for giving McCoy a stronger presence and better lines.

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# Star Trek: "Friday's Child" / "The Deadly Years"

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# "Friday's Child" / "The Deadly Years" / "Friday's Child" / "The Deadly Years"

I've talked a lot about the virtues of James Kirk and his stellar first officer, but I've been overlooking the third member of science fiction's most delightful of holy trinities: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, a simple country doctor who spends all the time when he's not healing people either wanting a drink or arguing.

(Actually, he probably wants a drink all the time, so scratch the "or.")

McCoy has never been a favorite of mine.

Age mellowed him by the time the movies hit, but on the original series, he's too often pissy for no real reason, and his "good old boy" attitude can be embarrassingly anachronistic.

As much as the casual sexism and mini-skirts, he dates the show.

DeForest Kelly is a likable professional, and by about the fifteenth time he aw-shucks his way through some medical mystery, it's easier to just give in and go with it.

McCoy's passion for his job and his patients is obvious and helps to smooth over the spikier edges of his personality—like, for instance, his fair bit of bigotry when it comes to aliens.

He's a good man at heart, and makes for a solid Id to Spock's Ego; and in a way, the off-putting aspects of his character are kind of refreshing.

Movies and TV shows have long told us the importance of following our hearts, and it's nice, whether intentional or not, to have someone who exposes how ineffective a philosophy that can be.

McCoy is never anything less than an excellent physician, but as an advice-giver, his record is spotty at best.

He does occasionally get a chance to shine, though, and "Friday's Child" is pretty much his.

The Federation is interested in negotiating for mining rights on a new planet, and to that end, McCoy has spent some time hanging out with the natives, a warlike tribe called Capellans.

Why the doctor is sent instead of, say, a sociologist is anybody's guess; it could be that the Capellans' culture would only permit someone as neutral as a medic to visit them without causing problems.

(Hell, a minute after Kirk and Spock beam down, they've already got a corpse on their hands.)

Whatever the reason, McCoy gives a briefing on the Capellans before the negotiations get underway.

They're big dudes, supposedly over seven feet tall (although that tends to vary a lot), and to them "fighting is more pleasurable than love."

Also, they seem to be wearing costumes swiped from a forgotten Dr. Seuss movie.

Really, it's just a sci-fi gloss put over some classic Indian stereotypes from Westerns of the time, but there's enough cohesion to the culture that it works okay.

And hey, there's also a lot of barbarian in there too, and who doesn't like Indian barbarians from Whoville?

The rub lies in the fact that the Klingons also want mining rights on the planet, and when Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a doomed redshirt arrive on the scene, a Klingon is already there, filling one of the locals' (an ambitious dude named Maab) ears with all sorts of anti-Starfleet rhetoric.

The redshirt gets a knife to the gut—well, it's more like a toy glaive, but just focus on the fact that it's stabby—when he goes for his phaser, and things get sort of awkward for a while.

The current head of the tribe, Akaar, is a decent enough guy, but when you're dealing with a race that values combat over all other things, how easy is it going to be to settle the issue with plain speaking?

Maab throws a coup, killing Akaar, and putting Kirk and the others in an even worse position; although they're a little better off than Akaar's very pregnant wife Eleen, who's life is forfeit because she's carrying a potential competitor for Maab in her womb.

(This really is more medieval than Native American, isn't it.)

Our heroes escape from camp with Eleen in tow, but that isn't the end of their problems.

Their communicators are gone, the Enterprise is off chasing phantom distress signals, and they've got a whole mess of pissed off semi-giants who've spent their entire lives learning combat to deal with.

Plus, Eleen isn't exactly thrilled to be included in the escape.

Given the choice between death at the hands of her people, or bowing to the will of a group of strange aliens… well, it's not really much of a choice, is it.

"Child" is a collection of cliches, but it works well for all of that.

Ridiculous costumes aside, the Cappellans are a credible threat; the Klingon's presence naturally increases the difficulties of the situation; and McCoy's relationship with Eleen, who grows to trust him only after he smacks her upside the head (she smacked him first, of course), is well-handled.

The series often ends up as The Kirk And Spock Power Hour, so seeing McCoy play a major role is neat, and he gets in some great lines.

("Look, I'm a doctor, not an escalator!")

It's also worth noting that, despite their growing bond, Eleen still knocks the doc out and escapes soon after giving birth to her kid (having grown up on sitcoms that waste whole episodes on deliveries-in-awkward-places, I was charmed by the fact that Eleen's delivery takes place off-screen, in about two minutes).

She does try and save McCoy and the others when she meets up with Maab's group, but it's refreshing that she doesn't completely lose her own values and personality after being "saved."

The subplot that has the Enterprise distracted by a fake call for help is necessary to explain why they don't just beam down to the planet to see what's keeping the captain, but it makes Scotty look awfully dumb for taking so long to figure things out.

(He makes up for it with a metal moment later on when the Klingon ship tries to block the Enterprise's path.

Although it can't be that easy to block someone's path in three dimensional space.)

Having the Klingons show up as a rival makes for solid continuity, but they seem awfully passive for what we've seen of the species.

There's only one of them on the planet with the Capellans, and the Klingon ship that threatens the Enterprise mostly just hangs around.

For all their fighting prowess, the Capellans couldn't put up much of a fight against,say, phaser bombardment.

The whole subterfuge thing doesn't seem very Klingon, either.

As for the Capellans themselves, how is it that a race that prides itself on its talent for combat could get its ass handed to it with such monotonous regularity by James T. Kirk?

Still, props to the ep for having the Capellans take down the Klingon themselves at the end, through a sacrifice play that actually holds consistent to their major philosophy.

Maab puts the needs of the many ahead of his life, and after his death, Eleen's infant son is put in charge, with Eleen acting as his regent; it's a safe bet that the Federation will get all those "rocks" they've been clamoring for.

You gotta wonder just how the prime directive works when Starfleet starts sending equipment and ships to a pre-tech planet (they haven't even invented bows yet—most likely because they're big on hand-to-hand).

In arguing for the Federation over the Klingon Empire, Kirk promises that the Capellans will never lose the right to rule their home, and I think we can take him at his word.

Even with that promise, though, it's a forced change.

Maybe the whole Indian thing wasn't that far off after all.

If "Friday's Child" is McCoy's change to shine, then "The Deadly Years"… isn't.

But then, nobody shines that brightly in an episode that tries for pathos and largely manages to achieve only dull discomfort.

The high concept for this outing: a strange effect causes Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and one poor crew-woman to age rapidly.

Apparently old age is still hell even in the future, as our heroes struggle with memory loss, increased physical sensitivity, bad tempers, and some surprisingly credible make-up jobs.

It's an unexciting concept that hasn't been thought out very well, and the resulting episode, a few quirky moments aside, is a let down.

The Enterprise is visiting to Gamma Hydra IV to check in on a science expedition lead by Robert Johnson.

All they find are some very old corpses, plus Johnson and his wife.

According to Spock, no one in the expedition was elderly, but the corpses all died of old age, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson themselves appear to be edging past the outskirts of the Matlock demographic, despite Johnson's assertion that he's just 28 years old.

But instead of quarantining the facility on the planet and trying to figure things out, everybody beams back aboard the Enterprise.

Since the cause of the rapid aging could very well be biological and contagious, and given that this crew has already dealt with its fair share of bad bugs (like in "Miri," where Kirk was smart enough to keep anyone potentially infected off ship until they could find a cure), you'd think our crew wouldn't be quite so blase about the problem.

Sure, Kirk starts up a blue ribbon panel of experts—including a Commodore Stocker, who offers us some variation in Starfleet administrative personnel by being passively dickish, and Dr. Jan Wallace, a former flame of Kirk's, along with the standard peanut gallery—but it doesn't never occurs to anybody that the people who beamed down to the surface could be in danger.

It isn't long before Kirk, McCoy, and the rest start visibly aging (like I said, the make-up isn't bad, and it's surprisingly subtle, too; the changes start even before our attention is drawn to them), and with both of the Johnsons now expired, finding a cure suddenly became very, very important.

Even worse, the Johnsons were crazy senile before they died, which means that in addition to no longer being quite as pretty, Kirk and the others have to deal with the knowledge that the longer they stay sick, the more their faculties will suffer.

Not good for a doctor, or a science officer, or a chief engineer, but catastrophic for a star-ship captain.

There's potential here; it's not hard to empathize with a terror of growing old, especially before one's time, and while "Years" does exaggerate the effects of aging on the mind, it still stays generally within recognizable limits.

Kirk forgets things, repeats himself, and whenever anyone points out his mistakes, he gets angry—as anyone who's ever dealt with a senile grandparent can tell you, that's not far off the mark.

There are smaller touches as well, like Spock's increased sensitivity to cold, which makes a nice call-back to the heat of Vulcan mentioned in "Amok Time."

And there's no attempt to mollify the harshness of the experience, either.

Nobody learns a valuable lesson about how getting old is just a natural part of life.

Yet the episode never really feels all that personal.

There are a few good bits—my favorite comes when Jan starts putting the moves on slightly older Kirk, and he realizes she's doing it because she has a thing for older men.

("What are you offering me, Jan? Love—or a going away present?")

It's such a quirky, surprising scene, the wish fulfillment aspect being immediately undercut by the oddness of the lady's fetish.

Jan never raises the issue again, and seems just as much interested in the young Kirk, post-cure, but you can't help wondering if their original relationship failed because Kirk still had all his hair.

Good bits aside, there's not much effort being put in outside of the make-up.

What really kills things is the competency hearing that eats up a good chunk of the running time.

Jack-disease strikes fairly quickly, and since we can't find a cure for it until the last act, we've got to fill the other acts somehow.

"Years" chooses to fill them by having Commodore Stacker question Kirk's ability to captain the ship, forcing Spock to put his friend on trial and humiliate him in front of his peers.

There's precious little drama in the sequence, aside from the occasional cringe, as we spend the whole thing having characters describe scenes to us that we've already watched.

It's not a criticism of his leadership abilities to say that being struck with a rare illness that makes him liable to forget stuff means he can't do his job properly; in fact, the only negative mark on his character here is his refusal to see the truth, no matter how many of his mistakes are pointed out.

Then there's Stacker, who starts off acting like a reasonable guy, and then turns into a moron as the script dictates.

Once again, we've got an administrator who's on a schedule, so we hear the standard litany of complaints when Kirk refuses to leave Gamma Hydra's orbit.

Stacker's polite about it at first, and when he talks to Spock about getting Kirk to relinquish command, it's hard not to see his point.

But then he ruins everything by taking over the ship and ordering Sulu to set a course through the Neutral Zone.

Are Commodores not taught basic space travel etiquette?

You think they'd be even more concerned about maintaining proper diplomatic relations with an enemy than Kirk, and since we're never given any reason as to why Stacker's so desperate to get to Star Base 10 (I see we used up all our clever naming skills when we geniused up "Gamma Hydra IV"), he comes off as a tool, and a poorly written one at that.

The only reason the Neutral Zone even comes up is to give us some suspense at the climax.

Oh no, the Commodore has no idea what the fuck he's doing!

We need Kirk on the bridge, but he's just so damn old.

Wouldn't you know it, though, McCoy and Spock have just discovered the source of the problem (GH passed through a comet's tail, and I guess they had a choice between zombies or rapid degeneration and decided on the one that didn't require cannibalism), and, seeing as how Chekov was the only person to go down to the planet and be unaffected by the radiation, they determine that adrenaline—Chekov freaked when he saw the first dead body—can stop the radiation.

Never mind that this is more than a little ridiculous (was Chekov terrified the entire time he was down there?), or that the physical effects of all that oldness should take more than few minutes to throw off, we have our cure!

And Kirk demands he get it first, in the middle of a battle that the ship is losing, because he's the only one who can save everybody.

The treatment works, Kirk rescues the weak-ass Commodore and the Enterprise from the nasty Romulans (in a clever moment, he re-uses a mistake his elderly self made earlier to trick the bad guys with an out-of-date code frequency), and Stacker learns a valuable lesson as to just how awesome Kirk is.

A lesson that doesn't seem to have been needed, really; while he made some stupid calls, getting Kirk out of the captain's chair long enough to get cured isn't one of them.

The quarantine problem just becomes more egregious as the episode continues, since once the landing party starts getting sick, the risk that the illness is contagious would seem to increase tenfold, but nobody gives a damn.

We get a lot of aging cliches, and while it's fun watching everybody ham it up as elderly versions of themselves (hey, is that Shatner's actual hair?), that's not enough to make the whole fifty minutes compelling.

A more honest connection to the central problem, and less manufactured dilemmas, and, well… I'm not sure you could get a great episode out of this premise, but you sure as hell could have gotten a better one.

McCoy's baby-talk leaves something to be desired, but Spock's reaction is worth the silliness.

Hey, we finally have an alien race that our heroes don't teach a valuable lesson to.

Although McCoy does convince Eleen to care for her baby, and that means that the baby becomes head of the tribe, so… nuts.

Poor Lieutenant Galway isn't given much to do beyond get worried, get old, and get dead, but she does get one good line in: "That's a stupid place to hang a mirror."

Tune in next week for "Obsession" and "Wolf in the fold."

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"The New York Times" published an article on Adams on September 23, 2015.

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# Late Rally for Doc Adams, a Jeter Before There Were Mitts

Marjorie Adams, a great-granddaughter of Doc Adams, has led her family's effort to get him on the ballot for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Before Derek Jeter made his mark as New York's most illustrious shortstop, there was another player, popularly known as Doc Adams, who in the mid-1800s invented the position while playing for a different local powerhouse, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.

Daniel Lucius Adams (that was his formal name) was a pioneering figure in the sport's early years, when mitts were unheard-of, balls were spongy, pitches were thrown underhand and the game's rules were far from standardized — including the number of players allowed on the field, how many innings constituted a game and the dimensions of the diamond.

Adams is credited with establishing the modern diamond by setting the distance between bases at 90 feet, the current standard.

He was also a standout player at the position he created to relay throws from the outfielders to the infield.

Despite his accomplishments, Adams's descendants lament that he has been largely overlooked by history.

He has never even made the ballot for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Doc Adams, whose formal name was Daniel Lucius Adams.

His relatives say his induction is long overdue, and are campaigning to get him on the ballot next month, engaging a selection process for "pre-integration candidates" that occurs only every three years.

It is the hall's designation for figures whose most significant contributions to baseball came before 1947, when Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in the major leagues.

These candidates are considered separately from more modern figures, whose selection to the Hall of Fame is voted on every year.

Adams's relatives had no luck when they tried petitioning the Hall of Fame to elect him in 2012.

They hope that the current baseball fever in New York — both the Mets and the Yankees are good bets to make the playoffs — will amplify their efforts to get a New York figure elected.

Marjorie Adams, 67, a great-granddaughter of Doc Adams, has led the family's effort; she serendipitously met a baseball historian in the 1990s and discovered she was descended from baseball royalty.

The historian told her that the Knickerbockers were the most important baseball pioneers during a seminal period in New York before 1850, and that Adams, in urging members to show up for practices and games, helped keep the Knickerbockers intact during the late 1840s, when sagging enthusiasm could have caused the club to fold.

"He said, 'You know, your great-grandfather saved baseball,' " Ms. Adams recalled.

"The game could just as easily have died and faded away."

This stuck with Ms. Adams, and in 2011, after seeing a brief mention of a local baseball historical organization, she attended a lecture and heard mention of Adams's importance to the game.

"I nearly fell off my chair," said Ms. Adams, who then spent an obsessive few years researching her relative.

"I realized that it was true: Doc did save the game."

Since then, she has thrown herself into the world of old-time baseball, traveling to numerous conferences and vintage baseball festivals and pestering Hall of Fame officials, who smile when they hear her name.

A bucket of balls sat near the field during a Woodstock Hilltoppers vintage baseball game in Tolland, Conn., this month.

Gary O'Maxfield of Hartford and his wife, Karen, who organized the event, are working to get Adams in the Hall of Fame.

"I can be a terrible nag," she said, "but I'm doing this for Doc."

On Oct. 5, the Hall of Fame will announce the 10 candidates named to the pre-integration ballot by a historical overview committee, which is made up of 11 writers and historians appointed by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

In December, a 16-member voting committee will decide the fate of each candidate.

Asked to comment on Adams's candidacy, Brad Horn, a spokesman for the Hall of Fame, would say in a statement only that Adams's role "will be at issue for consideration of the Historical Overview Committee."

Ms. Adams, a retired furniture-store designer who lives outside New London, Conn., said her lack of interest in baseball made her an anomaly in the Adams family, which had known of Doc Adams, but not of the full extent of his contributions to the game.

Ms. Adams's sister, Nancy Adams Downey, of Manhattan, recalled that relatives referred to him as "Daniel, the baseball guy."

Ms. Adams Downey remembers growing up as a tomboy and playing pickup baseball games with local boys and telling them, "My great-grandfather invented shortstop."

Today, Marjorie Adams can talk for hours about the early game, dispensing tidbits such as the fact that this year is the 170th anniversary of the formation of the Knickerbockers.

For Adams's sake, she joined the Society for American Baseball Research and delivered a spirited presentation recounting his achievements.

He was later named by the society as the "19th-Century Overlooked Baseball Legend" for 2014.

Tom Hare batting for the Lisbon Tunnelmen in the game against the Hilltoppers.

Her expertise draws respect from top historians, including John Thorn, the official historian for Major League Baseball.

Mr. Thorn, who wrote about Adams in his 2011 book "Baseball in the Garden of Eden," said he "has been sorely neglected by history."

He called Adams "the most significant figure in the early history of baseball."

Among the material Ms. Adams has presented to the hall are family letters dating from the early 1830s mentioning the "bats and balls" a teenage Adams used growing up, as well as the brass buttons from his Knickerbockers uniform, which the family believes may be some of the oldest such remnants extant.

Adams had attended Yale and Harvard before setting up a medical practice in Manhattan around 1840.

During his career, he worked at city dispensaries treating poor New Yorkers, often during cholera outbreaks.

He began playing baseball with other medical professionals in 1840, for exercise, and joined the Knickerbockers in 1845.

The team played in Madison Square Park, then in Murray Hill, and later at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, N.J., which some historians have credited as being the site of the first organized baseball game, on June 19, 1846.

Adams served several terms as the club's president, helping run early conventions and sitting on rules committees to help standardize play.

He put into effect the rules requiring nine-member teams and nine-inning games, and advocated the "fly rule," which made catching a fly ball a putout at a time when a ball caught on one bounce still constituted one.

He also officiated as an umpire, and is credited by some historians as being the first to declare a batter out on a called third strike, in 1858, Mr. Thorn said.

On a recent weekday, Ms. Adams produced a copy of a proclamation that Knickerbockers members presented to Adams in 1862.

It named him "the Nestor of Ball Players," a reference to the wise king in Greek mythology.

Ms. Adams said that if her great-grandfather was not elected to the hall this year, she would waste no time preparing for the next opportunity, in 2018.

While admitting that the timing is impossible, she imagines receiving Adams's Hall of Fame plaque alongside Jeter, during his induction (his first year of eligibility is 2020).

"That way, I can stand next to him," she said, "and you'll have the greatest Yankees shortstop next to the great-granddaughter of the man who created the position."

The 45-foot (14 m) distance from home plate to the pitching mound, however, did not last through the 19th century; it was pushed back 5 feet (1.5 m) in 1880. The shortstop position, which for Adams was located between the infielders and outfielders, was later played in the infield, between second and third base. Dickey Pearce was the first player to field in that area, and his ability to prevent base hits in the formerly unoccupied territory convinced other teams to employ similar tactics.
 The "Hartford Courant" points to 1980 as a year when Adams started to gain greater attention for his achievements. A share of the New York Mets was purchased by a publishing company led by Nelson Doubleday Jr. that year, and claims that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, which are considered flawed by modern researchers, were reported by the media. After the Doubleday reports in 1980, "The New York Times" received a letter from the great-great-grandson of Adams that the "Courant" said attempted "to try to set the record straight." The newspaper ran the letter in its April 13 issue, and added a 1939 piece by Roger Adams. In 1993, Thorn published research on Adams' contributions in the encyclopedia "Total Baseball".


The book features previously published material as well as interviews, including an interview with legendary folk singer Dave Van Ronk.

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# Editor's Choice: Love for Sale: Pop Music in America by David Hajdu

By Jeff SimonPublished Sat, Oct 22, 2016

Love for Sale: Pop Music in America by David Hajdu, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 307 pages, $27.

No, this is not just a standard history of "Pop Music in America."

This is a very personal and utterly wonderful book about the subject by the music critic of The Nation and the man who wrote the magisterial "Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn," and the indispensable "The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America" and "Positively Fourth Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina."

Here, for instance, is Hajdu interviewing one of his first subjects, folk legend Dave Van Ronk, upon whose couch Bob Dylan slept when he was first starting out.

Van Ronk poured Captain Morgan over his ice cream while they listened to something from James Taylor's third album.

Von Ronk both laughed and coughed freely and the sounds were indistinguishable.

He listened to the music on the radio for a minute and said 'Bobby has a lot to answer for."

Hajdu observed Dylan's music had more "fire" than Taylor to which Van Ronk replied "It's hard to start a fire without the right equipment. ...

Try this on for size: After his Strayhorn book appeared, Lena Horne called on Hajdu to help with a new record she was briefly coming out of semiretirement to make.

She opted for "We'll Be Together Again" over "I'll Never Smile Again" because she thought that Sinatra's version of the latter was definitive.

"Joking, with a big wink implied, she called the young Sinatra 'a better woman' than she."

Here is a critic capable of saying that Elvis Presley was "At least as deserving of coronation as 'The King of Rock and Roll' as Benny Goodman had been to be called 'The King of Swing'.

Both were much more qualified for their kingships than Irving Berlin had deserved to be promoted as 'The Ragtime King.'

Presley made brilliant rock and roll and Goodman played first-rate swing" but Berlin wrote "Alexander's Ragtime Band" not ragtime.

It's as idiosyncratic and vehemently personal a book as it is reliable, readable and enduringly important.

One of the year's best music books, along with Ratliff's "Every Song Ever."

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"Love for Sale: Pop Music in America" is a 2016 book by "The Nation" music critic David Hajdu, in which he chronicles the 100-plus year history of pop music in the United States.


Prior to the game, Hershiser trailed teammate Tim Leary in shutouts, six to three, and Leary also combined with other pitchers to record a shutout that was not counted in his individual total.

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The National League cannot have a pennant winner if neither of the teams in the pennant playoff scores a run.

The problem for the hitters of the Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers, then, will be to figure out how to score runs against the Dodgers' and the Mets' pitchers.

The Mets did not have trouble scoring runs against the Dodgers during the regular season.

They won 10 of the 11 games and were not shut out in their lone loss.

The Dodgers, on the other hand, suffered two shutouts (to Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling) and scored only one run in each of four other games.

The Dodger pitchers, however, have bordered on the spectacular in recent weeks, throwing 8 shutouts in 19 games and raising their season total to 24 shutouts, 2 more than the Mets' staff has.

Orel Hershiser has been the most spectacular member of the Dodgers' starting rotation, reeling off five successive shutouts, the most recent against San Francisco Friday night.

But even before Hershiser began the streak that raised his season total to eight, Tim Leary had six shutouts himself and a share of another one.

They each have more shutouts than any of the Mets' pitchers.

In fact, the Mets' shutout leader won't be pitching any post-season shutouts.

Bob Ojeda, whose season was ended by an electric hedge clipper, has five shutouts.

David Cone has four plus a shared shutout, Darling has four, Gooden has three plus one shared and Sid Fernandez one plus three shared.

Among the Dodgers' shutouts, they have a one-hitter, two two-hitters and two three-hitters.

They have not allowed more than seven hits in any of their shutouts.

The Mets' pitchers have pitched a one-hitter, five two-hitters and a three-hitter.

They have permitted as many as 11 hits in a shutout.

Both teams have used good sense in picking the times for their shutouts.

The Mets have shut out their three chief competitors - Pittsburgh (four times), Montreal (four) and St. Louis (three) - a total of 11 times.

The Dodgers have recorded 11 shutouts against their three chief challengers: Houston (four), San Francisco (four) and Cincinnati (three).

What significance might the shutouts have for the league championship series?

Not much, if past playoffs provide any proof.

In the 19 years of divisional play, National League pitchers have produced 14 shutouts in 82 playoff games and American League pitchers 13 shutouts in 81 games.

Four times an American League playoff has had two shutouts; National League playoffs have had two shutouts once and three once.

The trio came last year when Dave Dravecky shut out St. Louis and John Tudor (and relievers) and Danny Cox shut out San Francisco in the last two games.

The irony of the St. Louis shutouts was that during the regular season the Cardinals' staff registered only seven shutouts.

In 1985, the National League playoff teams, the Cardinals and the Dodgers, pitched a total of 41 shutouts during the season, the most by any pair of playoff teams in either league before this year.

But they did not hold each other scoreless in any of their six post-season games and, in fact, scored a combined total of 52 runs, the most ever scored in a National League series.

In 1969, the Mets went into the first league championship series having thrown 28 shutouts, still a record for a playoff team, but their pitchers did not add to that total in the three-game sweep of Atlanta.

No correlation exists between the number of shutouts during the season and the winner of the league series.

In the National League, the outcome is a draw, 9-9 (in each league, teams had the same number of shutouts once); in the American League the team with more shutouts has won 11 times and lost 7 times.

Considering all post-season shutout performances, the most impressive exhibitions were put on in the World Series by the New York Giants of 1905 and the Baltimore Orioles of 1966.

The Giants gained all four of their victories against Philadelphia by shutouts (the Athletics also picked up their one victory with a shutout).

The Orioles held the Dodgers scoreless in the last three games of the four-game Series.

The Giants' pitchers had pitched 17 shutouts and the Orioles' pitchers 13 shutouts during the regular season.

Ron Hassey is going to the playoffs for the first time in his 10-year career, but even if he weren't, he would have considered his season a success.

After all, he wasn't playing for the Chicago White Sox.

''They knew I didn't want to play there,'' said Hassey, who left the White Sox as a free agent last winter and signed with the Oakland Athletics.

''I didn't think they were going in any direction.

The only direction they were going was down.

They weren't trying to improve the ball club.

They were just trying to trade everybody and get some young kids.

To me, it's going to take I don't know how many years to rebuild what they destroyed.''

Hassey's feeling toward the White Sox goes beyond the decisions made by the owners, Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn, and the general manager, Larry Himes.

He also didn't like the way Himes operated.

''He was more concerned about socks than playing,'' Hassey said, alluding to the fines Himes imposed on players for not wearing socks to the ball park.

When he was a free agent last winter, the Athletics and the Yankees wanted to sign him, but only the Athletics pursued him.

''The Yankees went after me, but it was feeble,'' said Hassey, who was traded to the Yankees twice and by them twice.

''I made more of an effort than they did.

As Hassey indicated, the White Sox have made a shambles of a team that won a division championship by 20 games only five years ago.

The only reason they're not in last place is that the Seattle Mariners play in their division, and they have been in shambles throughout their 12-year existence.

The Baltimore Orioles were the team that beat the White Sox for the American League pennant in 1983, and they aren't doing so well either.

''The sad state of the organization didn't start this year,'' said Frank Robinson, the manager and former Oriole player who is in his 13th year with the organization.

Our farm system still fed players up here, but they couldn't come up and give you that production.

Our philosophy stayed the same too long.

You could see the decline coming, but the philosophy didn't change.''

Robinson said the Orioles had overloaded on two types of players because of the success they had had with those types: finesse pitchers who couldn't throw hard and one-dimensional hitters who couldn't run or throw.

''All of a sudden, you have a lot of designated hitters and soft throwers,'' he said.

Then, referring to the favorite weapon of Earl Weaver, the successful Orioles manager, Robinson added: ''You can't get three-run home runs all the time.

It worked for Earl, but he had the players.

When they started leaving, you didn't have those guys any more.''

And when the Orioles ran out of replacements, they replaced the general manager, Hank Peters, and the farm director, Tom Giordano, both of whom are in Cleveland now.

Speaking of teams in shambles, the Philadelphia Phillies are competing for first place in that division.

They are the joke of the National League East.

When Bill Giles, the Phillies' president, belatedly came to the realization last fall that he needed a baseball man to run the baseball operation, he hired Woody Woodward.

But only a couple of months into the season, he dismissed Woodward and eventually replaced him with Lee Thomas, in whom he supposedly placed more authority than he had given Woodward.

With Thomas in charge, the Phillies extended the contract of their manager, Lee Elia.

Now, only two and a half months later, they have dismissed Elia and are looking for a new manager.

At the rate at which they are operating, they may be looking for a new general manager by the December meetings.

The Phillies are one of six teams that are more than 30 games from first place.

They, like the White Sox and the Orioles, were a division winner in 1983.

The fourth division winner was the Dodgers.

They, too, for a time, threatened to join the shambles division.

However, Fred Claire, a seemingly unlikely savior, has rescued them with aggressive personnel moves and has sent them light years ahead of their 1983 post-season colleagues.

With the dismissal of Elia by the Phillies and Cookie Rojas by the California Angels, the number of new managers named since the end of last season has caught the number of new general managers named.

The Angels join the Yankees as the only team to have two new managers in that time.

Rojas had replaced Gene Mauch, who retired.

With the Yankees, Lou Piniella replaced Billy Martin, who had replaced Piniella, who somewhere in the seemingly distant past replaced Martin.

Piniella was also involved in two moves on the general managers' side, replacing Woody Woodward and being replaced by Bob Quinn.

Woodward was replaced in Philadelphia by Thomas, then replaced Dick Balderson in Seattle.

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Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak

He made his professional debut with the Class A Dodger farm team in the Midwest League, the Clinton Dodgers in 1979. He made his major league debut for the Dodgers on September 1, 1983, against the Montreal Expos. Hershisher made his first start on May 26, 1984, against the New York Mets and became a full-time starter in the Dodgers' rotation on July 14.
 Hershiser had pitched a 33+2⁄3-inning scoreless streak in 1984, eventually joining Gaylord Perry and Luis Tiant as the only pitchers between 1963 and 2014 with at least two streaks of this length. Hershiser's 1984 streak, which was the longest scoreless inning streak of the year, was broken up on July 24 by a home run by two-time NL Most Valuable Player Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves. His streak included a blown save on July 8 against the St. Louis Cardinals and a nine-inning shutout against the Cardinals on July 19.
 Despite an emergency appendectomy that delayed his spring training and shortened his time to get in shape for the season, Hershiser had been named NL Baseball Pitcher of the Month in April and a participant in the 1988 All-Star Game, getting outs against all three batters. In the eight games he started between July 10 and August 14, Hershiser had a 3–4 win–loss record with a 4.76 earned run average (ERA), raising his season ERA from 2.46 to 3.06. Following his August 14 start in which he left the game after two innings (his shortest appearance since 1985) with the Dodgers behind the Giants 8–2, he pitched complete games on August 19 (a shutout) and August 24.


Lodging is available in the monument at the Chateau, which has 23 rooms to rent.

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Since its opening in 1934, the Chateau has offered rustic charm in a serene wooded setting with special events offered during the off-season.

It features local produce, meats, wines, micro-brews and the talent work of local artists and crafters.

For more information visit the Oregon Caves Chateau website or phone (541) 592-4440.

For reservations phone (541) 592-3400 or click here or email.

You will find local fare in the dining room and locally crafted gifts and works of art in the gift gallery, as well as locally produced furniture, soaps and shampoos in your hotel room; even the uniforms worn by the Chateau employees are made locally.

By encouraging outlets for local products, the Oregon Caves Chateau hopes to make Illinois Valley an even nicer place to live.

The Oregon Caves Chateau is managed by a local nonprofit group, the Illinois Valley Community Development Organization.

They use revenues from the operation of the Chateau to write grants and assist with programs that benefit the local community.

Learn more about one of the National Park's Great Lodges at PBS.

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The basic ranger-guided "discovery cave tour", 90 minutes long, requires negotiating more than 500 steep and uneven stairs and passageways with as little as 45 inches (110 cm) between floor and ceiling. Not recommended by the NPS for anyone with heart, lung, or mobility problems, the tour involves a total climb of 230 feet (70 m). Children under 42 inches (110 cm) tall or who are unable to climb a set of test stairs on their own are not allowed on the full cave tour. The NPS offers a limited number of off-trail "introduction to caving" tours by advanced reservation only.
 Since the cave is only 44 °F (7 °C) inside regardless of the outdoor temperature, the NPS recommends warm clothing for its tours. Good walking shoes are needed to negotiate slippery and uneven surfaces. Not allowed on the tours are flashlights, backpacks, large purses, tripods, or pets. To protect bats from white nose syndrome, visitors must not take any clothing or equipment into Oregon Caves that have previously entered any other cave or mine.


If infected during pregnancy, a condition known as congenital toxoplasmosis may affect the child.

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## Parasites - Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma infection)

Healthy people (nonpregnant)Mother-to-child (congenital)Persons with ocular diseasePersons with compromised immune systems

Healthy people who become infected with Toxoplasma gondii often do not have symptoms because their immune system usually keeps the parasite from causing illness.

When illness occurs, it is usually mild with "flu-like" symptoms (e.g., tender lymph nodes, muscle aches, etc.) that last for weeks to months and then go away.

However, the parasite remains in their body in an inactive state.

It can become reactivated if the person becomes immunosuppressed.

Generally if a woman has been infected before becoming pregnant, the unborn child will be protected because the mother has developed immunity.

If a woman is pregnant and becomes newly infected with Toxoplasma during or just before pregnancy, she can pass the infection to her unborn baby (congenital transmission).

The damage to the unborn child is often more severe the earlier in pregnancy the transmission occurs.

a miscarriagea stillborn childa child born with signs of toxoplasmosis (e.g., abnormal enlargement or smallness of the head)

Infants infected before birth often show no symptoms at birth but may develop them later in life with potential vision loss, mental disability, and seizures.

Eye disease (most frequently retinochoroiditis) from Toxoplasma infection can result from congenital infection or infection after birth by any of the modes of transmission discussed on the epidemiology and risk factors page.

Eye lesions from congenital infection are often not identified at birth but occur in 20-80% of infected persons by adulthood.

However, in the U.S. <2% of persons infected after birth develop eye lesions.

Eye infection leads to an acute inflammatory lesion of the retina, which resolves leaving retinochoroidal scarring.

eye painsensitivity to light (photophobia)tearing of the eyesblurred vision

The eye disease can reactivate months or years later, each time causing more damage to the retina.

If the central structures of the retina are involved there will be a progressive loss of vision that can lead to blindness.

#### Persons with compromised immune systems

Persons with compromised immune systems may experience severe symptoms if they are infected with Toxoplasma while immune suppressed.

For example, a person who is HIV-infected and who has reactivated Toxoplasma infection can have symptoms that include fever, confusion, headache, seizures, nausea, and poor coordination.

Persons who acquire HIV infection and were not infected previously with Toxoplasma are more likely to develop a severe primary infection.

Immunocompromised persons who were infected with Toxoplasma at some point before they become immunosuppressed are particularly at risk for developing a relapse of toxoplasmosis.

Toxoplasma infection can reactivate in immunocompromised pregnant women who were infected with Toxoplasma before their pregnancy, and this can lead to congenital infection.

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Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by "Toxoplasma gondii". Infections with toxoplasmosis usually cause no obvious symptoms in adults. Occasionally, people may have a few weeks or months of mild, flu-like illness such as muscle aches and tender lymph nodes. In a small number of people, eye problems may develop. In those with a weak immune system, severe symptoms such as seizures and poor coordination may occur.


Her daughter, Dorothy Helen was also known for her fashion-sense and authored several "Smart Set" columns.

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# Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

Mark AuslanderCentral Washington UniversityBlog PostPublished November 29, 2016

One of the most enigmatic objects on display in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is "Ashley's Sack."

On loan from South Carolina's Middleton Place, this unbleached cotton sack features an embroidered text recounting the slave sale of a nine-year-old girl named Ashley and the gift of the sack by her mother.

Until now, Ashley's identity has been unknown.

New research by Mark Auslander traces Ashley's Sack from the initial gift during the era of slavery to the present.

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Auslander's archival work retraces the life of Ruth. He posits Ruth Middleton was born Ruth Jones in Columbia, South Carolina around 1903. Her parents, Austin and Rosa Jones, were servants at the University of South Carolina. Ruth made her way to Philadelphia, Penn. and married Arthur Middleton, who was born around 1899 and also from South Carolina. However, Ruth and her husband are never listed as having lived together. She had a daughter, Dorothy Helen, born in Philadelphia in 1919. In 1921, when Ashley's Sack was embroidered, Ruth would have been a single mother to a young daughter. Newspaper reports and census records suggest that throughout her life Ruth worked in affluent households in Philadelphia. By 1928, she was well-known in Philadelphia's African American high society, gaining regular mention in the "Smart Set" and "High Society" pages of the Philadelphia Tribune, the leading African American newspaper. Auslander writes that Ruth "host[ed] bridge and cocktail parties and [wore] elegant couture."


Ceremonies such as weddings, Namkaran naming ceremonies and Shnathi Puja are held in Vedic style by traditional Brahmins.

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Devotees attend one of the first services at the new Hindu center in Haebangchon, Seoul.

The food is 100 percent vegetarian in keeping with Hindu philosophy.

If you follow the road up from the kimchi pots in Haebangchon, just past Phillies bar, you will discover a Krishna temple right in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the business area.

Yet as soon as you enter and close the door behind you, you will be struck by the tranquility and spiritual atmosphere.

Kamala Roy, an Indian national who has lived here with her investor husband for 12 years, has always felt the lack of a place where she and others could celebrate Indian holy days and various special days such as births or funerals.

For a long time, she used to arrange such meetings at her home, but with the increasing number of Indians coming to live here in Korea, others begged her to open a venue where people could gather and celebrate together.

``A parent in India may pass away, yet there is nowhere to hold a service, so I decided it was high time to start a temple with the support of my husband, who has always been a pillar of strength,'' said Kamala.

The center in Haebanghchon is a branch of the worldwide International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON), which was started by Srila Pabhupada in 1966, after he traveled alone to America from India.

The society now has 500 temples, schools and farm communities with a membership of 50 million worldwide.

For Kamala, the reason to attend the center is to find out the answers to such questions as ``Who you are?

Do you wish to keep returning to this material world or do you want to get rid of this body?''

The central book of the organization, which has now been translated into Korean, is the Bhagavad Gita, which according to Arun, a senior devotee, is a summary of the philosophy contained in the ancient Vedas written in Sanskrit.

The book covers a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of the Kurukshetra War and the questions and answers are intended as a concise guide to Hindu philosophy and also as a practical, self-contained guide to life.

Two very important tenets of ISKON are vegatarianism and the Hare Krishna mantra which is what attracts many followers.

Arun explained why vegetarianism is so important to the movement.

``The Vedas hold that God is the father of all creatures, not just humans.

As such we are not obliged to eat meat which involves suffering when animals are killed.

Members of the Hare Krishna movement prepare delicious vegetarian meals which they devote to God.

Only after the food is offered to God in a devotional ritual is it then eaten by devotees.''

Arun explained that very soon a vegetarian restaurant will be opened up at the temple which will be open throughout the day.

Most have at sometime heard the Hare Krishna mantra.

According to Arun, this is chanted to ``help us understand our true nature as eternal spiritual beings, beyond the physical body.''

Included in the mantra are the words Krishna, meaning ``all attractive one,'' and Rama which means ``reservoir of all pleasure.''

Apart from its spiritual function, the aim of the center is to provide a cultural center for members of the foreign Indian community.

Children will be able to attend lessons in Hindi, the Hindu religion, drawing, singing and Korean lessons will also be offered.

Additionally there will be lessons offered on some Indian musical instruments.

An Indian professor will also offer classes in Indian physical yoga and a womens' group where women can discuss specific problems they have will also be offered.

The current daily schedule at the temple is 9-10 a.m. mornings and 7-8 p.m. in the evenings except for Sundays when a longer service is held from 5-8 p.m.

For more information, email krishnakorea@gmail.com, koreakrishna@yahoo.com, call (82) 010-2448-6441 or visit the Web site at www.krishnakorea.com

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Sri Radha Shyamasundar Mandir is a Hindu temple located in Haebangchon, Seoul, South Korea. The temple opens each morning and evening at specific darshan times. Special programs are also held on Sundays, such as free children's Bal Vikas classes (which includes Indian scriptures taught through videos, Hindi language, Indian devotional music, etc.), yoga classes, and a special Sunday feast program with Bhagavad Gita lectures.
 The temple holds festivals like Diwali and Sri Krishna Janmastami, which have attracted more than 500 devotees.


He dedicated the record to his mother, Barbara Warner, who died on May 13, 2014, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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###### Music|A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light

Marilyn Manson, last month in West Hollywood, Calif., is releasing his new album, "The Pale Emperor," on Tuesday.

His last album soured critics and undersold, but he has more recently been taking acting seriously.

— "We're drinking wodka," Marilyn Manson said, pronouncing the word like he was a fur-hatted Russian cartoon character, and filling a tumbler.

Two tumblers: Like any peacocking musician, he knew that a drinking buddy makes for a ready audience.

He loped from the peach-colored kitchen of a borrowed house here — it belongs to his pal Johnny Depp — through the dining room, past a bin of masks and costumes.

There was a horse, a longhaired woman, silver faceplates.

"This is my Max Ernst stuff; it's private," he said.

Onward to the living room, where he paused to show off a 1927 theremin, then settled into a velvet sofa, clutching his drink with black-polished fingers.

He wore buttoned-up black and the dregs of eye makeup, with choppy hair.

The room was kept cold, the way he likes it, fitting for a performer known for his graveyard tastes and collection of Nazi-era weaponry.

There was a time, years ago, when being one-on-one with him might have induced a shiver, given his cultivated prince of darkness aura, occasional unhinged behavior and citations for assault and battery.

Now, he had just stepped out from a video shoot in another room brightly singing "The Thong Song."

"The 'Thong Song' is a strong song," he said, employing his favorite kind of goofy wordplay.

Marilyn Manson, as it happens, really enjoys a pun.

Mr. Manson, shown with Charlie Hunnam, played a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy."

Born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson, as he's been known for more than half his life, is facing a bit of an identity crisis.

At 46, with a career as a best-selling goth rock star and agitator behind him, he has been battered by a changed music industry, a culture less tolerant of inflammatory songwriting and stagecraft, and the onset of much-delayed maturity.

"I do admit to myself, I was not as great as I wanted to be the past couple of years — as a person, as a musician, as an artist," he said.

Now he's trying to give his life and career a Manson-style overhaul.

After years of drug abuse and a short stint in rehab, he's at last a law-abiding pothead, thanks to a doctor's note for a broken toe.

And though he's long been making film and TV cameos, recently he's taken his acting more seriously, playing a white supremacist in the final season of the FX hit "Sons of Anarchy" last year.

That show's buff star, Charlie Hunnam, inspired him to work out, and he's even given up his beloved absinthe to help his figure.

His new album, "The Pale Emperor" (Loma Vista Recordings), due Tuesday, is the biggest leap.

It was written with a new collaborator, the soundtrack composer Tyler Bates, known for adventure and sci-fi epics like "300" and "Guardians of the Galaxy."

Though lyrically it trolls familiar dark territory — he declares himself the "Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" — musically it leans toward crunchy, spare blues rock riffs and away from industrial-sounding overproduction.

The record is dedicated to his mother, Barbara, who died in May after a long battle with dementia, which affected him deeply.

His role on "Sons" was in part a tribute to his dad, Hugh, a thriving fan of the show.

Tom Whalley, founder of Loma Vista and a former top executive at Interscope, Mr. Manson's original label, said he was quickly persuaded to sign him now, based mostly on the music.

"When I heard it, I was like, wow, that's fresh," Mr. Whalley said.

"I really felt that he was having a creative moment later on in his career that most people don't find."

Personally, too, "the guy has gone through a cathartic year," said his friend, the musician Shooter Jennings.

"I definitely think there's a phoenix-rising type scenario happening with him," he added,

If that's the case, it's due in large part to Mr. Bates, 49.

They met and hit it off when Manson, as his friends call him, appeared on the Showtime series "Californication," which Mr. Bates was scoring.

"I was asking him about his life and his career," Mr. Bates recalled.

Marilyn Manson performing, clockwise from top left, in 1996; 1998; 2007; and 2005.

Clockwise from top left: Rahav Segev; Rahav Segev; Markus Stuecklin/Associated Press; Alessandro Della Bella/Associated Press

They began meeting in Mr. Bates's home studio, even during daylight hours — a new experience for Marilyn Manson.

"Because around 3 a.m. is when my brain starts going really" crazy, he said, using filthier language, "I used to think that that was the time that was best to record at.

But I realized that I don't have that anymore, if I get it out of me early.

Daytime is more effective for me to function as a — ah, I wouldn't say as a normal human being.

I would just say as a more effective villain; a more effective, destroying, chaos element in the world.

Left untethered, Marilyn Manson will go on like this, proclaiming himself chaos incarnate and T.M.I.-ing his way through his life story.

("I tangent a lot," he said, understating broadly.)

"He circles the drain of an idea for quite a while," Mr. Bates said.

"But if you have the patience, you'll see that he is making a point, that he is pretty funny and pretty smart at the same time.

Sometimes he doesn't make a point, but I found him to be interesting."

He also made it clear that there would be no wasting of studio time.

"He realized that him walking in the room and being Marilyn Manson didn't matter to me," said Mr. Bates, a married father of two daughters, whose email auto-signature is "kindest regards."

For Marilyn Manson, the collaboration felt less like work than a conversation, he said.

"I've never really had that sort of musical brotherhood in the same way," he said.

Mr. Bates also provided lyrical direction.

"I said, 'I'm not going to do this with you if it's an angry manifesto,' " he recalled.

" 'The only thing you have left is to inspire people with your words.' "

For his fans, inspiration comes in the embrace of darkness.

As always, he found material in his sometimes-combative relationship — his girlfriend, Lindsay Usich, with whom he shares a newly acquired home in the Hollywood Hills, is a photographer and model — freely cribbing from their fights.

"Don't bring your black cloud to bed," he texted her, in what became a lyric in "The Devil Beneath My Feet."

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The album's closing song, "Odds of Even," which begins with the sounds of coyotes attacking in the hills outside Mr. Bates's studio (as recorded by Marilyn Manson) is perhaps the most introspective.

"My dagger and swagger/Are useless in the face of the mirror," he sings in a deep, emo register.

It wasn't all emotional drudgery and death.

"If I didn't hold the creative process so sacred," Mr. Bates said, "and I had just been a whore and put cameras in my studio, I would have had the greatest reality show of all time," tracking his star's eccentricities and visits by the likes of Keanu Reeves and Mr. Depp.

On the subject of Mr. Depp, whom he first met as a 19-year-old extra on the set of the series "21 Jump Street," Marilyn Manson is as effusive as a schoolboy.

"It's a bromance," he said, lifting his shirt to reveal a florid tattoo across his back, one of several matching pieces he and Mr. Depp have.

(Another, on his wrist, says "No Reason," an answer for why they got it.)

They solidified their friendship jamming together — one of Mr. Depp's other houses is filled with musical instruments — and high-jinksing with Hunter S. Thompson in his later years.

(Mr. Depp did not respond to requests for comment.)

Otherwise, Marilyn Manson is a bit of a homebody, preferring to watch TV and movies or paint.

His dearest companion is his 11-year-old danderless cat, Lily White.

"She is definitely the one true center of my universe," he said, scrolling through photos of her on his phone.

"It's the closest thing, I guess, to having a child."

Promoting "The Pale Emperor" means a tour, scaled down from the arenas he once played, with his longtime on-off bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, and Mr. Bates on guitar.

But after his last album, "Born Villain," in 2012, the first not released by a major label, soured critics and undersold, his professional standing is murky.

A run of concerts in Russia last summer was canceled, over protests and bomb threats, even before he set foot on stage.

("Luckily, my manager was very conscious of getting paid in advance," Marilyn Manson said.)

With just two weeks to go, his Jan. 26 show at Terminal 5, a midsize New York club, still hadn't sold out.

And a recent controversy over a leaked, sexually explicit video clip involving the singer Lana Del Rey and the filmmaker Eli Roth left him uncharacteristically muted, repeating only that he was not in charge and meant no harm.

"Going out on this tour is a pretty huge precipice for him," Mr. Bates said.

"He's got some heavy-hearted things going on," with his family, "and some tumult, and some extreme happiness, and it's all happening at one time."

A few hours into our conversation, his glass empty, Marilyn Manson went upstairs, to a bedroom with rumpled black sheets, for a break.

He emerged with some makeup removed, and bloodshot eyes, ready to offer some hard-earned wisdom, which he delivered in a deep, I'm-pontificating tone.

"Try to drink and do drugs when you're in a good mood, not in a bad mood," he suggested.

Also, "don't make songs that confuse strippers and don't make movies without nudity."

And with actual gravitas, he added: "There's a difference between a man who has everything to gain and a man who has nothing to lose.

If you have nothing to lose, you're dangerous in a bad way.

If you have everything to gain, you're dangerous in a good way."

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# MARILYN MANSON's Mother Dies After Battle With Dementia

Barbara J. Warner, the 68-year-old mother of shock rocker Marilyn Manson (a.k.a. Brian Warner), died on May 13 after a long battle with dementia.

The singer wrote on his Facebook page earlier today: "Mother, to the first and greatest believer in me …

But not now, because I have more things I promised I would do.

I'll make you proud and satisfied that you know that you made the son you wanted.

A May 18 obituary posted by CantonRep.com reads as follows: "Barbara J. Warner, age 68, passed peacefully on Tuesday after a long battle with dementia.

She was a wife, lover, mother and friend who will be missed forever.

Survived by her husband, Hugh A. Warner; and a son, Brian H. Warner.

The Lamiell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

Condolences may be made to www.lamiellfuneralhome.com."

Speaking to The Guardian in July 2012, Manson stated about his mother, "My mom has dementia so she doesn't know who I am now, but when she did, she'd say, 'Gentlemen prefer blondes.'

He also told Revolver magazine earlier that year: "I don't have the same ambition and drive, the determination, the fearlessness, the anger and relentlessness that I had when I started this.

I have some of it, different elements of it, different percentages of it, and I'm not saying the stuff I did before I came to this realization was irrelevant.

But I guess part of it was coming to terms with family things, like my mother being ill and diagnosed with dementia, being faced with that concept.

Coming to terms with mortality — not of my own, because I've always been fearless of that, and I'm never afraid to die for what I believe in.

But while I'll always make jokes and deny t in a ['American Psycho' protagonist] Patrick Bateman sort of sense, I'm not completely devoid of human emotions.

I do have feelings, and I have a lot more feelings than people probably imagine, and that's what makes me so guarded.

So it was a lot of me coming to terms with that.

I had to prove to the people that already know and care about me that I'm worth caring about, and that I'm a motherfucker to be reckoned with.

And I wanted to show the rest of the world exactly what I showed them.

Whatever it was that got people's attention, what made them want to listen to my first album, I just wanted to have that gleam in my eye, that fire in me."

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Gil Sharone, of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Stolen Babies, performed live drums on the album. Sharone was first contacted by Bates about the project in January 2014, three days before he was due to begin a tour with Stolen Babies. He developed and recorded his drum work over two days at Igloo Studios in Burbank, California. Long-time bassist – and Manson's chief collaborator – Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process, as he was busy recording his own material. It was the first release since his return to the band in 2008 to not feature Twiggy's involvement. His collaborator on the Goon Moon project, Fred Sablan, departed Marilyn Manson on good terms. Manson's "Sons of Anarchy" co-star Walton Goggins appears as a preacher on album track "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", reciting two verses from James Allen's early 20th-century essay "As a Man Thinketh". Manson announced that the band's new album was "prepared for landing" in early September.


She is a public advocate of increasing the number of female founders and investors in the Silicon Valley.

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# VC Aileen Lee just offered some very specific advice to female founders looking for funding

In May, at TechCrunch's Disrupt event in New York, researchers from Harvard Business Review were in the audience, and they were taking notes.

Using their findings, along with the help of a linguistic software program that scanned video transcriptions of Q&A sessions between onstage venture capitalists and startup founders, they came to an interesting — and disturbing — conclusion.

They discovered the investors (and 40 percent of them were women) tended to ask men questions about the potential for gains at their startups, while they asked women about the potential for losses.

That wasn't a surprise to longtime venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who spent nearly 13 years with Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers before leaving in 2012 to start her own seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures.

Lee has funded male founders (August, Dollar Shave Club, Philz Coffee), as well as women founders (Textio, Brit & Co., Accompany); she has also sat around many tables with her mostly male VC peers as they've discussed where best to steer startups as they've sought follow-on funding.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

She also shared very specific advice to female founders who are looking to raise capital (along with one observation for male-heavy venture firms).

Among her suggestions for women founders:

1) Be a good storyteller, and don't fret if storytelling doesn't come naturally to you.

"If you are not a great storyteller, you can become one.

It's just a matter of feedback and practice."

2) Each story has basic but important elements.

Make sure you include these, beginning with:

a) what the mission and vision is of your company, to

b) how big the market is that you are chasing, to

c) the problem that you are trying to solve, to

d) who is on your team and why they are relevant, to

e) the product that you've built ("or what the wireframes look like," Lee said), to

f) what kind of traction or feedback you've received from the market, to

g) what your economic model looks like, to

h) what you are going to do with the money you are raising.

3) Remember that your narrative should also include your personal story and why you're the best person to be starting your company right now.

"If you're a little too arrogant or you puff things up a little too much, [male investors] will ding you for being an exaggerator."

The advice may make you cringe, but women have to walk a fine line here, she noted.

"Guys," noted Lee, "can get away with [being shy].

It's like, 'Oh, he's just an introvert.' "

Unfairly, women who are too quiet may face a bigger upward battle, she suggested.

Frustratingly, women have to work twice as hard to convince men that they are quantitative, she noted, adding that "if someone asks you, 'What's the CAC, what's the LTV, what are the margins, what's the revenue plan for next year,' just know it.

As Lee told the audience, "If someone asks you questions [during a pitch meeting], take notes, and send a follow-up the next day saying, 'These are the things that we discussed; I wanted to follow up on these points.'

Show that you're super-conscientious, and you're on it."

8) Get networked, especially with other female founders and female investors.

Lee was addressing a largely female audience at the conference, and she centered her talk on ways for women founders to get ahead in tech, despite the micro-aggressions that many face every day.

(Said Lee of the growing number of reports of women founders who've been mistreated by male VCs, "I"m pretty pissed off.")

She also talked about constructive solutions to the problem, and one of these should alarm more traditional venture firms whose general partners remain all or nearly exclusively male.

Sharing that she'd had breakfast last week with women partners at other firms, Lee said that the group had discussed how to help bring more women into the general partner ranks.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to "modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions."

Partly, she admitted, it's these investors' personal preference to do so.

But she added that most of Cowboy's portfolio CEOs feel the same way, that, "if they have the choice, they would rather work for a modern firm."

"Why should we make money for assholes?" she asked.

Lee joined Kleiner Perkins in 1999 and was the founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. Lee worked at Kleiner Perkins for 13 years and left in 2012.
 In 2012, she left KPCB to start seed-stage venture firm, Cowboy Ventures. In 2017, Lee added Ted Wang to the firm as a general partner.
 Cowboy Ventures is one of the first female-led venture capital firms. Over the past six years, Cowboy Ventures has received three large funds, the most recent reaching $95 million.
 Through Cowboy Ventures, Lee has made investments in many early-stage companies, including August, Dollar Shave Club, Accompany and Tally Technologies.


He set up the Araniko White Dagoba Gallery in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, using historical artifacts related to Arniko.

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A Nepali lad looks straight into the eyes of a Chinese emperor.

Startled by the demeanor of the lad, the emperor asks, "Hey guy, people do not even dare standing in front of me with their heads up, and you are not afraid of even staring at me."

With no trace of scare on his face, the lad replies, "Does any one fear to look up to their dads' faces?

Awe-struck by his astuteness, the emperor bestows upon the lad with the task of repairing a twisted bronze statue in a bid to judge his architectural skills.

The lad repairs the statue so perfectly that the emperor offers him with more jobs.

This is all what students have been reading about Araniko, one of the 15 national luminaries declared by the government, in their text books while at schools for over the years.

But, once they step out of a narrow sphere of schools and join a large public domain, they never get to know about their hero who fascinates them in their childhoods by bowling over Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia, with his skills.

Whether they rummage through the shelves of a number of libraries or search in Google, they know only a bit about Araniko.

In an attempt to help those who like to study more about Araniko, Satya Mohan Joshi, an octogenarian scholar of Nepali language and culture, has set up a gallery of images of Araniko's works.

Besides, the gallery contains a range of items including books, newspaper articles and dissertations about Araniko.

The gallery is useful in understanding ancient social structure of Beijing as well.

Joshi claims that the gallery is the first of its kind throughout Nepal and China.

"I have collected most of these items from China," he says.

After the coup of 1960 by the then king Mahendra, the government stripped him of his post of director of the archaeology department.

Then, he went to China to teach Nepali language to a group of Chinese people poised to launch a Nepali radio program.

"While staying in China for six years, I collected whatever I came across," he says.

He continued with his search even after coming back to Nepal.

"Years after I set out searching about Araniko, it turned out to be so huge collection that I no longer found enough space in my house to properly pile it up," he says.

"Then, I decided to make it public by setting up an exclusive gallery of Araniko."

Located half a kilometer off the ring road of Kirtipur, Araniko White Dagoba Gallery is in fact a museum as it not only consists of paintings and sculptures of him but every thing that sheds light on his life and works.

It particularly focuses on the white dagoba, the magnum opus of Araniko's architectural works.

Erected in the middle of Miao Ying Temple in Beijing, the 50.9 meter tall dome-shaped stupa has been declared a world heritage site by UNESCO.

What could be an added feather to the cap of the gallery is Joshi himself.

Having studied about Araniko for years, the prolific literary figure has been able to explain the philosophical aspects of he White Dagoba.

Even at the age of 88, Joshi seems to be pretty enthusiastic and relentless to help others understand Araniko's significance.

He steps out of his Patan home and goes to Kirtipur every day by a bus cramped with passengers in the scorching sun.

The gallery, however, has failed to attract visitors owing to lack of publicity.

"Only a few persons have visited our gallery so far", says Joshi, "it is mainly because we have not focused on publicity."

Established in the building of Nepal Bhasa Academy as a non profit institution, the gallery has no regular fund to hire even an office bearer for its maintenance.

As a result, most of the items have lost their captions that cause confusion among visitors.

And, the walls have already begun peeling off.

I have a great respect for Sir Satya Mohan Joshi.

He is the living legend of Nepalese culture.

His knowledge and care for the culture of Nepal is outstanding.

I urge, to the one, whose philosophy toward Nepalese culture matches with Mr. Joshi, Please learn from him and let the knowledge remain immortal in Nepal.

Samit Raj Shilakar By: Samit Raj Shilakar, Buddhanagar, Kathmandu (2011-05-01)

I really would love to visit the gallery.

Could anybody help me with the address and contact of Mr. Satya Mohan Joshi?

I would like to offer my heartful of respect for his dedication in finding our legendary artist Araniko.

By: Bikash Singh, Gyanehwor (2011-03-30)

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Satyamohan was born in 1920 to Shankar Raj and Rajkumari Joshi, in Lalitpur district of Nepal. Having learnt his alphabets at home, he later enrolled at Durbar High School in Kathmandu. He completed his bachelor's degree at Trichandra College.
Joshi became the first director of the Archaeological and Cultural Department in 1959, and immediately established the Rastriya Naachghar – National Theatre in Kathmandu, Archeological Garden in Patan, Archeological Museum in Taulihawa and the National Painting Museum in Bhaktapur. After King Mahendra's coup in 1960, Joshi flew to China where he began to teach Nepali at the Peking Broadcasting Institute. During his stay in China, he carried out research on Arniko, a sculptor of the Malla dynasty who migrated to China in early 1260 AD.