5/19/2023 0 Comments Yakuza pride![]() ![]() That being said, most of the Yamaguchi-gumi’s revenue is said to come from drug trafficking. The Yamaguchi-gumi The current kumicho, Tsukasa, also shares his sentiment, and even today members are forbidden from dealing in drugs. He even founded an organization dedicated to the eradication of amphetamines. However, Kazuo disdained drug use and forbid the Yamaguchi-gumi from dealing in drugs. Under Kazuo, the Yamaguchi-gumi expanded its operations to include extortion, labor racketeering, gambling, prostitution, loansharking, smuggling, and many other legal and illegal activities. Kazuo entered the gang as a boxer, and helped to restore the organization after it fell apart during WWII. It began as a union of local Kobe fishermen, and it wasn’t until the third kumicho, Taoka Kazuo, that the gang transformed into the global organization it is today. Harukichi Yamaguchi founded the Yamaguchi-gumi in 1916. The current kumicho is Shinobu Tsukasa, also known as Kenichi Shinoda. ![]() According to Fortune Magazine, it is the world’s largest organized crime syndicate and second in revenue ($6.6 Billion). ![]() According to the National Police Agency, as of 2014 the Yamaguchi-gumi has 10300 active members, 13100 associate members, totaling at 23400 members, roughly 44% of the Yakuza population. The Rokudaime Yamaguchi-gumi, or sixth Yamaguchi-gumi is the world’s largest Yakuza organization. Shinobu Tsukasa, aka Kenichi Shinoda, kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments Hope for the Wicked by Edward Lorn![]() ![]() And they find out in the most brutal, horrific way. If the money’s too good to be true, it usually is. Larry and Mo should have listened to their inner voices. Whether she’s alive or dead, their orders are to kill all those responsible. They head to Mexico to find their client’s daughter and bring her back if possible. Their private investigation company isn’t doing that well, so when a job comes along with a two million dollar payday, they jump back into the business one last time. Of the two, I’d say she was the happy clam when they came out of retirement. ![]() Larry and Mo are a married couple and retired killers. Is there hope for the wicked? Should there be? When you meet Larry and Mo Laughlin, you’ll be asking these questions. All else about them is evil with a capital E! ![]() The mosters that prowl these pages are human in form only. The Larry Laughlin series is horror of a different sort. They were horror with a supernatural or paranormal element to them for the most part. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To survive, Cia must choose: love without truth or life without trust.īuy The Testing online: Anderson's | BN. But on the eve of her departure, her father’s advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies – trust no one.īut surely she can trust Tomas, her handsome childhood friend who offers an alliance? Tomas, who seems to care more about her with the passing of every grueling (and deadly) day of the Testing. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass the Testing-their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career.Ĭia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it. The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. ![]() She has performed in a variety of operas, musical theatre and childrens theatre productions across the Chicagoland area. Isn’t that what they say?īut how close is too close when they may be one in the same? Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and. Joelle Charbonneau is a storyteller at heart. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Shakey neil young's biography![]() ![]() With the American Richie Furay they formed the Buffalo Springfield, taking their name from a popular brand of tractor. In 1966, after an aborted record deal with the Rick James-fronted Mynah Birds, he and bass player Bruce Palmer relocated to Los Angeles, where he again met Stills. Having first played in high school instrumental rock bands in Winnipeg (one of whom, the Squires, had a local hit with "The Sultan") he began to work the folk clubs of Toronto, where he befriended guitarist Stephen Stills. Young was born in Toronto his father is sportswriter and novelist Scott Young. Among Young's most popular songs are "Heart of Gold", "Cinnamon Girl", "Hey Hey, My My", "Harvest Moon" and "Rockin in the Free World." ![]() ![]() Neil Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer, guitarist and organist whose music ranges from country (and alt-country) to folk to hard rock. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s easy to love him: he is relentless, almost a force of nature. The novel succeeds or fails based on one’s feelings about Duddy. Always, his grandfather’s assertion that “a man without land is nothing” nips at him, spurring Duddy onwards in the pursuit of picturesque farmland around Lac Saint-Pierre. ![]() The moment Duddy graduates from school and is unleashed upon the unsuspecting Montreal landscape he never rests. ![]() Owing to the speed with which Duddy wheels and deals, however, it feels like more years pass. The story takes place before Duddy reaches twenty-one (then the age of majority in Quebec), with the bulk of it happening when he is around eighteen or nineteen years old. One of the best tricks that Richler pulls off is managing to make a short span of time feel like over a decade has passed. Indeed, Duddy’s long memory figures prominently in a novel that is, as its title implies, his personal journey into adulthood. From the first, Mordecai Richler establishes that Duddy is a bully and prone to holding a grudge. MacPherson, who earns Duddy’s enmity when he insults Duddy’s father and quickly finds out that he has crossed the wrong boy. We first meet Duddy through his Scottish history teacher, the tired and broken Mr. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a kind of bildungsroman for an anti-hero. ![]() ![]() Weaving together cutting-edge research and startling case studies, Infectious Madness shows how strep throat can trigger OCD in a formerly healthy teen, how a pregnant woman's contact with cat litter can lead to schizophrenia in her child, and how gut bacteria that leak into the bloodstream may play a role in autism. ![]() ![]() That's right-you can "catch" mental illness. In her astonishing new book, author Harriet Washington reveals that many instances of schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, bipolar disorder, and anorexia are likely caused by bacteria, parasites, or viruses. But in recent years, a new theory has quietly achieved critical mass. ![]() What causes mental illness? Traditionally, we've blamed bad parenting, stress, trauma, genetics, and brain-chemistry imbalances. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather![]() Grandfather Burden is "rather narrow in religious matters," but is also generous and fair. Josiah Burden Jim's grandfather - reserved, dignified, and taciturn. Despite many hardships in her life, Ántonia remains vitally alive and never loses hope for the future. Ántonia (ANN-toe-knee-uh) ("Tony") Shimerda She arrives at the Nebraska prairie the same night that Jim does, and they grow up together as neighbors. Jim Burden He relates a long series of memories about growing up on the Nebraska prairie with Ántonia, a Bohemian girl who seems to embody for him "the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood." Jim has had many disappointments as an adult, and he glorifies his childhood as the happiest time in his life. Because Cather drew many incidents and people in this novel from her own life, her intent in creating this anonymous narrator may have been, in part, to dissuade readers from identifying Cather with first-person narrator Jim. ![]() ![]() The Narrator Jim Burden gives the manuscript for My Ántonia to the unnamed narrator in the introduction to the novel. Book IV: The Pioneer Woman's Story: Chapters I-IV.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters XI-XV.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters VIII-X.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters V-VII.Book II: The Hired Girls: Chapters I-IV.Book I: The Shimerdas: Chapters XVII-XVIII. ![]() Book I: The Shimerdas: Chapters XIV-XVI. ![]() 5/14/2023 0 Comments My Pony by Susan Jeffers![]() ![]() Although Marguerite Henry’s 1946 novel Misty of Chincoteague most definitely is an all-time personal favourite, as an adult rereading Misty of Chincoteague I do tend to now consider the Pony Penning tradition of Chincoteague Island as more than likely really and horribly stressful for the wild ponies of Assateague Island (which does of course not take all that much away from my enjoyment of Misty’s story, but it gives me cause to think and not to just consider how Paul and Maureen Beebe become the owners of Misty and her dam The Phantom as something to just accept absolutely uncritically). ![]() |